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Evening star., 1939-06-21
Washington Observations
Richey's Statement on Expenditures
Indicates Hoover's Hat Is in Rinq

Hoover's name is popularity asso-
ciated is problematical. But that he
Graves vindication at the polls and
chance to show his mettle under
conditions different from those
which baffled him between 1929 and
1888 has come to be regarded GER
talnty In many quarters friendly to
the Sage of Palo Alto.
To Keep Us Out Of War.
No responsible member of Con-
gress any longer expects early
adjournment, hot weather to the
contrary Notwithstanding. with
passage Of tax bill now Just
around the corner, it is neutrality
which promises to prolong the ses-
sion. One of the foremost figures
In the Republican Senate minority,
who has to his credit a recent
spectacular victory over the admin
lstration, says Congress must remain
on the job ito keep America out of
war" He implies that with or with
out the Hull neutrality program,
there's danger Roosevelt will play
with international fire and commit
the United States to methods" that
Will not long remain short of war"
Congress cannot afford to 60 home.
the Senator in question insists, until
1t has deprived F. D. r. of any
possibility of executive action ca
pable of embroiling us in either
Europe or Asia. If a Senate fill
buster is necessary to that end. fill
buster it will be.
The Wooderson Foul"
Uncle Sam and John Bull have
survived controversy over sporting
events on other occasions-yacht
races, Olympic games. polo, rowing
and tennis matches-so the hula
baloo over the alleged "fouling" of
Sidney Wooderson in the Princeton
mile isn't likely to wreck the Anglo
American entente cordiale. 1t
would nevertheless be a mistake to
underestimate the Importance of
popular resentment in England over
the circumstances under which the
"Blackheath Harrier" was SO sound
ly beaten by four American rivals.
When Lord Dunraven and Tom
Sopwith shrieked 1--WE wuz cheated"
after certain Americas Cup defeats,
it was British uppertendom that
was peeved. Wooderson's undoing
comes home to the British masses.
to which he belongs. They are the
people who turn out in hundreds of
thousands for professional football
matches at Crystal Palace and else
where in the Kingdom. Let this
type Of Briton get it into his head
that British athletes are done in"
over here, and much of the good
feeling engendered by the recent
royal visit will go up in smoke.
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there are con- Frederic William VILE.
crete indications that the Californi-
ans hat Is in the ring. For one
thing. it seems impossible to make
any other deduction from the elabo-
rate statistical statement issued on
June 16 by Lawrence Richey, Mr..
Hoover's White House secretary and
still his personal representative, with
Offices in Washington. Its purpose
is to compare Government expendi-
lures under Hoover with those OF the
Roosevelt administration. The un-
DERIVING argument is that If the
same methods of Federal taxation
had been applied under Hoover, the
national debt would have been cut
in half during his four years in office
instead of being increased. The sum
and substance of the Richey mani
festo is that the Hoover deficit pay
able by taxpayers" was only Sl,02l,-
900 900. while the corresponding
Roosevelt deficit is S20,261 900 900.
Wants Uninstructed Delegates.
Larry" Richey's painStaking ef-
fort to clear up the confusion" in
the public mind regarding the rela-
tive merits of Hoover and Roosevelt
financing is not the only current
manifestation of the former Presi-
dents 1910 plans, such as they are.
The Chief" himself is giving life
and direction to them. During the
last few months he has visited pivot
al sections of the country and held
prearranged, off-the-record meet
ings with local Republican leaders
and newspaper people. Now and
then some of Hooyers utterances on
these occasions have found their
way into print. He was recently
quoted, for instance, as saying that
recovery will be the paramount issue
in 1910 and that, in order to be vic
torious, the G. O. P. has only to
espouse a program which will re-
verse cardinal New Deal blunders.
1t has also become known to
Hoover's friends that he favors a
1910 national convention of unin-
structed delegates. These quarters
have the definite impression that
while the Californian knows that
neither he nor any other Republican
could have been elected in 1886, he
is persuaded the party can win in
1910.
Roosevelt "the Man to Beat"
Hoover is convinced that Roose-
welt aspires to third term. He
doesn't think the President can be
easily defeated, but is certain F. D.
R. is the man we've got to beat"
Not only is Hoover of opinion that
the country is ready to register its
disgust with the New Deals failure
to achieve recovery, after fabulous
expenditure of public funds, but he
counts heavily. as any Republican
candidate would, upon national OPP
position to a third term. One talk
ing point sure to loom conspicuously
in any Hoover reelection campaign
would be the fact that the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. is Hoovers
creation. 1t was established by act
of Congress on January %, 1882, a
year and a quarter before he left
Office The present chairman OF R.
F. c., Jesse H. Jones, was appointed
a director by President Hoover in
February. 1882. 1t will not be easy,
his friends assert, for the Democrats
to deprive Hoover of credit for
founding the agency which today is
the bulWark and salvation Of the ma
tional economic structure. Whether
all or any of these facts and figures
would suffice to remove the aura of
failure and futility with which
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on the broadest possible base. Never
before in our history have so many
persons paid taxes to the Federal
Treasury. The result has been
business recession, beginning in
1887, from which the country has
not yet recovered.
The way to get more revenue is
to equalize the tax rates so that
business will be stimulated and so
that corporation taxes and indi-
vidual taxes on incomes above s1O,-
600 a year can bring in a bigger
revenue than is now possible by re-
strictive taxation. Governments.
like businesses, can often get
larger volume of return by reduc-
ing the price or, in this case, the
tax rate.
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Some of Those Who Spoke

told the students Earham College Richmond
Ind that liberty good thing and that
opposed to true liberalism work this for yourself with and
pencl Doc Mez genial editor of
Colgate that
a Lift D.
Of undnably
years academic lectures but there would
the public capacity Of absorbing this punishment
Is solemn enough event without having converted into
board for politics sounding board political
especially great lack of dignity in the
publican candidates the presidency 'boh
Roosevelt travelling afdLandon
the Government the
graduate
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Final Exercises Held
AT Abbot Vocational

Principal w. F.. Smith yesterday
presented diplomas and certificates
to 20 graduates of the Abbot Voca-
tional School at final exercises at
the school.
Edward Dore, president of the
graduating class. gave the address
of welcome and Richard Holmes the
valedictory.
The address to the graduates was
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$3.50 The
systems
Meanwhile the w A
of
only S44
is about
These three fguress52 so
social securltys unemployment benefit rolls
KIND for the man direct relief sufficient criticism the relief
system all by themselves There
speaking between the three relee
become charges
large the unucky fellows
this but of the anomalies
Iiance Inc
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New StrutoIiner Coy
In 16,500-Foot Cold
By the Associated Press.

by tDe hsSOCldteu FIeeo.
SEATTLE, June 21-At an altitude
of 16,500 feet, nine Boeing Airplane
Corp employees cruised in all the
comfort of home.
1t was degrees below zero, cent?
grade, outside ''but inside the cabin
we were perfectly comfortable in
our shirtsleeves," said Chief Test
Pilot Edmund T. Allen.
Boeing officials said it was the
initial test in the worlds first super
charged cabin transport plane-a
new stratoliner.
The altitude conditioning" equip
ment was designed to maintain
comfortable atmospheric conditions
within the cabin.
The test climaxed two and q half
years Of research and development
work to perfect altitude condition.
ing equipment.
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Group Singing Contest

A group singing contest for COL
ored choruses will be staged by
the Civic National Forum Monday at
8:15 pm. at the Metropolitan A.
NJ. E. Church, 1918 M street NV.
Members of the groups participating
will all be under 18 years of age
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Mrs. Kennedy in London
For Daughters Birthday
b. the Associated Press.

b. The Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH, England, June 21.-
Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, wife of the
United States Ambassador to Lon
don, returned from a visit to Amer
lea today in time for the 18th birth
day party of her daughter, Eunice,
tomorrow.
Mrs. Kennedy said she expected
all her nine children would be pres
ent at the party.
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they speak are
now convinced
the former Pres
ident is in some
thing more than
receptive m 90 d
for a third nom-
| n a t ion. THE
Chief" would de-
ny this vocifer-
ously, and prob
ably continue to
do so until the
Republican Ma
tional Conven-
ton is in session
next year. But
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is a matter of pure luck, except as
to social security.
On top of all this the costs and
rates of benefit differ as widely as
possible in the three organizations
The W. P. A. spends an average of
s61 from, the Federal Treasury and
SIS in sponsors contributions on
each of its cases each month. OF
this per case cost of S76, material
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Commencement Addresses of the Future

Perhaps that the
Suppose that few from when the New
tenchd that this habit
Whoozs will feature the Hon Joseph Gu third assistant deputy
W. dormitory
the after prexy
York will propose
telling fellows
of the failure the
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Delegate Named

Ellen De Bettencourt, secretary
of the Washington Chapter of the
Blackfriars' Guild, has been desig-
mated delegate to the national con-
vention in Rochester June 1924.
Clarence J. Wittler, former president
was named alternate,
Evening star., 1939-06-21
Competing Organizations

controversial matters politics in relief let
stick the facts the first place fact that there now exist
all
penng form of public assistance the unemployed The three
relief
municipal relief agencies WHICH
the social security system from which
reckoning
Civilian Conservation
the like The
lines of the picture quite sufficiently complex.
security local relief systems
the excitement
Throughout the
releers
EMPLOYMENT collecting
mechanism
organizations
0 activities of the Others
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changes in the
tax l a ws just
v o t e d in the
House of Rep
resentatives are
by no means as
far = reaching as
they should be,
they are of a
substantial ma
ture and repre-
sent a decided
step forward in
the attitude of
Congress toward
taxation.
1t is a fore
~ooo o1,,o1,,cio,,
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asked Ib9J got an honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Civil Law from
Union College and told it's help
less students that business q. e.,
pursuit Of profit is the noblest
profession open to intelligent
Americans. Prexy MacCracken at
Vassar double-crosse the advance
dope by devoting himself to a plea
for the continuation of the w. P.
AS theater projects. Herbert
Hoover of California (Renl1hlican
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recall the vote
by which the
Senate on Feb
ruary 10, 1928,
with the draft
Coolidge" move
ment in mind,
declared tina t
"any departure
from the time
honored" custom
r e S t r / citing a
President to two
terms would be
unwise, unpatri-
otic and fraught
with peril to our
free in S titu-
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and know what's you'll join gang and keep
political fence
Gutz Hall tuition fees So don't attention
those who knitting glorious the straight
ticket
the organization year-maybe"
Fantastic? O
Clifford have heard the
Glutz.
released
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opinions OF the riters page their on not
ecessay The stars Such opinions are presented IN The
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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ak Revision
Called Step
Forward
Public Opinion
Forced Changes,
Writer Says
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Public opinion has forced a tax
revision at this session of Congress
which political maneuvering might
have defeated Although the
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Sd Term Foes
Of '28 Nav
Be On Spot
Borkley Is Among
Senators Who
Backed Resolution
BY CHARLES G. ROSS.

In his radio speech the other eve
ming in support of the third term
tradition Senator Burke, Democrat,
OF Nebraska was unkind enough to
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Amerfcanism. AS matter of fact,
I leap at this chance to grab me
a few cheap headlines. by telling
you what I think of the opposition,
and I yield 70 no man in my con-
viction that my words should be
published from coast to coast and
reprinted gratis in the Congress
sional Record.
so you're leaving dear old
Whoozis, boys? Tough luck. But
youll be voters come November
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We, the People
Class Of 1889 Gets Plenty Of Free Advice,
Mostly Political, at Commencement
BY JAY FRANKLIN.


society Prevention
apparently dbanded
speeches rolling
single day the eardrum
assumed wire audience which inspire public
Franklin Roosevelt did honest job He the
west Point
national affairs So
subject audience Elsewhere there
academic
Some of Those Who Spoke
Alfred Landon presidential nominee in 1856
told the students University
of
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Costs and Rates Differ

all, ecuriys unemployment benefits
honorable insurance The w. p A. ostensb
empoyabes And the unemployab
relief Actually the rate of reempoymen
industry higher local direct relief
Yorklan the employabe W. P
Actually releter these relief
Evening star., 1939-06-21
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Very latest under the 1910 polit-
ical sun Is the recrudescence of a
Hoover movement. Republican pol
iticians in position to know whereof
Evening star., 1939-06-21
The Capital Parade
After Years, Relief Problem Shows Many Anomalies,
With Three Agencies in Competition
BY JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT K1NTNER.

The prevailing method of coping with the relief problem neatly
dramazed other
State and municipal relief agencies
agreeing to cooperate Namely that after titanic
they coodnated their unemployment efforts reefers
will be registered centralized public employment
lead position the front the New York Times the
continuous struggle with the relief problem
have supported public
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has been spent, and enough ink has
been spilled in controversy to retint
the Atlantic Ocean. Yet, when the
relief agencies take step that was
obviously advisable to the most
childish eye, it is the second most
important news story in one of the
great newspapers of the world.
That may seem incredible, yet it
is not only true. but highly typical Of
the relief situation. Since the Pc
culiarities of our relief system DO not
seem to be very generally known,
hyioAv
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Slight imperfeetions in many
frames. but all backed BY
SPORT CENTER GUARANTEE.
Freshly strung with Humidex
gut by our own factory ex-
perts. Your chance to play .
cha pionxhip model racket
for only AZ OK
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Milford chronicle., 1939-10-13
More And Better
Automobiles

No one can gainsay that the auto
mobile represents a new era in our
civilization, and no thoughtful per-
son will deny the many comforts and
conveniences its development has
continually and continuously c9ntli-
buted to our American standards of
living.
The 1910 models are coming out
and experts pronounce them the
ultimate, so far, in stylish and ergi-
neering design. safety and efficiency.
But what Of the future? VIII there
be no further improvements ia the
years to come? Have we reached
the saturation point in production?
These questions have been ans
wered most emphatically in the
course of recent discussions by two
leaders. The success at
tending their proven farsightedness
makes their replies such as to COM
mand respect.
President William S. Knudsen of
General Motors. in an address the
other day declared: when you look
back upon the automobile of thirty
years ago and compare it with your
of today, a great deal of
progress can be shown, but l ven
lure to predict that the automobile
Of thirty years hence will show lust
rs great progress. With the new
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-13
san source to get the facts.
Farmers Lost 12 Billions

Richard A. Stadermann, president
of the American Good Government
Society, finds that during the seven
lean years" of President Roosevelt
the American farmer has lost in in
come approximately $4,000, ,00O, 900.
compared with the seven fat years.
before the advent of the Roosevelt
New Deal. And heavens knows. that
several of those so-called fat years"
were none too fat for the farmers.
Yet. in spite of that, the farmer far
ed far better before the Roosevelt
Administration than after.
Using figures of the United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
Mr.. StadeTmann compiled the fol-
lowing table;
Total gross farm income. Is9s-i933
inclusive S75, 7lB, 900. 900
Total gross farm income. Is33-ls3s
inclusive. and taking the maxi
mum possible estimate for 1888 $4,000. 100000
Total loss to American farmers
during i933-l939. at least S12,7l8. 900 900 /
Average loss 70 farmers per year
This total included over 5000. 90 'ScS of
1859 s ''''
This is a most astonishing result:
ever $4,000. 100000 loss to farmers
during the last seven years" writes
Mr.. Stadermann. Had it not been
Tor payments by the Government to
farmers this loss would have been
$4,000. 100000 since 1888. While the
necessitated some Govern
nent aid for farmers. this was OBJ
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-13
Wheat Prices SIN Low

For instance. at this writing, the
price of wheat on the Chicago Board
of Trade is about 85 cents. So badly
has the New Deal managed our agri-
cultural economy that not even the
impact OF one month of a European
war could raise wheat prices to a
! decent level. A price of S5 cents at
Chicago is at least 10 cents more
than il is on the farm and a farm
price of as cents a bushel for wheat
is much less than the "dollar-wheat-
on-the-farm" which the Democratic
propaganda spokesman so glowingly
promised last spring.
The price of corn at Chicago at
this time hovers around so cents a
bushel. Such a price is not even
sufficient TO permit the Federal Gov
ernment to get out of its commodity
loans of the last several years with
out loss. The same situation exists in
regard to other major agricultural
products. Perhaps the European
war one OF these days will get these
prices up but 1t will be in spite of
Henry Wallace's A. A. A. Neverthe-
less. We will hear the same old
hooey about how the New Deals |
farm program is succeeding!
Before the picture becomes blur
red by the false claims of the New !
Deal prOpagandists it might be well |
10 take a look backward and see ex-
lctly wha: the New Deal has done
10 the American farmer. In doing so,
cts turn to an objective, non-parti- !
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-13
LOOKING FORWARD
By FRANKLIN wALTMAN
Publicity Director. Republican National
Committee

AS horrible and hateful as war is
many New Dealers believe they see
silver lining in it for them Thi !
is particularly true of the New Deal
agricultural theorists and expert
menters. To them the war seemed an
avenue of escape from the devastat-
ing results of their own fallacious
thinking and foolish acts.
In brief. these New Deal lads who
have tried to make a guinea pig out
of the American farmer rubbed their
hands in glee over the prospect that
the European war would pull them
out of the hole into which they had
fallen. Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace was so jubllant
that he could not restrain himself
from running to the radio and pro-
neffect that 1--WE planned
it that way"
The first flush of jubiliation within
the Roosevelt Administration in
spired by the belief that the Euro
pean war would solve our economic
and agricultural problems. however, /.
has worn rather thin. The hard and /
fast rules of economics which the |
New Dealers always disregard-have I
come into play and it becomes ap-
parent that these problems remain (
with us.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-13

materials being developed and the
better fuels and lubricants constant
ly showing up as the result of work
in the research laboratories every
where, am unable to visualize the
car of thirty years hence-it will be
so different and so much better than
anything we have now"
On another recent occasion, AL
fred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of GEN
eral Motors, reported to the Corpor-
atoms more than 250,000 common
stockholders: when the economic
barriers that have been erected dur
ing the past few years against the
expansion of enterprise are remov-
ed and business can go forward with
confidence as to its future oppor-
tunities. there will be assured to the
automotive industry a reservoir of
demand represented by the short
age in inventory Of car miles now
existing. And as the national in
come increases. there are possibil-
tiles for expansion in the number of
car users through the broader spread
between this increased income and
the cost of the necessities of life.
Thus. there does not seem to be any
justification for believing that the
industry has reached the
maximum of its growth.
Accordingly. for at least a long
while yet, we can ever look for more
and better automobiles.
Milford chronicle., 1939-10-13
viously at the expense Of the general
taxpayer.
Results No Testimonial For
New Deal

THE interesting point is that. in
spite of Government payments larg-
er than ever before, farm income
declined. The results do not show
up ausp!ciously for the combination
of trade agreements, restriction of
production and commodity loans.
1T would seem far better to revise
our policies so as to restore the
higher farm incomes of the years
1926 to 1882. which included both
prosperity and depression and hence
a normal average income. II we
could restore the 1926 to 1882 farm
incomes, the farmer would have
more income without asking for
Government payments. Farmers are
upright, independent citizens who
prefer asking no favOrs of anyone.
but they do insist upon their right
to supply the American market with
AmericaD-raised farm products.'
Little more need be said in way
of comment on Mr.. Stadermann's
findings. His figures cannot be dis
puted and they speak for themselves.
The loss in income cited by him
means approximately $500 for each
farm family in the land. Looking
back over the last seven years, what
could you. Mr.. Farmer. have done
with $500 to improve the comfort
and happiness of your family?