, 1934-12-28
The World
At a Glance
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central press staff Writer


NH AICH ~
high places.
Martin L. Davey, incoming Cover.
nor Of Ohio. Is one Of the latest tc
feel q kickback-one more calling
attention to the insolvent Guard.
ian Trust company OF Cleveland
This large bank has paid only q
cents on the dollar-and may nevei
pay another cent.
Davey started the latest rumpuf
by announcing the appointment Of
a former vice president OF the Guar
dian. Allen +. Ayers. as state SUPER
intendent OF banks.
Ayers happens to owe the defuncI
bank s40.5I6.
He also is a director OF a small
industrial railroad which owes the
Guardian sle3 .950-and the presi-
dent OF that road owed the Guard
ian. when the bank closed. s62s.4l
Dsyey. himself. and his r com
psny and an investment company Of
his. owed the Guardian at the time
IL closed. sie5.o40.
Those loans. which Ayers as bank
superintendent. would be supposed
10 collect. total 9e49 30e.
The people Of Ohio have been con
~siderably exercised over the state
banking department under the sd.
minlstration OF Governor GeOrg'
White. Laxity In supervision hal
been charged repeatedly.
Ohio probably tops the roll IL
bank losses In 1879.
Opposes National Police
Opposition TO a national polio,
force Ia voiced by Clark Kinnaird d
New York. writer OF the popuIal
To-day Ia the Day" feature.
Says Mr.. Kinnaird:
II view with alarm all Of the talk
concerning the organization OF I
national police force. It'll be tho
end OF what few liberties We still
possess. and put us at the mercy 81
the prevailing party. Let us not for
get that the secret service has beer
used TO keep tab on the private ac-
lions or government officials anc
even innocent individuals: thai
telephone wires have been tapped
that complete information or oul
incomes. our religious beliefs. ouI
possessions are at the government
disposal
with a national police. II Is only
a step further 20 government spy.
ing on all mail and communications
] would rather tolerate a few Dillin-
gers and Capones thsn have nv &C
tons subject 10 the spying Of any
political figure ! might have Of
Tended.
Let US keep In mind that ell lib
erty Of thought. speech and action
has passed I'm every country In
which there Is n national police
Scotland Yard is NOT q nation
al police force. nor Ia the Surett
General. In \ true sense). Suppose
Mr.. Roosevelt's bie-brain hrys de-
eide 20 use the national police force
to suppress all radicals. what is a
radical? ANYBODY who doesn't agree
With youi Who is on the radical list
OF the ID. A. r.. the National Secur-
'tv league? WHY. Jane Addsms. VIII
liam Allen White. II. L. Mencken,
Roscoe Poundl
I'm a nation like ours. A national
police force would be more OF a
threat than a safeguard. Capone
grew great through the connivance
and aid or men who we're hivh IN
national politics. Dillinger had the
sympathy. the admiration. IN YOU
prefer. Of large numbers OF persons.
Such criminals would he wiped out
" The public wanted them 70 be,
without a nstional police.
II can't helD thinking that All the
hullaballoo about the need for a
national police force 10 check crime
Is being foStered bv men who really
want a political police. The Capone-
DillinEer criminals arc just q con-
venient shield"
permanent Control
Secretary OF Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace forecasts continued reri-
m%entation OF agriculture i'm his an
nusl report to the president and
congress.
Here are two excerpts:
Essentially. agriculture needs
production control to prevent the
mass swings that lead 70 recurring
cvcleS ~ over and under produc-
ton. Adopted as an emergency de-
vice. a means for avertinr IRENE
dial disaster through quick. con-
nerted reduction OF output. the con-
troll principle has nevertheless per-
-'anent as well as emergency uses.
This We car infer from a glance at
the conditions that existed In aRri-
culture long before the present de-
preston . Cooperative adjust
rnents offer y means OF CORRECTING
this normal handicap. as well a. Of
dealing with abnormal SURPRISES
This use OF the adjustment prin-
ciDle Is the natural sequel 10 the
emergency adjustments .
Can true prosperity be had for
asrirnlture or for the country as a
whole by creating domestic short
ages or continuously restricting
nrcduction7 Ninety per cent OF the
farmers will ssv s.. Vet some fsr-r-
ers NAV come 10 believe that their
prosperity depends on man made