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THE STRONG CITY PRESS
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No New Taxes Soon Says
Senator Pat Harrison
SENATOR PAT HARRISON of
Mississippi chairman of the
senate finance committee on his
arrival In Washington for the open-
ing of congress
gave out the wel-
come statement that
no new general tax
legislation would
be pushed through
during this session
Said he: “I Coni
look for It and I
don’t think it Is In
the rmlm of pos-
sibility” Adoption of a
manufacturer’s ex-
cise tax was also “out" according
to Harrison He pictured an unu-
sually short session of ' congress
with appropriation bills and amend-
ments to existing legislation the
principal business to be handled
In the senator’s opinion a com-
promise on the bonus always po-
litically vexatious would be reached
and a presidential veto would be’
avoided Harrison reiterated his
opposition to the Townsend old age
pension plan and said it would
make no progress at the new ses-
sion Many house members agreed with
Harrison as to taxes It wouldn’t
be good policy to pass such meas-
ures this sessions for there will
be elections in 435 congressional
districts in 1936 1
Pat Harrison took a crack at
the Liberty league and Its legisla-
tive program offered to congress
The league he said was “ready to
take over the legislative and Judi-
cial functions” of the national gov-
ernment and might be magnanimous
enough to take over the executive
branch as welL The senator called
the league a “lobby" and described
Its statements as “plutocratic prop-
aganda” Alcohol Control Valid
Says Federal Judge
Federal judge Charles j
BRIGGLE' of Peoria 111 ruled
that the Federal Alcohol Control
administration act is constitu-
tional the decision being made in
a test case brought by a Peoria dis-
tillery company The alcohol ad-
ministration closed the distillery
asserting it held no basic permit
at the time the old code was out-
lawed by the Supreme court The
company held It did hold such a
permit and applied for a new one
Judge Briggle denied the plea for
an injunction to force the admin-
istration temporarily to retract Its
decision on the application for a
basic permit In bis decision be
said :
“The former objections to the
wrongful delegation of legislative
authority with reference to the so-
called ’code’ provisions now have
been obviated by this act and while
the plaintiff’s position In some
other respects Is not without merit
yet the court Is not convinced that
sufficient doubt exists as to the
constitutionality of the act to war-
rant the court In granting a tem-
porary injunction”
Ruling by McCarl Halts
Relief Food Purchase
COMPTROLLER GENERAL J R
McCARL Issued an order that
blocked the plans of the Federal
Surplus Commodiity corporation to
buy surplus farm
products for relief
distribution He
held that the ad-
ministration could
not use the 30 per
cent of gross cus-
toms receipts set
aside for the AAA
to buy farm prod-
ucts to be given to
relief clients In a
letter to Secretary
Wallace McCarl
said relief legislation and relevant
statutes provided another way to
handle such purchases
It was believed McCarl’s ruling
would not affect AAA plans for pur-
chases for diversion purposes and
not for relief distribution An of-
fer has been made for purchases
of surplus potatoes from the 1935
crop to be diverted Into Industrial
channels Officials said however
they did not expect growers to thke
advantage of this offer because of
recently advanced prices for pota
toes
Lawyers’ Committee Says
Potato Act Is Invalid
THAT lawyers’ committee of the
Liberty league which is examin-
ing various New Deal legislation
pronounces the potato control act
invalid and a departure from tradi-
tional theories of American govern-
ment The committee's report says
in part:
“We are of the opinion that this
act Is unconstitutional as not with-
in the scope of the federal power
under the commerce clause of the
Constitution and is not rendered
constitutional by the attempted lm
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proper use of the taxing power and
fnrther because no such discretion-
ary power as is sought to Lo vested
in the secretary of agriculture by
the act no such invasion of state
rights and no such taking of the
property of the private Citizen is
authorized by any provision of the
Constitution
To lustain this legislation would
mean Uit abolition of all distinction
between ovr dual form of federal
and suite sovereignties a nullifica-
tion of the right of states and the
establishment of the principle of a
paternalistic federal government”
Latest Returns From
Literary Digest Poll
NEW DEALERS speak scornfully
of the Presidential poll con-
ducted by the Literary Digest but
every one Is eager to see what It
reveals The latest returns show
a Still further decline In New Deal
popularity Out of a total of 987158
votes received 577631 answered
negatively the question “Do you
now approve the acts and policies
of the Roosevelt New Deal to date?"
This brought the negative percent-
age to the new high figure of 5851
per cent The last preceding per-
centage was 5769
Eleven of the thirteen southern
states continued solidly New Deal
Only Florida and Oklahoma voted
against It The twelve Middle West-
ern farm states continued balloting
more than 3 to 2 against the admin-
istration The Rocky mountain states with
the single exception of Utah con-
tributed substantial ' majorities
against the New Deal as did four
of the six New England states
which were voting 3 to 1 against
Roosevelt
Mississippi Valley Plan
of Senator Norris
WITHOUT waiting for a ruling
by the Supreme court on the
validity of the Tennessee Valley au-
thority act Senator Norris of
Nebraska father of
an much
f other advanced leg-
' lslatlon has pre-
pared a bill for a
Mississippi Valley
authority along the
same lines as the
TVA but immense-
ly greater In scope
He intends to in
troduce the meas-
ure soon In con-
gress It would em-
Sen Norris
brace more than half of continental
United States Including all the vast
plain between the Alleghenies and
the western continental divide and
from near the Canadian border to
the delta of the Mississippi only
the Tennessee valley would be omit-
ted from the plan
Norris said It was an expansion
of his former plan for a Missouri
valley authority Flood control would
be its chief goal he disclosed but
It also would direct the develop1
ment of navigation Irrigation hy
droeleetric power soil conservation
and reforestation
Like TVA It would be managed
by a three-man directorate The
cost Is not stated -Congress would
vote funds from year to year as
the work progressed
Benson Named to Fill
Out Schall’s Term
ELMER A BENSON state bank-
ing commissioner of Minnesota
was appointed United States senator
by Gov Floyd B Olson to com
plete the term of the late Senator
Thomas D Schall He will serv
until December 31 1936 Mr Ben
son has been a Farmer-Laborite
since that party’s birth and before
that was active in the Nonpartisan
league movement in Minnesota He
is forty years old
The new senator Is an advocate
of public ownership of monopolistic
Industry and a backer of collective
bargaining for labor He has urged
greater levies on higher incomes
and Inheritances and favors-immediate
payment of the soldiers’ bonus
“I shall be very glad” Benson
said “to join the liberal bloc
congress In opposition to those who
would turn the arms of the clock
backwards and perpetuate a sys
tern callous to human suffering
which neither understands nor
wants to understand the meaning
of human happiness”
Stnate Munitions Probers
to Hear J P Morgan
AJt'MIiERS of the senate raut’-
tlons committee annrumerd
that they would rfume vu Ja uwr
7 their Investigation -f whethc
loans to the allies helped U m
United States into the W'rid vnr
and the first witnesses wIU he J
Morgan and Thomas W Li iVont of
Morgan & Co The committee- pl-tis
to try for the enactment of broader
neutrality legislation
The Morgan firm which was fis-
cal agent for Great Britain during
the war has denied emphatically
that it played any part In leading
America into the conflict
Uruguay Severs Relations
With Soviet Russia ’
DECLARING that all America Is
menaced with violence by the
Communists the Uruguayan govern-
ment severed relations witl the gov-
ernment of Soviet Russia Minister
Alexander Rlnkln and his staff were
handeu' their passports and the
TUngnuyaa charge d'affaires was
recalled rom Moscow The decree
signed by President Gabriel Terra
and all members of the cabinet as-
serted that Montevideo was the
headquarters of Communists wbo
were plotting uprisings In all South
American countries and quoted the
Brazilian charges that the abor-
tive rebellion there in November
ws3 Instigated by the Soviet govern-
ment and that the Montevideo le-
gation was its intermediary
Relations with Russia were broken
on these three formal charges:
1 That the recent congress of the
Third Internationale In - Moscow
ahreed to push a communistic drive
throughout ’South America with
Care- v’jurilsf a Involved In the Brazil-
ian uprising
2 That the Soviet legation re-
mitted checks for large sums to
unidentified recipients "providing
foundation” for a presumption that
the legation' actively aided Com-
munist plans
3 ''That there was a direct con-
nection ! between the Third Inter-
nationale and the Soviet govern-
ment ‘
Dr Jose Espalter Uruguayan
foreign minister said
“We have proof that Montevideo
was the center of a gigantic Soviet
expansionist plot and that Minkin
was organizing a revolution In Uru-
guay for next February or March
Uruguay is the only South Amer-
ican nation that recognized the So-
viet Russian government
Chance for European War
Seems to Increase
WAR clouds over Europe were
growing denser and blacker
during the Christmas holidays when
all the Christian world was sup-
posed to he singing
“Peace on earth
good will toward
men" Under the
skillful guidance of
Anthony Eden the
new British foreign
secretary a solid
front against Italy
was' being built up
There was no pres-
ent talk of further
sanctions against
Mussolini but it is
Anthony Eden
expected added penalties will be
put in force late in January Mean-
while the general military and
naval staffs of Great Britain and
France concluded conversations
which were declared “satisfactory"
meaning that those nations were
prepared to stand by each other In
case II Duce makes what Prime
Minister Baldwin called “a mad
dog attack” In the capitals of other
members of tbe League of Nations
similar plans were being laid by
military and naval attaches
Turkey came into line with tbe
other presumptive opponents of
Italy but is reported to have made
a suggestion that France doesn’t
like This is that It be permitted
to fortify the Dardanelles the Btrait
between Europe and Asiatic Tur-
key which was demilitarized under
the treaty of Lausanne after the
World war The Turks also ac-
cording to Paris advices ask the
eventual return of the Island of
Rhodes In the Aegean sea which
has been 'under Italian sovereignty
since 1923
Eden is a firm believer in the
League of Nations and though he is
moving with caution Is determined
to bring Italy to terms through the
sanctions provided the other mem-
bers of the league give the neces-
sary support The British govern-
ment certainly doesn’t want war
with Italy but It Is fast preparing
for armed conflict if that shall
prove unavoidable
That Mussolini too is getting
ready for extreme eventualities was
evidenced by orders canceling all
Christmas leaves of all officers and
men of the army The same orders
directed the return to their units of
the 100000 army men demobilized
In November In order that they
might do the needed work on their
fayns The Italiun press ceased its
attacks on Great Britain
Premier Laval defending his
course in tbe negotiations to end
the Italo-Ethiopian war and prom-
ising that France would stand by
Greut Britain faithfully If the lat-
ter were attacked saved his govern-
ment temporarily by the slight mar-
gin of twenty votes He skillfully
dodged the oil embargo Issue It
was believed that his downfall be-
fore long was likely
Terms on Which Ethiopia
Will Discuss Peace
j jy Sl'ATCHES from Addis Ababa
mend reliably sources there dis-
closed the terms on which Emperor
Ualle bail authorized hb
lifc’ygiitk'Si at Geneva to dlscu w
Thpy were thus sfote-l
Withdrawal L-t Ttiiiar troops from
E!hi pii:: recognition of the African
''mpieV ‘jOverelgnty payment of
inti Kuity by Italy delimitation of
East African boundaries between
Ethiopia and the Italian colonies by
a League of Nations committee and
foreign economic administrative
and financial aid and advice for
Ethiopia only on the condition there
would be no Italian influence
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Washington — There has been
much dlscu8sl0Qi lately concerning
the liquidation of
Spending the dozens of
Must Stop - New Deal emer-
gency agencies It
la a discussion that la timely be-
cause first Mr Roosevelt In hla
plans for the forthcoming govern-
ment budget contemplates a shrink-
age in the vast outlays represented
in the emergency agenoies and sec-
ond it is a matter of political Im-
port Whether Mr Roosevelt la re-
elected or whether there should be
a Republican succeed him In the
White House in January 1937
somebody must clean up the wreck-
age of the alphabetical soup— which
is what all of these various agencies
eventually must become They can-
not go on an end must be had to
the expenditures and that will con-
clude the operations of these agen-
cies and further something in the
way of permanency for agencies
that may be kept must be worked
out
It Is one of the real problems of
government Those who have been
In Washington any length of time
recognize that It is much easier to
establish a government bureau and
populate it with bureaucrats of a
political hue than It Is to put an
end to the agency and send the po-
litical patronage boys back home
It is really an old story to observ-
ers here and I believe all of them
recognize how difficult if not dan-
gerous it is going to be to dynamite
the alphabetical agencies out of ex-
istence Some of them undoubtedly have
Berved and are serving a useful pur-
pose ' Undoubtedly some of them
were needed long before Mr Roose-
velt brought his New Deal to Wash-
ington Instead of that fact making
the wrecking job easier it makes
the Job more difficult It is very
hard to convince plum pickers that
their Job is a temporary one even
though they were so informed when
they were a pi minted it is more diffi-
cult to convince that typej of in-
dividual that their agency is not
all-important or that it is of less
consequence than a neighboring
agency beadeg another set of alpha-
betical letters
In addition the plum pickers have
their patronage backers at the capi-
tal The representatives and sena-
tors interested In building up their
own political machines back home
naturally put people In the political
JobB who will be most helpful In
assisting that particular representa-
tive or senator to be re-elected
Thus - it becomes rather obvious
that even if Mr Roosevelt seriously
tries to liquidate the various alpha-
betical bureuus boards commis-
sions and administrations lie has a
man-sized task on ills hands If hy
chance a Repuhlicah should be
elected and Mr: Roosevelt retired
to private life he too will find
himself criticized cajoled and
threatened when lie seeks to squeeze
the water out of tills structure
known as government which was
expanded so much in Mr Roose-
velt’s plans to meet the emergency
Frankly I believe it will take the
full four years of the next Presi-
dent’s term to un-
Lon seat all of the ex-
Hard Task cess i°b holders
and eliminate
from the government all of the sur-
plus alphabetical agencies In the
very nature of tilings It cannot be
doDe more quickly The answer lies
In the fact that tlrese agencies em-
bark npon ambitious programs that
cannot he halted The government
becomes committed to certain prop-
ositions and except in war time
most of them must be executed So
how ever you examine the situation
Uncle Sam is well hooked i
To Illustrate how difficult is the
Job of getting rid of a government
agency after it is once established
one need not go further than the
late NRA Six or seven months have
elapsed since the Supreme court
unanimously clipped the wings of
the famed Blue Eagle That de-
cision did the work of wrecking
NRA as completely as a bombshell
can wreck a boat when a direct hit
Is scored But whether you realize
it or not we still have In Wash-
ington an NRA organization of al-
most 2500 employees It is true
that number is probably only about
one-fourth of the total number on
the NRA pay roll when Generul
“Crack-Down" Johnson wus at the
helm and guiding the flight of the
Blue Engle but it was assumed at
least that the Supreme court de-
cision made paymnits frir the NRA
pay roll illegal nt the same time
tiovever It has happened that the
administration Jins found money
some place with which to pay this
regiment of employees who us' far
as most observers in Washington
can ascertain have very little con-
structive work to do
The organization has no official
status except such as is given It by
Mr Roosevelt’s various executive
orders It has no authority Any-
thing it does or says has co mors
force than a zephyr Yet thousands
of dollars are being paid its work-
ers on the first and fifteenth of every
month— and there is no sign that
these payments will be ended soon
For another example let us go
back to the war days In order to
successfully prosecute America’s
part In the World war tne govern-
ment took over and operated the
railroads A gigantic organization
was built up here in Washington
and representatives of the railroad
administration were scattered far
and wide throughout the country
Commitments were made that con-
tinue even to this day Credit In
the form of government loans was
extended to the rail lines and sev-
eral hundred mlllloD dollars of that
amount remains uncollected to this
day And withal after 18 years
we still have a railroad administra-
tion operating In Washington at
government expense
Another wartime agency about
which little is heard but which still
Is In existence is the War Finance
corporation It floated tyonds and
made loans to private Interests and
those commitments have forced re-
tention of a skeleton organization
that ‘ probably must be continued
for several years yet before the Job
of liquidation Is complete
We have bad evidence lately of
bow efforts are Initiated to maln-
tain these agen-
Thumbs Down cles even when
on NRA they are legally
dead Recently in
Washington there was herd a much
ballyhooed meeting to which some
three thousand representatives of
business Interests were Invited It
was called by George L Berry the
top man in what is left of the NRA
structure The purpose was to find
out what business wanted in - the
way of a revived NRA Business
did not want NRA revived and the
meeting turned out to be a genuine
flop There was nothing like three
thousand representatives in attend-
ance and the meeting itself gave a
good many persons the Impression
of being staged for the benefit of
the American Federation of Labor
to which the old NRA catered
Mr Berry until lately the head of
one of the large union labor organi-
zations did not convince business
that it needed more governmental
Interference' Indeed If business
went away convinced of anything
beyond the fact that Mr Berry’s
meeting was a flop it left Washing-
ton with a deep feeling that It did
not want NRA In any form nor did
it want any other governmental
agency messing around with Its ef-
forts to get back on its feet
The circumstance Illustrates bet-
ter than anything I know how para-
sitic agencies in the government
seek to perpetuate themselves One
must realize in considering huch a
condition that all of those employees
obviously want to keep their jobs
In the case of the attempted re-
vival of NRA the political factor Is
important Mr Roosevelt said It
will be remembered that when NRA
was organized it must be regarded
as something of an experiment and
that if -the experiment failed to
work he would be admitting defeat
for one of his earlier pet projects
right in the face of a Presidential
campaign Politicians do not like
to make admissions of this kind
It wil) be recalled As well that
after the Supreme court held the
business codes of
- Business nr a to be uneon-
fights Bank ditutloual and the
msincss codes
were the vitals of the NRA struc-
ture there was much pressure ex-
erted on congress from the White
House for reconstruction of some
sort of a program to succeed NRA
Business did not want it any more
then than it does now and it fought
back while the legislation was pend-
ing The result was that congress
passed a law permitting lines of
commerce and industry to organize
and frame their own voluntary
codes :
Jurisdiction' of these codes was
placed in the Federal Trade com-
mission That agency yvas supposed
to work in co-operation with busi-
ness and to exercise a judicial func-
tion in determining when the codes
jvere properly within existing laws
against monopoly
Tbe Trade commission In the last
year has blossomed forth -as a
rather sound agency In its consults
tlons with business and I believe
merits the respect which business
generally has for It But with all
of that respect and the knowledge
that the Trade commission tries to
be fair only five lines of industry
have presented codes of fair prac-
tice for commission approval
Tbe details of the futile attempt
to breathe life back into the Blue
Eagle iiave been related at this
length to show what the' future
holds In the way of barnacles on
our structure of government
C WMtara Newspaper Unloa '
Russian Children Are to '
Build a Railway Tunnel
A railway tunnel 3000 feet
line and a station compete Id ev-
ery detail are to be built In their
spare time by 500 children In the -Tlilis
Park of Culture and Rest at
Moscow '
These projects will be an exten-
sion of the famous Children’s Rail-
way built in the park by the children
themselves It Is run entirely by
children and has two stations and
1200 feet of track It was opened
three months ago and since then
15000 passengers have ridden iu Its
i iny train driven by a child The '
work of building the railway was
supervised by engineers of the '
Transcaucasian railway — Montreal
Herald
Sngineers Will Move Riyer
to Create an Airdrome Site
To move a river so that on aero-
drome can be built sounds a fantas-
tic task — yet that Is what englneera
are about to do near ' Nice The
mouth of the Var a large river
there Is to be completely diverted
so thafc an aerodrome can be built
where Its waters have flowed out to
he sea for countless centuries
For some years the mouth has
een gradually silting up and a del-
ta has been forming under the sur-
ace of the water Now It Is pro-
posed to move the river bed 200
yards to the west so that the deltaj
ecomes dry land On this will be
milt an important aerodrome
Find
Out
From Your Doctor
if the “Pain” Remedy
You Take Is Safe
Don’t Entrust Your
Own or Your Family’s
Well Being to Unknown
Preparations
BEFORE you take any prepara-
tion you don’t know all about
for the relief of headaches or the
pains of rheumatism neuritis or
neuralgia ask your doctor what he
thinks about it — in cbmparison
with Genuine Bayer Aspirin
We say this because before the
discovery of Bayer Aspirin most
so-called “pain” remedies were ad-
vised against by physicians as being
bad for the stomach or often for
the heart And the discovery of
Bayer Aspirin largely changed
medical practice
Countless thousands of people
who have taken Bayer Aspirin year
in and out without ill effect nave
proved that the medical findings
about its safety were correct
Remember this: Genuine Bayer
Aspirin is rated among the fasted
methods yet discovered for the relief
of headaches and all common pains
and safe for the average person
to take regularly
You can get real Bayer Aspirin at
eng drug store — simply by never
asking for it by the name “aspirin”
alone but always saying BAYER
ASPIRIN when you buy
Bayer Aspirin
A Promise Is a Pro miss
BUI Patterson colored of Lancas-
ter S C was fined $10 for breach
of trust because he failed to return
after a friend in jail sent him to
fetch a ten cent cigar
m UPSETS
The proper treatment
for a bilious child
mn nm
in isucviio
I r leaiwiMiM
A deansing dose today: a smaller
quantity tomorrow: leu each time
until bowels need no help at alL
ANY mother knowsthe reason '
when her child stops playing eats
little is hard to manage Constipation
But what a pity so few know the
sensible way to set things right!
The ordinary laxatives of even
ordinary strength must be carefully
regulated as to dosage
A liquid laxative is the answer
mothers The answer to all your
worries over constipation A liquid
can be measured The dose can be
exactly suited to any age or need
Just reduce the dose each time until
the bowels are moving of their own
accord and need no hup
This treatment will succeed with
any child and with any adult
The doctors use liquid laxatives
Hospitals use the liquid form If it
Is best for their use it is best for
home use The liquid laxative most
families use is Dr Caldwell’s Syrup
Pcosin Any druggist has it
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