Evening star., 1935-03-13
HURLEY PROPOSES
WAR CONSCR|PT|ON
Ties In Recovery Program
With Five.P0int Plan at
Arms Hearing.
Nv the Associated Press.

Recommendations for conscriptlon
Of capital and man power in time of
war, coupled with program for ma
t:onal recovery. were laid before the
Senate Munitions Committee today by
Patrick j. Hurley, former Secretary
Of War.
The one time chairman of the War
Policies Commission told the commit
tee he believed Congress had full au-
thority to seize all profits from war
operations. He added the President
Lad power to conscript industry as
we'll as men in conducting a war.
He then swung into his story OF the
Nations needs.
There should be a re-statement Of
cur national objectiveS, he said, tell
ing what is our aim after $50 years OF
education and prosperity"
States Fiye-Point Program.
He outlined a five-point objective
as follows:
TO provide for equitable distribu-
ton Of income"
To maintain equality OF oppor-
tunity"
ITO promote education"
ITO eliminate poverty and crime"
ITO give every citizen an oppor-
tunity to pursue spiritual, cultural as
we'll as material happiness"
Challenging earlier assertions of
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri,
the trinity dressed Hurley declared
the World War had made the world
safe for democracy.
Il would have to go long way to
tear away the last shred of idealism
from President Wilson to say we en-
tered the war to make profits for
munitions makers" he said. Il think
we entered the war to make the world
safe for democracy"
II think the world is more satisfac-
tory for any free man than any time
in history" he added.
Fundamentals Held Safe.
He conceded that relationships in
Europe indicated democracy had lost
ground since the war, but reiterated
"the fundamentals of democracy are
safe"
He declared he was in favor of arms
embargoeS to prevent shipment OF
munitions to warning nations and de-
MED as "unqualifiedly. coWardly and
maliciously false" a publication citing
him as having opposed an embargo of
arms to the Chaco war zone in South
America.
He conceded he may have opposed
an embargo on American munitions
without having an agreement among
other nations to do likewise.
The committee will hear tomorrow
James A. Drain, past national COM
mander Of the American Legion. and
James E. Van zandt, commander OF
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Prominent Figures Assailed.
In turbulent session yesterday the
committee heard charges by William
B. Shearer. big-Navy advocate, that
many prominent figures we're anti
American" either for opposing pre-
parednesS or seeking to have the
United States join the World Court
or the League Of Nations.
He assailed the 'internationaliSm
of DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University. naming
also Bernard Baruch and Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait Baruch is to testify
before the committee on March 25
Chairman Nye said.
Shearer declared Butler had acted
as constitutional adviser" to the
British government in that empires
change to a commonwealth of ma
tionS"
Does that convict him of being a
poor American. if he aided the Brit
iSh government as an authority on the
Constitutions" Senator Clark, Demo-
crat. OF Missouri asked.
Il have just as much right to pass
verdict on Nicholas Murray Butler as
he has on me-" Shearer retorted.
Barbour Ridicules Attack.
Senator Barbour, Republican, OF
New Jersey decried the witness attack
on Butler as frivolous and imma-
terial"
In making such a charge" he de-
clared, you should be prepared with
specific information"
Il will supply it." Shearer said.
A tense moment came when, in a
dispute with Shearer, Senator Bone
used the word "cowardly." Shearer
charged toward the Senator, but
Chairman Nye ordered him to his seat
Then stop hurling that cowardly
stuff Shearer demanded.
This exchange followed Shearer's
defense of his actions in insisting on
a strong American Navy when he
appeared at the Geneva Naval LimI-
tations Conference in 1927 as a rep
resentative of the shipyards.
Shearer charged that Drew Pear
ron, newspaper man at the naval
conference, had perjured himself in
asserting an American naval officer
had said Shearer broke up" the
| Geneva conference
He said Pearson had been engaged
by Sir Willmott Lewis, British news
paper man, to make the statement.
Lewis, he described as "a very active"
British propagandist in Washington,
"Duttinp his p0Sp in evervthinp