Nogales international., 1934-12-29
WASHINGTON
LOOKS AHEAD
TO NEW YEAR
EVERYBODY At National
Capital Asking
whats Next"

WASHINGTON, Dec. % (Auto'
caster)-Looking ahead to the New
Year is the principal pastime II
Washington just now. Everybody Il
asking: What comes next?"
The new Congress is beginning tt
shap, up. The efforts OF wee
President Garner to make San
Rayb,lrn Speaker have failed. The
President preferred Rayburn to Joe
Byrns of Tennessee, but didn't say
so loud enough. 50 Joe gets it. The
big fight in the House Democratic
caucus will be a tfree-cornered one
between Representative James M
Mead of Buffalo, N. Y, William b
Bankhead of Jasper. Ala, and John
w. Mccormack Of Dorchester
Mass. for the floor leadership.
Senator Wright Patman Of Texas
the big bonus man. has been count
ing noses and reports enough votes
for the immediate cashing of the
adjusted compensation certificates
to pass the bonus appropriation over
Presidential veto. Administration
has thrown up its hands, and is
irving to work out some method OF
distinguishing veterans who are in
actual need" from those who don't
need the money but would like to
have it. The hope is to get Con-
gress to accept some bonus scheme
which will only cost the taxpayers
about five hundred million dollars,
instead of the two thousand million
the full payment would come to.
Those War Profits
Smart politics, is what the folk
on Capitol Hill call the Presidents
proposal to submit a law prohibit
ing profits from war. It is pointed
out that the Senators who have been
getting the most credit out OF the
exposures of wartime profits
made by the Senate investigating
committee are both Republicans,
Nye of North Dakota and Venden-
berg of Michingan. This is Demo-
cratic Administration, so why
should Republicans be allowed to
get away with anything?
What the President has done is
to haul out the blue-prints OF a
plan which has been kicking around
washington since the Wilson Ad-
nlinistration, providing that in time
CT war everything. not only soldiers,
must be subject to draft-capital,
factories, farms, mines and all OF
the nations activities. Martial law,
in effect, for the entire populace il
we ever get into another scrap
Bernard M. Baruch. head OF the
War Industrial Board In the Great
War. originated the plan Presidents
Wilson, Harding and Coolidge
warmly indorsed it and President
Hoover actually had the blllS
drawn ready to offel to Congress
lust about the time his Congress
ran out on him. How much farther
the present plan will 90 nobody
knows yet. The biggest profits maot
by American industry in the last
war were made from selling sup
piles to the Allies before we got in
to it.
The President has brought Gen
eral Hugh johnson back into the
picture, as the man to put over the
new anti-war- profits scheme. Wash
ington will be more picturesque
with The General back here.
National HOusecleaning
Coming to the front Is gigantic
project based On the report Of the
National Resources Board, for
spending upward of 100 billion dol
lars over a period Of years in such
things as strengthening and clean
ing up rivers eliminating soil ero-
sion, developing every possible
horsepower of all the nations wa
terways, taking over all So-called
marginal and submarginal agri-
cultural land, conserving mineral
resources and in general giving the
whole United States thorough
housecleaning.