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Evening star., 1934-07-24
Germanys Pinching Shoe.

Signs multiply daily that the Ger
man economic shoe is beginning to
pinch to an unbearable degree Even
Chancellor Hitler's boast. in his
Reichstag harangue explaining" the
Nazi blood purge, that German In
ventive genius would make the Reich
independent Of industrial and life
necessities from abroad. cannot OBJ
literate existing conditions or arrest
increasing hardships.
Rationing OF raw materials and
foodstuffs is in steady progress. It
is already on a basis second only to
World War regulations. A special
commission has Just been established
to control the available supply OF
vegetable oils and animal fats and
the production of soap, Practically
every phase Of German life Is now
subject to organized restrictions
These are being frightened TO the point
OF Strangulation, as imports OF vital
raw materials are cFtailed because
of Germany's inability TO furnish for
eign exchange In payment.
Cognizant that conditions are drift
ing to the level of desperation, the
government is proceeding to mobilize
all of the country's economic re-
sources, with view to combating the
blockade which is throttling the
Reich's trade. There is increasing
talk of retaliation against countries
in which boycottS Of German goods
are in operation. Already, as a re-
taliatory measure, a ban has been
placed on American lard, though such
a repriSal is designed to harm Ger
mans far more than it can hurt
America.
The real test of Germany's eco
nomic powers Of resistance, especially
in the domain of food, may not come
until next Winter. There are many
indications that it will be a Winter
of gravest distress. A widespread
drought, such as this country is ex-
periencing, makes certain a serious
shortage in meat supplies, vegetables
and bread stuffs. These conditions,
aggravated by the inability to re-
plenish stocks by importations, con-
jure up a prospect three or four
months hence that justifies the
gloomiest forebodings.
Meantime, the Reich's creditors, like
the United States, are pressing cease
lessly for recognition of their cove
nanted financial rights and demanding
that subterfuges be supplanted by per-
formance and remedial measures.
Ringing bitterly in Berlin's ears are
remonstrances, like Secretary Hull's
recent note, that Nazi policies are
largely responsible for Germany's
plight. Hitlerism is now practically
on notice that until it mends its
political ways, retraces its steps from
tactics suggestive of medieval bar
barism and models it's policies along
lines more in accord with democratic
civilization the German economic
situation is headed for an inescapable
debacle. Perhaps when the shoe is
pinching more tightly than it already
is reason may return to the Wilhelm
strasse and relief come to the suffer-
ing German people.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Bureaucracy and the Farmer
BY HARRY +. BYRD

agencies. But this admission is not
inconsistent with the insistence that
powers vested in Federal bureaus are
individual initiative and individual en-
terprise, and that the real Democrat
must demand strict limitations on
such powers.
Especially must the Democrat insist
that such administrative commissions
and bureaus keep strictly within the
powers granted to them and that the
courts be free to protect the conStitu-
tional rights of the individual when he
suffers by subsection to the arbitrary
decisions or acts of Federal bureau.
X y
I admire the many men who work
hard and patriotically on these COM
missions. Most of them are benevo-
lent in their intentions; but their
immediate objective is to justify their
official existence by manifest results.
They believe in the beneficence of
their work and they tend to absorb
progressively the power they deem
necessary to do their work.
The powers of many of these Federal
bureaus are vertiably kngly. One
reason is that the gentlemen who
preside over these commissions are
delegated the authority to make regu-
lationS TO govern their work, and it is
very difficult for the individual to
persuade even the courts to extricate
him uninjured when he is caught in
the mesh of one of these regulations.
The complaining citizen will be told
that Congress has delegated to the
commission the right to make regula-
tionS essential to efficient adminiS-
tration, and that these regulations
will be sustained if made in accord
ance with the law. Even more, the
bureaus own construction of an act
of Congress will be sustained by the
courts unless it is clearly erroneous.
In theory, unconstitutional rules and
unconstitutional legislation will be
declared invalid by the courts, but,
in practice, administrative rules of
the bureau. effectively enlarging its
powers, will be sustained unless
clearly erroneous. Then, too, only
the well-to-do citizen can finance
lawsuit to test his complaint that a
great Federal bureau has invaded his
constitutional rights.
y 4
The complexity and magnitude of
modern business require regulation
by Federal bureaus undoubtedly, but
it remains as true today as it was
when jefferson said it, that the in
dividHal possesses certain funda-
mental rights that are "inalienable.
Americans today must keep watch
and ward over the liberty of the
citizen to go about his own business
with that degree of ordered freedom
that has enabled him to develop here
a strong Nation of strong men happy
in the enjoyment of liberty protected
by law.
When you put men in regiments
and drill their steps you gain power
in mass momentum, but you stifie the
initiative of every individual who
may advance the progress and vel
fare of US all if given free play to
his talents and enterprise. The mod
ern American may have to surrender
a measure of his independent action
to the social necessities of these hard
times, but he should never consent
TO be awakened each morning by the
nlsre of a bureaucratic bugle and
required to do his daily work TO the
/ tap Of bureaucratic drum.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Press of America Wonders
How Long Hitler Can Hold On

Adolph Hitler's address to the Ger
man Reichstag and the world IN ex-
PLANTATION of the bloody liquidation"
of his enemies was quite unconvineing
to the American audience.
The Milwaukee Journal declares
that 1.-The world knows no more than
before Hitler spoke" and makes the
comment: 1.-The question is whether
Germany will long endure dictator
ship which acts first and later offers
its own explanation of the necessity.
If the internal benefits for which Hit
Ter takes credit are real, he may re-
main for some time. Little evidence
has reached the world to support his
claims. A nation whose trade has
gone wrong and whose national in
come has fallen is not better of, what
ever claims may be made Of putting
$500, 900 people back at useful work. "
Apparently Hitler's position" in
the Judgment Of the Kansas City Star
while shaken, is still strong. He has
done much to placate the conservatives
by killing the radical leaders, and he
has sent the more or less radical
Brown Shirt army on a months vaca-
ton. He has another asset for the
industrialist- -junker group in his pop
ularity which, so far, while impaired,
has not been destroyed. But unless
the economic situation improves, his
position will grow increasingly difh-
cult. Discomfort among the people Is
not corrected by killing few of their
leaders. Can that discomfort be per-
manently repressed by force2 DR.,
Goebbels' frantic assurances do not
convince the world"
In other countries" AYERS the New
York Times, the speech confirmed
the common view that the people must
be continually on their guard against
a ruler whose morbid vanity and bru-
tai instincts he has again uncon-
sciously revealed to the world" The
Hartford Times suggests that recent
student riots may be but a sign OF
growing boldness, born OF distressing
conditions" The Los Angeles Evening
Post holds that his record shows how
unutterably precious the liberties OF
a democracy really are" while the
Nashville Tennesseean finds evidence
that he regards himself as the state. "
The Gary Post Tribune sees proof that
government must be either free ex-
preston of the will Of the people or
an appeal to guns and murder"
His oficial explanation Of the Ger
man blood bath, declares the South
Bend Tribune, probably will be nota-
ble in history not only at an attempt
to justify slaughter, but as concrete
concession Of the value Of world opin-
ion. Hitler, If he wished, could have
addressed only the Germans in an
ofacfal published statement. Instead,
he used the radio and made it, in
effect, an address to the entire civil
ized world. The blood bath in a
great nation like Germany was made
no less deplorable by Hitler's explana-
ton Of it,"
Thus his story was not convincing
is the comment Of the Syracuse Her.
aid and the Newark Evening News,
while the Bay City Daily Times ex-
Evening star., 1934-07-24

may exert in modifying weather con-
ditions Is apparently definite and
knovn pretty well in advance. The
undertaking Is another form Of re-
forestation, the wisdom Of which is
everywhere attested. The relief 20 a
sadly stricken portion Of the pop
ulation will be tangible and worth
while. and in return the Nation viIl
receive a benefit which should be last
ing. A mere start viii be made this
year IN preparation. actual planting
no, 70 begin until 1886. with compile
tion Of the undertaking tentatively
marked down for 1914.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
What Should Be Done
With Drunken Drivers
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
do the things that are necessary
to do to get the results you want"
That was the slogan of one of the
most capable men have ever known.
So often we neglect or refuse to do
just that.
This applies to our agitation anent
drunken drivers. All agree that some
thing should be done, but those in
authority refuse to put an end to this
abuse. The remedy is plain:
Cancel the permit of every person
caught driving while under the in
fluence of liquor. and make the can
collation. permanent. Provide PEN
atty of one year in prison for each
one caught driving after his permit
has been revoked.
Will this be done? 1t will not
Why? Because We are not very anx-
iouS to cure the evil. Life is too
cheap, especially if it is the other fell
lows life. ELMER c. HELM.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

am Democrat. believe in party
government. I have supported many
emergency measures granting great
power to the President. respect the
high patriotism and benevolent inten-
tions of the President and admire many
of his great achievements; but there
remains in me enough of the spirit Of
Thomas Jefferson to insist that ex-
traordinary powers now granted shall
be limited to the period of this eco
nomic emergency and that reasonable
restraints shall be placed upon the
exercise by Federal bureaucrats of
dictatorial powers.
Holding this democratic faith, I op-
posed amendments to the agricultural
adjustment act-urged for adoption by
the distinguished Secretary of Agri-
culture-that would (if adopted)
make the Secretary a supreme dicta-
tor over every one who produces agri-
cultural products and every one who
handles such products.
l have not heSitated to support
| legislation designed reasonably to as
sist the orderly and profitable produc-
ton and marketing of farm products;
but I opposed an amendment that
gave the Secretary power to prescribe
what a farmer may plant and what
| he may receiYe-even what turkeys
and chickens he may raise-in his
entire farm operations, once he has
agreed to accept Government COM
pensation for reducing his planted
acreage on any part of his farm,
| however small
| x X
1t was proposed that the farmer
must obtain license to farm his own
land. The Secretary would then die
tate the terms Of that license, and
failure to observe the terms would be
punishable by fines as high as $1,000
a day. if the hapless farmer were con-
victed.
After debating the operation of the
farm by the farmer, it was contem-
plated by these progressive regulators
| that the Secretary dictate the terms
upon which food products from the
farm might be distributed. The dis
| tributor or handler of such products
must also obtain license and no one
without a license could ship agricul-
| tural products in interstate COM
merce.
In carrying out the declared policy
/ of the act it was provided that the
| Secretary might impose quota reStric-
tions, with the approval Of two-thirdS
of the producers of a given commod-
! ity and. even without such approval
| the Secretary was empowered to di-
/ rect to what markets and to what
extent certain products might be
! shipped. Add to this the power to
I prescribe the quantity of each COM
modify such distributor might sell and
the Secretary would in effect possess
the power to fix the price Of agricul-
tural commodities.
|
/ The growth of the power of Federal
bureaus has been remarked for years
as a dangerous invasion of the liberty
of the individual Of course, COM
missions are necessary 10 the orderly
administration of transportation and
industry. operating on an interstate
scale too vast and extensive to admit
Of effective regulation by State
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Shooting in the Dark.

The flrst "hearings" on proposed
reciprocal trade agreements between
the United States and foreign nations
opened yesterday before the newly
created Committee for Reciprocal
Trade Information, representing half
q dozen government departments
Under the Roosevelt reciprocity tariff
act, authorizing these agreements, the
President may raise or lower the tariff
duties by fifty per cent 10 grease the
ways. II is clearly understood, how
ever, that the trading will call for
lowering the tariff duties on some
American products-those which are
70 be used in this new deal Yankee
trading plan for increasing the for
eign commerce OF the United States
The hearings yesterday we're on the
presumption that the United States
had negotiated or was negotiating a
reciprocal trade agreement with the
government OF Cuba. No treaty was
produced: none of the details Of pro-
posed agreements was revealed. In
deed. the chairman of the Committee
for Reciprocal Trade Information,
Thomas walker Page, member of
the United States Tariff Commission,
insisted that 1t would not be proper
to reveal the details of the proposed
trade agreement. What the commit
tee was there to do, apparently, was
TO hear American producers who
might be affected by changes in
the tariff duties now levied on i'm
ported goods which correspond TO the
goods they produce. Producers and
business men from Florida and from
Connecticut. men interested in fruits
and tobacco, were given an oppor-
tunity to state what In their judg-
ment might happen If tariff duties
were lowered.
For the first time in American
tariff making American producers
were asked to state their case with
out any real knowledge of what the
tariff makers had in mind. No op-
portunity was afforded them to at
tack or tear down arguments which
have been used to advance the pro-
posed trade agreement. They were
called upon to do their shooting in
the dark. And when it comes to max
ing the all-importsnt decisions re-
garding the tariff duties, those deci-
sions will be made, presumably, be-
hind closed doors and by officials of
the executive branch of the Govern
ment, and there will be no appeal
from their decisions.
1t is argued by the supporters Of
the reciprocal trade agreements that
1t is essential to increase the foreign
trade of this country to recover from
the depression. An increase in Ameri-
can exports through these agreements
undoubtedly will mean an increase in
American imports Of foreign goods.
The danger lies in the fate which may
be meted out to American producers
through these imports. And yet the
American producers are not, appar-
emily, to be given any detailed or
advance notice what the trade agree
ments contain. They must look to
q benefcent providence and the new
deal administration for the protec-
tion which may be life or death TO
them. Here is bureaucracy in a new
form.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Innocent Bystander.

Innocent Bystander.
Fate, when a sudden blow she deals,
Brings with it a backhander
And in sorry plight reveals
The innocent bystander.
I know for weeks things I shall read
OF Dillinger that fret me.
Though I endeavor not to heed,
The headlines always get me.
Tho am trying not to know
OF horrors that are proffered,
Square yards Of photographs know
OF him will soon be offered.
I'm not the master Of my fate,
Nor of my soul commander.
Life still makes me impersonate
The innocent bystander.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Unrest.

They say the world is in unrest.
RepoSe
May not be always for the best.
Who knows?
For. if TO sleep you can contrive,
No matter what may fail or thrive,
Is it worth while to be alive?
Who knows?
Evening star., 1934-07-24

1t is revealed by the Special In
vestigating Committee that what the
Army Air Corps needs is more money.
The disclosure will strike the taxpayer
as having q familiar sound.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Amateur actors throughout the
country are digging up old material
and proving that a play can be profit
able without the benefit OF Pulitzer
prize.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Drunken drivers are so common
that the eighteenth amendment may
be regretted if only on the theory that
it was some slight help in regulating
traffic.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

San Francisco strikers are voting
secretly in a hope perhaps of forcing
radical orators to stick to the soap
box and let the ballot box alone.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Postmaster General Farley likes
Hiram johnson, whom he evidently
regards as a Republican, but nothing
to hurt.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Dilllnger has by his appreciation
pointed out at least one movie that
would seem logically due for censor
ship.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

The Fourth Of July was safe and
sane, but could not set the pace for
the remainder Of the month.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Women in politics are success.
Women in crime are unsatisfactory
even to the law-breakers.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Still Up in the Air.

From the Miami Herald.
A scientist says that the Einstein
theory is all wrong, which sllstains orr
original contention. although we could
not possibly explain why,
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Among so many boards" 1t would
not be surprising II some ideas went
UP and down like a see-Saw.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
The Canny Caster.

From the Nashville Tennesseean.
Furthermore, Wen wager that
Scotchman who threw a beer bottle at
King George threw an empty.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Avoiding Inconsistency.

Did you kin any of your pigs?"
Not yet" answered Farmer Corn
toSsel. First. I've got to give up my
membership in the S. P. c. A."
Misery does not love company,
said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown.
"A hot wave makes all men feel like
enemies
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Personal Viewpoint.
What are you going to do about
the coming election?"
Not much, I'm afraid" said Sem
ator Sorghum. THE question in my
mind is what the coming election Is
going to do about me-"
Evening star., 1934-07-24
No So Fine.

Folks sometimes reyel in what's wrong
When a great crime wave comes along
Where big shots shoot all down the
line
And say, Come inl The waters fine. -
Where they so boldly seem to play,
When it at last is drained away.
The stream from which they gayly
call
Proves but a sewer after all.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
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Proves but a sewer after all.

Dis world was created in seven
days" said Uncle Eben, but it is
takin' millions of years foh us hu-
mans to decide what to do Wit it."
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Should Be a Safe Record.

.
Aviator claims a record Of 10 para-
chute jumps in one day. Here's hoping
nobody tries TO contest the claim. -,
Evening star., 1934-07-24

Jud Tunkins says you can hiss the
villain in a show, but you mustn't do
it in real life, because he may have
political pull.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
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Evening star., 1934-07-24

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-11
u. S. CLARIFIES
TAX ON WHEAT
Ruling Paves Way for Re-
turn of Old Neighborhood
GriSt Mill.

By Scripps-H OWdrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE way
has been paved here for farmers to
restore the old neighborhood grist
mill and have their own wheat
turned into flour for their families
without paying processing tax. The
tax is around $1.38 a barrel for
white wheat flour of good grade.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has
ruled that farm co-operatives, OPP
Grating their own mills, need not
pay the tax when the flour is for
the members personal use.
The ruling was made on an APP
peal by the Farm Bureau Mills, Inc,
Auburn, Ind.
The mill is comparatively owned.
Revenue collectors had insisted that
if a farmer took his wheat to the
mill he must stay there and get back
flour from that very wheat, or other
wise pay the processing tax.
The bureau, however, ruled that
member of the cooperative mill may
leave his wheat anywhere and let
the mill trucks pick it up. Then
he can collect a proportionate
amount of flour from the mills reg
ular output without tax being
levied.
Chester H. Gray, American Farm
Bureau Federation secretary, said
the ruling should save farmers
thousands of dollars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-11
STOCKS FIRM
WITH TRADING
AT SLOW PACE
Rails Register Gains Up to
Point; Wilson Leads
Packer Group.
RnLntted Presa

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK. Dec. 11.-Stocks
were firm in light trading today
after an irregularly higher opening.
Rails registered gains ranging to
point. Wilson issues led the pack
ers higher. Utilities and motors we're
steady. Motor equipments and rub
bers made small gains. Mining is
sues held small gains. Steels, build
ing issues and amusements were
steady.
Best gamers we're Kahn preferred
at 63i2, up 37s, and a new high for
the year: International Business
Machines 164, up 2, and also a new
1884 high; Briggs e. Stratton 231a,
up IL; Consolidated Laundries, 224
up /; Delaware and Hudson 445s,
up Is. up Is; Phillip Morris AZ,
up /; Munsingwear 1919, up 21s;
Texas and Pacific Railway %, up
IL; Union Pacific 10712, up /, and
Wilson A 80, up 2, and a new high
for 1884.
Steel common, American Tele-
phone, American Can, New York
Central, Montgomery Ward and
-Roebuck held small gains.
Wet stocks were steady and so
were aviation issues.