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St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-10-22

forgotten aomething else. This amend
ment deserves caref ul consideration. We
should not pass il without taxing the bill
and 90 over il to see whether other parts
of it require amending. | was Rot pre-
sent when this bill was put through,
remember | left this island when first
discussion on it was closed; and although
this Council sent delegation to wash
ington ths bill was passed bsfore we re-
turned Bill No. "a was as Objectionable
to the community as Bill No. 81; and
am sorry TO say that regret very much
that did not try to kill Bill No. "a when
Bill No. 27 was killed. and not pass a
half baked law. 1t is only three months
since this bill was approved by the Gov
ernort and here you are. 1t is up for
am sndment. The law is complicated. for
exampl', it says in Section 8:
The sale at retail by the drink,
of distilled spirits. and of rum by
lhe bottle. within the Municipality
of st. Croix are hereby declared
to be ME exclusive monopoly OF
the Municipality of st. Croix for
its sole use and benefit. except as
otherwise herein provided.
That is not clear; and Section 2 (a)
says:
There is hereby created Beard
of Control for alcoholic beverages.
hereinafter known and referred
TO as The Board which shall be
and is hereby vested with full
power to regulate and control the
sale of alcoholic beverages within.
and the expectation of alcoholic
beverages from this Municipal
ity.
That is an injustice. feel that it was
the duty of the Council to stipulate an
der what condition that should be done
and not to leave to the Board to eftect
legislation for US. Again, this Board con-
sists of five members and the Governor
as chairman Why should the Governor
be the chairman of an alcoholic board OF
control? Don't you think he already las
sufficient business to at end to? This law
gives the Council the right to app9int
two members of the BOARD and the Gov.
ernor two, and he. the Governor is chair'
man. Is it the wish to have the Cover
nor and his staff do things for US rather
than do them ourselves? We should take
the bill and see what other parts of it
that require amending before passing
this amendment. Gentlemen, those are
nav thoughts for your consideration. The
discussion is open.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-10-22
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
PARTY ALIGNMENT

ME New Year Will have come, probably.
before people get through talking about
what the election signifled. Just now We have
the rather amazing spectacle of an adminis-
tration winning the support both of those who
feel that it is heading in the direction of
change and Of those who believe it to be the
one secure bulwark against change.
That is to say that Mr. Roosevelt, in some
manner, has contrived to draw strength from
liberals and conservatives alike. The liberals
believe that he going to amplify and con-
tinue those changes inherent in the New Deal:
the conservatives believe that he will make
as few changes as possible, and that any one
who might be put in his place would almost
certainly go farther to the left
These exceedingly contradictory develop
ments make it very hard to figure just what
the election may have meant
The administration continues to enjoy pub
lie support, in a quite unprecedented way; and
yet this solidarity is more apparent than
real, since it includes the support of two dia-
metrically opposite schools of thought. Mr..
Roosevelt can not forever continue to be the
darling Of the liberals and the white hope of
the conservatives.
All OF which is just another way of saying
that the much-talked-of realignment of par
ties can not be postponed much longer.
Liberalism and conservatism are not words
Of very exact meaning. Nevertheless, they will
have to 90 for want of better ones; and sooner
or later they will have to be the unofficial la
bells of our two chief political parties, with one
party standing for the attitude and the other
for its opposite.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
PROGRESS AND SKILL

TT is always a little difficult to tell when
some aviator makes an especially dangerous
transoceanic flight. whether the achievement
reflects new advance in the progress of avn
alton or Is simply tribute to the special skill
and daring Of one man.
So it is. to certain extent, with the recent
flight Of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith from
Australia to California.
Such flight would have been beyond the
bounds Of possibility decade ago, of course.
To that extent. it indicates that the science
Of aeronautics has made substantial i'm
provement. And yet Sir Charles achieve
ment does not mean that that flight is a sure
thing for every and any aviator who happens
to feel like trying it. In large measure it was
his own skill and endurance which made it
a success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
CLANS VS.. GOLDFISH

OLAM-LIKE secrecy is not good policy to
~ follow in the conduct Of public business,
the national industrial recovery board was told
yesterday.
S. Emory Thomson. Chicago publisher,
who. by invitation, has been studying public
relations problems OF the NIRB, advised that
BODY to keep the public informed about essen
tisls that occur behind closed doors.
The balIyhoo methods employed in the
early days OF NRA may have been indiscreet,
but the policy of saying nothing, which has
been followed by the seven members Of the
new board. is even worse. Employers and en-
ployes III the various units OF industry have
a right TO NRA information and so have the
ueople who are the consumers of industrial
goods. They have a right to know what issues
are raised by contesting interests and how
the issues are settled.
1t may not be necessary to return to the
extremes Of General JohnSon's goldfish
bowl" operation. But most other government
bureaus have worked out satisfactory COM
promise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
POLITICAL PUZZLE

THE profound public unrest in France.
which found violent expression in the
riots of few months ago, evidently still
exists. 1t is hardly going too far to say that
the republic right now is meeting one of the
severest tests in its history.
The Doumergue cabinet seeking to revise
the French constitution so as to end the no
torious instability Of governments. has fall
len. In recent years the average life of a
French cabinet has been nine months.
A government which must fall every time
it attempts to handle any really controversial
measure can not provide the leadership which
the nation needs.
So Premier Doumergue tried to change
things. putting more power in the hands Of
the premier. clipping the wings Of parlia-
ment and shearing the innumerable blocs Of
their power to precipitate a cabinet crisis
whenever the mood Seizes them
Against this plan the cry of dictatorship
was raised. Il is not yet clear whether the
French democracy will be able to preserve and
strengthen itself in this time of confusion and
trial
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
FOREIGN TRADE RECOVERY

CEvERAL thousand words of wisdom on the
~ need of reviving world trade went into the
record of the National Foreign Trade con-
yention in New York
Messages from President Roosevelt and
state Secretary Hull and speech by Foreign
Trade Adviser Peck informed the delegates
that the United States is working to batter
down artificial trade barriers blocking re-
covery.
Supplementing these expressions Of good
intentions. Charles w. Taussig, one of the
Presidents unofficial counsellors. told how the
administrations only achievement so far in
foreign trade-the treaty with Cuba-has
multiplied our commerce. In September,
United States exports to Cuba almost were
double the tonnage in the same month last
year. To cite one commodity. United States
ex7 rs shipped to Cuba in September. $780,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

900 pounds Of hog lard. equivalent to about
half the shipments for the entire year Of 1888.
So beneficial have been the results Of the
Cuban pact it seems strange that our author
tiles permit technicalities to hinder better
trade with other nations especially Russia.
No large-scale revival Of world trade is
possible without % a general worldwide re-
duction in tariffs. 90 an easing OF import
quota restrictions. and I'D international mon
etary sterilization.
Since the United States with Smoot-Haw-
leyism started the world tariff war, since the
United States was partly responsible for the
failure Of the London economic conference
to reach a sterilization agreement, and since
the United States is economically the worlds
strongest nation. effective international action
awaits American action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
CULTURE is DITCHED

T~HAT statue Of George Washington IN the
Il q,,ise OF Roman senator. for which the
Smithsonian Institution finally has found
comfortable little corner. is an interesting
little sidclght on the classical twist which
educated men liked to give things in the early
DAYS OF the republic.
The classics Of Greece and Rome. in those
ssvs we're the foundation Of all education.
The man who called himself cultured gentle
man was familiar with Virgil and Homer
with Horace and Plato. Wherever possible
contemporary life was adorned with the great
names Of the ancient world.
What more natural. then. than that
sculptor commissioned to do a statue Of Wash
ineton should put him in the dress Of an an
tioue hero? The thing seems ridiculous, TO our
ewes. out that it should have been made IN
inst that way is not really surprising, con-
sideriur the angle from which the educated
man Of those days was accustomed to view
things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
TAKES ISSUE AT
LETTER ON MILK SETUP.
By Ronald Admire, Greenwood.

BY Ronald Admire, Greenwood.
In your Tuesday issue appeared
an article in which Mr.. Christensen,
erstWhile federal milk administra-
tor, placed the blame of the present
milk price war on the recent decis-
ion of Judge Baltzel in the case Of
the agriculture secretary, Wallace,
VS.. Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc.
A 10-year-old child should know
better, and Mr.. Christensen, if he
knows enough to be at large, knows
that his statement is untrue.
The federal administrator had
nothing to do with fixing retail
prices, and he never paid producers
under his control as much for their
milk as was paid by the Greenwood
Dairy Farms, Inc, to its independ-
ent producers. The producers never,
in my memory, received so low a
price for their milk as when they
were under political RECOMMENDATION
and control.
Mr.. Christensen is not much in
terested in producers, distributors
or consumers. All he is interested
in is an opportunity to warm
chair seat at the expense Of the in
dustry, and his statement Of yester-
day shows him lacking in both
mental and moral fitness for that
or any other job. I should like
here to recommend to Mr.. Christen-
sen to try honest work once as a
means Of respectable livelihood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10

greater executive control over both revenues
and expenditures. He also says that there
can be little effective national planning In
the United States without q concurrent In
tegration Of federal and state taxation. ex-
penditure and borrowing. For state govern
ments. he advocates uni-cameral legislatures.
with little more than power to review budgets
prepared and executed under direction Of the
governors.
For the national government he suggests
also abolition Of the rigid itenized sppropria-
ton acts and extension Of the power Of the
President over the actual expenditure Of lump
sums sllocated to specific governmental units.
AS a check on executive spending. he suggests
creation Of general audit Office. headed up
o. general auditor. responsible to congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
FOREIGN TRADE PICKS UP

business in this country, as in others.
- stin is a long way from complete health.
Nevertheless, international trade is reviving,
and to those who feel that we can not have
sound domestic prosperity until our overseas
trade picks up the sign is an encouraging
one.
Recent figures show that American ex-
ports for the first nine months Of 1884
amounted to s1.561 ,365 597-approximately
$500 900 above the figures for the first nine
months of 1888. In the same period our i'm
ports also rose. standing at s1.241 1872 PAP for
1884 as compared with s1OS6.632, 4S9 for 1888.
Furthermore. our trade with Latin
America is picking up. Exports to Cuba, with
which country new tariff treaty was re-
Gently negotiated, were three times as great
in September Of this year as in the same
month in 1888. Apparently genuine revival
is under way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
DIR RELATED BUDGET

TOARY traditions in the handling Of the
Il national budget we're broken by the New
Dssi CONGRESS. which surrendered to the
President extraordinary powers in effeoting
economies. consolidating governmental units
and controlling the ALLEGATION and actual eX-
penditure Of lump-sum appropriations. To
limited extent. the executive also was given
authority 10 change revenue laws through
tariff bartering.
Because OF declining revenues and in
rreas.ne demands on state treasures. there
has been through the depression steady con-
eentration OF Judiciary responsibilities in the
hands Of governors. The trend is definitely
away from log-rolling. legislative budget
making.
In this experience. the United States is
following belatedly in the paths already trod-
den l5v the older European countries. And in
the future. the trend viii be even more
definitely and rapidly in the direction Of CEN
tralized executive budget control. says A. E.
Buck technical adviser 70 the United States
Bureau Of the Budget.
The Budget in Governments Of Today"
published By the Macmillan Company under
auspices Of the Columbia university inSti-
tute Of public administration. contains Mr..
Bucks analysis Of Judiciary practices and
trends
Sound nscal policy. says Mr. Buck. reQuiSes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10

u what was described as "a tone Of freezing
contempt" Sir John Simon denounced TO
parliament the methods Of Senator Nye's
munitions investigating committee.
The icy foreign secretary was icier than
usual as ne deplored the committees accep-
tance IN evidence o. a "grotesque" telegram
describing King Georges alleged intervention
to save a Polish arms order for a British
firm.
Sir jonah Walker Smith Cwhose constitu-
ency chances 20 include Barrow-In-F urness.
site Of the V.ckers-Armstrong shipyard). con-
tributed a charge that the Nye committee used
-gaHss-er methods" Sir Jonah obedlently
defended Sir Charles Craven. managing direct
tor Of Viczers-Armstrong whose injudicious
letters were senate sensation.
Re did not understake to explain the re-
cent lament Of Stephen Rsushenbush. the
senate investigator. concerning the apparent
indifference Of the British people to an ex-
plcit admission by Sir Charles Craven Of col
huston In rigging the price Of naval vessels
to the British admiralty"
His majesty's government may have some
ground for indignation at the publicity given
an unsupported tale about the king. But If
that trivial incident is to obscure the very
real and fully documented revelations in
Washington. the fault is not washington's,
but LOndon's.
Sir John Simon suggested that the way
TO control the munitions industry was not
by internal legislation. but by international
treaty When the debate was over, a labor
motion to prohibit the private manufacture
OF arms was rejected. 90 to 279.
Sir John is correct in saying the evils OF
the munitions trade must be cured by treaty.
But his defense of the British armorers is
hollow indeed. in the light Of the senate ex-
posures. And how are evils to be attacked, by
treaty. or otherwise. if their very existence be
denied2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
Kern Has q Real Task

Yet Minton has considered his
country's interests while Robin
son would bleed the treasury by
paying out billions to war vet
erans-the majority of whom can
afford to wait until the present
crisis is passed before collecting.
Lacking any definite conStruc'
tive program, Robinson INDUCED
in personalities. Minton cam
paigned solely for principle and
the voters evidently admired him
for his action.
With the election of new
mayor, Indianapolis probably will
have a new police chief. Here's
hoping that Mayor Elect Kern
will name an efficient police Of
f1cer to the job--not a politician.
From his past record, I am sure
Mr.. Kern will not violate the con-
f1dence placed in him by Indian
apolis citizens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
LONDON'S PROBLEM

. AMSAY MAC DONALD has scheduled
l. debate on the munitions industry to be-
gin in the house Of commons Nov. H.
Nov. II, as everybody knows, is the six
tenth anniversary Of the day on which the
munitions makers greatest gold mine was
washed out by the armistice.
Some American critics denounce the work
Of the senate munitions investigating COM
nittee as headline hunting" They take par
ticular offense at the committees failure to
protect officials and personages in friendly
countries from the charges and innuendos of
witnesses.
The preparations for debate in commons
should answer such critics of the Nye COM
mittee
Nobody will deny that the senate hearings
in September we're sensational, or that they
aroused resentment abroad The same likely
will be true of the further hearings planned
early in December Doubtless some of this is
unjust.
But it is well to bear in mind that here is
a disease that requires strong medcine-such
potion as may scorch the throat before it
finds the vitals. It is entirely futile to hope
for remedy for the munitions mess that will
not hurt somebody.
The senate hearings can not, by themselves
go very far toward solving a problem that is
by its very nature international. The real
hope of progress lies in the chance of stirring
public opinion in other countries to such a
point that their governments must follow suit.
If it was necessary to drag the kings name
into headlines in order to provoke action in
London, surely no one will bubble with Sen
ator Nye over the niceties of international
etiquet. War is not very nice either, and the
munitions racket IS without etiquet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10

BY w. j. L.
All credit to The Times for
picking the winner in Tuesdays
election.
After comparing the two candi-
dates for United States senator,
it is easy to see why the voters
retired Arthur r. Robinson and
elected Sherman Minton.
While Robinson deliberately was
avoiding criticism of the New
Deal, because of its obvious popu-
larity, and was trying to get votes
by insulting our Governor, Minton
was conducting a dignif1ed cam
paign.
Minton is one of the people. He
was a poor farm boy who worked
his way through college, gradua-
ting with high honors. His war
record was at least as good as
Robinson's. He knows the war
veterans needs as well as "Li'l
Arthur"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
Capitol CaperS
BY GEORGE ABEL

YIN dienihed setting. the august committee for
i reciprocity information met in the hearing
room of the United States tariff commission to
hear discussions on the proposed Swedish treaty.
one witness bsshfully insinuated that
matches manufactured by certain country
are made of imperfect chemicals.
They might burn some one" he added.
Intensely interested, Thomas Walker Page,
benign and errudite chairman OF the hearing,
leaned forward.
81 had an experience of that kind myself" he
explained Il set my shirt on fire"
The picture of venerable Mr.. Page running
around in blazing shirt was one to conJure
in Poes tales of horror. few of the more light
minded and frivolous members of the audience
staggered but the hearing proceeded decor
ously
Several minutes later Mr.. Page referred to
Japanese matches, and there was a suggestion
that possibly Toxic PHOSPHORUS was responsible
for the ignition.
Another witness caused a sensation among
clothes pin magnates by revealing that the
Swedes have a monopoly of the clothes pin mar
ket in the vicinity of New York
JoviaI Minister Bostrom of Sweden not be-
ing present Che takes Swedish constitutional at
about the hour Of the hearing). the bright light
from the Swedish viewpoint was baking sup
plies manufacturer who pleaded for cut in the
Swedish tariff. This was raised 100 per cent in
1882.
Edgar Ricard, q paper manufacturer from
Maine, caused a slight furore when he dramatic
ally declaimed
For Gods sake, let this news print industry
alone! We don't want to be aggravated by
something that's not necessary at this time.
NOT-Observers at the hearing noted that
it seems to be an old Spanish custom Cor is 1t
an old Swedish custom?) to invariably bring in
the question of japanese expectation at treaty
hearings.
CHANGES continue apace in the diplomatic
u corps. Word that Minister Simopoulos Of
Greece is to be sent to London has caused re-
greet for he is intensely popular. His mustachios
and pleasant smile have graced many bridge
table. Afable Nine. Simopoulos will be missed.
The CzechoSlovak minister, Mr.. Veverka, IS
also going it appears reports being that he Will
become foreign secretary, replacing Edouard
Benes who will be ce-preSident OF the republic.
MATE that popular Paraguayan and Argen-
wi tine tea has found a new advocate. Nine.
Felipe Espil, wife of the Argentine ambassador,
has seriously gone in for the new beverage and
drinks it out of bottle.
Nine Espil-being American-may start a
new fad in the United StateS-bottle mate You
drink it with a straw and order it at the drug
store.
Hitherto, Latin-Americans have been &C
customed 10 solemnly slipping their mate from
gourds or. at best, tea cups. But the world pro-
crosses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-10
JIM WATSON SEEMS TO
HAVE FORGOTTEN SOMETHING

BY J. E. B.
Republicans of Indiana, after con-
ferring many honors on Jim Wat
son, have observed with considerable
disgust and amusement his excuse
for not speaking in the recent cam
paign for Arthur Robinson and the
Republican state ticket.
Friends of Mr.. Robinson remem-
Der how he ran out" on him at the
Republican state convention, and
never will forgive nor forget his
duplicity on that occasion.
At the Republican state conven-
ton in 1882, this proverbial sore
toe" again asserted itself, when he
ran out" on NJ. Bert Thurman, a
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor. Mr.. Thurman
had spent his political life in adj
vancing the cause Of Jim Watson.
He had built to perfection what was
known as the Watson personal or
ganization in Indiana. Thurman
gave his all to Watson, but at a con-
venient time, Watson ran out" as
usual.
Immediately after the election.
the 'Lovable Old Humbug" showed
up at Republican state headquarters,
and gave out a statement for pub
LEGATION, evidently convalescent from
his serious ailment