Evening star., 1937-06-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

at political dictatorship" over workers
The plan is assailed as Fascist in trend
mainly on the ground that the govern
ment reserves for itself the right to
decide just which unions workers may
join. Canadian labor is seeking legis-
lation by the various provinces to
guarantee workers the legal right to
join organizations of their own selection.
The Quebec premier is the ally of Ontario
Premier Hepburn in combating John L.
Lewis attempt to gain foothold for c.
I. o. in Canada.
When the joint committee of Congress
turns the searchlight on alleged tax
evasion or avoidance by certain rich
Americans, it may delve for source
material into volume shortly to leave
the press under the authorship of
Ferdinand Lundberg. His book, entitled
Americas Sixty Families" is devoted
to Uncle Sans so-called 'dynasties of
wealth" Income reports to the Internal
Revenue Bureau were used as a basis
for listing threeScore families possessing
outstanding fortunes.
Honors are coming thick and fast
for Japans aristocratic Konoye family.
Last week the head of the house, Prince
Fumumaro konoye, was chosen premier.
Next day the princes son, Prince
Fumitaka Konoye. member of the
junior class at Princeton, was elected
captain of the varsity golf team for
the coming year. Formerly boy cham
pion Of Japan, the young prince was
captain and No. l man on the golf
team at LaWrenceville. at which he
prepped and was graduated in 1884
Princeton recently took second place
in the Middle Atlantic division of the
Eastern intercollegiate Golf League and
Prince Konoye placed No. 3 on the
team. While freshman, he led the
Tiger yearlings as captain and No. l.
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Current Washington figures about gold
and Government borrowing leave the
average patriot taxpayer dazed by the
eccentricites of Federal high finance.
On the same day the United States
monetary gold stock reached an all
time high of $12,O27 900 900, it was made
known that Secretary Morgenthau will
today, June 7, float 100000, 900 of new
Treasury notes for working balance"
purposes, including early retirement of
3oOU,UUO,UUO VI HldIuIl ing OlSCOullG UlllS.
John @. Citizen has to do lot of
head-scratching to figure out why his
opulent Uncle Sam, possessing 52.7 per
cent of all the worlds gold, finds it
necessary to borrow more money The
present gold hoard reflects an increase
of more than 76 per cent over the total
held in January, 1884, Immediately after
dollar revaluation. The latest billion
was piled onto the stack within eight
months, or at rate exceeding $125, ,000,-
600 a month. Incidentally, this weeks
Treasury financing raises the public debt
to the record peak of s35, 700 100000.
Mrs. Roosevelt on June 16 will join
the ever swelling ranks of Washington's
holders of IL D. degrees. John Marshall
College of Law at Jersey City will bestow
that distinction upon her. Herself a
product of private schools, the D. H. l..
of Russell Sage College is the only de-
gree listed by the Presidents wife in
her who's Who" autobiography. The
John Marshall award will be conferred
Gin recognition of her untiring industry
in the interest of broader and more
liberal educational activity and of her
splendid contributions to the general
public welfare during the last 20 years"
(Copyrght, 1879