Writing Off of 25 Per Cent of Import Value Arouses Discussion. BY WILLIAM BIRD. Special Cable Dispatch. PARIS. April 14 (C.P.At.--France Vould certainly accept Alfred E Smith's proposal for a 20-year suspension of dfbt payments, with the writing off of 25 per cent of the value of French im Jiortations from America annually, fading French economists and states men told this correspondent today. Although it was pointed out that this fccheme would benefit France less than America's other creditors, it was noted that the Smith plan does not compel France to absorb a larger volume of Imports than she desires to have. Expresses Views. Clatide J. Gignoux, until recently tn mister of national economy, today Stated the French attitude as follows: "Contrary to the American impres sion, France has never desired the gen eral cancellation of international debts end would vastly prefer that both the young reparations plan and the debt settlements continue to operate. If Germany continued paying reparations. France would refuse to allow any part of her debt to America to be cancelled, or even deferred." "On the other hand." M. Gignoux. •'it cannot be denied that, looking at the question from an international viewpoint, all these payments do arti ficially upset trade, and 'the United States particularly sees its exports severely handicapped by the fact that the European nations need all the dol lars they can get to make their war debt payments and consequently cannot purchase as much American merchan dise as they normally would. "There is no question that Mr. Smith s scheme would greatly stimulate American exports and there is no doubt in my mind that France in the present circumstances would study sympatheti cally any such proposal if it came from the United States Government. As I Understand it. however. Mr. Smith is not necessarily reflecting President Hoover's views, nor is he even speaking for the Democratic party. Therefore the French government cannot very well make any official comment." Present Import Figures, France's present imports from the United States average around $150,000, 000 in value annually, while war debt payments are about $50,000,000. This would mean that to earn the entire re mission of her debt. France's imports from America would have to increase about a third and would have to in crease still further when the war debt payments increase in subsequent years. On the other hand. Great Britain's im ports from America already largely ex ceed four times the debt payments, and the same is true of Italy. An American embassy official com mented: "This looks swell from every point of view except that of the United States Treasury. No doubt it would stimulate the American export trade and help cure the depression. So would general debt cancellation. Indeed, this Is simply cancellation in disguise." (Copyright, 1932.)
Added to Brown U. Staff. PROVIDENCE- R. I„ April 14 OF). Announcement wa* made tod? by Brown University officials that Dr Han Kurath ot Ohio State University will join the Brown faculty next Fall as professor of German. THE WEATHER dw District of Columbia--Fair, continued cocl tonight; mirttmum temperature about 34 degrees; tomorrow fair, slow ly rising temperature; moderate north west winds. Maryland--Fair tonight, with light frost in central and heavy frost in ex treme west portion; tomorrow fair, slowly rising temperature. Virginia--Fair tonight, possibly light frost in the interior: tomorrow fair, slowly rhing temperature in west por tion. West Virginia--Fair tonight; tomor row fair, slowly rising temperature in west portion. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Yesterday-- Degrees. Inches. 4 p.m. 46 29.82 8 p.m. 41 29.89 Midnight 38 29.91 Today-- 4 a m. 33 29 92 8 a m. 40 29 96 Noon 50 29.91 Highest, 50, noon today. Year ago. 70. Lowest, 35, 6:00 a.m. today. Year ago. 40. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.; Today. Tomorrow. High 1.48 a.m. 2:51a.m. Low- 3:02 am. 9:16 a.m. ftigh 2 09p.m. 3:13pm, ww 9:04 p.m. 10:04 pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sets. Sun, today... 5:33 6:44 Sun. tomorrow 5:32 6:45 Moon, today.. 11:30a.m. 2:04a.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-naif hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1932. Average. Record. January 4.82 3.55 7 09 '82 February 2 46 3.27 6 84 '84 March 6.45 3.75 8 84 '91 April 191 327 9.13 '89 May 3,70 10.69 *89 Jur.e 413 10 94 '00 July 4.71 10.63 'tig August 4.01 14.41 '"8 September. 3.24 10.81 "*'6 October 2 84 8.57 '«5 November. 2.37 8 69 '"9 December 3.32 7.56 '°l Weather in Various Cities. Temperature. S* fT P& Station*. o 2 3 ES Wather.
__: »_ Abilene, Tex 28 96 92 52 Pt cloudy Albany. TC Y 2» 7S 40 S4 Cloudy A'lanta. Oa ..29 88 66 56 Pt cloudy Atlan'ic City 29 92 46 38 C ear Bo.*irrore. Md.. 29 92 46 36 Clear B rmmghvn 29 92 76 56 Clear Bismarck. N D. 30 18 59 36 Clear Boston. Mass ..29 76 46 36 _ Ptt.oudy Buffalo. N. Y .23 88 30 24 0.16 Snow Charleston S C. 29 96 72 56 _C*»ar Chicago. Ill 30.10 42 36 _Clear Cincinnati, Ohio 30 04 50 34 Clear Cleveland. Ohio. 29 94 38 30 0 04 Pt.cloudy Columbia. R C. 29 88 68 52 Cloudy Denver. Colo 29 96 72 52 Pt. cloudy Detroit, tich... 29 98 -14 28 _Clear E. Paso. Tex 29 88 86 58 Cloudy Galveston. Tex 30 00 70 64 _ Clear Helena. Mont.. 29 72 74 50 _Cloudy Huron. S Dak 30 22 58 32 Clear Indianapolis.Ind 30 04 48 34 Clear Jacksonville,Fla 30.06 72 56 Clear Kansas City. Mo 30 18 74 38 Clear Los Angeles 30 04 74 54 -Cloudy Louisville. Ky.. 30 06 54 36 0 06 Clear Miami. Fla .30 10 74 56 ....Clear N Orleans, La 30 06 78 58 Clear Hew York. N Y. 29 82 40 36 Clear Oklahoma City. 30 02 86 52 Clear Omaha. Nebr... 30 20 68 33 Clear Philadelphia 29 90 42 36 Clear Phoenix. Am 29 80 62 68 Cloudy Pittsburgh. Pa 29 94 36 32 0 02 Clear Portland Me... 29 72 42 32 Pt cloud} Portland. Ore*. 30 16 66 44 0 10 Cloudy Faleiah. N C. 29 98 60 46 Ram Bill Lake City. 29 82 76 58 Cloudy gnu Antonio. 29 92 84 56 Clear Bail Diego. Calif 30 04 76 .56 Cloudy Ban Francisco. 30 20 64 50 0 04 Clear 6* Louis, Mo.. 30.10 60 38 Clear fit Faul, Minn. 30 16 52 34 Clear Beattie. Wash.. 30 08 64 46 0.14 Cloudy fc, Spokane, Wash. 30.96 76 46 0X6 Cloudy 8 If &3Si Smith Proposes 20-Year War Debt Delay and Bond Issue JEFFERSON DINNER TOLD PLATFORM MIST BE POSITIVE INSTEAD OF NEGATIVE THIS YEAR. _ _ __ _ THE text of the speech delivered test night before the Jefferson day dinner cf the Democratic National Committee by former Gov. Alfred E. Smith follows: In June in the city of Chicago, the Democratic convention will assemble for the purpose cf adopting a platform of political principle and a promise of political performance--at a time most critical in all of our history, with mil lions of our fellow-citizens out cf em loyment. business and commerce para lyzed, financial and economic ruin widespread tliroughout the land. Nothing on the horizon today gives bet ter promise to the 120.000.000 people of our own country and to our neighbors across the sea titan that tins conven tion declare a set of political promises and principles which will command the attention, the respect and the support of the American people. It has been our experience, particu larly in the recent past when the tide of prosperity was high, that little or no attention was given by the great body of our people to the operations of the Government. But under present con ditions the attention of the citizen in every walk of life naturally turns to I the operations of the Government, which are calculated so far as the Gov ernment can do it to bring relict. It has been my experience in the past that the party platform has been alto gether too wordy, too long, too compli cated and usually put in such lan guage and terms as to be not readily understandable by the ordinary man. A large part of the platforms in the past has been given to denunciation of our political opponents. If ever there was a time in the history of the party v.hen that was unnecessary it is now. Tlie shortcomings of the present ad ministration are listed daily m Republi j can newspapers throughout the country, which only four short years ago pro claimed the necessity for Republican ascendancy in order to preserve pros perity. i The ordinary citizen of the United I States requires no denunciation of the I Republican administration because he 1 feels the effects of it daily In his busi ness and in his home. Fault-finding with the Republican administration in a party platform is a waste of time and of space which had better be devoted to constructive pro I posals. i rvegauve irtorics >ought. It must be borne in mind that the Democratic party is the minority partyj in this country. Tliat is revealed to us by the indisputable fact that only two Democrats have been elected to the presidency of the United States since the Civil War and I am inclined to the belief that we are that minor ity party because during all of that period we seem to have attempted to win national approval as a rebuke t^ I the majority party. In other words, we seem to seek negative victory rather than affirmative victory'. We seek to ride into power upon mistakes of our opponents rather than upon construc tive promise and achievement on our own part. I would like to see the platform adopted in Chicago so brief and so concise that it could be read by the men on the street with understanding in a very few minutes. This country today is sick and tired of listening to political campaign ora tors who tell us what is the matter wjth us. Few, if any, of them know what the cure is. Of recent months I have heard no cure advanced, but I have heard the old complaint ex plained all over again with a few trim mings here and there. It is a perfectly easy thing to say we must restore the purchasing power of the farmer. Fine! Of course we must. But how are we going to do it? I would sooner have a short handshake with the fellow that knows how to do it than listen for a week to the felolw who knows how to tell you what the trouble is. Related to our tariff, to unemploy ment and to the agricultural distress of the country today is unquestionably the plight in which our neighboring nations across the ocean find them selves. Heretofore when we have suf fered n depression in this country we have recovered from it quickly, because the other nations of the w'orld were not in the same boat with us, but today we find this depression not alone a fact in our own country, but worldwide. As a result of the World War the leading nations of Europe are heavily indebted to the United States. We have devised in the past all kinds of schemes for meeting the situation. We have declared a moratorium for one year wvhich is nearing its end. But when all is said and done one fact stands out far beyond the power of anybody to dispute it, and that is that the nations w'ho owe us money have not got it. You can't get from anybody what he does not have any more than you can get blood out of a stone. And, because of these foreign dpbts and be cause of our tariff wall, American ex ports have fallen off in the last year more than 50 per Cent. Sales Abroad Necessary. We are a great creditor nation. We are producing on our farms and in our factories millions of dollars of products which cannot be sold to our own people and which we must sell in foreign commerce, but our foreign customers cannot buy because they are already heavily our debtors. They cannot even pay us what they owe, much less buv additional merchandise from us, and we have stood idly by, strangling the trade of the world and our own trade with foreign nations by holding these debts over their heads, by raising a tariff wall which shuts out their products, and makes it impossible for them to pay us in goods. Our wheat is rotting on our farms while other nations starve for bread. Our ware houses are piled high with merchandise while other nations go unclothed and In want. Xu order to restore the buying power of the American people, we have not only to stimulate business within our own borders but we must sell American products to the other nations of the world If there is any chance of collecting the money due the United States from the foreign governments, there exists the necessity for our selling to them the products of our farms and our factories. Why not cut through all the red tape and get away from all the involved economic ideas that are con nected with it and deal with the problem on a pure business basis? Let us sav to the natiors of Europe who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and not only will we do that, but we will write off as paid each year 25 per cent of the gross \alue of American products which they buy from us. This, in effect, Is to say to any nation which owes us money if it purchases $100,000,000 of our cotton we will forget $25,000,000 of its in debtedness. If it will buy $100,000,000 of our wheat, our fruit, our tobacco or any of our manufactured products wo will forget $25,000,000 of its in debtedness. Figures here used are arbitrary and art intended only to ex press the principle. This will help the farmer; it will help the mill owner; it will help the manufacturer: it will help the railroads and the transportation in dustries and, in turn, help all the various lines of activities that are dependent upon the railroads. Restoration of Trade. I assert that this is a far better way to restore trade than the present method of sitting idly by. clamoring for the payment of debts which we know can not be paid and thereby losing for the farmers and manufacturers and working men of the United States more billions of dollars than the w'hole European debt. This plan will start from the ports of the United States a flood of Ameri can-made goods into the homes and factories of our neighbors across the sea. and we will in return make con cessions to them on the debts which we know they are unable to pay. That will remove the menace to business throughout the world which is the I greatest curse of the present uncer 1 talnty. Hand ip hard with this must op a wncqnfccocal Democratic plank Alfred E. Smith (left), and John W. Davis, former Democratic presidential candidates, as they appeared at the Jefferson dav celebration here Iasi night. --A. P. Photo. oil the tariff. And I repeat for that purpose the formula which I used in the 1928 campaign in my speech at Louisville---that the determination of tariff schedules should be the business of an expert commission free from all political influence and pressure. But since 1928 the situation with respect to the tariff has been com pletely transformed. The Hawley Smoot tariff law of 1930 was a drastic unnecessary, unscientific upward revi sion of the tariff law. The expert com mission was ignored. Increases were not based on any scientific analysis. The consequence of the Hawley Smoot bill have been tremendous, both directly and indirectly. Directly-- American foreign trade has been steadily dwindling: the custom; reve nues. have gradually diminished and unemployment lias increased by leaps and bounds. Indirectly--the high sched ules of the Hawley-Smoot biil caused European nations to raise their own tariff walls, not only Rgainst us, but against each other. This means eco nomic strangulation for the people of every country, for prosperity ran exist only when goods can be exchanged in ternationally. The enactment of tariff schedules will hereafter have to b" made with a view to their international aspects after careful study by the proposed Tariff Commission. Federal Bonds Proposed. It makes little or no difference what remedies may be suggested for th" relief of the present unemployment situation in this country. We will have to come cut of it gradually. There is no such thing as waving the magic wand. While a settlement of the foreign debts ques tion upon the basis that I just sug gested and a readjustment of the tariff will eventually attack the disease at the root, meanwhile relief can come, and will come, provided the Government will stimulate industry and promote employment by the issuance of Federal bonds sold on a war-time basis for the promotion of American prosperity. These would be used to finance neces sary public improvements, both those provided for by appropriations from the general funds and those projected and designed, but for which up to date no provision has been made by the way of appropriation. Exception to this has recently been taken in a Naticn-wide speech by a prominent Democrat on the theory that it is a stop-gap. Whoever said that it was anything else? It is at least better than nothing, and infinitely better than a continuance of the disguised dole in States and municipalities encouraged by the Federal Government until the localities have given to the point of exhaustion and have reached a point where they are close to the limit of their constitutional borrowing and tax ing power and at the end of the pri \ate resources of their citizens. It is the easiest thing in this country today to tear down. It is the easiest thing in the world to criticize. It is an easy thing to tell what is the matter, but it is an extremely difficult thing to construct, to suggest and to have behind the suggestion the element of possibility of accomplishment. The country is flooded with statesmen who orate and stop at that. Oratory puts nobody to work. In a little while, un less it carries with it constructive sug gestion, it will be unpopular even on the radio. The Government is short of money It needs close to a billion and a half dollars of new revenue to meet the estimated budget of 1933 with which Congress is now concerned. People all over the country are clamoring foi relief from the eighteenth amendment and what has been termed by a Federal j judge the senseless interpretation oi an intoxicant promulgated by Congress hfTeots of Prohibition. We have spent in recent years hun dreds of millions of dollars in the futile foolish endeavor to make people tem perate by law, and while we are spend ing that the farmers are losing the millions of dollars which formerly came to them from the sale of their cereals for use in alcoholic beverages, and thousands of men legitimately engaged l in that industry are out of employment. Ar.d yet some members of Congress are too cowardly to apply to this situation i the sound Jeffersonian doctrine of local self-government. They stand meekly by while a police ordinance grafted on our Constitution shuts off millions of dollars of income and causes mil lions of dollars of wasteful outlay; they quake with terror before small organ _FOUND._ ESKIMO SPITZ, white, Sunday morning. Call North 653Q 14* _LOST._~ BOSTON TERRIER. large size male, brindlf with whit* nv. Kings; name Mickey Re ward. 3111 rfield st n.w Cleveland 8715 FRATERNIT"' PIN. letters A. E. Phi set in pearls: in.u Is W. D. on back. 1736 Colum j hia rd.. K 402 14* CASE, b; containing pair pink gold spec tacles and pair smoked glasses Return in George Washington Inn. Lincoln 0400 14* i GOLF CLUBS, one bag. also 8 extra clubs lost from auto Tuesday afternoon, between Chevy Chase Lake car barn and Kensing ton. Md.: reward. _Phone Wis. 2707. HANDBAG, black, containing gray sub 'man's* and pair of black shoes: on River rd. near Kenv.ood Golf Club. Finder cal R. P McCi.ndlish. Shepherd 3586 Reward KEYS Leather holder containing three keys on nth Bt. near F. Return to Marine Bar racks or cal! Atlantic 2029 KITTEN Half-frown, fallow, male kitten strayed from 5039 Kansas ave. n w reward 0« orgia 1101._ PURSE, black, lost m N E. .section, contain ing money and glasses, finder may keep money if glasses are returned. Call North 6473__ __14* RING OF KFY8. large lost somewhen downtown. Please call Georgia 1456. 691; 8th st. n w. Reward._ _ _ WATCH Mans gold Waltham open-fact watch. Initials O B S between 3109 Mt Pleasant st and Garfield Hospital; in tax or on street: Sunday, bet 5 and 6 pm. Sl< rev a d Phone Adams 3480. __ WRIST WATCH, lady's, platinum, set with 8 diamonds. Finder call Ad. 4595, 1365 Ham ilton st n.w for liberal reward.__• WRIST WATCH, Elgin, gold strap Wednes day Phone Mr Disk National 74#0 WRIST WATCH, told bracelet, marked C A D taxi or street Mon evt. Reward i Bertha Bray, American National Red Cross Nat. 5400. 15* ized minorities who believe themselves sell-appointed custodians of the morals i of their fellow citizens, i If this party desires to adhere to the principles of Jefferson, if it wishes to be true to itself and to the people of this country, it must at Chicago, in no uncertain terms and in a language of the clear kind that Jefferson could write, declare for the return to the States of the power to control the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquor. Let us not duck nor dodge; let us put into our platform a plank for a new constitutional amendment on this sub ject such as every man within the sound j of my voice knows that Jefferson would write if he were alive and with us to night. The Democratic platform should defi nitely declare for a thorough-going re 01 ganization of the governmental ma chinery to prevent overlapping of func tion. duplication of effort and the consequent wast and inefficiency which grow from it. This must be done with out fear or favor. In fact, it is my belief that the present House of Repre- j sentatives should have presented such a plan. I spok» about it In the campaign of 1928 and. if I sm any judge whatever of public attitude to governmental ques tions, what I said about it was received with acclaim by audiences which listen- j cd to me throughout th° United States. It is passing strange that every time ad ditional money is required for the op- eration of the Government, nobodv I i thinks of dispensing with soni" of the existing expenditures, or retrenching in Government expenditures, but everybody seeks immediately new fields of taxation Democratic Party Attitude. The chairman of the Ways and Means j Committee of the House of Representa tives recently said that Congress was against economy, in favor erf more ap propriations and against taxation. The Democratic party cannot afford I to maintain any such attitude. It must make a vigorous and forceful effort to reduce the cost of thus Government; to cut out useless activities; to consoli date necessary ones and so to reorgan ize the various departments as to elim I inate overhead and unnecessary expen diture of public money before it seeks new avenues of taxation. This is no time for demagogues. At a time like this, w'hen millions of men and women and children are starving j throughout the land, there is always the temptation to some men to stir up class prejudice, to stir up the bitterness of the rich against the poor and of the J poor against the rich. Against that effort I set myself uncompromisingly. I protest against the endeavor to delude the poor people of this country to their I ruin by trying to make them believe that they can get employment before the people who would ordinarily cm- ploy them are also again restored TO conditions of normal prosperity. A fac tory worker cannot get his job back until business conditions enable the fac tory owner to open up again, and to j pormise the great masses of working people that they can secure renewed employment by class legislation is j treachery to those working people, to the principles of the Democratic party and to tlys United States itself. I have recentry stated that, while I j would accept a nomination for the presidency if it were tendered me by the convention, that until the conven tion assembled I would not be for or against any candidate. I announce to night an exception to that statement I will take off my coat and fight to the end against any candidate who per sists in any demogogic appeal to the masses of the working people of this country to destroy themselves by set ting class against class and rich against POOR No relief ran come to the country from constant fault-finding. Construc tive proposals are the order of the day, and written across the Democratic ban ner must be the single word "Fair"-- j fair treatment to ever;, body, to capital, I to labor: to the farmer; and if here and j there capital abuses its privileges, do not condemn capital as a whole, but root out the evildoer: and where unfair practices creep into the labor unions do not condemn the entire laoor movement, but rather sustain it and strengthen it by rooting out the evildoers. Fair treat ment to everybody, special privilege to none whether they be rich or poor, is the basic theory of democracy and one upon which it has the right to claim the support and the confidence of the rank and file of the people no matter what their condition of life may be. Cleveland's Words Recalled. It will not do for the Democratic party to seek victory at the polls simply upcn the theory that there will be re ward in store for the faithful in the way of patronage, and the desire to ac complish victory simply for patronage purposes seems to lie behind the cry for party harmony at the expense of party principle. One of the greatest and mast heroic leaders cf our party, Grover Cleveland, after he had been once nom inated and elected to the presidency: once nominated and defeated and be fore he received his third nomination, which resulted in his second triumphal election, said: 'What is the use of elec tion or re-election unless we stand for something," and I purpese that we shall definitely and affirmatively stand for something in our Chicago platform. Some Democrats say. "Give us a short convention"; others say. "Nomi nate a candidate against whem noth ing can be said, while there cannot b? much said for him." The disposition to gloss over controversial questions in an attempt to please both sides of the argument will bring forth a meaning less document, a colorless candidate and a weakened party. Expediency will win nothing for democracy. It. would be better that the conven tion remain in session all SummT and give to the people a vigorous, strong, clearly defined platform and candidates capable of fighting for it. than to hurry away from Chicago with a half-baked proposal to offer to the pecple of the country. We will not wdn and we shall not even deserve to win if v.e turn our national convention into a mere cheap cospiraey to obtain the spoils of public office At no time in the history of the country was there offered to any po litical party the opportunity that is today presented to the Democratic par ty for constructive effort and construc tive achievement in the Interest of all of cur people. There is a lot of whis pering going around to the,effect that the party must b" harmonious. When we speak about the party winning we should mean that the country is to be the winner. Only by courage, by fore sight and by careful preparation of the platform without compromise, without the give and take processes that set principle at naught can the United States win, and if the United States is not going to win, what difference does it make which party wins? Police Band Dissolved. KANSAS CITY. April 14 UP!.--Believ ing the duty of the police is to "protect the public, not amuse it." City Man ager McElroy has dissolved the depart ment's band. Hence, the city has for sale various musical instruments, a music stand and a baton. Smith "Hits Roosevelt"
i Tells Jefferson Dinner He Would Fight Any Candi date Who Would Set Class Against C ass by Demagogic Appeal. r Alfred E. Smith's attack upon Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt as a demagogue and the speech of Gov. Roosevelt, which 1 lead to the attack, were as follows: Mr. Smith: "This is no time for demagogues. At a time like this, when millions of men and women and children a-e starving throughout the land, there is always the temptation to some men to stir up class prejudice, to stir j up the bitterness of the rich against the poor, and of the poor against the rich. Against -that effort r set j myself uncompromisingly. I protest against the endeavor to delude the poor people of this country to their ruin by trying to make them Men that they can get employment before the people who would ordinarily em ploy them are also again restored to conditions of normal prosper- j ity. "I have recently stated that while I would accept a nomination for the presidency if it were tendered me by the convention, that until the con vention assembled I would not be for or against any candidate. I announce tonight an exception to that state ment. I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any dema gogic appeal to the masses of the working people of the country to de stroy themselves bv setting class against class and rich against poor I Gov. Roosevelt: "These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the for gotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. "It ts the habit of the unthink ing to turn In times like this to the illusions of economic magic. People suggest that a huge expen diture of public funds by the fed eral Government and by State and local governments will completely solve the unemployment problem. m "How much do the shallow thinkers realize, for example, that approximately one-half of our whole population--80,000.000 or 60. 000.000 people--eam their living by farming or in small towns whose existence immediately depend.", on farms. Here should be an objective of government itsplf, to provide at least, as much assistance to the little fellow as it is now giving to the large banks and corporations. That ts another example of building from the bottom up." HELD PATCHWORK Ernest Lee Jahncke Declares Each Leader Is "Chasing His Own Rainbow." By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH. Fla.. April 14 Ernest Lee Jahncke. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, last night criticized pro posed objectives of the Democratic na tional campaign as a potpourri of is sues that will not jell, a cloak of many colors, a patchwork and a crazy quip." In contrast to this, he praised the record of President Hoover and a Re publican administration in originating the national reconstruction program. He expressed confidence that Mr. Hoo ver will be re-elected. Speaking over the radio. Mr. Jahncke took to task Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, for recent broadcast criti cisms of the President an dthe Repub lican party. Hits Shouse Statement. "After a prelude in which he (Mr. Shouse) spoke of fair play, he departed lrom a prepared text and launched into an address of criticism and of villifica tion unmatched by any document ema nating from the lips of one holding such high position in the ranks of cither party," Mr. Jahncke charged, i "He sought to convince his audience that the reconstruction progTam plan ned and Initiated by the President really did not originate w ith Mr. Hoover but represented the skilled workmanship of i the Democratic House of Representa tives. Mr. Shouse praised the program while denying its author." Two weeks after Shouse praised the leadership of Speaker Garner in Con gress. Mr. Jahncke said, the American people witnessed "the complete collapse of Mr Garner's alleged leadership and saw the Democratic majority of the House in absolute revolt." Chasing Own Rainbows. "Each leader is chasing his own rain 1 bow," said Mr. Jahnctce. "Franklin j Roosevelt would make 'power' the para mount issue, although that is regarded as an offense and an affront to the financially potent Democrats of the East." The advocacy of Mr. Shouse for participation In the League of Nations, the speaker asserted, appears "little i WILSON ST TOMB Spirit of War President Lives On, Declares Former Secretary.
Speaking at memorial services at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson in Washing ton Cathedral yesterday, Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War, traced the career ftnd education of Mr. Wilson to the time of the World War. Presi dent Wilson, he declared, brought a new kind of leadership in world af fairs. "It was only that yesterday, eight years ago. that we laid all that was rr.ort2l of him here to rest," Mr. Baker continued. I "We are too near him to measure his place in the great background of history. We are yet too much under i the spell of the inspiration he gave i us to make detached estimates. His i spirit is still mightily at work in' the hearts and minds of men: years must j show the harvest of his sowing. "We must not allow ourselves to be dismayed or deceived by the difficulties which faced the Peace Conference in Faria, nor by the solution of these diffi culties. which time is showing to have been inadequate or erroneous. I am one of those who ventures to believe that some day Mr. Wilson's phrase 'Peace without victory' will be accepted as one of the most profound and right eous wishes ever expressed by him or any other statesman. "For the moment, we ran but say to this great soldier: Sleep on. The £rmy which you led Is still advancing, the acceptance of the doctrines you preached is still growing, the ideals you cherished are still vital and the hap pier world toward which all our faces are turned will recognize you as one of the great architects of its hope short of heresy" to Senator James Reed of Missouri and ether potential Demo cratic nominees for the presidency. Mr. Jahncke pointed to former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York as favor ing a "beer and bonds" plank in the platform, while Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas "would most certainly takp the beer out and several others are cool to the bond proposals." ROOSEVELT RULE PROBE UNOLR WAY -1 18 New York Departments Face Inquiry by G. 0. P. Legislative Group. By the Associated Press. ALBANY. N. Y„ April 14.-The Re publican investigation of Gov. Roose velt's Democratic administration ooen* today with the investigators professing a sincere desire to effect economies in New York's governmental machinery' and the Governor and his department heads promising full co-opcration. The investigation, a surprising de velopment of the last session of the State Legislature, will explore the work ing of 18 departments with their 30,000 employes. State Senator Georg? R. Fearon of Syracuse, Republican leader and ex officio member of the investigating com mute?. declared the legislators hoped to trim up to $30,000,000 out of the State's expenses. The budget of the last Leg islature was $307.0011.000. The Inquiry formally opened last night with a parley betwern the Gover nor and the two thief inquisitors. Sen ator Charles J. Hewitt, veteran Repub lican legislator, and his colleague. As semblyman Fred L Porter. An veering questions of newspaper men as they entered the Governor'* office for the conference, the two Re publicans said "we don't know what It Is about. The Governor just asked us to rome down end talk it over with him." Rcosevclt several divs ago had a long discussion with memb rs of his cabinet as a preliminary to the Inves tigation. The legislative resolution authorizing the investigation gave to the rommittee of five virtually all-inclusive powers. The committee can. at its will, summon any d^partm^nt head, bureau chief or emplove of the State and require him to testify or produce records in evi dence. It is the intention of the investigat ing body to ■'ngage efficiency experts and send them into the departments to work while the formal business Is on of conducting examinations at public hear ings. TOTEM POLE CARVINGS WIN BOYS ALASKA TRIP Work of Young Scouts Brings Praise of Experts on Exhibit Here. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. April 14 --Because they are clever at carving totem poles, three Boy Scouts are going to get free trips to Alaska in June. The winners in a totem pole con test, announced yesterday by the Boy Scouts of America, are: Blanchard Kennedy. 17 years old, troop 2, Columbus. Miss. John Potsch, 17, troop 15. 2117 South Sixtv-second avenue, Cicero, 111. William E. Mueller, 14, troop 29, El Paso. Tex. The poles they carved, praised by experts, are exhibited the Depart ment of Interior, Washington. ROOSEVELT VICTORY SEEN Senator Wheeler Expresses Hopes in Pennsylvania Speech. PITTSBURGH. April 14 vPk---United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, told Western Pennsylvania Democrats yesterday that Goa. Frank lin D. Roosevelt will be the presiden tial nominee. Wheeler also predicted a Democratic victory at the polls in Nor ember. The Montana Senator, frequently mentioned as a possible running mate for the N:w York Governor, addressed a Jefferson day luncheon. 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