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Show UTAH LEII! FREE PRESS. LEHL HIGHLY POPULAR "FAITRAG rug bill, and privately hopes the senate will write aoine sense into IL paasd tbe HEARD SEEN"' around th National Capital I i By CARTER FIELD T' ' Washington. With Mture moving In to help extinguish the cotton surplus, aa she had already on hos. cattle and to a leaser extent wheat, probabilities for trouble In the future for cotton growers in this country are not di mlnisbed. but Increased. The point is that the dust storms in the big cotton producing area of Texaa and Oklahoma wore than half of the cotton raised In the United States la grown west of the Mississippi despite the prevailing opinion to the contrary have already boosted the price of cottoa Pressure on AAA Is expected to continue loans at around 12 cents, despite the desire to drop them gradually. All of which means that the price of cotton will be maintained at this high level next year. So far, so good, but unfortunately It la Impossible for the United States to keep such a situation secret If this country could only do what Russia did a few years back with wheat, it could make a killing on cotton perhaps 'next year. The Russians, it may be ret ailed, circulated stories that their wheat crop had failed, back In the days of Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and the farm board. The farm board began buying wheat, and the Russians began selling. Hyde thought they were selling short, and actually denounced theni in public speeches for such a nefarious practice. 'But the Russians delivered the wheat Whereupon the price collapsed,, the Russians having been the only wheat farmers to get a real price for their product, and the money for that coming out of the United States treasury. But the whole world knows about crops In the United States. Down In Brazil they know about the dust storms that are wrecking cotton crop prospects west of the Mississippi. They know about the agitation to continue loans which means an arthe price next tificially maintained year. And they know that In Brazil they can produce cotton at a profit at 6 cents a pound I 12-ce- 12-ce- Big Brazilian Crop ' So naturally Brazil will Increase her cotton acreage next season by every square yard possible. This "possible" amount is far from trivial. Tremen- dous overnight expansion Is Impossible, of course, but Brazil's agricultural experts figure that only about of the land capable of producing cottonalways with the 6 cents. Including profit. In mind Is now under cultivation. So that the real problem Is labor. But thpre Is enough labor for much more expansion. So It can safely be assumed that there will be a big Increase In the next Brazilian crop. Over In England the cotton spinning people know about these dust storms, and about the prospect of the United States maintaining trie price. Some of their big mills have made the change In their looms so as to spin the Brazilian cotton. More of them are now expected to do so. They will figure they can buy Brazilian cotton cheaper than United States cot ton. Over In the Japanese puppet state there are now 30,000.000 acres In cot ton. Very small so far as world fig ores go, but there also the facts about the situation In the Untted States are known, and may be expected to have results. Similarly In Egypt and India, All of which point unerringly to the probability that throughout the world there will be a mad rush to take ad vantage of the situation. This prom lses eventually to leave the United States treasury holding the bag, own log millions of bales of cotton for which It paid 12 cents a pound, when the world market will be around 7 or 8 cents at the most, and 6 cents In all probability. But this Is enly part of the trouble. Johnson and Johnson have already nounced their plans for setting up cot ton mills In Brazil, the Idea being not only to get cheaper cotton, but to get away from the processing tax. Prod nets of this mill would be used In place of goods formerly exported from the American mills of this big firm. one-tent- ' - h nat-orall- y ' Army Is Stirred Tax on Profits More serious, from a preparedness standpoint. Is the tax provision on profit. Ilaif of all profits up to 8 per cent and then 100 per cent is the hoase provision. Suppose, say army and navy officers, the du Fonts had ben faced with such a situation at the entry of the United States into the World war. Would they have dared expand their plauts? Suppose, Instead of a preliml nary period of nearly three years dur ing which the allies were buying all the munitions they could get. and which naturally caused tremendous ex pansion of tbe du Pont Bethlehem and other munition plants, the United States had been Involved from the first with such restrictions on earnings as are now proposed. Tbe point made by the army and navy men Is primarily that no manfac-turwould dare expand bis plant to take care of a war need, lie would not be able to make enough to scrap theilant after the war, and he would have to take his chances with government auditors on depreciation charges. Altogether he would be much safer If bis plant were located on foreign soli, where It would be welcomed as an ele ment of rqilitary strength. So that the natural development would be for foreign countries to bene fit even in time of peace by the train ing of their workmen in the making of munitions, and In time of war by the possibility of big profits, which these foreign governments could tax to their heart's content and still leave something for the manufacturers. Nearly everyone agrees that the proposed law would be repealed as the first act of congress after the next declaration of waT. Critics are not much worried about that What really wor ries them Is the prospect of American business enterprise moving abroad wholesale to escape such conditions, thus not only depriving the United States of this element of strength, but aetuully providing It for potential enemies. The bill would have no chance of enactment If the votes were by secret ballot But It Is far simpler politically to vote for such a measure than to vote ogalnst It, and then try to explain why to one's constituents. Groups lobbying for the measure are militant. And, almost to the last man and woman, they would remember at the polls! er STEP irmil By WILLIAM C. UTLEY right op, folks, and see the eighth of the world! Mighty In I Matchless In merit! Majestic in The mammoth marvel of I,. " - L . S ' 4 r.ft - - jr' : : -- - ' ' C- - ' W .AT I I $ 'A 1 V" I 4 This "Fan" rag rug has attracts a lot of attention aud to our know!, edge quite a few home rug men have made one or more like It ft must be seen to be appreciate! Made up In brilliant colors, the pan. els In alternating light and dart shades and the center of dark greej and red, this rug is bound to catch the attention of anyone upon entering the room. This model measures 5S inches across and ,"o inches deep, and requires about four iwunds of material to crochet. The ten pane's are made first and then crocheted tThe center half circle U ogether. made to fit opening for it aud in turn is Slip stitched into space. This beautiful rus is one of the twenty handmade rugs shown in col. ors In rug book No. 'J.i. It handmade rag rugs Interest yoi send us 15c for this book of rap with instructions, and you will receive It by mail postpaid. Address HOME CRAFT COMPANY, Department C, Nineteenth and St Louis Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Inclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply when writing for an; Information. rl1 1 ...- -- 'lfi:T. 4 v jfi- 4 hi ,f See Long Session Congress is not going to be rushed to an early adjournment It will be with lis for a long time yet. Almost surely un- til August. Probably until September. Possibly longer than that. This Is true despite all the flat predictions by lenders that the "must" Items will be rushed through, and everything else will be abandoned. Many things may be "abandoned." But they will not be abandoned because of the time element. They will be abandoned. If at all, because actually they are not wanted. Careful examination of the leftovers at the time of adjournment will reveal the truth of this statement. Utility heads got all pepped up a few days ago at this list of "must" measures. It did not Include the public utility holding company bill. Now, despite all tbe statements, the probability of the moment is that a holding company bill alTecting the utilities will be passed. It will not be passed In the form desired by President Roosevelt. It will be much more moderate. It will actually be what some of the utility chiefs favored as much as ten years ago. But Its omission from the "must" list given out by house leaders is very amusing. It was a bit of Intra-partstrategy. The house leaders In particular are getting very tired of the President's treating them the way he goes. Hence their public statement of a "program" which would be put through and then followed by speedy adjournment. The legislative veterans were laughing In their sleeves at the time, but their statements made good newspaper copy. What they want Is for the President to lake them more into his confidence, and stop treating the house of representatives like a stepchild. y Soldier Bonus Naturally, the soldier bonus was not the "must" list The President does not want that. But If anyone thinks that It la not going to take a lot of the senate's time, he Just does not know very much about the senate. Kspeclal-ly- , as the best predictions now are that the bonus legislation, after passing both houses, and being vetoed, will be passed over the veto by the house and then fail of passage In the senate. This unofficial program calls for two separate considerations of the measure by the senate! That is not all. Very few administration leaders are optimistic enough to believe this congress will adjourn without giving the soldiers something. Which means that time must Intervene after a sufficient demonstration of strength to frighten the White House, and after a sufficient demonstration of weakness to frighten the American Legion for a compromise to be worked out The President has let It be known to a few friends on Capitol Hill that he Is willing to go to a compromise of about $1,200,0(10,000. The bonus lead ers know that and will move heaven and earth to obtain it If they find that they are going to lose out on the main on Army and navy officers are terribly concerned over the bill Just passed by the house, and soon to be considered in the senate, for taking the profit out of war. They assure everyone who will listen to them, in private, that it will also take natlorml defense out of war, which might be very serious indeed to the nation In the event of a conflict The pacifists hnll the bill as: "A bill to keep the United States out of war by providing In advance that there will be (1) profits for none, and (2) confiscatory taxes for all. so that It will be to every American's Interest to keep tbe United States at peace." Army aild navy experts say that It should be called: "A bill (1) to transfer the war mu nltlons Industry now In the United States, and which might be started here, to foreign soil, (2) to provide for murderous delay In preparation In case war la forced on this country, (3) to conscript soldiers and employers but not workmen, and (4) to repeal the oldest law of military strategy: that fight Incidentally, there Is nothing on the the best offense Is a vigorous offen "must" program about the AAA amend slve.M ments, nor about the growing move(loaded by a $2,000,000 bonus to ment to rescind the cotton processing Eugene O. Grace, by screams of the tax. Nor the corn and hog processing of soldier bonus pacifists, by complaints tax. Flat prediction Is hereby made lobbyists that "these boys fought and that there will be a lot of oratory In risked their lives while profiteers were the senate on both before the final making millions." the house voted taps. down' every qualifying amendment. gavel Coonrtcht WNU 8TTlr. World's Olde.t Bible? The director of the German Institute v It '4 u CLutX I Jn - - , , liJ'j r I J? Li ' 1 J "31 mm i fvii y v-- - i' V" magnificence! the centurvl The colossus of all amusements. You've guessed It Circus days are here again. reSpring brings not only balmy breezes and of freshing showers, but the glamor and glitterwonthe Big Top, with its "train after train of ders from many lands, hundreds upon hundreds after acre of rainof tons of equipment herds of elemore and herds proof canvas, phants, camels, zebras and zebus, scores upon scores of funny clowns, company upon company of the most remarkable exponents of physical culture, .avenue after sveuue of cages, corrals and enclosures a stupendous spectacle of fairyland gorgeousness !" Everybody Is familiar with the fanfare of the cirbig show, and nearly everybody has seen a cus t some time In his life, but few are really acquainted with the extent of the circus Industry t- By GRANDMOTHER ': - 1 1 f Returns to Conquer Top, Estralla Nelson, Elephant Trainer, With One of Her Pachyderms. Center, Clyde Beatty Samson,' Lion Who Laid Him Up for Sixteen Weeks. Below, the Circus Moves Into Town. in America today or are fully aware circus. Ringling Brothers opened in for the Big Top Is always jammed of the Job of producing one, a Job that 1S84 and event mlly absorbed the older there, whether the people seem to have money or not. In an average season circus la 1907. Is far more "stupendous" and "colos30 weeks with 170 stands, the averof sal" than the show Itself. Yet the which names were gradother There American circus Is more than a century ually grew to importance: John Rob- age circus plays to 800,000 people who create a gross revenue estimated at and a half old. inson, oldest of them all; Sells-Flotwell over $1,000,000. Al The first circus fan on record In this Hagenbeck-Wallace- , G. Barnes, country Is none other than George Sparks and others. Just before the Large circuses carry from GOO to of whom Washington, who is something of a stu- crash of 1920, John Ringling formed 1,000 people, about pendous figure himself as history goes. the American Circus corporation and are performers. The travel Job Is The Father of His Country attended bought them all. Within tbe next three enormous. Usually, the first railroad the first performance of a circus In years he retired all but Ringling section leaves a town before the show the United States, In Philadelphia In and Bailey, Hagenbeck-Wallac- Is over. Meats for the giant cats are 1792. It was a small show compared and Al G. Barnes. shipped from the stockyards towns a to the modern clrcu9. It had no meRingling, however, was doomed. He week In advance to keep the show supnagerie ; the principal attraction adver- borrowed heavily In order to gain a plied. Hay for animals and food for tised by Its owner, one John Bill Bick-ettmonopoly of the circus Industry ; when humans are bought' by advance agents were "Seven Beautiful Women." the depression came he could not meet who enter a town about two weeks beRlcketts circus was born amid the payments. His New York credi- fore the circus. The shows carry their plenty of opposition. The circus In gen- tors, headed by S. W. Gumpertz, a own staffs of detectives, dentists, doceral is a hangover from the palmiest Coney island concessionaire, took over tors, nurses and teachers for the childays of the Roman empire. It began the American Circus corporation and dren. cleanly enough, with chariot taces (no Ringling was only a name under the Tastes Change Little. doubt considerably more spirited than Big Top. have made little difference in Years those which still remain as an ImporFew spectators realize the magnitant part of the circus), athletic con- tude of the activity in the winter quar- the tastes of the public in Its circus tests, and gladiatorial combat, but Ro- ters of a circus. Here are the railroad fare. Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild man capacity for thrills was not well shops which must keep all the rolling West show were great drawing cards, while the old man lived, and there are enough satisfied and eventually help- equipment In shape. There must be a less Christians were thrown Into the great harness shop, painting shops (for still wild west acts In the circuses of arena to do battle against hopeless fresh, glittering paint must go on ev- today. Lillian Leitzel, whose beauteous form caused many a palpitation odds with Hons and wnrrlors. ery square inch of equipment every of the heart, as It dangled from a flycostume and year) factories, as well as Mighty Barnum Appears. in mid-aiIs dead now, but ing ring and stalls for the animals and This preserved through the ages an barns the Flying Nelsons, Conchlta and otharenas and for the rehearsing unsavory name Indeed for all circuses, stages 200 or more acts. The place Is ers, have taken her place and still form and when John Bill Rlcketts captured of a large part of the bill the Imagination of the young republic seething with activity. Our fathers and some of us can reOnly three localities in the United with the first announcements of his member when little boys Innocently are States used for winter quarters: show, righteous Indignation flared Hagenbeck-Wallac- e and Cole Brothers took Jobs watering the elephants in reforth and from widely pulpit press. turn for passes and found themselves Human nature then must have been winter In Peru, and Rochester, Ind re which are only a few miles with a Job more backbreaking and spectively, Is like It for now, however, something more endless than that of Sindbad carthis opposition served only to whet the apart Ringing winters in Sarasota, and on the Pacific Barnps, coast, rying the Old Man of the Sea. It Is public Interest, and there have always Fla., where the show Is best known. The doubtful if little boys do that so much been circuses In America from that Indiana location Is considered best, be- any more, for the newer generation Is time. And every President since Washcause of proximity to centers of hay hard to fool, but certainly some of it attended has the circus. ington must still go on. At any rate, the meThe" Big Top, the huge show of sev- and food supply. Food bills for anieral tralnloads of equipment and par- mals of any one of these circuses may nagerie Is still one of the supreme thrills of the show. And most specrun ironi ?;h),(XX) a year up. ticipants, as we know It today, did not tacular of all Is the pretty lady or make Its start until the Immortal hand Looks Like "Circus War." handsome hero who walks Into the of Phlneas T. Barnum took hold In With the coming of an lion's cage and calms the savage beast 18S0; even Barnum did not enter the circus for the first time InIndependent years, the by the fearless steel that gleams In the circus business until he was past sixty. American Circus corporation Is appar eye. At that time he was running a freak to get ahead of It In bookmuseum In New York and a man named ently trying King of the menagerie today is Clyde ings. Both Hagenbeck-Wallac- e and Beatty, who makes his animal training Bailey was operating a menagerie Cole Brothers opened In Chicago on the which seriously competed for the dol- same dangerous by putting three dozday for the same run, and con- doubly "sucker" evwas of the that "born lar current bookings are In evidence else- en or more Hons and tigers, who are born with a natural hatred for each ery minute." Bailey announced a where In the schedules. Showmen say other, through their "blessed event" In 18S0 that would have It paces at the same be another of the may "cirtime. A smiling, enthusiastic, vibrant startled even Walter Wlnchell a baby cus wars." little man of scarcely more than pachyderm born to his female elephant Circuses open in the thirty, manufacturing snd the first to be born In captivity. e, centers first usually about the middle Beatty ran away from his home In Barnum openly declared the tiny (t) of April They wait till the Ohio, 13 years ago to Join the farmers circus. He newcomer a humbug and sent Bailey have cashed In on worked as a cage boy for crops before swing. a a telegram offering him $100,000 for Ing out Into the polar boar act, and one night when areas-whethe trainer was called away proof. Bailey had the telegram reprothey do, they follow the route of by a sudduced and used it for an advertising cash-cro- p harvest Drouth and dust den death In the family, Clyde worked the act He was an instant success poster with such financially successful storms will, accordingly, cut down and has been results that Barnum gave up end their schedules In the snapping the whip and west central brandishing the chair, which is the bought into partnership with his rival states. Dayton, Columbus, Detroit trainer's most nseful weapon, tver for a large smn, and the Barnnm and Baltimore, Norfolk. Houston and Dal-la- s Bailey combine became the first great art considered great circus towns, since. one-thir- d e in Cairo recently discovered in an obscure Cairo bookshop what Is said to be tii This Biblt world's oldest Bible, which is thought to have been written in the Second century, contain! only the gospel according to St, Matthew, the letters of St. Paul, and The portions of the Old Testament oldest Bible known previous to this find was written in the Fourth Varieties There are demagogs that are clever and others that Just get up and hori Manufactured by bakisg who powder Specialists bak make nothing but ing powder of under supervision expert chemists. ALWAYS s, old-tim- e Chll-llcoth- n Same price to&Q) as 44 years ago 25 stances far 250 FULL PACK FILLING NO SLACK 3? Unsithth Complexion wow"l . . . . muddy-lookin-g, and .mprwj red-rel- ieved with safe, medicated SALT LAKE'S NEWELS Radio lor Every 200 Rooms-2- 00 Room B3"1 , rni HOTEL TempJe Squafl $l.SOZ. 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