FOLLOWING NEWS AT THE CAPITAL

Mobley, Radford E.

Following News At the Capital Watson's Promise Mr. Lowman Again Hold 1.5 Primaries Prohibition Policy By RADFORD E. MOBLEY WASHINGTON, D. C—The thirty days are well up and the...

...Taking his cue from the White House which has been predicting since the first of the year that prosperity would return in ninety days, the Indiana oldguardsman grandiosely made the assertion when the "bill of inequalities" was approved that agriculture would feel its beneficial effects within a month...
...PROHIBITION POLICr THE dry policy of the new organization under Commissioner Wocc cock was laid down last we...
...wrecking American industry by deliberate intent...
...He will also find that the last report of the federal department of agriculture shows that the value of the farmer's dollar has dropped to the lowest point in many years...
...If the tax reduction of last year is continued, this deficit will aproach the $200,000,000 mark...
...HOLD 15 PRIMARIES FIFTEEN primaries are being held this month in as many states, the beginning hurdles which lead t the final November stretch, forseen b administration leaders here as a test the Hoover administrations popular...
...Of chief interest was the announce ment that the agents in the field her...
...This program is offensive to the dry organizations, such as the Ami-Saloon League, but no public protest has yet been raised...
...Stuttgard, Ark., July 28.] — Please stop sending your paper, even if it is paid up to December, 1930...
...This virtually served notice that the "small fry"" such as domestic beer makers will not be molested...
...NOW A DEFICIT IS SEEN PRESIDENT HOOVER again insi ' that the federal departments mus...
...Much to the consternation of administration officials who were besieged with protests from American firms trading with Russia, Mr...
...Tempora Mutantus...
...Lowman i'isualized a gigantic scheme by Soviet Russia to flood American markets with :onvict-made gocds...
...He went so far as to ban pulpwood, later retracting the order when the protests began to pour in...
...and the treasury department has no satisfactory evidence to jhdw that Russia's exports here are to any appreciable degree produced by convict labor...
...Lowman Again Hold 1.5 Primaries Prohibition Policy By RADFORD E. MOBLEY WASHINGTON, D. C—The thirty days are well up and the 8moot-Ha.wley bill has not yet filled Senator Watson's promise of placing the farmer safely over the rough spots he has been treated to during the past two administrations...
...This will add several million annually to the cost of enforcement...
...over the country...
...Actually, iccording to other government officials, no such attempt is under way...
...pare their budgets to the minimum in order to avoid a deficit during the next fiscal year...
...Washington is wondering how federal agents sent to Russia b* Lowman could have obtained inform/ tion as to .types of labor in July when the lumber camps were close down after May...
...after would go after only the bie operatives, and not the "picayunish" offenders...
...The activity whirh is- being manifesto by Republican party leaders in no ws indicates- confidence over the outcom while the Democratic organization made doubly happy over the apparrt return of the solid South to the part ranks, manifested in recent souther' primaries where large votes and severs riefeat of anti-Smith leaders told the story...
...What woud Bob" my if he knew of ihe sen i those who claim to fight for his clples?—William Schumacher...
...Be that as it may...
...conceiving that the Soviets were darkly plotting to destroy domestic industry by selling manganese, pulpwood, and other commodities to this country in limited quantities, hit upon the idea of bannine all Russian exports to the United States...
...He will also find that farm labor Is now receiving less in wages than it has in years, and that a counterpart for city unemployment is now found on the nation's farms...
...If Senator Watson is now taking notof the situation he will find tha Chairman Legge of the farm board ; suggesting that the wheat farmer m> his grain for cattle feed, it has de creased in value to such a great extent...
...I think the majority of the so-called Progressives are not a bit better than the Regulars...
...treaty, formed under the domination c Great Britain, has plainly shown jl they are...
...His ground for the embargo was the alleged use of convict labor in the production of th*pulpwood...
...RUSSIAN BUGABOO ASSISTANT Secretary Seymour Lowman, the man who wanted to build a barbed wire fence along the Canadian border to stop the bootleggers, is not devoid of additional ideas...
...BUT WASN'T IT AT LEAST A STEP TOWARDS PEACE...
...officers in an effort to obtain their re operation in enforcing the Volstead ar Jones laws...
...Interest, during the next week is certered on the polls in Nebraska, where Senator George Norris, Progressive leader, is faced with old guard oppositior, and in Alabama, where a candidate w id be chosen to face Senator Tom Heflm, running as an independent, in the November election...
...The new regime also expects to ccntinue the demand that the wet state fall in line with the federal enforcer Agents have been ordered to estabhs close and cordial relations with loc...
...Finally, the new bureau admits thit does not have at present a sufficierv ly large force to administer the prolv bition statutes, and announces that will request congress to provide fund for a twenty-five per cent increase personnel...
...Secretary Mellon estimates that a $100,000,000 deficit for trie present fiscal year is already in prospect...
...No mention is made of the $160,000,000 tax rebate last year, most of which went to corporation taxpayers, as the cause at present treasury difficulties...
...Their vote on the nav...
...chirm" a series of conferences attend" by the administrators of the twelve nr prohibition districts...
...The next logical step shou be to make a pilgrimage to London be presented at the Court of St...

Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36


 
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