Evening star., 1937-12-22

gress to drop another $500 900 900 to 81
100000 600 in the Unsuitable NAV @. all
Ing agriculture, an authority has Just
calculated that since the New Deal
began playing Santa Claus at least S.
100000, 900 has been lavished on farm
rehe1 In one guise or another The
sum includes the round $3.50 900 900 an
nually distributed under A. A. A. and
soil conservation programs and the s7O,-
oOO,0O0 year for seed "loans" On top
OF these special Treasury handouts
there's the 81 ,000, 900 900 year it costs to
run the Department of Agriculture. with
It's army OF $4,000 employees throughout
the country, soon to be heavily increased
by regiments OF crop-control snoopers.
Japans Roman Catholic converts. a
large and growing body, are preparing
TO issue pamphlets in five languages for
dissemination among the Catholics of
the world in an effort to win sympathy
for Japan's war on China A prominent
member OF the Toxic committee in
charge Of the propaganda drive is Rear
Admiral Yamamoto. Former Washing
ton Ambassador Debuchi is one of
Japans Catholic leaders. Appealing
especially to American Catholics. the
pamphlet will point out that IF the
United States were as thickly populated
As Japan 1t would be supporting 1,5OO,-
100000 people, or ten times its present
population. Would then, we venture to
ask, Mexico and Canada be left undis-
turped? There are not even 100 square
feet of tillable earth per japanese can
lta, not one square mile of productive
h.yr, h4;,
One OF Europes eminent economic
research and statistical experts, DR.. Karl
fr1oram OF Czechoslovakia, is now on
duty at the Social Security Board. He
Is especially engaged in studies dealing
Win Unemployment compensation, q
domain in which he rates as a world
authority. Prior to entering the United
States service, DR.. Pribram was at
tached to the Brookings Institution.
Previously, after distinguished career
on the faculties of the Universities of
Prague, Vienna and Frankfort and in
the central statistical Office of the Aus
trian government, DR.. Pribram was chief
OF the research division in the Interna-
tional Labor Office at the League of Ma
tions. 1t was there that his attainments
came to the attention of John G. Winant,
who was appointed first chairman of
the Social Security Board while serving
as assistant director of the I. L. o. at
Geneva.
Representative Luce, Republican. of
Massachusetts poured hot shot into the
housing bill on the eve of its passage in
the House. Announcing he was going
to speak for certain groups rarely rec
ognized on this floor-the forgotten
men," the cultured Bay Slater charged
that President Roosevelt, when he took
that phrase from the writings of Profess
sor Charles Sumner, perverted its mean
ings and application. 1t was not used
oy Sumner in connection with the lowest
stratum Of society, but was meant to de-
scribe the great middle classes of this
country. They are the forgotten men"
Luce then aSsailed Federal mortgage
financing rs unfair to 10,000,O00 building
and loan association members, II, soc, 900
savings bank depositors and So ,OOO, 900
holders Of 10000, 900 life insurance poll
cies He argued that even the small
drop in interest which will be taken
from the resources of these institutions
through operation of the national mort
gage act will work direct hardship to
the forgotten men" who own them.
Waltham's watchman also attacked the
housing plan as q new and far-reaching
Government invasion of the field of
private enterprise.
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