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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHl rMGINlUTiO mm waa a strong sentiment for restoring the excise taxea, but this has been weakening steadily at Individual sen themators, either up for selves or with tickets back home they were interested In getting elected, began to ponder the possible political repercussions of such taxes. Then there Is the minority which believes that the most satisfactory way of obtaining the needed revenue U by etra!ght-ou- t boosts In the Income tax rates uo small Incomes, reducing the present exemptions, and moving toward the British sycitem. The most flabbergasting factor In this phase U that Senator La Follette, strongly progressive and strongly New Deal, U its most outspoken proponent. SEEN and HEARD NATIONAL CAPITA!, Py Carter Field V -- L Washington. Report! that the forthcoming Department of Commerce report oo International trade will show Divergent Viewa the United States has changed from Next Is a strong group, perhaps a creditor nation to a debtor nation are vigorously denied by commerce of- strong enough to be a majority,, though ficials, Including Dr. Amoa E. Taylor, the lines change with every passing who hai charge of compiling the re- day. If cot hour, which fears that the port But there U a good deal of smoke new plan of forcing distribution of corporation earnings will prove a sieve for there not to be any Are. No official data yet available, but as far as revenue is concerned. This the careful studies of the Chamber of group wants to try the Hoosevelt plan Commerce of the United States show of taxing umHstrlbiited corporation that for 1935 exports by the United earnings meanwhile. Incidentally this States Increased 7 per cent over the faction has back of It the almost unanimous opinion of the real treasury expreceding year, but that Imports Increased 25 per cent perts the career men, not the politiIncidentally, while It has no connec- cal appointees. Members of this group tion with the main point as to rumors say that If decision Is final not to inof an unfavorable balance of trade clude excise taxes, the government against this country, It Is Interesting must hold on to something that is tried to note that, according to the cham- and sure ss a revenue producer. ber of commerce figures, Krench exThey point to ttie fact that In the port! showed a larger decline than known case of lO.'tO dividends, approxthose of any other nation, 13 per cent. imately or more than four French Imports declined 9 ier cent. billion dollars, escaped payment of any All of which may have some bearing federal Individual Income tax. 1Mb of on the constant rumors that France Is dividends are paid to small Income peoagain to devalue the frnnc. ple, they Insist, who do not even make So far as the lnlted Smtes U conan income tax return. Ixts more are cerned, there are several complicated paid to people who do not remember factors. For example, In lit.'lS, there to Include them In their returns. Huge were huge Importations of feed for catamounts are paid to life and fire Insurtle and food for human. Heavy pork ance companies, which, of course, do Imports, among others. Whereas nor- not pay Individual Income taxes. Yet mally the United States exports large all this four billion dollars Is subject under the present law, which the Itoose-ve- lt Quantities of food and feed, and very little comparatively. Even proposal would repeal, of the 15 this little Is mostly of products not per cent corporation Income tax. produced In the United States, such as In fact, there are almost as many bananas. views about how the additional money But due to the drouth, on top of needed should be raised as there are the farm policy of paying people not senators, with many agreeing with the to raise crops, an acute shortage of minority of the house ways and means cattle feed and food developed, which committee that whnt ought to be done compelled heavy Importations of grain Is to cut federal expenditures instead and meat. of Imposing more taxes. Altogether the path of Pat Harrison, Slump In Cotton chairman of the senate finance comThe farm program also caused a ter- mittee, and Joe Itoblnson, administrarific slump In cotton exports, running tion floor lender, Is not expected to be the total down something like 8,000,000 smooth from now until convention time. bales a year from normal. This one Item alone cut exports something like Ickes Stay on Job "Honest Harold'1 Ickes Is going to $150,000,000 a year. The natural assumption Is that these stay right on the Job, despite the changes In the flow of agricultural earnest wishes of several of his fellow commodities, which have so devastated cabinet members, nnd of several others America's position In world trade, will very close to President Roosevelt, that not continue, and hence are only of he be eased out. temporary Importance. Critics of the Curiously enough, two of the men farm program, however. Insist that as who would like to see the secretary long as the price of cotton Is kept up of the Interior go back to Illinois, and artificially, Just that long will other private life, are probably the two men countries, notably Brazil, continue to who are closer to Itoosevelt than Ickes Increase their cotton planting, and himself. Ihey are Postmaster Genhence cut into our exports of that eral Jsuics A. Farley, and Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. staple. However, there are to be uo changes More Important In the whole picture la the mutter of defaulting foreign In the cabinet, unless the continued bonds. It makes a great deal of dif- serious Illness of Secretary of the ference, for Instance, In any appralsul Navy Claude A. Swanson makes his of whether this country Is a debtor or replacement necessary. It Is ruther curious that Farley creditor nation, whether one counts want to throw Ickes out. It should the war debts European ip to the United States. No one expects shows a considerable amount of politany payment. Most experts agree that ical bravery. Underneath it nil may there will be no rush of other nations lay the answer to something about to Join Finland In paying Installments. which Washington bus been wondering Then there Is the long list of for- for some time. This Is concerned with the mystery eign bonds held by private Investors In America, and by Institutions also, which at the moment about Louis Mlavis, have defaulted on their Interest. The head of Ickes' special secret service. point on International trade balances Glavls has had working under his exIs that If a concern In the Argentine pert direction quite an aggregation of pays Interest to American Investors, sleuths for several years now. In fact, goods have to move out of Argentina since shortly after inauguration. Some and Into the United States, either di- of their activities have leaked out, rectly or Indirectly, to balance this. warning all and sundry that the scope But, when Interest payments stop, as so of their Investigations has by no means many have, obviously no such ship- been confined to what would normally be considered the functions of the Inments of goods are essential. terior department. In fact, there ore There are plenty of other complications, but It Is by no means certain those, who chuckle that the Glavls outthat the final figures, when the Depart- fit has rounded up Information which ment of Commerce releases them, will Ickes himself wishes very heartily not gone after. And who Justify any Vigorous attack on the tar- they had at any suggestion that snort, therefore, iff policy. Critics will blame the reAdmini- Glavls may himself be thrown out. ciprocal tariff agreements. stration spokesmen will say ohr trade Here'a a Mystery Is bigger and better than ever. Most But the is that Ickes Is suppoint will not be Interested. people In those places where mills are posed, naturally, to have all this data closed down, and heaty Imports are available, arid further that It would be most embarrassing, politically, to blamed, there will be plenty of political Interest. In other communities have some of it come out. Hence the the subject will be academic. Actually wonderment that Farley would actualIt ' Is of tremendous Importance to ly lilje to see the last of the secretary of the Interior. every man, woman nnd child In Amer' At this point enters the mystery, ica. Glavjs has been iek, lately. It Is reLike House Tax Bill ported nt the Interior department. But President Roosevelt Is enthusiastic Ickes did not know where he was, and about the house lax bill,; embodying a his face, according to Inquiring reporters present when this disclosure came, lojng" start towrtrd his pet objective to hitting bigness In busi- registers! anything but contentment aSsftot tl ness, revamping the economic structype of discontent ture. Bociul reform., and. ns means to reporters thar-lhthose ends, preventing 'piled up' sur- registered on Mr. Ickes'- - mobile features was concern about the health of pluses" In the future. friend I lie la slightly concerned over the a Mr. Ickes had Just denied, Incidentalfailure of the house to Include the. prothat Glavlp was resigning. So the posed new excise taxes to take the ly, gOSsij nmngors hate been putting two place of the outlawed processing tuxei and two together and getting answers Not that. he Is so. keen about. the exall the way from 10 to 10 ever since. cise taxes per sc. but he realised they , Mr. Farley's face Is much less mowe're sure fire from a revenue standbile. He grins, or he Jooks earnest. whereas there considerable 'Is points Once in a while, he looks proud, as for apprehension among his Treasury dewhen a friend mentions that example partment expert as to" whet her the he did a pretty, good Job In Maine. In measure the form .new approved that Is abfliit the limit one can the expected But ' from his by the house will raise He has old face. .read ' ' and desired revenue. who have never seen what, apfriends ! , What worrying administration senpeared tO'be discouragement or chagrin ntja twurever I tlm Attrnnrdlnnrv In. written on his countenance. dependence of view and the wide disthere. Is., nothing to be learned .So parity of judgment ' among members of about .the, Glavls mystery there. the upper bouse. for Instance, there C WNU Strrlofc 1 one-hal- f, with-respe- t - k j ..... PEACE DRIVE Septic TankK Good InvesttnJ Raps Muni- Report Nye Demonstrations; College Students Conduct Advocated lion.. Finns; Peace Plans Water-TightArr- ,., Bacterial Dig "rEntineer,v.. C. Ey WILLIAM UTLEY In tacked Paris. Permanent neutrality legislation Is crowd. " the aim of the the following: contains Its platform and am"Mandatory embargo en arms to all munition and other war maleruui of war; the prohibt, time in belligerents nation of loans and credits to warring forbid to regulation strict and tions, American vessels and American citizens T Africa and the Orient, arc feeling tmr little on the American side these a s. ac Still rumbling through the land are tthunuenns L uted tne to ennnmee tions of the report of the Nye munitions nned, started and ac are scares war States senate charges that munitions trade, concerns celerated by concerns in the internatio nal w ho'ci-a.aughter whose representatives have been known to tome nt on the hattlcfronts. that their protits tmgni "c i Jrie of the And now in its closine d vs is t lie r.v ja from traveling in war zones. "AH trade with belligerents shall be at the risk of the shippers." These people are willing to give up American freedom of the seas, declaring that the United States has nothing to gain and everything to lose in ngntor in Asia, war Europe ing or Policy association says the price this neutrality will be high, but evi dently it thinks not too high. "inth-ioi- Emergency Peace campaign. Sjieiik era and organizations have brought home to millions of Americans the folly of war as a result of this campaign, which was started April 22. The new "war on war" got under way In a manner fully as spertacnlar aa an old fashioned recruiting campaign. Leaders in the movement were the young men and women In colleges and universities, with .MK),0mi of them striking from classes at one time to atmass meetings. Several tend anti-wathousand homing pigeons were released from the grounds of the Washington monument, heralding the event and bearing peace messaj.es from Mrs. Franklin I). Roosevelt to :m different cities. Plans were laid for mass meetings to follow In other cities. In Philadelphia the Liberty bell was rung ami Ita sounds broadcast over the radio. Sound Campaign Keynote. From England came un old iieace campaigner to sound the opening key- r .a fi I- . m i ' r m it w rt - t: -e and knocked formed a thing wt Uni over the speakers' s and. At the bomb gas a tear of Kansas off in the midst or .. sumems was Cll l') one who were livt..n Hi' lo a S - ..n H.'Vir i of their nun. her; a ueei". ensued. is The size of some of the turnouts list: l.y the following partial Cornell 2.300, Uniiersity of Cincinnati Win out of Wh. i unar 1.000, I niiersily Ooi.it" 1,500 out of 5,71)0, i niiersily uari- of Mtrhieun 3.1X10 out . ... lii it naruira Ilroun wi. 1200. ih IjtM, muti. Yale 200 out of 3.000, tufts W, Syracuse of 400, HOO, Buffalo Suite Teachers 200 out Leu-iinstitute 400 out of 2,500, Northwestern 400 out of 4.000, Uniiersity of Rochester 250 out of HOO, I niiersily of Minnesota MO out of 12,000, Hamline university 200 out of 000, Laurence college 400 out of 700, Temph university 200, State Teachers 400 out of 1255, of Netv Mexico ISO out of University t incrwi Total Cost of War. 'our exports to Europe in the prosperous vears from 192C to 1930 amount ed to more than $2,000,000,000. Our exports to Asia came to nearly $oOO,OOo.i m Loss of this traae wouiu re sult in unemployment at home, but the 1 -- cost of war would be far greater. The World war lias cost us $55,000,000,000." The internationalists, likewise, are willing to forego the traditional freedom of the seas, but they also propose consultation by the United States with other signatories of the Pact of Paris in case of violation of the pact; support of the Pope resolution, providing for United States membership in the League of Nations with the guaranty that this country shall not be required to become party to any action which involves armed force, and American adherence to the World Court. The isolationists oppose these alliances with the League and the Court. Another argument for peace la the l.r0,()00 word report of the Nye committee, which reveals the bribery and corruption which exists In the Inter- e ; Mm u x,r II r nqrj ; The Liberty Bell rings for Peace to open drive. note of the present campaign and to former titular leader of the British Labor party In the house of commons. "Uncle George," as he is affectionately known on the other side of the Atlantic, pitched right in with all the fervid enthusiasm for which his speeches are famed. Referring, apparently, to the war clouds brooding over his oivn hemisphere, he declared that "civilization is at the crisis of its fi&ht." He said that to reulize that there was no such thing as "civilized" warfare one need only read the accounts of the war now going on in Africa, lie advised that nations and share the resources of the world, so that conquest would not he necessary for a nation to obtain raw materials for its industries. "The best case against war is based on the teachings of our Lord and his own sayings," Lansbury said, "and not on what the theologians have put into, his mouth. The law of life is not domination, not selfishness, but In people sinking their own selfish lives nnd finding them In t he community." In the climax of his speech, the Englishman said : "We should call an entirely new world conference, Including not only the great powers but India, Ceylon and the African peoples, and carry on the work started at the economic conferences of 1!J7 and mi3." U. S. Aid Britain. 1200, fTayne university 800 out of 10,000 Washington university 300 out of 3,000, Purdue 500 out of 4,000, Vepaul 50 out of 1,400, Earlham 50 out of 400, Rockhursl 400, U. C. L. A. 350 out of 7,240, Mount ilolyohe 300, Rutgers 700, University of Washington 1.000, Tacoma high school 500 out of 2,600, University of Pittsburgh 1,000 out of 6,000, Carnegie Tech 425 out of 2200, University of ISorth Carolina 1.200 out of 2.100, Rollins college 140 out of 325. The terrible cost of war is graphically ilitistrated by the Foreign Pol-Icassociation. In a booklet receiving wide distribution at present. The asso elation declares that the cost of the World war to every family in the United States would buy every family a new car with gasoline to run It for a year ; a complete wardrobe for mother, father and two children; a mechanical refrigerator; furniture for the living room; a new radio, and a family ticket to the movies once a week for a year. Call Neutrality Impossible. The association goes on to point out that absolute neutrality is virtually Impossible because industries employing 2,000,0t K) Americans depend greatly y This was In line with the proposals okehed by the council of the League of Nations after the recent remilitarization of the Rhlnelnnd by Nazi Mctator Hitler. leant the United States to join my government in Great liritain, and any others, to say to the world: 'Let us give up this nonsensical of armaments, and say we want to make a new start in dealing with world problems' . . . "Have we learned enough to give what we have to destroy Justice? Have we learned the futility of national wealth? Can we be partners In building a real Christian civilization?" Various student organizations were quick to take up the challenge. One of them, the "Veterans of Future Wars," chiefly through the appeul admittedly lying In Its masterfully-chosename, already had converted thousands of students to the cause of peace. But some of the collegiate jieace demonstrations proved to be not exactly peaceful. Diatnrbinf the Peace. When students of Lawrence college at Appleton, Wis., tried to parade, the police put them to rout by brandishing night sticks, and one parader was 'In Thllatelphla, at Temple university, etndentW, In their enthusiasm, n vantages of a seI);ic tatL H K are easily recogn:, Cesspools located in . or 8amly soils ,...... . &i a Dosine of seu fi k uul ment often causes uearoy water supplies. .n. cated In tL-l.-t WiU 1 selves and become i Septic tanks, on the ether w (W hold the sewn en i..,.. euro hnto-lo- i .k.. ..." to. u.'suiin. Them effluent undergoes :.,!,i;h-.- ., T and aeration and from this l It Is dispersed by ,lns of , flJ u.ov,ou. ajsiem lai.i uiider'roi'i areas removed 'rum the water rt-- rf crime laiihS to ten years, wi.i o,Prate bfja re removal 0f !(. materials gestible heC(mie Beot, e or they may be wnstrJ v.unsini.-ri,,iu yin. dm m neni any aimcuit to the workman and the cost of mwi,i. a farm-buil- t tank is generally ij than the price of purchased units; frequent mistake is the install septic tanks which are too sa ready-mad- AHUfcs snouiu capacity or iw the family. nave an approxii gallons per persi Pruning Peach Trees in View of Obtaining Grol Peach trees can be fully at any time season. pruned inr during the dor Some growers prefer to pi in tne rail in the belief that eariy wounds are well healed over by spi before the sap flow starts. 0;! short-lived- h back country Indians in South America. Here's what the Nye committee has to say about that Incident: "All this may be little more to the munitions people than a highly profitable game of bridge with special attention on all sides to the technique of j 1 j,s-- . Ii for three davs. Sausage this way will keep the according to experienced go Tribune. handled I year men. ro f Fighting Rams of Texas! A curb on the fight 'is Ilistlf,, i rival rams bos recently been consists t by Texan sheepmen. It the anlu) to rubber screen attached l"'n to drop allowed horns and nlle? the upper line of Its vision. ram can then see well enough t" &r'n It cannot see other leaders of theoat eilieient clearly enough for nn " " "V""" ,int ST ers are widely used Sheep country of western i ( 2. rivnl mma now craze ? York Tin Uxow security and peace. ttwi wrx,frrim 7 f.V! J4 Exi, NU St.ionWj.rse, sa eany spnng when saturated with water mth. claim that spring pruning It owing to danger of freezing the wf national munitions commerce, the sistance to peace efforts and the In- during severely cold weather. Tt theories, however, are hardly bi stigation of war scares by the munitions firms. It even found that it was out by tests. There Is one distinct advantage customary to sell American war patents abroad, where they might be used late winter pruning as compared?, winter pruning. If one kol against American lives and ships In early Is no chance of getting i pi there the World war. crop because of excessively low The charges were by no means conperatures during the winter, a dit fined to the United States, but also concerned the British arms Inquiry now ent method of pruning can be if than when there Is a probability!' going on. It was charged that both is kn American and British arms firms knew having a fruit crop. If It low tempf to that extremely owing about the first German violations of tures there will be no fruit, the t the arms ban of 1924. can be pruned more rigidly wits How Arms Salesmen Work. view to obtaining a maximum t The committee told how boat manugrowth, whereas if there Is likely facturers sold a "considerable battle be a peach crop, one can prune it fleet" to the Chilean government after view of ' obtaining a maximum y the World war, stimulating the build- of At any rate, pmf peaches. ing of war machines in other countries should be done in time for the sprajf of South America and causing general for leaf curl. A tree that has been unrest on that continent. pruned Is much easier to spray f One of the most flagrant examples less spray dope Is needed to sprays of this was in Colombia and Peru at Missouri Farmer. the time of the Leticia incident, when the munitions firms kept the two counSmoked Pork Sausage tries well informed about each other's Smoked One pork sausage is madej operations. salesman, after sellcoarse ing a big order to Peru, boasted that erindincr the meat into sized cull he would sell "double the amount, and tides or talk more modern, to the Colombian governThen are added one and a half ta two ment." spoonfuls of black pepper, o onion, of salt. Sago, spoonfuls One piece of evidence quoted a munitl taste, dash of garlic, to suit the tions manufacturer us spurring the activiinto stuffed is In. The sausage ties of representatives with the order to go becaf ings, preferablly beef casings, is get busy because "these opera bouffe revfif smoking The are large. olutions are usuully , and we they in a fniric Hirht room over a fire wnf must make the most of the opportunity." a fair amount of heat is used so i It mattered little that the airplanes, bombs tO OtlC? enolli-'tha moot !b nnnU-pand guns would be used lo kill of a etc in u contir white-whiskere- Akt nmeger. K, mant re- - begin a tour of speaking appearances throughout the country on behalf of peace. He was George Lansbury, M. P., of the Pact of notation SeS Sure to Hold If 7 V,. v f StPCl'S Fattpninfr c0 The advisability of griHin? some fattening steers Scene at hearing of the Nye committee. Senator Nye Is second from left. upon foreign trade. The organization can see three main policies toward for. the 'squeeze' nlav. bur tn . able of the world's Inhabitants elgn nations which are receiving the tl'ere Part Is still something greatest approval of various l death by machinery, and the knowledge isolation and economic expanthat neighboring governments bnve aC! sion; International and a quired the latest and strict "keep policy.' of destruction leads to suspicioS Advocates of the isolation theory seek temporary n'Pant t0 be neutrality leCUhtt!on and are ,; for p,rfy and and go no farther than embargoes on the export of arms and mnnitlono or the Lath iron Works while the Internationalists n would exthe S017.ooo.ixh) naval bill Maine when tend these embargoes to all was materials onRre,s hd written . used In warfare, lnchidinR loans letter to 5 and credits to nations engaged In flghtinc Internationalists further advocate the delegation to the President of the hi of the newspaper which power lifting any and all embargoes start- against a country which has been groups-Tolltlca- tZ S ri"r; ,2 th"W t- - e WmHrn S,pM, UnIon- - depends TM jupon the feeding method. hogs where common Is tice less , kept In the feed lot to rrrovet tne ; grnln In the manure. TowardWai1'--- . .t.. V , anVS Farmer, ground corn may vantageons becnuse It will p consume wore reed. cattle-t"" - . 3 hogs follow the steers, u.n. turn owo,.,. hp crouii"-ur Biivneu . o .,i,i .... w fn.i to catue can miairy the organic Iodine In their ""; incre'f ' ' " ' notatof .it Germany has rtneu in com.no grown there must ... ' . une-.o- i raspoerncs f tne in ieoo.-j'---gall- ' tf diseases 3 cre .'. t sharp full set of good, . . ir --cu'w essential ro tne nmiu ta to b accomplished. A t |