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The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
Hoan Flags
Relief Spending

Tiose preliminaries ought to ex-
plain why the appearance here the
other day of Mayor Daniel w. Hoan
Of Milwaukee, Wis, failed to get
anything like the attention it de-
served from the press. Now, Mayor
Hoan is socialist. He is, however,
an individual who thinks about city
administration along many practi-
cal lines, thus differing from the
mine run of mayors who are con-
cerned only with reelection or
political promotion. The mayor
came to testify, but the mayor
wasn't in the capital city just to
beg for money for Milwaukee. He
saw some things around here which
he believed were wrong, as national
policy, and he talked about them.
Said the Milwaukee mayor, in SUBJ
stance: you fellows are spending
lot Of money for relief of the desti-
tute; you are wasting a lot of that
money, and it ought to be stopped.
1t ought to be stopped because you
are letting the states and the cities
get into the habit of coming to Wash
ington for money and more money.
They are, therefore, getting out of
the habit of justifying to the people
of their communities the necessity
of expenditures they are making and
money their poor are using. In 9TH
er words, you ought to make the
states and the cities kick in with a
greater share for the support of
those on relief, and force them again
to recognize that taxes must be paid
for wasted, as well as proper use of,
funds. And, more important than
anything else, you ought to put this
relief business on pay-as-you-go
basis and step getting further into
debt.
Those were not Mayor Hoan's
words, of course. Yet l have pre-
sented them as substantially what
his testimony meant, and seldom,
in recent years, have I heard bet
ter sense spoken to a committee of
congress. To me, it was almost
startling testimony, the more so be-
cause it was offered while another
committee was looking into Presi-
dent Roosevelt's request for S1.750,-
0OO 900 for relief in the next year.
1t should be said just here that Mr..
Roosevelt's appeal for the annual
relief appropriation was, or appears
to be, modest. That is, the amount
is modest if it is all he will ask for.
There are those who expect that
he will ask congress next winter for
deficiency appropriation when the
projected sum runs out.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
BUSINESS:
Distribution

In 1870 about IS per cent of U. S.
workers were producing goods, the
other Is per cent distributing them.
By 1890, reports the Twentieth Gen.
tury Fund, production efficiency had
increased so much that only so per
cent of U. S. workers were needed
for this phase. Meanwhile distribu-
tion had absorbed the other Is per
cent, accounting for half the jobs.
A possible conclusion: Distribution
may be costing too much. A possi-
bic rebuttal: Men must eat, and
men kicked out of production by la
bor-saving machinery must turn to
distribution jobs or starve. Though
this raises per item cost to the con-
sumer, every man benefits by a
higher living standard.
Breaking down a sample years
total sales volume, Twentieth Gen.
tury Fund found 1925 finished
goods cost s66, ZOO, 900, 600. Of this,
S39, 600, 100000 Cor SO cents on the
dollar) went to distribution. This
meant that production, which en-
ploys half the man power, gets less
than half the revenue. OF the total
1929 distribution cost, Sl3, ZOO, 900, 900
went to retail distribution, $1,000
900, 900 to wholesalers. $4,000, 900, 600
to transportation. another S9,000,-
100000 to manufacturers distribu-
tion costs.
Smallest item of all was adver-
tising, which Contrary to popular
misconception) cost less than
81, 900, 100000 and probably paid its
way by giving consumers a better
buy for their money.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25

concessions in the Mediterranean,
and Germany's demands against
Poland for Danzig and slice of the
Polish corridor. This offer to re-
sort TO conciliation in place of war
gave heart to France and Britain,
but they probably forgot that Signor
Mussolini's speech fitted perfectly
into chain of events which matches
with the pattern created last autumn
at Munich.
At that time it was Mussolini who
"counseled" Der Fuehrer to talk
things over at Munich. Hitler won
concessions and Italy's reward was
German support in Spain and Alba
MIA. This spring II Duce again ap-
pears as Europe's peacemaker just
a few weeks after the Rome-Berlin
axis has been cemented into a mill
tary pact. Frightened France, real
izing her Mediterranean argument
with Italy is one of the knots"
will probably unite it and persuade
Britain to appease once more by
conceding Germany's right to Dan
zig.
Today's most likely solution of the
Danzig problem is a plebiscite with
League of Nations sanction, in which
Danzig's SO per cent German popu-
lation will make quick work of an in
ternational criS;s.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25

Democratic nomination campaigns
are taking shape despite wise coun-
sci that the administration had bet
ter settle Immediately on a man
who can be elected, rather than
think only Of the nominating con-
vention. The campaigns:
Farley. At Mexico, Mo-, Ameri-
cas- smartest politician told group
Of military students that 1--WE are
one of the few nations where a
mans destiny is in his own hands,"
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley's destiny probably lay in the trip
he was then taking, gun-jumping,
cross-continent tour in which he
placed some 200 delegates under
lock and key for himself or the man
he chooses to run for President.
Carefully avoided was any statement
that might offend either Mr.. Roose-
welt or Vice President Garner, but
Jim Farley was sizing up matters
as a good politician should. A Ro-
man Catholic probably could not be
elected President, but Mr.. Farley's
200 votes might easily make him
vice presidential nominee.
Garner. Never has a southerner
been elected President, the more so
today because Negro voters almost
furnish balance of power in sew
eral northern states. But John
Nance Gamers campaign manager
has concentrated in south and south
west states to line up 200 delegates
for the aging Texan whose intense
popularity is the years No. politi-
cal phenomenon. II a secret agree
ment exists between Democrats
Farley and Garner, the tactics thus
far bear it out. Each has studious-
ly avoided an invasion of the others
stamping grounds, and though nei-
ther has spoken there is every indi-
cation that they see eye-to-eye. Both
advocate economizing, and both
looked with alarm on the Presidents
purge" last fall. Since a northern
Catholic cannot hope to carry the
South, and since a southerner might
have trouble in the North, nothing
could be more logical than a union
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
LdGuardia's Statement
Politically Espedient

Surely, then, casual reader can
understand why the comparative
statements of mayors of two great
cities had the effect on me that l
have attempted to report. One of
them giving consideration to the fu-
ture of the nation as a whole, a
statesmanlike examination of a par
amount policy; the other apparently
thinking only of protecting the po-
litical hide of himself.
So, say that Mayor Hoan's testi-
mony was almost sensational, while
Mayor LaGuardia was singing the
same old refrain of gimme, gim-
me-" And l believe thoroughly that
the words of the Milwaukee mayor
will sharpen the wits and stir the
courage of those men and women in
congress who are seeking an honest
solution for the relief problem that
is now scarcely less repulsive than
fostering sore.
1t was quite by coincidence of
course that Mayor Hoan's observa-
tions should have come about the
time that a house subcommittee
should have unearthed some evil
dence concerning uses of WPA mon
ey that actually stinks. l do not
know about the truth of the evil
dence, but it is a matter of official
record now.
A subcommittee investigator pre-
sented statements to the effect that
WPA money was used to build lakes
in Tennessee without reference to
the need for recreational facilities
considered on any statewide or COM
munity basis" The statements were
attributed to member of the Ten
nessee fish and game commission,
and the investigators conclusions
were that the money had been d.
verted in this manner in order to
increase the value of real estate held
by several politicians.
The investigator and his sources
of information named ex-senator
George L. Berry and Gov. Prentice
Cooper, of Tennessee, as holders OF
land which benefited by the WPA.
built lakes. This is the same Sena.
tor Berry who sued the Tennessee
Valley Authority for a million dol.
lars or so on account of damage
claimed to have been done by con.
struction of one or more of the IVA
dams. The then member of the
United States senate charged that
some Of his marble quarries were
under so feet of water as a result
of IVA dams.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
of Garner and Farley forces

Of Garner and Farley forces.
McNutt. In 1910 a million col
lege students will cast their first
votes, and newly organized Student
Opinion Surveys finds their choice
Q7.7 per cent? is Indiana's ex-Gov.
Paul V. McNutt, now high commits
sioner to the Philippines. Mean
while, from Indianapolis, Manager
Frank McHale is busy broadcasting
that Mr.. McNutt is the only Demo
crat who can carry Indiana and is
therefore powerhouse throughout
the northern states. Hurrying back
home from his Pacific post, hand
some Mr.. McNutt is the first Demo-
crat to actually open his 1910 cam
paign. Significantly. however, he has
taken no cracks at Messrs Roose-
welt, Farley or Garner; a vice pres
idency (Which is the most likely
berth for hin) is no longer to be
sneezed at after what is happening
to Cactus Jack Garner.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
MoUe Started to
Publish WPA Salaries

AS part of this general WPA use
and misuse of millions of dollars,
Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts,
has started a move to find out how
much money is being paid to those
who run WPA. He has introduced a
resolution to have the WPA head
quarters here supply the house with
a complete list of salaries paid un-
der WPA. You know, there have
been many charges tossed about
concerning the salaries paid out of
WPA funds-and the lack of work
done for them. In other words, Mr..
Martin wants to know some facts
why only about 60 cents out of each
WPA dollar ever gets down the line
to the poor devil out of job and
with a wife and children to feed.
This action on the part of Mr..
Martin seems to link into conten-
tons long made that numerous poll
ticians have placed their pets in
WPA top jobs where, if need be,
they could be quite influential, polit-
ically. Mr.. Martin tried to obtain
the information about Massachu-
sets, but Col. F. c. Harrington,
WPA administrator, refused to make
the facts public. He contended that
disclosure of the salaries would be
embarrassing to those who receive
them" Mr.. Martin told the house,
however, that federal salaries
should always be matter open to
the public and he believed there is
no more right to secrecy about WPA
salaries than about the salary of
the President or a member of con-
gress.
1t will be interesting to see if the
house votes the order to make the
list public, but it will be more inter
esting to see the amounts of those
pay checks.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.l
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25

Republican when he came in, but he
wandered around into three or four
different political parties and seems
now to be among the bell wethers
Oh the American labor party. Any
way, the New York mayor is a great
little testifyer in favor getting all of
the money for New York city that
is possible-so long as it comes from
the federal treasury.
Mayor LaGuardia is great IA
vorlte among many news CORE
spondents in Washington. He is what
is called good copy" That is to
say, he always is ready with com
ment on-well, on about any sub
Ject. Picture it for yourself; if you
were a writer and had to have sto-
ries for your next edition and you
found the mayor of a great city will
ing to talk. Mayor LaGuardia will
talk, a-plentyl Let there be no mis-
understanding about that.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Hoan's Good Government Plea
Ignored by Washington Press
Milwaukee Mayors Criticism of Relief Administration
Practices Neglected as Mayor LaCuardia
Furnishes Usual Newspaper Copy.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg. Washington ID. C.

XGIASHINGTON.-It has come to
w be quite a habit for mayors Of
cities and governors Of states to
come rushing to Washington for ap-
pearances before congressional COM
mittees. They appear as out OF the
blue sky; rush to the capitol; testify
before a committee; repair to ho-
tel suite and hold a press conference
and gain lot of publicity, and 60
back home. They usually come for
just one thing-money.
Visitations to Washington, there
fore, have become fashionable as
political game And if, as a result
of the words of alleged wisdom
dropped from the lips of the self
annointed purveyors of peoples
thoughts, new checks should be
forthcoming from the United States
treasury-"ah," they say, 1--WE got
it for you"
The traffic in mayors and COVER
nors, especially mayors, has grown
so heavy that it is seldom news, ex-
cept for the mayors home town;
and, frankly, the news writer's de-
scribe them as being worth about
dime dozen from a strictly news
standpoint. / don't mean to neglect
the governors when l stress the
number of mayors. 1t is a fact that
there are more mayors who come,
hat in hand and bouquet to toss to
themselves later, than there are
governors. 1t is just like the fact
that there are more freshmen in
high school than there are graduates
from college. because hundreds of
them drop by the wayside.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
JUNE NEWS

JUNE 1-English Imperial air.
ways scheduled to start trans
atlantic service via Southampton,
Montreal and New York.
JUNE liking George, Queen
Elizabeth to enter U. S. from
Canada at Niagara Falls.
JUNE 12-Thomas ]. Pender-
CAST, Kansas City political boss,
goes on trial for evasion of $442,-
536 in 1885 and 1886 income taxes.
JUNE 15-Nation-wide All en-
campment opens near Tidal Ba-
sin in Washington.
JUNE 17-Mauretania, 34,000-ton
Cunard- White Star liner, leaves
Liverpool on maiden voyage to
New York.
JUNE 24HGovernment reorgani-
zation (creating federal loan,
public works and security agen-
cies) goes into effect.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25

EW YORK.-An ecstatlc young
L newspaper woman, reporting
on DR.. Herbert Feis Uf the state de-
partment. averred that his dream
-. lit eyes re
His Eyes Reflect nected the soul
Poetry; Mind on of a young g
Rubber and Tin Shelley" H e
may look that
way, but the chances are that he is
thinking of rubber and tin.
John Masefeld had some such
thoughts in mind when he wrote
"Cargoes. This poet, however,
scans only trade balances, and his
dreams are precise and statistical.
DR.. Feis is economic adviser to the
state department, and it was he who
schemed the barter deal by which
we would acquire needed rubber
and tin and get rid of the necklace
of millstones hung around Uncle
Sans neck in the form of that
government-owned surplus of H..
UUuiUUU paleS OF cOtton.
The news from London is that
the barter deal is under way,
Prime Minister Chamberlain
having informed parliament
that negotiations have been
opened. Wheat also will be in
cluded in the bargaining, as
England needs both wheat and
cotton as much as we need rub
ber and tin. Here may be
working commodity axis, which
Machiavelli so vehemently de-
clared was always more impor-
tant in the long run than any
political axis. And, incidentally,
Or. Feis has read Machiaveli.
He is hold-over from the Hoover
regime, appointed to his present
post by Secretary Stimson, who was
impressed with the insight and in
formation in DR.. Feis' book, "Eu-
rope the Worlds Banker" He has
been used by the department in
clarifying confusion and in boiling
down vague policies to definite pro-
cedure.
DIR. Feis is New Yorker with
a Harvard Phi. ID. He was pro-
fessor of economics at the Uni
versity of Kansas and the Uni
versity of Cincinnati and direc-
tor of research for the council
of foreign relations. Like many
men given to meditation, he
smokes pipe, blows rings and
comes out of the haze with an
idea or hunch as sharply defined
as If it had been cut by
lapidary.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
EUROPE:
Pedcen,aker

"There are knots in European poll
tics, but recourse TO the sUord is, per.
haps, not necessary to cut them. Nep-
ertheless. there is need that these knots
be united once and for all because
sometimes hard reality is preferable
to a long uncertainty"
Benito Mussolinis statement re-
ferred specifically to two knots"
his own demands against France for
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
FiShy !!

Donovan and Flanagan were ar
guing about their dogs. This
morning" said Donovan, 81 threw
quarter into the canal and my
dog fetched it out and put it in
my hand"
That's nothing" replied DON
ovan. Il threw a quarter into the.
canal and my dog brought out a
fish and ten cents change"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
Trend

HOtU the ,Uind is blO,Uing
VOTING-Los Angeles Judge
Ben Lindsey recommends voting
age should be reduced from 81 to
Is because today's youth sis the
most moral intelligent
hopeful the world has ever SEEN"
EXPORTS-First quarter U. S.
armament exports totaled $20,-
405. .195, which was AZ per cent
more than last years similar Pc
riod. Reason: World prepared
ness.
AGRICULTURE-AAAis is making
aerial photographs of 215,19?
acres of farm land in 16 central
and western states to check farm
er compliance on crop control
programs.
RELIGION - A new Austrian
Nazi order requires official sane
ton of all personnel changes in
Catholic church clergy, also re-
serving the right to pass on who
shall study for the priesthood or
enter a religious order.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
Being Ready
C0NsTIPATED!
Gas Crowds Heart.

"For thirty years constipation caused me
headaches and pains in the back. Awful gas
right away. Now eat sausage, bananas, pie.
anything I want and never felt better."-
Mrs. Mabel Schott. Two things happen when
you are constipated. FIRST: Accumulated
wastes swell up bowels and press on nerves in
ed food starts to decay forming GAS, bringing
on sour stomach, indigestion, and heartburn,
bloating you up until you sometimes gasp for
breath, -Adlerika gives double relief with
DOUBLE ACTION. Adlerika relieves
clears bowels in less than two hours. No grip
ing, no after effects, just quick results. REQ
commended by many doctors for 35 years.
Sold at all drug stores
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25


Hopes to Bring E, A. Milne,
Human VoriobIes the distin-
Into Uniformity gushed Brit
tician. THINE, like tea-time, is
stretchable, unlike the swingtime
or springtime of youth-a1 Of which
was expounded in different terms
by the aging Montaigne-and in this
time zone there may be written off,
or at least discounted, much i'm
minent disaster; and somehow in
this temporal king's-x irresistible
bodies may meet immovable masses
without any bystanders getting hurt.
have known wise old gentlemen
who carried their THINE in one
pocket and their Tau-time in the
other.
Such is the 80-year-old Gin Tau
time) Lucius N. Littauer, whose
$1,000, 900 Littauer center is dedicat-
ed at Harvard. His foundation was
established to bring about better
understanding among mankind"
1t was Mr.. Littauer who, as
a congressman from New York,
sponsored and established the
United States bureau of stand
ards. 1t worked out nicely.
Uniformity in machine appli-
ances and spare parts was cas-
lily attained. Moving from ma
chimes into social adaptations
and adjustments, Mr.. Littauer
found human variables could not
as yet - be calculated like
metal variables. Hence his new
bureau of human standards at
Harvard.
Like the late Chauncey M. Depew,
he has been honored by statue in
his own town, during his lifetime.
The town is Gloversville, N. Y,
where, after his graduation from
Harvard, he picked up his fathers
glove manufacturing business. His
later years have been absorbed in
his manifold philanthropies, to
which he has given many millions
of dollars. Thinking in Mr.. Mines
long stretch of time, he is calmly
assured that, in due time, all will
be well with the world, but that
1--WE must oppose absolutism in any
guise, from any source"
His father, a native of Bres-
lau, Germany, passed on to him
heritage of Carl Schurz liber-
alism-which perhaps could be
fittingly measured against Fritz
Kuhn's importation. Just in
passing, he played on Harvard's
first football team and rowed on
its first crew-back in his Tau
time days.
consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
SaddeSt Yet

He-I can think of nothing sad
der than a man without country.
She-I can. A country without q
man.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH ". LaBINE
Three Democratic Candidates
Start Preseason Campaigns;
Toe-Stepping Carefully Avoided
.wspaper Union.

editor NOTEWhen opinions expressed these
the analyst necessarily this
uuUes.e lleurs er1non
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25

PHILOSOPHERS getting on in life
L are apt to think in Thine, as
contrasted with our workaday Tau
time, both of which are currently
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25

explained by
E. A. Milne,
I h e distin-
guished Brit
ish mathema-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-25
WHO'S
NEWS
i kxxO
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-An ecstatic young
I newspaper woman, reporting
on DR.. Herbert Feis Uf the state de-
partment, averred that his dream
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-05-11
MONTANA HAS $500
All MEMBERS

Montana, with 8,4O0 All club
members enrolled in 1888,
helped to raise the national
All club enrolment for that
year to a record-breaking total
of 1,286,029, according to R. E.
Cameron, state club leader at
Montana State college.
Cameron this week received
announcement OF the national
total from DR.. C. w. Warbur-
ton, national director of extern
sion work. Dr.. Warburton said
that last years record enroll
ment brings to approximately
100000 the total number Of
young people who have received
4-H training since the work be-
came nation wide in 1914. More
than a half million boys and
girls became members for the
first time last year.
Recent studies indicate that
more than 40 per cent Of the
rural boys and girls in this
country reaching the average
age for joining All clubs last
year were enrolled in the or
ganiZation.
All club members learn to
do by doing" Under the super
vision Of voluntary local lead
ers and county extension ag-
ents, they acquire first-hand
some farm and home skill as q
part OF their club work. Last
year, for the nation as a whole,
three-fourths of all these farm
and home projects undertaken
ny club members were complet-
ed, establishing another record
montana club members com
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-05-11

ironed out quietly without any
body losing face, dignity or
much sleep. There have been
bitter quarrels between tne
Treasury and Justice Depart
mentS over crime chasing; pe-
tween the Interior and Agricul-
ture Departments over jurisdlc-
ton; between the State and
Commerce Departments over the
same point, and between the
War, Navy and Labor Depart
mentS over numerous things.
Now, the latter departments
are at it again, with the War
and Navy Departments lined up
against Secretary Perkins on
the question of control of sub
versive alien activities.
Bone of contention is a leg
islative proposal to make it un-
lawful to advocate overthrow OF
this Government by force or VI
olence. When the bill was being
considered by a House commit
tee the War and Navy Depart
ments Immediately announced
they desired such a law, point
ing out that it would be valu-
able in curbing activities of
Communists, Fascists, and other
radical groups who are foment-
ing trouble in the military ser
vices.
In contrast, the Labor Depart
ment sent word to the Commit
tee that it was opposed to pro-
visions of the bill which would
broaden the bases for deporting
aliens.
The fight has been carried on
with as little public q~uarreling
as possible, but some observers
believe it may break into the
open and become a major issue.