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Evening star., 1937-10-21

publicly that he was determined to
balance the budget All the atmos-
phere, the whole emphasis, was on
ending the period of spending in order
to bring recovery. Underlying the new
policy, presumably, was the theory
that recovery is here. That pump
printing" and other depression ex-
penditures were no longer necessary.
Then on Tuesday came one of
the most sensational price-drops the
securities markets have ever had. The
fall was of proportions which, in past
experience, have usually heralded
rather marked recesSions in business.
Decidedly the stock market was not
saying that recovery is here. Rather it
was saying the opposite.
Cause and Effect Jumbled.
Let us not read any necessary mean
ing into the coincidence Of Mr.. Roose-
velt's assumption that recovery is here
with the securities market indication
that some degree of business recession
is ahead. Between the two incidents
is no necessary relation of cause and
tItCl. ouCll a IGldIlOil may NC AAiSA
but no one can be certain it is. Much
of the fallacious thinking currently
affecting the world arises from mis-
takenly assuming relation Of cause
and effect between events which have
no such relation or only slight one.
But the stock market slump raises
some interesting questions about bal
ancing the budget, and about Mr..
Roosevelt's policies generally. The
stock market slump is not much taken
into account yet except by persons
closely concerned. Readers of news
papers distant from the great cities
are hardly aware that anything has
happened or that it means anything
to them. But nearly all experience
suggests that market slump of this
extent is followed fairly soon by re-
cession in volume of general business,
including. of course, some increase
in unemployment. Indeed this is fore
east by other indexes, such as the
Evening star., 1937-10-21
Stocks Deny Recovery
Slump Challenges Roosevelt Belief Need of Pump
Priming Has Disappeared.
drop in activity in the steel industry.
Recession Hits Budget Balance.

drop in activity in the steel industry.
Recession Hits Budget Balance.
If there is marked increase of un-
employment, what will be the reaction
of Congress, the President and the
country? Will Mr.. Roosevelt continue
in determination TO balance the
budget? Balancing the budget is
made more difficult by business recess
sion in two ways. Increase Of unem-
ployment leads to demand for Govern
ment expenditure to take care of it.
Will Congress be in mood to call
for more expenditures, more public
works, more borrowing, a new install
ment of pump -priming? New bor-
rowing at time when the national
debt is about 35 billion dollars is a
difficult matter from borrowing when
the national debt was only about %
billion dollars, as 1t was about the
time the Roosevelt administration
began.
And unemployment, and the taking
care of Unemployment, at time when
the cost of living is high, is different
matter from unemployment at time
when the cost Of living was low, as it
was when Mr.. Roosevelt embarked on
the principle that the Federal Govern
ment must make itself responsible for
the unemployed.
If there is a business recession
sufficient to cause the public to 5e
unpleasnatly conscious Of twill the
country, under that condition. and
aware of the high cost of living-will
the country be sympathetic to policy
of crop control, which means paying
farmers cash from the public Treasury
for not raising food?
Possible Questions.
If there is business recession and un-
employment sufficiently marked to
have political effects. and If President
Roosevelt is reproached for having
failed TO bring dependable recovery,
what will be his attitude? Will he
take refuge in pointing an accusatory
finger toward other quarters? Will he
say that the recovery he promised was
defeated only because some of his
measures were frustrated? Will he
say, in effect, that if he had got his
measure to change the Supreme Court,
and if he had been allowed to keep
N. r. A. and A. A. A., he would in
that event have brought assured
economic happiness? And will he now
ask once more for those measures or
their equivalents? And if he takes
that line, how will Congress and the
country feel about it? Will they be
inclined to give him greater powers?
Or will they feel that his way Of
bringing recovery has not worked?
Will they be disillusioned about his
magic and turn away from him?
In all this there is much If" and
much more question than answer.
About all We can say is that business
recession might change the political
picture, and mark the beginning of a
new phase of the era in which We
have been for several years.
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-21

tary Is out Of town
Just returned from a trip West
with a quick glimpse at some Of ths
Public Works projects. Mr.. West spoke
at Albuquerque and El Paso.
81 Dragged about the accomplish
ments of the New Deal" Mr.. West
said with his expansive smile.
Mr.. Vests education and political
background serve him well in his
contact work for the President. Born
at Mount Vernon, Ohio, graduate
Of Ohio Wesleyan University. he went
Immediately to Naples in the con-
sular service. The problems Of those
re-Mussolini days led him to the
study Of international law. He took
postgraduate work at Harvard Uni
versity, subsequently taught constitu-
tional law for years at Denison
University, Grandville. Ohio. The
district elected him a Representative
to the seventy-second Congress. where
he served as a member Of the Foreign
Affairs and Ways and Means Commit
tees.
MY NDIk ID lIOl bDDg glIies 6lVueh
some seem to think it is" Mr.. West
says. 1t is, he says, a matter OF
reconciling the divergent viewpoints
Of the leaders in Congress TO the
presidential viewpoint. 1t is a party
program. At the moment. the Re-
publican viewpoints do not concern
him. His brief-case bulges with let
ters from the soon-to-return Demo-
cratic leaders. His phone, long dis
tance and local, keeps him posted.
1t is 16-hour a day job when Con-
gress is in session.
When all is said and done, Secre-
tary West is par excellence one Of
the fiye intimate White House aides
Tommy" Corcoran writes the legal
language of congressional bills, ever
the Presidents speeches. so 1t il
rumored. James Roosevelt Is admin
istrative; Marvin Mcintyre. appoint
ments; Stephen Early. the press.
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dignity and the Office Of the President OF ne oned States
bright musical play which opened before the
Bankers Association at Boston,
Id Rather Be Right" the
deliberately burues not only President roosevelt
legitimate subjects for theatcal aoonsj
but his mother.
This goes beyond political raises the issue of common
decency good taste.
Only raising hnabaloo against censorship
can a position take to protect the lndes
from public and Intentional mockery This
hitting beloW the belt.
a unctuous Presidentworshp
Chief Executive He is political
picturesque personality reformer who has
offended many powerful interests
That he should those who to drag
perhaps certainly inevitable at this stage in
that
strengthen political standing with the Of the people
What curiosity the mentality OF the uho
employ political argument and pho
prepared of the American Nation and TO
controlled
the interest OF the tar dodgers de lure.
Suppose to produce play making
and the family Of the Chief
the police would wade in to stop
the performance.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

As ranking Republican oldest point
the House Foreign Affairs Committee
for the Republican party international relations has hnd
he organize and lead neutrality drive in the House.
Meanwhile the proneuraity crowd
Department still hopeful
the law invoked The idea being the
neutral
hurt getting cooperation
negotiations.
1t is interesting probably
State officials
being referred frequently generally
How the Supreme Courts changing its
which
be told.
The cone headed by Secretary Labor repre-
ntat of the Womens officials including
Puerto Rico which have minimum laws for
Back in 1928 the Supreme said that
law, which prescribed minimum
living unconstitutional 1885, held invalid
fixed such the basis of fair
However, When the Washington ldw tested in
1887 upheld Legal
to bar particular method
State may permits
Today
minimum four prescribe of
rendered" while living
as But 1t
minimum standards.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
We, the People
New Musical Comedy Ridculing Presidents Family Is
Held Unfair Because He Can't Strike Back.
BY J. FRANKLIN.

~ Spring 1882 recall elaborate hard
- bounding
| \ printer President
- enough, but 1t
established calculated the
political standing President Of the United and efforts
made TO suppress it.
reect Republican brought to bear
Hopkins Adams noveI "Repey
the Harding
administration daughter"
adequate reuew.
"Of amusing
which avoided the
Evening star., 1937-10-21
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

~ Monday afternoon Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in the course
\ of a statement about the
~ budget, announced that he
had given directions to wind up two
OF the great agencies for recovery
through spending. The Public Works
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- y" Q -
A d m / n istration
was to take on no
new projects, and
no existing COM
mitments were to
be increased. A
similar announce
ment was made
about the Recon-
struction Finance
Corporation.
About the same
time, important
members of the
a d m / n istration
who had talked
with the Presi-
ent declared
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liaison officer be-
tween the White
House and Con-
gress.
His work In
Interior may be
described as su-
perVisory, admin
tstrative, policy
forming. He Is
e n t h u 81 ast1e
about the work
OF the 10 bureaus,
with their diver
sity of conservs-
ton interests. He
is loco PARENTS"
when the Secre-
Evening star., 1937-10-21

listened to by the
100000 W h o
voted, as he said,
for the Repub-
lican cause last
Autumn, then it
would seem su-
perhuous to tell
them over again
why the Demo-
cratic cause is
Objectionable.
There may be
pr e tty general
agreement among
Republicans, in
fact an almost
unanimous onin-
Evening star., 1937-10-21

Yet here we find the bankers,
whose business is based on Fed
eral authority, whose safety de-
pends on "law and order" and
whose very hides Mr.. Roosevelt
saved four short years ago, guf-
fawing fulsomely at calculated
mockery of the men and institu-
tfons which saved them. Per-
haps the philosopher was right
when he observed that the Bour-
bons learn nothing and forget
Evening star., 1937-10-21
An American
You Should
Know
Charles West Has Dual
Job With Interior
and White House.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

TN ONE Of the new de luxe De-
partment Of Interior suites,
leather upholstered, rose cur
= tanned, Charles West carries on
his two-fold job. He is Under secre-
tary of Interior, position created for
him by the President in 1885. He Is
Evening star., 1937-10-21

the like that
these articles leaving that the States view of wide
prices.
the New Deal adviser just returned from abroad
Presidents Chicago speech
stop-war
the
the Of tactics
Evening star., 1937-10-21
COP. Lacks
Affirmative
Program
Victory Is Doub te d
Without Definite
Plan to Offer.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

w YHILE former Gov. Landon
M made an interesting and
" " rather persuasive speech
of the negative variety
proving that the New Deal and Presi-
dent Roosevelt have made mistakes
there was little, if anything, of con-
structively affirmative value in the
utterance by the standard bearer of
the Republican party.
The Republican spokesman are still
clinging to the notion that all that is
necessary to dislodge the Democrats
from power is to call attention to their
errors. If Mr.. Landon's address was
Evening star., 1937-10-21

I Wonder-or rather do not
wonder, for I know-what would
have happened to any playwright
or producer or tbeater owner who
had proposed, during the IL years
Of Republican control at Wash
ington. to stage a play which pub
licly burlesqued Mr., and Mrs.
Coolidge or Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover
and their respective families. 1t
would quietly have been suppressed
from the start, as calculated
Evening star., 1937-10-21


b before the sIksocking
good
all
Insults
Womenfolk of the who has offended them.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

THE opinions the Ders this page their oon
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented n
Stars to all sides questions OF interest to it's
readers although such opinions be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
What's Back of It All
Fish Hopes to Push His Own Neutrality Bill With
Campaign in House.
BY H. r. BAUKHAGE.

Hamilton Fish Friday night and charges
w world the Republican Representa-
light fuse leading right into the middle Of
the special session.
the Speakers desk petition for the
sitting Fhs neutrality
Evening star., 1937-10-21

bill. That piece Of legislation Is
short and sweet, and, if passed,
would force the President to "be
neutral" whether or no. 1t would
stop shipment Of all arms and am
munition to anybody, anywhere,
any time.
MIR. Fish explains that the act
was introduced to meet a specific
case, i. e., the Far Eastern trouble.
But once the situation changed, it
could, If necessary, be repealed.
Evening star., 1937-10-21

In other words, the growing
concern of the State minimum
wage boards in trying to arrive at
a minimum pay rate, regardless of
the provisions of their particular
laws, appears to be how much it
costs woman worker to live.
To aid in this discussion the
Federal bureau has worked out a
detailed list of the items which
should 60 into a woman's budget,
including even the number of hats,
Evening star., 1937-10-21

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Evening star., 1937-10-21

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~ Everybody loves the girl with soft smooth skin!
.ts really easy to make skin loveier if you just know
how" says charming Mrs. Hughes. Using Camay
regularly quickly taught that. It's amazing what
difference this nice soap makes"
Smooth the pearls she wears clear her deep blue
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More and more girls are using Camay simply because
they've learned this: No soap has the sof caressng
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Evening star., 1937-10-21

(copyright, 1e37.J
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
Army Orders
Army orders OF the week Include these
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION BOARD

Army orders of the week include these: 1:
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION BOARD
A board of medical officers consisting
of the following is appointed to meet at
the General Dispensary, Munitions Build
ing, Washington, at p. M, Jan. 10, ana
on such other dates as necessary at the
call of its president, to conduct the an.
nual physical examination Of officers OF
the Regular Army on duty in WASH
ington who may properly be ordered
before the board. The board Will be
governed by the provisions of Paragraph
2, A. R. 4O-100, as changed by change
No. 3. June Is, 1887, and will prepare
and forward a separate report on each
officer examined, on Form No. So,
A. G. O., to the Adjutant General Of the
Army through the Surgeon General:
Lieutenant Colonels-Gramel H. Stan
ley NJ. C. (presidenD; John W. Watts,
NJ. C. (recordeD; James P. Crawford
NJ. c.; Ralph H. Simmona M C;
Charles G. souder, NJ. c.; Stanley G..
James B. owen, NJ. G.
Majors-David l.. Robeson, NJ. c.:
James N. Epperley, D. c.; Eugene W.
aptains-willam L. Wilson. NJ. c.;
Harold W. Glattly. M. c.; Rawley E.
Chambers, M. c.: Kenneth A. Brewer.
NJ. c.; Charles ]. eastman, D. G. -.
The members Of the above board will
p. M Friday, January Z, for organ
ization.
OTHER ORDERS
COLONELS
Harold W. Jones, NJ. c., detailed mbr.
retiring bd. apptd. to meet at Wash
ington by par. g. S. o. 1855, as amended.
Alexander Murray. M. c.. rel. above.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
Ralph S. Kimball, A. G. D., rel. New
York Dec. 81; to home, await retire
ment.
MAJOR
Capt. James c. Cluck, A. C., rel. Wash
inEton, April "a; to Maxwell Field, Mont
gomery, Ala.
CAPTAIN
Donald D. McCaskey, inf, rel, 29th
Inf. Ft. Sill, Okla; to duty as asst. to
q. M, same sta, Dec. 20.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS
Katherine A. Harke, nurse, N. c.. re-
tired Dec. 81.
1. s: o. 254, granting leave of absence.
revoked.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
Brig Gen. Charles Burnett, Ch. of
Bur. of 1nsular Affairs, 1 day, Dec. a.
Col. Robert S. Thomas, c. of E., 3
mos, April 20.
1t. col: Edward weidner. M. c.. 3
1t. Col. Walter F. Kraus (Ma1).
"a. C). G. S. c., days, Dec %.
Il. Col. Oliver S. Wood (Inf.), G. s. c..
8 days, Dec. rs.
First 1t. Edmund c. D. Lasher, @. M.
c.. days Dec. Is.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
Button, Button
Thief Suspect Had 1t,
Police Found 1t

NEWARK, Dec. 16.-Police
played Button, Button; Who's
Got the Button?" with burglary
Suspect-and won.
The police found most of the
button in fragments on the floor
near the White Ice g. Coal Com
pany'S safe at Railway after a
$92.40 robbery last week. They
found the rest of it dangling from
the topcoat of Q man arrested on
suspicion here.
Booked on a burglary charge,
the prisoner identified himself, ap-
prcpriately enough, as Stephen
Button, of Newark.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
Navy Orders
LIEUTENANTS

LIEUTENANTS
George W. Allen. det. U. s. s. Vega
Dec. 9; to comm. U. s. E. Quail.
William C. A1sserson, jr., uncompleted
portion of ors. Aug. 81 to VP-5 revoked
to VP-2.
John M. Kernaday. det. as exec off.
to comm. U. 8. S. Hatfield.
Van Rensselaer, Moore, det. C. O., u.
S. s. Quail Dec. 9; to U. S. s. Holland
Edward K. shanahan, det. vP-2 Dec.
7; to Destroyer Sqdn. 1.
LIEUTENANTS. JUNIOR GRADE
Robert c. H. Hird, ors. Nov. to VP-5
revoked; det: YB-3 (U. S. S. saratoga)
Dec. 20: to VP-1S.
Francis ]. Smedley, det. Battleship
Div. Dec. 10; to u. S. s. Reuben James
MEDICAL CORPS
Cdr. Walter A. Vogelsang, det. Nav
War College, Newport, r. l.. March /;
to staff, Cdr. Battle Force, as force
surgeon.
1t. Herman Gross, det. yard. Pearl
Harbor, T. H., in Feb; to Nav. Hosp.
Pearl Harbor.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
Divorced Month,
Remarries at 81

WHITESBURG, KY, Dec. 16.
James H. Frazier, 81, Whitesburg
merchant, took a honeymoon
after his remarriage to his di-
vorced wife, 76, from whom he
was granted divorce last month.
She had been awarded $500 ali
nony.
Frazier, with a cane in each
hand. trudged over icy streets to
the WhiteSburg Methodist Church,
where the Rev. Moody, pastor of
the church, performed the cere-
mony. Divorce came. with ali
mony, after a long contest in the
Circuit Court.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
LAND HOLDINGS
OF U. S. VALUED
At 4 BILLIONS
20 Per Cent of Nation
FederaE0Wned
BY ERIC FRIEDHEIM
Copyright, 1897, by International
News Service.)

news service
Real estate holdings Of the Fed.
eral Government today were ap-
praised at $4,159, 100000 as re-
suit of the first official inventory
Of Uncle Sans vast properties
situated within the United States.
Statistics now in process Of COM
pilation by auditors of the Treas
ury Departments Procurement
Division show that the Govern
ment owns approximately $685.
100000 acres of land in the 48
States and the District Of Colum-
bia.
20 PER CENT OF U. S.
According to preliminary esti-
mates, the Governments holdings
are equal to 20 per cent of the
total acreage of the United States.
The total land area Of the nation
is computed at 1908, 200, 900 acres.
The current Treasury real es-
tate inventory is the first ever to
be undertaken by the Government.
Up to now, records pertaining to
the extensive properties have been
scattered in the files Of individual
official departments and agencies.
Some months ago, the Admin
istration directed the Treasury to
make a complete survey of real
estate holdings as a means of
gathering accurate data which can
be used in future fiscal matters
between the Government and its
States and territories.
INCLUDES PUBLIC DOMAIN
The latest appraisal of real es-
tate holdings includes a valuation
Of $1,259,000,000 placed on the
public domain. The various prop
critics included in the audit were
public lands, national parks, post
offices, public buildings, national
battlefield sites, national ceme-
teries, military establishments,
monuments, memorials, etc.
Properties in Alaska, Hawaii,
the Philippines, Puerto Rico and
other possessions were not in
cluded.
The value of the various hold
ings is approximately $400, 900, 900
less than the original cost to the
Government. Computed at cur
rent market worth, many of the
Government properties have been
written down in value because of
obsolescence.y e~s -.
HUGE LAND STAKES
In many of the States, the Gov
eminent has a huge land stake
According to the studies, Uncle
Sam owns 80 per cent of the acre
age of Nevada. Nevada's total
area is 7O,200,000 acres, of which
the Government holds $4,000, 900
valued at $8O,000,0 900.
The Government also owns more
than half the land area in the
States of Arizona, Idaho and
Utah.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16

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SEEN and HEAR
around the
NATIONAL CAPITAL;
By Carter Field
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

70 per cent of their Pullman-class
business to the air lines.
Cheerful interviews of few
weeks back about holding expendi-
lures to the bone, coming from
prominent figures in the house and
senate. are just the old annual bum
combe. Maybe some ofethose so ex-
pressing themselves believed it at
the time, though some of them just
must have known better.
Actually the picture that will be
obvious to insiders in the next few
months will be rather unusual for
this administration. For President
Roosevelt will be on the side of hold
ing expenditures down, with a
crowd of yarmering wolves de-
manding more and more from him.
On top of the fact that appropria-
tons for the army, navy and inter-
es. on debt cannot be cut-the
President being firm believer in
strong army and navy and the in
terest ON debt being fixed-there is
really not much prospect OF any Sc
rious cutting of federal expenditures
except what may be accomplished
on relief. And Harry L. Hopkins
already is having his troubles try
ing to do that.