Evening star., 1935-11-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ada, too. Just as Mr.. Hoover and other
ministration are shooting at the reci-
procity treaty as a grave injustice to
various American industries, so the Con-
servative opponents Of Prime Minister
Mackenzie King throughout the Do
minion are busily picking flaws in the
pact from the Canadian standpoint, and
insinuating that the Yankee trader got
far the best of it. Unprejudiced observ-
ers across the border are of opinion
that opposition there is destined to die
down in due course. just as New Deal
ers are confident that attacks on the
bargain will eventually, If not immedi-
ately, evaporate into thin air over here.
From leading administrations comes
a diverting Townsend plan tale. A GER
tain business man is in the habit of send
ing his aged parents $500 quarterly to
keep the wolf from the door. Recently
the old folks wrote asking him if they
might have an advance on the next regu-
lar payment. They explained that they
had used up the preceding remittance
for a little trip to Florida, but as they
would soon be receiving 5000 a month
apiece under the Townsend plan they
felt certain they could easily repay q
loan If their generous son would be good
enough to send along a check a bit
earlier than usual AS the story goes,
the f1lial benefactor consented to the
extra touch, but felt constrained to
preach little sermon about the danger
Of counting Townsend chickens before
they are Matched.
New State Department policy of trans
ferring career men from the diplomatic
branch to the consular field, and vice
versa, in order to broaden their expert
ence has just been exemplified afresh
by the appointment of J. Theodore Mar
riner, counselor of the Paris Embassy,
to be consul general at Beirut, Syria.
Mr.. Mariner. typical and able foreign
service careerist. has held variety of
important diplomatic posts in the de-
partment and abroad since he entered
the service in 1918 after an instructor
ship in English at Harvard. He was for
several years chief of the Division of
Western European affairs. In 1881 he
served as an adviser in the international
moratorium negotiations at Paris and
London, and in the same capacity at
the Geneva Disarmament Conference in
1882. Mariner halls from Maine and
was educated at Dartmouth and Har-
ward. From the Presidents alma mater
he holds the degree of Phi. D.
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Early rumblings indicate that big
business interests before long are going
to register stentorian protest against
the coming cost of financing the new
social security program for old-age PEN
sions and unemployment insurance. One
magnate stated recently in Washington
that, as far as he can figure, social Sc
curity taxes and contributions are likely
to be on scale that will about wipe
out his company's entire net profits, on
the basis of its present balance sheet.
AL reports foreshadow a rising tide Of
general remonstrance in commerce and
industry against the rate at which the
New Deal piper will sooner or later have
to be paid. The tax bogey is the big fly
In the ointment Of satisfaction with
which merchants and manufacturers
view steady improvement in business.
Larger earnings, they fear, will only re-
main in their keeping until the tax COLI
lector comes around year or two hence.
Copyright. 1880
Great Need.
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