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The Washington times., 1934-01-15

Treasury-gold for each dollar
of such weight and fineneSS as
may be established from time
to time.
Serve as Fixed Reserve
Such legislation places the
right, title, and ownership to
our gold reserves in the Gov
ernment itself; it makes clear
the Governments ownership of
any added dollar value of the
country'S stock of gold which
would result from any decrease
of the gold content of the dol
lar which may be made in the
public interest.
1t would also, of course, with
equal justice, cast upon the
Government the loss of such
dollar value if the public in
terest in the future should re-
quire an increase in the amount
of gold designated as a dollar.
The title to all gold being in
the Government, the total stock
will serve as a permanent and
fixed metallic reserve which
will change in amount only so
far as necessary for the settle
ment of international balances,
or as may be. required by a fu-
ture agreement among the ma
tions of the world for a redis-
tribution of the world stock of
monetary gold.
With tht adjustment of this
permanent policy. placing all
monetar. gold in the ownership
of the Gvernment as a bullion
base for its currency, the time
has come for a more certain de-
termination of the gold value Of
the American dollar.
Because of world uncertain
ties. do not believe it desirable
in the public interest that an
exact value be now fixed.
Asks 60 Per Cent Limit
The President is authorized by
present legislation to fix the
lower limit of permissible revalu-
alton at so per cent.
Careful study leads me to be-
lievc that any revaluation at
more than so per cent of the
present statutory value would
not be in the public interest.
I, ther fore, recommend re-
valuation at so per cent.
That we may be further pre-
pared to bring some greater de-
gree of stability to foreign ex-
change rates in the interests of
our people, there should be add
ed % the present power of the
Secretary of the Treasury to buy
and sell gold at home and
abroad express power to deal in
foreign exchange as such.
AS a part # thij power, sug-
gest that, out of the profits Of
any devaluacion, there should
be set up a fund of two billion
dollars for such purchases and
sales of gold. foreign exchange
and Government securities as
the regulation of the currency,
the maintenance of the credit
Of the Government, and the gen.
eral welfare of the United States
may require.
Certain amendments of exist
ing legislation relating to the
purchase and sale of gold and to
other monetary matters would
add to the convenience of han
ding current problems in this
field.
The Secretary of the Treas
ury is prepared to submit infor-
nation concerning such changes
to the appropriate committees of
the Congress.
The Case Of Silver
The Washington times., 1934-01-15
MESSAGE ASKS
.60-CENT J.. 8.
D O L AR
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exchanges rate in the interests
Of our people, there should be
added to the present power Of
the Secretary of the Treasury
to buy and sell gold at home
and abroad, express power to
deal in foreign exchange as
such.
"AS q part of this power
suggest that, out of the profits
Of any devaluatiOn, there
should be set up a fund of two
billion dollars for such pur-
ChaSes and sales of gold, for
eign exchange, and Government
securities as the regulation of.
the currency, the maintenance
Of the credit Of the Govern
ment, and the general welfare
OF the United States may re-
quire."
EXPANDING OF SILVER
Mr.. Roosevelt said it was the
intention to keep the impounded
gold in bullion form in the
Treasury. Circulation of gold
coins, he held, is unnecessary and
leads to boarding and to weak.
ening of the Federal financial
structure in times of emergency
The only real necessity for
transfer of gold from one indi.
Vidual to another, or from one
country to another, he said, was
for settlement of international
balances.
The President made no specific
recommendations concerning the
increased use of silver as a none
tary basis. He reminded Con-
gress that the silver agreement
reached in London last summer
was now in process trial and that
II 1t works out satisfactorily,
there will be a marked increase
In the use and value of silver"
He continued:
Governments can we'll, as
they have in the past, employ
silver as basis for currency,
and I look for a greatly in
creased use.
Il am, however, withholding
any recommendation to the
Congress looking to further ex-
tension Of the monetary use of
silver because I believe we
should gain more knowledge of
the results of the London agree
ment and of our other monetary
measures"
The President said he desired
to stress two principles:
Q) That the National cur
rency must be maintained as
a sound currency, insofar as
possible" and that it will have
"a fairly constant standard Of
purchasing power"
(2) That the Government
has an inherent right to issue
currency and be the sole Gus
todian and owner of the base
or reserve of precious metals
underlying that currency"
There was a hint in the mes
sage that Mr.. Roosevelt is pos
Sibly anticipating some world
move for a better distribution of
gold stocks.
At one point he said:
''The title to all gold being
in the government, the total
stock will serve as a permanent
and fixed metallic reserve
which will change in amount
only so far as necessary for the
settlement of international bal
anceS or as may be required
by a future agreement among
the nations of the world for a
redistribution of the world stock
Mf TnOmentarv gold"
The Washington times., 1934-01-15

Worry! Worry! Worry! The solu.
tion to many Of your varied problems
can be found in the WANT AID Sec
TION of this newspaper.
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River improvements
Another Step

The plans announced by Major Robert W. Crawford Dis
ct Engineer for Improvement of the Potomac River Chan
mel off Alexandria, mark another forward step the effort
to improve the general condition of the river.
Under Major Crawfords pan the channel will be cleaned
out and dredged to depth of "a feet off the Virginia city,
thus affordng facilities for deep-draft vessels
THIS CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENT IN THE CHAN
MEL, WHILE PRIMARILY HELPFUL TO THE WATER.
BORNE COMMERCE OF ALEXANDRIA, WILL LIKE
WISE BE OF ASSISTANCE IN PROMOTING THE AM
BITIoUs PLANS WHICH ARE ENTERTAINED FOR I'M
PRoVEMENT OF RIVER CONDITIONS IN THE INEMED1-
ATE VICINITY OF WASHINGTON.
An aggressive effort is being made by local civic bodies
to promote these plans and there every believe
that the program has the sympathetic approval officials
Of the Federal Government which necessarily involved
the project.
The channels in the vicinity of Washington in pressing
need of Improvement not only for the benefit of commercial
shipping but likewise for the development of pleasure boating
and water sports which have recently been given considerable
impetus in this
THE PROJECTED SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT WILL
BE OF CONSIDERABLE AID IN PROMOTING THE USE
OF THE RIVER, BUT THE CITY WILL NEVER OBTAIN
THE FULLEST POSSIBLE BENEFITS FROM THIS
NATURAL RESOURCE UNTIL THE CHANNELS ARE I'M
PROVED AND THE SHORES FURTHER BEAUTFIED.
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Natures Noises
BIZ Robert BenchLeY

the map of North America look
pretty silly, so you'd better not
laugh. You wait and see!
Scientists have. for years,
shaken their heads until they
ached, over the sound which has
come from the skies at Twom-
bley, England. Some OF the
scientists have said: PAY no at
tention to it! You're drunk"
Others have given it as their
opinion that it was tops in oml-
nousness. Still others have gone
out and got drunk themselves
when they heard it.
It has turned out to be simply
an echo from the surrounding
hills. It is the echo of an old
mans voice, screaming. This
doesn't help the inhabitants Of
Twombley much, as you may
well imagine, for it has been 60
ing on, sporadically, for 100
yeas. The old man shouldn't
be screaming that loudly at this
late date. A lot of people are
still hoping for another explana'
ton.
Everyone knows about the
Singing Clam Flats of Clark
ley" in the outskirts of Gersta,
North Wales. On moonlight
nights, these clam flats have
definitely been heard to hum.
Naturally, it was laid to the
clans, as WEIGH miners are
great singers, too. In fact,
quite a number of WEIGH clans
were taken on a concert tour
with a WEIGH mems chorus, but
they didn't come through as
clearly as was expected.
Now, science tells us that
these singing clam flats are
really not due to clans at all,
but the gradual shifting of
Wales into ireland. There has
got to be a great deal Of bick-
ering before that happens, III
tell you!
So the next time you hear a
mountain giggling or a lake
bottom turning over on its side,
don't just say: cts the gods
who are restleSS!" You get your
things packed up and ask for
your hotel bill. Those sounds
mean something.
copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nC,)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, Wednes-
day and Thursday.
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Listen, World!
Bu Elsie Robinson

Maybe it all looked good While
it lasted, but it is over now, and
we must do something quite dit
ferent from what we have been
doing. We have seen in the
last few years entirely too many
distressed persons whose dis
tress has been due in part, any
way, to the fact that they could
do but one thing. The weak
ness of specialization is obvious.
1t works we'll only when the
world is just So"
That's good stuff. Mr.. Ford.
AS smart as any machine you
ever turned out. I've just been
talking to a pitiful example of
the sort of thing you claim
schools SHOULD do.
He's a college graduate Of
22-honest, eager and intelligent.
1t was hard strain for his
poor parents to give him four
years of college. They made
every sacrifice, and so did he.
Now that it's over, what's the
result?
He's willing to do anything
really willing. But he doesn't
actually know how to do one
single thing by which he could
earn even decent day wages.
It's a crime against the ma
ton as we'll as the person for
a public school to turn out a
graduate nowadays with no
more practical knowledge than
that. Mr.. Ford's idea of prac-
teal Trade Schools seems the
ideal.
But think how much more
it would cost to have high
trained specialists in place of
our present teachers" the edu-
Gators say, when you suggest
such a plan.
Couldn't a person learn to
be a specialist in some depart
ment in the same time. with
the same expense which is now
devoted to turning out com.
mon teachers? might be the
answer to that.
A great article. Wish ] had
time to quote it all. But there's
a catch in it. Why blame all
our present mess on the schools?
Even if every graduate for
the past so years had been a
trained worker, they'd have all
gone down in the Wreckage of
the SPOILS SYSTEM where
by few ruthless, greedy men
seized all the power and used
it for their own advantage.
Individuals should be compe-
tent. But what will 1t buy
them, and what are they going
to be competent about, If the
Gang at the top have Cornered
all the cash, dynamited all the
opportunities? Which Is eX-
actly what happened to US.
Copyright, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
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In England, great industrial
or financial dynaSts study state
craft, and their sons, schooled
in politics, attain cabinet posts.
Americas egies, tricks,
Garys, Gou1ds, Rockefellers,
Morgans, Astors and Wander
biltS never have sent into pub
lie life sons like this adroit and
powerful Chamberlain breed of
England, moving from the blast
furnaces of Birmingham to
high political dominions - a
father and son saga which
might interest John GalsWorthy
if he were alive and through
with the Forsytes.
Currently, at the Lord May
or's annual dinner in London,
Neville Chamberlain-a shaggy
and austere Lionel Barrymore
clocks old England on the
upturn. The country is safely
on the way to prosperity, says
Mr.. Chamberlain, chancellor of
the exchequer. Old-faShioned
thrift, sound business methods,
detail work, courage and pa
tience, and no fancy economic
fixings, have done the trick, he
says.
Just in passing, there is a
standing argument here, New
Dealers contending that Eng
land, with her managed cur
rency and her social program,
has gone farther toward a man.
aged economy than we, while
Old Dealers say it was just that
old-time religion of work and
fortitude which saved the day.
But that's another story. This
is about the Chamberlains.
IT'S A SYSTEM
Oddly enough, they were and
are both Tories and reformers.
In housing, the municipalization
OF banking, in Slum clearance,
in social welfare programs. they
have been more daring innova.
tors than many of the Wash
lngton professors. Joseph Cham
berlain, of Birmingham, the
Chicago of England, a Sunday
school teacher and Industrial
list, launched moral fervor
against Birmingham's graft, dirt
and human degradation.
He made an amazing one-man
cleanup, which sent him to Par
lament and made the Chamber.
lain name and fame-both more
enduring in England, when once
firmly established, than in
America.
His sons, Austen and Neville,
are half-brothers. Austen, the
elder, riding high in British
craftsmanship for years, is now
Sidetracked; Neville, chancellor
of the exchequer since 1881, is
sharply in the ascendant. Many
years ago, I had an unforget-
table glimpse of Joseph Cham
berlain in Parliament.
Some clever Birmingham
moulder had poured him into
his morning coat. His orchid,
never absent from his lapel, was
just such a gonfalon-or pos
slbly trademark-as Dawes I'M
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He's the living expression Of
that ideal of individual lnitia-
tive and efficiency upon which
this nation was founded and
which we're apt to forget these
days when almost everything in
life is handed to us ready made
and wrapped in cellophane. And
that condition, according to our
long, lean friend, is raising Cain
with American character.
No scheme has ever been de-
vised which can make a nation
happy and successful from the
outside, he claims. Unless each
individual himself is industrious,
reliable and competent, the
whole mass will be miserable
regardless of forms of govern
ment or relief measures.
mo system of government"
says he, "or scheme of life can
relieve you individually OF the
obligation to do your own tasks
with discrimination. Talk about
"a planned economy'-the 1ND1-
V1DUAL must be personally
competent, personally solvent
and able to do any one of sew
eral things before anything else
can be done. Educate every in
dividual individually and the
mass will take care of itself"
That's why Henry Ford be-
lieves in and has built good
schools. Practical schools, where
every youngster from the day
of his entrance spends some
time in learning how to do at
least one definite thing by
which he can earn a living.
That was the fault with many
of our education plans in the
past, he says-they didn't give
a student anything tangible,
anything that would help him
when school days were over.
And they gave him wrong no.
tons of life.
I'VE turned out pathetic cogs
to fit into machine that was
already doomed" he says, lin
stead Of turning out individu-
ally efficient human beings.
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mill Birmingham business man
and politician. Planning to
branch out in national politics,
he Schooled himself in suave,
mellifluous and grammatical
speech, in the ornate rocco
oratory of the Victorian age.
He had some disturbing ideas
to take to London, and he
sought the protective coloring
of outer conformity.
Advance word of the coming
of this ironmonger this par
venu, had reached stuffy gov
eminent circles. Chamberlain
had been tanning up ideas
which had an ominous suggeS-
ton of republicanism, and
Queen Victoria was agitated.
There was a deal of eyelifting
in decorous government circles.
They awaited an uncouth dis
turber. Chamberlain stopped
the show. He had an oxford
accent. synthetic. perhaps, and
he was one up on the best Of
them in the cut and fit of his
clothes and his orchidaceous
trimmings.
In. all his years of battling
for off-side ideas. disturbing to
the complacent free-trade Eng
land Of that day, never did
they pin the parvenu tag on
him.
STAGE PROPERTIES
Austen Chamberlain inherited
his fathers stage properties
including the monocle and the
orchid-and Neville, his ideas
and his ability.
Austen had been trained for
politics, Neville for business.
In 1918. when Neville Cham
berlain went to Parliament, he
was nearly so years old. From
the start, he began battling for
protection, which old Joe had
craved for Birmingham. Twenty
eight years ago his father had
been wrecked in this fight.
In 1881, with his import
duties bill turning England
away from its historic free
trade policy, Neville Chamber
lain won in the encounter of
so years. He dominated the
Ottawa conference of 1882 and
the economic conference of last
year.
He is long and gaunt, with
tinge of gray in his hair, and
deep-set, blue eyes-a heavy,
rather than a juvenile, as any
good casting director would
place him. He is hedged about
with impenetrable reserve.
1t is hard for us to under
stand enigrnas of British states.
manship. Neville Chamberlain
is frankly. in fact, vehemently,
a Tory and yet, when he was
made minister of health in
1923, he started housing pro-
gram in which he obliterated
slumS, built 100000 new houses,
affronting rugged individualism
in the most un-Torylike man.
ner.
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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Former Re.

publican Vice Joseph b. Keenan,
President Charles Curtis, appar-
emily deserving his law practice
temporarily while the horses run
at nearby Laurel track, is queS-
toned almost every day about
his views on President RooSe-
welt. He invariably replies:
Give the man a chance"
After a tour through Wis
consin, where he advocated the
election of the Progressive Re-
publican Senator, young Bob
La Toilette. Progressive Demo
cratic Senator Burton K. Wheel
er has returned to Montana.
Two of the busiest men in
town are First Assistant Post
master General w. W. HoWes
and Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General Harlee Branch.
Both are engroSSed in the air
and ocean mail investigation of
the PoStottice Department and
apparently find it hard work.
Earl Chesney, liaison officer
of the Veterans Bureau, and
his charming wife, Louise, start
ed on trip for Colorado
Springs not long ago. Earl was
tired after a hard year of work
and let his wife drive.
After leaving here on Satur'
day morning they arrived in
Colorado Springs Monday night
despite a stop-over in Peoria,
Ill. And Louise drove the en-
tire route.
Senator F. Ryan Duffy of
Wisconsin has taken time off
from the hot political fight in
his State to return to Washing
ton for a few days.
Up in Delaware, Representa-
tive John Rankin of Mississippi,
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an aSpirant for the Speakership,
has been advocating the election
of certain colleagues whom he
believes might be his allies later
on in the year.
Majority Leader Joseph w.
ByrnS, also an GSpir1nt for the
SpedEerShtp and probably the
merit Speaker, has been in Ohio
and Indiana telling the uoterS
OF the abilities of certain mem.
berS.
One OF his candidates is Mrs.
Virginia E. JenckeS, OF Indiana,
1Oho is haUing hard CAM
pdign in her district.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis
of Illinois has gone out of town
into the byways of the country
again. Doctor Lewis just can't
keep his fingers off the political
pulse of the nation.
Third Assistant Postmaster
General Clinton B. Eilenberger,
who moves around the country
almost as much as Postmaster
General James A. Farley, is in
Omaha, Neb., at a convention.
The state of affairs in Louisi-
ana apparently fails to bother
Representative Rene L. De
Rouen. He is in Washington
attending to the affairs of con-
Stitutents far from the battle
front of one Huey P. Long.
Senator Alben w. Barley, of
Kentucky, Democratic wheel
horse, is back in the traces after
a slight illness, and is all ready
to take up the verbal cudgel
throughout the country.
The President recently ap-
pointed DR.. Henry E. Hoagland
as the Republican member of
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seemed to come from a nearby
mountain, known as Nearby
Mountain.
This was naturally attributed
to the customary mutterings of
the Mountain God, angry be-
cause he found himself covered
with wet, misty clouds. You
can hardly blame him.
However, thanks to a DR..
Reney, of the Alaska Electric
Light and Power Co., it has
been discovered that the sounds
really came from a new glacier,
which was (and still is, unless it
has changed its mind) getting
ready to start out on a tour of
North America. This will make
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derslung pipe, j. Ham Lewis
haberdashery and whiskers, La
Follette's pompadour, McKin.
ley's carnation and John Sharp
Williams umbrella. It's a sys-
tenn.
I was interested then in in
quiring about the origin Of Mr..
Chamberlain'S self dramatiza-
ton. and there came to light a
facet of the Shrewd Chamber.
lain mind which, it seems to me,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-18

have as many
rattles a n d
S q u e a k S in
'em as his old
Model T. But
he has said a
large mouth
full in the O.
tober j S S u e
of G o o D
H o U S E
KEEPING.
w h a t ever
h is failings,
Won must Ger
tainly admit
h e G. e t s
Things Done.
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the Federal
Home Loan
Bank to sue
coed Walter
Newton. DR..
Hoagland has
numerous col
lege degrees,
and had been
W i t h t h e
Home Loan
Bank Board
or SO m e
months in a
more minor
capacity than
m e m bership
an thu hoard
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Human Side of the News = By Edwin C. Hill

should be in the beginners man.
ual of all statesmen. He was a
careful, meticulous conformist
in all-essentials, and, hence,
could be a nonconformist in
anything really important. The
orchid, the monocle and the
morning coat were all coldly
premeditated.
It came about this way: Joe
Chamberlain, in dress and de-
meanor. was Just a run-of.the.