The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-06


 ernment.
 It has been ordered by Cover nor Castells of the Chaco Prov ince, which is speeding cotton cultivatoin in competition with the United States.
 The Rust Brothers have been willing to forego profits on their invention in order that it may not help competition abroad, also may not throw too many southern tenant farmers out of work.
 NOTE-Argentine cotton fields chief need is labor or labor-saving machinery.
 Mrs. ROsevelt's Diplomacy
 Mrs. Roosevelt caused great consternation to the French gov- ernment the other day.
 In her daily column, written shortly after Hitler had remili- terized the Rhineland, she dis cussed the moves for peaceable settlement of the matetr and said:
 "NO one denies that the Ver- sailIes Treaty was unjust in many ways and that revisions should be made. It is quite evi- dent, however, that Germany has ignored the agreements under the LocarnO Facts, but it seems more profitable to talk this over than to fight it out again to an unsa tisfactOry finish and to have another peace built on revenge and fears"
 Since bitter opposition to treaty revision is the keynote of the French embassy, mortified, cabled the exact text to the French Foreign office in Paris.
 To what extent was Mrs. Roose- welt speaking for herself? To what extent was she voicing the views of her husband? That is the burning question which neither the Embassy nor the Foreign Office yet has been able to answer.
 Far East
 The inside of the Japanese Russian row, according to con- fidential cables received here, is that 1t springs from the same cause as the revolt of the young Army officers in Tokio last month. The younger military demand war with Russia. They have provoked attacks on the Mongol border without orders from or the knowledge of Tokio.
 Even many of the older offi- cers maintain that war with Russia has been postponed too long, that every month of delay sees the Red Army stronger, more difficult to conquer.
 The Japanese prefer to have war break first in Europe, so Russia will be occupied on both fronts. But failing this, the younger generation is willing to take on the Sovicts single handed.
 This is why trouble in the Far East is so responsive to trouble in the Mediterranean or the Rhineland.
 Silent Stone
 Justice Stone, known as the supreme courts most fortnight conversationalist, suddenly has be- come cautious as the Sphinx.
 Invited to tea with Congress- man Maury Maverick of Texas, Stone specified in advance that newspapermen must not be in- vited. On arriving he was careful to talk only to old friends he knew and trusted. To others he shut up.
 Chemurgy
 New Dealers are anything but joyful over the republican cam paign text that the solution of agricultural surpluses is their wider use in industry.
 Colonel Frank Knox has sonor- ously labeled this "chemurgy". But New Dealers regard 1t as part of a secret g. o. D. plot to wreck their new farm program.
 They charge that the .Du- Fonts, other chemical firms which contribute heavily to the Liberty League also are behind the plan. They wil lhave to pay more for their agricultural ma terials if the New Deal crop re- stricti0n plan succeeds.
 There is no doubt that indus trial uses for farm products can be greatly developed, but New Dealers claim that 1t never can take up the old crop surpluses.
 In fact, they say, Agriculture Department sceintists have been exploring this under republican presidents for years.
 Also Chester Davis, AAA ad- ministratOr, cannot forget that his four years of ufacturlng wall-bOard from Illinois corn stalks ended in flat failure. Safe Mississippi
 Before President Roosevelt left for his fishing trip he had before him a carefully worked out re- port indicating that the disas- trous floods along the upper Ohio river would not be repeated in the Lower Mississippi.
 Though the Mississippi will rise considerably, 1t has been four feet below its average level, and about nine feet below it's flood stage. This, according to Weather Bureau reports, will be sufficient