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...Considered at length the McNary-Haugen bill to create a $200,000,000 export corporation and regulate tariff rates in order to raise the price of farm products, notably wheat...
...bill proposes that the Government create a $200,000,000 export corporation to buy farm produce, principally wheat. It is to buy as much as will bring the price of wheat up to a position in proportion to other prices, such as it held before the War. Tariff rates are to be raised sufficiently to prevent inflow of foreign wheat. The wheat which the corporation buys is to be paid for partly in cash, partly in receipts. These receipts will have value in as much as the corporation succeeds in selling its wheat abroad at a profit...
...satisfy these objectors, the Gooding bill was passed. It forbids the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant lower long haul rates than short haul rates except under specific conditions: 1) where the freight transported is for export or from import and 2) where two railroads compete in the same territory, but one has a circuitous route to a given destination (that is, the road with the circuitous route is allowed to make its rate as low as that of the line with the straight route; 3) for block express...
Englishmen are greatly worried over the sale of English art treasures to U. S. millionaires, who have bought $60,000,000 worth of British paintings and other art works since the War. Many connoisseurs look to the Government to stop the alarming export of English Art by some embargo similar to that in effect in Italy. But Premier MacDonald said (at the recent banquet of the National Gallery Centenary celebration) that private subscription was the only thing that could save English Art for England...
...very sake of its good name and moral leadership the United States must protest against simplified English as a world language. The export of American movies to the Orient has already done untold harm in revealing to an unsuspecting people the depths of American degradation. If on top of these pictures there arrived a flood of more magazines in an understandable American, and a deluge of Hearst papers the thoroughly moral and harmless races of the world might well rise in horror in exterminate a degenerate nations...