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General Hugh Johnson
"Nira," or the American Indus- trial Recovery Act, his been described as the most revolution- ary measure ever passed by Con- gress. Its main object is to restore! prosperity. Its results will deter mine the President's success failure.
or
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1933.
U.S.
$250,000,000 NAVY
PROGRAMME
FLEET NEAR TREATY LIMIT IN 3 YEARS
ས
PRESENT POSITION. REVIEWED
(By Willis Thornton.)
Washington, July 15. 1dards set at London. The magni- The man who, with the aid of
Nearly a quarter of a billion ficent fleet of destroyers turned out the new "De-or-Die" Cabinet, will administer this Act is General dollars will jingle in the pockets of during the war had deteriorated, ready for the junk yard without new Hugh Samuel Johnson. He owes bis appointment to his war record. expert American shipbuilders dur- ships to replace them. The United It was he who, as a young gen-ing the next three years because the States has no destroyer lenders, and eral of 36, set up the American United States has a sailor president, not one destroyer that can cross the Pacific without réfueling. Many General Staff's Purchase Storage That would be labour's share in older submarines are obsolete, and and Traffic Department which, in 1918, eliminated competitive Gov- the $238,020,000 to be spent in the navy lack modern plane carriers.
new naval ships, the Japan Seeks Equality ernment buying and controlled the building 32
Other nations have not so neg- price of all war purchases in the $9,362,000 to be spent on 290 new
lected their treaty quotas. Japan United States.
an additional
has built already up to within a few That was America's first taste of naval planes, and
$75,000,000 that may be spent on ships of her allowed London Treaty business control.
modernising existing ships. For strength of 1936, and in certain Rep. Carl Vinson, chairman of the classes of smaller ships is definite- ly superior to the United States in House Naval Committee, calculates both numbers and modernity. - In she has officially an.
A Baruch Man General Johnson is a Kansas man He began his career as a military student at West Polat that 85 per cent. of the money spent addition Later, he switched over to the law.jon new ships goes for labour, and a nounced that in 1935 when another conference meets to determine the Like most of President Roose large percentage of the remodeling naval future, she will demand naval expense and plane cost would reach equality with the United States and
destination-the pockets Great Britain.
vell's assistants, he has dabbled ind authorship. His two books, "Wil- liams of West Point" and the same
France, Britain, Italy, Germany to liams on Service," are the of skilled workers.
These 32 new ships are all to be and Russia are speeding up their American military cadet what Mr. Percy Westerman's naval stories laid down this year, Navy Secretary naval construction. Russia, with are to the naval cadet in England. Swanson has announced, in addi- practically no navy, has ordered the He has also written many magazine tion to the 17 ships now building. largest submarine in the world, and Nearly $50,000,000 will be spent this four cruisers. The German fleet stories.
the war, but In his business and political year. Sixteen vessels will be built was destroyed after career he is protege of Mr. in the Government yards at Newlits new "pocket-battleships" have "Barny" Baruch.
Island, European navy men worried. They He sat with York, Charleston, Mare and variety to regional develop Baruch on the War Industries Bremerton, Portsmouth, Philadel- have inspired the French to build ment, all the forces which make Board during the war. Six years phia. for nationalism draw toward the ago he joined the Baruch firm at The funeral of Lady Shou-son Chow will take place on Sunday,resident. He is the only officer 120, Broadway.
Vice-President be ex- August 27, at
3.30 p.m. at the (if the Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Abercepted) who is chosen by a vote
deen.
FUNERAL.
Red-Tape Slasher
of the whole naton, and in him The General. who will be fifty- the national-as distinct from one in August, is & short, square the sectional-spirit of the coun-shouldered,
reason more
clean-shaven
man,
and
the super-cruiser Dunkerque, ex- pected to be the most powerful ship
16 Major Trades Stimulated afloat. France. also has let COR-
The work, Secretary Swansontracts for four fast cruisers, to points out, will employ "many make 31 knots, carry nine six-inch thousands" directly, and "many guns, and carry planes. These are more thousands" indirectly. Six designed to protect her Mediter- teen major trades and 100 smaller ranean trade, supposedly against try is incarnate. It is for this with rather bloodshot eyes, a high mechanical trades in many states Italy, which is modernizing four are affected. Steel, iron, lumber, pre-war dreadnaughts, the Duilio, The China Mail
than any other forehead, and long ears. that he lives, through his in- He is careless about dress, is cork, rubber, metal fixtures, fittings, Doria, Cavour, and Cesare. cumbency, in a blazing pre-modest, gruff, and can be describ-valves, electrical equipment, brass, Britain's programme is expanded.
lead, zinc, paint, interior decora-for 1983, and is such as to make Hong Kong, Saturday, August 26, 1933. dominance which dwarfs alljed as a man without frills.
other political figures. This was He belongs to the "no nonsense" tion, insulation, tiling, furniture complete her replacement programme
furnishings, galley and pan- according to the treaty by 1936.
tools, not always true, and, if to-day it brigade, works from 8 a.m. to 2
Construction of all 82 ships of the America's Experiment. is true
in degrees which vary am. every day, and by his tersety equipment, hardware, with the characters of the chosen ness has acquired a great reputa-castings, all these lines should feel new 1933- programme (2 plane car- almost immediately the stimulation riers, 4 light cruisers, 20 destroyers, The whole world is watching men, it is nevertheless a factor tion for getting things done.
2 gunboats, 4 submarines) in addi- closely and anxiously the pro-fof high and always growing im He was known during the war of the navy's programme.
Important as the naval building tion to 17 anips now building, will gress of the Great American portance in the corporate life of as the Red-Tane Slasher. He has
The Pre-been described as the type of man programme is because of its im still leave the American fleet "con- economic
Much the American people. experiment.
off his horse mediate effect on business and em-siderably under limitations,"
destroyers, more is at stake than the insident is the symbol of their who bites the ears
ployment it is even more important Rep. Vinson. Of 251 mediate well-being of the essential unity. He does not when kia spurs don't work.
asr definite step in naval policy. It only four to-day are "under age." American people, in a world of possess, save in exceptional times!
has been a foregone conclusion that The others are already over the Sole Survivor nations which must live, if they and by exceptional grant, a legal
Franklin D. Roosevelt as President treaty age for replacement. So
•
saya
United
are to live prosperously, by the power fully commensurate with The stage has not escaped the would bring into play the knowledge even with eight, building and 20. in Law of interependence. The the responsibilities thrust upon Nazi purge in Berlin. All the he gained as assistant Secretary of the new programme, the failure of the American experi-him by the national spirit. He famous Jewish actors have been the Navy during the war, and be in-States will be woefully behind in ment would amount to a universal must redress the balance from sacked except one.
fluenced by the natural feelings of a this important class. Japan to-day disaster. Its progress should his store of personal qualities. He is playing the part of skilled sailor who loves the kick of has 71 "under age" destroyers, be watched with deep and friend-But it is to him and him alone, Mephistopheles in "Faust." The the wheel and the roll of the deck. ly interest. Its success should to him and not to Congress, that Nazis think the role appropriate.
Facts You Did Not Know.
The American fleet to-day de- pends on restrictions laid down int
(Continued on Page 12).
the Treaty of Washington (1922) ROOSEVELT'S
and the Treaty of London (1930).) The treaty resulting from the Wash- ington Conference was the first ever.
be devoutly desired everywhere. the country looks. To-day, by The position of affairs to-day a turn of the political wheel, the might have been foreseen. Time White House is occupied by a is of the essence of Mr. Roose-man exceptionally gifted in the velt's contract, and the admini-qualties demanded of leadership stration of the National, Indu-in a democracy, and by force of Paper has been manufactured in to limit naval armament. It was strial Recovery Act (with its dire emergency this man is vest-what now is Czechoslovakia since signed by the United States, Great codes of conduct for the greated with powers not less than his 1520, when a mill that still is in Britain, Japan, France and Italy.
Mr. Roosevelt, perhaps operation WAS established industries and its accommoda-need.
tion of the conflicting claims of more than any President since Moravia. capital and labour) is a slow and his great namesake, knows and
of working hours for all labour. wildering but a purposeful
in It remains valid until ended by 이 one of the contracting powers, on
of persons who'
*
two years'. notice, Under it the
DRIVE TO END
PROHIBITION
Speeding-Up Complete Repeal.
Washington.
The Roosevelt forces have been
complex process. When com-can adjust himself to those An economically operated fuel nations scrapped hundreds of ships, MAY ELIMINANTE: NEW TAXES pleted, the net that it cast would subtle, elusive, and variable ele-pump for automobiles has been in-, built, building and authorized. have been of a mesh wide en-ments which go to make public vented that delivers as much as 25] The United States itself scrapped ough to allow many employers to opinion. He is past-master in gallons of gasoline an hour to the 28 battleships and battle-cruisers, A drive by the Roosevelt Ad. escape; and while its application the art of political action, an art motors.
more than it kept. It gave up much ministration is under way to speed to this treaty, for at the rate of up prohibition repeal." was delayed there had been a in which the timing of the stroke feverish manufacturing activity is of hardly less importance than Instead of using metal blades a building as the World War ended, it in anticipation of its terms. the stroke itself. He had no German inventor's electric fan, would have had by 1924 easily the spurred to action by:
The vote in New York State,. Bapid and dramatic interventon sooner taken the oath of office whirla loops of ribbon that cannot frst navy in the world.
where the repeal of the Eighteenth was imperative, and the Fresident than action was demanded of injure the hands
An Out-Of-Date Navy Amendment has been approved by has decided to attempt nothing him; but he had seen long before touch it.
The United States, equipped with popular ballot, and the prospect of less than supervision by the-as his inaugural address dis
taxes for Federal Government of all in-closed-that it was action first Intended for use on a desk, a cigar a fleet at the end of the war that eliminating the new dustrial activities whatsoever, and foremost that was needed lighter, ash receiver and mirror had no equal, rested on its laurels. financing public works by means of under the provisions of a by the people of his country, have been combined in a device that The once-proud. ships grew old and revenue from liquor sales.
Postmaster General Farley, the "blanket code," which prescribes in the months that have ensued resembles a French type telephone. out-of-date.
In 1980 came the London Treaty, Chairman of the Democratic a minimum wage and a maximum he has acted with an almost be
signed by Great Britain, the Calt National Committee, is the spear- The adoption of this code by the rapidity, and his fellow-citizens he richly deserves it. "I caned States and Japan. This con-head of the repeal campaign from millions of American employers have demonstrated their faith in not," he said, "guarantee the ference was needed because the the capital... is not compulsory: but their him and, renewed their faith in success of this nation-wide plan, limitations imposed at Washington He has announced that he will ask voluntary adherence to its terms themselves. This in itself but the people of the country were not sufficient. The ration of every Democratic worker in the last is now to be sought by resort to an achievement of the first can guarantee its success," and 6:5:8 for capital ships (1. e battle election to work for repeal.
Mr. Farley, who neither drinks those arts of persuasion and magnitude, but it is more than so saying he makes appeal to the ships and battle cruisers and plane publicity, of mass-suggestion and that. Without this renewal of primary virtue of civilized man, carriers) had been established, nor smokes, carried this campaign mass-compulsion whose effective-faith, this revival of confidence, his capacty for living and work but no agreement had been reached into New York State recently. He ness was proved during the War, there could have been no accepting with other men in faith and on limiting smaller types of ships. employed there the Democratic, Mr. Roosevelt has asked "in the ance, of the discipline now de loyalty. Failure, he says, would At London this was attempted. machinery which had brought over- name of patriotism and manded. The President in his mean "another desperate winter," Not only did the three powers agree whelming victory to Mr. Franklin humanity" for the signing and broadcast address declared his and he might with truth have on a holiday in building of more D. Roosevelt, skabens observance of "the common conviction that individual effort, added that it would mean the capital ships until 1936, but actually "The Democratic party pledged it covenant." His appeal will local, effort, "and even disjointed return to Washington of a Con-adopted a scale of building for self for repeal," he says, "We should draw a double strength from the federal effort," had failed, that gress eager to reassert Itself cruiser, destroyer and submarine work for it and we will. It means office which he holds and from his nothing remained but the neces and ready to ordain the ex-classes. Japan drew a slight ada new source of revenue that will, own personality. The Presi-sity or "rounded leadership by tremest forms of monetary in-vantage from these negotiations, eliminate the new levies about to be dency of the United States is the Federal Government "It flation. It is no longer the and the big three emerged from the imposed to provide new jobs." invested with a power and as in some sort a regimentation President who is no trial, for he conference with a ratio of Great The announcement is regarded as significance which grow with the of the national life that is now has given of his best. It is upon Britain 10, United States 9.8, and improving prospects that the 56 states necessary for ratification years. In a country continental to be attempted. It is not in Mr. the Amercan people as a whole Japan 6.3. ly vast, a sum of so many diver Roosevelt more than in other that the eyes of the outer world. But the United States failed might be in line before next March
utterly to build even up to the stan- 15.---Reuter rities, ordained by its sheer size mortals, to command success, but will be turned.