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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16

restrictions by banks, Mr.. Eccles
limited that their failure to follow
this plan would result in government
credit agencies. Summing up state
ments by Lubin, Henderson and Ec-
cles, observers saw that govern
ment's efforts for business revival
are still far from clear.
Business: More tangible and op-
timistic is the reform program of
U. S. industry, heartened by the
current economic upturn and will
ing to make peace with government.
Meeting in New York, the National
Association of Manufacturers key
noted for "co-operation-to make
America click" It's points: ~
peace with labor; (2) acceptance of
social responsibility; (3) acceptance
of regulation, in general theory; az
end unemployment; 90 please the
consumer with higher quality, lower
costs and predetermined policies.
Business requests to government:
"a Wagner act modification: (2)
limitation of armament expenditures
to avert unnecessary diversion Of
funds; (3) no encouragement of for
eign trade at cost to domestic in
dustry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Indictment Used as Club
OUer Auto CORPORATIONS

But, again, / am not so much con-
cerned with Mr.. Arnold's own esti-
mate of Mr.. Arnold, but with the
results flowing from that officials
acts.
The act that brings on this dis
cuSSion was involved in what is
known as a consent decree. The
department of justice obtained a
grand jury indictment of some of
the larger automobile manufacture
ing corporations and their officials
under antitrust statutes. The
charges involved the use, by the
companies, of what were described
as, monopolistic practices in the
financing of new cars sold to in
stallment buyers. Each of the larg-
er companies, as I understand it,
owns subsidiary corporation to
which a retail dealer can sell the
notes he takes when the buyer of a
car wants to pay for the vehicle over
period of year or longer.
I do not know the intricate ma
ture of the scheme, and there may
have been many grounds for the in
dictment. Indeed, I think a grand
jury would not have returned an in
dictment unless its members saw
something that was not proper. But
when the department of justice had
the indictment, it used it as a club.
It's officials, under Mr.. Arnold's
guidance, are reported to have said
to the motor magnates, in effect:
now, if you admit certain Of these
charges and agree to stop the prac-
tees, and if you will agree to COM
ply with certain other conditions
which we lay down, we will not
prosecute, criminally. So, the mo-
tor companies apparently elected to
agree and avoid further prosecution.
Thus, there came about decree by
the consent of the accused.
In the first place, I can not be-
Iieve there is any legal right in our
laws for the consent decree. It has
been used long time, but it seems
to me that it contains very danger
GUS elements. 1t ought to be stopped
and there ought be no indictments
brought unless there is an inten-
ton to carry the battle clear
through. There ought to be either
a conviction or an acQuittal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Arnold Assumes Dictation
Over Auto Advertising

In the case of the motor manufac-
turers, however, Mr.. Arnold's deter
mination to make things over has
come to the surface to an even
greater extent than heretofore, even
with Mr.. Arnold. For Mr.. Arnold
has decided that the motor compa-
MES have been spending too much
money for advertising their prod
ucts. In spending so much money
for advertising, Mr.. Arnold opines
that they are thereby creating a
monopoly. In other words, as
trust buster, Mr.. Arnold figures that
he can become boss of the normal
practice of business advertising. It
can be construed no other way.
I have looked into the question
from number of angles and have
consulted with numerous individuals
who know their law better than I
know mine. Nowhere have found
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Congress Might Well Take
Notice of These Conditions

Having seen what can happen
when men, instead Of laws, consti-
tute the authority for government,
it seems to me that congress might
well take notice. 1t has given birth
to children in the form of countless
regulations that are running around
the land like so many thousand
legged monsters. Why, I wonder,
does not congress take look at
what has sprung from its own FAM
lily of laws. To grow facetious for a
moment: congress probably would
find trouble with its own "in-laws,"
as well as private persons whose
mothers-in-law have been charac-
terized in story.
have wondered many times
whether more than a very small
number of farmers ever understood
the AAA contracts, and the regula-
tons to which those contracts re-
ferred., Examination of the terms
gave me little ink,ing Of how thor
oughly the signers were bound, al
though, as AAA officials often ex-
planned, the provisions were plainly
printed. That fact, however, never
has altered really bad situation.
None of us can be expert in all
things. We, therefore, are more or
less at the mercy of the individuals
who are clothed with the power Of
office and who relegate to them
selves additional power because
they know those against whom it is
used frequently have no understand
ing of the whole situation. Thus, /
reiterate, it appears to be time for
congress to review its own work and
make government understandable.
Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Religion

Most Observation-Disclosures for Ger
many's beleaguered Jews, even the
official intergovernmental commit
tee now meeting in London, have
made only slight effort to secure per-
sonal contact with the No. enemy
of Jews, Adolf Hitler. The only
move in this direction was made by
George Rublee, American member
of the intergovernmental commit
tee, who will not visit Hitler with
out an official invitation. But from
New York recently sailed three
Pennsylvania Quakers, who an
nounced they hoped ''to see Chan
cellor Hitler himself and take up
the whole problem"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Undue PosUer Is Giuen
Into Hands of Bureaucratic

Congress, itself, is to blame many
times for putting undue power into
the hands of bureaucrats. There is
seldom any law passed by congress
that does not include a provision
which authorizes an executive agen-
cy, administering the statute, to
promulgate regulations for carrying
out the laws intent. Those regula-
tions, needless to say, have the force
and effect of law, and thus con-
gress has delegated power about
which the Individual representatives
and senators know nothing.
On the other hand, except for the
trait that I have been discussing
one so boldly evident in Mr.. Arnold
those regulations could be drawn
in nearly every instance to give
individuals all of the freedom need
ed to transact business, instead Of
piling one restriction upon another.
I doubt very much that any one per-
son in the whole United States
knows all of the charlottesville
dos and the don ts-that comprise
the law of the nation today. No one
knows them because it would re-
quire an entire lifetime of an indi-
vidual to obtain them and read
them. And before he had read very
many, there would be new crop;
there would be changes in those he
had read, and there would be new
laws with new regulations.
We have heard much in late years
about government by men rather
than government by law. Well, we
have it in this country in a big way.
It is not as bad, of course, as in the
case of Hitler or Mussolini or Stain.
When those brothers want to change
a law, they change it by decree.
They may 60 through the formality
of a ratification" by a set of
stooges some time, but the stooges
were selected as yes-men long in
advance.
Everyone has read of the Jewish
atrocities in Germany, but the mon
strosity, itself, overshadowed the
fact that during all of the purge,
there was one decree-law after an
other being issued from Hitler's
headquarters. Each time somebody
found loophole or the officials dis
covered a previous decree did not
accomplish all that was desired, out
would pop a new decree.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16

EDITORS NoTE-When opinions are
expressed in these columns, they are those
Of the news analyst. and not necessarily
Of the newspaper.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
agriculture

A natural result of the U. S.
British reciprocal trade agreement
is that some domestic industries will
gain, others lose. The theory is that
gains Offset losses, working to our
national benefit. First tests of this
policy now loom as a result of the
federal surplus commodity corpora
tion's sale of 2O,000,000 bushels in
American wheat to British flour
manufacturers.
Until now, the corporation has
subsidized both flour and wheat ex-
ports, but British millers think this
is unfair in view Of England's agree
ment to remove it's six-cent tariff
on American wheat. Consequently
stipulation in the 20, 1000, 000-bushel
sale is that F. S. c. c. subsidy on
flour exported to great Britain (cur-
rently $1.05 a barely be removed.
Thus U. S. wheat sales to Britain
will be facilitated, but flour manu-
facturers will lose an export mar
ket.
The British sale is by far the most
important transaction yet made in
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace's program to substitute 100,-
100000 bushels of export wheat this
fiscal year. BY early December this
program had netted sales of SO, 000,-
600 bushels, of which F. S. c. C.
had purchased %, 42O, 900 bushels by
November IS. Of this, 10000 900
bushels had been sold abroad at an
average loss to the corporation of
1914 cents. The British transaction
alone will cost F. S. c. c. about
$4,000 900.
What will happen to the U. S.
wheat situation between now and
next spring is anybody's guess.
Even though the export program is
carried out completely, $50, 1000, OOO-
bushel surplus will still face farm
ers when they start harvesting next
years crop. Latest in series Of
suggested panaceas is that of DR..
Merrill K. Bennett, economist of the
Stanford university food research in
stitute, who wants the U. S. to place
a foor-somewhere between SIS and
10 cents-under which wheat prices
could not fall. Next year, he pre-
diets, "the world may be literally
swamped with surplus wheat"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
People

The name Of Masaryk, famous in
Czechoslovakian history since Thorn
as G. Masaryk founded the nation
20 years ago, will leave that nations
officialdom forever on January /.
Jan Masaryk, son Of the Czech "fa-
Their" and minister to Great Britain
for IA years, has announced his re-
tirement in protest to his country's
capitulation to Germany.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Domestic

Last spring the New York legis-
lature passed a bill which potential
,ly effects every citizen in the U. S.
Reducing from 6 to 5 per cent the
interest which life insurance COM
panies may charge on policy loans,
the Piper-O' Brien bill has necessi-
tated nationwide revision of inter-
est rates because insurance COM
panies cannot charge different rates
in different states.
Upshot is that most companies
are boosting their premium charges
from 10 to 20 per cent on policies
written after January /, although
many firms made the change De-
cember l. Policies in effect be-
fore the readjustment will not be af-
fected, but in addition to lower in
terest rate and higher premiums,
the following additional revisions
will be made on most new policies:
(1) reduction of guaranteed interest
rates to beneiciaries; ~ lower in
terest rates on dividends left with
companies; (3) increased pre-
miums on endowment annuity poll
-cies; (4) withdrawal or substantial
change in certain types Of con-
tracts.
BY reducing policy loan interest
charges from 6 to 5 per cent, in
surance firms will lose annual rev.
enue totaling $50,000,00O. Other fac
tors necessitating higher premiums
include the difficulty Of finding sat-
isfactory capital markets, and the
2 small amount Of new financing now
being done.
Business
e Until this year, depression-ridden
U. S. did not bother to ask why the
nations economic cylinders had
grown rusty. Government and bust
ness alike were more interested in
oiling the machinery than in replac-
ing or adjusting rnisfit cogs. More
over, both worked from different di-
rections: government thought the
cure rested in greater U. S. regula-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16

WRITE TODAY FOR MY MONEY-MAK-
ING PLAN to sell and introduce our
Turkey-Poults In your community.
s, r., SCHLEY Pikesville, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16

chamber of deputies to launch a
tumultous campaign for three
French possessions which Mussolini
covets: the African territory of Tu-
nisia, the island of Corsica and the
Franco-Italian border city of Nice.
Later came a rebirth of demands
for French-owned Djibouti, which
would give Ethiopia an ocean outlet.
Frances answer has been firm
negative, but this can hardly be
construed as final. There is every
indication that the Djibouti claim
will be granted, since France was
ready to make this surrender last
summer. What complexities the sit
uation is the friendship" pact
which Frances ally-Great Britain
has just instituted with Italy. Al
though this treaty respects terri
torial status quo in the Mediterrane-
an, Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain is going to Rome next month
with an apparent blank check to
appease Mussolini as he sees fit. If
Mr.. Chamberlain approves Italy's
new demands, France will be left
helpless.
Only hope in an otherwise befud-
died situation is that Germany may
break with Italy. After helping Hit
Ter reach into the European grab
bag for new territories, Italy is be-
ginning to wonder where her share
is coming from. But Germany, hap
py over her new non-aggresSion
treaty with France, may ask Musso-
1ini to look elsewhere for new colo
nies.o The new crisis certainly
proves no more than what sane OBJ
servers have. maintained since last
spring: that France and Britain
merely whet the Italo-German APP
petite each time they offer con-
cession. ~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
Politics

It is plausible that November cleo
ton gains by the iberalized Re
publican party should give strength
to old-line Republicans who have
taken a back seat in party affairs
since the disastrous defeat of 1886.
This very thing happened at the re-
cent national committee conference
in Washington, where confident lib
erals found themselves confronted
with an unexpectedly strong faction
of Hoover, DUPONT and Liberty
league Republicans. A still more inn
portant shift is that liberal G. o. p.
strength, which originated in the
rural areas, has moved to metro
politan cities and has been supplant-
ed in the small towns by stronger
conservative element. Having ap-
pointed conservative (ex-Sen. DAN
iel o. Hastings of Delaware) and a
liberal (Harvey Jewett of South Da-
kota) to fill two executive commit
tee vacancies, the party now finds
itself deadlocked on future course.
Though much talk is heard of po-
tential 1910 candidates, it is believed
the party must first decide which
way it's course shall be set--to lib
eralism or conservatism.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-12-16
White House

President Roosevelt's critics have
charged him with creating the cur
rent rearmament campaign to make
the public forget his defeat in No
vember's election. Although the
multi-billion rearmament program
has been advertised as a quick way
to put men back to work and stimu-
late business, critics further allege
that it is simply a form of pump
printing. If so, the U. S. Chamber
of Commerce has complained that
rearmament is a cumbersome and
slow process, poorly adapted to
pump-priming.
Seeking reasons for the outlay,
questioning legislators want to know
if a $3.50, 100000 increase in next
years arms appropriation (the first
in proposed five-year series) is
justified by world conditions. An
other important question is who will
handle the money, army-navy Off
Gals or political appointees. A
third: how much of the money would
be spent for defense of the immedi-
dLC W y. dACd, cllo IlOW 1lluClI I'LL
other parts of the Western hemi-
sphere?
Idaho's sagacious Sen. William
E. Borah is one of few legislators
thus far to comment on the bill. His
opinion: eff this huge armament
trend continues, the people are GO
ing to demand a voice in the mat
ter of going to war;"
This statement once again shifts
the spotlight on Indiana's Rep. Louis
Ludlow, whose constitutional amend
ment calling for a referendum on
offensive warfare was defeated by
the last congress. Having won re-
election last month in campaign
based on this issue alone, Mr.. Lud-
low plans to re-introduce his meas
ure before the next congress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-22
. STAMP NEWS

ON June 29th, in connection with
 the observance of the Dela- ware tercentenary, the govern ment of Finland is presenting a monument to the United States to be unveiled at Chester, Pa., near the site of the former settlement of Finland. At the same time the Finnish government will issue a special Delaware commemorative stamp, the design of which is shown above.
 This design was executed by Aarno Karimo, well known Finn ish artist, and portrays two male figures struggling with a stump to clear the pioneer land. The stamp, now available at the offices of the. American Finnish Tercentenary Committee, Crozer building, Ches- ter, Pa, is blue. Covers are also supplied by the committee.
 The Poston.ce Department has announced that the Accent Madi- son, 4k-cent White House, 5-cent Monroe, and the 6-cent John Quincy Adams denominations of the new regular U. s. series will be issued on July l, II, 21, and 28 respectively. Washington, D. C. postoffice will handle the first-day sales of each of these stamps. Or ders for first-day covers should be sent to the postmaster at Washing ton and separate orders should be submitted for no~', @o1or1ination.
 Panama hu. .-. --. ..4e list of na- tions honoring the 150th anniver- sary of the U. s. Constitution, is- suing regular set of eight values and airmail set of the same. Col ors will likely be multi-hued. The stamps will be available in about two months.
 First-day sales of the 2-cent U. S. John Adams stamp totaled $13,- 521. There were 127,806 covers cancelled.
 Copyright. 1898. NEA Service. Incl
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