The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-05-07
he Helms News Service

current economic conditions were
such that the present salaries of
Government employees represented
an increased buying power which
is equivalent, at least in part, to
an increase in pay.
Cooperative action in the cotton
textile industry, initiated at a
White House conference in jan
uary, 1880, has resulted in the
sterilization of employment and a
general agreement to end night
work for women and children,
President Hoover was informed in
a letter from the president of the
Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. De-
spite the depression and without
sacrificing its competitive char
acter, the industry has made pro-
gress through the development of
sound policies with respect to OPP
GRAFTON and merchandising. A
greater uniformity of running time
throughout the industry has been
obtained, and a more definite
knowledge acquired of production,
stocks and distribution.
1t was announced at the White
House that Colonel Arthur Woods,
chairman of President Hoover's
emergency committee for employ
ment, who will go to Europe for
study of unemployment insur-
ance methods developed abroad
will retain the craftsmanship, leav-
ing the active work to the vice
chairman. Colonel Woods was ask.
ed if he planned to resume active
direction of the work of the COM
mittee upon his return and replied
that, if conditions of employment
at that time were such that his as
sistance were needed, he would.
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Declaring that as a result if
sacrifices made at the London con-
ference, the United States and ia
pan, while retaining fleets guar
anteeing security, had removed all
clouds over the Pacific, Secretary
Stimson felicitated Emperor Hire
hito of Japan in transpacific "a
die broadcast in celebration of the
monarch's .thirtieth birthday. Bar
on Shidehara, Foreign Minister of
Japan, in response from Tokyo,
said that Japan was glad to par
ticipate in the work of naval dis
armament and to be signatory
to the Kellogg-Briand peace COM
pact. Mr.. Stimson expressed plea.
sure over the visit to this county
of Prince and Princess Takamatsu
and declared that "the ocean no
longer separates, but rather unites
Japan and the United States" Bar
on Shidehara echoed these senti-
ments, asserting that America is
our next-door neighbour
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1t is understood the remarks of
former President Calvin Coolidge,
with respect to the present Amer
lean policy in Nicaragua, were
welcomed as an expression of con-
i fifence in Henry L. Stimson, Sec
ret. of State. 1t was the opin-
ion State Department officials
that Mr.. Coolidge was expressing
the same views as are held by Mr..
Stimson when the former Presi-
dent said of Nicaragua: "We want
her to walk alone, not always lean
on us. Her government SHOULD
deal with bandits" Secretary
Stimson has consistently interpret.
ed his Nicaraguan program as
seeking to bring a sense of respon.
sibility to the local government
and to train it to handle all Its
own affairs in an orderly manner
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Senator Dickinson of Iowa
chairman of the Advisory Commit
tee of the Republican Nationa
| Committee, departed to open I
campaign publicity bureau in De-
Moines. Senator Dickinson's tai
is to answer Democratic charge!
that the Hoover Administration
has not done as much as it should
for the farmer. The Iowan has
convincing arguments with hin
designed to prove to any skeptic:
he may meet that the Administra-
: ton has provided greater market
stability and ample relief.
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With the final sessions conclud
! ed the majority of the delegates