The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
LODGE OFFERS
BILL TOPROBE
j. s. IDLENESS
Wants Full Facts; Thinks
New Deal Solution of
Problem Inadequate
By HARRY w. SHARPE
Copyright, 1887, United Press)


WASHINGTON, Jan. II. (UP)
Henry Cabot Lodge, 34-year-old
Republican from Massachusetts,
has tackled the man-sized problem
of unemployment as his first task
in the United States senate.
Perhaps in answer to his de-
feated Democratic opponent who
implored voters not to send "a
boy to do mans job" Lodge
introduced his first bill toward
this goal on the day after he was
sworn in to the post once filled
by his famous grandfather, the
arch foe of the League of Ma
tons and the world court.
A clerk brought in the official
printed copy of his bill as he
talked to the United Press repre-
sentative. Lodge beamed with OBJ
vious pride as he glanced over
IS. %: A bill to provide for TAX
ing a national unemployment CEN
suS."
The young senator professed to
be vexed with the lack of public
ity his bill received compared with
the way his name and picture
were plastered over front pages
the day congress opened because
he happened to be in a capitol
elevator which dropped two stories
without hurting anybody.
Lodge indicated he will revere
the senate's unwritten rule that
new members may be seen but not
heard. But in connection with his
bill he said:
81 introduced it in order that
we may have authorized informa-
ton as to the number, of persons
who are unemployed and the
cause and duration Of unemploy.
ment. 1t is vitality necessary that
we have full knowledge of all the
facts in order to make plans that
will work and in order to expend
money intelligently. The statisti-
cal data which will be gathered
will enable us to determine to a
great extent the causes for the
depression and will further enable
us to make plans to guard against
a repetition"
The bill calls for a census as
og January 2 by the post office
department, classifying the job
less by race, sex, age, customary
occupation, and the duration OF
their unemployment.
Lodge believes the New Deals
relief measures are not the solu-
ton to the unemployment prob
lem. While he does not magnify
his own Importance as a fresh
man" and member of the
meagre minority, he believes he
can contribute to the solution. But
he refused to reveal what future
proposals he has in mind, of his
attitude on other current prob
lens. -,
Lodge entered the senate with
perhaps the greatest accolade OF
any new member since Rush Holt,
D.. w. Va. Among the new MEM
bers. some of them obviously i'll
at ease, he appeared self-confi-
dent. Veteran Democrats and Re.
publicans-some of whom had
served with his grandfather.
sought him out and introduced
themselves. -,
He is only three years older
than Holt, and like the West Vir-
ginian, defeated a veteran Demo-
crat to win election. Lodge re-
ceived $4,000 more votes than
James NJ. Curley, then the Demo-
cratic governor of Massachusetts,
who entered politics the year be-
fore Lodge was born.
He came here hoping for seat
on the important senate foreign
relations committee but learned
that senate neophytes, regardless
of their ancestry OF poiltlcai
background, have to win their
spurs to be acceptable to the ell
der statesmen. :,
Young Lodge is said to be an
astute internationalist. Much or
his pre-campaign time was devGt-
ed to studying international pom,
tics in the hope that he would
make the foreign relations COM
mittee.
Old timers say he may make