New Britain herald., 1925-12-08
Advocates Single Head For Shipping Board Service, Cooperative Marketing For Farm CTS And Railroad Consolidation As We'll As Sale of Muscle Shoals - States Must Aid In Reclamation Work.
By the Associated Press.

w dSillllS IOli, DSc. S.-Re- newing a number of recom- mendations he already had made to congress, President Coolidge, in his annual mes sage transmitted today to the house and senate, outlined a comprehensive legislative pro- gram dealing with pressing domestic and international problems. His suggestions in cluded:
 Principal Suggestions Made
 Tax reduction along lines mapped out by the house ways and means committee.
 Adherence to the world court.
 Continued effort to strengthen aviation, without radical change in the organization of the army and navy air serv- ices.
 Curtailment of the shipping boards powers, with the gov ernment fleet under the control of a single executive.
 Increasing authority for the president and departments of commerce and labor to deal with labor disputes in the coal industry.
 Encouragement of co-opera- tive marketing as an aid to agriculture.
 The president devoted a sec tion to the prohibition ques- tion, appealing for law observ- ance by the public and vigor- ous action against violators by enforcement officials.
 He also renewed his advocacy of railroad consultations and development of inland water ways, recommended retention for the present, of property seized from aliens during the war, reiterated that re-organ- ization of government depart ments should be authorized. and declared that states and local communities must CO., operate more with the federal government in reclamation work.
 Urging sale of Muscle Shoals to the highest bidder who will agree to produce nitrates pri- marily with power develop ment incidental, he contended that the Muscle Shoals problem had assumed a place all out of proportion with its real i'm portance."
 | Too Much Discussion Tt probably does not represent in market value much more than & 1 ftrst-class battleship," he added, yet ! it has been discussed in the con gress over a period of years and for months at a time." Prefacng his recommendations with a statement that "the country docs not appear to require radical ] departures from the policies already adopted so much as 1t needs further attention of these policies and the l Improvement Of details" and an ap- i peal for continued vigilance against eXtravagant governmental expendi- lures, the president emphasized the need for further tax reduction and declared he approved 'in principle" l the bill drafted by the ways and | means committee.
 Insofar as income tax exemptions are concerned" he continued, it seems to me the committee has gone { as far as it Is safe to go and some what further than I should have gone"
 In a long discussion of foreign re- lations MT. Coolidge made these as- sertions:
 That the Locarno security agree ments represent the success Of the policy of having European coun- tries settle their own political prob lens without involving the United States.
 Armament Reduction
 That reduction of land armaments not only Is of prime importance but a problem peculiarly European in Its practical aspects, and that 'our country would look with particular gratitude upon any action which those countries might take to re- duce their own military forces"
 That the general policy of our country Is for disarmament and il ought not to hesitate to adopt any practical plan that might reason ably he expected to succeed. But 1t would not care to attend con ference which from Its location CT