Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-28
EUROPEAN TARIFF
WALLS MOUNTING
Increase in Schedules Held
Bar to Economic ReCov-
cry of Nations.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 2S.-The old
year closes with many people dreaming
of United States of Europe. 1t has
been poets conception, dreamed Of
for hundreds of years. But it remained
for AriStide BRAND, former prime min
iSter of France, to give 1t life and mean
ing in modern Europe.
The treaty Of Versailles added more
than 5000 miles of frontier in Europe
These new borders only added more
difficulties to the badly understood eco
nomic problem. No European nation,
with a possible exception of Russia. is
States. But tariff walls have been
raised higher and higher by the IS diff
ferent nations in Europe, only to ag-
gravate instead of helping Europe's
economic recovery.
Aristide BRAND saw the foolishness
of setting up tariff walls under such
conditions. "A United States of Eu-
rope" Numbered the eloquent BRAND,
with trading zone big enough to re-
store peace and prosperity to nearly
800, 900 900 persons. Yes. and able to
compete with another United States,
grown powerful through the last 100
years by free trade within its own ter
ritory, the like of which the world has
never seen before"
Theodore M. Knappen, dynamic
writer, has stated that Europe with
tariff banners torn down would have
home market far greater than that
which the United States has today.
Not counting Russia, it would include a
vast nation with 2,000,0 900 square miles
and $50, 600, 900 people.
Europe combined could have a tariff
wall all around it and be as we'll of
as the United States. But cut up, as
1t Is now, into different nationalities,
and it presents sorry picture of BUSH
ness efficiency.
The expansion of free trading zones
means ultimately an economic union of
the world. When that day comes the
standards of living of the world will be
much higher than they are today.
Mayor James Walker of New York
will receive in 1880 the highest salary
paid to anv State or Government of1cial
in the United States, excepting only the
President of the United States. BY
comparison the salaries of governors
look very small and unimportant.
Gov. Roosevelt OF New York is the
highest paid governor, receiving SOS, 900
annually-$15, 900 less than New Yorks
mayor will receive. Other high
salaried governors are $4,000 in Penn
sylvania, $4,000 in Illinois and $4,000
In each Of the following States: Cali
fornia, Florida, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey, Ohio and West Virginia.
Two governors are in the $4,000 class,
those of Indiana and Rhode Island.
Ten are in the $500 class, Delaware,
Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana.
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North
Carolina and Tennessee. The $1,000
governors are those of the States OF
Minnesota and Nevada, while $500 is
all that is paid to the Governors of
Arizona and Kentucky.
The rest of the States pay from $4,000
down to $3,000-the Governors of New
Hampshire. North Dakota and Ver-
mont being in the lowest class, so far
as compensation goes.
Public servants are VIGOROUSLY I'M
derpaid at the present time, If salaries
of the larger business executives are
any criterion.
The old New York Hippodrome has
to go. It Is being torn down to make
way for an 83-Story building. LOO feet
high, to cost $4,000 900 and to take
the crown from the Chrysler Building,
hardly yet completed, as the worlds
tallest building.
1t is not many years ago since the
world was told that Harry S. Black.
John w. Gates and other New York
capitalists had made plans to erect the
Hippodrome Building, designed to sur
pass every other amusement building in
the world. 1t is still used as an amuse-
ment and motion picture center to
which thousands of people go daily.
The times have changed. In the
days when the old Hippodrome was
built the steel industry was producing
about 100000 tons OF steel annually.
TOO much-the country better slow
down." was the frequent comment.
Today the country is absorbing nearly
so 900 900 tons of steel, and the United
States Steel Corporation announced in
the Hoover conferences that it would
spend $500, 200, 900 for new construction
over the next three years.
No American now would be surprised
II this one corporation spends 81 ,O0O,-
100000 over the next 10 years. 1t is a
very real possibility.
1t takes vision and plenty of courage
to operate in big way in the modern
world.
(Copyrivht, 1929, by North American News
paper AllanceD