Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-05

business men to help chart the
course of the country toward eco
nomic recovery. Meanwhile, the
industrial recovery administra-
ton apparently found itself head
ed for difficulties with industry
over the enforced deletion from
present codes of fair competition
of any element of price fixing or
regulation of productive capacity.
The state department recently
received a telegram addressed to
Bernard M. Baruch, Unofficial
President of the United States"
1t said: Congratulations. / know
of no better man for the job,n and
was signed by a citizen of Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Receipt of the tele-
gram followed an announcement
that Mr.. Baruch, at the request of
President Roosevelt, would act as
an adviser to government heads in
the presidents absence and would
serve as a liason officer between
the chief executive and delegates
at the London conference and de-
partmental officials here.
Mr.. Baruch has been a strong
gold-standard, anti-inflation part
isan. Probably the best statement
of the evils of initiation made in
all the outgivings of the last sew
eral months was in the testimony
of Mr.. Baruch before a congress
sional committee before the act
providing for potential initiation
was passed. The gold standard,
and currency matters generally,
are at the heart of the London
conference, and they are related
to the matter of tariffs. It is diff
ficult to think of Mr.. Baruch's in
fluence being on the same side as
that which everybody ascribes to
Professor Moley, and which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has so far taken.
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Senator Joseph r. Robinson has
made prediction that his home
state of Arkansas probably would
vote for repeal July 18. In reply
to such prophesies and the jubila-
ton of anti-prohibitionists over
fourteen successive state victories.
the Anti-Saloon League, through
its superintendent, f. Scott Nc
Bride, said the ''real battle" was
yet to come.
1t is the firm conviction of pro-
hibition repealists that If they can
take the Alabama-Arkansas- Ten
nessee hurdle next month the
Eighteenth amendment fight to all
effects and purposes will be over.
1t then will remain merely for
enough more states out of those
c~oncededly ON the wet side to
make up the necessary thirty-six
to ratify the repeater. And it is
now believed that this consuma-
ton will come before congress has
been in session long next year.
One outstanding line of thought
and conversation in Washington
today is that no nation, however
rich in resources, and no class can
survive the drain upon productive
enterprise and the exactions upon
private industry and thrift which
have been proposed by demagogy
and quackery in congress during
the preceding and present ses-
sions of congress. Their advo-
Gates must be replaced if the
peace and prosperity of the Amer
lean people are to be restored and
Parasitic politics and
bureaucracy must be restrained
and the level of legislative integ-
rity and intelligence raised.
.
The Herculean labors Of con-
gress have taken a heavy toll on
the health and strength Of the
legislators. Representative Boil
var Kemp of Louisiana died of a
heart attack en- route home.
Representative Edward B. Almon
Of Alabama, chairman Of the
house committee on roads and ac-
tive in Muscle Shoals legislation,
IS Frustrated and in critical con-
at his home here. Senator
Walter F. George Of Georgia is in
Naval hospital for an indefi-
mite stay suffering from prostra-
tiou and nvarwork cona+o~ r