Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-12-07

s. Roosevelt still Seem
ingiy unperturbed- In
s"'a sisTing On carrying
ont further his gold trading plan for
devaluing the dollar and thus In
creasing commodity prices. with some
form Of sterilization 10 follow-eifher
a gold standard deyaiued dollar or u
commodity price index paper dollar.
That the dispute over the Presidents
monetary policy is not partisan i eri-
phasized By the stand taken by Alfred
T. Smith In an open letter written for
the December issue of the New Ont
look but released 10 the press in adj
vance.
Mr.. Smith expressed his disbelief
that the Democratic party IL fafef
to be always the party of greenssark-
ers. paper money printers. free silver
ties. currency managers. rubber dollar
manufacturers. and crackpots--
He added that III this liz to be 80
sthe Issue is more than q partisan
one. because we are dealing today
with the party which actually holds
responsible government Office. which
Is not merely advocating cure ais I'm
a campaign. but which has I'm its hands
the present welfare OF I30.HD0.0..l PEG
pie and the future OF our most cher
ished American institutions
What we need In this nunfr il
absolute dependability In our money
standards II IL the only thing which
will restore confidence The latest
fiscal moves of the administration
have undermined public confidence
They have created uncertainty.
Uncertainty paralyzes business. dis
courages private initiative. drives
money Into hiding, and places the en-
tire burden OF sustaining the p4opula-
ton on the central government.
I'm the absence OF anything def
nitely known to be better. | ann for a
return to the gold standard am for
gold dollars as against haIoney dol
Lars l am for experience rs against
experiment III / must choose be
tween private management OF business
and management or n government bu-
~reaucracy. | am for private manage
ment-
4 am ready to go through n certain
amount OF defiation III the choice In
between this and outright money In
fation- III | must choose between the
leaders OF the past. with nil the errors
they have made and with NH the
selfshness they have been guilty OF.
and the inexperienced young college
professors who hold no responsible
public Office, but are perfectly ready
to turn 130.O0O.OO0 Americans into
guinea pigs for experimentation 1 nm
going to be for the people who have
made the country what III iA~ And !
say this with full knowledge OF the
fact that there r many things ln the
old order OF society which / should
like to have changed and which / do
not applaud or even condone.
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT himself
made no comment on MIR. Smiths
letter, but 1T drew from General John
son. MIRA administrator. who was IT
Warm Springs, a enthusiastically vio-
lent burst OF dennncIati0n. The gen
eral also made an unwarranted attack
ON Professor Sprague. calling him 4
hitherto obscure professor who --hy
a dramatic resignation obtained his
hour or two to strut across the
This of a man whom the Banl
OF England had been paying 2 600 a
year to act as Its adviser until the
President persuaded him to come home
and serve our treasury In a like ca
pacity for $4,000 a year.
TT WAS announced by the War de-
\ partment that the low bid for
for the conservation CORPS VAS
made by Chevrolet Motor company
with an oi1er of s6229-19 per unit
The next lowest bidder was North
west Motor company of Bethesda. Md.
a Ford dealer. whose bid was <67I-I0
per unit delivered at Detroit. $GSxS-I0
for deliveries at Chicago and 1851 cd
on deliveries at Louisville. Ky-
The Chevrolet bid was for six-cyI
lnder trucks and that of the Ford
dealer for ~eight-cylinder trucks The
specifications of the War department
provided for not less than six-cylinder
TX. L. Sabine. head OF the Ford
agency who WIS low bidder on a re
truck offer OF the Department of
Agriculture but complained recently
that new bids had been asked for
OF not less than sixcyiinder
motors, said Ford deliveries could he
made with such prompfness that the
government would save money and de
that II he did not receive the
order he would appeal to Comptroller
General McCarl.
.<IRST OF the big employers To suffer
= for alleged violation Of the Presi-
DENTS unemployment agreement =