The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 1, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 April 1932 — Page 3

News Review of Current Events the World Over Secretary Mills Offers Treasury’s Tax Bill —Congress Slashes More Supply Measures—Developments in the Presidential Campaign. By EDWARD W. PICKARD

SECRETARY OGDEN t. MILLS and his associates In the Treasury department have laid before the senate finance committee their revised pro-

gram for raising sl,033,000.000 for the purpose of balancing the national budget. The l|ill They offer rejects those features of the' tneaSure pa<s>d by tile house which makes extreme raises in normal ‘income tax rates, surtax rates coriioration 1 n com e taxes ami estate taxes, restoring these taxes ro the level" <>f the

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fates as. they were in 1924. -Mr. Mills proposed a compromise on - . provides a i t'irs?'<»f w fourth <>f I per <ent, but not less than four cents a share. The secretary would make it a straight four, cents a share tax. [Most of the ex< -<■ taxes in the house bill he refects, hut pnnooses a tax of Ilin-.-four:h- ■ : i,; ,• rent a siillon on dorm in the house bill. ■ Mr. .Mills" progntml does not differ much from the last recommendations he submitted to the house ways’and 1 iiie.tns committee, it is'now too late, he - >ys. to apply income taxes ‘retro* actively to 1931 theories but the loss oe, a-a.ned thereby 'villi be offset by of tlf** I r-v. through. administrative changes.” . ■ The s«-> retary now be'iey es that It 'will be possible to reditee ;?>\ern;mmt expenditures s2tM>,i»Ufk<*W instead of Articles not taxed In the Iksim- bill on which Mr. Mills W«>::ld <■ p<.»<- taxes are .tobacco, clicks and drafts, and d<«in> ic gasoline Vrt the house bill whli h. Mr. Mills would not t - security issues, sides of projitbe. pp.r. .-in.llg oil. imported gasoline. Imported coal, cosmetics. furs. Jewelry. sporting IfooUs, t,.» \< > i_. s. matches.; chewing gum, meeh.iba ai refrigerators. < i> 4y safety deposit Jinxes, yachts .and mdtortmnts, pipe Hue oil, and firearms. The senate committee heard impassioned prbfesti from automobile manufacturers against Ttie taxes on automobiles and trucks contained In the house bill. Through George M. Grahinn its their spokesman they declared the proposed. tax waS discriminatory, would serhm.sb affect wages and em ploytm nr of the approximately 4,000,- <*«> men who. directly or indirectly make their living in the industry, and would greatly impede any ectmhmle rheovery on the part of a sick industry that represents i.nv-efevetilb Os all the gainfully employed In’the Voiced States. , WHAT Representative La Guardia ‘of New York 'chl'htd .“all epidemic of ecoji'omy ' ei-mti; tS ...?>rse in congress, to theblisghst ■ f t —• in- 1 dividii.d tneml.. : * in d of .certain government officials, [Drastic reductions In budget vstim ites were made and further slashes we(e In prosjMfet. The h»u*>' created precedent by accepting' without eoiifercnce.’tjhe entire 10 per i print ion bill for.the -Interior depart- j ment ami as - the .budget bureau al- 1 ready !md . made [. heavy reductions I fnu.ii the department requests and the • huuaehad previously knocked off some mdliot Sci re! ty Wilbur spoke of "the odds and ,ehds that are left." He t ailed tile $4 i»i»U*W' reduction in funds tIOCUS-p,«-us." and then took the diminished bill to president Hoover for a confer- J ence. The Semite iustniked its itppropriatloiis c,,mm;tte.- to I re luce the treasury j»>st office auptJly bill by 10 per cent, and cds.i appkoxed a reduction of in the prohibition enforcement fund. the. only Important Item whjch the house left at the budget estiiuate. Next came- the slashing of the lutvy .appropriation bill "by the bouse. ' ' 1 The appropriation measure for congress, itself was put aside for one week or more to give the sj>ecial economy committee time to perfect an amendment carrying the entire retrenchment program of pay reductions and abolition and consolidaton of federal activities. The decision of The economy committee to put all the proJeeteti savings into one bill t'o be a rider to the legislative supply measure, as President Hoover wished, was reached over the protest of T.’hainnan McDuffie of Alabama. McDuffie said his propositi to cut federal wages 11 per cent after exampting the first sl,000, would go Into the bill, and that advocates of the Hoover five-day work week and furlough without pay plan would have to offer It as a substitute. Mr. Hoover thinks his plan would save between 5225.0U0.00U and $250,000,000 a year. VITHEN the Republican national ▼ ’ convention meets In Chicago it will have for Its temporary chairman and keynoter Senator L. J. Dickinson

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of lowa, whom the arrangements committee selected for the poet with the approval of President Hoover. "Hell Ral Si rfg Dick.** as he Is known In his home state, has been one of the strongest defenders of the Hoover administration and can be coanted on to set forth vigorously the Issues on which the

Republican party will base Us appeal for the favor of the electorate. He was in the lower house for six terms,

a prominent member of the farm .bloc; then was elected to the senate to succeed Dan Steck, Other appointmeitts made for the convention were: Sergeant-at-arms, Everett Sanders of Indiana, former secertary to President Calvin Coolidge; secretary. Lafayette B. Gleason of New York; parliamentarian. James Krnm s Burke of Pennsylvania; as •sistatd. Lehr,Fess, Ohio; son of Senator [less; cjiiief doorkeeper; Col. tdeiiii Hay4es ot low a ; .ioi-tan". J. N. Johjisfon.. Kan*as. 'l'be Republican Citbtens' Committee Againfsi National I‘roldbition wired a prof* -:' t- ■ < 'lt. -, ’i -,be< ;;«e no liberals were named among the offi-cial-J | . FKANKI.IN RtxtsEVELT is determined not to Lave a quarrel with Ai Sijdtlr it he Tan iielp lt, and in b> v.nnphigic for“(TFlvgates the New York governor is becoming most conelliajofy and cautious. I'p in St, I‘aul, Mimi., he replied in away to Smith's attack in which thill leader „of, Democracy more than Intimated that Roosevelt w.i- a <b : trying jib Sei vias*, against *£ - -Franklin di--- ' claimed, ffe< hiring pleasantly, that he favored- a national policy that "seeks 1 to help all si!tiuJtune<!Us)y”-“ttn aim with which no one'could quarrel but a pron<ium.ement that is scarcely rea- >. n fo.r to abandon his utn«un< r-d intentom to take oft his <> at ami tight to the bitter end the nomination of ’ the governor, on the whole, (he presI ent situation is -mb that Deipocratic I ;■ :o'.-: s ' fear a repetition of the con- ‘ [ yention d«>ad'-« i, <>; lid and impair- | piei.t- ‘-t lii, ~;;. .< > sUj i at the pell-'m November. Members of the Demo< latie national coinmittee iir< considering the plan. * i-ge-ied'"l.y Harry F. P.y-rd. of Virginia? of having a provisional platfortn comtnlttee meet four days in ot the convention to formulate tentative] platiks. In this way, as J<mett Shouse-Says, the time and energies of the members Os the official platform committee would be conserved and eor>fii«h>n would be tty oided. Xlir ARNING that wet planks in both [ » * party platforms this year would I <aufle the prohibitionists to. get tbgethfer .:|ind elect a dry President was i<I >ne«il from the woman's national cx»mliralttee .for law enforcement. ' i .\l!rs. Leigh Colvin of New Y’<irk [ltta(|e the stateuient before the worn [ on's, convention', at the same time Thinning definitely that President Hoover) I* a ‘supjwtrter .of prohibition. She predicted ids defeat, however, if the party adopts a wet plank. Spnute committees considered vark»i s proposals relating to prohibition and heard the views of many- persons. Matthew Well..of the American Federate u of Labor warm <1 the lawmakers [ of :i potential revolution by labor tini. -- the b er industry is .revived; Po- :op Cannon aj»peared' before the Judiciary subcommittee t<» advocate making the man Who buys liquor its -guHtj as. one the who who sells it. The manufacturers’ committee, by a vot|- <if 4 to 7. .turned down the Bingj ha !|a beer l-'ll for I per eent beer. S-epatar introduced in the I sei ate his] emergency construction i act ns ati amendment tn the pending ) t. x bill It, provides for the creation | of a XIa•»»*»»*» ■ bond, issue to be atuortired at the rate, of 10 per cent each year, anti to be sold tts a "popular loan” to b... repaid entirely by a ;,taX. levied on 2.7.* per cent beer taxes at the rote of 21 cents ;,er gaTlon. L ' S ECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON is now tit Geneva and apparently already is up to'the neck in matters relating to disarmament, reparations,

security and the «[»riental situation. He is quiirted in a fine villa •anil is doing a lot bf entertaining, but also he; is attending to business. As one real achievement, the disarmament conferehce approved the principle of reduction of arltnaments "to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforce-

ment by common action of international obligations." (Approval of the principle was oppOsed only by Maxim Litvinov, head of the Russian delegation, who said the action was not related to any effort to secure genuine disarmament. Following up the American and Italian proposals. Sir John Simon, British foreign minister, proposed a resolution Indorsing the principle of ■"nualitative" disarmament —that Is. the prohibition of certain classes and . types of weapons. This was supported by Germany and Italy but oppoeed by France. * THE interstate commerce commission. in a report that- marked the culmination of a nation-wide survey of the highway-rail transportation situation. recommended legislation regulating interstate bus and truck carJ; "Unrestrained competition Is an impossible solution of the present transportation problem and is incompatible with the alm of co-ordination under regulation," declared the commission. Railroads, whether steam or electric, and water carriers, the commission asserted, should be specifically authorised to engage In the transportation of both persons and property by motor vehicles in Interstate commerce over the public highways. i.- A much milder form of regulation for the interstate truck carriers, common or contract, was recommended.

SrfJTATOR WILLIAM J. HARRIS. senior senator from Georgia and ranking Democratic member of the appropriations committee, died in Washington following several weeks of illness during which he had two major operations and one blood transfusion. He was sixty-four years old and had been in the senate since March, 1919. He was re-elected in 1925, and again in 1931, when he received the largest vote and majority ever accorded a candidate for United States senator In Georgia. In addition to the appropriations committee. Senator Harris was a member of the immigration, commerce, military affairs and territorial and insular affairs committees. THE senate adopted and sent to the house a resolution calling upon the secretary of agriculture to investigate the cost of maintaining the sys*

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Sheppard. Democrat’ Texas. Profits and losses by ? various classes 'of traders, in ‘wheat and cotton futures since July. 1929. together with ] short sales volume and commission i paid by traders, would be gone into. The resolution provides that the secretary of agriculture separate the profits and losses of large t.nd small trailers' and show the amounts of profi,ts and losses resulting "from the] short selling of wheat and cotton dur- ) , Ing the drastic decline in prices--since i July 1. 1929. v MRS. LOWELL F. HOBART, retiring president general of the V>aughters of the American Revolution. addressing the continental congress of the organization in Washington, asserted that alien international-! -fats, pacifists -and criminals are' undermining the seciirity of American institutions. Backing up her plra for a united front against these influences. Mrs. Hobart sketched a sordid picture of conditions which she said H existed in this depression period. The congress was peaceful ■ thin year, the only Ticket in the field being headed by Mrs. Russell William Magna of Holyoke, Mass. Great Britain's budget, almost balanced, was introduced to the house of commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamber-

lain, and the British found there would be no relief for the income tax payers or the beer drinkers for another year. A deficit ) of about $7,000,000, j Mr. Chamberlain estl- j mated, would be easily made up by a new customs tax to be announced and.a tax of eight cents on foreign tea with a preference of four cents on empire grown tea. The

income tax remains at about 25 per cent. of especial interest to America was the fa<i- that the budget makes no provision for $171,500,000 which will be (hie the United Slates in the next twelve months on the war debt account. Neither does it list in the items of expected revenue the equivalent amount which will be dtfe Britain from German reparations and from the European allies on war debts to Britain. Chamberlain said he felt It would be wiser to leave all these war debt and.reparations accounts out of consideration until after the LaQsanne reparations conference. After a decision is reached at Lausanne and after it is known whether the Hoover moratorium will be extended, there will be a supplementary British budget to meet the conditions then existing, he said. News of .this course by the British government started a discussion In congress of the possibility of repudiation by Europe of the war debts owed the United States. Senator Heed of Pennsylvania said he was confident England would pay us when the time comes, and others deprecated the Idea of cancellation. Senator Borah took the opportunity to reply to Al Smith's recent suggestion that the war debts be forgotten for 25 years and then curtailed tq the extent of 25 per cent of th? value of American poods purchased by the debtors in that time. Mr. Borah said this would be in Effect complete cancellation and was., a scheme for the benefit of private creditors of Europe at the expense of American tax payers. Senator Lewis of Illinois also attacked the Smith idea, and both he and Borah tied the question ,up with the disarmament problem. A JAPANESE foreign office spokesman has warned Russia of the danger of war if there Is any recurrence- of alleged Soviet-Inspired outrages against Japan in Manchuria. He referred specifically to the wrecking of a troop train near Harbin recently. In which 14 Japanese soldiers were killed, responsibility for which Japan flatly charged to Russia. “It is idle for Japan to shut her eyes to the fact that the Russians are dissatisfied with what has been done in north Manchuria, which they regard as their sphere of influence," the spokesman declared. "The Russians have repeatedly declared that they have no intention of taking the offensive against Japan, but it seems that they are now adopting provocative measures. If these acts continue Japan’s hand my be forced.” The spokesman pointed out that it must be remembered that while Japan is not sending new troops to the Siberian border, the Russians are continuing to concentrate their forces. <©. 1*32, Western Newspaper Vnioa.)

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tern of futures trading in agricultural products and to ascertain What classes' - of citizens bear the cost. Wheat and cotton fu- . tures both are covered in the terms of the resolution, which was formed by the agriculture committee by • combining measures sponsored ' by Senators • 'upper. Republican. Kansas, and

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Skillful Railroading A thrilling race between the fore and hind quarters of a freight train took place op a steep gradient near London. England, after the train broke in two; The engineer, fearing that the last ha f would crash Into • the front pari and derail it, immediately put on speed, and for four miles there followed a breath taking race tv prevent a crash. -Finally, the derelict cars came to a "standstill on a level part of the track and the.engine backed and ifooked them on again. More “We" Stuff , A flea and an elephant walked side by side over a little bridge. Said the flea to the elephant, after they hfid crossed it. ‘[Boy. we sure did shake that thing .The Furrow.

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“T’VE got a warm feeling for A Target Tobacco, though I don’t happen to be a smoker myself. ‘‘My husband switched to Target from ready-mades. He thought he wasn’t going to like rolling his own. But now he i says he’d never smoke any other kind. He tells me that Target is real cigarette tobacco, a blend of Virginia, Burley and' Turkish tobaccos just like the ready-mades use. And he says that with those gummed papers you get free with Target;, it’s easy to rQll a firm, round cigarette. | - . “I’ll take my husband’s word for all that, but I do know that we save real money every week. My husband rolls thirty or mofe cigarettes from each package Os Target. And that means a big saving. Figure it out. Target is only 10 cents a package.” "and get this Goverydient tax on 20 cigarettes amounts; to 6r. On 20 cigarettes you roll from Target Tobacco’the tax is just about 1(, No wonderyou get such [value for a dime I SAVE MONEY ROLL YOUR OWN SEE WHAT YOU SMOKE Wrapped in Moiitureproof Cellophane Brown A Williamson Tobacco Corp. Louisville. Kentucky Ci9tx

Economic Leaders Will Speak on Newspaper Hour Outstanding economic problems of the' day will be discussed in the National Farm and Home Hour Saturday, April 30, by L. A. Downs, president of the Illinois Central railroad, Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr., economist of the Chase National bank of the city of New York, and United, States Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois, The broadcast will be under the direction of the corn belt farm dailies, a group of daily agricultural newspapers which circulate principally among the larger producers of live stock. In the group are the Chicago Drovers Journal. Kansas City Drovers Telegram, Omaha Journal-Stock-man, and St. Louis Daily Livestock Reporter. ’ ' / Charles E. Snyder, editor of the | Chicago Drovers Journal, will be in charge Os the broadcast and will introduce the speakers who are to devote their attention to presenting for the farm radio audience discussions ; of existing economic conditions of the day. The program promises to attract the attention of vast audiences particularly because it will before J the NBC microphones three distinguished leaders in the economic [ world. I The program will be brought to [ listeners as part of the plan Jo sea- [ ture the messages of practically every ) important agricultural organization j in the country. The speakers wera chosen by Mr, Snyder because of ; their lo.ng experience and contacts with bur economic problems ■ ■ Red Fox Destroys Many Farm Pests | Cats may get the glory, put the red fox is the mouser par excellence, ! his capacity for field mice.and other I noxious rodents apparently knows no limits, according to Prof; W. J. Hamilton. Jr., of Cornell university, who has studied the contents of the stomachs of nearly 1,000 fursbearing animals to learn their feeding habits. It is not unusual, he says, .to find ns many as five mice in a. fox's i stomach. - The fox Is fond of fruits, and eats many berries during the sumlner and fall months. As winter approaches, his diet is restricted largely to mice and rabbits, both of which are serious farm pests. Woodchucks become prey for foxes when they =emerge from their winter's sleep. Reynard plays havoc with the young woodchucks, and the baby foxes grow fast on such a diet. Small game Is brought to the den alive, where the young foxes are given their first lessons in hunting. Debris about a fox den shows insects, nlice, small birds, and often some chicken feathers which give further clews to his diet. Professor Hamilton says protective measures will be necessary if the red fox is to survive (or future generations. It would seem [only fair to protect the fox when the mother is with young. The fox is one of the finest game animals and fur- ) nishes many citizens sport and profit yearly. He more than atones for ' the few birds he kills by his yearrouml destruction of mice and other , rodents. t Just the- Scallops . I The B family was enjoying a turkey dinner with all the ‘‘trimmings' and. of course, sea Hoped oysters were included. When they were passed to > Kathleen, she was asked whether she • would like to have some scalloped I oysters. She replied: ; > ‘ “Well. I don't care for the oysters, but I will have some of the scallops."

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Concrete That Floats A block of concrete floated on water, bobbing up and down like a cork. J at the school of practical science, ; University of Toronto, recently,' when Prof. G. "R. Anderson, carried i out an unusual experiment. Known [as cellular concrete, this floating i stone was made on a system, anaj logons to raising a bread with yeast. ; The cement, gravel, water and sand, were put into a mixer and a carbon ) dioxide forming chemical was added. The cement then set into a hard porous substance lighter than wood.

Where Does She Get Her “Pep?” J ■ -'At J " - W' I

SHE doesn’t look 'seventy. Nor feel that old. The woman who stimulates her organs can have energy that women naif her age will envy I At middle-age your vital organs begin to slow down. You may not be sick, simply sluggish. But why endure a condition of half-health when there’s a stimulant that will stir a stagnant system to hew life and energy in a week’s time? This remarkable stimulant is perfectly harmless. It is. in fact, a family doctor’s 1 prescription. So, if you’re tired of trying every patent medicine that ‘ comes along, tell the druggist you want a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin. Take a bit of this delicious syrup every day or so, until you know by the Trying, to Start a War “Some say Europe gave us the' saxophone." “Why stir up any more grudges?”

1- rf~ '•— Professor Anderson says it has remarkable resistance [sound. , J Pigeon’s Nest Blew In A citizen of LexjistoiiJ .Maine, keeps the window of hii bedroom open all the time; Going to) bed one night he '.yas astonished to 0e a heap of what appeared to be nibbish on the . smooth counterpane ‘of ijs bed. Looking more closely h[e saw that the mess >f straw and sticks was really a nest, i pigeon's nest, put there was more to it .than that. :There was an egg 'in the nest. [ [ . „^7—— -

SSSi.iiaigai lll i ■■■miia way you feel that your lazy liver is again active, and your bowels are ' poison-free. Men, women, and children who are run-down, whoi tire easily,, get bilious spells or frequent headaches, are soon straightened out when they get this prescriptional preparation of punfe pepsin, active senna, and fresh laxative herbs. (Syrup pepsin is ill the help the bowels need, .and do not form the very bad habit bf always taking cathartics.) | Keep a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin in (he house, and take a stimulating spoonful every now and then. It is all that a great many people ever take to keep strong and vigorous, and absolutely free from constipation. / — — Heavy Burden “You’re looking pownclast, old man; What’s on your mind?” “A piece of'myi wife's.”.