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Show 0 CAPITAL 4 1 - GLEANINGS A ' t 1 YOUR CONORESSAAN HIUMLBflllll velopment of our own natural re- sources, while derent-e items will he used to make war materials with which to kill people. Purchase of foreign food and clothing by the army and navy as a rut ure policy will le determined soon, as the house has already given giv-en its support, and the senate will fc.ee the issue within the next week. Secretary Wallace and alministra-tion alministra-tion leader succeeded in dereating a ban on the purchase of South American beef by the navy, but a -uipplemonlal defense appropriation bill passed by the house provides; 'that no part of this or any appropriation appro-priation contained in this act shall he available for the procurement of any article of food or clothing not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except articles of food or clothing not so grown or produced." Acting Secretary Sec-retary of State Welles has asked congress to lift this restriction because be-cause of the good neighbor policy, but congressmen from farm areas are determined to wage a fight for such safeguards. They point out hat industry and business have been receiving liberal treatrhent, 1 while the Walsh-Healy and other acts adequately protect the inter. ests of labor. David Lasser, formerly president I of the Workers Alliance, by which he was sent to Moscow a few years ' ago, ancl a contributor to the Daily i Worker, Communist newspaper has I been given a position as employ- I ment specialist by the Work I'roj- j ects Administration with an annu- I al salary of $4,000. ! I I Congressman Rankin, of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, has introduced a bill to create cre-ate nine conservation authorities to develop and coordinate projects for the promotion of navigation, prevention' of floods, and the reclamation recla-mation of public lands iu all sec- i tiens of the country. Included is a proposed Columbia Valley Authori . j ly, for the drainage basin of the j Columbia, and' Snake Rivens". I o o i I With the .international situation becoming more intensified daily, and. nationa defense demanding the unity and support of our nation, Americans are distressed over current, developments. Delays in key industries are causing a controversy over the desirability of anti-strike legislation to insure uninterrupted un-interrupted production. Chairman Dies of the house committee com-mittee investigating subversive ac-'ivities ac-'ivities is almost daily exposing sinister developments showing the extensive espionage and sabotage of communists and other aliens in litis 'country. "For almost throe years" said Dies, "our committee has been calling the attention of this body and the entire, country to the insidious and treasonable nature na-ture of the nuterous subversive organizations and thousands of individuals in-dividuals who gave their allegiance lo the dictators of Russia and Germany. Ger-many. We have shown that these agents of the totalitarian power: are busily engaged in a vast conspiracy con-spiracy against the security of the American people. America faces a peril created by the agents of Stalin Stal-in who have been so tenderly cod died in days that are not remote." Dies is demanding action op. the part of this administration to avoid disaster,, aud urged the department of justice to proceed against Communist, Com-munist, , Nazi aud Fascist organization organiza-tion for their tailure to register as agents of foreign principals, lie also condemned Communist leadership; leader-ship; of some C.I.O. unions operating operat-ing in vital defense industries and navy yards. It is obvious that, while the nation na-tion is girding itself for a supreme preparedness effort against foreign dictators, our internal conditions are menacing, and point increasingly increasing-ly to the probability that democracj is not functioning efficiently in out own country. Since June 1940, direct appropriations appropri-ations and authorizations, anioii'it ing to $32,132,000,000 for national defense in the fiscal years or 1941 and 1942 have been approved bs Congress.' This includes the $7, 000,000,000 lease-lend approprialion. The total amount for the current fiscal year is about $19,000,000,00 of which $13,0(10,000,000 is for the army and the balance for the uavj and other defense agencies. For the fiscal year of 1942, a total of $5,-665,000,000 $5,-665,000,000 has been appropriated for the army, $3,415,000,000 for the navy and $417,000,000 for other defense de-fense agencies, making a complete total or $9,498,0(10,000. The office of production management reports that within 60 days defense expenditures ex-penditures from the treasury will be approximately $1,0(10,000,000 monthly. Members of Congress, who heretofore here-tofore have demanded economy in federal expenditures, are becoming discouraged over the trend in the capital. Among these is Representative Represen-tative Rich, ot Pennsylvania, a member or the appropriations suit-committee suit-committee on interior department appropriations. Mr. Rich has con sistently opposed huge appropriations appropria-tions for reclamation and olher development; de-velopment; but in the house last Friday, he stated that, in Ihe In-ture, In-ture, he will be inclined to support appro) nations lor development of the western part or the country. He said that, the house had voted last week ror a total or $11,000,000,000 for defense program, which would take care or interior departme-tl requirements tor about 70 years al Ihe rale of $150,000,000 a year. II, pointed out. thai the hitler itcn will be laugely reimbursable, and will provide for eons! motive de |