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ITHE Kvesing ) 1aR, WASHINGTON D. €., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1936. m q'HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not Taxes Eat Up Good Part of Income Gain David Lawrence News Behind the News Cabinet Members Eager to Keep Jobs—Reported Planning to Withhold Resignations. BY PAUL MALLO! \HERE are members of President Roosevelt’s cabinet who do not trust Santa Claus. A story going around the New Deal hearths is that several went out and bought their own best Christmas present. It was a package of glue, which they carefully spread in their chairs, and then sat down in unison. Apocryphal or not, the yarn is being related more than half seriously by certain of Mr. Roosevelt's most intimate associates. They plainly believe the cabinet has entered upon a sort of conspirlacy not to present their resignations when the President’s first term expires, Certain cabineteers are said to have induced friendly attorneys to look up the law on the subjects. They discovered with great glee that the only cabinet officer who is legally required to resign is the Postmaster General. He must present his resignation within 30 days after inauguration. There is no law affecting the others. Indeed, their search into history has disclosed that, until recent years, it was not the practice for cabineteers to present resignations, but for the President to call for those he wanted. Occasionally, cabinet chairholders have con- tinued through two, and in one instance, five administrations, be- fore offering to resign. * x % % Despite law, practice and con- = spiracy, the resignations probably will be presented in the end. The fun now being enjoyed backstage over the matter is designed to shame them into it. A few of Mr. Roosevelt’s ministers have decided to present, theirs. The others will ultimately have to cut themselves loose from their chairs and bow out of an embarrassing situation. The controlling factor is that the cabinet serves Mr. Roosevelt and no onc else. It may not be a law, but it is a truth that their jobs are subject cxclusively to his will. Therefore, none can restst the requirements of the situation, no matter how much he would like to get out of it. If this is done, counselors competent to suspect the President’s inten- tions say he will accept no less than one resignation and no more than three. THIS OUGHT TO HOLD ME_/ ] * k% *e Several unpublished developments lately have encouraged the most skeptical observers here to believe that the hoped-for-era of good feeling will become a reality at the outset of the new year. Usually such things are talked freely, but acted out with great restraint. However, a few outsiders, who have chatted with the President since his return from South America, are convinced he has no hangover of bitterness from the campaign. They do not look for important modera- tions of policy, but they do believe political considerations have been abandoned at the White House and that a real effort will be made to promote & non-partisan recovery. Returning Republican leaders seem to be in an equally friendly frame of mind, as well as some of the business leaders who were prominently anti-New Deal in 1935 and 1936. Incidentally, it can now be told that Mr. Roosevelt privately okayed the radio promise of good will made by Democratic National Chairman Farley immediately after the election. * % % x On Labor day, Mr. Lewis, in his campaign to become the labor lead- er of the country, first promised a $2,500 income for all. On Christ- mas, Mr. Green, in his appeal to labor by his A. F. of L. upped Lewis $1,100 by promising $3,600. Some of Lewis’' friends believe he should promise $4.000 for New Year dayv, and there is every prospect that the boys will be in the upper income brackets by the Fourth of July Messrs., Lewis and Green are engaged in a competitive campaign for the support of American labor. Both must necessarily promise more and more to attract followers. The end is not in sight. Sk New Congressman Havenner (San Francisco) writes that he chose the Progressive party listings in Congress because h® had been a registered member of it many years. The Demccratic party nomination came to him only as an added pleasure this year. He is a Democrat only by invita- tion, and a Progressive by instinct. £ MUST BF NTA CLAUS * * The old inflation bloc in the House 1s beginning to gather in the corridors. They resent Mr. Roosevelt's apparent determination not to make any drastic change in monetary policy and plan to do some= thing, but not much. * e Farm Senators are quietly preparing to open a fight for revision of railroad freight rates, particularly for the West and South. They have not decided whether to start a conzressional investigation or push a resolu= tion asking the I. C. C. to investigate. (Copyright, 1036, 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. W.P. A. Vested Interests Demand of Jobless for Continuation of Funds May Lead to Inflation. BY MARK SULLIVAN. ECENT developments about W. P. A. begin with an attempt made to reduce the number on the rolls and thereby the expenditures. Following the election, President Roosevelt, taking account of increased business activity. instructed W. P. A. Administrator Harry Hop- kins to reduce materially the number of persons on his rolls. Hopkins acted. Through- out the country, about 150,000 were taken off by December 5. 4 At once resist- ; ance arose. Sev- eral Mayors, in- | cluding La Guar- dia of New York, said in effect'that, persons dismissed ° from the Federal W.P.A. would be- come charges on the cities. Some Mayors said the cities did not have the necessary funds. Whether they had or not, the Mayors were fairly certain to make outery. In any city, money paid out by the Federal W. Mark Sullivan. The point of view of the Mayors is the same as that of many local offi- cials, some local chambers of com- | merce and some local newspapers. To | want as much money as they can get from the Federal Government—wheth- er it be relief money, soldiers’ bonus, appropriations for new post offices, or what not—has become a common trait of local communities, politicians and others. So, added to the outcry from May- ors came protests from members of Congress. They share and reflect the common attitude, which says the more money a community can get from the Federal Government the better. One { Senator, Thomas of Oklahoma, called a meeting of Midwestern Senators to | oppose reducticn in relief solls in their States. { Artists and Authors Protest. Further protest came from repre- | sentatives and spokesmen of groups on relief. A number of fairly important artists and authors, not themseives on | relief. united in an open letter to the | President, taking the ground that no artist or author must be removed from | the relief rolls so long as he wishes to | remain on. Indeed, they took the po- sition that the Federal Government | must never retire from payments to | artists—that subsidy to artists, such | as now practiced for reiief purposes, | must be a permanent public policy. Further and vigorous protest, in some cases taking the form of vioe lence, came from groups of benefici- aries of relief. There were “sit down” strikes of W. P. A. workers about to be dismissed, sympathetic “sit down” | strikes of their associates. There were | demonstrations by groups of smaller public officials administering relief. | Some of them demanded not merely no reduction, but actual increase. It | 15 announced that W. P. A. workers | | MEXICO’S 1937 BUDGET | OIL MAN’S FATHER DIES CALLS FOR $82,550,700 y,:nanici Drake once Serv ed i New Hampshire Legislature. PITTSFIELD, N. H. “ —Nathaniel Scav Pro- gram Expected to Be Passed Without Modification. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, President Lazaro Cardenas’ Drake, | December 29— December 29 ! capitals 85, father of James Frank Drake, presi dent of the Gulf Oil Corp. of Pitts- | and sympathizers will conduct an | oreanized march on Washington, to arrive January 15. This movement is under the sponsorship of persons, | n who, during the past year, led move- ments which took physical possession | of the capitol buildings in the State of Wisconsin, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Meantime in Washington. President Roosevelt said he would ask Congress | for $500,000.000 to care for the five President Lazaro Cardenas yesterday | PUiBh. Pa, died here yesterday of months from February 1 to July 1. submitted to both houses of Congress | PReumonia. the 1937 budget totaling 297,480,000 pesos ($82,550,700.) Congress was expected to approve the budget without modification. The total represented an increase of 15 per cent over the 1936 budeet. President Cardenas estimated reve enue would be slightly in excess of 300,000,000 vesos ($85.250,000) though Minister of Finance Eduardo Suarez | recently estimated it would exceed | 350,000,000 pesos ($97,120.000.) | The President set aside $35.000,000 more for service on the internal pub- lic debt, but gave no hint in the budget message of -resumption of sus- pended payments on part of the bil- lion dollar foreign deb! shire House of Representatives in 191 and 1912 and the Senate in 1913, | factories here. He left his widow, his son and Iyn, N. Y. Going | o The clothi + « . and then again, P osv s Sy | there’s the He had served in the New Hamp- Be- fore retirement he operated two shoe This would be at the rate of $100,- 000.000 a month. This is a material 1 reduction from the present pace of expenditure. W. P. A. Administrator Harry Hop- A | kins said $750,000,000 would be needed. daughter, Mrs. Calvin Foss of Brook- | Mr. Roosevelt softened his earlier an- nouncement by saying that amounts | Mode Semi-Annual Event Strong! have been waiting for— the first of the only two that we hold through- out the year—offering i choice of America’s w acknowledged finest clothing— Suits and O’Coats. NEW YEAR EVE CELEBRATION at the $35 Richard Prince $40 Richard Prince $65 to $65 Fashion Fashion Park—Richard Prince $30 & $35 Richard Prince 0’Coats, $26:50 $40 & $45 Richard Prince 0’Coats, $31.50 $45 and $50 Fashion Park Suits $36:50 P. A. is looked upon as an advantage. | additional to the $500,000,000 would be found here and there among un- used balances of appropriations for various purposes. President Roosevelt and Administrator Hopkins conferred. Afterward, Mr. Hopkins was quoted as saying that “from my point of view, we never have enough to take care of the unemployed.” This about brings the situation up to date. It is apparent that through relief there have been set up several vested interests. The groups who think they have vested claims on the Treasury include: Those on relief, friends and relatives of those on re- lief, mayors of cities and officials of communities into which relief money comes, Representatives who get credit for bringing Government money into their districts, the small Government officials who have jobs administering | relief which they would lose if relief | is reduced. Firmness Necessary. What happens now? It is clear business has improved to a point where there cannot now be much need for relief. President Roosevelt wishes to reduce relief expenditures. If he wants to hard enough, he can prob- ably do so. But he will need to be more firm than he was, for example, about the soldiers’ bonus. Though | Byrnes of South Carolina says the | ernors and Legislatures in Wisconsin, | priations can be reduced or not. will most Congressmen like to get Federal money for their districts, they like also, under present conditions, to sup- port the President. If Mr. Roosevelt | asserts his policy of reduction strongly | enough, if he appeals for public sup- port, he will get the public support and also support from Congress. Most of the Democratic leaders in Congress agree with the President. Senator amount appropriated should be even less than the $500,000,000 Mr. Roose- velt proposes. Key to Inflation. One evidence of the spirit of Presi- | dent Roosevelt and Congress should | appear when the so-called W. P. A. workers march arrives in Washihgton on January 15. The attitude of Gov- New Jersey and Pennsylvania, when similar demonstrations under the same leadership took place in t capitals of those States, was not im- pressive, 5 The outcome, whether relief appro- be watched with close interest by economists, business men, fiscal ex- perts and others having good judg- ment about Government finance. They will watch the outcome for light on the problem whether America is to have a period of serious inflation. If appropriations for relief are not re- duced it will be felt that Government | expenditures generally are not going to be reduced. And it is the convic- tion of a large majority of those best equipped to judge that unless Govern- ment expenditures are materially re- duced, we shall have inflation. (Copyright, 1936,) POSEY PICKER LOSES | Caddy Unable to Collect for In- juries for Incidental Job. PHILADELPHIA, December 29 (#). —A caddy injured by a golf ball while engaged in picking blossoms for a woman golfer is rot eligibe for work- | men’s compensation, President Judge | Frank Smith ruled yesterday. ‘The caddy, John J. Boyd, contended his work required him to do anything conducive to the pleasure of a mem- | ber of the club. He said he had been struck on the head with a ball driven by another woman golfer and suffered a prain concussion. | On Mr. Roosevelt’s announcement, | New York State Champagne! THE joy of the holiday season will be greater than ever . . . if this year you serve your Gold Seal Champagne. For Gold Seal blended from nine varieties of grapes, put through 250 delicate processes . . . naturally fermented in the bottle, | Requiem Mass GOLD SEAL We, the Peop_le Extended T. V. A. Contracts Expire Two Weeks After Inauguration. BY JAY FRANKIN. Y AN odd coincidence, the T. V. A. contracts with the private utilities for the sale of Government-produced power expired on election day. By an equally odd coincidence, they were renewed for three months —in advance of the presidential “long count”—and will now expire a fortnight after Roosevelt's second inauguration. ‘This arrangement allowed time for the administration and the “power trust” to digest the election returns and for the courts to do their stuff on the Federal power yardstick. The courts had their chance first and met the issue as squarely and bravely as & ham comedian meets a dead cat. They ducked. The Supreme Court was very hoity-toity about sending back, for an orderly determination of fact, the Duke Power Co.'s argument that it was unconstitutional for P. W. A. to lend Federal funds for the construc- tion of municipal power plants. The District Court in Eastern Tennessee met, the suit of the 19 private power companies to keep T. V. A. from expanding by a temporary injunc- tion which allowed T. V. A. to com= plete all of its important distribue tion projects. So the power issue is right back on Roosevelt's doorstep and the yardstick boys are getting ready to toss and gore the “grid” idea which the President offered as a compromise, before the votes were in the ballot box. * Ok % ok T. V. A. rate engineers feel that the rate at which Government power has been sold to Commonwealth & Southern is far too iow: that it represents o bribe or subsidy to induce the principal distributor in the Tennessee Valley region to 2o along with the infant yardstick. They point out that the rate barely covers interest on the Government's power investment and that any renewal should he at a higher price. So far as the “grid” is concerned, the T. V. A. technicians emit a short gnort. They point out that Commonwealth & Southern already has one of the prettiest little grid systems in America; that the Government could offer them no real advantages in a co- operative pooling of power, and that the whole fight is a fight for lower rates to the consumer rather than for a truce between Gov- ernment and business in the power fleld. Since the Government is the intruder in this fleld, such a truce could only mean a Federal backdown. The war is far from won in the matter of rates. The Duke Power case raises the issue that a private company has a vested property interest in consumers which may not be impaired even by the municipal authorities which issue and renew power franchises. * % % % One of the most interesting angles of T. V. A. is the present struz- gle between consumer co-operatives and the private utilities—a struggle in which the co-operatives are ready to die for dear old T. V. A. power; and the utilities try to run private power into communities which want T. V. A. service. Libel suits are pending, poles are being chopped down and the mountain folk are fondling their long rifles. In all this welter the President is keeping his eye on the ball. . Cheaper electricity to the con- sumer is his program, and Morris L. Cooke, head of the Rural Elec- trification Administration, is his prophet. Whatever the form of the final agreement—or lack of one—lower rates will always. be the New Deal’s answer. * x *x x When a university professor for being too “liberal.” my son, that is not news. But when a university bounces prexy for being too conservative—the marn bites the dog. Nothing is more ironical than the groans arising in the conzervaiive press over the La Follette move to oust President Glenn Frank from the University of Wisconsin, The old, old issues come to the fore—in reverse gear—as Frank claims that he is the victim of political persecution because of his hard-shelled Republicanism, while the board of regents claims that his politics have nothing to do with the case; that he is simply an ineflicient administrator. Out of it all might come an educational truce in which conservative colleges iike Yale wil not oounce “radicals” like Prof. Jerome Davis, while our educational Glenn Franks are likewise allowed to carry on in liberal Wisconsin. Let us hope so! Let us also hope, for his own sake, that Dr. Frank was one of those educators who publicly protested against the diseharge of Prof. Davis from the Yale Divinity School. If he didn't, he can scarcely hope to receive the full-voiced backing of those who believe in academic freedom. (Copyright. bounces a 1936.) ELKS HONOR PAST RULER' RAIL EXECUTIVE RAISED in Union Pacific Chief Engineer Be- comes Vice President. NEW YORK, December 29 (#) — Howard C. Mann, formerly chief en- gineer, has been appointed vice presi- dent in charge of operations of the Union Pacific Railroad Co,, it was an- nounced yesterday. | At the same time it was disclosed that Dr. John R. Nilsson had been named chief surgeon. Both appoint- ments are effective January 1. and ! both officials will make their head- quarters at Omaha. Conducted Gotham for J. T. Fdnning. NEW YORK, December 29 (#).— | Requiem mass for Joseph T. Fanning, pasc grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was celebrated yesterday at St. Malachy's Church here. Gov. Dave Sholtz of Florida, present arand exalted ruler, conducted funeral services Sunday night at Elks' Lodge, No. 1. Among those attending was Rush L. Holland of Washington. D. C.. and J. E. Masters, grand secretary. Fanning, native of Preble County, Ohio, died at his home here Friday. SA of Lewis & Clothes of At rursls duty-free Champagne is . Headline Folk and What They Do Belligerent Aristocrat Succeeds Gandhi as India’s Leader. RY LEMUEL F. PARTON. AHATMA GANDHI says he's ready to g0 back to jail, or perhaps be hanged, and in- dictates that the pandit Nehru feels that way, too. Gandht is 68 and Nehru 4!. The fighting Nehru succeeds the ascetic Gandhi as the symbol and human motivation of India’s freedom. With India's several hundred mil- lions fluxed in the explosive world power equation, his attitude becomes important. It is belligerent. He as- sails “British imperialism” and sum- mons the hordes of India to combat rather than non-resistance. England’s “new deal for India” is a rejected compromise. He demands not domin= lon status, but absolute freedom. Hitler and Mussolini, world gods of absolutism. were commoners The pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who invokes democracy, is an aristocrat Born of a noble caste, he has endangered and to some dezree thwarted his political career by championing the “untouch- ables” and demanding their elevation to human status. As president of the Indian National Congress, to which he gave his ancestral mansion, he has been, at times, sharply opposed to Gandhi, but they apparently have resolved their differences. Last Feb- ruary he was re-elected to the presi- dency of the congress. The son of the Pandit Nothal Nehru, reared in splendor, he was an honors man at Harrow and Cambridge. In his early career in India he was a | stronz ally of the English. His ab- horrence of the caste system, which he accused the English of perpetuating, broke this alleziance. He gave up his | law practice and joined Gandhi In 11930 he founded the Independence | League. He is accused of being a | Communist. This he denies, pledzing his party to a stand for “full democ- racy and not Socialism.” but, at that, | he preaches Marxian doctrine as the | only possible salvation of India, distinguished archi- ral sculptor, says a sculptor is just hike the fiddler in an orchestra. His 15-foot statue of Atlas, to be placed in the forecourt of the Inter national Building of Rockefeller Ce: ter next week was, like all his other=; a “team-work” job. In his big studio over a Lexington avenue garage he employs 10 or 15 journeymen sculp- tors He has no use for smokers, Windsor ties or ari temperament. Mod« ern architectural art is a workman- | like synthesis of individual skills in a central theme, subservient to the main idea. He would blerd archi- tects, enzineers and stone cutters in a and never studied*in one. At the age of 16. he was apprenticed to a sculp= tor Chicago, later studied with St. Gaudens. System, accuracy and precision characterize his work and his output. 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BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 000 more purchasing power in 1937 than in 1936, according nary who analyze national income from year to year. ment cannot| know as yet what | the way of in- come produced | they think | the final figures | $61,000, 000,000. ‘This is about $7,- than in 1935, so they think they safe in putting the national in- about $68,000,- 000.000 as a minimum. up in nice chunks since 1932, when it was around $39,000,000,000, but it is somewhere between $5,000.000,000 an $7,000,000,000 a year. will not get back up to 1929's figure of $81,000,000,000 until sometime in | discovered is what the nmew national | fncome figures mean in terms of pur- national income was based on 100-cent dollars while the new national income, 1 lar. is based on 59-cent dollars. Theoretically there should be nearly | was in 1929 because the dollar has | been cut almost in half and it is just circulation which passed for a dollar. Little Difference Internally. or the 100-cent dollar depends on | what you can buy with it. Thus far, | in a domestic market—that is in pur- chases of articles within the United | new. Some articles are much below the 1929 cent level in price and some | As a matter of fact, prices have | not been rising rapidly but rather | has been regarded as normal. The | #luggishness of recovery heretofore and provements in the product and still sell at the same price has been in has been the fear that the buyer would | strike against precipitate increases in | Now, however, as 1937 comes on the horizon, there is a quickened pace and in such fashion as to accelerate the rise in prices. Indeed, in some lines due to the fact that the sudden de- mands have not been anticipated or run down so that full capacity 5 not | now available. In other instances, tions as to price for future deliveries, while in some companies the passing impossible for weaker types of com- petitors. Tax payments, of course, are a rather vital factor in the prices of | drain by the Federal Government is multiplying the problem of all busi- of labor are rightly demanding an increased wage to meet rising liv- The Federal, State and local govern- | ments. therefore, constitute a very im- | are increased, the prices of goods must be raised to meet the new costs. ment in the United States is around $17.000.000.000, which means that even tional income for 1937, the cost of | Government is around 25 per cent. | national income, the total cost of Gov- | ernment in America was around 16 | Taking out 25 per cent for taxes instead of 16 per cent makes a differ- the Nation's price machine and con- sumption capacity. The cost of Gov- be expected to go down instead of | up, or at least to be materially cur- | economy hereabouts, but not much | sign of it. Little realized furthermore is the | fact that as prices go up so also do | modities bought by government itself The Walsh-Healey law, for instance, | Government to meet a 40-hour week, which in many cases simply means a only for that part of a company’s | product which is sold to the Govern- the business as well. This means an increase in price for Bam. It will be interesting to see whether the forthcoming budget esti- the States include an allowance for the increased cost of commodities di- desire to give to labor a reward for = the political suimort furnished at the to study whether real wages—that is, | at 2 A. M. ages in terms of what a dollar will ey SIX-COURSE DINNER even as money wages are raised. It doesn't matter much what the money BREAKFAST AT 2:00 A, M. | IN THE MOORISH ROOM— Power Also to Compete MERICA will have $7,000,000.- A to the estimators extraordi- Economists in the Federal Govern- 1936 brought in| but | will show about | 500,000,000 mor are Treasonably | come for 1937 at The annual income has been going significant that the rate of growth i At this rate, the national income | 1939. But the important fact to be | chasing power and prices. The nld; ever since the devaluation of the dol- twice as big a national income as there as if there were a 59 cent piece in The meaning of the 59-cent dollar you cannot tell very much difference | States—between the old dollar or the are above that level gradually toward the 1926 level which the desire of business to make im- | part responsible but the real reason price. demand is beginning to show itself there is an actual shortage of product because plants have been permitted to labor difficulties have upset calcul on of increased costs has been made Labor Demands Raist goods. The constantly increasing nesses at a time when many elements ing costs. portant economic force. For as taxes At present, the total cost of Govern- With the estimated $68,000,000,000 na- | Back in 1929, with an $81,000,000,000 | per cent. | ence in the ultimate adjustment of ernment in a recovery period might tailed. 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