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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Speaker jRainey's Death Starts Race for His Position
Prominent Men Organize Liberty League
to Combat Radicalism.
By
EDWARD W. PICKARD
by Wwtm Newspaper Union.
HENRY T. BArNET, veteran con
gressman from Illinois and speak
er of the house, died unexjectedly !n a
St Louis hospital where he was be
lieved to be recover
ing from an attack of
bronchial pneumonia.
The Immediate cause
of his death was an
gina pectoris. Mr.
Rainey, who was with
in a day of being seventy-four
years old, was
first elected to con
gress In 1902, and he
served continuously
with the exception of
one term, being de
feated In the Harding
Henry T.
Rainey
landslide of 1020. He was elected to
the speakership when John Nance
Garner became Vice President His
control over the house during the ses
sions of last year and this year, while
the President's program was being
put through, was gentle hut so firm
that the legislators were kept well In
line.
Mr. Rainey devoted much of his
service In Washington to efforts to Im
prove the condition of the farmers,
for he held that farm prosperity was
essential In any program for national
well being. He also was a student of
tariff and fiscal subjects. As a Demo
crat he was always a "regular." He
was the author of the tariff commis
sion law and of much other Impor
tant legislation.
Mrs. Rainey acted as her husband s
secretary for years and is so well ac
quainted with congressional work that
the Democrats may select her as the
candidate to complete his term as rep
resentative from the Twentieth Illinois
district.
Mr. Rainey was buried In his home
town, Currollton, after services which
were attended by President Roosevelt
and many other notable persons.
SPEAKER RAINEY'S death will re
sult In a spirited contest among a
number of men who are ambitious to
succeed him. First In the line of suc
cession, so to speak.
Is Representative Jos
eph V. Byrns of Ten
nessee, who has been
serving as majority
floor leader and who
Is head of the Demo
cratic national COn-
fii 'milium. - -'j -""u'"cc
V M President Roosevelt Is
I TsiA-P! S'ng t0 take n part
flOt.' J in the race, but the
more liberal of the
New Dealers are
known to favor Sam
Rayburn of Texas. Well Informed ob
servers believe Byrns will be elected
speaker and Rayburn floor leader.
Other aspirants for the speakership
are John E. Rankin of Mississippi,
who has announced his candidacy;
William B. Bankhead of Alabama, and
John J. O'Connor of New York.
Mr. Byrns has been- a member of the
house continuously since his election
to the Sixty-first congress. His work
as floor leader. In conjunction with
Ralney's rule as speaker, was not es
pecially pleasing to the New Dealers
for some months during the last ses
sion, but before adjournment most of
the misunderstandings were cleared
up. In any case, the administration
seldom Interferes In the selection of
the leaders of congress, not wishing
to Incur the enmity of powerful mem
bers of the party.
RETURNING from his swift trip to
attend the funeral of Mr. Rainey.
the President went directly back to
Washington Instead of going to his
Hyde Park home. This change In plan
was due, it was said, to the develop
ment of a bitter dispute between Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson on one side and Don
ald Rlchberg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief in
dustrial adviser, and Secretary of La
bor Perkins on the other, over the new
structure to be given the NRA.
The Issue, It was disclosed, Is wheth
er there shall be a board of control
In authoritative management of the
NRA or a board which shall be more
advisory In power, leaving the real
control still in the hands of tie ad
ministrator and Ma deputies. It waa
expected Mr. Roosevelt would take
command of the situation and deter
mine definitely what ahall be don
with the recovery administration.
ORGANIZED labor scored a victory
over . Recovery . Administrator
Johnson when the national labor rela
tions beard ottered John Donovan,
former president of the NRA nalon
dismissed by Johnson for "inefficiency.-
reinstated to his position with
the labor advisory board. -
"The agencies which are adminis
tering the law should In their- ewn
dealings bp hold Its purposes,' the
board said la Its decision, giving a
veiled reproof to Johnson for what It
Implied waa a violation of section 7a
of the NRA. , , .-- v - -'
With rather bad grace the NRA ac
cepted the rebuke and permitted Don
ovan to return to bis Job. Johnson
himself had nothing to ssy about It.
but Dr. Gustsv Peck. -Donovan's tm
ir :'ate superior. Issued a statement
la wtlch he snLTed at the board's de-
Joseph W
Byrns
clslon and warned Donovan that he
would have to "toe the mart
Soon after this the NRA announced
that It does " not regard Itself as
obliged to withdraw the Blue Eagle In
cases where the national labor rela
tions board has found companies guilty
of violation of section 7A of the na
tional Industrial recovery act and of
subsequent failure to obey the Instruc
tions of the board.
The labor board has recommended
withdrawal of the Rlue Eagle to the
NRA compliance board In all cases
where companies have disobeyed Its
instructions to reinstate discharged
employees. The decision by the NRA
will remove teeth from decisions by
the board, since It may now hear
cases, make decisions, and find that
no penalties are Inflicted for disobey
ing its orders.
OOTTON garment code amendments
reducing the working hours and
giving workers a wage increase have
been signed by the President The
amendments, which affect plants In 42
states, are of far-reaching importance.
Sidney Hillman. labor advisory
board member and Amalgamated
Clothing union head, termed signing
of the order "the most far-reaching
move NRA has yet made to Increase
employment." It was hoped that this
order would avert the threatened
strike of the garment workers.
TWO prominent Democrats, two Re
publicans almost euuly prominent,
and one leailiig industrialist, all of
them of conservative tendencies, have
united to organize the
American Liberty
league dedicated to a
war on radicalism in
the United States.
The five founders of
the league are: Al
fred E. Smith. Demo
crat I c Presidential
candidate in 1928;
John V. Davis Dem
ocratic Presidential
candidate in 1924;
Nathan L. Miller, Re
publican ex-governor
of New Vork; James W. Wadsworth,
Republican congressman from New
York, former senator and Presidential
possibility for 1936; Irenee Du Pont,
manufacturer, who supported Smith In
1928 and Roosevelt in 1932. They be
lieve the league meaibership will
grow Into the millions and that it will
become an Important element In the
national life.
For president of the organization the
founders selected Jouett Shouse, for
mer chairman of the Democratic na
tional committee and president of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment until repeal was accom
plished. In a statement Mr. Shouse
set forth the purposes of the league
as follows:
"It is a nonpartisan organization,
formed, as stated In its charter, to
defend and uphold the Constitution
of the United States and to gather
and disseminate information that (1)
will teach the necessity of respect tor
the rights of persons and property as
fundamental to every successful form
of government and (2) will teach the
duty of government to encourage and
protect Individual and group Initiative
and enterprise, to foster the right to
work, earn, save, and acquire property,
and to preserve the ownership and
lawful use of property when ac
quired.' "
To Interviewers Mr. Shouse declared
the league was not anti-Roosevelt but
It seemed clear that It will be opposed
to most of the major purposes of the
New Deal and the radical professors
of the brain trust He said be had
visited the President and Informed him
fully of the purposes of the league,
but he would not tell what Mr. Roose
velt's reaction had been.
IN THE nature of a reply to the for
mation of the American liberty
league was a speech delivered In
Washington by Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper. He denied that the
"profit motive in American life has
been or is to be abolished by the
New Deal, asserting that it seeks only
to abolish "certain profit abases," such
as profits on watered stocks and dis
proportionate salaries.
"Private enterprise," said Mr. Roper,
"Is getting back anon Its own feet,
and more and mora Is exerting Its in
itiative and Is able o relieve the fed
eral government- of responsibilities,
which under normal conditions belong
ta business. --
"Pardon my repeating again that the
Roosevelt administration is, squarely
behind this principle. It believes la
Just profits for management and capi
tal and an equitable return to labor
for Its rightful rewards la the eco
nomic processes. 4 -
"No thinking business manjdealres
te have the old order restored. He
does desire and Is entitled to hare the
new order characterised by a better
control . against economic cataclysms
and by the freedom to exercise bis
Initiative tn planning for the future
of his business la the light of aa equlfr
able profit system."
Jouett
Shouse
THB strike of track drjvers In Mln-
X neapolU was ended when the men
and their employer accepted com
promise agreement, and martial law
In the city waa discontinued, business
thereafter speeding back to ' normal
conditions. The peace plan, devised by
federal representatives, provided that
all employees on strike be returned to
their jobs without discrimination and
on basis of seniority. It Included an
agreement to bold an election within
ten days In each of the 160 firms In
volved to determine whether their em
ployees want . the drivers' union or
other representatives to act for them
in collective bargaining, and a pledge
of the 166 firms to pay for at least
one year not less than 50 cents an
hour to drivers and 40 cents to help
era, platform men and Inside workers.
I William green, president oi
' ' the American Federation of La
bor, says he hopes the general strike
of textile Industry, workers will be
averted; but he an
nounces at the same
time that the federa
tion Indorses the
strike and will co
operate fully with the
officers and members
of the United Textile
Workers' organisation.
He appointed federa
tion committees to aa
'- liTifrirff
sist the textile work
ers and announced
that he would draft
William Green
trained organizers and strike special
ists from other unions to assist the
textile union.
George A. Sloan, president of the
Cotton Textile Institute and chairman
of the cotton textile code authority,
said the threatened strike is not Justi
fied by the facts established by Im
partial government economists.
Challenging the wage Increase' de
mand of the United Textile Workers
of America, Mr. Sloan declared that
"as a result of three basic wage pro
visions In the code the hourly wages
paid In, March. 19.14. show an Increase
of 7 per cent as compared with March,
1933. when there was no code.
"All of this has meant a substantial
Increase In manufacturing costs," Mr.
Sloan said, "and the research and plan
ning division of the NRA found, after
a comprenensive investigation lbsi
June, that 'under existing conditions
there Is no factual or statistical basis
for any general Increase in cotton tex
tile code wage rates.'"
Mr. Sloan estimated the present
number of workers at work In some
1.200 mills In the cotton Industry at
400,000.
T IEUT.-COL.
MARIO HERNANDEZ
organized a plot to overthrow the
government of President Mendleta of
Cuba and establish a military dictator
ship, but the authorities got wind of
It and frustrated the conspiracy, tn
which a considerable part of the army
was Involved. Col. -Fulgenclo Batista
head of the army, said that Major
Benltes and some soldiers were sent
to arrest Hernandez and that ' eight
men of the detachment were killed.
Hernandez tried to shoot Benltes but
was himself shot In the head and neck.
The official report said Hernandez was
being rushed toward Havana In an
automobile and that the car upset the
prisoner being killed, though the oth
ers In the car were uninjured.
MaJ. Angel Echcvarrla, commandant
of Fourth Infantry at Camp Columbia,
and Capt. Augustln Erlce, chief of the
signal corps, conspirators with Her
nandez, were captured later and a
summary court martial sentenced them
to death.
Four thousand troops in Plnar del
Rio are confined to barracks, under
arrest and a thorough reorganization
of the entire high command of the
Cuban army Is In full swing. About
200 civilians have also been arrested
as parties to the conspiracy, charged
with carrying messages to military
plotters,--
EMGHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens are
- now under arrest In Mancbukuo,
charged with plotting against Man
cbukuo and Japan and sabotaging
Japanese military trains. The Russian
government through Acting Consul
General Rayvid at Harbin, has pre
sented to the foreign office of Man
chukuo a demand for an explanation
of the arrests and Insists on prompt
measures tor the release ot ue
prisoners.
"The arrests were madewithout
documents, ' accompanied by searches
of the apartments and offices of Soviet
employees of the Chinese Eastern rail
way which have not been explained,"
Rayvid said. ;
.The Japanese allege that some of
the prisoners confessed to an attack
on the Japanese military Intelligence
office at Suifenbo (Pogranlchnaya), te
sending Manchorlaa and Goreaa cam
mnnlsts Into the territory, te wreck
ing trains carrying Japanese troops
aad munitions toward the frontier,
and to creating general disturbances
along the eastern line, '; :- ''';: f
Probably before long will coma the
news that the Japanese have seised
the Chinese Eastern railway, and that
may very well result la war between
Japan and Russia. - " .- ,
BY A vote of about 10 to 1 the peo
ple of Germany decided that Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler's action In assum
ing the powers of president' waa all
right The result of the 'plebiscite
was: "Tea," 58,3(52,709; -No,- 4J9V
654 ; "Invalid." 87X208. Though the
"yes" votes were several million leas
than In the November plebiscite ea
the withdrawal from the League of Na
tlona, the Nazis are satisfied and Hit
ler appears to be safely fixed as the
country's ruler for tho rest of his life
His power, as chancellor-leader, b
greater than that at any other dictator
THIS WEEK
Hostile to Christianity
Hitler's Great Power
Fourteen-Pound Baby
Quite Easily Said ' .
Jn spite of a gigantic vote, about
88,000,000 to about 4,000,000, that gave
Hitler absolute power In Germany,
Hitler's ardent admirers are annoyed
that even four million votes should
read "No." The Jews of Germany
could not well be blamed, since there
are only 600,000 of them.
They could not well cast 4,CJ9,000
Votes. Ilerr Goebbels, Hitler's propa
ganda chief, suggests In his newspaper
Angrlff that the antl-H-ltler votes were
cast by -German Catholics.
That "No" votes were Catholic votes
seems pr.obable, in view of the atti
tude of Hitler's government toward
religion In general, Catholicism In par
ticular, and emphatic complaints made
by the Vatican.
It Is feared by Protestants as well
ss Catholics that hostility to Chris
tianity may develop and spread among
Germans as it has done in Russia,
SpainMexico and elsewhere.
Hitler Lnw holds In his name all tho
powers once exercised by the kaiser,
the relchstug, the various separate
kingdoms and governments that make
up the German empire.
Also, quite Important, "Ilerr Hitler
has the power to declare war and to
make pence."
It might be easier to declare war
than to make peace in these times.
He is commander of the army, navy
and air force, which Indicates rapid
progress for a gentleman who was not
citizen of the German nation four
years ago.
Mrs. Ted Glovler. of Moorefleld,
W. Va., weighs 120 pounds, her hus
band weighs l.'iTi pounds. Not that his
weight makes any difference. Their
little boy, named, as you will guess.
Franklin Delano Glovler, Just arrived
weighs fourteen pounds. Franklin
Delano Glovler will not attract as
much attention as do the five Dlonne
quintuplets. But the mother is. proud
of the fact that her Franklin Delano
weighs at birth one pound and a half
more than all five of the quintuplets.
Franklin Delano Glovler's father says.
I can't account"for it." No account-
ng is necessary. Every baby, big or
little, is a marvel, and weight at llrth
makes little difference. One slckjy lit
tle baby called Voltaire started a work
that overthrew a long line of fat
French kings.
The big steel comitanles talk of aban
doning the NRA code altogether,. fear
Ing the consequences of putting their
Industry absolutely In the control of
organized labor.
More easily said than done," they
will he told. An old horse mired in a
awamp might talk about "abandoning
the leeches that cling to him," but the
leeches would cling. American Indus
try must go all the way through the
process of being managed by those
that never successfully managed any
thing else before. Maybe the experi
ment will lead to the millennium,
maybe not All must hope and co
operate, even the mired horse.
Lloyd George, In his memoirs, says
that while England was borrowing
American dollars so Industriously, the
"United States, shocked by the cost
of war, was suspicious as the allies
asked for credit" He does not add,
as be might that Americans would
have been wise to refuse the credit,
since all of "our gallant allies" have
turned out to be gallant welcbers.
New York presents to your atten
tion an Interesting robbery In the bor
ough of Brooklyn. A well-organised
gang of highwaymen surrounded an
armored car, with machine guns care
fully planted in a peddler's cart and
In parked cars, held np the armed
guards, stele $427,000.
The robbers escaped in three high
powered automobiles, the armored
truck pursuing, one machine gun that
the robbers had overlooked spitting
futile bolleta, - r""': ' :v v
That appears to be the record for
robbery In the public streets. The
eleven bandits will regret to bear that.
In addition to overlooking one ma
chine gun, they overlooked $29,000 In
cash.
A big diamond la coming to the Unit.
ed -States, fourth largest In the world,
called the Jonker gem. The ."pebble",
was found In South Africa by a fann
er, and sold to tho diamond corpora
tion for $315,000. The corporation re
fused fSOttOOO for the atone, now com
ing hero to be cut to beat advantage.
Ladles will wear diamonds aa big aa
pigeons' eggs, but hardly as big as
tnrkey"a egg. That would be con
animoos. - "
Hoboken. N. X. is shocked. On
gentleman. 'who liked tho looks of an
other gentleman's . wife, bought the
wife for $700, to be paid. la lnstaO--
menta. like aa automobile, "with her
romantic consent," the last Installment
paid recently.
That saxes an mat are absolutely
well behaved shudder, although many
millions of human beings on earth nev
er get a wife except by purchase. Oth
er millions may sell a wife If they
choose, and no evil la thought ot 1
U Is thinking that "makes It so." : -
n, Klas Fntiw Syadlaat Imm.
WAU
National Topics Interpreted
-; by William
ri j ' i i t U
Washington. Chester C ayls, the
agricultural adjustment administrator.
, tn a conversation
Drouth had . with blm the
Abli other day. uttered an
observation which
seems to be decidedly1' worthwhile and
one which, because of the assurance
and contents, ought to be- repeated
here. ' My conversation with Mr. Davis
had te do With questions concerning
drouth relief and 1 want to quote his
remarks because of the widespread de
struction of the current period when
rainfall baa been nil in so many com
munities.
"It Is as unsafe and unjust to measure
the true potentialities of this country,'
Mr. Davis said, "by the extreme
drouth conditions of this year aa it
was to measure them by the bumper
crop years which happened to coincide
with high prices so that everybody felt
sudden riches were In sight The one
extreme Is Just as deceptive as the
other."
Mr. Davis outlined what the gov
ernment was attempting to do since its
policy has been changed and since in
dividuals no longer are required to
fend for themselves. He declared the
changes In policy that have been taken
represent a frank recognition of re
sponsibilities by the present leadership
and it was his conviction that more
has been done in the face of similar
conditions than ever has been done
before to relieve human distress. He
added that It bad been found difficult.
of course, to meet and solve many of
the problems and that there Is not suf
ficient prowess even In our national
government to counteract all of the
effects of such a calamity. The ad
ministrator holds to the belief, how
ever, that the steps taken by- the ad
ministration constitute the beginnings
of a national program from which ap
parently It Is proposed eventually to
develop national policies for dealing
with all kinds of distress. Obviously,
Mr. Davis did not touch on these
phases because his job is to deal with
agricultural situations and he has not
gone beyond them.
Calling attention to the fact that the
drouth relief program Is the greatest
ever undertaken In this or any other
country. Mr. Davis summarized the
Joint activity of the several govern
ment agencies In the following lan
guage: The purchase of surplus cat
tle, with the processing of meat for
relief distribution: encouragement of
production of forage crops ; .co-ordination
ot seed purchase: human employ
ment relief f purchase of adapted feed
grain; forestatlon and other measures
to conserve moisture, prevent wind
erosion and minimize the effects of fu
ture drouth, and tn addition such crop
benefit payments aa have been made
and which now turn out to be in his
opinion crop Insurance.
Mr. Davis Is optimistic concerning
the future of the American farmer.
, , . despite the hardships
Optunutic of the current drouth,
as to Future He suggested, bow
ever, thst It waa nec
essary to face the facts of the current
drouth, but also, to resort to the
language of the street the admin
istrator thinks the country must not
allow the current problems to knock
It down.
"If the doubts and fears lately ex
pressed had been 'heeded." Mr.' Davis
added, "the great plains never would
have teen settled. The troubles of to
day are but repetition on a less fear
ful scale of the obstacles encountered
by the early settlers. But Instead of
turning back -In the face of hardships,
those pioneers established their homes
and did not let drouth, flood, hall, or
Indians stop them.
"Instead, the pioneers and their
sons searched the world for drouth
resistant wheat and grains which
would mature In season, they bred op
the droutb-reslstant forage crops and
planted them. They buHt a civilization
on an expanse of the map which once
was labeled the Great Americas des
ert The drouths we have lived through
In the past did not . conquer the spirit
nor stop the development of the West.
The drouth of 1934 will not atop the
men of , the West In their forward
march to conquer nature."
- The thing about the remarks which
Mr. Davis attered that appealed to me
and to numerous other Washington ob
servers wsa the candor with which he
treated tho problems. He made no at
tempt In thla conversation nor has he
done so In several speeches he has
made lately to use language that waa
hysterical. For aa example of what t
mean, dispatches coming from, 'presi
dent Roosevelt's train on his homeward
trip across the northern hsf of this
country gave varloas figures aa to tho
loss occasioned by the drouth. One of
these dispatches credited SO emergency
relief official with the statement that
the drouth bad cost tho farmers fire
billion dollars. Another dispatch placed
tho figure somewhat lower and gave no
authority for. the estimate. Rot the
point la .that while Mr. Da via recog
nises the desperation of the farmers
aad the necessity for-their relief, there
Iras nothing sensational In his discus
sion. It la to be remembered that the
total farm Income of 1933 waa only a
little more than alx billion dollars and
tt la hard fee observers here te believe
that the drouth has destroyed flvo
alxtha of this country's agrtcaltnrai In-;
Bruckart acjqggfc
In the light ' of ihli
coma thla year.
fact, the tempered remarks t by Mr.
Davis take on added significance and
weight.
e e -e -
It now Beems certain that when the
congress returns to Washington next
- January It will be
. rritf Ak called upoa Immedl
Afre Funds tely by the admin
istration to . voto
more funds for relief of the drouth vic
tims. Until later, however, the extent
to which the administration will seek
to go In this direction cannot be fore
told. It Is evident that having seen tho
circumstances ; first band,- Mr, Roose
velt's entire Sympathy will be behind
whatever proposal be makes.
Observers . here,, however, foresee
some dangers as a result of the pres
ent desperate conditions. They know
that Mr. Roosevelt will, as he baa fre
quently stated, go the limit with fed
eral funds, but the danger foreseen by
astute observers here Is that some of
the members of the house and senate
will attempt to go beyond all reason In
preparation of relief plans during next
winter. .It Is not unusual, aa the rec
ords show, that, on every occasion
when the federal treasury doors are
opened senators or representatives will
come forward with scores of plans un
der the guise of human relief to get
their hands on government money for
their constituents. It is fair to say
that some of these will be sincere. It
la equally fair to say that as In the
past some of them will have been
misguided. The conversations one
hears around Washington therefore In
dicate that those charged with gov
ernment responsibility must be on their
guard If vast suras are not to be
wasted under the guise of extending
relief to needy victims of nature's
pranks this year.
Some of the brain trusters already
have developed far flung plans for the
physical transfer of thousands of farm
families from the drouth stricken dis
tricts into other areas where they can
get started again. While generally
speaking I believe sentiment In the
government favors doing anyrhlng
that will afford relief next winter, a
good many of the higher authorities
in the administration point out that
the scheme of transposition of whole
families and their belongings presents
grave problems.
Without attempting to discuss the
merit or demerit of the scheme, tt
seems to me that attention ought to be
called to the fact that human beings
Just cant agree, to such jjrgrams.
.: . ... eO'-.-'-.N;-Tbere
was a cartoon In one of the
eastern metropolitan newspapers the
other day that de
Price plcted Uncle Sam
Situation begging a small boy
labeled "Prices" to
grow up so that he could reach hit
height of 1920. Beside it was another
caricature which showed Uncle Sam
warning the same boy to stop- grow
ing and announcing that If be, the
prices qf food, grows too much, "I will
crack down." I refer to this cartoon
because most Washington observers
see the price situation in this country
to be quite confusing. It Is to be re
called that throughout last year and
early In 1934 the administration pred
icated an ot ita actlona on a desire
to raise prices. Now, however, the ef
fect of the prolonged drouth la the
agricultural areas Is being felt In tho
cities and President Roosevelt an
nounced his fear that profiteering in
food prices Is likely to result and made
known that the administration has
definite plans to curb any undue rise
In prices. Thus far It has not been .
made clear what la considered an un
due price' rise under present condi
tions but the President : stated with
emphasis In a-press conference that .
he would not perm't profiteering to
take place In the coming fall and win
ter because, he Indicated, ha thought
the price Increases would be unjustl-
' The President and Secretory Wal
lace, of the Department of Agriculture,
are working hand In hand Iff the de
velopment of machinery which they
Intend to use to protect consumers -from
profiteering. Mr.; Roosevelt as
serted he bad plenty of power with.
which to do this Job. Mr. Wallace.
speaking later, said the first check that .
would be placed on aa undue rise
prices would be closer supervlaloa of ,
the train markets. Any Indications of J
manipulation In those markets will bo
dealt with summarily, according to i
Mr. Wallace. 'r-Sd : ; i- Tv.:,
The circumstances surrounding price
questions, however, have caused many
ooservers to ask for further exposition '
of the administration's policies tn this
regard. As far aa I have been able to
learn-' none of the - administration ,
spokesmen are willing at this time to -go
beyond the threat to crack down .
If there Is profiteering, tt must be as
sumed, therefore, that moderate pries r.
Increases will be tolerated. If they are
aot It la made to appear that the poll '
ciea opon which tho agricultural ad- -
Justment administration have been op
orating and those that have served aa
the gsldeposts for NRA In its code
making ars.no longer holding favor
with the administration. In other -words,'
there la profound confusion
ever the question of pries Increases at
this time.
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