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Show UTAH LEW FREE PRESS. LEHL ing the Justices of the Supreme court, will know that the real objective U to curtail a very definite percentage of MEN" and something crop production, that again. In the opinion of many lawyer, that go- - a long nay out on the lliijb of th general welfare clause of the Conslilutiou ko far tint lie limb may break. National Debt Reaches Record High Is HEARD around the NATIONAL Just Another Phase Iiooiifitdt'g Idea of renioi!ijg a'l the "buffalo grass" country from cultlva tlon !? auuther phue of the problem. This : the territory from the panhandle of Texas up to Montana, the western portion of the Nebraska. Kansas and OklaImkotas. Washington. Brazil' cotton acr-aj;rent homa. It U land which most agriculthis year will extefi by .'15 experts agree nlmllM never have that of laxf year. Her iectHCiilar In tural been plowed. Its cultivation, pl is t grease of ettun production will 'n produced the dust s'oruis Vet tJnut. despite confidence at the Itepart modern with machinery, cheap land, ment of Cotnnwri ami the White House that last year'n crop failure and huge farms It lend itself to cheap "down under" prove lira 7.1 In not a mass production of crop. But this part of the program Is not BiejiBce to the South on cotton produc It the politically Important part. tion. Expert cotton men Just buck from would not put money In the hands of Brazil Insist that lust year" rains In farmers In other section, nor in the that country, which resulted In only populous parts of the slate Involved. harSmall check to many farmers, rather about l,4(tO,WlQ acre crop bein than larce checks to a few farmers, is lirafor a abnormal were vested, just the Import ant thing politically. Ell at the drouth In this country. Con dltloua last year In Brazil were more Then there Is another question. It is highly Improbable that the new plan abnormal, If anything, they e.iy. the conditions In wlmt rrenident run be passed on by the Supreme court Itoosevelt calls the "bulTalo Krain" before the election d.iy. Nor Is there Country are still a uiennce thrmu'li any certainty that It could le gotten dust atomia, whereaa there la nt iiin before the Supreme court at all. In the AAA case, the court Indicated that coniparahle to that In I'.rail. All of which Is terribly Important In no taxpayer could bring the suit unflew of the present threshing about In less he could demonstrate that he was administration and fiirui circles over being badly hurt by the tax, This time, a substitute for the AAA program. owing to the tact that the taxes will There Is no doubt In the minds of ex be of the straight-ou- t evclse variety, pert who have xludled the situation with no authority delegated to change that the AAA system them and with no tie up between the of holding up the price of cotton by amount of the tax and the object de curtailing American production was sired (crop reduction In the AAA plan; simply holding an umbrella over Urn crop reduction via soil conservation In all while alie developed Into a gleut the new plan) lawyers here do not becotton producing country. lieve It would be ns simple for some Israzll can produce very Rood cotton badly hurt Industry to get Its case beand sell It for fl cent a pound, with fore the courts. an excellent return to the farmers and Naturally, such an organization as every one handling It. Iiut her Intho I.IU'rty league might he tremencrease In production might have been dously Interested, not to mention the ery slow had It not been for the tttlm Republican party. The hitter, howulus -- amounting to a bonus and prizes ever, would he deterred because It extended by the I'nlted States not would not want to throw a boomerang. only forcing up the price, but remov All of which leaves doubt clouding ing a huge fraction of the export crop. the whole picture. Secretary of Commerce Roper and other admlui.sf ration ofllclals Causes Irritation successfully this Idea of a There Is considerable Irritation at menace until the Saturday K vethe White House over the way senail In g Post sent a cotton expert to Urators and representatives are pawing cil last year. Ills articles occasioned law. tho proposed neutrality over some alarm, but Just as they were be"Storm cellar boys" Is the popular some to of cotton the stir up ginning phrase around the executive otlices people came the news that there had and In the State department for tho been a crop failure In Brazil. This Senator Oerald P. "failure" was occasioned by the ruins. school following Nye, which would remove all discretion whatever from the president the Brazilians Make Money moment war broke out anywhere In Hut the experts Just bock, In talkthe world, and clamp airtight embaring with this writer, say that every goes on a Mede and Persian list of one In Brazil who hud any cotton to commodities which not be might aell at nil made money, and that there shipped. is no sign whatever that any farmer There Is almost ns much resentment who has tried cotton Intends to give It against the Borah school, which holds On the Brazilians the up. contrary, that the "freedom of the sens," for are so generally extending their cotton which doctrine our country fought one acreage that the estimate of Increase and one mostly forover Inst year'a Is now 35 per cent. must never be surrenwar, gotten One of the most serious effects on dered. New England and Southern textile InThere Is no proposal to surrender dustries Is the tendency of American the freedom of the seas, State departmill owners to establish plants in Brament ofllclals Insist. The rule, they zil, especially for their export trnile. would merely be suspended in say, Johnson and Johnson is one outfit that time of war. It Is on all fours, they has done so. The growth of the Southern textile point out, with the Inalienable right of a pedestrian to cross a, public highIndustry has played havoc with New way. That right Is not surrendered bemills for years, largely England when the pedestrian waits for a speedcause labor was a little cheaper In the to go by. The pedesSouth. Now along comes the threat of ing automobile his rights, and also his retains trian In New both to menace Brazil mills life. They even recalled the old safety-fEngland and the South, with labor irst refrain: cheaper thnn either can obtain, and was "He right, dead right, as he with what seems to be nn assured suprushed along, ply of cotton at very low prices. But he's Just ns dead as though he'd So far no one Inside the admlnlstrn been wrong." tlon has seemed to realize what this To which the Borah followers retort Brnzlllon menace means. Odlclnls Ignored for several years reports of that freedom of the seas either means American consuls telling of the spread something or It does not. In pence Noof the cotton Industry In Brazil. I.nst time It moans absolutely nothing. Is only In war It It. body questions year olllclals also Ignored reports from Important. consuls In England that mills there time that It becomes advoIt Is against the strait-Jacke- t were changing their looms, with a view House the White that however, cates, to using Brazilian Instead of American Is most bitter. It Is not much worried cotton. Senator Bornh's orguments. Effecby So there Is no indication that any Idaho Hon may be In deattention will be paid the present tive as the thinks he Is administration the bate, In working out the substitute on the problem of the neutralside unpopular for AAA. It thinks the country Is ity question set on going Just ns far as possible, reNew Farm Program gardless of rights Involved, to keep No doubt seems to exist that Presiout of war. dent Roosevelt will get squarely back to the soil conservation subterfuge for Neutrality Law paying the farmers of the country the Ui fact, It Is this very sentiment rough equivalent of what they were which handicaps President Roosevelt AAA now outlawed under the getting of State Hull In getting and Secretary farm benefit plan. Nor that he will law framed as they the neutrality back the levying of excise taxes, which would like It Investing most of tin! will be very similar to those Just ruled In the President. out. In fact, there seems little doubt power and discretion Is support out In the that the new farm program will go There asstrong manifested not only by letcountry, through whooping. ters to Hill, but communicaCnpltol There Is a great deal of doubt as to tions to the Wl Ite House, in favor of Most Its constitutionality. lawyers olT exports of every sort, here ftelieve It Is Just ss far In excess shuttingwould be useful In prosecuting which of the real powers of the federal govwar, to all belligerents the moment ernment, as granted to the central gov war starts The argument appears eminent by the states through the Con and again In letters that every again AAA one with as the Stltntlon. plan, ounce of discretion written Into the exception. That Is with respect to the bill contributes Just that much to the taxes. If congress levies the new nation that thinks It suiters from the taxes as straight out excise levies, no of that discretion regarding exercise one doubts they will stand. Everybody the I'nlted States hs nn enemy. Will know that the object Is to raise Meanwhile the actions of Senators enoiiL'h money to pay the farmers the and Chirk In attempting to throw Nye equivalent of the old farm benefits, but mud on the memory of Wood'ow Wil taxe will not the law the Imposing son IS little short of ttahhergasting to say so. Nor will It grant anyone distheir colleagues. The oh)ects of each cretion to chance them. There Is no are obvious. Clark's animus Bennett question of delegating power, as con against the war president goes back to gress did to the Triple A In that act. the Baltimore convention, when al But when It comes to paying a farm though his father, Champ Clark, had er so much a year to let such and such won most of the Presidential primaries He acres of or his fallow, a proportion and had the most delegates, Wilson, grow up In pnsture. on the theory that with the assistance of William Jen this Is preserving soil fertility, when nlngs Bryan, was nominated. matter of fsct everybody, Includ ;as WNU Gertie. Copyright. CAPITAL CarterField e M- By WILLIAM a State only eiactl) ti;id a ". if. r,.',! li the national P.i.t thai DlirD time a THERE aji' jt-a- i ! 1S.'!C. Atid for each of thus )ears the dYM has multiplifl alneml I'lUct times existence The I'ljiieil Slate (f'-tti.ise tim-f- c) with the That at of ?T"..l'i! ' national d.-for the ICewduImnary war and to up to the present day treat rises in the i.yMoiiiil debt have been tlie result of wars (accepting the theory of one school of thought, which regard the that caused the present enormous total a necessitated by a depression which was the direct result of the World war). writ the debt up to The War or r Ma-ger- g $R.7;5.':t.!t:t"i in T 1M. In lWHi ilea to grow r roro Wall nroiairtlons . i . i . a tiave riiuoMy war nn t ,ni Sre-uverstar-nie!.t ra'e i.t del Mi...ru ""'"" tiU'lgei In fde more i Uo"ev-.I'resident In Jai.uarv fi',4 mouths ... 8' i the ii it turned KM later would A:i es.! " ,.,.! ,,,,, ,., y f..r the ii l" K'.'l oein IM1 ne an to proved rirsi hi Wail Street MP., acti al $1.' art jo make s i' Ii Is The ,i UTLEV C the debt reached a new high of J'J.TV! If ), In U"t K). following the Civil war. It atood at the comfortable total of but the World war sky Sl.P.KMMMMI, rocketed It to the alarming total of $'J(!..r.!tl.il.iO four lears later. By conscientious budget balancing during the next decade the debt reached Its post war low of HO.LiJU.OW.uW I" l'X). r j;i ted tal revenues to MI,ll or so. side of the pjc lure it bad. It - time, Dt ard iv-wi- !Ui - .. i-- : 1 treasury liaoiino-- , . tu to RFC an mistakes oi.wlitingly. The Real National Debt, it Is dirlicult to reas-n- s (.'or oth- -r iw national real ate the ross del t of :ore than $:tit.(MMi,ti actual. y represent. at l!ie end ,,f borrow Inn lie procei Is of December Bui added to ti.e eslslillg debt. neen lia.l though the money With the It had not yet been spent. fund dethe In general held sum thus was December ill ducted, the debt over a little only actually xi S w O 3 c fO K. CM pooh-poohe- d lira-stlla- n - HoU' P l but (not an intangible sei-urlt- Salt Lake City Direrforj bnr-Th- e rr the Si'l.lKKHKM.11" of V',X dually less than the cost of i While t? .Es (U fx - O X c r O U o - S P ippOQ viS vd fi o 5 o - " T3 3! 2 2 sJsLlsi WHERE THE GOVERNMENT'S DOLLAR COMES FROM. Recent court decisions would cancel the column labeled "Processing Taxes" and these taxes will hava to be returned by the government Both the charts on this page are based on 1935 1936 budget estimates. Debt Cheaply. If wa o (Ci 5 S! s I ' L Ji Ji . have t!ie car you vt want, Sean $275 Ssdan Sedan Coupe Sedan Sedan 1S5 355 375 53 475 USED TRUCKS BIG TRUCKS GOOD TRUCKS STAKES SMALL TRUCKS Pickups and Hyd. Dump Bodies Prices and terms to suit you. Streator-Smit- h CHEVROLET USED DEALER CAR DEPT. 505 SO. MAIN Salt Lake City U. S. Certified Pullorum Tested Chicks Whit Le2horn. Rhode IsUni KB,f Barred Plymouth HotUs, for immeiUte delivery. Hesitnuar'.era for Hart brooders, for natural, art.ficial, or b Abe tin? gas, an be n:cd anywhtre. nni Ril.nnt R.H .nt. Phrnf. Itrill wire for prices and complete Intori-auon. J87 I t n Him Mlder I 'bat th. A Utak m rose f later h B whlc Since Don't be put to ki pas pi bre Don't cive ud! Faithful use of at' Glover's Mange "f'l Medicine and Glover's ' H Medicated Soap for the shampoo has sated many from Baldness. Kills Dandruff germs; stops excessive Falling Hair nrnmrr inln health. Ask your Barber. Stan todayl yot UPlntc :4N "' best if r fO r P. ii EAMSHAW HATCHERIES S3. S'.a:t St. Silt Lake City, CI TIMPAN0GC3 HATCHERY Provo, 305 South 7th East . 1 S i j i den't 1930 CHEV. 1929..FORD 1933 CHEV. 1933 FORD 1934 CHEV. 1934 FORD o j CO. get it for ycu. will When President Roosevelt delivered clal ventures. Many critics or the gov his budget message to congress on Jan eminent financial policy would add to irary tt, the national debt was higher the $:iO,(HMl.iKHl,(HMi debt the contingent than It hud ever been before. It was liabilities taken on by the treasury How the Treasury department's finiin well over j:ill,(l(HMHKl,(MMI. He pre dieted thut on June :), 1!:!7, at the clal ventures stood on October 31. end of the I!i:t.'t7 fiscal year, It would Is shown In the following 'Combined be $.U,:iril.(KHl.(HK, or more thnn $l.(HKi Statement of Assets and Liabilities of C.overnmental Corporations and Credit for every family In the hind The present record national debt Is Agencies or the United States." Figures are In millions of dollars: the direct result of the administration's policy of "priming the pump" to As- Lla- - Equl- aid business In effecting a recovery sets b'tles ty from the throes of depression.- II is ftccon. Kin. 205 2.340 Corp. J.06S not as large us President Roosevelt Commod Ored Corp 27H 273 .... had predicted It would he six months Public Wks Admin. 236 .... 236 Hoard Mer. F. 1S3 .... 170 ago. Two years ago bo said: "Th' Ship Land Bks 2.403 .... 256 debt would amount to $:il.S:? l.tMKKXKi Federal Fed Interm Cr. Bks 253 103 on June 1!:!.V Fed Farm Mort. C. 1.622 1,337 204 Banks for 'o But the President also said then. In 139 operat. .... 137 123 811 .... his lirst animal budget message to con- Home Loan Banks Home Own. & U C. .9S2 60 gress, ".My estimates for the coming Fed Sav. A L. Ins C. 103 2.842 10:1 .... fiscal year fending June .'?(. show Fed Dep Ins. Corp. 338 .... 150 8 an excess of expenditures over re- All others .... 626 ceipts of $J.(MK),lMHI,(KM). We should Urand Total 11.613 4.494 4.473 plan to have a delinitely balanced bud for third the of I.Ike so much of the New Deal's year recovery (the get present fiscal year) and from that lime financing, the value or the d;in-p- r of on seek a continuing reduction of the these liabilities depend entirely upon mi national debt." Balance Not In Sight Yet such a balance has not been effected or even forecast for the l!i:!7 a q, fiscal year. He estimated that for that u ea o e the year government would collect $V Q j "os 6.VUNHUNX) in revenues, and would spend $(i.7.VJ.(KKMKM plus a sum for work reller Hill to be determined. The o. .2 S deficit then would have been at lens' 2 $l,lt!S,IHHl.MX! plus whatever amount had to be added for relief. Unfortunately there were Immediate pending Issues which would throw the Presl dent's estlmute out of whack. On the s 1 ery day of his message the Supreme fl n tt S A c N V court declared the AAA Invalid, and . r' K 1 CO O a later ruling decreed thut the govern ment would have to pay back the taxes. Also It was virtually certain that the J'J.ihki.inhkhmi soldiers' bonus would pass congress. The situ Stlon was serious enough for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to predict that the country might face a WHERE THE GOVERNMENT'S DOLLAR GOES national debt of JUViIIiI.ihxi.ixm) i,y t,e C'UmnS 1 .1 represent expenditure, and 1!):!7 end of the fiscal year. Suprem8 dec.ared the AAA unconstitutional he ll The balancing of the budget has means of .V .V"" w'" seeK some other payment, and rearri. t, been cnmpllmtcd In recent years by policy. UUalUy 0j natur9 as a permanent the over optimistic character of annual budget deficit estimates, us the recovery. If business returns to norIt was 20 7 per cent; In V.m. 10.5 following table reveals. The first mal or prosperous times the assets will cent, and Id mi. 1P.0 per cen, n',, three deficit estimates were by Mr be gradually realized, as were those 20 cents out of everv doii. Hoover. All are given In millions 0t of the War PI mi nee corporation lint Pay into the If times do not get better and dollars: stay s rejected In better the assets will be every ml virtually -V ls"ine. telephone service Prdlci,i Actual possible of collection. In a continued 1931-in... 3l theater tickets, electric 1.153 depression they might become an ex p ...1.7ns S.i 63 tremely I33i-mH burden emharrassing The i ... Ml S t".9 bllltles of $t,4:4,tKHMKHi are not 1934- - 1:. .15 "ls(lmltted,hatthcnpw finane-"...2.513 J.i75 only depends entirely upon 1935- - 19J a claim on the '1.9S recovery f, r taxpayer but they are .u.es l" tne n.'ove ,f tlm(. national deht of As of 17, Jan. Surplus. 9.t. Instead of better-w- ell more than tlle Wai ' Mreet Journal has said; That estlnintes were so far swsy Further "Moral" Obligations. from the actual totals may in most ;;T.,e qne.Uon how much debt the Moral obligations of the CAN treasury arr Cases be laid to the total inability of carry s outstanding liabilities 0f the Treasury department, the banks Land Ranks. Home I,o,-l- the Pedernl ,h"uW ,,e h,"v nl pliU,k, du. and the people In general to estimate count functions. country carry?" Federal Deposit . IF spending continues the duration of the depression. When suranoe Federal corporation, Savinan,I IF fed- Incomes slumped, so did revenue. And and Life Insurance ony when the "priming" failed to get the the real estate l.vins corporation and two courses lt ....,. " of the Federal "eau: More and pump working as quickly ss bad been Housing administration. n.Jier or lni! ,! taxes, These Itu 6 W(,iern ,v,w paper rnloa. i - CHEVROLETS-F0RD- y :. LIMB Tratia Arch Sipwrti ti'cnsion Ehocs Ebi.it Htsitq 3abliflicd in Salt LaLe in H( PIu Was. 2f4 Satirfrcl on GmtiiM 13S VV. Third So. : Salt Late Cily. lit Cratch- cost. One evil of "cheap money" Is the It entemptation to spend more. courages Irresponsibility. The world holds plenty of precedent to show that it Is budgetary Irresponsibility that leads to inllatlon. The New Peal rightly or wrongly has nl lowed the national deht to grow to its record high In a gamble on recovery. It has added new taxes, but declares Itself as unwilling to add more for (except spending on such things as the soldiers' bonus). The theory Is that ns times get better and Incomes Increase, tax receipts will Increase and "emergency" spending will end (for as business get better more people will go back to work), and the budget will balance, the deficit becoming a surplus going toward the payment of the debt The estimated $r,.r.C4,(K)(l,0(Kl In rev enues for the VX',7 fiscal year. If it proves accurate, would mean the largest federal tax receipts In history, with the exception of the year RyjO. when wartime taxes were at their height, hut Incomes were up, too. How some of the tax rates have been increased to make up fur the difference In Income today Is readily seen: Max Imum surtax on personal Incomes has grown from 20 per cent in l!Vj:i :?t) to 75 per cent; the maximum rate on es tate taxes from 20 per cent to 70 per cent, and the maximum corporate income tax from 11 per cent to 15.17 per cent. All Purchases Reflect Tax. There has actually been a decline in n.v .,,..,,, run a lux tauon trom the citizens dollar, however. In 0 ARTIFICIAL Artificial LimI s L Brxcrs the low rates for money continue, and economists right now can see little reason that they shouldn't, the govern ment will find itself getting out from under the great part of the debt "dirt cheap," since about one half of It matures within the next five years. Refunding should be possible at low n Spring when he said message Refunding " Write H 4. u a budget fir that the government's credit was never higher 2 x 2 linn cheaply, of currying a debt of JMO.tXKMHMI.IKKI cost of today Is little more than the x w H 2E jMlll ONLY ."."'" In his vo -- i may carrying the war debt of 1!H!). the det.t bus risen 70 per cent since the 1::1 fiscal year, the cost of carrying it has risen only 34 per cent This Is what the President was referring to a - CUEEfjj IEiKhlt. now be real assei) of "gold profit'........ iui.u. stabiliJiiion It.g held in ti.e " retarv Morgenthau a year ntiu would sum this that boo mmouieed ,,,cik i,e turned Into revenues ami won!ii contrihute toward reducing the national debt. It is barely possible rt,;,t SI .Kl.lxiiMil will be collected from the .$(l..liHl,lliltl.il of war oeoiorevenues At s. ,me tine In the future act passed In ii from .i... I!!:;.".. may be reckoned on the Aug.i' (HM). asset side. But there are also complications not No administration in rnstory nas During the last so rosy In nature. so much money as the pres borrowed half dozen years the government has ent one No administration has embarked ou some extraordinary Onau rowed it so cost eitner. o E o u C tutrix &t ''"'f T,'ere ' realize from ".nines X w 03 i WK nt'u"' to- te met which the government if ,f'p 47;i. si to - " on the Thcie sre some miai.gUdes Ili.-i..... is about J I. and h k STATE J lil'Oe. Or IMMI m 4 $1ii"i.''.""" reach : m !li!.:se., s worst fears ,f Mr Morgei.tt.au ri!f.ell the liatl" Oil M--deul Illlgni or '.-- and urt. ca ao ,,'at ! .1 ' rl-c- 1 r another -- ."" Painting the blackest n.'.zl I plied l m Ml 44" 0(1 ti pt W '$ than cosmetic ltl "L.t si 1931-193- 3 4 ;. .,,. TT7VLt I N ALLY nh W" 1 ' ' Ho k't( ap,J tint S "re En - !- 25 NIIRSEEty.SiR Soothe and comfort baby's wnn aeiicaieiy Cuticura '"J t),9 f;inl0f Soap . over for purity a"1 ness. After bnthimr, dl'fV,ne. 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