Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH Presidential Veto Poses Problems TIT? Original Stitcliery Ever So Popular! Roosevelt Said 1 Forbid’ 631 Times for New Record ' By BAUKIIAGE Sews Analyst and Commentator L John RUN OF THE MINE L Lewis fiances op dourly as be finishes signing new wage contract for his United Mine Workers The minwith the mine operators ers returned to work after a brief strike 0V I) IN WASHINGTON— “I forbid!" said President Truman He said it 74 times to the 79th congress while Democrats were 80th still in control The score for the Republican-controlle- d is not quite complete at this writing Every American president is permitted to say he forbids but he has The word is "veto” Of course the congress can saj to say it in Latin this session in the “So what?” right back as they did so emphatically labor act but they have to say it case of the strong a strength they aren’t always able to muster as history has shown Why the founding fathers were with presidential power they never conceived as exto its modem breadth we don’t quite know The veto is writ ten down in Roman law but Latin In England is a dead language the crown has n veto power over parliament but it Is almost as dead as Queen Anne since it hasn’t been used sine her time It seems to have flourished on American soil In fact— "We ought to call it National Veto Leader Week” House Majority Halleck is reported to have remarked when the third presidential veto in one week of June bounced back into the lap of the 80th which panding Others John B POETIC JUSTICE whose Kelly Jr of Philadelphia father was barred from diamond beIn 1920 classic sculls rowing cause he had done menial labor saved family honor by winning the meet this year at llenley-on-tEngland ( W '! g headstudying "President lines Nixes Tax Cut” Vetoes “Truman Labor Legislation” “Wool Bill Turned Down” shook their heads and opined that Harry S Truman was the veto- ingest president yet Nonsense said capitol Harry Truman according to the record has been very sparing of his veto and has a long way to go before he attains the really veto statistics racked up by Pres Franklin D Roosevelt (who had more time than anybody else to exercise his power) Grover Cleveland (the veto runner-up- ) and Ulysses S Grant grunt “Why” the It “when FDR was president seemed as if we had a veto on something or other slmost every day” And the record shows or that he said "1 forbid’ achieved the same end by the pocket method in 631 instances (A "pocket veto” comss about in this way: The president has 10 allotted 10 days president’s are up and he still hasn’t acted on the bill it cannot become a law That is considered a “pocket veto”) Cleveland during his two terms in office used his veto power 584 times and was overridden only The majority of the Clevetwice land vetoes were personal pension bills many based on utterly absurd claims growing out of the Civil war At first Cleveland’s forthright refusal to permit these myriad treasury raids infuriated Civil war veterans Later however the GAR came to consider him its friend Jew-ih- e Ulysses S Grant a poor third to Roosevelt and Cleveland vetoed 92 bills was overridden four times All told the veto power has been used more than 1833 times by presidents started George Washington it rff by killing two important acts — ore having to do with legislative oranother which would ganization have reduced the size of the army He was not overridden There were other who never eight presidents a veto upset experienced by conMonaction— Madison gressional Linroe Jackson Polk Buchanan coln McKinley and Harding On the other hand there were several presidents who scorned the veto entirely: John Adams Jefferson John Quincy Adams Van William Henry Harrison Taylor Fillmore and Garfield Perhaps all was harmonious bebecause tween executive and legislators in those days Perhaps because as some students suggest today a sustained veto Is a contradiction of of majority rule — a the principle rule of a minority of of either house plus one plus the president who is not supposed to have a vote vote (It takes a to kill a veto) NEWS REVIEW Mine Pact Draws Fire New Aid Parley Opens BETRAYED: Mine Pact Fred N A Hartley (Rep laof the J) Both farm assets and farm bor act has charged big business and big labor with betraying the come have expanded tremendously since the outbreak of World War II public in negotiating the latest John according to a late report released L Lewis coal mining contract by the National Industrial Conferattack followed shortly ence board Hartley’s after southern coal operators folTotal assets increased about 90 lowed northern and midwestern opper cent from 537 billion dollars at erators in signing soft coal con- the beginning of 1940 to 1015 billion Unittracts with the dollars six years later Gross income ed Mine Workers from agriculture shot up 124 per He told the house that “at least cent over the same period one clear violation of the law” was That income government plus contained in the contracts referring payments totalled about 11 billion to the for a dollars in 1940 and section providing only a little less "checkoff” from the miners’ wages than 25 billion dollars in 1945 VirtuThe law he said ally all the gain was registered a checkoff only for union permits by income from agriculture Godues but the contract calls for a vernment were not checkoff of initiation fees and union changed during the years covered added that by the report Cash receipts from assessments Hartley other sections of the contract “vio- farm marketings rose from 83 late the spirit and intent of the law" lion dollars in 1940 to a very considerable 208 billion In 1945 Noting that the contract afforded Real estate was by far the largest a “prime case history of the evils of industry-widbargaining" he item among farm assets rising said that there was evidence of from 336 billion dollars in 1940 to 566 billion in 1946 "collusion between the mine operators and the UMW with the intenROMANCE: tion of violating the law” Rep payments Royal Road RSYP: Paris Parley turned Hungary its invitation to attend the reon European conference construction as 17 other nations lined up to participate in the talks first step in carrying out the Marshall plan for aiding prostrate Europe The conference boypreviously cotted by Russia on the grounds that the Marshall plan will be a foothold for American intervention in the internal affairs of Europe will attempt to set' up a scheme the aid of with whereby Europe American dollar credits and supplies' will be able to lift itself from morass by its bootits economic down i jii CALLS THE TUNE James Caesar Petrlllo boss of the musicians union has Issued an edict that he will prohibit broadcast of network on musical programs s after February 1 1948 Historic Trees Threatened For years now I have walked back’ and forth to my labors under a Gothic roof of green formed by the which interlacing elm branches since Civil war days have made my street one of the world’s most beautiful avenues Today there are some rude gaps in the raftered ceiling where huge branches have been ripped away by the wind and storm But now there is a threat of greater devastation for our and other elm trees ancient and historical or merely beautiful for the dreaded dutch elm disease has descended America— two cases of virulent infection have been discovered within the District of Columbia alone and no cure is known upon the Coolidge birch several species set out under Hoover but the elms Maples predominate are next and many have historic memories Just southeast of the south portico is an elm said to have been planted by John Quincy Adams There are others planted by Lincoln and McKinley Under these trees history lives hot for besuty nothing surpasses the high arched cloister in summer ' stark but graceful in silhouetted line in winter which roofs my avenue My generation found nothing exotic in the idea of the village amithy under the spreading chestnut tree Today the smith would have s tough job finding a chestnut tree under which to BATES TAXES So violently opposed to "excessive and confls catory individual Income taxes’ Is WIs E B Tilton of Milwaukee that he voluntarily cut hla own come to lower his taxes President of a manufacturing company he says he will work without pay In November and December so that he may lower bis tax contribution RADIO STAR "youngest story-tellworld” Robin Mor-- f ears old has her own program over a New York 'She is the nursery set’s station own disc jockey YOUNGEST FIRE’8 TKAGIC AFTERMATH The tragedy which invariably lows in the wake of fire la typified in this picture of Mr and Mrs Allen Tate of Chatsworth Calif standing in the charred rains that once was their home A brash fire that swept the area destroyed many houses Including some under construe lion An elm to official accdrdmg is a “prized classification shade tree in the northeastern and central United States” But passing over Its esthetic value consider that its “wood is used for variety of purposes— especially slack cooperage for market and bushel baskets heavy crating and for veneers But what does an economaniac care tor all that? White the House Consider grounds for Instance In these quiet 18 acres there are something less than 350 trees comprising some 90 species The two great magnolias close to the rear portico planted were placed there by Andrew Jack-soNearly every president planted a tree— there is the Benjamin Harrison oak the Harding beech straps Jn addition to Hungary four other governments — Rothose of Poland Yugoslavia mania and Bulgaria— also refused the invitations sent out by Great Britain and France As the deadline lor replies approached Finland and Albania had not yet been heard from NAVY RESIGNATIONS even if yon build his smithy could find (he smith For thanks to the Infamous chestnut blight a horsechestnut tree in this country is now almost as rare as a horse Must the elms go that way? I talked this question over with Fora member of the American Inc (a estry Products Industries He private industrial association) said: ”A recent house action reduced the federal appropriation for the control and research eg the European beetle and dutch elm disease to $51000 If the cut is approved by the senate it means the end of the dutch elm disease laboratory in Morristown N J where buthe department of agriculture’ reau of entomology and plant quarantine has conducted extensive research into the control and possible prevention of the insect and fungus Paris A wilting and partly defoliated American elm severely afwith dutch elm disease fected GROW Higher pay and a more satisfactory home life are the two main lures which have drawn the most young career bright and capable officers from the navy and army into civilian jobs at what is called "an alarming rate” during the past year In the last 10 months more than 1700 naval officers have resigned to won at Annapolis commissions take higher paying civilian jobs During the same period the army lost only 259 West Point officers via the resignation route but they are men whom the service can ill afford to spare Princess Elizabeth heiress presumptive to the throne of England and Lt Philip 26 former Prince Philip of Greece are formally engaged to be married this autumn probably in October King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cleared the road to royal mance by giving approvunqualified al to the match and announcing the gagement in a traditional court circular Lt Mountbatten is a second cousin to the king and a great - grandson of Queen Victoria As the husband of Princess Elizabeth he will be Britain’s first prince consort since Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert of He cannot become king but probably will be given a dukedom shortly after the wedding King George is expected to ask parliament to increase Princess Elizabeth’s income and perhaps give her husband a special allowance OIL EXPORTS: Supply Russia A special export license for the shipment of petroleum products to Russia was granted by the department of commerce hours after Representative Weichel (Rep 0) chairman of the house merchant marine committee demanded the license be refused Weichel had telepreviously undephoned William C Foster rsecretary of commerce urging him to halt the movement of 248000 barrels of petroleum loaded being aboard three tankers on the West coast IpASY stitchery in delightfully original designs Fish in gay colors dash over a stylized sea Use these marine designs on all linens PatJust the thing tor the bathroom tern 7231 has transfer of 18 motifs by 2fc Inches to 8(4 by 12 !i inches Our Improved pattern— visual with charts and photos and complete directions— makes needlework easy Pries 20 cents of pattern Send your order to: £ No- ewlng 3217 Needlecraft Dept San Francisco 6 Calif cents for Pattern Circle Enclose 20 - Name Addres- Princess Held Court Nightly To Aid in Writing Memoirs Probably the costliest setting ever created to inspire an author was that maintained by the late Princess Der Ling during on Golondrina island off Lower California says Collier’s There she built a palace and with some 300 entertainers attendants and servants held a court or party nightly to remind and help her write her memoirs of the days when she was a lady in waiting in the Imperial Court of China PIteRhorm Neighborhood Fct — a feiiow to own — lively on Ribbon! These crisp toasted ribbons give him every vitamin and mineral dogs are known to need Economical — one box supplies as much food by tans of dog dry weight as five food! also comes in Meal and in Feed all three anybody’d and be proud GRO-PU- P dogfood INDEX HIGH TOO Gain Shown in Farm WASHINGTON- "- Farm inco’me during the first six months of 1947 was 30 per cent higher than that of the corresponding period last year it was revealed in the agriculture department's monthly review of farm income Farmers netted $11700000000 from the sale of their products durwith the total ing that period increased to about 12 billion dollars the through government payments report showed Largest increase was 70 per cent in sale of meat animals registered Cash receipts from dairy products were up 30 per cent from the corresponding period last year Cash receipts from crops were in the first around $3800000000 half or 20 per cent above the corMost responding period last year of this increase was in grains and tobacco Preliminary estimates for June about show that farmers received two billion dollars from marketings an increase of 30 per cent from June livestock 1946 from and Receipts their products were up about 50 per cent on the same basis of comparison “Demand for meat for domestic and for export conconsumption tinues unusually strong” the agriculture statement department’s said “Meat animal prices in were about 50ler cent higher on the average than a year before” The declining wheat prices are expected to continue into August or “Because of the very September large export demand however the price decline will be less than is usual when a very large crop is marketed” Prices paid by farmers for their needs in June averaged 230 per cent of the Prices paid average for feed advanced to the highest level since last August In general the statement concluded the index of prices paid by farmers is expected to continue at high levels in the next few months change to GALOX for the tojuc effect on your smile Efficient Cnlnx trtwk ftro wnys 1 Helps remove oat all the natural filiribring lustre of your emile 2 A special ingredient in Calox encourages regular massage which has a ionic effect on guma helps makes them firm and rosy Tone np your smile with Caloxl Made ia Jamem McKmem Its yean ef pbandacmotcei Uberatmiet |