Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1930, Page 4

‘|co-oPERATION MOVE E Snrinu Possible by F _f:palmon Greup. [T BY MARK SULLIVAN. The aim of this article is to clarity What must seem to the public a eon- situation. re are,at this time two Con- ot i the Ol Gongress, the t. ol h, - e timt met last year. The other is m&-uewnd. That is the new Conj e one elected last Tuesday. ‘The overlapping of these two is one of the confusing awkwardnesses of our ‘Government. The old Cony will continue to exist until March 4, next. It will hold one more session, beginning on the 1st of December and lasting until March 4. This session will have the same ratio of Democrats and Republicans as the session of last Winter. This final three- month session’ of the old Congress ‘has one chief business. That is to pass the regular: annual appropriation hula~ in- dispensable to keep the Government going. Filibuster Held Possible. There is an apprehension widely dis- cussed that there’ may b2 & filibuster mnu these riaticn bills. Such & fillbuster would be carried on, if at all, by the coalition of Demotrsts and gent Republicans in the Se: . ‘coalition has a majority in the Benate and has had all along. The purpose of such a filibuster would be to 1 President Hoover to call a spe- cial session of the new Congress. The new Congress, elected last ‘Tuesday, wopld not normally meet until Decem- ber l, next year, 1931. Nevertheless, it tial existenge from Béarch 4, n the old Congress dics. If the old Congress should not pass the indispensable appropriation bllls t Hoover would be obliged Qnuunwerumlonv(thena Congress soon ‘after March 4. - It -is known that me coalition leaders want force this new session. They want for the purpose, among others, of the old and thrice rejected de- ture pian of farntrelief. They want 4t, mccording _ to ordinary political motives, for the further and general purpose of making as much difficulty as possible for President Hoover. Insurgent Policy Foreseen. It is the Republicans rather more than the Democrats who enter- purpose. Some Democratic leaders think this rurpnu is unwise and do not wish to force a special ses- I! the Democratic leaders want to pass the priations and if they can conf ir nnk and file, they can ave - special session of the new The more responsible Demo- leaders do not countenance fallure to pass the nzprn riations. All this composes the first phase of the chaos that has recently descended nluofll politics. It may not be chaotic at all. After con;rss ceases to exist on 4 there will then be a new ‘This phase has Poligical S nh (l(nufl—l. ’p. whether 'mocratic Republkan Nobody m say which &%filfll will be an or four set The olllcome will depend on itions and tes It is because of the anticipated lwk- wardness that the seven Democratic issued their public promise to ite with President Hoover. they can fulfill that blic ise remains to be seen. Fulfillment ‘not in the hands of the leaders, only in Congress. Fulfill- of the promise is in the hands of k _and file of Democratic mem- The ordinary political motive of men laced would be to do the opposite ting with President ‘g ", time lhls situation arises, De- T 1, 1931, we will be on the eve tial election. In Congress e‘lly everythlng will be done W\Lh an eye on election. The ordinary: litical motive of Democrats as the y on the outside and wanting to get into fl!! ‘White House would be to make the administration of the Republican President, seem as little sugcessful as me It may be that the Democratic who signed the statement of last Saturday can lift their party above the -“!nll’! motive of political obstructive- o~ WETS CLAIM 144 WINS . IN NOVEMBER ELECTION )uel: Says He Fails to Understand . Dry tisfaction With Re- sults as Announced. Claiming that 144 of its 160 indorsed eandidates fo: Sznate, the House and governoyships were elected last Tues- day, Dr, F. W. Buck, executive secre- of the National Constitutional Con- wvertion, which convenes here December mfl today it was “very hard to under- how the Anti-seloon League “can bé satisfied with results like this.” purpose of the convention’s mect- ing next month, he said, is to “find a sane and rational solution of the mcst dangerous social and economic problem lm generation has been called upon face—unenforcible prohibition.” e 144 candidates elected does not by any means represeént the total num- favoring modification in the House Senate,’ he said. “As many were n mscrlm where we did not in- dnne Because ndidates. were lly- favdrable w us.” The gain of antl-prohibitionists was greater, Dr. © Byck said, than that of the Democrats. CARONE AID ARRESTED ‘cilnn Man Suspected -of At- ‘tempt to Slay Moran Guard. ’AGO, Noveinber 10 (#).—Sam t, reputed member of the of e e, and one of more smen - named in vagraney n was arresied by detectives night as he stood in & South Side sipping a OF 2 PARTIES MAY BRING COALITION (Continued From First Page.) E. Watson of Indiana, last night said in a statement through the party's na- tional committee that the utterance of seven Democratic leaders made right after election was construed as an effort to halt any business alarm and that it should carry conviction. The Republican party, he sald, accepted it “with full faith and credit.” Says Republican Duty Is to Co-Operate. “It gives assurance,” he said, “that there will be no attempt on the part of the Democratic party to support dis- turbing legislation. It is obviously the duty .of Republican members to co- operate.” Because of the futility of ntumnunl immediately to solve the question of control in the next Congress in view o( the close balance of ‘publican and Democratic forces, the leaders are con- centrating now on lining up their pro- gram for the ‘ppro-chln[ short session of the old Congre It will open lhree weeks from today for a bare three months, in which much must be accomplished. President Hoover has announced he will seek emergency appropriations for both un- employment and drought relief. The first is to be cared for by releasing funds for Federal construction which normally would rot become available until much later. The second is to be a seed loan proposal for alding | farmers deprived by the drought devas« tation. The amounts to be asked for are not vet settled. In addition there are regular annual appropriations for the operation of Government agencies and much legis- lation left over from the last session which the administration is anxious to have enacted. Some Changes in Membership Seen. ‘The approaching session will see some changes in membership as a result of the -election, for vacancies were filled and gubernatorial appointees to fill out unexpired” terms were replaced by the electorate. Both in the Senate and the House these favor slightly the Democratic party, but not sufficiently ta seriously affect the balance at pres- ent_existing ‘The major changes of the election will be felt one year hence. In spite of the- conciliatory attitude expressed by the leaders of both parties, there was no assurance that all of the rank and file would seek to avoid trouble. There has been no open revolt against the Democratic statement, which was igned by three of the party’s presi- dential candidates, two executives of the National Committe¢ and the two leaders in Congress, but signs have appeared that some members were none too pleased. Senator wnuon, in accepting the Democratic statement, did not overlook entirely the administration ecriticism which it contained. “I could, of course,” he said, “indulge in criticism at the obvious political propaganda which accompanies their public assurance and I could recrim- inate as to the past, but this is not the spirit in which I desire to accept their offer of co-operation. Denies Legislative Victory. “It (the election) represents a legis- lative victory for neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It may well be said on one side that the Dmocn have made considerable Legislativi {nna It may be said on the other that number of gains of the opposing party are much less than in many mid- term elections hitherto; that the Demo- crats bave failed in. their objective and that the Republicans have beld. aston- ishingly well in the face of che adverse factors temporarily in motion.” “But be cluded, situation where the on'ly lol\l- tion lies in co-operative welcome it and I am sure by eouu:uu welcome it also.” sl Russia sent agricultural experts from BROCKHART WANTS FIVANCE REFORMS Farm Aid Is Set as Common Ground for Uniting of Progressive Bloc. When Smith W. Brookhart, Republican Senator from lowa, ofiered, under certain conditions. to join with the Democrats in_oreanizing_the mezt Ser The Star and North American ram Tadical ‘Senators of both “parties coutd fet tosether. " Here is Semator Brook- art's reply. BY SMITH W. BROOKHART, Republican Benator from Towa. The American people as a whole are producing about 4 per cent a vear of new wealth. This represents the net earnings of all labor, all capital and all unearned incre- ment. Four per cent is all there is this American Ppool. If capital got it all, and there was an even distribu- tion, it would only get a return of about 4 per cent a year. Capital is not entitled to it all. Labor, inven- tion, genius and management are entitled to some share. Our prosperity is broken up hecause our economic or- ganizations are all fighting for 8 greater share than the average rate of production. This results in extortionate profits to some and in bankruptey to many more, It is a state of economic anarchy. This condition has been produced by transportation laws, banking laws, tariff laws, patent laws and corporation laws. This scramble for more than a just share has turned all American business into a gambler's pot. A permanent and stabilized prosperity only can be ob- tained by the correction of these laws. At present 92 per cent in number of American enterprises ultimately fail. ‘The transportation act gave the rail- roads a value of nearly $19,000,000,000, when their market value was less than 12, and then commanded the com- mission to was placed first at 6 per cent and now 5% upon all that value, water and all, which means more than 9 per cent upon their honest value, as, for in- stance, the farms are valued. In addition, they were given a direct subsidy out of the Treasury of the United States of $520,000,000 to guar- antee their war-time profits for the first six months after they were turned back in 1920. This was the same six months in which the Federal Reserve banking sys- tem planned a deflation of agriculture, which the Manufacturers’ Record says amounted to $32,000,000,000. The railroad problem will not be cor- rected until the United States has con- solidated them upon substantially the same plan as has been done with the Canadian railroads. State and national banking laws, combined with the Federal Reserve act, are driving all of the redeposit business of the country into New York for spec- ulation, except the mere reserves which must be deposited in the Federal Re- serve banks. The Federal Reserve bank is prohibited from rediscounting specu- lative paper, but member banks are permitted to make speculative loans. ‘This, ther with the deflation power of Federal Reserve system by raising and lowering discount rates, is perhaps the greatest evil in our country and has done more to make a gamble out of business than any other one item. It can only be corrected Senator Brookhart. tem from making speculative loans in [ the same terms that the great Reserve ive them a return which | by prohibiting the entire banking sys- STAR, WASHINGTON, banks are now prohibited from redis- o ln adaition to this, & Tedepoait Tate Ta should h fixed by law and all nde posits of member banks sent to the Reserve banks. A rediscount rate should also be fixed by law and thl&'tr taken from the board to raising and lowering lnurm Tates. Finally, & usury rate should be fixed which would put the interest rate down to farmers and little business on the same level as to big business. In addition to all this, the great body of American nrlv who Dbelleve in co-operation, BI. cularly the farmers and the labor! rople. and now the independent retall merchants, should have a complete co-operative banking system with deposit banks, reserve banks and all under their own control. ‘The tariff laws enable the protected industries to fix the prices of their prndlll)'l at the factory wlthout foreign tition up to the top of the tariff Tover 'The patent laws enable them to fix such prices without any com- petition. The farmer has a surplus of about 10 per cent, But he is not financed and cannot separate and segregate it from the domestic market. If the farmer holds his crop for future market he is finally forced to sell it in the domestic market. This floods the domestic ma ket, breaks down his tariff rates and makes them mere scraps of paper. The surplus flows over into the free trade markets of the world. It is sold in competition with all the world, its price is fixed by that sale, this price is cabled back to the Board of Trade or the Cotton Exchange in a few min- utes and his whole price at home is fixed the same as the price of his sur- plus in this foreign free trade market, less the freight and expense of reaching the foreign market. It, therefore, forces the farmer to buy his needs in the high level of the protected and patented markets of the United States, while the price of his own product is fixed for him by the sale of his surplus in the free trade market of the world. In view of this, the Farm Board must be given a debenture or a direct appropriation of the Treasury to sepa- rate and segregate the farmers’ ex- portable surplus from ‘the domestic demand so he can charge a price up to the top of the tariff level also, as is done by other business, and sell his surplus for the best world price. Since the law gave the railroads a bonus of $7,000,000,000 in watered value and the Treasury $529,000,000 in cash, it owes the farmers enough to handle this exportable surplus in this same way, as was done by Mr. Hoover in the Food Administration and the Wheat Corporation. The farmer was put in this condition by legislation, and legis- lation only can take him out. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) WURZBACH TO REMAIN LOYAL TO HIS PARTY Declares He Will Not Vote With Democrats to Make Garner, Fellow Texan, Speaker. By the Associated Press. SEGUIN, Tex., November 10.—Harry M. Wurzbach, the only Republican Rep- resentative sent to Washington from Texas, in ths century, said today he would not support another Texan, John Garner, Democrat, for speaker of the House. Garner, present minority leader, is ex- pected to be the Democratic selection for speaker if that party succeeds in ob- taining a majority in the next House of Representatives. Representative Wurzbach agreed that he owed little loyalty to the Republican organization in Texas. He explained, however, that he “i ways will be a ‘regular’ Republican.’ Church Circle to Meet. BALLSTON, Va. November 10 (Spe- argaret King Circle of St. 's Episcopal Church will-hold its regular meeting with Mrs. Guy T. Rogers tomorrow at 2 p.m. CALF-PATH a not-too-serious analogy Speaking of wasteful methods of doing business, reminds us of Sam Foss's famous poem, “The Calf-Path.” A few selacted li exploin whet One day, through a primeval wood, A calf walked home as good calves should; And left a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do: made; And many men wound in and out, And dodged, and turned, and bent' about A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near thr For thus such reverenca is lent. To well-established precedent. And from that day, o'er hill and glade, Through those old woods a path was And uttered words of righteous wrath' Because 'twas such a crooked path The years passed on in swiftness fleet, The path became a village street; And this, before men were aware, A city's crowded thoroughfare; And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. ’ centuries dead..a . & Excorpts from The Calf-Poth by Sem. W. PoiP ’ A&P dues not go it blind along the calf- paths followed by business men centuries ago. A&P customers do not have fo-bear the expense of handling food by olds fashioned zig-zag methods. A&P's ik methods are the best money-saving methods of today. The Great ATLANTIC & PACIFIC Tea Co. D. O, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1930. COUNT OF JOBLESS |CREECY HELD SANE|SS.sesertiis PUSHED BY W0ODS Latest Figure for U. S. Is! Estimate of 3,500,000—II- linois Raises Big Fund. By the Associated Press. Efforts to calculate the number of | men and women unemployed on Novem- ber 1 were being pushed today by Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of the Presi- dent’s Emergency Employment Commit- tee, who sought to speed an estimate on the basis of the April census and Labor Department and private figures. ‘The most recent estimate of the job- less was the President’s reference to approximately 3,500,000, A relief program with an emergency budget of $5,000,000 for Chicago was reported to the committee today by George F. Getz, general chairman of Gov. Emerson's commission on unem- ployment. Getz said the commission was organ- ized on a State-wide basis and each community planned to meet its own problems with its own resources. H. D. Bradley, Bridgeport, Conn., Times-Star, reported his newspaper had started a campaign of free “‘help want- ed” and “situations wanted” advertise- ments and the results “have been very encous stand,” Bradley said, “because every publisher knows perfectly well that if more people are employed, more goods will be purchased at stores, with the result that there would be more ad- Further, g." “This is not wholly a charitable | INDOUBLE TRAGEDY Final Papers in Probe of Murder and Suicide Signed by Navy Official. Marine Corps, who killed himself and fatally wounded his wife at the May- | flower Hotel on September 28, was sane when he committed suicide, the Navy Department announced today, following & thorough investigation. ‘The Assistant Secretary, Ernest Lee Jahncke, signed the final papers in the case, n which the Navy Department holds that “the death of Col. Creecy ‘was incurred as a result of his own mis- conduct.” This followed the finding of Rear Admirel David F. Sellers, the judge ad- vocate general of the Navy, that “in the absence of material evidence of insanity * * * the deceased must be held to have been sane at the moment of tak- ing his life.” Following the tragedy Smetnry Ad- ams appointed a board of inquest to examine into the circumstances of his death. Naval officlals explained today that the deliberations and reports of the board of inquest will not be made public. The board of inquest consisted of Col. Louis M. C. Little, on duty in the office of operations and training at Ma- rine Corps Headquarters, as its senlor member; Lieut, Col. Thomas C. Turner, on duty’ st Marine Corps Headquarters here, and Tieut. Comdr. George P. Carr of the Navy's Medical Corps. Comdr. Carr made an exhaustive in- Lieut. Col. Richard B. Creecy, U. 8. BANKHEAD CORRECTS CONTROL STATEMENT Denies Desire to Dodge Responsi- bilities Placed by Electorate. By the Associated Press. JASPER. Ala, November 10.—With | | the assertion that he is “opposed to se- curing the organization of the Senate by any understandings with any others tl Democrats on a legislative pro- gram,” Senator-elect John H. Bank- head, Democrat, of Alabama, addressed a statement to the Associated Press yesterday asking for a correction of an h}ugtv‘ew with him ecarried Saturday nig] His statement said: “The statement from New, Orleans that I sald I would oppose législation either in the Senate or the House even if the official results of the national election should give the Democrats ma- Jority was an inaccurate interpretation of the interview with me. do mnot favor evading or refusing to accept any responsibility placed by the voters on the Democratic party. In view of the closeness of vote in the Senate and the House, I expressed my personal satis- faction if it finally ascertained that control of the Senate and House did not pass to the Democrats under the circumstances. “I am opposed to securing the or- ganization of the Senate by any under- standings with any others than Demo- crats on a legislative program. I favor the Democrats meeting the situation in accordance with the responsibilities’ placed on the Democratic party by the electorate.” vertising for his newspaper. we have found it has been one of the | jral finest good-will builders of which we have ever heard.” ———ne ‘The number of people drawing the unemployment “dole” in France is down to about 900, whereas more than 2,100~ 000 are drawing doles in Great Britain. vestigation of Ool. Creecy’s medical rec- in an effort to ascertain if he had exhibited signs of insanity. Creecy had been on leave in Washin, AR ton, following a tour of duty at the con- stabulary headquarters in Haiti. cers who served with him recently in said that he had exhibited no abnormal signs prior to the West Indies Alexander Reed, 79, Dies. STAUNTON, Va., November 10 (Spe- clal) . —Alexander Reed, aged 79, prom- inent Augusta County resident, died at _his home at nearby Mount Sid:-y, following & lengthy illness, Death was due to heart disease. Col. om- MEASURE WILL ASK - FOR LEGAL mvm Black of New York to Sponsor Bill to Aid Farmers and Unemployed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 10.—Repre« sentative Loring M. Black, Democrat, New York, said yesterday & modification measure designed to provide emergency | reliet for agriculture -na unemployment would be introduced in Congress at its | convening in December. ng":“;‘“" B|:k sald the bill woul lesigned to permit - &tive grain associations and similar ganizations to engage in J 'lnem!kln‘ under the lu.om of rnmnt of Agricul ibition,” he said, "ltnll is the chfld of an emergency measure. - The Lever act, adopted by Congress early the war, directed Mr. Hoover, then of the food administration, to brewing and distilling as a method conserving grain. “There is no need for conse: now. Instead, eonsumptlon s problem of today.” He said the &. mcd re would result in utilizat] of mlmom of bushels of small grains, would reduce ‘wheat acreage by encouraging diversifi- casion of grain crops and wotld bring into k‘me Treasury millions in tax monies. BURGLAR FINDS KEYS St. Elmo Man Left Them in Mails box at House. By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. 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