Evening star., 1935-11-22

President Roosevelt's Atlanta speech
on November 20 is now heralded in
political quarters as intended to be the
formally opening gun in his campaign
for reelection. While it proSpectively
will be aimed primarily at the agricul-
tural South, it is expected to discuss the
New Deal broadly in all its up-to-date
aspects, including budgetary and relief
problems now to the fore. The Canadian
tariff agreement is certain to come in
for conspicuous mention, in view OF
G. o. P. sniping at it,. AS the fate of
Triple-A processing taxes is soon to be
decided in the Supreme Court, r. D. r.
may choose his Dixie platform to talk
about the future of the Bankhead cotton
control plan, If the court overthrows 1t.
as well as other constitutional questions
now gripping public attention. How,
If at all, the President will deal with
the Talmadge insurrection, while on the
Georgia Governors home grounds, Is
something Washington awaits with spe-
cial interest. Ten days later Mr.. Roose-
welt is scheduled to sound another po-
litical keynote, when he addresses the
American Farm Bureau Federation in
Chicago. Despite scattered protests in
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concessions to Canada, pretty nearly
everybody agrees that the Rooseveltians
continue to hold a mortgage on the
farm vote.
Herbert Hoover's fundamental griev-
ance against Senator Borah is supposed
to spring from the former Presidents
resentment over the circumstances re-
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Smoot tariff law in 1880. 1t was the
Idahoan who, as Hoover's chief pro-
tagonist on the stump in 1928, secured
from him q pledge that If elected he
would call O special session OF Congress
in 1929 to revise agricultural tarins.
Hoover expected that Congress would
confine itself to tariff plums for the
farmers. Instead, it passed law which
surrounded the U. s. A. with the highest
tariff wall In its history, for the benent
of both agriculture and industry. Boran
seems to have been regarded at the White
House as the villain of the piece. Later
Hoover apparently came to think that
the bill (Which he signe6 was one OF
the contributory causes of depression ana
the ensuing debacle Of the Republican
party.
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Eleventh-hour decision to send Under
secretary Of State Phillips to the Lon
don Naval Conference is being associated
in some Washington diplomatic quarters
with the crisis Japan has precipitated
in North China. The theory underlying
this suggestion is that If the United States
is to assume any attitude toward the
Toxic war lords latest aggression 1t would
be adopted only in closest cooperation
with Great Britain. It Is altogether I'M
probable that the Washington Govern
ment will take any such initiative In
demonstrating against the North CHINA
affair as Secretary Stimson displayed on
the occasion of the Manchurian busi-
ness. The administration is deeply con-
cerned over late developments In the
Far East. Japan's newest maneuvers
strike certain authorities as another
fragrant infringement Of the nine power
pact guaranteeing the integrity OF emma.
Over at the Department Of Agricul-
ture the following bit of topical polticai
verse, Of unknown origin, Is making the
rounds and said to be arouSing the mirtn
Of even higher-ups:
Little Boy Blue, don't blow your horn,
For there are no sheep or COWS or corn.
But enjoy your rest on q rick OF nay
Before 1t Is burned by the A. A. A.
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