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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Relief Given Industrial and Farming States By Edwar Pickard Western Newspaper Union Death of Charles Curtis, Former Vice President Industrialist engaged in fictitious sales of securities, one to the other, to a total of about $30,000,000 for the CHARLES CURTIS, former Vice purpose of showing losses. of the United States and before that representative and senator from Kansas, died suddenly of New Farm Bill Pushed heart disease at the for Early Adjournment Washington home of LEADERS of congress hope for an his brother-in-laand by May 1 at sister, Mr. and Mrs. the latest, and therefore they pushed Edward E. Gann. He the new farm bill forward, trying to was seventy-siyears get it through both houses by the end old, and was the first of the week. In their desire to get man of Indian blood away from the Capital, they already ever to preside over had decided to let the proposed perthe senate. He was manent neutrality legislation go by the Kaw Inboard. The farm bill as rewritten by the dian, his grandmother having been Princess senate agriculture committee is based Julie of that tribe who on the soil erosion prevention scheme. Some Democrats joined with many Remarried a French In his boyhood Curtis was a publicans in opposing the measure, one Jockey, and later a reporter. Having of them being Senator Walsh of Masstudied law, he became a prosecutor sachusetts. In a statement issued to at the age of twenty-fou- r in Shawnee the press he declared it was a dancounty, Kansas, and was elected to gerous bill conferring autocratic and congress In 1892. He was made sen- blanket authority on the secretary of ator in 1907, was defeated in 1912. agriculture. He said the measure was and two years later was again elected neither valid in law nor valid In senator, He was elected Vice Presi- economics. dent on the ticket headed by Herbert Chairman Doughton of ' the house Hoover, and was renominated for that ways and means committee said he position in 1932. expected definite word from the White Mr. Curtis was greatly liked by his House or treasury soon on the amount associates in Washington and his death and kind of taxes that might be imcaused genuine grief. President Roose- posed to finance the new farm provelt said: gram. I am deeply distressed to learn of Speaker Byrns said he could see no the sudden 'passing of my old friend, reason why the tax measure should Charles Curtis. VVhether they knew not emerge from the committee by the him as a senator, as the Vice Presiend of February. He and Doughton Insisted they had dent of the United States, or as the - man he was in his own right, his le- no advance information on what the gion of friends will remember him, administration might propose. always affectionately, and will mourn . his passing. Michigan Party Chief Vice President Garner said: of Fraud I was always fond of him. I was Convicted associated with him in the house and ELMER B. OHARA, Democratic chairman of Michigan and senate. He was a fine man and a of Wayne county, which former clerk good friend. Funeral services for Mr. Curtis and includes Detroit; State Senator A. J. and 16 Wilkowskl the interment were in Topeka, Kan. others of lesser prominence were convicted Long Newspaper Tax Is in Detroit of having Held Unconstitutional attempted to steal the 1934 election. of court the Eight Supreme again ONCE United defendants in the reStates comes to the count case, which had rescue of a free press. Unanimously on been trial for the nine Justices ruled that the Louisiana law imposing a punitive tax on the nearly 12 weeks, were acquitted. Two other advertising of the principal newspadefendants previously pers of that state is unconstitutional. had pleaded guilty, The law, was passed by a legislature thus bringing to 2U controlled by the late Senator Huey number facing sen- the court The of said Long. it: It Is bad because, in the light of tence for their part in the vote recount Its history and of its present setting, conspiracy. For OHara, the verdict came as it Is seen to be a deliberate and calculated device in the guise of a tax the culmination of a series of calamito limit the circulation of Information ties in a brief political career. Last to which the public is entitled in virtue November a Jury in Macomb county, of the constitutional guarantee. adjacent to Wayne, found him guilty A free press stands as one of the of bribery In a drainage transaction in connection with real estate deals he great Interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to had made before 1932 when he enbe fettered is to fetter ourselves. tered politics and was elected Wayne In view of the persistent search county clerk. He awaits sentence for new subjects of taxation, it Is not under that conviction. After conviction without significance that, with the he was removed from office. In the recount case OHara was found single exception of the Louisiana statute, so far as we can discover, no guilty on three counts, permitting state during the 150 years of our na- others to alter ballots, conspiring to tional existence has undertaken to permit others to alter ballots, and con Impose a tax like that now in quesspiring to permit others to conduct . tion. the recount in an unlawful manner and The form in which the tax is change the result of the November. is in itself suspicious. It is not 1934, election. measured or limited by the volume of advertisement It is measured alone Rigid Policy Announced by the extent of the circulation of the on FHA Mortgages publication in which the advertisements are carried, with the plain pur- HOUSEHOLDERS defaulting on renovation pose of penalizing the publishers and no more will be notes and mortgage curtailing the circulation of a selected Federal the treated Housing by gently of newspapers." group administration than are tax delinquents by the Treasury department. Raskob Sued for Alleged Stewart McDonald, FHA administraIncome Tax Deficiency tor, says there has been a general misJohn J. Raskob, understanding of this matter, and so against ACTION chairman of the Demohe enunciates this policy: cratic national committee when Al When a borrower under the modSmith was the Presidential nominee, ernization credit plan defaults on a and who Is now presiloan, the lending institution files claim dent of the American with the bousing administration for Liberty league, has the insurance on the loan. The matter been begun by the of collecting the defaulted obligation government for an althen Is turned over to the Federal leged deficiency of Housing administration. on his 1929 In such cases it will be the policy The taxes. Income of the Federal Housing administration claim was filed In an to be just as rigid as the Treasury deamendment to the pepartment In the collection of taxes. tition recently, filed The collection machinery Is well organ1 i ized and, while every reasonable conagainst Pierre S. du "" will be given to borrowers Pont two days before , RakoD sideration the Al Smith had bitterly public must not get in default, assailed the New Deal. In the peti- the impression that the bousing adtion,' which Raskob described as New ministration will be lax in performing Deal persecution, Mr. du Pont was its duty. There is no reason to assume that alleged to have understated his 1929 borrowers in default will be treated income by $2,897,832 and an additional tax of $G1 7,316 was asked. In like tax evaders, but rather along tfc the amended petition, accusing Mr. same lines as an Individual who is i& Raskob, It was alleged that he and the default of tax payments. w x one-quart- voy-ageu- r. ; - . yopv INDUSTRIAL states, such as Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, although they pay most of the Internal revenue taxes, receive much less of federal relief largesse than such agricultural states as North and South Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama, New Mexico, Arkansas and Arizona. This was pointed out in a statement released by the Illinois Manufacturers association which compares the internal revenue collections of the various states with the amount each state received in relief funds for yetfr ending June 30, thinks sabout: Shaw Comet Through i Houston, texas. there was only one living person who could con- vince me that George Bernard Shaw was not the smartest man in the world and that person would be George Bernard Shaw. And, by gum, he did it! For this 1935. Illinois collected $323,138,933 and received in federal relief grants only $113,185,365 or 35 per cent of what It sent to the United States treasury. New York collected $672,473,493 and got back $262,868,658 or 39 per cent of what it sent to the United States treasury. Pennsylvania and Ohio did somewhat better. Pennsylvania collected and received in relief funds $173,151,832 or 71 per cent. Ohio col3 lected $164,079,273 and received or 66 per cent South Dakota received $27,565,643 and collected only $1,540,795. In other words, South Dakota got back from the United States government nearly eighteen times the amount paid in Internal revenue. North Dakota got approximately $25 for each $1.75 paid in taxes, receiving $25,087,327 and collecting only $1,748,-65$244,-355,7- $107,-702,95- admirer he began the disillusioning job the last time he was over here, telling us so frankly what ailed us, and on the present trip he already has finished up the contract. When a man, no matter how great he was in the past, reaches the point where he mistakes rudeness to his hosts for proof of his own Irvin S. Cobb brilliancy, instead of Just bad manners well, to me one of the most distressing sights on this earth is that of an extinct crater still trying to be the flaming volcano it once was. 7. Mississippi received $18,745,417 In relief funds or nearly seven and times the amount collected in Internal revenues. one-ha- lf Senator Borah Formally Enters Nomination Race E. BORAH, the liberal senator from Idaho, is now a full fledged candidate for the WILLIAM Presidential Republican nomination. He formally put himself in the running by he announcing would enter the primary in Ohio which will be held May 12. that state requires the candidate shall declare himself i in writing, and this Mr. Borah said he That H'fMf , that would do. - ' The senators State- Senator Borah ment followg; After a thorough survey of the Ohio situation I am convinced that the people of that state should be given an opportunity to express their choice In the Presidential primary on May 12. Under the favorite son plan this privilege is denied them. To obtain an expression of popular will it is my intention to place at least eight candidates' for delegates at large in the field shall make a number of speeches In Ohio and present the Issues as 1 see them. d .I Mrs. Huey Long Takes Husbands Senate Seat MRS. HUEY P. LONG, widow Vandenberg Doubts Value of Florida Canal Michi- grave doubts of the gan eco- nomic necessity or value of the ship canal that is being dug across central Florida, and offered in the senate commerce committee a resolution for Investigation by a special committee. In support of bis move he produced let- ters from eleven companies operating steamships saying they would not use the canal even if no tolls were charged. They asserted the expense of employing canal pilots added to the risk of damage to ships would ollset saving in navigation costs. Great Britain Rushes -- Rearmament Program must be another war IF THEREGreat Britain proposes in to Europe, be In readiness. The government Is hurrying up Its rearmament program, which will be financed by a loan o probably about $2,(rfK),000.000. Plans for the expansion and modernization of the army, navy and air force will be submitted to parliament early in March, and it is said will Include mechanization of the entire army. Impetus to the work was given by the latest statement attributed to Mussolini war may yet that the disaster. be a world-widItalo-Ethlopia- n e it wasn't regarded as fatal to the Presidential prospect of a bright member of the G. O. P. younger set if he happened to reside on the Wall Street side of the Allegheny mountains. In fact, quite the contrary. Now it seems theres a rule that only westerners may look longingly toward the White House without being accused of trying to peep in the deck before the deal. Dr. Hermann von Schrenck of St. Louis, a consulting timber engineer, believes that the famous cypress tree near Oaxaca City, Mexico, is the oldest living thing in the world. The doctor, who has made two visits here to study the tree, said he thinks it is at least four thousand years old. The tree is 140 feet high and Its circumference 40 inches from the ground is 117 feet. Washington Post NO UPSETS The proper treatment for a bilious child THREE STEPS A cleansing dose today; a smaller quantity tomorrow; less each time , until bowels need no help at all. mother knows the reason her child stops playing, eats little, is hard to manage. Constipation. But what a pity so few know the sensible way to set things right! The ordinary laxatives, of even ordinary strength, must be carefully regulated as to dosage. A liquid laxative is the answer, mothers. The answer to all your worries over constipation. A liquid can be measured. The dose can be exactly suited to any age or need. Just reduce the dose each time, until the bowels are moving of their own accord and need no help. This treatment will succeed with any child and with any adult. The doctors use liquid laxatives. Hospitals use the liquid form. If it is best for their use, it is best for home use. The liquid laxative most families use is Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin. Any druggist has it. ANY Yet We Go to War Friendship is the only thing In the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed. Cicero. Valuable Advice ran Into my old and wise I TODAY Bassett Blakely. He stuck to the cow business whereas Will Rogers was weaned from It Otherwise, these southwesterly ranges might have philosopher-produced one more corn-fehumorist with a national reputation. During the depression, Bassett tried to borrow a sizable sum from a gentleman with a reputation for frugality. It was a forlorn hope. No, stated Bassett, emerging from the interview, he didnt let me have any money, but on parting he gave me free of charge some beautiful advice. Bassett, my son, he said, never feed your stock dry fodder in windy weather. I did that in March of 1884 and one shuck blew away on me. d well-earne- d Still Coughing? No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. 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I want to take my seat in the senate and get right to work Ill need a lot of luck." SENATOR VANDENBERG of Only for Westerner I you, is the use of WHAT, a ask consistent old line Republican back East, with fine banking connections, when all youre permitted to do, as the other fellows start drawing their hands for this years big game, is to fuss with the discards? Why, lots of us can remember when Cypress Tree in Mexico Held Oldest Living Tiling Machine Endures Long la. i mean no Lake Charles, for any mans memory, but for most anyone of us who ever tasted success the verse that was written about little dog Rover might serve While he lived, he as an epitaph: lived In clover, but when he died, he died all over. I would have said that Huey Longs machine, being essentially a machine, would start falling to pieces before ever they buried him. But It yet endures and is powerful and, right or wrong, It functions. People here still believe In his policies, still perpetuate his organization, still endorse his designs. Most dictators sip the bitter cup of defeat while they live. Here Is one who from the tomb looms almost as tall as he did when he walked in the flesh. Admire such a mans record or despise it, nevertheless you have to take off your hat to a personality that can project Itself back across the grave. one-ma- n Dont be discouraged t Make op your mind to try and have the clear, fresh skin yon admire in others ! Thousands have found the secret in Cuticura treatments. So simple, too i The Soap Boothes and cleanses the Ointment relieves and helps to heal. Youll marvel at the difference Cuticura makes. Buy Cuticura at your druggists. Soap 25c. Ointment 25c. FREE sample of each on request. Write "Cuticura, Dept. 9, Malden, Mass. WOMANS AILMENTS Louise River Colo., said: ly rundown irritated and Mrs. 716 easily. 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There are show places aplenty along this Louisiana coast, but they weren't built for show places they were built for homes. r, IRVIN S. COBB. 6 WNU Servicsu suffer burning, scanty or "0tooyoufrequent urination; backache, headache, dizziness, loss of energy, leg pains, swellings and puffiness under the eyes? Are you tired, nervous feel all unstrung and don't know what is wrong? Then give some thought to your kidneys, be sure they function properly for functional kidney disorder permits excess waste to stay in the blood, and to poison and upset the whole system. Use Doan's Pills. Doan's are for the kidneys only. They are recommended the world over. You can get the gend Doans at any drug uine, store. time-teste- |