Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1931, Page 32

LOG-ROLLING SEEN INTARIFF BATTLE Writer Points to Democratic Quest for Levy on Oil in Dis- cussing World Conditions. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The proposals coming from European statesmen at Geneva for remedying world-wide depression are observed in ‘Washington with sympathetic interest. Some of the European proposals obvi- | ously are intended for American eyes. One such is the statement of Foreign Minister Henderson of Great Britain, which indorsed President Hoover's em- phasis upon cost of armament as an important factor in world depression. In the same speech, Mr, Henderson mentioned high tariff asanother cause. From the point of view of the United States, much depends on whether the juxtaposition was meant to suggest that remedy of the one fault is conditional upon simultaneous remedy of the other. Everything that has been said in Wash- ington about reduction of armament as & means of economic relief has gone on the assumption that this is one rem- edy which can stand alone without ref- erence to other economic faults. “If” Proposals Made. It has been felt here that one of the impediments to several lines of human- itarian effort since the war has been the “if” or contingent type of proposals. International conferences and diplo- matic and- unofficial exchanges are cluttered with suggestions proposing that, for example, war debts can be cheerfully paid “if” tariffs are reduced, or war debts should be reduced “if” German _reparations are correspond- ingly reduced, or war debts shculd be reduced “if” armament is reduced, or &an international conference on silver can be held “if” war debts and repara- tions are reduced in proportion to change in the purchasing price of the gold dollar, or Russia will stop its dumping practice “if” the other nations subscribe to a pact. This type of proposal, with one rem- edy conditional upon another, consti- tutes an endless chain. Persons who have observed repeated failure of at- tempts to break the chain have come to think the better me{ho?‘ lkn lLl) ‘l;l:: eeparately upon some one link in v’?ious c{nln of economic faults. The Government at Washington has several times acted upon the presumption that reduction of armament is cne remedy that offers opportunity for considera- tion without being confused with other economic remedies, Other Natlens Hesitant. As respects Foreign Minister Hender- #on’s suggestion about the tariff, there are many naticns, notably France and Italy, who are even less willing than the United States to surrender their tariffs on industries which they deem essential. In this connection America faces a striking situation as respects the tariff. ‘There is in all sections of the country a considerable volume of newspaper and other opinion which strongly criti- cizes our tariff as it now exists. Expec- tation of reduction by Congress looks for action chiefly to the Democratic %ln.y. allied with Western Progressive epublicans. How much weight to give this expec- tation can be estimated by looking some concrete facts in the face. There will be made in the next session of Congress a drive for a tariff on oil. ‘This is a wholly new extension of the tariff idea, for there has never before been a tariff on oil. Persons to whom the suggestion is made for the first time tend to smile at it. Nevertheless, the drive for a tariff on oil is € organized with thoroughness and in- gendity, and will have momentum such as no drive for a tariff on any com- modity has ever had before. ‘The sources of this drive and the sponsorship of it in Congress will pro- ceed mainly and almost exclusively of ts from Texas and Oklahoma and- Progressive Republicans from Kansas. That their earnestness for their own cause will permit them to be tolerant toward the tariff on other com- modities—in other words to trade and “log roll"—goes almost without saying. Copper Drive Planned. In the same way, there is now being organized a similar drive for a tariff on copper. This, like the proposal of & tariff on ofl, is a wholly new exten- sion of the tariff idea. One motive for the drive in behalf of copper is the apparently probable success of the campaign for oil. The prcposal for copper, like the one for oil, will proceed largely from and be sponsored in by Democrats and Progressive Republicans from cer- tain Western and Southwestern States having copper mines in which the cost of production is high. 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TACOMA, Wash, May 22— Llewellyn Evans, superintendent of the municipal lighting system, said today the snout of Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier, which he had been studying, receded last Winter despite the general forward movement of the ice. Evans said the glacler snout had lost 23 feet from November 1, 1920, to the present, indicating either that the precipitation on Mount Rainier had decreased in recent years or that the tempera- ture 0{ that section had risen. ‘The formation has receded more than half a mile since white men found it, but heretofore the shrinkage has been observed only during the Summer months, A river originating under the glacier supplies power for one of the city’s light plants. Gen. Parker Going to Philippines. | Brig. Gen. F. LeJ. Parker, chief of | Insular Affairs, left Washington yester- day on instructions of Secretary Hurley | for an official visit to the Philippines. | The visit will be the customary one made | to the Philippines from time to time by | the Insular Bureau chief. The National THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., GARDEN EXHIBIT OPENED AT FOX Nine Cups for Presentation in Bicentennial Competition Are Displayed. An elaborate exhibit of flowers, minia- ture trees and models of gardens, the latter being shown with a view to serv- ing as a guide to persons participating in the garden contest in connection with the George Washington bicenten- | nial celebration, opened in the upper and lower lobbles of the Fox Theater yesterday. The nine cups, one donated | by The Evening Star, to be awarded the winners in the garden contest are also | on_exhibit. The exhibit is being held by the Fox Theater in co-operation with the Gar- den Club of the local Bicentennial | Commission, florists and nursery shops. Mrs. Louise Proctor Engle is in charge of the exhibit for the theater and is being assisted by Miss Margaret Lan- caster, secretary of the Garden Club | of the Bicentennial Commission, and | others. | Many beautiful garden and landscape | ®lan models are included in the ex- hibit. Among them are: | “A rockery and lily pond,” set up by | the Cottage City Nursery, a “formal | e | || [ - garden,” by Gude's Garden Shop; “ever- greens,” by the Wescott Nursery Co.; “s children’s garden,” by the Strathmede Corporation; “a model house and gar- den,” by Miss Alice Dodge and Miss Frances Beede, and a house and Jawn 1 exhibit by the Lyon Village Develop- ment Co. The rrden and landscape exhibits are in the lower lobby. U. S. MAGAZINES SCORED Australian Writers Charge Dump-~ ing of Back Numbers. CANBERRA (#).—Authors and pub- lishers are protesting against the “dumping” of back numbers of Ameri- can periodicals in Australia. 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