Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 11

Young Chiefs Fearful for Reform Resignation of Tugwell Stirs Suspicion in Administration. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. NSIDE the administration there is here and there some uneasiness among the so-called younger ele- ments because of a fear that Presi- dent Roosevelt may, in his secoad term, be less interested in reform than be was in his first. The single event which has aroused what might be termed a sus- picion along that line was the res- ignation of Un- believe § W hole-heartedly in his philosophy and locked upon him as their nat- ural leader. Some of this disappointment may or may not be reflected in the writings of J. Franklin Carter, who until last year was an associate of Mr. Tugwell in the Government, and was credited with helping to write speeches and articles for some of the New Deal officials while he was em- ployed in one of the Government de- partments. Coming Slump Feared. Mr. Carter, who writes for news- papers under the pen name of “Jay Franklin,” and who is, of course, no longer connected with the Govern- ment in any way, has been voicing fears of a “coming slump” in business and has been talking of the possibility that Mr. Roosevelt in his second term might “sell down the river” his lib- eral supporters. “The slump,” writes Mr. Franklin, “by all appearances, will catch both the people and the administration off guard. It wili find us with seven or eight million unemployed people who, with their dependents, account for one-fifth of our entire popula- tion. * * * “Worse still, it will find the Presi- David Lawrence. dent's personal prestige weakened by petty incidents calculated to arouse the average man’s suspicion that he is going to be sold down the river again to the same old economic roy- alists. Young Franklin's engagement to marry one of the du Pont girls looks as though the era of good feel- ing was to be based on a compromise with the beaten opponents. “So does Mr. Hearst's selection of President Roosevelt’s son-in-law to edit one of his newspapers. And the appointment of Jimmy Roosevelt as a lieutenant colonel of Marine Corps Reserves, no matter how well justi- fled, has a slightly regal touch which is disturbing to the American mass- mind. Does all this mean that the President is falling for the wave of big business adulation and that the big boys are going to do business at the same old standard of ethics?” Discusses New Deal's Nerve. In a later article, Mr. Franklin con- tinues in the same vein of criticism of business and adds this query: “Has the New Deal got the necessary nerve to break up the present love feast with big business by direct action in the bousing field?"” Mr. Franklin has been a consistent supporter of most of the. New Deal policies and the introduction of & crit- ical point of view at a time when most of the former critics have, in defer- ence to Mr. Roosevelt’s overwhelming personal victory, declared a moratorium on criticism is wholesome, to say the | least. No administration can succeed without the benefit of criticism. At the moment, it may be that the peo- ple generally are tired of the polemics of the campaign and want to know what is going on in the National Cap- tal without regard to whether such reports tend to help or hurt the po- litical fortunes of anybody. There can be no doubt that many ‘business men are sincerely trying to meet the specifications laid down by the re-elected New Deal. This does not mean that they surrender their convictions or what they believed be- fore November 3 has now come to mean to them the exact opposite. The truth is that in a great democ- racy like ours adjustment of majority end minority viewpoints is the most valuable piece of governmental mech- anism we can posdibly have. To get such an adjustment does not mean eompromise or surrender by one view- point to the other, but merely a rec- ognition that maybe some of the thoughts expressed in that voting strength of the 16,600,000 who voted the Republican ticket did somehow have a certain validity, and that con- versely mot all of the 27,700,000 who voted for Mr. Roosevelt did so because they had obtained governmental bene- fts of one kind or another. Non-Political Questions. ‘What is to be sought is an ap- praisal of the viewpoints of those on both sides who have definite beliefs with respect to_the degree or extent that intervention by the State is necessary to promote the general wel- fare. How shall the unemployed be given jobs and how shall the finances of the country be kept from a dan- gerous inflation and how shall re- lief be administered for those who eannot get jobs right away—these News Behind the News Wallace Working in Gum Shoes to Get More Effective Crop Control. BY PAUL MALLON. R. WALLACE and his A. A. A. squad of loud speakers are begin- ning to talk riddles. ‘The Agricultur: Secretary toid the Farm Bureau Conven= tion he does not want the old A. A. A. program because it is not good enough. Nor is the current soil conservation act all that is needed. He hinted that he wants a new and better program, basec on effective production control, but he is not prepared to say just what. Then he philosophized a lot about similar control for industry in a way which broadly suggested that what he really wants is a constitutional amend- ment for a new type of N. R. A. as well as A. A, A. Then up popped his administrator, Tolley, who said one more measure is mecessary to protect the farmers and that is “nothing less than direct and eflective production control”—the same having been outlawed by the Supreme Court decision, Now all this sounded to Washington farmers as if the constitutional amendment drive is on. The only other interpretation they considered was that Wallace and Tolley have something in their sleeves which they do not care to divulge just now; or perhaps their minds are blank. ‘These deductions are obvious, possibly a little too obvious to be well founded. * ok ok x No careful authority will elimb out on any limbs with a prediction of what Wallace is going to do, especially as his speech indicates he is somewhat confused himself. In the news trade here, it is frequently said, the Wallace limbs are like the wil- low. The most substantial part of them is generally under the sur- face. If you will do a little spade work on the 1937 farm program, announced the same day, you may find something more sturdy. The announcement said a limit would be placed on corn acreage next year in the large corn-growing areas. It also reiterated, what every one knows, namely that a similarly mild production-control system is not in effect on cotton and tobacco. It could have added that the only reason a limit is not also being placed on the 1937 wheat crop is that 52,000,000 acres of the 76,000,000-acre crop already have been planted in Winter wheat. However, it is more than likely a production-control program will be put into effect on wheat next year. Then Wallace would have something similar to the old A. A. A. control program, outlawed by the Supreme Court, working on four big basic com- modities—corn, cotton, tobacco and wheat. And he would have it without the farm contracts, which were obnozious to the Court, and without the processing tares, which permitted a consumer to sue and get a decision from the Court. Wallace hints that he does not consider this curtailment efficient. However, his own cotton experts will tell you in private, and with great glee, that it was efficient to the extent of 12,000,000 bales on this year's YOU GOTTA GIVE US cy‘ol‘t:n cron.lm Whlzl:o the ld:enn ield was almost pounds per CREDIT ERE. ¥r. # acre, the price is still well above ¥ 12 cents, and the A. A. A. cotton crowd unofficially takes credit for that. Production was about 30, 000,000 bales, instead of 42,000,000, after Wallace got through paying the cotton farmers for what is facetiously (and legally) known as soil conservation, but which means that the farmer does not plant cot- ton. Tobacco soil likewise seems to have been conserved enough to promote ® good price. It is at least & highly authoritative guess that what Mr, Wal- lace has in mind is this: He will work around deftly to get his soil conservation method of production control more and more eflective during the coming years. An amendment to the act will be proposed at the coming session to keep the set-up from being handed over to the States. But, at the same time, his henchmen feel they may not be able to perfect the soil conservation method sufficiently to handle a tre- mendous surplus. In future years, say three or four, it is a perfect advance alibi for them to say some more drastic program may have to be adopted eventually. They do mot know what. Meanwhile, it is advisable for them to talk up the production control idea and prepare the mind of the farmer and the consumer. * % % % As for a constitutional amendment, Wallace's idea seems to be about the same as President Roosevelt's on N. R. A. He would like it, but he knows he can't get it. If a demand for it arises from the people out of future developments, he will be glad to lead it, but he will give the idea only the subtlest kind of promotion until the army has assembled itself and called for leadership. He is not going to have any constitutional amendment limbs sawed off on him either. The constitutional amendment method, therefore, still seems to be beyond the realm of current authoritative thought and is not the right answer to the Wallace and Tolley riddles. They have the right one already in their pockets. Watch for John J. Burns, general counsel of the Securities and Ex- change Commission, to resign shortly. (Copyrisht, 1036.) are non-political questions now and they require careful study of what “eontrolled economy” really means, how much of it can be absorbed and how much of it may prove a frustra- Mon of recovery already under way. Mr. Roosevelt's own plans and in- @entions will be revealed in due time sfter his return. Unfortunately, too many people are paying attention to the personal equation believing that Mr. Roosevelt holds: the answer to all problems in the palm of his hand. To accept this view is to ignore the huge forces which made possible his victory and which must be kept in line it a period of good feeling and successful economic operation is to be attained. ‘The tug of war between the “haves” end the “have nots” between the ehampions of & governmental control of wages and prices and the oponents of the economic school which believes in government intervention only to prevent fraud and monopoly has by no means been changed materially by the election results except to indi- eate clearly that the present adminis- tration must, if it travels the middle oourse, get certain criticism from both sides. And maybe that's the best way after all to develop the all-important processes of adjustment which make possible progress in s democracy. (Copyright, 1936,) A PAUPER’S OATH FREES WOMAN IN KIDNAPING Myrtle Eaton, Accused of Harbor- Pennsylvania and South Carolina | ing Bremer Case Suspect, Leaves Florida Jail. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, December 10 (#).—Myrtle Eaton, who served seven months in jail for harboring a HUNT PARTY INCLUDES EARLE AND JOHNSON Governors Among Officials of Two States on Outing. | By the Assoctated Press. BAMBERG, S. C., December 10.— A group of Pennsylvania and South | Carolina officials were guests of Claud suspect in the Edward G. Bremer kid- | N. Sapp, United States district at- naping, took a pauper’s oath and was freed yesterday. Bhe served six months for harbor- ing William Weaver on a chicken farm near Daytona Beach while he was sought in the $200,000 kidnap- ing in St. Paul, Minn. She served an extra month in lieu of paying a $1,000 fine. Weaver, arrested by Federal agents | at the chicken farm, was convicted in St. Paul. He is serving a prison sentence. He was reputed to be & member of the Barker-Karpis gang. | tarney for Eastern South Carolina, on & hunting trip here yesterday. The Pennsylvanians included Gov, George H. Earle, his brother-in-law, Col. Victor C. Mather; Senator Joseph F. Guffey and Highway Commissioner Van Dyke. Others were Gov. Olin Johnsten of South Carolina, Ben M. Sawyer, State highway commissioner; Lawrence M. Pinckney, State W. P. A. administra- tor; R. M. Cooper, collector of in- ternal revenue, and Mrs. Sapp. The party left this afternoon for ' Columbia. SMART TO RECEIVE SMART TO GIVE PARIS Garlers and Suspenders Remember “Him” this Christmas with something he really wants. A matched set of famous Paris Garlers and the genuine “Free-Swing” Suspenders — “can't skid off his shoulders.” A smartcombination of style and oomiort for every man on your list. Paris Matched Sels in bandsome Gift Packings at $1.50 and up — sold separately of course. Holiday-boxed Paris Garters 80c and up; Paris Suspenders $1 and up. A.Stein & Company * Chicage. + New York * Los Angeles ¢ Torente 'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star's. Romance Affects World History-Making Decision Is Forced by England’s Crisis Over Love. BY MARK SULLIVAN. official documents bearing on the British crisis are few. They consist of the two state- ments made in Parliament by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. One other statement, if not official, is authoritative —the offer of Mrs, Simpson to retire from “a situation that has become unhappy and un- tenable.” These state- ments do not wholly clear up one of the major mysteries of the case. Why do we 2 see in December & crisis about a matter which would not ordi- narily come to decision until May? Mrs. Simp- son's divorce is not final until April; only then could the King marry her. And the King's coronation does not come until May. By letting the crisis arise now—or causing it to arise now, whichever is the case— all parties to the situation deprive themselves of one of Nature’s most potent emollients. Time is the great healer, and also, in some matters, the great preventive. Not all the mar- riges contemplated six months ahead Mark Sullivan. actually come to orange blossoms and | rice. We have yet to learn whether | he will love her in May as he did in December. Crisis Could Fade. Conceivably, when coronation time comes, there might be no crisis at all. Why, now? The British are not a people to get excited before excitement is | called for. It is true that in every decision, the time of the decision is as vital as the making of it. This is usually interpreted as meaning that decisions are best made when made early. The adage is usually cited as a post mortem to explain disaster— the decision was not made soon enough. But some decisions are dis- astrous because made too soon. ‘Whether the early precipitating of this British crisis came from the King or from the prime minister makes some difference. Mr. Baldwin says the King initiated it, and Mr. Baldwin is a man of strict candor. He says the King asked him to have Parliament pass an act enabling the King to marry Mrs. Simpson without making her Queen. And Mr. Baldwin says he informed the King that | Parliament would not pass such an | act. Within Rights, On this version, the prime minister and Parliament are wholly in the right. It does not follow that the King, on this one point, is in the wrong. The King had a right to make the request he did, or any other re- quest. But prime minister and Parlia- ment had a right to deny the re- quest. What now faces the King is what to do in the light of the prime minister's refusal. From this point on, it becomes easy for the King to put himself in the wrong. Indeed, almost any course the King follows would put him in the wrong. Even abdication would, for Parliament and the empire have a right to expect the King to llve up to, not run away from, the rule of Parliament, and of tradition as well. Secrets May Shift Case. Conceivably, there may exist facts which would modify the official ver- sion. About this, we may not know for many years, not until private diaries and recollections are made public. It may be that while the then, is it precipitated King took the official first step, there may have been an unofficial first step preceding. Conceivably it may be that the prime minister spoke to the King informally about the gossip and new: paper uproar arising from his asso. ciation with Mrs. Simpson. And it may be that thereupon the King said that while he expected to marry Mrs. Simpson, he did not expect to make her Queen. Maybe it was then the King asked the prime minister and Parllament to pass the legislation which would enable him to do this. If all this séems to be disquisition on & very fine point, the answer is that in the crisis as a whole, every- thing depends on Who i in the right— in the right in a constitutional sense. ‘The basic question is whether, in all matters, the existing division of prerogative between King and Parlia- ment shall continue. In one outcome Parliament may retain all its powers and prerogatives. In another, the King may succeed in taking away— that is, in getting back for the monarchy—some of the powers the monarchy was deprived of centuries 2go. And if the King has the force of personality and the popular sup- port to get back the very considerable power of making any one he chooses Queen of England and Empress of the Dominions—with that start, he might get back greater and greater powers, Personal Rule Gaining. In the present state of the world, the fundamental question of organized society everywhere is whether parlia- mentary government shall survive One | of Hitler’s subordinates the other day, justifying his dictator, said, “We have | | brushed aside that institution called & Parliament.” Everywhere, parl; mentary government is waning, personal government rising. Parlia- mentary government means govern- ment by the people, exercised through their domocratically chosen repre- sentatives. Personal government is government by dictators. Everywhere, peoples are called upon to choose | between the two. If now parliamentary government suffers a breach in Britain, it will be a serious breach indeed, for it was in England that parliamentary govern- ment arose and grew. England is the parent of parliamentary government and, with the United States, the pres- | ent chief exemplar of it. If parl mentary government recedes in Eng- |1and, the battle may be lost in the world. That the beneficiary of the | new alignment in Britain would be | the hereditary monarch is a striking | fact, but not a difference in principle. | It would merely be that while Ger- many, Italy and other countries get their dictators through opportunism, | England would make its start toward absolutism by turning back toward | dynastic succession. May Change World. If the quantity of print and talk about two persons in love seems great, no writer needs to apologize; no read- er needs to feel he is letting himself be occupied with triviality. The valu- ation is sound that crowds from the front page the Spanish civil war and President Roosevelt's moves toward international peace. No matter what happens from now on, the King and Mrs. Simpson have changed the course of the world. It is not extravagant to say that practically every person in | the world. and endless generations | still unborn, will live lives different because of the wish of a 42-year-old | Englishman to marry a 40-year-old lady born inconspicuously in Balti- {more, U. S. A. Government every- where will be modified, in one direc- tion or the other, depending upon | whether parliamentary government keeps its power or the King triumphs. (Copyright, 1936,) Alimony Collector Weds. MILWAUKEE (#)—Thousands of divorced Milwaukee men and women have told dismal stories about mar- riage to Alvin J. Hertwig, 32, collector of alimony payments at the county court house. But “Alimony Al” ap-| parently doesn't want his information second hand. He got married. 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HE efiort of the big business men, who were defeated in their attempt to elect Landon, to turn defeat into vickhry by capturing the » presidency is now rearly a month old. ‘That this drive on the White House deliberste is sug- gested by the November 7 issue of the Whaley-: n news service to the business clients of that astute Washington dope sprvice! “Roosevelt,” argued Whaley-Eaton, “has merely created « new deal in government; he has even more siggificantly instituted a new deal in politice—he has wiped out Civil War politics He has unequaled political machinery. To build up a fyrmidable conserva- tive party on the remains of the Republican organization would be extremely difficult, e “If business, on the other hand, as has alresdy happened to some extent, should participate in the New Deal, the fgrvor of which will be tempered by power and the improved material welfire of its chief oficials, then, when the final showdown comes as betwees the center and the extreme left, the latter would have to build the new » up, whereas the momentum of the New Deal would carry on for & generation. “The improved material wel- fare of its chief officials.” * Hm-m-m. Mr. John Boettinger to Hearst? Rex Tugwell to molasses? Ray Moley to Vincent Astor? Is it as simple as all that to buy off a great popular upheaval? ‘The process of “reconcilation” is aided by the fact that President Roosevelt, in addition to being a shrewd politicial L an honest conserva- Bve. Dr. Stanley High, who worked close to F. Iy. R. during the cam- paign, says that Roosevelt wishes to go down to’history as “the Great Conservator.” Out New * ok * % H The latch string went out at Washington when Jim Farley said there would be “no reprisals.” Mr, Edward A. Filene had already started put- ting baptismal robes on repentant business men while Uncle Dan'l Roper was there to shake their hands. For—and this is the essence of the picture at Washington—Roosevelt believes that capital'sm can be saved only by reforming its abuses. A reformed capitalism is what we must all live under for the next generation—bar accidents—and reform means change, change which will prevent future backsliding into the model-T methods. So when American business lines up beside the New Deal at Washington and sings “Shall We Gather at tiie River,” the New Dealers assume that business is prepared to submit to @ ducking in constitutional reform. And it is entirely doubtful that business men have any such understanding of the “era of good feeling” which their public relations experts tell them is just around the corner. Certainly, the United States Chamber of Commerce shows no signs of repentance when it proposes that Roosevelt abandon the work-relief program. And the administration’s legal experts are now convinced that the attempt to obtain N. R. A. labor reforms through a Federal incorporation law would require a constitutional amendment or a revolution on the Supreme Court. For the heart of the reformed capitalism of the New Deal is to abolish the legal no-man’s land which the Supreme Cour: has set up between State and Federal authority and to insure that some appropriate public power shall have unquestioned jurisdiction over our economic potentates. * % % % At the moment, there seems to be little realization of this fact among the business groups which are steaming into Waszhington and slushing dividends and pay-boosts around so lavishly. The Boss is away in Buenos Aires. The aew Congress has not yet come to town and the hired help are simply supposed to make soothing noises when a business man says he’s sorry. This means that there may be an unpleasant shock in store for those who imagine that a little back-slapping can reconcile the “irreconcilable conflicts” within our present economic system. There is capital vs. jabor and both against the consumer. That battle has merely been postponed by the semi-finals between John Lewis and William Green. There is finance vs. industry—a battle which has only just begun. There is commercial farming vs. farming as a way of life—a problem which we are delicately approaching through the share-cropper, dust-bow! and tenant-farmer prablems. If Roosevelt’s reformed capitalism is to survije in America, it must attack these problems and reconcile these conflictsjof interest. It cannot do s0 without direct legislative action in many flelis which have hitherto been left outside the power of political governmer? and where great for- tunes have been profitably invested by those very: groups which are now trying to capture the President in the name of nati>nal conservatism. (Copyrisht, 1936.) 3 THATS QUITE ALRIGHT MR GOT ROCKS, New Color Film. British Actress Hailed. A new photographic film which pro- duces diapositives in three natural | colors, red, yellow and biue, has ap- peared in Germany. Miki Hood, aged 24, has been hailed as Britain's glamour girl after her appearance in a new fllm, “The Three Maxims.” SALTZ i i Headline Folk and What They Do Miss Stevens to Fore in Feminist War at Buenos Aires. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. N THE feminist civil war at Buenos Alres, Miss Doris Stevens gained & sharp advantage over the enemy by suddenly uncorking some fluent Spanish. The issue is pro- tective legislation for women. Miss Stevens is against it. It divides Amer- ican feminism, with Miss Stevens leading the aggressive and challeng- ing no-discrimination faction. Learn- ing Spanish would be just a little spare-time diversion for Miss Stevens if she thought it would come in handy. About 20 years ago a boy in his first long pants asked Miss Stevens and me to go swimming with him at Corte Madera. We thought we were going to a lake, but 1t turned out to be the lad’s secret swimming hole. I was doubtful about going in, but Miss Stevens, having come to swim, did just that. I was impressed with her powerful and determined breast stroke, You couldn't imagine her doing a crawl. And it seemed to me that, sooner or later, she would swim in a much bigger pond. The 3, dentally, was Homer Johannsen, whe grew up and married Mary McCor- anlc‘ the grand opera singer, the other ay. The tall, blond, handsome, smartly tailored Miss Stevens was a militant suffragist, but never raucous. Her crowd had nothing in common with their battle-ax forerunners. One of the first things they learned was ale ways to take their vanity kit to jail with them. They advanced like an army with banners on Congressmen and public officials. Senator Dill's marriage to Rosalie Jones was one romance and Miss Stevens' marriage to that handsome and engaging Celt, Dudley Field Malone, another. Mak« ing a choice of loyalties, as the sufe frage issue came to a climax, Mr. Ma- | lone broke with his old friend, Presi- dent Wilson, resigned as collector of the port of New York and married Miss Stevens. Miss Stevens is a native of Omaha, Nebr., and an alumna of Oberlin Col- lege. Her Paris salon was quite a siz- able pool for a few years, but later she picked the Atlantic Ocean, battling with relentless fervor for equal stand- ing for men and women before the law. In the 1928 Pan-American Con- ference she was elected chairman of the Inter-American Commission of Women, which office she still holds. Her second husband is Jonathan Mitchell, New York magazine writer and newspaper man. (Copyright, 9936,) SPAIN LECTURE TOPIC New York Newspaperman Speak to Geographic Society. Robert Neville, New York newspaper man, who recently returned from Spain, will lecture to members of the National Geographic Society at Con- stitution Hall, Friday evening, on Spain in peace and in revolution. 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