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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Bruckart' s Washington Digest Congress Avoids Vital Problems And Seeks Early Adjournment Churchill Key Man in British Cabinet Shakeup aljt y ty V h dema-goguer- y. "do-nothin- look-aroun- d, House Attempted Reduction In Federal Appropriation To give the house the credit that was its share, however, it must be shown that the house appropriations committee thus far has reduced appropriations submitted by President Roosevelt in the sum of $350-od- d million. The senators, sitting smugly at the north end of the nation's capitol building already have put back $209,000,000 of the amount, and there is more certain to come. After the system and the manner of operations, I think it may be expected that there will be compromises between the senate and house on their differences, and so the net result of the bunk on economy for this session will be a huge "0." Even where the house has tried seriously to reduce spending, the senate has blocked it. The condition provides a rather accurate reflection of the make-u- p of the two houses of congress. The house members have become nervous about the spending policies. of the Something like house membership can be called conservative, as distinguished from New Dealers. In the senate, howThat ever, the story is different body is predominantly controlled by the New Deal type of thinking, and spending is its forte. So, the country spent a lot of money paying its legislature last winter and it is left holding the bag an astoundingly empty bag because a group of senators and such house members as still hold on to the New Deal for political salvation refuse to turn off the spigot in the walls of the United States treasury. Anyone can trace through the items of spending put back in appropriation bills by the senate and find the answer, namely, votes. There are plenty of house members who would have done the same thing except that their colleagues shamed them sense into having some about affairs of the nation. two-thir- CONGRESS? William Bruckart says that the current session of congress, which he predicts will adjourn early in June, has stamped itself session. This as a is true according to Bruckart, be cause congress has avoided two vital issues confronting it whos first convened last luaryj These issues were (1) curtailment of expenditures, and (2) n Both are new tax program. bombshells In an election year New Request for Relief Now Made by White House .yj' yt' jfr THIS J By LEMUEL who is trying to get For 16 years, un- or move, Edwara motionless, with a over his eyes, and in that time Edward Sheldon, nas dictated Blind Playwright, several 1 of the Wins Court S established him as a leading Amer iean dramatist Calm in his afflifr tion, he found that he had gained right, Key men in Great Britain's new war cabinet are Winston Churchill, left; Sir John Simon, upper war czar, named was , shake-upEngland's Churchill a In lower dramatic cabinet Sir and Kingsley Wood, right. ecodirector of the nation's battle services. Simon, silent veteran of finance, will preside over the cabinet s nomic policy committee as chancellor of the exchequer, and Wood heads the home policy committee, directing social and domestic problems, including food and agriculture. Chamberlain bowed to public clamor in making Churchill head of the vital service committee. He remains first lord of the admiralty as well. Buss Family Counts Off for Census Enumerator i Debt and Tax Problems Have Been Avoided When a Chicago census taker asked Mr. and Mrs. Dan Buss of Blue island, Chicago suburb, how many children there were in the family, he was confronted with a whole fleet of Busses. Pictured with Papa Buss, 43, and Mama Maud Buss, 40, are the 14 little Busses, from 1 to 24 years old. Grandma Buss, not present for the picture, also lives in the Buss bungalow. Another son, Dan, 23, was not at home. The census taker was happy for he is allowed four cents for each name he lists. Had he called a month later he would have been four cents richer. m Maine Governor Wins 'Doughnut Duel' Powerful Patricia m NEW HAMPSHIRE MAINE 4 Which state can claim honors for being the home of the Inventor of doughnut holes? That question was decided in a doughnut-fryin- g contest in Bangor, Maine, between Gov. Lewis Barrows of Maine, right, and Secretary of State Harry Jackson of New Hampshire. Barrows' claim that Hanson Gregory, a deceased Maine sea captain, invented the hole . . , ... Inu Ik. ...1 we Jnn.hn.. uuuguuui mi uynriu wnt-- ne was acciarca winner oi the contest. James Chute, hotel employee, dressed as the sea captain, stands in center. ,..1J Patricia O'Keefe, who weighs only 64 pounds, holds Long on her back v 1 , W( ,..s,.,.,.,,.vv..,. Wayne d at Venire, riif Her trainer says she is one of the strongest g.rls of her age and size in the world Pioneer Cameraman War Brings Breadlines to North China v Ft! 1 i i I J' "'"' 1 I '1 latitude 39 degrees and 50 minutes; longitude 98 degrees and 35 min-- ! utes. About 12 miles north of Lucas in Osbi rne county, Kansas, the base 4.u. WMtmmmmmmmiw.i point of all North American contiwV nent maps is marked by a concrete War and three of flood, the former and a succession of the block which stands about six inchei years above the ground. Every house and latter, have had their effect on the Japanese-dominate- d part of China. lot on the continent is tied up with More than 2,000 Chinese, most of them women and children, died ori , . , .. , 1;,,' Shanghai streets this past winter. Free bread is distributed every day J to the hungry. the i ia:ns of the state of Kansas. of Judge Peyton 31 1 Sm 1SSSs ' Willi am J.ir and LcM,, lonir-iim- ri- n - ". v .. ,.ivu war ,n !r:in1,...l I ,1... transcoalini-nta- l ", .. .. Jackson railruad. photo- - the firm - prosecutor ,"?5 ,'T"'1' ,a " 1 ,Sh'nfi,onatul In a major :Z c.?Tra,' ;'s He was a in the Tea- - Sinclair 1;r the World con-- " war he in the "TP.. He Si Make Flared 17 i or TV juressingl By RUTH to UYV WYETH CUt a flar skirt without table the top is something You mav k. ing. J Q1 smartly tailored affaiij rl vviui pin c 4V, tnno lilro .v. u,c -- buidinn 1U4 transparent....,5 material. .wie J UIle SD0WBa jjjj shnm for hj uiagram make a pattern skirt. The placed on a fold of fa 1 u. uiere is no trJ tunmg CUT PAPER 14" LONGER-- - THE SKIRT JMs lstwona J! iJPfWKIOlf I it I ing. Cut the paper hj sions in the diagram. A in from left corner. Measure up a lower right corner a equaling the length of fit from A to the left edge paper and mark point these points with lines q shown. NOTE: The new tion of Book 1 "Sewuif Home Decorator," shot other interesting styles a ing tables, with detailed i for making. Also slip draw curtains; and a household articles. Wri Spears for a copy, enck cents to cover cost Ada es C. ITU MRS. RUTH WYETH Drawer M M Bedford HiUs Enclose 10 cent! Name for Bookl Address Tabby's Titles Recently there was m of s phonetic translation ana different languages, miaou was one souno of these languages intfl the same way. It is stn the word "cat" is so various languages. In Scandinavia the ar called "katt," in France m in CerTTinnv "katze, gatto," J 'cat," in Italy Poland "kat." had a word for And tw 1 i- t-' cm HI IT OF SOU CMdltloM Dm to So mild, thoroush. Ud from Mh when si'j rtfrww--podb- ie ? 3 utodtm "T.i WitJwiilWskia u , rrttUS reload th pnrcnaM Prli.. Tk.c, fair. Mil Get NR TaWrta todar. wit r Gor- - higher courts sustain his finding that the government may prosecute ..bur unions for monopolistic practices. It is the first such decision ever by a federal court, m the field of union jurisdictional warfare. For 20 years he fought fraud and customs cases for the government, as assistant U. S. district " .ash.n8tn. in ,321 Presiden't Harding named him district attor-'n- y and President Coolidge ap- - Mt.jakK 1 Washington. don of the federal district court of Washington, may find a durable imprint in legal history books, if the Geographic Center 1 n, "THE name The geographic center of the United Stales is near Lebanon, Kan. To locate it on your map you look for . Capt. Taylor Branson lays down 41 years with the band, and 13 years as its leader. The band and the captain together have paced forward quite a stretch of American history, to the enrichment of the national musical annals. The marches which Captain Branson has composed, all of them, include "Tell It to the Marines," "Marines of Belleau Wood," "The President's Own," and "Eagle. Globe and Anchor." Of distinguished professional attainments, he has delved deeply into our national musical lore and is an authority on the various tributary streams of folk music which have flowed into it Among his predecessors as leaders of the band have been John Philip Sousa, Francisco Fanciulle and W. H. Santel-manwhose son. William F. Santel-man- n now succeeds him. Six feet tall, weighing 200 pounds, impressive and commanding in his respondent uniform. Captain Branson has been a conspicuous figure ... nasntngion and he and his band have been inseparable from dramatic moments at the capital. He was born in Washington in 1881 and entered the band as a clarinet player late in 1898. In recent radio has carried his fame years beyond foot-tickle- tions. V. . took them six months to promote one. However, they got it in time to play at John Adams' inaugural in 1801, and have played at every inaugural, at Nellie Grant's wedding and at the funeral of every President who died in of- h S. but drum, Bronson Retires they were As Band Leader stuck for a After 41 Years bass drum. It his baton after All of I'. THE year 1800, the United States Marine band, formed in 1798, had two oboes, two clarinets, two french horns, a bassoon, a snare TN A fice. come. these things have happened in the face of a conviction by students of business within the New Deal that the coming summer is not one to which we can look forward with satisfaction. The volume of business has been falling off. Last year's profits produced taxes that are now being paid and the tax receipts have been larger than was expected. But if business is "slow" this summer, what about tax receipts by the federal government that are payable next year? All in all, therefore, it strikes me that we cannot do very much congratulating of the third session of the Seventy-sixtcongress. The President, still maintaining silence on the question whether he will seek a third term, has not done a single thing to whip the legislative leaders into line for action on these pre dominantly important national ques even a larger world, in his New York penthouse room, as he drew his friends to him, not in compas n sion, but in eager working partner-shiProducers, in the theater. actors and dramatists find him an invaluable friend and consultant His tireless and creative mind knows no darkness or failure. The United States Supreme court awards to Mr. Sheldon and his collaborator, Margaret Ayres Barnes, 20 per cent of the $587,605 profits from the film "Letty Lynton," sus taining their contention that the film infringed the copyright of their play "Dishonored Lady." The decision. the culmination of eight years of the Supreme litigation, marks court's biggest Broadway hit since Kaufman and Connelly put it in "Of Thee I Sing." Young Edward Sheldon, wealthy, gifted and handsome, Harvard '07, success, with his was a first play. "Salvation Nell," produced in 1908. With the late Sidney Howard, he had written the play "Bewitched" when he was stricken with paralysis and blindness in 1924. "Years of Grace," written thereafter, brought him the Pulitzer Prize, in 1931. Miss Barnes, his collaborator, overcame similar disaster in finding her way into her career. Critically injured in an automobile accident in France, in 1925, she lay for months in a plaster cast. Her hands were free to write something she always had hoped to do. She wrote a novel, and, recovering, returned to America, found a publisher and an open road ahead in authorship. Like Edward Sheldon, she also is a Chicagoan. run-awa- y five-roo- C NURSERM " $200,-000,0- taxes or a raising of the debt limit if congress spent more money than the budget estimates. He suggested that the taxes must offset any spending that he had not recommended. Well, the house ways and means committee looked over the situation. There were half a dozen of the committee members who wanted to start laying new taxes to cut down the national debt They argued that the interest on the debt being well over a billion dollars a year would be reduced as a burden if the debt itself,, were reduced. But something happened. There was nothing more heard about laying new taxes, either from President Roosevelt or from the leaders of the ways and means committee. In consequence of this policy, or rather lack of decision to act in obtaining new revenue, there is just as much chance for a start to a balancing of the budget this year as there is for a snowball to grow larger in the nether regions. Come to think of it there hasn't been any talk about budget balancing in re cent weeks. I reckon the war in Europe made responsible officials forget about such minor matters as having the nation live within its in- ',1 Sell, .1 Grand 61., D7M 4 Service.! NU XTEW YORK. 1 able to see Sheldon has lain black satin mask extra this time. Now, as to the matter of taxes. It will be recalled that President Roosevelt told the house early in the session that there had to be new F. PARTON Feature-W- (Consolidated Is playing ball with the spenders, as usuaL April seems to be a good month for the spenders. Each year, in April, there have been White House requests for more spending money. This year, a request for an additional $150,000,-00- 0 ington, meat. WEEK President Roosevelt for relief payments already has reached the house from the President. It is money which the President says is needed to carry through the relief program to the end of the fiscal year which is July 1. Last year, the relief appropriation was figured to be sufficient but the money got away, somehow. So, there is the call for $150,000,000 more for the next two months. But that is not all. The President is asking for $1,500,000.000 a billion and a half for relief payments through the fiscal year of 1941 which begins July 1. I don't know whether the house members are going to have the courage to reduce that amount to $1,000,000,000 or not. because all of Mr. Roosevelt's statements about the needs have been designed to muster voting strength on his side. Also, these statements attack business as "not doing its part," which is a theme that sounds strangely familiar. I think we have heard it at least a dozen times. Anyway, in the view of the spenders in the New Deal, business has failed absolutely to employ workers, after seven years of planned economy and idealistic thinking. As to this business of planned economy. Secretary Wallace and his department of agriculture people are asking for big gobs of money. It was they, acting through stooges in the senate, who struck the biggest blow at whatever ideas the house had on saving money. I do not blame the farmers. If they can get money handed to them, free and for nothing, why not take it The stupidity is on the part of Mr. Wallace and his crew. They do not seem to realize that the farmers are taking the money and laughing about the new found sucker in Wash- NEWS ' I ; if if ' )' Vt U - - - sr- t Curtailment of Expenditures and New Tax Program Are Neglected by Legislators Because of skZ 1940 National Elections. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bids., Washington, D. C. When the third WASHINGTON. consession of the Seventy-sixtconthe current session gress vened last January, two great national questions confronted the legislators. Two affirmative actions were crying to be taken. These were curtailment of expenditures to live wijhin the government's income and an increase in taxes to make a start toward paying off the greatest debt this nation ever has known. Each was vital. Of the two, the curtailment of spending probably was the more important, but each question was a political bomb inasmuch as 1940 happens to be a year of national elections. Almost four months of the session have wasted away, after the man ner of passing time. The two problems of January and February and March and April remain as the problems of May. Now, I believe it can be said that there will be an adjournment early in June without anything having been done beyond lip service and just plain William In other Bruckart words, the rather long title the third session of the Seventy-sixt- h congress can well be g shortened to congress." a A hurried ination of what has transpired, seems to show where the blame It should be should be placed. plumped In the laps of some dema gogues who wear titles of senators of the United States. Lest this look be characterized as too hurried, let me say that the house membership is not entirely guiltless. But credit must be given where credit is due and the house, as a unit, really made something of an effort to reduce the deluge of dollars that has come to be a silver stream to voters. It made some cuts not nearly enough, but some in spending. It did not do a thing, however, in the matter of laying new taxes to help reduce the $45,000,-000,00- 0 national debt It dodged those taxes like they were poison. Taxes and appropriations, of course, must originate in the house under the terms of the Constitution, and so the house must answer for at least a part of the sin of the session. . i.i WHO'S wS in 1870. and at Columbia univer- - WNU W Immortal Tbonfjf i,,thf!. evenii" forgotten, do Syrus. WHEN not pen kidMjB o"""',9,2 with dullness, frequent urination nioht. when you Doan'. are WSSU vtfSSLi n" working kidneys, aru.edeveryye"-1h- w iL rountry -J menueu " neighbor! I |