Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1936, Page 13

Pump Priming Jars West’s Economics Artifical Stimulation by U. S. Millions Causes Reaction Fears. This is the fourth of a series of fve dispatches written by David Lawrence summarizing a visit he has just completed to 13 Western States. Mr. Lawrence finds the Roosevelt cause dominant there at the moment but with Landon wtrength growing. Today’s dispatch deals with the effects of Federal spending. Nert week and there- ajter the dispatches from individual States will be resumed until 40 out ©f the 48 have been surveyed. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. (HICAGO, September 11.—An economic phenomenon of ex- traordinary significance has occurred in the Rocky Moun- tain and Pacific Coast States. No mat- ter what the outcome of the election, the situation assumes grave propor- tions In the region in question because an artificial prosperity has been cre- ated that cannot possibly be duplicated in the normal and natural ways. From March 4, 1833 to March 31, 1936—just three years— the New Deal has poured §3,752,234,024 into the 13 States that I have just vis- ited. The purpose has been ‘“recov: ery and relief” through the method of “prim- ing the pump.” But as one exam- ines the projects on which Federal money has been spent, it becomes all too tragically evident that none of these States can keep the pump primed or begin to David Lawrenee spend even a fraction of their annual revenues for similar work in the Cuture. When bridges and dams are built in certain localities there are no other bridges and dams immediately to take the places of those just finished. Most of the little by-product businesses from lunch rooms and retail shops to light manufacturing and the thousand and one small activities that spring up with these projects must come to an end. It may seem as if some of the mushroom towns of mining days were suddenly wiped out. “Reverse Planning.” ‘To superimpose Federal spending in the quantity just granted by the Fed- eral Government upon the existing structure of these several States with- out regard to long-time effects is “eco- nomic planning” in reverse. Yet this is exactly what has happened. Agri- cultural States have been given proj- ects of an industrial or construction character and much work has been carried on under the W. P. A. for local improVements which cannot be pos- sibly carried on again by the Federal Government because of the tremen- dous expense involved. In these Western States, moreover, there has been a sizeable influx of population from the Middle West drought areas and from the smaller cities and towns in the East. Tem- porary jobs have been created, but the Government work can never be replaced by private industry as is so often promised because in most of these States there never will be pri- vate work of the kind the Government has instituted. Tabulation of Sums. Some idea of the vast sums spent n the 13 States may be obtained from the following table which does not in- clude rivers and harbors or reclama- tion projects but does include grants, loans, subsidies and allocations from the various alphabetical agencies of the New Deal for three years: Arizona ... $157,904,854 | California 1,289,145,833 | 223,416,051 150,499,968 533,246,836 251,837,903 67,583,561 123,187,991 269,893,236 223,589,139 139,035,927 227,433,274 95,459,451 North Dakota. Oregon News l}ehind the News Advisers Expect 60 Per Cent of Vote Will Go to Roosevelt. BY PAUL MALLON. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has his own private straw vote man, Emil Hurjs, who assays political certainties mathematically for Chairman Farley. ‘When Hurja goes into a rapid calculation and gets the answer, he tells it to Farley and Farley tells it to the President. There the matter rests. Nobody says anything aloud except the usual thing, that Mr. Roose- velt will carry all States and most of the island possessions Which do not vote. However, one or more of the trio, in possession of the latest, deepest low-down, must have talked in his sleep. Information comes with in- disputable reliability that Hurja fig- ures Mr. Roosevelt'’s chances at § per cent better than the Gallup poll, in which Mr. Roosevelt is making the strongest showing of any. ‘The partisan nature of the calcula- tion may prevent it from being widely accepted, but it means that Mr. Roosevelt and his counselors are now expecting 60 to 62 per cent of the vote. * x ¥ % All politicians attempt to create what they call a “winning psychology.” They have the idea a lot of people want to vote for the winner, whoever he may be. Also, there is the question of morale among the party workers. A pessimistic political report has never been issued. However, the Hurja calculations and results of the drought trip have. created within the New Deal political council an entirgly different situation than when Mr. Rbosevelt embarked upon his past month of aggressive indirect campaignings. Indeed, the high council is said to have decided, and Mr. Roosevelt has agreed, that he may coast for @ while. That, they say, is why the fireside chat carried no greater promise, why the next step remains undetermined, why no further extemsions of governmental activities are in store for the immediate future. Also, it explains what Mr. Roosevelt meant when he laughingly told the newsmen the other day that he might not begin campaign- ing until after the election is over. Note—Eternal pessimists have suspected, of course, that the happier hopes of the New Deal high command have been amplified to offset the expected unsatisfactory results of the Maine election Monday and the early returns of the Literary Digest poll. Someone is always ready to take the joy out of life—for Mr. Roosevelt, * o K X Even if the President’s campaign never gets under way, he cannot avold a helpful development now and then, such as the one scheduled currently in Chicago. Senator La Follette is getting the Progressives, independents and others from the old La Follette family together for Mr. Roosevelt. The unannounced purpose is to offset the Coughlin, Lemke and Townsend activities. That is, the La Follette clan is to set up a counter- wedge for Mr. Roosevelt within the left-wing groups. It will have no eflective organization outside Wisconsin, and perhaps Minnesota, but somehow Progressives always get more public attention than other people—and fewer votes. * X ¥ % Secretary Swanson says the Navy is holding maneuvers in the North Pacific “to get accustomed to those waters.” The fact is the Navy has sailed them often enough in the last few years to know every wave by its first name. LI The teal reason is, of course, secret. But you may never get a Dbetter guess than ome that the fleet is going to co-operate with the Army in testing a coastal plan of defense involv- ing ultimate loss of Seattle to an enemy. The Military Board of Strat- egy has secret sets of plans labeled by colors, “the red pian” of action for this, the “blue plan” of defense for that, and so on. Whatever color this onme is will never be generally kmown. It is nobody’s business, except the Navy's. But if the fleet should wind up around Seattle and work out a co-operative problem with the Army behind the mearby mountains, the local citizenry should not be surprised. * ¥ X % ‘The admirals swore in the deepest language of the deep when a re- port was published that the fleet intended to go as far as Wake Island. ‘What riled them was not what you would suppose. They are not par- ticularly afraid of inspiring diplomatic misunderstandings with Japan. That problem was threshed out a couple of years ago. The last mid-Pacific maneuvers of the fleet stirred very little notice in the Japanese press. But it stirred plenty of activity among American ladies’ peace organizations, which charged the Navy with baiting for Far Bastern troubles, The ad- mirals are far more afraid of the ladies than of the Japanese. (Copyright. 1936.) GALLI-CURCI SIGNS To Sing in Opera for First Time Since Operation. CHICAGO, September 11 (P).— Amelita Galli-Curci, golden-voiced col- oratura soprano who underwent a goiter operation a year ago—an opera- tion which physicians snid might have forever ended her singing days— signed a contract yesterday to sing the leading role for the Chicago City Opera Co. November 17 in her first appearance since her recovery. Announcement of the contract was made by Paul Longone, manager of the opera company. BEMOANS LOST VOTES Defeated Candidate Lists 2,000 Hours of Hearing Job Pleas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, September 11 (#)—H. B. Thorn, speaker of the 1935 House of State Representatives, who was defeated in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor, listed the trials and tribulations of an Arkansas candidate. His affidavit of expenditures filed with the Secretary of State yesterday said he spent $158.76 in “donations to moochers, churches, etc., most of whom voted for my opponent if they voted at all.” $3,752,234,024 If you consider any one of the fore- going States and realize what s big percentage of the total business done in every State is represented by these huge sums, you come to realize that to withdraw any such artificial stimulant is camparable to the withdrawal of a drug from a narcotic addict. The States will not be accustomed to such & change and they will not be able to get similar sums no matter whether the New Deal is continued or defeated. For there aren’t any Federal funds to keep up such enormous spending. Farms Can’t Duplicate Wages. Nor are there any signs that farm income can take up the slack when |" the Government itself has set a scale of wages on the work projects which is far beyond what has been paid to rural workers heretofore. The so- called “prevailing wage” is all right when measured in cities and towns against work in the trades, but it is lopsided when harvest hands and farm workers are lumped into the wage scale and farmers have to pay higier than W. P. A. scales of wages to get labor away from the Pederal projects. The intervention of the Federal Government into the economic life of the several States by created work that cannot be substituted later by private employers and cannot be con- tinued by public employment because of the expense is & sad commentary on the effect to mix politics and eco- mnomics, but much worse is the inter- mingling of agricultural and industrial ‘wage scales without regard to the pre- vious habits and customs of the areas affected. It will take America a long, long ‘while to recover from the effects of the srtificlal economy which gives the ‘Western States at present their false flush-of economic health. (Copyright, 1936,) SOLD, SERVICED | AND INSTALLED BY| & CO,, INC. ‘Exclusive Representative Show Rooms 2703-5 Fourteenth Street N.W, 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are pre- sented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be con- tradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. SALE! Save %10 1o Peace Desire Needed to Keep It Holy Crusading Is Not Compatible With Pacific State. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. N MONDAY Gov. Landon said @ few undramatic but very sensible words about peace, and he chose an excellent forum in which to say them—a meet- ing of the State Convention of the American Legion. A The Governor said that intelli- gent legislation might lessen the danger of being drawn into war, but he added that the only real bulwark ainst war was the will to peace, willing- ness to sacrifice short-run profits and willingness also to stifie the natural affec- tions which we hold for the lands of our ancestors. ““We must,” he said, “keep our heads.” Now, all that won't be very satisfac- tory to those who want guarantees in law that we will never go into another war, or to those who think that in order not to be involVed in another war we must reform the world and see that there are no more Fascist dictatorships. But you cannot keep peace and engage in & holy crusade. If anything has been demonstrated in the last months, it is that you can- not be at the same time a pacifist and an international reformer. ‘The British Labor party has got itself into a most serious dilemma by this confusion of thought. It wanted collective security, with sanctions to enforce peace on the wicked aggressor, and it wanted, at the same time, British disarmament. The result was that Britain got out on a limb from which she had to retreat with consid- erable ignominy. And the cause of international peace was certainly ill- served. Now Britain has gone into reverse. She is arming with tremen- dous speed, while the country goes through a revulsion of feeling, mov- ing to the position that Britain, from now on, will fight exclusively for British interests. First you had holy crusaders, plus pacifism; now you have armament, plus pacifism. Nei- ther seems a very good combination. Both Schools in United States. We have both schools in this coun- try. Our pacifists parade in demon- strations for the Spanish loyalists, although a parade in Manhattan won't help the fighting Spaniards a bit. Our most virulent nationalists urge us on all occasions to avoid entangling alli- ances, and then plump for vast in- creases of our armed forces, beyond any possible need for the defense of our own shores or adjacent waters against invasion. The Roosevelt ad- ministration talks about good neigh- bors, but permits the Government's spokesman to make on the floor of Congress one of the most incendiary speeches against Japan which has been heard from a responsible public personage for years. And, as Mr. Charles Taft pointed out last Sunday, in a speech in Maine, “although we want peace with Japan and friend- ship, the President planned that as soon as Japan terminated the naval treaty he would order the war games at Hawail and westward.” Our current appropriation for the Army and Navy is a billion and a quarter dollars, 66 per cent more than it was three years ago. And yet we originated and signed a pact never to use war as an instrument of national policy. There is* more militarism in this country at this moment than there has ever been in peace time, more money spent for war preparation, greater expansion of military training of civilians, although what in the world we want a big land army for, unless to ship it once again overseas, is something I have never been able to understand. Must Desire Peace. It would appear from a study of recent history that the way to keep international peace is, first of all, very passionately to desire it, to re- gard it as a moral value in itself, to confine one’s Galahading to the soil of one’s own country, wnere one has duties as & citizen, and to be quite clear that, although we may loathe Dorothy Thompson, LIMITED TIME PittSburg AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER No Money Down—Cenvenient Payments , For a limited time only, you may buy a nationally-known, Pittsburg Auto- matic Gas Water Heater at o reduction of from $10 to $27.50, the reduction depending upon the size Pittsburg Heater you purchase. 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For that country has & right to talk about peace. Holland gave up war a great many years ago. She had had a lot of wars, and she had lost most of them, and apparently it dawned upon all Dutchmen, who are very practical men, that wars don’t pay. Holland seems to have decided by an almost unanimous attitude of mind that it is cheaper to buy what one wants than to fight for it. Holland didn't go in much for pacifism. She went in for peace. In 1010, when the premonie tion of war was hanging over Europe, Holland decided to fortify the mouth of the Scheldt River, There was an international outcry. The Entente contended that it had the right to use the Dutch part of the Scheldt in case of a German threat to Antwerp. Holland fortified, and sent her Am- bassadors to Brussels and Paris to make clear that she was fortifying for reasons of peace, in order in the future to allow Germany no pretext for possible intervention. Germans Rearranged Plan. As a result of this move, the Ger- man general staff rearranged its plan of operation in case of war with France. Von Moltke’s memoirs reveal that the original Von Schlieffen plan contemplated the violation of both Belgium and Holland. - Holland bullt a crack army, and when the war broke out mobilized it and kept it mobilized at great ex- pense during the entire hostilities. It was perfectly clear that any one who invaded Holland would not have an easy time of it, small though the country was. But having done this, Holland took more blows on the chin, more insults to national pride, more interference and more suffering than is easily imaginable. She was between two fires. Her economic prosperity was bound up with that of Germany. Most indN\iduals in Holland were not neutral in their feelings. For one thing, the Boer War was not yet for- gotten. On the other hand, Dutch- men did not like German militarism and were outraged at the violation of Belgium. The entente and the alli- ance both conducted propaganda campaigns in Holland. Britain en- forced a blockade sgainst Dutch food ships to Germany; Dutch neutrality, on the other hand, protected Ger- many’s right flank. And the closure of the Scheldt—against which France had protested—prevented Germany from using Antwerp as a submarine base. German and British airplanes both strayed onto Dutch territory. Protests came to Holland from both sides; from Britain when Holland ex- cluded armed British merchantmen from her harbors: from Britain again when Holland allowed the Germans to transport sand along her watere ways for dugouts. . Both sides penal- ized her, and both sides violated her | neutrality. London rationed her on the basis of pre-war statistics, and Ludendorff threatened to overrun the country as a result. An ultimatum was actually presented by Germany, but Holland kept cool, and it was withdrawn. Holland Needs Foreign Trade. We are told that capitalism and the trade conflicts are responsible for wars. Holland is a conservative and highly capitalistic country. She de- pends for her life on international trade. Four-fifths of her grain supply comes from abroad, and she must import coal and raw materials as| well. Her sea-borne trade was strangled. The Germans laid mines before English ports, the British laid them in the North Sea, and regardless of the treaty of London Britain con- trolled the trade of neutral states adjacent to Germany, and, finally in the Spring of 1915 did away with all We, the People Good Democratic Showing in Maine May Cut Landon’s War Chest. BY JAY FRANKLIN. NE of the oldest songs in the political nursery is the old Democratic chant: “Maine, Maine, go away! Come again election day!” which answers the old Republican lullaby: “As Maine goes, so goes the Union.” For the last two weeks, however, there have been strange rumblings and tremors from the “Barometer State” which holds its congressional elections next Monday. While John Hamilton is publicly claiming that the Republicans will carry Maine “all down the line by 50,000” and while the Democrats are making optimistic sounds, the inside dope is that the “as Maine goes” canvass will be so close that a majority of 5,000 votes, either way, will cover the outcome. Gov. Brann, & Democrat though not a New Dealer, is running for the Senate seat now held by an amiable Republican named White. Even the Republicans admit that Brann has a good chance to win. ‘The Democrats have put up & New Dealer of French-Canadian ancestry for the governorship, on a social security platform. The congressional seats are being hotly contested on the issue of Passa- maquoddy, which—strange as it may seem to the rest of the country—is extremely popular in the Pine Tree State. * x * x On the assumption that the Democrats win all along the line, the result of this set-up would be to remove from the State Capitol at Augusta & Governor who ran out on the Roosevelt administration 'Quoddy, and put him in Washington where he would be powerless to halt the tidal power project. It would land a liberal Governor in office who would keep faith with the President, and give the Democrats control of the Maine delegation in the House of Representatives. Granted that a clean sweep is unlikely, the capture by the Democrats of either the senatorship or the governorship, and the retention of ome or two of the four seats in the House would completely ruin the peace of mind of the G. O. P. with respect to the coming November elections. Nothing less than a smashing Republican victory, with majorities in excess of 25,000, could give Landon even a fighting chance two months later, EE A 8o it is not unreasonable to assume that a respectable Democratic showing in the Maine election may lead to some immediate and practical head searching in the financial district and in other quarters whence the big money has been flowing into Gov. Landon's headquarters, Perhaps a little conference in a New York club or an evening narty at one of the big houses on the morth shore of Long Island will be followed by @ few brief orders from men who have mever made a cent by backing the wrong horse, Possibly there will be some long distance calls to Washington or ‘Hyde Park—and then, the general unloading of Republican stock and a brisk getting out from under the anti-Roosevelt crusade . . . A surge up in the stock market, a relaxation of tension, an end to the application of four letter words to the President of the United States in the locker rooms and on the smart commuting trains . . . The gradual elimination of Father Coughlin and the liquidation of Lemke . . . Perhaps the sudden discovery by Landon’s Wall Street backers that “the dangerous state of Europe” compels us all to stand together behind the President . . . Perhaps a real cards-on-the-table betwren big business and the » New Dealers. All this is, naturally, sjust day dreaming. This is no time to make predictions, because the mass of American voters speak only through the ballot box. But if Maine registers a decisive G. O. P. victory only one outfit will be more amazed than Democratic headquarters,” (Copyright. 1936.) THIRD TRANSFUSION FOR ILL BOY SLATED Youth to Write Final Chapter of Mercy Adventure for Victim distinctions between legitimate and contraband goods and shut out of Holland everything even suspected of a German destination. Holland's trade, even with her own colonies, was interfered with. Dutch vessels were sunk by German submarines. And still the obstinate Dutch stayed out of the war. And when it was over they got back to work, and reorganized their laws, extended the social services of the in Infection. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 11.—One | more transfusion for the Chicago boy state, rebuilt the country from end to end, abolished slums and added a new rich province to the nation by dump- ing the sea out of it in one of the most grandiose engineering feats in history. universities, the art collections, the thrift, the social justice, the tolerance, the gleaming and be- flowered windows of a nation without & slum. Gov. Landon is right. To maintain peace one must keep one’s shirt on and concentrate one's moral crusades The national pride is in the | Levitt, the 7-year-old sufferer from the i the malady, said the transfusion would public parks and beaches, the nrder,| afflicted with viridans streptococcic infection will complete the misison of mercy here of Maurice Oldham, 13, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Paul Sahlins, attending Philip be undertaken Monday. It will be the third for Maurice in the effort to aid P . “It's too early to say whether the transfusions have had the desired effect,” sald the physician. At Galesburg, IlI, the same ailment | where they will do the most good. (Copyright, 1936.) caused the death yesterday of James | McGee, 6. He had been 1ll seven months. Headline Folk and What They D Scientists Say Dark Day Is Upon People of World. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. N THIS desk there is piling up day by day & heap of ad- dresses 5o high it is hard to see over them. They are the outgivings of famous scientists meet- ing at Harvard, chemists at Pitts- burgh and various scientific gather- ings in France, England and Czecho- slovakia. One of the latter says a new dark age Is upon us, in which devoted men in laboratories, instead of monasteries, will carry through a balance brought forward to a happier day. All sadly renounce thé belief in an “organic pattern” of human society, which so cheered and nurtured the last cen- tury. They see only miltonic chaos recorded on the news tickers, Julius S. Huxley, the famous British bio-chemist, thinks scientists may learn to implant some germs of intelligence anu decency in pre-natal tissue. He thinks man must use whet brains he has to fashion better brains, or lose the decision to the in« sects, or bother eager and prolific contenders for the planetary chame pionship. Dr. E. P. Armstrong, president of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, visions a new race of supermen brought about by food sciences. At Harvard Prof. Ross G. Harrison of Yale and his confrere, Prof. Hans Spemann of Germany, find a “sculptor” and a “master builder” at work in each germ cell, and they hold out hope that these artisans, under proper supervision, may be held up to a much higher standard of workmanship. Lacking a sabbatical year, this ree porter can note only one or two least common denominators in this mountain of addresses. One is that man must learn to lift himself by his bootstraps and the other is that, in the world of bio-chemistry, tissue culture is a new enchantment from which the miracle may come. Profs, Harrison and £pemann are outstand- ing in this fleld, and some of their achievements have been so startling as to suggest,that they might as- semble a citizen and a voter out of a few spare parts, For instance, Prof. Spemann laid out the job of fashioning a Siamese twin out of a bit of raw material— some embryonic frog tissue, plus his new cellular merlin called the “ore ganizer.” The living, leaping, croak- ing twin came through according to specifications. Old Dr. Spemann, nearing 70 now, is professor of biology at the Univer sity of Freiberg. Last year he re- ceived the Nobel prize and marveled that any man would know what to do with $42,000. He ana Dr. Harri- son have won resounding acclaim among scientists all over the world, and, deliberately and by design, are among the least publicized of their profession. When they turn in a miracle it is likely to be sunk in the quicksands of scientific verbiage— which they don't mind, as they are anything but circus scientists. Prof. Harrison, 66 years old, Jean, bald, alert, bespectacled, with a white mustache, works in the Osborne Zoological Laboratory at Yale, stays down in the deep labyrinths of the life maze and dodges publicity. He never has beéen photographed, except for a foggy snapshot caught by a newspaper body-snatcher at a scien- tific convention a few years ago. He is one more of the many illustrious alumni of Johns Hopkins, a native of Germantown, Pa. It is sald that if any one has even a suspicion of why an acorn becomes oak and mot an elm he is the man. 3 EASY LESSONS to Lessen Driving Costs to stop at ti:e Tydol pump for the only E:Nnfiu that drives, oils and cleans your motor . . . at no extra cost! ‘This amazing new high anti-kno¢k motor . fuel actually oils and cleans upper motor parts because it actually contains both a patented TOP-CYLINDERS. IT CONTAINS A SPECIAL TOP- CYUNDER OfL A PROD UCT OF THE TIDE WATER OIL COMPANY top-cylinder oil and an efficient carbon-solvent. 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