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Show PUBLIC OPINION 5 cenes and Persons in the Current News Intermountain Hews Briefly told for Busy Readers BOISE 1935 C HOICE EMPLOYMENT RISKS FIGHTING THE FUSTS POISON IS PREVALENT DROUTH RELIEF BEGINS Washington. President Roosevelt's broad conception of reform la the country's social Social Reform structure has now been Riven the he haI trj In presented the embryonic itroiMMltlone which he Intends to submit to the conic rens tliat convenes In January, 193Tn Everywhere around the capital city, I believe. It Is acrepted as a statement upon which he expects that Democratic representatives and senators will In tbe November seek to be elections. Disregarding for a moment the views obtainable as to the merits of the proj ects which he laid down in his message to congress outlining Ills social reform program, I Hud that most leaders look upon the Itoosevelt statement as one from which he can determine his future policy. It will work out this way, I am Informed : If the voters elect a preponderance of Itoosevelt supporters for the house and senute again this fall, the President will consider that the country approves of his plans. If, on the other hand, there should be a sharp loss of Democrats In the house, 1 am told that Mr. Itoosevelt would be likely to consider tliat as a inundate to slow up somewhat on the program up-o- u which he has embarked. As I reported to you sever I weeks ago, Mr. Ilcmsevelt has now rounded out the picture of recovery and reform as he conceive It to be necessary, or rather as he and tils ndvlsers think the course should be. At that time, I predicted he would And It opisirtune Just before congress quit for the session to tosa his Ideas Into the hopper for mastication during the summer months. It can now be said that he ha elected to go Into battle with the oiiposlthm without quurter, fur his message mude it rlenr be felt the critics had offered nothing as an alternative. He declared they were unable to present any, plana for human happiness and that they proposed to go buck to the old order" which hud broken down completely In the past The President asserted that he proposed to make the "wearily of the dtlsen and hla family the first consideration of government. And to accomplish tliat, he explained, It was necessary to toss aside many of the traditions and practices to which wc long have adhered. want decord he said, "People, homes to live In; they want to locnte them where they cun engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which rannot be wholly eliminated In this man-madworld of ours. Mr. Itoosevelt's message was decidedly general In tone. He avoided specifications. But the general thoughts were certainly clear to all and sundry, and It Is upon these general thuuglrts that the Issues are to be drawn. Indeed, they tinve already been drawn. be doubted that So It cannot throughout the coining caiiiiailgiis, we will hear much of the New Deal's new social structure as presented by Mr. Itoosevelt. Tbe Itoosevelt supisirters will swear by all tbut Is holy that It Is the only road to happiness. Republicans and spellbinders will shout all of the Invectives that may lie nsed to inform the country that It Is headed for government ownership of everything, government manof property agement. destruction rights, etc. coun-Progra- e lt Koine observers here thought there might be some iink between the delivery of the Iresl-a Link With dent's message nt PtH-uH.time LaborDisputea selected, and the threats of strikes. They professed to see a clever move by the Chief Executive to satisfy many citizens as to his Intention to guaranti-- work and food throughout the future. I am In a position to say, however, lliul then was no connection between the unsettled labor situation and tbe time at wldch the message was delivered to congress. It was ready at that time and was sent along In regular course. If It has hud, or is to have. Hny effect on the threats of strikes and the lenders in those movements, It will be wholly a coin cidence. The striki. have been bred of differ-en- t causes than the things about which Mr. Itoosevelt talked In his message, lie is proposing such things us old age insurance, additional government money for loans to persons who want to buy homes, the transfer of those living In barren spots (Insofar as joist are concerned) to section and communities where work is obtainable, and a general paternalism on tbe part of the national government. In other words. Mr. Itoosevelt's plans contemplate a long range development and have no reference to NBA schemes. Its codes or what have you. It docs relate directly to the movements undertaken by the Agricultural Adjustment administration which have gone a long way and It wants to go much farther In regulating the production of farms and In controlling what farmers do with their land. With reference to this phase, it ruu be Bald tliat Mr. Itoosevelt Is willing to abandon millions of ncres of lund and to have the people who own and live upon land that Is worn out trans ferred to good land. It Is a projiosl-tlothat will Involve the use of untold e n m millions of dollars, and It Is to be assumed tliut It will he money paid into the treasury by taxpayers, supplied the credit. traneferred peoples on long-tim- e I have not learned yet how the added production resulting from these transfers will ba handhal, but It certainly will add to the surplus about which the Agricultural Adjustment administration has been complaining. Now that we have a new law that provides the federal government with authority to control Touchea All the exchanges where anl bonds are Our Lioea sold, as well as a law by which the government controls the Issuance and sule of such securities, It seems to be a good time for examination of the new agency that lr going to run tliut bIiow. It muy seem a far cry from the stock exchange of Wall Street to the little country school house, but this new law Is so In Its effect and lu Its scope of Jurisdiction tliut It touches that little country schuul uud the lives of all of us. I Judge from the expressions I hnve picked up tliat passage of the excluinge control law has brought us to a turning point in the matter of whut we do with the extra few dollars that we can save and Invest with expectation of getting u return of Interest. The consensus seem to be that whether anything Is accomplished under the combination control of security issues and stock exchange will depend entirely on administration of the luwa. That Is to say, If good Is to come, there must be reasonable interpretation of the provision of those laws, according to the general view of those directly affected. The stuck exchange control law underwent a major o;er-atlo- n In congress from the manner In which the professors of the brain trust had drawn it, originally. L'util those uliJiMUIunuble features were eliminated, there wus a buttle royal lu house uud senate. Since the features omitted were deemed too radical by congress. It Is to be assumed there was merit In the claims of brokers and investors In stocks that the bill would have dammed up money that otherwise could have been put to work and used by commerce and Industry which necessarily has to operute to a great extent on borrowed funds, credit. But I hear many expressions around here that there la still a serious problem alieud in the matter of keeping the chnnnels open fur Investment funds. It Is asserted by many tliut "the professorial type of mind" should not be chosen to serve as members of the commission that is set up to rule this phase of commerce. I think no one can deny that there have I teen abuses of coiilldence, trickery and other sharp practices extant lu stock exchange operations. The new laws are supiosed to cure them, and I believe they will do so. Yet, the thought held by some of the reul authorities is tliut radicul administration of the laws cun damage the Quid of ti ounce beyond measure. Selection of men for the jolts who would exercise ilielr authority with restraint as well as with Intelligence waa imperative from the start, or else I a in convinced the whole country would suffer because there could be no distribution of the securities. Bonds on the little country Rcliool house would he dlllicult to sell, and mortgage lenders, who sell bonds against those mortgages, would be against a wall. flve-ma- Prt of the American fleet passing In a long line off Ambrose lightship, and, 2 President Roosevelt with SecreJosephus Daniels and Admiral Standley on board the Indianapolis reviewing the naval parade. S Cavalcade, winner of Hie American derby at Chicago, with Jockey M. Garner up and Mrs. the horse's owner. 1 tary of the Navy Swanson, !" Starting Place for Stratosphere Flight This secluded howl In the mountains eleven miles from Rapid City, S. D balloon flight of Captain Stevens and Major Kepner. the stratosphere MISS LOS ANGELES was the place selected for the Mart at Leviathan to Go Into Service Again n continued Democrats Numerous right up lu the dying gasp of the Seventy-thir- d con-Stil-l Miss Mercedes McNutt was chosen Miss Los Angeles" In a contest with more than 200 California beauties, and will be a candidate for the title "Miss California at the state fair In September. Mercedes is eighteen years old and weighs 115 pounds. After several years of Idleness, the famous steamship Leviathan Is to be put to work again In the Atlantic service. She la here seen docked at the Boston navy yard for overhauling. Presidents Daughter Takes Prize NAVYS COMMANDER m 0 br Wwtarn Kewapapcr I'nlvn. 4-I- g Pie gress to seek hticul pie tor their constituents. They ure still pie hungry now, insofar as one attempted ruid on government Jobs is concerned. A broad Jump was attempted In the house to place several hundred extra workers In the general for the purpose of accounting uflh-auditing the expenditure of the several dozen Itoosevelt ugencles tbut arc denominated by their critics a the "alphabetical soup." Up to this time, J. It. McCurl, the comptroller general of the United States, bus had little chance to fed out what the alphabetical agencies have been doing with the vast sums appropriated for them or allocated them by the President from the various huge appropriations, lie has to, mid does, puss on the exiieodl-tureof the regularly established government agencies, hut none of the new uni's were put under Ids watchful eye. Mr. Itoosevelt ord,,reI the audit. To do the job, however, required additional h Ip for Mr. Mct'irl. and about 1 ,0 ,( n Hi was included in a deficiency appropriation bill. Hie saw a tine chance, and they never overlook any chance. So they slipped a line into the appropriation bill Hint said the extra workers were to be chosen without regard for the civil service. Whut a huge piece of pie, lu fuct, many pieces of pie! I.ut something hnpiiened to the well-laiplan. Somewhere the language got changed to rend that the coiuptrol-le- r general "may apiwint" the extra workers without regard for the civil service Instead of the command that he "shall apiioliit. And, In tlila case, the change is of vast lnqiortauce to maintenance of the civil service as a government method of employment. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Boise was named the 1985 convention city by the Idaho Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs at the closing session of the fourteenth annual convention here recently. POCATELLO, IDA. Compete and hikers are warned to be on the lookout for poison oak and poison Ivy this summer while la the kills adjacent to Pocatello. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Thru an employment program lnangu anted by the Denver A Rio Grande 1 n Western Railroad company March, the number of men employed In the shops and the maintenance of way departments Is fast approaching the 1930 level, and during July will equal or exceed this level, it was stated recently by 1L Wilson, division superintendent. BALT LAKE CITY, UT. Drouth relief projects in the Wasatch National forest hare been started. The projects are in Tooele, Wasatch and Summit counties and Involve the development of springs and piping water to troughs constructed for the use of livestock. Development ef the springs will make the entire area of the forest available for livestock. SHOSHONE, IDA. Two tons st poison proved inadequate In controlling grasshoppers In Lincoln county, and live more tons have been received. Tills material is being distributed among farmers on several tracts of the Big Wood project, particularly In the western part of the North Shoshone tract where the hopper Invasion was greatest this season. TOOELE, UT. In a grasshopper campaign started at 1 ha pah by County Agent A. G. Kilburn, five and one-hal-f tons of belt was pnt out along the Deep creek section. BOISE, IDA. Attorney General Bert II. Miller has been advised that the test suit on the constUn-tionallt- y of the state chain store tax will not le appealed and that protesting companies will pay the tax. The attorney general estimated the tax would approximate $00,-00- 0 for the half of 1933 and aU ef 1931 for which It is due. The tax was enacted by the 1933 legislature. MOSCOW, IDA. Several hundred I club boys and girls of Idaho attended the 12th Annual Junior short course at the University of Idaho this month. of snow BOISE, IDA. Mi1f fence owned hy the state highway department will be made available la southern Idaho to conduct rabbit drives, according to Gov. C. Ben Ross. The first district from which an application for fence earns was Dietrich, and a large snppiy now stored at Shoshone will be turned over to farmers for nse lu drives, the governor stated. Herded into inclosurcs made by the fence, the rabbits ran he slaughtered with clubs. Other snow fence Is stored in Pocatello and Idaho Fulls asd will be available for use in (he campaigns against the animals, the governor said, upon application of those in charge of the prosed drives. BASIN, WYO. A hunting accident took the life of Logan Riley, Id, near here. The youth laid his 22 caliber rifle In a bush, and fciler pulled the weapon out, with the muzzle pointing toward him. The gun was discharged and I he bullet entered his heart. POCATELLO, IDA. Participation in the federal corn-hoprogram this year will not Itunpork county farmers approximately $4JI,-00-0, according to the county agent. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Increased Interest in elub work In the eastern district of the Idaho extension service is noted in the nnmlier of enrollments this year as compared to last year, said G. W. Cleveland, in charge of this work. PAROWAN, UT. The wool men of this district have succeeded in putting their wool of approximately 90 40,000 fleeces on the market, per rent of wlik-- wos consigned, with an advance of from 14 to 10 cents per pound. From 20 to 23 cents was paid to the growers who Due to much dry sold outright. weather and wind, the wool Is sot so good as In previous years, aid carries more dirt. OGDEN, UT. Plans and specifications for the first unit of the line View dum project hare been sent to the Denver U. 8. reclamation office for printing. The first Includes the construction of the dnm, tunnels and spillways, tbe Ogden city water siipidy alterations nnd a portion of the Eden and Huntsville highways. Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, for years an outstanding naval airman, has become the conunnnder of the American fleet, succeeding Admiral lellsra. Mm Anna Roosevelt Dali, daughter of the President and Mm Roosevelt, rode the first prize winner In the road hack class at the Port Myer horse show. She la shown on True Love, receiving the prize from Mm Carey Lang horn af Uppervllle, Vs. 4-- II SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Farm loans In the western region this year approximated only 50 per cent of the loans made daring 1933, Geo. S. Glen, regional manager of the crop production hum section rf tbs farm credit administration, aald recently. GENOA, NEV. Early days were In Geuoa, historic Mormon settlement and Nevada's driest town, recently, when an estimated crowd of 2000 gathered to pay tribute to ths pony express riders with dedication of a monument ) I |