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Evening star., 1933-12-31
To President Roosevelt

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looked to me more like a gold standard
on the booze than the ideal managed
currency of my dreams.
Administration Persists.
You may be feeling by now, Mr..
President, that my criticism is more
obvious than my sympathy. Yet truly
that is not so. You remain for me the
ruler whose general outlook and attl-
tude to the tasks of government are the
most sympathetic in the world. You
are the only one who sees the necessity
of a profound change of methods, and
is attempting 1t without intolerance.
tyranny or destruction You are feeling
your way by trial and error, and are
felt to be- as you should be, entirely un-
committed in your own person to the
details of a particular technique. In
my country, as in your own, your posi-
ton remains singularly untouched by
criticism of this or the other detail.
Our hope and our faith are based on
broader considerations.
If you were to ask me what I would
suggest in concrete terms for the i'm
mediate future, I would reply thus:
In the field of gold devaluation and
exchange policy, the time has come
when uncertainty should be ended. This
game of blind mans buff with exchange
spectators serves no useful purpose and
is extremely undignified. 1t upsets con-
fidence. hinders business decisions, oc-
cupies the public attention in a measure
far exceeding its real importance, and
is responsible both for the irritation and
for certain lack of respect which exists
abroad.
You have three alternatives You
can devalue the dollar in terms of
gold. returning to the gold standard at
new fixed ratio. This would be in
consistent with your declarations in
favor of a long range policy of stable
prices, and I hope you will reject it.
You can seek some common policy
of exchange stabiliZation with Great
Britain aimed at stable price levels.
This would be the best ultimate solu-
tiCn: but it is not practical politics
at the moment, unless you are prepared
to talk in terms of an initial value
of sterling well below SIS pending the
realization of a marked rise in your
domestic price level.
Recommends Course.
Lastly, you can announce that you
will control the dollar exchange by
buying and selling gold and foreign
currencies at a definite figure so as to
avoid wide or meaningless fluctuations,
with right to shift the PARTIES at
any time but with a declared inten-
tion only so to do either to correct
serious want of balance in Americas
international receipts and payments or
to meet shift in your domestic price
level relative to price levels abroad.
Evening star., 1933-12-31
Two Austrian Concentration Camps
Prevent Nazis From Doing Any Harm

capped mountains, built during the Ma
poleonic era, the fortress had been
standing empty for decades when the
Tyrolese director of public security
chose it for a prison camp.
Only about 100 Nazis were listed on
the Woellersdorf roll at the beginning
of December. and still fewer were try
irg to keep warm at FinstermuenZ. De-
spite the small scale Of these operations
compared with the thousands Of po-
litical prisoners sent to concentration
camps in Germany. the Austrian gov
eminent discouraged requests of news
paper correspondents to visit and pho
tograph them. even after Woellersdorf
was distinguished by the arrival of
Prince Bernhard Won Sachsenmein-
ingen. a distant relative of former Kali
ser wilhelm. who was jailed in Carln-
thia some weeks ago for Nazi activi-
ties.
In addition to several thousand Nazis
serving brief terms in various jails,
more than 1900 have been distran-
chised for anti-government activities.
Evening star., 1933-12-31

This appears to me your best policy
during the tra nsitional period. You
would be waving your right to make
future arbitrary changes which did not
correspond to any relevant change in
the facts. but in other respects you
would retain your liberty to make your
exchange policy subservient to the
needs of your domestic policy-free to
let out your belt in proportion as you
put on flesh.
In the field of domestic policy. I put
in the forefront. for the reasons given
above, a large volume of loan expendi-
ture under Government auspices. It
IS beyond my province to choose par
ticUlar objects Of expenditure. But
preference should be given to those
which can be made to mature quickly
on a large scale. as for example the
rehabilitation of the physical condition
of the railroads. The object is to start
the ball rolling.
The United States is ready to roll to-
ward prosperity, if a good hard shove
can be given in the next six months
Could not the energy and enthusiasm
which launched the N. R. A. in its early
days be put behind campaign for ac-
celebrating capital expenditures, as
wisely chosen as the pressure of cir
cun,stances permits? You can at least
feel sure that the country will be better
enriched by such projects than by the
involuntary idleneSs of millions.
The Upturn in England.
put in the second place the main
tenance of cheap and abundant credit.
in particular the reduction of the long
term rate of interest The turn of the
tide in Great Britain is largely at
tributable to the reduction in the long
term rate Of interest which enSued on
the success Of the conversion of the war
loan. This was deliberately engineered
by the open market policy of the Bank
of England.
I see no reason why you should not
reduce the rate of interest on your long
term Government bonds to 212 per cent
or less, with favorable repercussions on
the whole bond market, if only the Fed
eral Reserve System would replace its
present holdings on short Treas
ury issues by purchasing long dated
issues in exchange. Such a policy
might become effective in a few month";,
and attach great Importance to it.
With these adaptations or enlarge
ments Of your existing policies, I should
expect successful outcome with great
confidence. How much that would
mean, not only to the material pros
perity of the United States and the
whole world, but in comfort to mems
minds through a restoration of their
faith in the wisdom and the power of
government!
With great respect, your obedient
servant. j. M. KEYNES.
(Copyright, 1893, by North American News.
paper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1933-12-31
China Not Reaping Profit Expected
From $4,000, 900 u. S. Cotton Loan

But. as a matter Of fact Japanese
owned mills are not purchasing loan
cotton in large quantity and the eXpla-
nation is that the mill owners are afraid
of adverse criticism from certain p0liti-
cal and military groups in japan. When
nounced, a high military officer in Toxic
according TO the japanese press. warned
the cotton mill owners against purchas-
ing American-loan ccttCn lest the pro-
ceedS of the loan be utilized by the
Chinese for armamentS 10 be used
against Japan.
American Cotton Taxed at Port.
Under the present plan Of distribution
and price fixing it is fallaciOuS 10
assume that the ,oan will increase the
consumption of American raw cotton in
China. Loan cotton is subject to the
same customs duties as cotton lnde-
pendently imported and is sold al the
market price prevailing at the time con-
tracted for No special credit facilities
are afforded. all sales being transacted
On a cash basis. No cotton shipments
are made from the United States until
orders are in hand.
So lCng as the foregoing conditions
prevail the cotton loan VIII have no
material bcariCg OF the amount OF
American raw cotton consumed in China
(Copyrigh, 1880
Evening star., 1933-12-31
BY BRUCE BARTON.

w WHENEVER the city begins to tread on my heels
IA and all the advantages of modern life seem
eo un into 9 the county ana spend &c day and
couple of nights Through the open window OF my sleeping
porch not single sound comes In. II snow 1alS curing
the night wake to find not one footstep in front OF
nv door There is telephone, but 1t never rings There
is radio but never turn There is an automobLe
but prefer to walk uptown to get my newspaper and my
Pp read books like Walden" by Thoreau. who built
shack in the woods of Concord and lived a whole
wear for cash expenditure of little than S27.
talk with wholesome people and reread these SEN
tences Of Tolstoy: oa tho ,to Of Deso ,anoroa folks
the more persuaded that they veritably have
faith and get alone the and the possibility of
protest against destiny and indignant at its rigor
these people receive malades and misforunes without
confidence that all had to be like that could not be other
wise and it is all right The more we live by
There are enormous multudes people happy with the
perfect happiness although deprived OF what for us
is the sole good of life Those @ w who o understand @ ii fs b
counted not by tTos thFses tens but by thou
pains live and die and throughout everything see the
entered into thei5 life the re- o7ed them;
Tolstoy was philosopher, and I not. My lot is
the city, and the only way can make living IS
the extent being able to get up to my farm at least
once in while When am there find myself very little
interested in the speeches of politicians MY general attitude
wrong they make wars: they taIiTs They hold
country is that they should let have roof my
head simple food old clothes cheap smoking TOBACCO and
peace When they berae me for not buylng now am
one of them and put in another set everything will be
all right, pay no attention. ~ lin
refuse uphill that the stars do not to have
been affected in the slightest by all the worries have
to bring back to the city half of my double life
Evening star., 1933-12-31
Greece and the Sans.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
AS between Sam and Uncle Sam the
Greeks seem to have made the proper
decision.
Evening star., 1933-12-31

I existence of the U. S. S R But Roose-
velt is not a supporter Of that strange
theory. He is a Tealist and knows facts
as they are"
From Lenin'S chief disciple there
would be no higher praise. Regarding 6
/ the depression, NJ Stain said:
1t shattered them badly. but unless
I am mistaken business is beginning TO
improve I think the lowest point, per-
haEs, is already past. l 90 not believe
/ they will reach the heights Of 1929. but
with sCme fluctuations a transitioa
toward a revival is not only possible, but
probable
NJ Stain asked me what was the atti-
tude Cf American intellectuals at present
toward the American situation ard what
fad become of Representative Fish ard
the dumping scare" and ether phases
Of opposition to resumption of Soviet
American relations.
Evening star., 1933-12-31

appearances a decided ard courageous
political leader" He added.
There is a philosophical system
called 'solipsism' which means you 90
not believe in the reality CT anything g
outside Of yourself. but only in your
cWn personality. For a long time Il
looked as if the American Government
was "solipsist'-it did not believe IN the
Evening star., 1933-12-31
Japanese Mills Chief Consumers.

Japanese-oWned mills in China have
a virtual monopoly CT h.ghquallty cot
ton manufacturing and during an aver
age year absorb from 65 to 7j per cent
of all the American raw material i'm
ported Accordingly, japanese mills
should be the heaviest potential buyers
OF American-l0an cotton-shCu,d be If
only economic requirements were con-
sidered
Evening star., 1933-12-31

SHANGHAI - The United States
s4O0OO.0O0 American cotton loan to
China thus far has not proved to be
the bonanza that former Finance Minis
ter T. V. SOong had hoped, Although
the finance ministry has not made pub
lie actual statistics. it is known that the
volume of American-lOan cotton alb
sorbed to date by the Chinese market
is substant ally below the expectations
of the government. The sluggish move
ment of loan cotton is not due pri-
marily to economic causes but may be
attributed largely to the present status
Of SinC-Japanese relations.
Under normal prices American raw
cotton cannot compete in the Chinese
market with Indian and Chinese cotton
in the cheaper manufacturing field.
American cotton, on the other hand. has
a monopoly Of the high-graGe product.
Evening star., 1933-12-31
Uncertain of Advice.

I replied cautiously that the INTEL
lectuals seemed to be playing a bigger
role than heretofore in American affairs.
but that the man in the Street"-not
only ii Wall Strect-Was not quite sure
that their advice and theories were
wholly practical
Mr. Fish. I said, had talked en- the
radio, but his speech CID not seem to
affect the course o. the Soviet American
negotiations in Washington. while other
phases OF opposition had, one gathered,
Other hare5 TO chase nOWadayS-me3n-
ing. I added. the American Federation
of Labor which. I said, had gained
much strength of late. but was so in
vOlved IL home affairs that il TO longer
undertook TO direct the foreign policy Of
the United States.
NJ Stain grlnned appreCiatively and
his eyes crink.ed up at the corners just
The way Lem 5 used to co when his
audience ve,lCd as he made some ver-
nacular WiSecraCk.
NJ. Stain spoke most seriously about
Japan.
we should like" he said. ito have
friendly relations with the japanese, but
unfortunately that does not depend on
Us alone If the more reasonable e,e-
ments and more prudent COunsels pre-
vail in Japan our two countries can live
in amity, but We fear that the militant
faction may push saner policies into
the background
There is real Canger. and We are
forced to prepare ourselves to meet it
because no nation can respect its gov
ernment If it does not foreSae the Can
ger Of attack and prepare for self-de-
fense. It Sc ms to me ,naS Japan would
be unW!Se to attack IL. Her economic
position is not too sound, and she has
points Of weakneSS-Korea, Marchurla
and China
Evening star., 1933-12-31

4 COW-Joseph Stain, gen.
| cral secretary of the Com
l lnunist party. received me at 7
4 pm. on Christmas day in his
kremlin Office for an hours
Evening star., 1933-12-31
sympathy for German ny.

sympathy Tor Germany.
1T Is uncertain, too whether she
would get support for such an adven-
I ture from other powers But good SOL
diers are not always good economists
and do not always appreciate the differ
ence between the force Of arms and the
force of economic laws. l repeat thai
there is grave danger. and we cannot
/ but prepare to meet it.
This brought the conversation to Ger
manv-th2t other danger pOirt on the
world peace horizon. NJ. Stain eX-
/ pres ed "vmC2thv fer and appreciation
/ Of the German people. About Britain
/ he YES more COHCiSc.
! Il think a commercial treaty will he
/ signed with England" ho said. and
/ that economic relations Will be devel-
! Cped bCcGure the ruling Conservative
! party mus realize i has nothing to
| gain by barring trGdc with US. al
though" he added significantly, i
/ somewhat doubt Whether II the p-eGent
| circumstances the mutual advantage
! Will be so great IS might be hoped.
l asked what thn Soviet attitude t.
ward the League of N9to"s-EaS il cX-
! clusively negative? e?-and TO the italian
| suggestions of reforming the League. NJ
| Stain said:
We received no proposals from Italy
en- the subject, although our represent
ative discussed the question with the
Itelians."
He locked at your corresponder-
rather nIizzicallT and continued: Il
do not think you quite understand ou'
viewpoint. We not always and in all
| conditions take a negative attitude
toward the League. Despite the Ger
/ q 10 Lna o. .
or, perhaps. because of 1.-THE
League may well become a brake 10
retard or hamper military action
If that is so if the League IS only
the tiniest bump"-he used Russian
| slang expression-"s somewhat to slow
down the drive toward war and help
peace. then we are not against the
League. In that event I would not say
we would not support the League.
would say that if historical events were
such that the League became a brake
upon or an obstacle to war. it is not
excluded that we should support the
| League despite its collcSal deficiencies" :"
Distribution Is Problem
asked Stain what he thought were
| the most important internal problems
of the Soviet Union. He replied with
out hesitation:
Development Of the distribution OF
| consumers goods between town and
country. and the Improvement of trans
! port, especially the railroads. This is
not so easy to solve, but it is easier
than the problems we have solved be-
fore and I an confident we can solve
it. We have already solved the prob
| lem OF industry and of collectivising
the peasantry-that was the most diff
cult. but We can new consider it solved.
There remains the problem CT transport
and distribution"
1t is here worth remarking that
throughout the interview NJ Stain
showed the same complete assurance
and confidence in the future that
characterizes every Soviet executive
and the rank and file for that matte
in the Soviet Union tcday. From
high to low they feel they have
crossed the divide" and that, although
the road ahead may not be easy. it will
be easier than the road behind them
was.
(Copvright. 1888 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance and the New
York Times)
Evening star., 1933-12-31

(Copyrigh 1880
Evening star., 1933-12-31
TTALY'S GLORY REFLECTED
BY LEADERS In AMERICA
Mayor-Elect of New York Latest Son OF
Immigrants to Win High
Place Here.
BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.

~ ROFITABLY we may remember
y now that If certain hard boiled
and gloom-ridden racial ia
natics could have had their way,
Evening star., 1933-01-20
CITY HEADS URGED
TO ASK R.F. c. AID
Speakers Suggest LegisIa-
ton Making Its Funds
Available to D. C..

The District Commissioners today
took under advisement a request from
several leaders in welfare and char
liable work in the District that they
seek legislation making funds Of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
available to the District of Columbia.
Under the present act, these moneys
may be borrowed for relief purposes by
States. but the District is not included.
The Wagner bill now pending in the
Senate to Gberalize the terms of the
r. F. C. act specifically mentions the
District as one of the agencies entitled
to borrow, but passage of that bill at
the present session is doubtful.
It was said that the speakers were
unanimous in expressing the belief that
1888 unemployment relief needs would
be much greater than those of 1882 and
that the District ought to have the R.
F. c. funds available for borrowing
should any emergency arise.
Those who attended the special hear
ing granted by the Commissioners in
cluded the Rev. John O'Grady, Catholic
Charities; Newbold Noyes, Community
Chest: Mrs Louisa Roberts, Washington
Council of Social Agencies Coleman.
Jennings, Associated Charities; Arthur
c. Moses, Travellers Aid Society. and
Clarence Dodge. Community Chest.
George S. Wilson, director of Public
Welfare; District Auditor Daniel j.
Donovan and Corporation Counsel Will
liam w. Bride also were present at the
hearing.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
INSTITUTE
ON POWER COSTS
Majority of Utilities Commis-
sion Unable to Settle Lower
Rates Question.

After failing yesterday in its efforts to
secure lower electric rates and an end
to electric rate litigation here, a ma
jority of the Public Utilities Commission
today adjourned to New York to listen
to discussions on electrical distribution
costs" at an Institute of Public Engi-
neering now going on in that city.
Chairman Mason M. Patrick. Vice
Chairman Riley E. Elgen and William
A. Roberts, special counsel for the COM
mission, were those attending the in
Stitutc
The failure yesterday after four days
Of negotiating arose from a difference
among lawyers as to the correct legal
Interpretation of a document which the
parties were trying to frame in order
to bring an end to the litigation. Peo-
Piles Counsel Richmond B. Keech
thought the wording would forfeit VIC
tory won by the commission when JUS
tice Oscar Luhring decided the COM
mission was within its rights in abolish
ing the consent decree of 1924 by which
electric rates have since been regulated
Mr.. Keech's stand was supported by
Corporation Counsel william w.
Bride and his senior assistant, Vernon
L. West. Strangely enough, third
member of the corporation counsel's
office, Mr.. Roberts, held the language
would do nothing of the kind and was
therefore acceptable.
The compromise could not be effect
ed unless Mr.. Keech consented, since
he was party to the case in court.
The commission further decided to try
no further but ended the negotiations
by issuing a statement inferentially
charging the failure to Mr. Keech.
The commission members are ex-
pected back in town Monday. In their
statement they said they would reopen
their effort to secure some reduction
in electric rates this year.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
ASKS FRANCHISE TAX
ON PUBLIC UTILITIES
Gen. Patrick Charges Evasion of
Costs of Investigations and
Other Proceedings.

Contending that the public utilities
OF the District of Columbia are evad-
ing the costs of investigation and other
proceedings, Gen. Mason M. Patrick,
chairman Of the Public Utilities Com
mission, today requestedi Chairman
Norton Of the House District Committee
to offer an amendment to the District
appropriation bill, which would en-
power the District to levy a special
franchise tax. This would impose on
the utilities all expenses of any litiga-
tion arising from any special investiga-
ton, valuation, revaluation or other
proceedings"
The proposed rider specifies that the
utilities may charge these costs to
operating expenses and amortize them
over such periods as the Public Utilities
Commission may deem proper. These
costs also would be allowed for in the
fixing Of rates by the Public Utilities
Commission
Gen. Patrick points out that the
Public Utilities Commission has not the
power to collect these costs from the
utilities and that the expenses are con-
siderable. As result of a recent in
vstigation each traction company swas
$1,150 and both contested the
assessment and the matter is now
before the courts.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
ENSIGN ROBERT B. FOSTER
TO BE BURIED TUESDAY
Young Naval Officer, Whose Death
Is Being Probed, to Be Laid
to Rest in Arlington.

Ensign Robert B. Foster, "a, whose
mysterious death aboard the U. S. S.
Oklahoma at Long Beach, Calf, Sum-
day night is being investigated by a
naval board of inquest, will be buried
In Arlington National Cemetery Tues
day, it was said at the Navy Depart
ment today. The body will arrive here
Monday
Ensign Foster was the son of James
B. Foster, 4110 Boardman avenue, Balti-
more.
Ensign Foster was born July II, 1908,
in Butler, Pa. He was appointed
midshipman from the second Maryland
congressional district, June %, 1926. He
was commissioned an ensign on June S,
1880, and sent to the Naval Air Station at
the Naval Operating Base, Hampton
Roads. Va, for course in flight train
ing. He reported to the u. S. S. Okla
homa August %, 1880.