Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1935, Page 5

ROPER DECLARES PATIENCE NEEDED Secretary and Silas Strawn, N. R. A. Critic, Address Trade Group. Business men critics of the Roose- velt recovery program were called upon last night by Secretary of Com- merce Roper to be “patient.” He spoke at a dinner meeting of American Trade Association Execu- tives, an allied group of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, at the end of a day which had seen the administration flayed by several speakers, the last of whom, Silas Strawn, former chamber president, and high in its councils, had said that not only was the N. R. A. unconstitu- tional, but that the “book boys” could not write & legal N. R. A. Arthur D. Whiteside, member of the recovery board, also & speaker, named handling of the labor situation and price fixing as the two failures of N. R. A. and suggested division of control of industry between code au- thorities and the trade associations. Urges Price Publicity. If a new N. R. A. law is passed, Whiteside said. industry should start with cost accounting and price pu lcity, and not adopt price fixing until those principles are working effec- tively. | “When N. R. A. started, labor was nct organized with sufficient intelli- | gence to handle their side of the problem, "Whiteside declared. “Labor is floundering more than industry. If the real intelligent leaders in labor eould do what they pleased, we would not have these labor troubles.” Roper talked on “bigness” in in- dustry. He said bigness in itself was not to be condemned, but that it must be regulated when not operating in the social interest. Says Errors Expected. Also, he stressed the necessity of looking out for employes, as well as other elements in the Nation's econ- omy and emphasized that “all should expect errors and hardships” in any important readjustment period “But every effort must be made to alleviate and speedily correct such hardships,” Roper said. “This can | be done where business and industry and Government work and maintain | co-operative attitude.” | “We must be patient in a period of general readjustment,” he continued, “if we would have changes come after the fashion of an orderly evolution and not after the fashion of a de- | structive revolution.” Strawn spoke informally at a group meeting. Later he expressed his view that the attack being registered against the New Deal was based on a | new found courage among business | men to speak their minds. Business “Tired Out.” “Business men are tired out,” he said. “Tired of hearing promises to do constructive things which turn out | to be only attempts to Sovietize America. We are tired of dawdling and boon-doggling.” ! Meanwhile, some indication was given that Harper Sibley, banker and large scale farmer, who is scheduled to be the new chamber president, would counsel the relatively moderate position taken by President H. L Harriman during his term of office. Sibley, in informal remarks to news- paper men, termed the New Deal a| *“temporary palliative,” but held that | Government in business was partially | warranted “as a bridge over the period of acute unemployment.” | He said if elected, he intended to | “carry on the policies laid dewn by Mr. Harriman during the three years of his tenure.” | — e BUSINESS IS ASKED TO UNITE AGAINST POWER PROGRAM (Continued From First Page.) the donation by the Federal Govern- ment to municipalities for the build- | ing of competitive municipal plants and the transmission and distribution | of electric energy by the Federal Gov- | ernment in competition with privately | owned facilities. + After urging abolition of national planning, Bell said the Government should next cut out all relief except a direct relief. ready to sail today on the transport ‘With memories of past hardships forgotten and no worries as to the future, these St. Mihiel for new homes in Alaska. hildren of ploneers were ‘The children, from Minnesota, are shown watching the antics of a pelican at Fleishhacker Zoo on their last sightseeing trip. This Changing World German Navy Britain’s Problem; France Recalls Warning. Dotted lines show roads -being constructed or rebuilt by Germany to accommodate her new 400-ton tanks, BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ‘The French are laughing up their sleeve at the British confusion caused by Hitler's decision to junk the naval | provisions of the Versailles treaty. They told the British foreign office that the naval armament problem is the admiralty’s baby and they can | deal with the Germans in any way | they like. France's naval program has taken into consideration the possi- bilities of a German naval rearma- ment for quite a long time, * % % % ‘The truth about the wholé thing is that the British themselves had sug- gested last Summer an increase in the tonnage of the German Navy, and the sentimental MacDonald teld the | French that nobody’s secutity Would be | impaired if the Reich were permitted | to have a few “token submarines and | one ‘or two airplane carriers” The French naval départment protested against this gesture of the British premier, and the whole ‘matter was left in abeyance, pend- ing the summoning of a gemeral naval conference to which the Ger- mans and the Russians were fo be invited. “‘Other forms of relief cost from twice to four times as much,” he added. “If continued, they will break | the Government's financial back. If Federal aid or direct relief is necessary f6r a short time, let it be limited to less than the $1,250,000,000 spent for | this purpose by the National Govern- | ment in the fiscal year ending June | 30, 1934.” | [ Tax Bill Cited. Bell said this change in policy would | enable the Government to come within $500,000,000 of balancing its budget id the next fiscal year, and to balance 1% completely in the year following. “Bell's third plank dealt with taxa- tion. He said that “already we are more heavily taxed per capita than the -Prench and Germans and unless we cut out public works we will be more heavily taxed than the English.” Banking Bill Assailed. The pending administration-sup- ported banking legislation was as- sailed at the general session by Fred- efic 8. Snyder of Boston, former president of the American Institute of Meat Packers, who was & member of the special committee, which on Monday night made public a critical review of this measure. “The business world fears a dic- tgwrhl policy vested in a politically controlled Federal Reserve Board,” he sgid. “Business interests will lose confidence in the system if there is a loss of local autonomy by the Fed- eral Reserve banks in their respective districts. They prefer that local con- trol b: increased rather than dimin- ~Asking “will Congress permit our N banking structure to become subject to political dictation?” Snyder | 87Tam sdid, rather “let us make our Fed- eral Reserve Board, as some one has happily said, & supreme court of bank- ing and finance. Compensate its rfembers liberally. Protect their ure of office. Pension their retire- nt adequately.” <Another speaker at this session was I§wrence M. Judd, former Governor Hawaii, who discussed the im- rtance of the islands to American tradeé' and national defense, and be- spoke an understanding of the prob- lems ' of that territory. ‘The “other side” of the picture of production control, defended earlier in the week before the business men by Chester C. Davis, head of the Agriculture Adjustment Administra- tion, was presented by a trio of bbm at an agriculture round- le. Difference in Results. 80 far as it concerns live stock, the producer has “unquestionably” bene- fited, “the result, however, to the 1 the stockyards, the 4 | natural. | ects” and asserted As it is natural, the Germans were given a hint or two about MacDonald’s | magnanimous gesture, and they took | him seriously, mostly because they had | already started constructing ' some small subs. Startling to Britain. That the British are startled at the | sensational news of the existence of & | German submarine force is quite | The admiralty wants more | ships, especially destroyers. Great | Britain is bound to a limited tonnage | by the London naval agreement of | 1930. The only legal way to increase the number of destroyers and small cruisers is to take advantage of: the escalator clause. And for thaf regson the British government is shouting “wolf.” The Parliament will be scared, and the necessary appropriations will be forthcoming. { * ok k% A wave of prosperity has come over Germany in recent months. at present under consideration, but the work on these has not begun yet. * X kX *x The military preparations in Ger- many have led Hitler to somewhat re- lent on his persecution of the Jews. Factories which had been taken over by aryans are handed back to their Jewish owners when it is discovered | that they can be operated more suc- cessfully. A number of Jewish emigres who had found shelter in France are re- turning to Germany. The Berlin University has a Jew among its professors at present, and that means something because that university was against having Jews as “ordinary” professors even in the days of the Kaiser, % ok Some months 8go, students of the Berlin University complained there was no teacher of the Ethio- pian language. The professor who used to teach Ethiopian had been dis- missed as a non-Aryan. There were jobs available in Adid-Ababa for Ger- ! mans, provided they had at least a perfunctory knowledge of the language. The matter was brought to Hitler's attention, who ordered the dean of the faculty to reinstate the former erudite doctor. a! “But he is a Jew,” protested the dean. “It's of no consequence, my dear dean,” replied Hitler. “Take him back; the boys must be given a chance to ! learn Ethiopian.” x ok ok ok Only five years ago Moscow was roaring at the news that Mussolini had fed castor oil to some of the members of the stafl of the Soviet by | Embassy in Rothe becailse of their The arms factories are working lit= erally 24 hours a day. This neces- sitates more labor and the unem- ployed are being given well paid jobs. Of course, they are paid in phoney marks, but these marks still have a purchasing power. The young men between the age of 19 and 25 are being drafted either in the army or in the labor batallions which are busy con- structing wide strategic roads. * k% % Among the latest German military inventions is the “land battleship.” This is a super tank weighing some- thing like 400 tons with a tremendous armament. It has guns, machine- guns and anti-aircraft batteries. This mastodon of the rosts exceeds the wildest anticipations of Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells’ fictions. Protected by an armor which not even a 10-inch gun can penetrate and armed with 4-inch guns, these ter- restial battle wagons can destroy everything in their way, can flatten blockhouses and pass over every ob- stacle. Other nations are still experi- menting with a tank of that type. The Germans, it is reliably reported, have | at least two ready; the German fac- | tories are building them now in series. Present Roads Too Narrow. The chief drawback in their use- fulness is the fact that the present | e too narrow for them. This | roads is being rapidly remedied by the con- struction of new strategic roads lead- ing to the Prench, Czechoslovak, Po- lish, Austrian and Belgian frontiers. Additional roads toward the Dutch, the Swiss and the Danish frontiers are packers, to wholesale distributors and retailers and to consumers, is an en- tirely different matter,” Frank °‘A. Hunter of East St. Louis, head of a packing company, asserted. - The “program of scarcity,” he continued, has not only brought about high prices, but a curtailment of con- sumption running from 30 to 3| per cent. The export market for lard is down 64 per cent, Hunter added, while beef and veal, canned beef, canned hams, live cattle, cotton oil, butter, tallow, barley and corn are being imported on an increasingiy large scale. George H. Davis, Kansas City grain man, saild the wheat restriction pro« “is growing in disfavor because of the destruction of wealth it en- taiis; its drastic effect on income of carriers, implement manufacturers and allied industries; the serious disrup-~ tion of the delicate system of proces- sing and distribution, and increase of unemployment, both urban and rural.” He added that it “lowers American agriculture to a subsistence basis.” Joseph W. Evans of Houston, Tex., another speaker, warned that “the history of the world is strewn with economic wrecks of price-fixing proj- “there must 'be a complete about-facing of our pres- ent restrictive policy” on cotton. As the volume of criticism rolled upward today, speculation was cen- tered on two points—whether Presi- dent Roosevelt would take any direct notice, and send some word to the gathering, and the extent to which the chamber would commit itself as sn organization on the various which have been the storm centers the past two days. The speech Secretary ef Commsree Roper made last’ night before the American Trade Association execu- tives, in which he counseled “patience” was said authoritatively to have been examined, at least in part, at the White House. Any word from the President, likely would go to the annual dinner at the auditorium tonight. Last year, President Roosevelt sent his well-re- membered admonition against “crying | wolf” to the diners at the auditorium, At the dinner tonight, the speaker will be an old guard Republican, Henry J. Allen, former Governor of Kansas, So far as resolutions are concerned, the chamber as a rule, strikes & cross- section of opinion of the members. This meeting however, has de- veloped that the “cross-sections” is rore pugnacious than otherwise, The Resolutions Committee, ap- pointed yesterday, is headed by W. F. Gephart of St. Louis, vice psesident of the First National Bank, who was one of the least critical of those ‘who have spoken before the chamber. The resolutions will come up to- morrow morning just before adjourn- ment. At that closing session, Sec- retary of State Hull will discuss the foreign commercial policy of the country. Dr. Neil Carothers of Le- high University will be another speaker, —_— Sylvester to Speak. ‘The District Vocational Association will meet tomorrow evening in the Abbot School to hear Charles W. Bylvester, director of vocational edu- cation in the Baltimore schools. E. J. Murphy, association president, will preside. A musical program has been Fisaned H communistic propaganda. The Soviet press could not find suf- ficient invectives against the British who had raided the Soviet trade agen- 2y in London—the Arco—and manhan- dled its officials. As for the French, | they were, in the eves of the Soviet government, the lowest-of the low. Two weeks ago Moscow witnessed an enthusiastic manifestation of its citizens in front of the French, the Italian and the British Embassies. The crowds were shouting, “Long live Eng- land, long live Mussolini, long live France,” and burned Hitler's cardboard effigy. The military bands were play- ing “God Save the King” and “Gio- vinezza.” Specialists in ' Distribution Y W Milkmen are in business to dis- tribute milk. They recognize that the dairy farmer should have a fair price for his milk, They favor farmer’s coopera- tive organizations when well managed in the interest of the producers and confined to the collective sale of milk. Collective bargaining is ap- proved and welcomed by the corporate milkman. When the cooperatives under- take the processing and dis- tribution of milk, they com- plicate the service of com- Ppanies organized solely to do those jobs with no improve- ment of their own position. It does not follow that a good farmer is a good merchant. He is on strange ground when he enters the field of distri- bution. Ventures of producers’ cooper- atives in the business of re- tail distribution have not bgen convincingly successful. Usually the attempts result in wasteful duplication of facil- ities, impaired service to the public, and ultimately, severe financial loss to the producers. The dairy farmer serves best by sticking to his cows. They are ably and adequately represented by the corporate milkman. D PRESIDENT CHESTNUT FARMS- CHEVY CHASE DAIRY that | SDAY MAY 1, 193 ATTACK ONHITLE 1S HELD OFFIGIAL MacDonald Says Much- Censured Article Voiced British Arms View. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 1.—Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald declared in the House of Commons today that an article he wrote last week lambasting Germany reflected the opinion of the British government. ‘The article was printed in the offi- cial news letter of the Labor party and especially dencunced Germany for its aerial armament. MacDonald said he personally considered its publication was in the public’s interest. MacDonald’s statement came shortly after Sir Bolton Eyres Monsell, first Lopd of the Admiralty, had told the House that Germany would have its first submarine since the World War ready for action within six months. Views Are Official. In explanation of his article, which was received with unfriendly com- ments in Germany, the Prime Minister said: “The government’s views on the effect of Germany's recent action as regards military planes, both as to methods and amounts, has been ex- pressed at Stresa and Geneva and in- dicated in the Commons in speeches both by the foreign secretary and my- self. The article is substantfally on the lines of those statements and does represent the views of the govern- ments.” Replying to a series of questions, in which the legislators sought further enlightenment as to Germany's sub- marine program, Sir Bolton said: “The British naval attache in Berlin was informed April 26 by the German authorities that an order to manufacture machinery, armaments, | etc., for twelve 250-ton submarines was | given at Christmas and an order to | construct hulls and assemble the com- ponent parts was given about the mid- | dle of April. | REICH AIM PEACE, FUEHRER ASSURES WORLD IN ADDRESS (Continued From PFirst Page.) critics are proved to have been wrong. Historically, visible success. always proves the correctness of theories. “No one can deny that there are visible one people and one idea. All we see today would be impossible if Germany had not experienced an inner transformation. That we could unify our people is the greatest accomplish- ment of this century as far as Ger- many is concerned and will outlast everything else, #We shall not rest until we give to the last German his daily bread. Remember, May 1 is a day of decision against the difficulties which still are to be overcome. What we want is not Wwar, not unrest. “Just as we restored peace within Germany, we want peace abroad, be- cause only then can our domestic works be a success. May other nations understand that the Germany of today is not the Germany of yesterday, Serves People With Life. “Therefore, fellow citizens, I ask you to bind faster the band of the community. Do not forget that your members are one people as ordained by God. Demonstrate to the world your faith in your people and state. “My will must be your confession. I serve my people with my life.” A heavy thunderstorm accompanied the exercises at the airdrome. Der First Craft Due Soon. “He also was informed that, as a result of extensive preparations which | had been made, the first submarine | { would probably be completed within six months.” In answer to a question from a Labor Party member, Sir Bolton said he could not confirm reports that Ger- | many was building U-boats, some of 1 more than 1,000 tons, more than a | year ago. | The first lord said he had no in- | formation that the German sub- marine school at Kiel had reopened. The questions posed in the House concerning submarines and Germany's air force reflected a growing concern | by the members of Parliament over | Germany’s rearmament. David Kirkwood, Labor Party mem- ber from Glasgow, suggested that “if | the British government is in earnest.” | German submarine construction could | be balked, because Great Britain con- | trols 90 pep cent of the world nickel supply and Germany has neither cop- per nor tin. Sir Bolton did not reply to this suggestion. Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, was pressed for further information |as to Germany's strength, but he begged off, promising the matter “might be referred to in tomorrow’s debate.” R e Roomer Dies Suddenly. John C. Wiser, 50, roomer at 329 L | street northeast, became suddenly ill |in his room last night and died before | medical aid reached him. A Casualty | Hospital physician pronounced him | dead, apparently of a heart attack. 12th &8 K N.W. military aviation | § Za\\, / LS \ "-\\ \‘I’ Fuehrer stood bare-headed, speaking from a high rostrum. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda, introduced Hitler to the multitude. Dr. Robert Ley, commissioner of trade unions, preceded both Hitler and Goebbels and administered the oath to shop delegates assembled on flelds throughout the Reich. These repre- sentatives repeated, phrase by phrase, the oath: “I swear fidelity to Adolf Hitler. I swear that I will practice and advance this idea of the community. I swear I will be an honest helper to my com- rades of labor whenever troubles beset | them. I swear I will place the inter- | uuv.: of my nation ahead of everything | else.” Thousands March in Snow. Hundreds of thousands of German workers and ~employers marched through snow and bitter wind to hear Hitler while tolling church bells an- nounced the “day of national labor.” Conspicueus in the immense throng Were thousands of Saarlanders and groups of representatives of 26 German provinces who were guests of the gov- ernment for the-ceremony. The Reichsfuelfrer made his first appearance today before an assembly of Hitlerite boys and girls’ organiza- tions at the Luftgarten, where a huge “May tree” decorated with flags, wreaths and symbols of handicraft | was on display. A festival air prevailed throughout the city. No newspapers were being | published, government departments, banks and boerses were closed, and post offices informed citizens they | would have to call for their own mail. Hitler's brief address to the youth organizations, delivered in a voice slightly hoarse, was transmitted by a radio hook-up to millions of other young Germans throughout the Reich. “As the wind of today makes our flags flutter,” he told the youthful assemblage, “it soon enough can con- centrate thunder around Germany. But it won’t make us a coward. In greeting you I greet the Germany of peace, but also of courage.” | RUIZ FORMING SOCIETY Author Organizing Group to Dis- seminate Bolivar Doctrines. Here to establish the Society of Bolivarian Action, which is devoted to making better known the history and doctrines of Simon Bolivar, South American liberator, Senor A. Ramon Ruiz, Latin American author and Jjournalist, is contacting members of the diplomatic corps and other mem- bers of the Latin American colony. 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