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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over coin mil riders lu JAPANESE military Gliins arra are evidentjhe preiurlng for further encroachments. Their iutest complaint Is thut two Japanese stores in Tientsin were looted ami a Japanese flag trampled on by soldiers of On. Kang r chairman of the political council. While Jajinriese new threateningly over relying and Tientsin, the Japanese inters filed a demand for an apology for the Incident, an Indemnity, punishment of the culprits,- complete a guarelimination of antee ngnltist Its repetition, and the appointment of Japanese advisers in the Chinese police departments. Intermountain News ly Clicli-ytin- Ilopel-Chahu- CJlv By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Wutarn Kaevpaihr Union. of the Untied SIX Justices court, Chief Including Justice Hughes, Joined In an opinion that killed the Agricultural Adjust ment act Three associate Jnatlres, Stone. Brandeis and Cardoso, dissented. The majors Ify decision, read by Associate Justice Owen J. Rolierts, held that the AAA was wholly unconstitutional been use li Invaded the rights of the states In seeking to control The farm Chief Justice whole production.of eysiein Hughea taxes Imposed to finance the progriini was swept into proc-eeain- discard. Kot only are the processing taxes Illegal but the court iiiNirenlly declared the farm benefit contracts void and put np burs against any attempt at the federal government to regulnte farm production by whatever means. who Senators end representative , immediately began planning legislation ,to continue benefit payments to farm and to balance agricultural output , e did not seem to grasp the full of this part of the decision. iThe court said fluily that regulation Jof farm production Is not within the scope of the federal government ant! of ito powers to accomplish this, nor can it purchase adherence to e control scheme by federal payments. The decision dratroyed not only the original AAA bnt also the amended act 'of the Inst session of congress. The dissenting opinion held that the 'AAA was a legitimate employment of 'the power to tax for the general welfare. It attacked the theory that the preservation of our Institutions is the exclusive concern of the Supreme court and suggested that under the majority decision the unemployment work relief ( act la unconstitutional. In bln budget message President revenue from Roosevelt Included processing taxes, so the Supreme court 'decision had the effect of throwing the e '1937 budget still further out of by something like a billion dot-laelgnl-jficanc- : bnl-'anc- m HIS speech at the $50 a. plate Jackeon day dinner In Washington. Frealdent Roosevelt declined to comment on the Supreme court decision tiling the AAA. "It Is enough to ay." e said, "that the attainment of Justice and prosperity for American agriculture remains an Immediate end constant objective of my admlnlatre-tlon.-" J Secretary Wallace called Into consultation at Washington about 100. representative of farm organisations to try to formulate some plan for speed v legislation to supplant the discredited law. Assurance that farmers who have fulfilled contract agreements would be paid was given by President Roosevelt when he advised administration leaders In congress to push through a $250,000,000 appropriation. ' Clarification of the statue of 1 paid In taxes by processors was expected when the court decides the eight rice processing tax cases argued recently. Legal experts In congress said an act of congress would If the 979.000,000 be required In processing taxes pnlil Into the treasury are to be refunded. 1,200,-000,0- AUCTIONED off to the highest national convention of 1938 was sold to Philadelphia by the party's national committee The price wee 200.000. plus some prizes and concessions. Chicago end San Francisco also bid for the convention. The former offered a certified check for 150,000. The California city made the same bid end later raised t to 202,500. During a brief recess Chairman Farley telephoned, presumably to the White nouae. and Vice President Gar-pe- r moved among the members of the committee urging the selection of Philadelphia. Therefore the City of Brotherly Love won the prlxe. The aliening of the convention was set for June 23, two weeka after the Republican convention In Clevelnnd. was lost In pnttlni the house the bonus measure that had been agreed upon by veterans' organisations and approved by the ways and means committee. It carries the name of the bill end Is a compromise that authorises Immediate payment of the bonus but offers no definite plan for raising the money It would provide S per rent Interest until 194-- for veterans refraining from cashing their adjusted service certificates at once, and cancel all Interest tin due on loans on the certificates. TIME NOthrough desired NEUTRALITY legislation does not by meet With the npprovul of Senator Janie Hamilton Lewis of Illinois who, though a loynl Democrat, la sometimes opposed to measures fostered liy the President. He says the Inw under consideration In senate and house coniniii-tee- s would close the markets of the Middle West to world commerce, and '"-m- ;i hns asked the Illinois Manufacturers' rainy season that will association and the Chicago AssociaTllOUiill thecampaign is fast aption of Commerce to support his oppoproaching, Mussolini continued to send sition to It fresh troo by the thousunds to EthiAs a substitute for the general neuopia. It was estimated that Italy's law proposed by the President, East African forces trality already numbered Senator Lewis advocates enactments more than 250.000, and there were rechief executive the granting authority ports thut 100,000 mure would be sent to Issue regulations placing embargoes In the near future. npon shipments of commodities which The Ethiopian government, aecuslng would threaten American neutrality, hut stipulating thut these regulations Italy of continued employment of poishould be submitted to the senate for son gas In a policy of merciless extermination" of the Ethiopian people, acceptance or amendments. urged the League of Nations to a commission of Inquiry to the the olnrinus Intention of WITH np public sentiment In scene of strife. League officials announced that the request would be favor of the npeclnl brand of neutral-- ' handled by the league council, which Ry legislation he desires. Senator Nye meets January 20. had before Ids senate munitions committee for several days J. P. SECRETARY of Labor Frances In the developments of Morgan, Thomas )W Ijraumt and other the last year much of benefit for the In her annnal members of the great American workingman. report she cited these Morgan hanking company. Nye and Ste- -' five great advancements for labor: phen Rnusehciibusrh, 1. Unemployment Investigator for the accom compensation, committee, sought to prove that the United pllshed through the States was drawn Into social security act 2. Old-ag- e security, the World war by the loans mode to the allies hy Morbrought about also by gan A Co. and Its associates. The tea- -' the social security act 8. Establishment of tlmony concerning these loans and boards for settling Intheir Implications was long' and comdustrial disputes loplicated. The financiers were well precally. for the were and armed Inquiry pared 4. Greater with a groat, quantity of documents, between the states and the Labor and though there was a good deal of acrlmonloua talk, Mr. Morgan ap- department, through regional conferences. peared entirely unperturbed. 6. Development of the United States service. employment to the naval Even the large number of strikes WHEN the delegates in London resumed 1935 could be viewed with some their deliberations Admiral Osnml Na- during' satisfaction for she said they gano, chief representative of Japnii, were "due In by her,to the .natural expecpart firmly repented his demand tliatGrrar td share In the early Britain and the United States concede tation of labor, fruits of business Improvement." the parity claims of Japnn as' prelimto This attitude agreement any inary topped all discussion of the British, IN HIS message to congress submitting bis approved budget for the French and Italian proposal for ex1937 fiscal year, beginning July 1 next, change of Information about naval doubuilding pinna and threatened the con- President Roosevelt followed the ference with early collapse. The crisis ble system of accounting his adminwas so serious that Foreign Secretary istration hoe always employed otiajspt of bonkVfdr regular exi&nriiturfejrand Anthony Eden himself took a part In Income and another set for emergency the affair, calling the Japanese to hla ' pending and approprlatlfihs. He asoffice In an attempt to Induce them from serted that ell sources in receipts to adopt a more conciliatory attitude. the next Decal year will aggregate an Japanese apokesmen declared they estimated 5.054.000.000. Exiendlnires were Interested first and last In the total tonnage question under which for all regular government departments are estimated at 5,010.000,000. So they demand equality and were not the will be In balance, at all Interested In other aspects of with"regular" budget surplus or 5,000,000. naval limitations. But the message went on to say, after explaining that the regular govSURROUNDED by klleg lights, ml ernment books will show fiscal affairs movie cameras In the black, as to Income and outgo, President Roosevelt stood before the will show red to the extent of enate and house In night Joint session they in worka teller spending, less and delivered what the 5.000,000 "surplus." this leaving was nominally hla an the new appropriation for further nual message on the works-relie- f open for at least two state of the nation month not was It Actually That figure of 1,103.000.000 reprethat at all, but a sents the President's estimate or unexstatement eoncernlnx pended balances on July 1 from the the warfare and In $4,830, uoDjmh, and prerlous emergency I u t r d ternatlonal appropriations, it does not take Into bnnres on the uthei account probable new appropriations followcii continents, for similar purposes yet to be deterby what the pres mined. generally considered n eloquent and milHAROLD L. TCKES, In his capacity itant political speech of the PWA, addressed to the people or the United went to to take part In the States, who by the millions were listen ceremony Brooklyn of breaking ground for the Ing In on their radios. Partisan opin SI2.783.iiOO WilliamsIon of his message Is perhaps worth burg slum clearance less. Of course his supporters praised project, end took the It highly, and his opponents were opportunity to speak equally emphatic In derogation. very harshly about Democrats and Republicans alike those who oppose the commended the Presidents opening New Deal, dubbing paragraphs In which he boldly conthem the counid clipdemned the aggression of Italy end ping gentry." ."the Japan, though without naming those l.ord Plushbottnma of nations; end there was little dissent the club windows," from hie assertion that the United end "reactionists" who States must maintain Its neutrality "shout that enlightwhile seeking to "discourage the use by ened progress Is unnations of belligerent any and all constitutional." American products calculated to facil"The slum la hut une vicious product itate the prosecution of a wsr In quan- of that old order whose passing, we tities over and above our normal hope, Is at hand. Mr. Ickea said. "I to them In time of peace." refer to the old order of special privThe remainder of the messuge, de ilege, the creator and upholder of a voted to domestic affairs, was devoted social system containing vicious conchiefly to a belligerently worded detrasts of opulence and squalor that fense of the New I real measures of the have shamed the democracy of our own administration, an attack on those who times. Its day In America la facing oppose them end a spirited passage the westerning sun. but the harsh In which Mr. Roosevelt defied anil cracklings of Its senile prophets are dared his critics to more for the retill heard In opimaltlnn to every propeal of those measures Instead of gressive proposal ; predicting disaster "hiding their dissent In a cowardly for every humanitarian attempt to cloak of generality." In only two ameliorate the lot of the least fortuparagraphs did the President dwell ou nate of our people. "the state of the nation." In these "There are those who take an alhe said thut after nearly three years most sadistic delight In dashing the of the New Deul nut hum I Income Is hope or our underprivileged dtlxens Increasing, agriculture end Industry by ill advisedly proclaiming that the are "returning to full activity," and public housing program of PWA Is a "we approach a balance or the national failure. The facta prove the contrary. budget." Somewhere a housing program had to One pnssage In the message was Inbe started. threat to close terpreted by some We have 47 artlve projects on our the lower courts to suits st'arklng the demonstration program, all under conlaws. The struction. Eleven thousand lonstltutlonnllty of fcdi-ru- l iiersona President told congress that Its ennet-nirnt- s are already enjoying the splendid modrequire "protection umil tlnni ern neconiiniiilntlons of limited dividjiulicatlon by the highest irlhiinnl." dend housing projects financed by and added that congress has the right PWA, and the first redcrnl and can find the means to protect Its ments will be occupied early developla the own prerogatives." spring." h The ' acuity Flag Pledge MONICA. CALIF. I SANTA heard of a law compelin times ling a private individual defend to oath an of peace to take instituour and our flag respect tions. Neither do I know of laws compelling us to give publicto jobs take to men and women who refuse such an oath or requiring us to leave them In their Jobs should they violate that oath. From the President of this country on down, the run or officeholders must wear to uphold the Constitution and support the government. Should any one of them wilfully fall to do so, the offender Is liable to removal amid loud cheers! Irvin 8. Cobb house. UT--Su- 4 (J project. IDA A check for the second largest on record for payment of an additional obligation to the state under the inheritance tax law, was received here in settlement of the tax on the late Helen Dwyer Day of Wallace. NAMPA, IDA A reduction of $17,000 was made last year by ' the Nampa highway district, in BOISE, $20,302, its bonded indebtedness. SPRINGVILLE, UT produces the young Republicans meet, being greeted by a typical bounding Juvenile, who's the last surviving drummer boy' of Shiloh. Then the young Democrats come rallying ns fast as wheelchairs will bring them, with their breakfast shawls and their . The "young" leader of any party Is usupaally somebody who hopes to set triotic example to his grandchildren and at the same time get the old Job back. The Republicans hold a Grass-Roo8o tills month at Atlanta therell be whet you might call a graswwldnw convention for the revolting southern Democrats absolutely too revolting for words, to hear Jim Farley talk. You see, they've been divorced, but the decree la not yet ts convention. final.. Southern Democrats ire great hands for seceding and remaining so every Just one day. day In the On' election, they become reconciled long enough to vote the straight Democratic ticket Twfenty minutes, later, theyre off. the reservation again. 1 hear a number of bankers will attend. This would seem to Indicate a changing trend. For quite a while after 1929, very few bankers went to Atlanta voluntarily. t . e Going Nats ia Hollywood touring (is Angeles, you IF, WHILE a bushy-headeelderly gentleman aimlessly wandering bout, don't Jump too soon at the conclusion that he's a typical specimen of our famous coterie of hermit You see, they laid out Los Angelea and environs on the ground-plnof a drunken angleworm, and the system of numbering houses la further designed to encourage raving Insanity. So what you behold may merely be an of the Middle West, who came out here years ago to retire and' bought him a coxy bungalow and Incautiously went for a stroll and has been trying ever since to find hla way back home wild-eye- n again. Not all the nuts were nutty when they first arrived. Many or them got that way trying to trace street After a year and a half here, Im beginning to bare trouble with knee-reflexe- about going craxy In Hollywood. Unlesa you leave town, nobody would ever no- It Geo. Liggett Patting CO HUNTER LIGGETT is dead at seventy-eigh- t the only contemporary lieutenant general of the United States army. For d year he wore with gallantry and with honor the uniform of his country. He fought Indians; fought bordcr-bandltfought Spaniards In Cuba; fought Germans In France; and, at the end, fought , off death for many dragging month I saw him oversea commanding our splendid First corps, which he made more splendid still. lie was aa plain aa an old shoe, and aa easy to get along with. Ilia officers respected him. hla soldier loved him. They went where he sent em, and If they failed In their objective, they didn't come back. They went Instead to report at the sills of the Judgment seat the reason why 50-od- s; they failed. Behind hla back, the Ruck privates called him "Uncle Llgg" that ought to give you the Idea. They'll like him over there Israel Putnam, and Stonewall Jackson, and Forrest, and Grant, and all the rest of our real pne - con- -. purbuild- Political Plagiarism s the myself. But there's one consolation The tract has been let for the POLITICS certainly tice yi-a- g, Then why not Include teachers and college professors, those whose high task It Is to mould youth Into stuff fit for cltlsenshlp and civic responsibility? . Why should they be suffered to ped-die sedition and yet go on drawing salaries from the public fund these people who claim they have conscientious scruples when what most of us think they really suffer from Is Communistic biliousness? And for the students, ns I understand It, the right of free speech end the gift of free education do not mean license to spout treason on a campus or scorn America In a classroom. A red flag fits an auction sale, but I dont believe Id ever get used to seeing it afloat over a district, school--. year.-excep- 0at Man still ranks as Forest yw No. 1." More tlmn hull the fijrj nations! forests this year, rep Forest Service, were caused The number of these firri compared to 5,282 last annual average of 4,0!ii its 1981-3SALT LAKE CITY, period. foreclosing mortgages on 234 These fires were started by bn of various parts farms located in on land Bn by burner by residents the state, are being prepared at acquired by the forest sertwi office the attorney general's state land many of whom atm believe the request of the mort- annual burning-over- " the holds la which board, gage and will be ready for fil- woods and by camper hunter n! Mortgage and tourists who reaHonlst ing within 90 day on the 234 projects will average made greater use of national about $10,000 each, making a facilities this year than ever bsh total investment by the state land board of more than $2,250,000. "Forgotten Brother" SPANISH FORK, UT. Salem "For my brother whose naraoi City, situated three miles south of Spanish Fork,, is one of the cannot remember and "whose wh very few cities in Utah which abouta I have not been aware of ( manages to run their municipal many year Lady Chater, who file government without a city tax 1 Hong-KonChin hns left levy and still have a substantial of her valued t era sixth estate, exbalance in the treasury. The 1 trust penses have been met by water $1,000,000, and electric light collection. The entire electric system was improved during last year. BOISE, IDA. O. K. Hine, director of the division of finance and reports in the W P A for Idaho, announces that 10,885 persons are employed on about 400 projects throughout the state. Of this, Mr. Hine said, only 149 are non-reli- ef workers. MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA 25 men have been employed establishing a camp for building four irrigation tunnels as a W P A Briefly told for Busy Readers TAX FREE UTAH CITY LARGE ESTATE TAXED ART BUILDING LOOMS THOUSANDS AT WORK about: d Democrats !$npreme Court Finds AAA Unconstitutional Pick Philadelphia for Convention Bonus Measure Is Pushed Through House. Ian Still Is Rated As Forest Enemy chase and removal of the ings on the site selected for the new art building, sponsored con-b- y the city and the school ard at a cost of $79,808, of which $54,000 will be furnished by the Federal government. Every effort is being made for the completion of the building for the annual April Art Show. LAKE CITY, UT persons were killed in automobile accidents on Salt Lake highways outside the city limit according to the 1935 summary prepared by the sheriffs office. Excessive speed was a contributing factor in most of the accidents and the accidents Investigated increased by 39 as compared to the previous year. BOISE, IDA. Storage in the Snake river reservoirs now is nearly 80 per cent greater than it was a year ago. SALT LAKE CITY. UT Special taxes totalling ' $3,890,327.08 have been collected by the state tax commission during the first si months ending December .1, of the fiscal year. This compares with a total of $3,416,907.78 for a similar period of the preceding year. Road funds reached a total of $1,874,454.12 of which $1,539,-599.accrued from the gasnlin tax. Sales tax netted the state SALT Twenty-si- x - 99 $1,393,193.32. .SALT LAKE CITY. UT Final in a $350,000 were mailed to Utah payment turkey-me- n for the g Christmas turkey pool marketed last month, it is announced by the Utah Poultry Association. checks record-breakin- BOISE, IDA Warden L Tay- lor reports more women inmates in the state prison now than at any time during the last 10 years. The penitentiary population rose to 300 recently, with the admission of six more convict This is the largest number since 1932, when 331 prisoners were on the roll IDAHO FALLS, IDA The Idaho Falls W P A Airport project fund of 348,406 has been approved. The W P A will furnish $43,406 of the total cost, with the sponsors contributions making up the remainder. Just how soon actual work on the project will begin is not known, but all for the job are complete. plane SALT LAKE CITY, UT in Salt Lake City W P A program is certain because of insufficient funds in the 1938 budget to cany out most of the projects already It Is pointed out thatappproved. the 1936 city budget provides only $25,000 to meet the sponsors share of the W PA program, while "about $95,000 would be necessary to carry out the projects for which the federal government already has allocated fund LEHI, UT The Utah Lake has risen several inches in the last few week because of additional moisture from storm It always works Just do what hospitals do, and flu doctors insist on. Use a good liqail laxative, and aid Nature to niton clocklike regularity without strain ci ill effect A liquid ean always be taken is adoally reduced doses. Reduul sage is tht real semi oj relief Jit constipation. Ask s doctor about this. Ask vow drupgist how very popular Dr. due to constipation without upset Set Example To convert a man to your view a of tlie tin dont try to nlne-tenth- Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Vo matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, che or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now. with CreomulskxL Berlous trouble may be brewing and chaws you cannot afford to taka Creonnd-mwith anything ?e which goes right to the seat to pf frm trouble to old nature soothe and heal the inflamed membranes as the germ-ladphlegm m en end expelled. Even if other remedies Levs failed, don't be discouraged, your druggist is authorised to guarantee Creomulslon and to refund your money If you re not satisfied with results from the very first bottl Pet Creomulslon right now. CAdrJ is loosened Don't be Tormented -- POCATELLO, IDA A con- ? BOISE, IDA During 1935 the Idaho state fish and game department distributed 27,929,007 fish that were reared in the 12 state fish hot"ho"i'x -d rearing pond according to the state fish comnisricne . The operating cost of the department was reduced from $77,014 in 1930. only 9,7084)47 fish were y.h distributed, to $49,502 for 1935. fin-gerli- ng p- A of 29,762,072 fish were In Idaho streams and lakesplanted last year including the 1.833.0G3 planted by the federal government I IV rtl I QM ti unbelievable hfloais Ho lResinol BEFORE BABY COMES Elimination of Body Waste Is Re-aucti- on certed membership drive to in financing the construction aid of pheasant holding pens and the the American Falls fish hatcheries, has been begun by the Bannock county sportmens association. Cald- well's Syrup Pepsin has become. It gives the right kind of help, and right amount of nelp. Taking a little lea each time, gives the bowels a chants to act of their own accord, until they an moving regularly and thoroughly without any help at alL . Dr. Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin contains senna and cascara both naiad laxatives that form no habit. The a tion is gentle, but sure. It will relievo any sluggishness or bilious condition Doubly Important In the eraul mouths before baby arrive k is vitally important that the body be sie of watfe matter. Your intestines mail foot completely without griping. tioo-regnlx-rly, Why Physicians Recommend Milnesia Wafers Thera mint flavored, candy-lik- e waters M pure milk of magnesia in solid form much pleasanter to take than liquid. Each -- dose of liquid milk of magnesia. Chewed thoroughly, the awallowed, they correct acidity ie the mouth end throughout tbs digestive srstem, end insure regular, parts tlimtnaliou without psia or effort. 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