Evening star., 1935-11-18

Few New Deal achievements have
filled President Roosevelt with greater
personal elation and satisfaction than
the reciprocal trade treaty with Canada.
He derives happiness from 1t on two
scoreS-firSt, its intrinsic value for buSl-
ness pump printing purposes, and. sec
ondly, because of the example 1t sets Tor
economic peace throughout the world.
AS the United States and the Dominion
have failed for roundly 70 years to place
their economic relations on basis OF
mutual agreement. F. D. R. thinks the
give-and-take deal just effected is
destined to become landmark in North
American history. In case diSgruntled
agricultural or industrial interests seek
to make the treaty a campaign issue next
year, with possible revival OF the ancient
protection VS.. free trade issue, the PreSi-
dent is prepared to take up the challenge.
He will defend the pact as a project
which transcends sectional or group ad-
vantages and promotes national interests
as a whole. To what extent lumbermen
and dairymen, in particular, are inclined
to oppose the treaty will speedily become
apparent, now that its mutual tariff con-
ceSSions are public property.
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In a real sense the Canadian agree
ment is personal triumph for Secretary
Hull. His friends have always thought
that it was mainly because OF the Ten
nesseeanS long devotion to the principle
of reciprocity and his expert knowledge
of the tariff question that he was chosen
by President Roosevelt to head the State
Department Agreements of the sort
Just concluded with Canada were from
the outset New Deal key program. 1t
was in order to achieve such arrange
ments with maximum OF speed that
the President sought and obtained from
Congress authority to conclude them
without the senatorial ratification neceS-
sary in the case of ordinary lnterna-
tional treaties. No one takes very serl-
ouSly the threat that the constitutlonallty
of reciprocal pacts will be challenged,
although it's expected that some par
tisan shots will be fired at them during
the coming session of Congress. with the
presidential campaign in the othng.
Old political inhabitants can hardly
recall an episode like the remarkable
tribute President Roosevelt has just paid
Senator Norris in publicly calling upon
the people of Nebraska to insist upon
the veteran Republican progresSlveS re-
tention of his Senate seat "for lie. II
Is just about four years ago that Norris,
at the progressive conference in wash
ington, made his famous statement that
the country might have need OF another
Roosevelt in the White Houses" or words
to that effect The declaration almost
clothed the Nebraskan with the dlStlnc-
tion of being the original Roosevelt man.
He and the President have long seen
eye to eye on the power and utility issues.
In general, the New Deal has had no
more ardent supporter than the father
of the Tennessee Valley Authority and
the lame duck amendment to the Con-
Stitution.
Participants in White House press con-
ferenceS have seldom encountered Mr..
Roosevelt in more determined mood than
he was the other day when explaining
that there has been no change whatever
in the Governments policy regarding
purchases Of foreign materials for 2. W..
A. projects. The President was emphasis
itself when he branded as deliberate
Misrepresentation" reports that there had
been shift in attitude on that subject.
There is little probability that the $4,000
German order which stirred up the con-
troversy will be Cancelled After all, IN
a job like the New York Trlborough
Bridge project, involving $44 600, the
transaction is mere flea bite.
State Department remonstrances that
American exporters are sending war