Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1936, Page 2

FLYING REPORTER Round - the - World Traveler i Takes Off for Bangkok in ‘Pea-Soup Atmosphere. BY LEO KIERAN. By Radio to The Star. NGOON, India, en route to Bangkok, October 12.—The Calcutta episode is the most adventurous thus far of my tour around the world. It inéludes a visit to the Calcutta mar- kets to seek tropical clothing, & night spent in a chair because of an insect- infested bed room, a hectic pre-dawn ride to the airport, a blind take-off in_the fog and a misty flight over trackless Bengal jungles toward Akyab. Arriving in Calcutta Saturday night, I was driven in an ancient tayi to the Great Eastern Hotel, the best in Calcutta, built 60 years ago and resembling & museum. It was ‘overrun with barefoot, turbaned servants who crowded around each guest seeking favors. The rooms were huge. 1 changed my clothing and then set forth in search of a pith helmet to- ward off sunstroke. Merchants in the public markets screamed their wares at me and I finally succeeded in"driving a hard bargain and halv- ing the original price. Finds Bed Alive. Finally to dinner, where I found most of the men dressed in white trousers and black dinner jackets, with 10 men to each woman among 500 diners. Dinner over, I retired to my room to find the bed covered with an assortment of ticks, green flies, beetles, moths and gnats, which I was unable to dislodge. So I sat on a chair in the darkness, until reveille at 8 am. In the wreck of a taxicab, I drove to the airport, in fear all the while that the wheels would come off. The steering wheel was Joose, the driver old and weak-eyed, and there was a heavy ground fog. The 8-mile drive was over a road crowded with cattle carts, sacred bulls and native pedestrians. The drive was & night= mare, with several narrow escapes as the auto wobbled along, at one time grazing the hind legs of a cow that was hidden from view until struck in the fog. Takes Off in Fog. At the airport I found the pilot de- bating whether to start through the fog. Visibility was under 50 feet. ‘The field was unlighted, except for a few flares, visible but one at a time. However, we taxied out, starting the run with an auto in the lead. Outside the cabin windows there was nothing but a swirling mist. The pilot was warned of soft spots in the runway, but finally gave the four engines full throttle and we lurched forward. The wheels bumped ominously, the wings wobbled, and we almost had reached the end of the field when, with a final lurch, the plane bounded into the mist. The die was cast. Unable to re- turn, the pilot pulled her up through the fog into clear skies and ouf over hundreds of square miles of the bengal Jubgles. agd swampe, huge water trees and tangled iron vines was beneath us; with no landing place for 400 miles, until Akyab. At this writing the sun 1s burning off the fog and we are well out, passing over the Bay of Bengal. ACopyright. 1936, by the North American . Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) £ EKINS CLIPPER PASSENGER, m Reporter Scheduled to Leave Manila Today. NEW YORK, October 12 (#)—H. R. #kins, New York World-Telegram and Beripps Howard newspapers reporter, who has maintained a steady lead in the reporters’ round-the-world race, was scheduled to leave Manila at 2 pam. (Eastern standard time) today on the Pan-American airliner Hawaii Clipper for his eastward trans-Pacific leg of the tour. ©On the Asiatic mainland his two eivals, Dorothy Kilgallen and Leo Kier- n#n, appeared to be fighting for no wm than second place in the race. WThe pair, together for more than 13,000 miles, took leave of each other at Bangkok, Siam, at 4 a.m. (Eastern dard time) Miss Kilgallen left Hongkong in a chartered plane, to ®iil on the President Pierce for Ma- ufla. ~In & regular transport plane Kier- fian flew down the Malay Peninsula to Penang, then headed for Saignon, French Indo-China, on his way to Hongkong and the President Pierce. FARM LOAN BODY - FORMED IN WEST @.nnuou Federation Will Seek Lower Interest Rates and Non-Partisan Control. B the Associated Press. NEW ULM, Minn, Octobér 12.— Beeking reorganization of the Farm CYedit Administration and lower inter- est rates on farm loans, 400 Farm Loan Association representatives and stock- hpldérs from Minnesota yesterday ore gsnized the Minnesota Federation of Natidnal Farm Loan Associations here. ‘Hepding the list of resolutions adopted by the meeting was one pledg- the association to try “to secure decentralized, non-partisan control of the Farm Credit Administration and eléctdn by National Farm Loan Asso- ciation of at least half the directors h Federal land bank.” JAnDther urged reduction of interest fates' on Federal Land Bank loans and gommissioner loans, or retention of tde present rate. The F. C. A. fawors increasing the rates. Prificipal speaker was Merton L. (Corey, general counsel for the National Federation of National Farm Loan ASSoclations, who urged “restoration of rates-on Federal land bank loans “essential to practical and efficient ad- minigtration.” GRANDFATHER AT 36 ‘BALSWIEK, Island of Ruegen, Oc- tober=12 (#).—The title of Germany's ydlngest grandfather was won by Hernfann Jahnke, 36, working as a fasmehand on this little Baltic Island. Hewas married when 17. His eldest daughter, who married last year, gave bilthato a boy & few days after cele- hqua her 17th birthday anniversary. = = Linebarger to Speak. E PARK, Md., October 12 —Judge Paul Linebarger of Wash- for 30 years legal advisor to Chinese Nationalist government A labyrinth of waterways | . party, will address the Interna- = Relations Club of the Univer- Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. RANK. SPEOKAL!ZATION being the trend of the times in all professions, we expect to go into our chain store some day and find that there are no clerks. Instead we will be confronted, perhaps, with a super= visor of liquids and an assistant to the supervisor of liquids in charge of ginger ale, or a superintendent of vegetables, a first assistant to the superintendent of vegetables, in charge of tomatoes, and a second assistant to the superintendent of vegetables, in charge of squash. These reflections are brought about by the fact that there are few elevator boys in Washington any more, due to the new, gigantic office buildings. Now there are assistant, first assistant and second assistant elevator starters in each structure, as well as that top- notcher of lift officials, the starter himself. Titles, you will note, are sewn on the starters' unllormx * x ¥ ¥ DOLLAR CONE. Three dollars for 15 cents’ worth of ice cream—that’s what hap- pened to a Washington newspaper executive recently. It all started this Summer when the ezecutive gave Hubert, a small colored boy, a dollar for rescuing his 3-year old son from a nearby duck pond. Twice since the toddler has been fished from the pond, elways with Hubert the modest hero. “Why,” finally asked the father sternly, “are you always falling flat in that shallow pond, and how does it happen that Hubert is ine variably here when you do it?” “Every time I fall in,” the little Jellow replied, “you give Hubert money and he buys me an ice cream cone.” Hubert left before he could be interviewed. “Anyway,” comments the jather, “the kid is truthful. And you can’t expect him to know a dollar from a nickle at 3.” * ok ok % WITH FISHING. the skill of an expert angler, he casts a fishing line for hours at a time—yet he never goes fishing. walks about on the lawn of his Rose- | mont home in Alexandria throwing out | the line from a fishing rod and pa- tiently rewinding it, with never so| much as a nibble or bite. He is fol- | lowing & physician'’s advice in an effort to overcome arthritis in his arm. * ok x % ILLEGAL. STAID judges and elderly lawyers| engaged in a bizarre game of foot ball in Alexandria the other day, which epded 17 to 0 in a_ vietory for the team of Judge William P. Woolls. ‘The scene was the suburban home of Commonwealth's Attorney Albert V. Bryan, who captained the losing team. The game, a feature of an Alexandria Bar Association outing, started in what boys call “touch foot | ball,” but soon digressed into & com- bination of rugby, soccer, modern | wrestling, and tag. Two prominent barristers were slightly injured while two United States Representatives yelled encour- agement from the side lines, * % * % NOSES KNEW. 'HE instinctive ferocity of the jaguar was demonstrated to Headkeeper W. H. Blackburne at the Zoo the other day when he had occasion to separate a mother from her kittens. The eyes of the little jungle cats had notl opened, as they were little more than a day old. Yet their noses told them of the presence of an intrduder. They snarled and crouched as if to spring—eyes still shut—when Blackburne reached toward them to pick them up. * ok X ok CURB FANS. Base ball seems to breed wise- cracks among Ddoth c¢rowds at games and spectators watching scoreboards, for, with the world series over, stories about curb bleacher wit are still being told. During a recent game a large number of people were gathered in front of The Star’s scoreboard when, during an ezciting moment, the radio supplement went off. Immediately a rooter yelled, “Say! I want my money dback!” * ok ok % OVERSIGHT. THmB‘S a nice little 4-year-old boy in town, visiting from Missis- sippl, who had never been taken The | North China and the right to station | w THE - -EVENING -STAR, - WASHINGT FOG NEARLY HALTS | [Washington || TOKIO PROTESTS (TOWNSEND URGES TWO NEW CLASHES Fight With Manchukuoan Troops Reported—Nine- Power Treaty Appeal. BACKGROUND— Japan, since its conquest of Manchuria in 1932, has penetrated gradually into North China prov- inces with accompanying border clashes and tense international re- lations. Last week Japan's Am- bassador to China was understood to have demanded, in a conjerence with the Chinese dictator, Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, auton= omy for five North China provinces. Chiang declared the demands were “ezcessive.” The United States invoked the nine-power pact in January, 1932, when Japan was in the process of seizing Manchuria, which it later made into the separate country of Manchukuo, theoretically indepen- dent but actually under strong Japanese influence. Secretary of State Stimson at that time sent @ note to Tokio de- claring the United States would adhere to its rights under the nine- power pact, as well as under the Kellogg anti-war treaty. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, October 12.—Two new clashes between Russian and Man- chukuoan troops on the northern Ko- rean border brought a Japanese pro- test from the Tokio government today. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita in- structed the Japanese Embassy in Moscow to protest the incidents. The clashes were reported to have occurred mnear Chientao yesterday. Strong reinforcements were reported rushed to both sides of the border after the clash between the guard forces. Domestic Crisis Studied. A domestic crisis arising from army ment meanwhile was being studied by Premier Koki Hirota. The premier was to confer with Lieut. Gen. Juichi Terauchi, minister of war, on the military demand for appointment of a new minister charged with formulating national policy. Some neutral observers feared the demand might result in cabinet resig- nations if the military officials pressed for action before Parliament meets. ‘The problem which perplexed offi- cials was the necessity for arriving at a decision as to whether the army’s powers should be extended. Many well informed persons envisaged & | bitter battle between the military leaders and heads of the civil faction in the government. Nine-Power Treaty Appeal The newspaper Kokumin said today the’Japanese government has been in- formed Great Britain has urged signa- tories of the nine-power treaty to join Britain in a protest “against Japan's | | alleged demands” on China. The newspaper declared Britain pagticularly objected to reported de- mands “for complete independence of Japanese troops on the Yangste River.” (The nine-power treaty was a mutual agreement to respect China's terri- | ¢ torial integrity. The signatories were | tl'g United States, Japan, China, the British Empire, France,” Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal). “Open Door” Declared Threatened. ornt Britain, Kokumin said, told the other signatories that such Jap- anese demands would destroy the “open door” in China, the principle | of China’s equality and the territorial integrity of China. The newspaper printed the account | | under the headline, “Britain’s faith- Jess action.” It said the Japanese foreign office had received a report disclosing “a large scale international | conspiracy” by the British govern- ment against Japan in the present | Sino-Japanese crisis. The Japanese foreign office, Ko- kumin added, refrained from reveal- ing the facts of the British govern- ment’s action because it feared such a disclosure might cause a rupture of Anglo-Japanese relations. The newspaper expressed the opin- ion that the United States—on which, it said, Great Britain placed great re- liance of support—proBably would re- ject the British proposal. Situation Declared Critical. Kazuye Kuwashima, chief of the Eastern Asiatic bureau of the foreign office, said on his return today from Nanking he could not “guarantee” there would be no war between China and Japan. Relations between the two countries, he declared, were still at a very critical stage. American and British diplomats in China, Kuwashima said, were greatly concerned over the situation and were trying to obtain all information pos- sible. demands for revision of the govern- | ROOSEVELT DEFEAT Splits Support in Campaign Between Gov. Landon and Lemke. By \ne Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 12.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend, titular head of the re- covery plan-old age pension organiza= tion bearing his name, split his support in the presidential race to- day between Gov. Alf M. Landon and Representative William Lemke with the declaration that defeat of Presi- dent Roosevelt was “imperative” to bring enactment of Townsend legisla- tion “during the next administration " He urged his followers, in a formal statement issued here yesterday. to vote for Gov. Landon, the Republican standard bearer, in all States where Lemke, chief of the Union party, had been unable to place his name on the ballot. Lemke already has been named to the ballots of 32 States, but his sup= porters conceded recently his name would not appear on those of Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Nevada, New Jer- sey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, West Virginia and California, and might not be placed on the ballots of three other States. “Mr. Roosevelt,” Dr. Townsend's statement said, “has given silent as- sent to the political campaigns waged against our organization under the guise of ‘investigations’ by the New Deal administration. “Mr. Roosevelt is against the Town- send national recovery plan. There- fore Mr. velt must be defeated.” Describing Lemke as “100 per cent” for the Townsend plan, the statement continued: “Therefore Mr. Lemke has my indorsement as a candidate for the presidency.” Washington Produce BUTTER—Range of prices to s gathered from wholesale dealers (pric by shippers based on Philadelphi New York prices): One-pound prints. 1-pound prints. carion pound ‘prints, “carton (43 prints. carton (50 o E score)s 36: tubs (00 la Prices "paid_shippers. net fob. Wash- ington. By the United States Bureau of Agricuitural Economics EGGS—Market firm. Prices on some Recelpls lgnt a3 produc: to decline urrent Teveipts STak0: hennery whites. 3dain: Government 'graded and dated white esgs (net prices paid shippers fob Wash- ington): U. extras, large. mediums. 31 U. 8. TIVE = POULTRY—Market _continues nervous and unsettled. ~ Receivers buying oniy for immediate Deed. = Receipts always grades highes 42 U. 8. standards. Chickens. fryers, 1Ral9. crosses, 1¥alf) mixed colors. 17. d up, 40245 each; 230 each. Old guineas ring turkeys. hens. 10 to 24: toms. 4 pounds and up. No. 2's 1K, pounds. 21a22; Prults and Vegetables. | Seles in large lots by oricinal receivers to % am. toda CABBAOE———NO clflot arrivals; on track. Supplies moderate. demand moderue mlrln about steady. Penn- k_hampers, domestic round k. §0-pound sacks. ng Island, pounds net, red ?,rwl arrivals; two bro- ken cars b “trac Supplies moderate; damlnfl ‘moderate; market. steady 3 Wenern lettuce crates. ; New York, bushel bllkul- er&m—fiu carl moa:nv-ls no on rack. Bupplies erate: et slightly e nd section. craies, California__arrived: six broken and three on track. BSupplies fairly moderate: market slight- California, “Western, crates, 4.2584.50; few 24,00 one Michigan. one O ok Cassived: ane. broken and four unbroken cars on track. Supplies moderate: moderate: market about steady. d sacks. yelows, S. No. 1. Mieh ak0: New York, #0ax0; Indiana. Idaho and Wash- ington, 50-pound secks, Valencias. U. 8. Yo 1. 3 inches and larser, 125 few o cars cars ly weaker, Iceberg demane 1 igher %lAS—Nn carlot arrivals: one broken track demand market orni, Supplies light moderate: mai stronger. bushel hampers, Telepnones, 3 e ohiaher . POTATOES—One Idaho, two Maine ar- rived; two broken and 'four unbroken cars ‘on track. Supplies moderate: de- mand moderate: market steady Maine, 100-pound sacks Green Mountains. U. 8. No. 10a2.15. New York lUll pound sacks ‘round white 8. . 2.00, Pennsyivania, 100 Sound sacks: Cobbiers, U. 8. i.9082.00. " Idsho, 100-pound sacks Ruuet Burblnks. U. 8. . SWEET Pt 'OES—No zll’lol ln‘ no cars on xrlck Supplies moderate: mand moderate; market steady. Carolina. bushel baskets Nancy nd Puerto Ricans. 75a90. Virginia, bushel baskets Nancy Halls and Puerto’ Ricans, 5. MIXED VEGETABLES—One California arrived; two broken and one unbroken cars on track. LIMA BEANS—Supplies moderate; de- : market steady. ' New nia and Virginia. bushel 1.5 &8 Gupplies lght: market stronger. New and _ Virginia. ~bushel hi round and flat type. 1.0¢ Carolina, bushel hampers, &r 75; green mund type, H rids bush hampers, T 1..5.1 50; Yzlxo- Cr%eok- necks. 00. pnnns New Jersey, bushel baskets, car ‘on demand moderate: Jer: shopping until he arrived in Wash- ington with his grandmother and mother, to visit his uncle, Bailiff ‘Wylie Hill of the District Police Court. Late yesterday the same child showed all indicatiohs of never again permitting himself to be dragged into s department store, having aroused the laughter of his family and several clerks. The very first dress his grandmother tried on seemed to intérest him enor- mously. He searched among other gowns hung ready for inspection. . He seemed to want to break into the highly technical conversation going on. “What's the matter?” his grand- mother finally asked. “Don’t you like this dress?” . “Yes, grandmother,” he replied. “But where are the pants?” National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. newsreels to see what kind of dictator Gen. Franco is going to be. Spain's new national CINC]NNATL October 12.—The whole world is looking to the to widely held hero is & military man. Contrary opinion army officers seldom know how to swagger, and so it may be neécessary for Gen. Franco to take lessons in that art from those dictators who came out of civilian lift. The two most conspicuous exémplars of ab- solutism in t! he world today were accustomea to such modest work as house painting and socialistic careers at and e: ting before they began tnewr top of the hesp. Military display military steps appeal strongly to them, But saluting and being saluted are old stuff t6 Gen. Franco. Let us hope that the man who takes charge of the wreckage of Spain may turn out to nave Aunce Lengwortn more wisdom will take & lot of serious doing to than talent for stage antics. It put Spain on her fest. (Copyright, 1836.) Maryland Wednesday on rela- China and- = B0 ONEYDEWS—One Colorado arrived: two broken and one unbroken cars on track. B“DD“!I moderate; demand mod- eri arket about steady. Colorado, nd Sumbo crates, 9s to 1%s, few higher. Celery Pfl!el Steady. CELERY- e New York arrived: four broken and_one u%brok:: cab on track. efate: demand moderate; m Supviles moderaie; demund modera 1. 50] 5 ‘a Cl’ll“ ] S "°'-f" {TOEs —one * Galltornia ken and one unbroken c e, Supls mplerater Ssmind Hedth o : 2 Tad arning, Wrabped, 6X6 and larker, 1.50 M A 'GES_Four California arrived: lour bmken and four unbroken cass Dl'l track. California, boxes, 4.50a5.00. as to B—No carlot_arrivals; no cars Cllllol‘nll. boxes, No. 1. 4.25a —Nc carlot arrivs Florida, boxes. LEMON .25 Al RAbER no oara, o8 tnck 50, 28 {0 APEs Two California arrived; three broken ll’lfl five unbroken cars on lllck: ‘Thompson _seedle c""“"“ 505 Riblers. * 2.00: ras. ué‘" ua—u-m-nd 3-pound bas- . 35875, AVOCADOS—Florida. flats. 1.00a1. A PPLES—Three Washington arrived: one oroken and three unbroken cars on track. Supplies moderate; demand good: tmarket steady. Virginia, ‘bushel baskets: 8. No. h _minimum, - B Nn minimtm: 1.0081.10; 8 No. 1 i-inch minimum. minimum. 1.68a1.75: 351.50; '2%-inch 25; Golden Delicious, U, mmlmum. 1.5081.60; Al 5 1o minium. Do Combination ‘fancy 1.65a2.20: < Market News on Foge ity ) - > e— . D.- € MONDAY OCTOBER 12, 1936. Waves Pound Grounded Vessel Heavy swells drove the grounded Ohioan closer to the jagged inshore rocks in San Francisco harbor as Coast Guard boats aided in taking the crew off the ship. —A. P. Photo. Roosevelt Denver Sp_eech Spirit of Columbus and American Pioneers Win- ning Prosperity and Corner Turned, He Says. By 1ne Associated Press. DENVER, October 12.—Here is the text of President Roosevelt's speech today on the Capitol grounds® America pauses taday to honor Christopher Columbus—a great Italian, whose vision, leadership and courage pointed the way to this new world. Once launched upon his great voyage, he did not turn back. There were those who thought that the price they were paying was too great But the valiant admiral, firm to his purpose, sailed on. And all America pays him tribute today. ‘The spirit that animated those vayagers four centuries ago is not allen to these Western plains and mountains. You are scarcely re- moved one generation from men and women who, cast in the same mold, sought to conquer nature for the benefit of the Nation. It is from the rich diversity of climate, soil and people that this country has always derived its strength. The lives of you men and ‘women in the mountains and plains are tied up with those on the farms and in the cities. In our unified national economic life, we now know that industry is not immune if agriculture or mining languishes. The great but uneven prosperity of the 1920s made us neglect for too long a period the growing signs that things were not going right with the farmer and miner. . Surely we have learned that lesson. Surely you remember the idleness of your gold and silver, copper and coal and lead and zinc mines, your oil flelds, your rail- roads, your farms and ranches— all of them had suffered together in the collapse of prices and income, And when that stream of busi- ness had dried on the farms and plains and in the hills, the streams of business through the Nation also dried. Stagnation and Famous Corner. In the complete stagnation of business, of mines and of farms, there was only one agency capable of starting things going again— Government—not local government, not 48 State governments, because they had reached the limit of thewr resources, but the Federal Govern- ment itself. And yet, up to March 4, 1933, the Federal Government held back, doing nothing except to lend dollars to people at the top ‘with the vain hope that some of it would trickle down, and except to fold their arms, stand still and wait for a famous corner to come to them. ‘When this administration came in, its first act was to discover where the corner was and then to turn it. ‘The turning involved action, and the action was based on two obvious and simple methods of locomotion. First, by spending money to put people to work, and, secondly, by lending money to stop people from going broke. It meant doing those two things in the industrial East, in the South, in the Middle West, on the plains, in the Rockies and out on the Coast. we knew that the only practical way to turn the corner was to start the whole country turning it at the same time. One of the first jobs we under~ took was the assistance to the miners and farmers in the West. ‘Those of you who now see busi- ness moving again in your local ' shops and stores and factories know that your merchant's goods began to move off his saelves for the first time—that the wheels of your factories and mills began to turn for the first time—only after the Government had begun to spend money and had provided em- ployment for millions of people en all kinds of projects. Of course, we spent money. It ‘went to put needy men and women without jobs to work, and to buy materials the processing of which put other men and women to work. You on the plains and throughout the great mountain area can judge for yourselves whether the work was worth doing. ‘Washington did not originate the projects. You did. You told us where reclamation projects were needed. You told us where water should be conserved. You told us where floods should be controlled. ‘You told us where new, homesteads should be located. You told us how Denver wanted to get ifs new water great program waste and extrava- gance, for they are the game lead- ers who, when their o State or city or coundy was invelved, were the first to run to Washington pleading for Federal aid. Consist- ency is a word that cannot be found in the Republican campaign vocabulary and at that inconsist- ency is & mild term to apply to it. Take the effective example of livestock. If we had had more irrigation, more reservoirs in the past, fewer cattle and sheep would have been threatened with starva- tion on the range during the drought years. Lack of foresight on the part of former administrations compelled us to buy up sheep and cattle which otherwise would have died in their tracks from lack of food and water. This administration is proud that it spent money to buy cattle and sheep in those days. Republican leaders tell us that this, too, was a policy of waste. Who benefited? The stockman who found a market and was liter- ally saved from bankruptcy, the banker who held the mortgage on the stock, the merchant with whom the stockman and the banker dealt, the packer who processed the meat, but above all, those who benefited most were the unfortu- nate men and women and children on the relief rolls—hundreds of thousands of families all over the country—to whom the meat was distributed. Even the hides of those animals were saved. I cal} that work program and cattle buy=- ing program an investment to pre- serve America—the whole of Amer- can national life. Do you call it wasted? Much talk is heard about imports hurting the cattle industry. The truth is that cattle imports have always been small and always will be small as long as we have good range in the West and maintain our soil fertility irr the corn belt. Cattle imports were largest when prices were best, as in 1929. Cat- tle imports were smallest when prices were lowest, as in early 1933. “The income to cattlemen in the first six months of 1933, when Canadian imports were less than 500 head, was less than one-half of what it was in the first six months of 1936, when Canadian imports were larger, but still were only a trickle compared to domes- tic production. It has been a part of our pro- gram from the very beginning to conserve the water reservoirs of the country so that the beds of the riv- ers of all the important water- sheds of America will work for the people of all the States through which they run. Fort Peck Dam Portion of Dream. Way back in the Summer of 1934, dedicating the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, I said: “People talk about the Fort Peck Dam as the fulfillment of a dream. Why, it is only a small portion of a dream. The dream itself covers all the important watersheds of the States and one of those water- sheds was that we call the water- shed of the Missouri River, not only the main stem of the Missouri, but countless tributaries that run into it and countless of the tributaries that run into those tributaries. Be- fore man—before American men and women get through with the job, we are going to make every ounce and every gallon of water that flows from the heavens and hills count before it makes its way down to the Gulf of Mexico. I want to see that day come soon. It will help each and every State which lies between here and the Mississippl River. The work which we have already put under way to realize that dream is but a forerunner of what we hope to do in the days to come. ‘There are other great resources of this Western country, the de- velopment of which we undertook 4s an important and necessary part of the rounded objective. Take beet sugar for an example. I do not have to recite the record of steadily declining income in that industry before March, 1933. World production of sugar had expanded at such a rate that there was more sugar than the world could possibly consume. What we tried to do, and what we succeeded in doing, was to adjust the supply of sugar so that a farmer who raises it gets more adequate return. And you, the raisers of sugar beets, I con- gratulete on a substantial reduc- tion in the employment of hired children in the fields. In this word of thanks I know I am joined by the fathers and mothers of Amfl’- beng h Take a final example—in these greit mountain chains which tx- tend from our northern to our ‘southern border, exists a store- house of emormous wealth, its ultle thate yield as yet unguessed. ‘The revival of industry, of farme ing and of transportation have provided a revival of mining—coal and iron and oil and copper and lead and zinc. But the Government has con- tributed by direct action as well. When we laid the ghost of the old gold parity of the dollar, when we purchased gold and purchased silver too, you in the mountains felt the old thrill of the search for precious metal. Old developments again became profitable, new de< velopments sprang up. Mining became again an industry where men could find jobs. Power of Great Bullion Reserves. The great bullion reserves now in the United States Treasury are sufficient to redeem every dollar of our currency far more than 100 per cent. And yet people for partisan purposes are willing to spread the gospel of fear that our currency is not on a sound founda« tion. I tell you, and you know, that our monetary system is the soundest in the world today. I tell you, and you will agree, that we are around the corner. Private employment is picking up. ‘That means that Government ex- penditures for work for the unem- ployed are coming down. That means that the total of Govern- ment expenditures will decline. ‘Turning the corner also means that Government income from existing taxes, without new taxes, is going up. I repeat to you what I said in Pittsburgh a week and a half ago. that decrease in expenditures and increase in income means within & year or two a balanced budget and the beginning of reduc- tion in the national debt. When Republican leaders speak out here they proclaim their sym- pathy with all these Western projects and promise you more and more of them. When they speak to audiences in the East they pro- claim that they are going to cut Government, expenditures to the bone. There was an old Roman god named Janus. He faced both ways. He had two mouths. I need not explain that parable any further. Are you willing to turn America over to those who in past years shut their eves to the problems of this Nation? This administration has shown the way because it had the will to do. ‘We have sought and found prac- tical answers to the problems of industry, agriculture and mining. We have clung to no outworn method as an excuse for failure to act. We have had faith not in panaceas, but in the courage and resourcefulness of men and women to meet their problems themselves if given a chance, an opportunity that is the right of every American. ‘We have used the resources of Gov- ernment to give that chance, not to a favored few, but to all the people of this great Nation with all their richly diversified interests. We are made firm by the same spirit that made Columbus surge on—by the same spirit that made the ancestors of you who dwell in these mountains and on those plains win through the untrailed wilderness, across turbulent rivers and unknown plains and deserts, aver unscaled heights. to claim, to develop and hold a new and great empire for America. We have shown our determina- tion in the past by action. You can trust us to prove that deter- mination in the future by more action, sound action, action that is saving, and will continue to save, the constitntional representative form of Government in which we rejoice. Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) tive form of government in which we rejoice.” ‘The President led up to his discus- sion of Government spending by call- ing attention that this was Columbus day. He said there were those who felt the cost of Columbus' great voyage was too high and others who “offered him the counsel of despair.” He said past Republican administra- tions had done nothing except “lend dollars to people at the top with the | vain hope that some of it would trickle down, and except to fold their arms, stand still and wait for a famous cor- ner to come to them.” The first act of the New Deal, he | should be conserved. SELL-OUTPLANNED BY KING'S PALACE Department Store Here Since 1859 Will Pass Out of Existence. Founded in 1859, King's Palace de- partment store announced today that its stock is to be old out and an enter« prise which has become an institution in Washington will pass out of exe istence. The business was founded by Henry King, a native of Heidelberg, Germany, and was devoted originally to sale of millinery. Mrs, Caroline King, wife of the founder, was well known as a millinery artist and under her guide ance that department of the business became outstanding. Eventually, the business passed to the five sons of Mr. and Mrs. Henry King and in more recent years it has been operated by three grandsons, Mortimer, Sylvan and Phillip, jr. Others of the family have interests in the business. Under their manages ment the store has served to virtually all family merchandise needs. In making the announcement to- day, officials of the concern said: “The reason behind our decision is simply that several of us have wanted to retire for some time and increased property values on Seventh street make it possible for us to do so at this time without suffering too great a loss.” Phillip King, jr., declined to say at this time what disposition is to be made of the property or what business activities are to be undertaken by the younger members of the King family. In tracing the history of the old Washington store, Sylvan King recalls that James Buchanan was President when the business was founded on Pennsylvania avenue. During its first 10 years the store served the families of prominent Government officials of the Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson and Grant administrations and personal visits by President and Mrs. Grant are recorded in the annals of the come pany. In the Summer of 1914 the present, King's Palace Building of white tile was erected on Seventh street, with additions made in subsequent years. In 1934 the store observed its dia- mond jubilee year. Throughout all these years of oper- ation the members of the King fam- ily, who have run the business, have shared their time with public respon- sibilities, several of them contribut- ing much to the civic and business organizations of the community, — corner was and then turn it The turning involved no ‘“obvious and simple methods of locomotion.” “Of course, we spent money," he said at another point. “It went to put needv men.and women without Jjobs to work, and to buy materials the processing of which put other men and women to work. “You on the plains and throughout the great mountain area can judge for yourselves whether the work was worth doing.” “Washington did not originate the projects,” he continued. “You did. You told us where reclamation projects were needed. You told us where water You told us where floods should be controlled. You told us where new homesteads should be located. You told us where roads needed to be improved. “You told us, in short, in every State, city and county throughout this great region, and indeed throughout the United States, the most practical | way of giving work and at the same time creating public improvements of & permanent, useful character, He sald the administration was “proud” of its cattle-buying program during the drought years. which Re- publican leaders had called a “policy of waste.” Buying of Cattle. “Lack of foresight on the part of former administrations,” he asserted, “compelled us to buy up sheep and cattle which otherwise would have died in their tracks from lack of food and water.” Not only the stockman, banker, merchant and packer benefitted, he continued, but “above all, those who benefitted most were the unfortunate men and women and children on the relief rolls—hundreds of. thousands of families all over the country—ta whom the meat was distributed.” Turning to water conservation, the President recalled his speech in the Summer of 193¢ dedicating Fort Peck Dam in Montana and said he wanted to see the day come soon when “we | are going to make every ounce and every gallon of water that flows from the heavens and the hills count before it makes its way down to the Guilf of Mexico.” He said his administration had “shown the way because it had the will to do” and asked: “Are you willing to turn America over to those who in past years shut their eyes to the problems of this Nation?" “We have sought and found practi- cal answers to the problems of in- dustry, agriculture and mining." he said. “We have clung to no outworn method as an excuse for failure to act. We have had faith not in panaceas, but in the courage and re- sourcefulness of men and women to meet their problems themselves if given a chance, an opportunity that is the right of every American. “We have used the resources of Government to give that chance, not to a favored few, but to all the people of this great Nation with all of their richly diversified interests.” CLAIMS PRICE SWINGS CUT. B) tne Assoclated Press. 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