Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-18

enterprise or through cooperation of
industry and labor itself. The moment
the Government enters into this field
1t Invariably degenerateS into the dole.
For nothing can Withstand the political
pressure which carries governments over
this dangerous border The net results
Of governmental doles are to lower
wages toward bare subsistence levels
and to endow the Stacker"
Robert B. Armstrong. veteran Wash
ington newspaper correspondent, stanch
Republican and loyal Californian, re-
turned last week from q trip TO the
West Coast, His report of his first
hand observations was very heartening
to the White House. On the Pacific
slope he saw the first bushes Of re-
turning prosperity. not yet discernible
in the Impoverished Midwest and in
dustr1al East. He found widespread un-
outstanding and high appreciation of
the hoover policies and of the heroic
EFFORTS being exerted by the admins
tration to stem the tide of depression.
sunny California under Hoover has won
It's nght Tor Boulder Dam, and received
increased tariff protection for her high
~ protected products Her grape grow
ers nave received generous Federal loans
HSAASF0AN4&N AAcDEIlShIlOIlS IN LIlP
marketing OF their Volsteadian wine.
Under reapportionment California gains
more seats in the House than any other
State IN the Union. Small wonder that
California is IN kindly mood.
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The dollars and cents cost of putting
the employees of all branches of the
FEDERAL service on a five-dav week
schedule, without loss Of pay. and filling
the gaps with additional employees would
De not less than $3.50, ZOO, 900 and not
more tnan 5000 100000 per annum. Ex-
sct computation is impossible, but
ngures 1rom the Civil Service Commits
sion, the BlYsau of the Budget and
the Post ONCE Department are suffi-
Gent TO permit a fair approximation
OF the pay roll increase this plan would
involve. A bill TO put the fiye-day week
Tor Federal employees into effect was
introduced by Senator Walsh of Msssa-
chusettS last Winter. He will press IL
again IN the new Congress with stronger
packing than ever. The American Fed
eretlon OF Labor is out now 100 per
cent for the five-day week nlan SEQ
rotary of Labor Doak saws he ie for q
put emphasizes that it is his personal
view; not the administration position,
Mr' hoover up TO date has not esuoused
y. IL VIII be surprising If Congress
does not pass it Overwhelmingly.
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secretary Mellon is on the hirh seas
nomeward-bound after participation in
the most momentous International A.
nanciaI parleys of his career which
nearly disrupted his European vacation
pans he will make first-hand report
20 MI. Hoover before the week is out and
Lnen resume his unrufied routine in the
treasury Department. Montagu Nor
man, head of the Bank of ENGLAND is
reported TO have collapsed under the
financial overstrain. According Ia the
cables Premier Macdonald and the
LABOR government in Great Britain,
confronted with a current budget
deficit of six hundred million dollars.
are IN DAY and night conferences to
frame emergency measures to meet the
crisis Though our own treasury
department chalked up a deficit OF
close to a billion dollars on June 30
ano faces an equally huge deficit next
June 80, the Governments financial
position is so impregnable that MT.
mellon gives no indication Of worry.
fcopyrisht 1879