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Show 11 UTAH LEITI FREE PRESS. LEHL SEEN"' HEARD around th National Capital BESSBjr CARTER Washington. Cotton FIELD3 Is admitted! tee of the most prions problem! in set-up- . High the whole New Deal Cfficlal will admit It confidentially, though their public utterances are very tifferent. Indeed. The whole question, of course, ts - whether the United States can go on exporting enough cotton to keep tbe totton acreage now being farmed busy, tnd jet maintain the world price of American cotton at high enough levels to make raising the cotton profitable. Enthusiasts about tbe AAA program talk vociferously about the natural advantages of America with regard to cotton. They refuse to see any cloud in the horizon. They Insist that there Is no other locality In the world where cotton as good as that raised in America can be produced except at costs ex-- . reeding American costs. As a general proposition, this Is correct Most countries that can produce totton at lower costs than the United States have a product which compares Host unfavorably with that grown In America. The few places that can produce equally good cotton have very Ugh costs. But the whole world la looking for I cheaper substitute for high grade totton, and generally, where such a uest persists long enough, the goal Is found. Tbe Germans have been ex perimenting with wood pulp. They do tot claim to have gotten very far. At present they are In about tbe stage if American production of rubber from coldenrod. It can be done successfully, but there Is no particular point in doing it The costs actually exceed the cost of good Imported rubber. The search for a substitute Is by no neans over. Incidentally, the Germans have had fair success in the last lew months, prodaclng a substitute for rubber from rye flour. They buy the rye flour from Poland. As long as America produced cot ton without restrictions, there was not much point to looking for a substitute, because any given year there might be a big cotton crop, the price would fall off, and anyone financially inter ested In the substitute would take a terrible boating that year. in the Current News Scenes and Persons Uncommon Sense before the convening ef congress lost In Secretary Iforgeethan's office, The trouble is that even figuring on an extraordinary budget in addition to the regular budget of normal gov ernmental expenditures, will not Justi fy the administration in not raising taxes. For while It Is an easy bookkeeping method to say that this or that Item, say of public works or relief. Is extraordinary, and therefore should be financed by the sale of bends Instead of by taxes, there are other complications. In the rule laid down by President Roosevelt when be tent bis first bud get message. Interest and sicking fund must be counted In tie regular budget, hlch they are though the sum on calculated may be regarded as belonging in the extraordinary budget C B!l gypdlff 'ita, WNl' rvlf We are negligent cf the needs and difficulties of others only betatise the Help All Can are they rarely brought to our at- - tntioa-w- u Whenever pc-pl- dearly see and understand the troiJ' bles of ti.elr fellow creatures, they rarely fail to help them. I was In San Francisco within a we- k of the great fire tuat drove thousands of people from comfortable bonifS to se?k shelter in tents beyond the fire xone. Total Is Mounting Although there has' been consider able saving In interest charges, due to the low rate of Interest the government has had to pay, the total is mounting, and it will be recalled that up to now the budgets of this adminis tration have eliminated sinking fund. This was done on the theory that dur ing an emergency there was no point In saving up to pay off debt But it Is obvious now that the ap propriations for public works, to prime tbe pump of business recovery, and or relief to keep people from starving and freezing, are not going to decrease in the criming session. In all human probability they must be Increased. And while they are still re garded as emergency appropriations, and therefore to be financed by bonds Instead of taxes, there Is a growing belief that the relief appropriations are never going to shrink to sny figure which was thought normal a few years back even two years back. For It Is now clear that relief is to be with the federal government always, the effort to make the local political units, states, counties and cities, take over their own problems to the contrary notwithstanding. And It la plain to the experts who have been working on budget figures under Morgenthau's direction that the present flow of receipts from taxes Is not sufficient to carry what cannot much longer be regarded as an emergency load, hut which must soon be classified as a normal load. In addition, there Is fast approaching a time when sinking fund requirements can no longer be deferred. - It has been hoped that a sufficient revival of (business would result in boost Keep Price Up lng tax receipts to a sufficient extent Now, however, the definite aim of to take care of this. But hardly to AAA Is to keep the price of cotton up take care of the Increased normal load. all the time, regardless of weather and other crop conditions, by the sim- About Public Lands ple expedient of restricting acreage The old public lands question has and governing the carry over each been completely reversed apparently year. Which seta up a real prize for since the dawn of the New Deal. In the discoverer of a good substitute. former administrations senators from So actually the cotton program Is the western states complained bitterly In the same position as a company and often about the fact that the fedmaking a patented article, which It Is eral government owned vast tracts of selling at a nice profit Always there their land, which as a result were unthe fear that some Inventor will developed, produced no taxes, and , Is come along with something either J'ist therefore added to the burden of the f as good or better, which will destroy state government The net result the market for the patented article, they Insisted, was that their taxpayA second and entirely different prob ers were unjustly assessed. lem concerns the people who earned Now It Is a southern state which, their living by working In cotton fields protests not. against federal govern; op to the time of AAA restrictions. ment land now held, but against the but now have no work. At the moment acquisition of government land, which the federal government ts taking care will thereupon pass out of the taxing of them on relief. They are part of base of the state. i the 20,000,000 now estimated to be sup In a recent telegram to Forestry ported thus. They are also, of course, News Digest, Governor Talmadge' of part of the explanation of the fact that Georgia says: the number of people on relief Is not "The federal government according diminishing, despite the fact that busi to reports, is optioning large areas ness Is getting better. of land in Georgia for purchase, the While the same problem applies to area reaching Into hundreds of thouother crops than cotton, the situation sands of acres. If any of the agencies ... with respect to the others ts not near- of the state are consulted about much ly so serious. Cotton Is the big export of this federal land acquisition pro. crop, and always has been. Moreover, gram, it Is not known to me. From there bos not been much change In such Information as drifts In, It seems that situation as the country grew big that options are being taken on ger In population. Exports of wheat lands, largely forest land and . and other farm products have slowly abandoned farms that are now In condeclined as the population of the cities dition to use only for growing trees. In America consumed larger and larger If this land goes to federal governpercentages of the total crop. But cot ment ownership it Is removed from ton maintained about the same ratio as state taxation, removed without the between domestic consumption and ex- - state being consulted. port right up to the time when AAA "I certainly do not want land own( restrictions began to operate. Abont ers of Georgia to have to compete with . 60 per cent of the total crop was ex- the- - federal government In growing ported. Which ' explains some of the timber or In producing naval stores, gray hairs In the Department of Agrl with the federal government using . culture. e ) and subsidized lands and not obliged to make a profit Georgia has Tax Increases Seen been getting a lot of wealth from Its Not only are there to be no tax re- forests and It looks as if a lot more ductkms by .congress, even,on levies Is comtng from our woods. Georgians, which there Is very good reason for re- - and not the federal government, moving or dowering, but tax Increases should get It It seems to me that the almost certain before adjournment." federal government should at least co' 'This' will not appear early In the ses- - ordinate Its land purchase activities slpn, as Jua ad,mlnlstratIon-l- s counting with some consideration for the Tights a, lot of maneuvering about taxes cf the state." ,. ft In JtaJU&i Jp hold down the soldier Which, incidentally, is an entirely to' many jjbbhus disbursements. But before the new Idea of 'final taps of the gavels of the Vice New Dealers. . president In the senate and the spenkefvtn'the house new taxes will have The Real Answer V beenfc3Jsied, or old ones boosted. Be Apparently Governor Talmadge, In cause th treasury .nmla the money whose state lies what has actually and needs It badly. been the winter home of Franklin D. There has been a vigorous checking Roosevelt since his illness, has some over of told Income tax Teturns, as backing for his opposition to this fedman citizens have dlseovejcd, some eral development The real answer, to their sorrow. But the total JSvount of course. Is that In Georgia the forof. ciotiey-- realized by the treasury In est la not Just a supply of wood, which this endeavor, has been very disap- can be cut only at something approachpointing. Official figures are not yet ing maturity, but a constant source of available, but there Is no doubt as to revenue because of resin, turpentine, the accuracy of thts statement. Tor etc., which are tapped from the trees strangely enough, mnch ssmost people very much maple sirup Is In northwould love to dodge and evade Income ern stntes. js taxes, when It conies to writing down So that the Idea,of putting Into forth figures on the return blnnksthoy ests land, which has been abandoned hate wave of honesty, er fear, whUL so far as agriculture Is concerned, or ever you prefer. to believe. on which farm families have starved So, with the project of larger ap- - In' their efforts to eke out a living from , proprlatlons than ever, there must be a tto Impoverished soil, does not ap-v- . i fjw.vtaxes while the fight for lower weir aic liquor taxes, has been lost al tax-fre- Jl.re fon v Working on a newspaper I had an ample opportunity to see how help was coming in from all sides, and to observe bow the rich forgot their pride and, taking off their coats, labored twelve hours a day till all that had teen driven from their houses vrere supplied with shelter and food. This is one of the fine traits in human nature. It takes cover during th average run of events, but it comes out when there is a call (or aid. 1 fin . ,cv. tor hrnnze doors of the National Capitol opening tne Into sent force Uh soldiers, part of the International Nazi salute In Saarbruecken. 3 boutn inmoit, In Carl Sandburg's fine biography of Lincoln he tells how in his early life the tor us nri one of the greatest of men and of Presidents could never endure to see a bog in distress. The hogs would go down to the creek to drink, and become mired In the thick mud, which, had they not been helped, would soon have drawn them down to their deaths. Then the tall lanky prairie youth, driving past and observing them, would 3' pull off his coat and sometimes the remainder'of his attire, and by exerting his tremendous strength, pull the squealing porkers out on high land. He smiled happily while they waddled way to safer footing. il1 Little In that time did Lincoln, or so before many anyone elsedream that years he would be rescuing a great nation from destruction. y ue - r, JT. representatlveS( calllns the ci. houge to rr Hamilton Field Air Base in California - M.. Today there are many reasons for mutual helpfulness In the world. It Is a time to scrap selfishness and and do. all that can be done to keep going the movement which Is to bring the world back to Its feet The vast majority of the people in America understand this. The concerted efforts that are being made to restore better conditions Is the proof. ' Tilery will be sacrifices and hardships. But inhere is ' the' man in this wide country who, while struggling himself will not reach out a hand toward a neigh-bo- r who is in a worse position than he? Millions are starting slowly back up the hill. And I believe as they toil upward they will find their neighbors reaching out to help them, and finding In the practice of sympathy a satisfaction which will more than repay them for all that they have done or are doing. -r U S h . r- ... : .iw..'!.- I i Kt:-: m, fit ' ,i ' I K $ i "J ' ''WW.' 'Aj . self-seekin- In the days of my youth there were men who could not afford laundry bills and who wore what were known as . "dickeys." , Dickeys were shield shaped devices of linen or cotton which could be used to cover up the angular space which Fronts begins where the vest leaves off. But they were not very satisfactory. They had a tendency to pull out at the corners, permitting the public to view contemptuously the soiled white or whitish shirt underneath. They saved laundry bills for a while to be sure though In most cases It was the toll of the poor wives or mothers at home that they saved, but they were known throughout the town to be poor pretenses at respectability. And as soon as a man's financial condition improved a little he abandoned them and went back on the old d standard. But the "dickeys" supplied a lesson to some of the people In my old town which more than atoned for the embarrassment that they sometimes cost. Their wearers discovered that sham was no good, that they might better have donned the old red flannel shirts which were worn by the railroad boys and truck drivers than to attempt to be something that they were not ' Under the reorganlzaUon plans of the army air corps the first wing is to be stationed on the Pacific with general Is here given. The field Is across the bay headquarters at Hamilton field in Marin county. Calif., a view of which from San Francisco. Abraham Lincoln in Indianapolis AIR FORCE CHIEF J.&t- , 4 &. iX'-'!?'- ! , x V trl-Fal- 1 iU ifa" 3 &tS!&'VI WNUSs? f Iff . ' I W"J rY--' vvi"r f : A Lieut CoL F. M. Andrews, who has been named commander of the newly organized, general headquarters air force. f" A t Jtijt ' ' I I s N ' - ! hard-boile- 1 This is not an argument In SUCCEEDS BIFF JONES This new seated statue of Abraham Lincoln, In BenrT bronze, designed by Bering, New York sculptor, was dedicated in University park,..just south .. uicuiuiiui in inaianapoiis. h .. . it n - '' Timing His Motors for Record Try defense 1 of the "snappy dresser" or of the boy who keeps his mother at the washboard so she can save money to buy her off- spring the evening suit he says he must own In order to keep up with the parade. It Is merely an effort to Impress on my readers that while rags may not be "royal raiment when worn for virtue's sake," It Is better to stand for what you are Instead of what you would like to be, or what, heaven willing you mean to be when you get your chance. Be what you are, and don't be ashamed of it Better It If you can, and as rapidly as you enn, if you want to be something better. But. don't use false fronts or pretenses. Even if they were not found out they would be bad for your character. And, believe me, they nlways will be found out, probably at Borne time when the discovery will embarrass you almost beyond your power to stand up under It Wear a bold front always. Dul be sure before you wear it thai it is not a fain one. 1 . 4 3 1 1 A. Bernie Moore. Louisiaua state university freshman coach, who has been appointed head coach- - for Uuey p. Long's pet "Tigers," succeeding Lawrence "Biff" Jones. The latter resigned after an argument with the Kingfish. Priionert Demand Repair It's bad enough to have to he In kind of Jail, but life In a run down any one Is too much to expect. That Is what the inmates of the Jail at Bida, Nigeria told the ftlstrict officer. They appeared before him In a body and declared that If the prison was not repaired they would not stay. k-,- -ll" To Honor King In memory of King Albert I of Eel glum, who was a fine mountaineer and great friend of Switzerland, a fund w to be created. Interest of which will D used to benefit any destitute survivors of mountaineers who have to climbing accidents. offln'S -- w.- . ? v - - lndlCa,1n thRt " H.worth challenger Is in J Jo Woo?. BPm,bat drivcrs' wi not be fOTnd unprCP ,n hli hue Miss America motors. I d intends NV"fr,lSfiDCrenSln8 thc tb "ew world recr Florida some time winter. The phofirnnh of Wod h2 ,ooklnS r the superchargers Oe 8 BPCed 0f thMe 300 horse poJ unIt8 mo eTo e.c "f 1st nowerf'f mt0rs' makIn total horse power of 7,000 tht wait, power plant ever , attempted In a boat wihafrenP?,B0, "l sholtd 1 tt. tS 5' PWe |