Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-07-28
The Week 10 Washington
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publicity Craftsmanship this year
only on condition that he was TO have
an absolutely free hand and be the SUI
preme boss. Mr. Allen is an able news
paper man, as we'll as an experienced
and astute politician, and it is to be
expected, therefore, that the repub-
iiclan publicity efforts will be as eff
fective as it is possible to make them.
The Hoover Notification
There has been some talk of making
the occasion of Mr., Hoover's accept
ance OF the presidential nomination a
big celebration, with tens of thousands
Of republicans coming TO Washington
from all parts of the country and hav-
ing, as il were, mass meeting on the
Capitol Plaza. The indications are,
| however that il will be a rather
simple ceremony with only few party
leaders present, in the White House
or on the White House grounds
During the campaign Mr. Hoover
does not plan TO make more than six
or seven speeches. The principal
speechmaker for the administration will
probably be Ogden L. Mills, secretary
of the treasury, who fired the first
gun IN his Boston speech on the elev-
enth of July.
Radio will be used in this earn
paign by both parties 10 an extent
never attempted before
Charlie Mike On Job
Charlie Nicholson, chief publicity
director for the democratic national
committee, is expected to continue in
that position throughout the campaign
He is regarded at the National Press
Club, and among newspaper men gen
orally as the most energetic and in
genious publicity man who ever d.
rected the propaganda of a great polit-
ical party. He is native of California
and brother of the late Prof. A. A.
Nicholson, the famous physicist, and
of Miriam Nicholson, the novelist and
short story writer Charlie Mike as
his intirnates know him, has been writ
ing politics, first for the Hearst papers
and later for the now dead New York
World, for more than 30 years.
Debts And Power
1t may safely be said that the adj
ministration is not in the least wor-
ried over the apparent consolidation
of European opinion on the subject of
war debts, which has been interpreted
in some quarters as threat to the
United States. Nobody, from the presi-
dent down, conceives even the pos
sibility Of a cancellation of these
debts, no matter what united Europe
says or does.
1t would not surprise anybody here,
however, if the president should call
the representatives of the nations
which owe US money into new con-
ference, to be held in America and |
not in Europe, to consider the ques-.
ton Of their precise ability to pay. 1t
is looked upon as good common sense
Tor any creditor to inquire into the
of his debtors. II the
interest rate which Europe Is paying
is too far above1 current rates Nor
money, that might be revised without
impairing the obligation itself If the
terms of payment are too strenuous
if the sl75,OOO,oOO year which Great
Britain is supposed to pay us, for ex-.
ample, is too large an annual install
nent-then a readjustment over a
onger term and with smaller annual h
payments would not be in any sense/a
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After IL years Of negotiation the
United States and Canada have agreed
ipon the terms Of treaty which will
permit the development Of a deep