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Show 1EHI FREE PRESS, LEH1. LTAH SEEN-- "' HEARD round th r National Capital 3 ilBy CARTER FIELD Washington. Let not your right baud know what your left foot ia doing. President Roosevelt'a variation of the Biblical Injunction to boaster about advertising their charities, is beautiful! exemplified ta the maneuvering! of several of the covernv meutal agencies charged with the responsibility of dishing out government money through private channels. For example, the rivalry between the Reconstruction Finance corporation and the Public Works administration as to which shall be apparently holding the bag when a project goes up in smoke, with a resulting loss to the government; or, the RFC and the Treasury department in the matter of banks qualifying under the deposit insurance law; or, every other case where two different governmental agencies are supposed to be aiding the same private enterprise. The most amusing instances, to outsiders, are those with reference to the refinancing of drainage, levee and irrigation districts. Under the emergency farm mortgage act of 1933, the RFC was directed by congress to refinance such districts to the extent of The RFC to date has made loans under this authorization of But the Interesting part is the reason why the RFC has not done more. It has turned- down a great many loans where, In Us Judgment, there was not adequate security, but suggested that if the district were able to get a loan from the PWA first, then the RFC might advance the additional funds asked. The RFC, In short, wanted some other government money to be put in ahead of that earmarked for. use by it. If the PWA would, by spending a certain amount on the district, make the proposed RFC loan a better risk, then RFC would be glad to Sometimes Greek meets Greek refinancing by the RFC of a rundown district Is contingent upon approval by PWA of a work loan, while the PWA work loan to the district is contingent upon refinancing by the RFC. - Two-Side- IE d Battle as Al as the Department of Is not quite Agricul- ture's paying farmers to plow under crops on farm land, while the Interior department speeds the bringing of water to fertile land, which will Increase production, but It approaches It. However, Uncle Sam has not thrown all precautions to the winds. For in stance, in many of these projects which RFC and PWA are considering financing, some of the original money was put up by another governmental agency, the bureau of reclamation in the Department of the Interior. When the details of the terms for new financing were made public. It appeared that RFC would Insist that all outstanding bonds and other debts of the various projects would have to be scaled down before the new government money would be forthcoming. So for a little while it appeared that the RFC and PWA would Insist that their older brother In governmental subsidies be required to take a loss in advance, so to speak aside entirely from the probability of all the governmental agencies Involved taking a loss later on. But do. That would be too much. Who vetoed It Is not known, as this Is written. Bnt It was vetoed. It was made known that all other creditors would have to scale down their bond holdings, or what nots, but the bonds or certificates of Indebtedness held by the government would be held at par The government only hopes that these reclamation bonds will be repaid at the end of forty years. Actually, of course, nobody who has watched the wheels go round on Capitol Hill really expected them ever to be paid, the practice being to defer payment by special congressional action every so often. But at least there will be no Juggling to see who will hold the bag. It will be maintained as a d battle, and may the best negotiator win, three-cornere- d two-side- Wallace Is Irked Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has almost reached the point of announcing that the government will go into the milk distributing business in certain sections. He Is Just about at the end of his rope In dealtng with the various dairy companies, referring to companies which buy milk from the farmers and sell It to city customers, rather than to actual dairy producing concerns. For some time, the secretary very bitter about excessive profits to milk distributors. In this view he has the ardent support, incidentally, of most of the factions In his department For example. Professor Tug well Is one of the chief advocates of cutting down the "spread'' between the producer nml the consumer. The milk supply business has lent Itself as a football for the conflicting economic groups of the administration more than most. In the first place thwe is the obviously reactionThe first ary versus radical line-up- . group Insisted that to Interfere with the law of supply and demand was dangerous, and that to interfere with protlts was to interfere with trade, and thereby hurt both the farmer and the milk consumer in the long rim. The radical group is still clamoring for the government to step into has-bee- . , the milk distributing business and "show up" the existing corporations, both as to their dealings with the milk producing fanners and the prices they charge the public for dairy products." ecoMixed in with this straight-ou- t nomic battle is the health angle, the belief that more and more milk should be consumed by the children of the country, and that the government in some way ought to enctarage milk consumption. Just as it would take any other step to prevent disease. Fifty Famous Frontiersmen By WATSON SCOTT ELMO i A Modern Knight Errant nit the city of Prescott Aria, to erect a memorial to Ari-sothe Rough Rider who went from to Cuba in the Spanish-Americareason war. there was more than one should be an monument that why ONeilL equestrian statue of Bucky historian For in the words of one man "O'Neill was the most many-side- d knight-erraArizona has ever produced. A of the Nineteenth century, he was always ready to couch a lance for A child s the weak and the distressed. blra disarmed appeal, a woman's tears, at once. Yet when the occasion came be could be hard and cold as chilled WHEN i Chain Stores Enter AThreeDavs Is Your Danger Sioy Dont let them get JT1 hold. Fight germs quiekl, T?1 mulslon combines 7 major h i one. Powerful but harmless. ant to take. No narcotics, own druggist Is authorized tori! your money on the spot w cough or cold is not reUerJ Creomulslon, U4tj n Then the chain stores angle entered the picture. When one remembers that most radicals bate the chain stores and would like to legislate them out of existence, it can readily be seen how very complicating this angle is. For it was the chain stores, in many communities, which showed np the ordinary distributors. By eliminating the cost of delivery, end the loss through bsd debts and credit costs, the chain stores were able ta make money at much lower prices When "dairies." than the the department first took bold of the situation it attempted to fix retail prices, whereupon the net result was to mark up chain store prices heavily on milk, and prodigiously on cream 50 per cent in Boston for example. This promptly resulted in a tremendous falling off in the amount of cream sold a virtual buyers' strike. Not by agreement or with any Intent, in most instances, but just because people couldn't afford so much cream or milk at the new prices, especially cream. This resulted quickly in stimulating production of butter, the last thing the Agricultural department wanted, as there was already a surplus of butter, and the government had made a rattier Mid and futile attempt to do something about boosting butter prices. After pouring millions of dollars down what looked like a rat hole, the department found nothing whatever bad happened I And this was before the full effect of the buyers' strike against cream I All of which annoys Mr. Wallace excessively. So he Is all ripe for some government operation of the dairy business. Aid Private Enterprise Radicals who believe that President Roosevelt la going In their direction as rapidly as he dares are In for somewhat of a shock In the next few months, according to sources very close to the White House. They could have seen the shadow of the coming events if they bad looked closely at the budget message, and noted that the President proposed to get the finances of the treasury on an even keel by year after next The predicting shadow took on a darker tinge In when the President indicated that CWA was approaching its end. But the flat statement has been made to the writer that the administration is about to begin a drive to The encourage private enterprise. President Is anxious that private employment take up the slack which is about to be made by discontinuance of CWA expenditures. This will not rep resent anything like a 100 per cent absorption by private industry of the workers now on government rolls.' For actually the business of getting people to work on some of the projects approved by the government has been very slow Indeed. In fact, the flat statement Is made right now that so far as direct government contracts are concerned, the number of workers Involved has not yet reached Its crest Tills was the reason for the CWA In the first place the tremendous necessity of getting money in workers' hands quickly, so that it would be spent and start the upward movement The whole world will be watching with enormous Interest the results of the appeal to be made by the administration for more private business. Control of Industry Mr. Roosevelt's Ideas about the con- trol of Industry, the limitation of profits, the piling up of "stagnant surpluses," the waste of productive capacity, later to stand "stark and Idle," have been very keenly studied In certain foreign capitals. The whole policy, It has seemed to most observers, was, from an outside point of view, if not so calculated, apt to discourage the Investment of private capital In new lines of business venture. At least half of the observers who have watched the Roosevelt policies with respect to control of business by the government have figured that If carried to their logical conclusion, they would lead to socialism r to complete government control and operation of every field of activity. Not because this was particularly desired by the President, but because his policies would tend to take the chief Incentive, the desire for profit, out of such ventures, while cot at the same time decreasing the possibility of losses. All of which makes the present report that the President is about to start a drive for more rapid expansion of private business the more interesting. Actually, this writer believes the whole importance of the appeal will be enormously exaggerated. Important conservative Democrats have been saying for months that the President would find his control of Industry and other liberal Ideas impractical and would abandon them. They have been basing their optimism on that assurance. They will interpret the appeals about to be made as a sure Indication that they are right Actually the appeals will mean no such thing, The President has no thought of abandon Ing his control of industry Ideas. (Copyright.) WNU Strvle. over-buildin- g ?3 H ' ' ....vj V "-- ? u :" t f 4 : - t i. f it j O'Neill's was a fighting heritage, for celehis father was a captain in the Pennsylfrom "Irish Brigade" brated vania during the Civil war. After 1879 Bucky graduation from college in went to Phoenix, Ariz, and started in newspaper work. Then he practiced law, got into politics and eventually became sheriff of Yavapai county and In that office repeatedly proved the his "cold, chilled steel" quality of various the with in dealing courage the types of bad men who Infested territory. That territory wanted to become a state. So when the war broke out Bucky was one of those who thought that Arizona might win statehood if her men proved them"Who battle. In selves worthy he said, star?" a for wouldn't gamble as he signed up to fight and he meant another star in the flag, that of He was one of the first if Arizona. not the first, volunteer mustered into Later he became a captain service. in the Arizona troop of Roosevelt's fu :':! i: . II i f 11 Wasliinqton of If my aiie x jtb- - -- aw GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS A DOCTOR well known, NOT the fact that Spanish-Americit- but authentic. George Washa was physician. His really ington knowledge of medicine prepared him to treat the illnesses of slaves on his own plantation. During his final Illness, before other doctors were called In, he directed his own treatment says a writer r ITT7TC fa l A B nt flrtAf Avsmnla In American history of faith and pluck than that which was made at valley Forge by the Continental army under Its commander in chief, George Washington, in the winter of In Hygela, the Health Magazine. As was customary at the time, he ordered himself bled. Shortly before hp died, bis breathing became easier and he withdrew bis hand from a friend's and felt his own pulse. Washington thus evidently realized that the end had come and gave up hope; for Immediately a great change came over his countenance and his hand fell lifeless to his side. Rough Riders. At Las Guaslmas O'Neill stood looking down at the body of a dead Rough Rider that had been found by the vultures before his comrades could get to him. "Colonel, isn't it Whitman who 1777-177- It Is doubtful whether the sacrifice of the Continental army has ever been adequately realized, Arthur Welter writes In the National Republic poorMagazine. ly sheltered, and in great peril, not only from the pangs of hunger and cold, but also from enemy attacks, they huddled about their campfires while the British under Lord Howe, at the "rebel" capital of Philadelphia, Half-starve- his men he said, bis voice trembling, "Poor fellows I" Then he gave rein to his charger and rode rapidly away. Valley Forge Is more than a beautiful state park today. It Is symbolic of something more than forced privations. It is a shrine that instills In all true Americans a deeper appreciation of the manhood and the sacrifice of those who were quartered there during the darkest hour of the Revolution. It Is symbolic of a never-dyin- g devotion to a cause and to a great commander that kept hope alive. Tomb of a tv 'JT BTB -- 5f mm .. It came time for old Zane to die, he could take pride in the fact that he bad given to frontier history five stalwart sons who would make the name of Zane forever famous there. They were : Col Ebenezer Zane, founder In 1770 of the settlement which was to become the present Wheeling, W. Va.; a soldier In Lord Dunmore's war of 1774; builtjer and commander of Fort Henry, the scene of two famous Indian sieges in 1777 and 1782 ; an early settler in Ohio on the present site of Zanesville; blazer in 1796 of "Zane's Trace." which followed the route of an old Indian trail from Wheeling to Limestone (opposite Maysvllle, Ky.) and over, which poured a flood of settlers Into Ohio and Kentucky; a colonel of militia and a leader of men down to the day of his death in 1811. Isaac Zane, captured by the Wyan-dot- s at the age of nine ; a "white In- WHEN .T nil.i.,.M.,' Tracked March of Troops by Bloodstains of Feet on Ground. celebrated the taking of it with dances and other gala events. . In Marshall's Washington we find this: "At no period of the war had the American army been reduced to a situation of greater peril than during the winter at Valley Forge. More than once they were absolutely without food." What hardships were undergone can be deduced from the fact that only 5,000 out of the 17,000 who encamped there In December for that winter were fit for active duty. Clothing, no less than , food, was scarce. Men wore each other's uniforms In order that the naked could be clad and take their turn at active duties. One account tells of Washington, one cold morning, meeting his sentinel as the commander left headquarters, the Potts house. The sentinel was making vigorous movements with his hands and legs In order to keep warm. Noting this, Washington asked him if he had had his breakfast. Upon receiving a negative reply, Washington hurried the sentinel inside the house, and while he was being served a breakfast by Mrs. Washington, George Washington, with the sentinel's gun, stood giinrd outside his own house until the soldier's return. Illustrative also of the conditions In the camp at beautiful, yet tragic. Valley Forge, so close to Philadelphia, so near the British, Is the account of Washington's visit to a detachment of his own men. ne had been keeping his eyes on the ground, apparently noting something Interesting there on the snowy slopes. Upon drawing near to the chief officer of the detachment, Washington quietly returned the salute, then abruptly asked : "now comes It sir, that I have tracked the march of yonr troops by the bloodstains of their feet upon the fror-eground! Were there no shoes In the commissary's stores?" To this the officer replied that his detachment was one of the last to re cele shoes, also that the supply shortly after bis detachment wjs retched had been exhausted. Washington listened In silence, but his deep sighs showed with what emotion he heard this report Turning to n Us t sssl: I villi s i ' . nrilE tomb of George Washington at beautiful Mount Vernon is a national shrine. It is more, even, than that It is a shrine of the whole world. Ships from every country In the world, when they sail np the Potomac past the tomb, dip their flags and toll their bells solemnly. And many of the biggest men on earth, kings, princes, warriors, statesmen, make pilgrimages to this shrine of all humanity and lay so many wreaths at the tomb of Washington that often the barred iron doors of it are hidden nnder them. Pres-Ident- 45 and Upttt LeokfcrAcidStca Ncurmlsto IndJgMtfam Lorn ct Appatlt sSP Feelint - SleepieMnw. Naiuea Auto-lnrra- ur. Thf HERE ARE L Mouth AcU Sour Stomad, . WM WHAT TO DO FOR T every morning whmiZ eating. And Sg before you go to bed. S OR Take aa&g, : Phillips' M.lkofMagS2 Tablets -otobi& acn teaspoonf ul m a. rected above. n, If you have Acid Stomach, dont worry about it. Follow the stool sue; . s, Inaugural Ride Precedent Originated by Washington TT WAS George Washington himself who set the courteous precedent whereby the retiring President rides with the Incoming one to his tnaugu-ratiosays a writer In the Saturdav Evening Post Since 1797 this precedent has been broken only by the Adamses, both great but cantankerous. "The President of the United States comes in through the iron gates and goea out by the weeping willows," said son of Chief Tarhe; then, returning to his own people, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ; back again to the Wyandots to become the husband of Myeerah, the "White Crane," daughter of Chief Tarhe, and to take her with him into the Ohio country to establish the settlement which now Is Zanesfield and there to live with her until his death in 1810. Silas Zane, one of the first settlers near Wheeling; a captain of Virginia troops In the Continental army while the Indians were besieging his brother's fort in 1777 but present there during the siege of 1782; a trader in the Indian country after the Revolution and, about 1785, a victim to Indian treachery on the Scioto river. Jonathan Zane. captured at the age of two by the same Indians who carried off his brother. 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LIPS'" is on the label. dian" for ten years as the adopted Hi Iff Ira V says of the vultures that 'they pluck the eyes of princes and tear the flesh of kings'?" he asked Roosevelt who writes of the Incident: "I answered that I could not place the quotation. Just a week afterward we were shielding his own body from these birds." That came on the banks of the San Juan river during the advance against Santiago. Bucky was strollin; up and down in front of his men, coolly smoking a cigarette and apparently oblivious of the Spanish bullets singing around him. A sergeant begged him to He down lest he be hit With a laugh, O'Neill replied "Sergeant the Spanish bullet Isn't made that will kill met" The next moment a bullet did strike him and, In the words of Roosevelt, "even before he fell his wild and gallant soul had gone out into the darkness." 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