Evening star., 1935-04-12

Although business welcomes the
work relief program and believes II
will promote recovery, much comment
can be heard in Washington to the
effect that some elixir even more po-
tent than the impending $4,000, 600, ,00C
expenditure is required to inspire
commerce, industry and finance with
confidence. A typical opinion was ex-
pressed the other day by Ernest T
Weir, chairman of the National Steel
Corp. Let confidence be restored.
he said. land business will take care
of the rest of the job. All the Gov
ernment's relief and work-makine
combined is not drop in the bucket
compared with the prosperity-makine
capacity now lying inert in business
through lack of confidence" Uncer-
tainty about Government policies
keeps an admittedly upward economic
trend from attaining full momentum
Clarence M. Woolley, chairman Of the
American Radiator & Standard
Sanitary Corp, voiced another WIDE
spread view when he told his stock
holders this week that prosperity
will snap back the moment Washing
ton announces that it is considering
stabilization Of the currency at an
early date and not contemplating any
plans for future devaluation."
About the happiest man in Wash
ington over the boost in the price ol
silver is Senator Pittman, Democrat
of Nevada. chairman Of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and au-
thor of the silver resolution adopted
by the London Monetary and Economic
Conference In 1933-the one achieve.
ment of that ill-starred talkfest
Tonopah, New, which went wild with
10y when it heard about the sky
rocketing of silver, is Senator Pitt
mans home town. A native of Vicks-
burg, Miss, he settled at Tonopah ir
1902 after five years Of strenuous life
as a prospector and lawyer in the
Canadian Northwest Territory ano
Alaska. Not everybody knows that
the Nevadan is an aboriginal brain
truster. He participated in F. D. Rs
1892 campaign trip across the country
in the capacity of No. 1 political ad.
| wiser.
Just how long the White House in.
tends to keep Congress on the job has
become the paramount issue at the
Capitol. Mr.. Roosevelt has been razz-
ing senatorial friends with the sug'
gestion that session prolonged into
equatorial August is within the range
of possibilities, dependent on the ex-
tent to which Congress steps on the
gas and disposes of his must" legis-
| iative program. Springtime visitors
to Washington, having heard that
Congress is overwhelmed" with bust.
ness, are trying to figure out how the
Senate was able to recess whole day
this week on the ground that 1t hac
nothing to do,
From a radio constituent Of thi.
observer in the Far Northwest come.
wishful suggestion how to comba
the high price Of meats. He says tha
If Relief Administrator Hopkins wouls
only help him to enlarge his "hert
of rabbits" he could sell 200 to 40(
head a week. Rabbit appears to b'
in demand on the coast now that beei
and pork have become luxuries. Thl
rabbit-raiser in question has had NJ
success in interesting local relief au
thorities in his bunnies, and want!
to know II something can't be don't
about 1t in boon doggling" quarters
at Washington.
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There have been reports that J
Pierrepont Moffat. just appointed
American consul general at Sydney
New South Wales, may become Min
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