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Show THE BULLETIN CHEER UP, GEN. HAGOOD Clovis, N. M. Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood will be pleaeed to learn that van if the United Statee army men are not housed decently, the horses of the New Mexico National Guard here will be at tha federal government' ex panes. At Clovis, the WPA will spend $12,106 to destroy the old etablee and put up new once. May Soon Tax Incomes of $750 ADVENTURERS' Plans Have Reached Ultimate; Big Soak-the-Ric- h CLUB Deficits Continue. United States Trails in Employment Gains Washington. I suggested in these columns a year or more ago that the of 1930 cniiijwlgn , Break in would brlug forth ot the most Party Linee amazing oddities In political alignments that tills country had ever known. It was apparent, even during the battle for ballots In In the that a gigantic shake-u- p voting alignment of citizens was In the making. These things are now lielng demonstrated and more proof of the changing times seeing Just.uroiind the corner. We all have seen how such outstanding figures as former Cor. Alfred E. Smith of New York, the 1 leinoeratlc Presidential nominee In 192S. have boldly flouted President llonrau-l- t and Ills New Deul theories ami we have witnessed such vitriolic outbursts as those by former Senutor James A. I teed, that e Missouri Democrat, mid we hsve watched with Inlerext the hauling and filling by Jeffersonian Democrats wlio find New Deal fantasies to tie a bitter pill to swallow. Lately, there has come another mnt Interesting situation respecting purtisan alignment Although the netlnn received much less attention than I believe It deserves, the determination of the Virginia Republicans In their recent convention at Itonnoke to refrain from placing a Republican candidate In the. field against Senator Carter Glass constituted, to my mind, one of the most extraordinary twists ever to take place under our two party system. That convention, acting utterly without precedent, took the position that It waa better to leave the field dear for the election of the veteran senator than to precipitate a political battle by naming a Republican candidate. Tbe reason for the action of the Virginia Republicans la quite clear In one way. They felt that Carter Glass, alDemocrat who hag though a life-loncarried on hla share of bombardment of Republican principles and policies, could do the country more good from their standpoint than could be attained by placing a Republican condblate against him without chance of success To state this premise In another way: Carter Glass does not swallow the New Deal as a whole and when he finds objectionable features In the Roosevelt program, he la Independent enough and has tbe strength of character to voice hla feelings. Doing this as a member of the majority party In the senate necessarily has more weight than all of the criticism of the New. Deal that could be voiced by a Republican If one could be elected In Virginia and the' Virginia convention chose a course which It believed would best serve the nation as a whole. Bnt it Is the circumstance of a party convention refusing to engage In battle thut Interests me most. Under such circumstances, the old Idea of party loyalty becomes not only Illogical but ridiculous. Instead of a call to battle, we see what amounts to a cull for support of a theoretical opponent. Of course, In the opinion of many, Carter Glass Is the outstanding exponent of conservative thought in the Democratic party and If he speaks for conservative thought In the Democratic party. he Is almost speaking for conservative thought in tlie Republican party. It Is easy to see, therefore, why the Virginia Republicans adopted the course they did but where does that leave party loyalty? What does It mean as to the future alignment of political thought? old-lin- g The course followed by the Virginia Republicans Is nut more strange than the action of Presl-O- n the dent Roosevelt hlm- who has Indorsed Other Hand Senator Hiram Johnson of Cullfornla and Senator George Norris of Nebraska, with almost boyish enthusiasm. Senator Johnson and Senator Norris have not been regarded as regular Republicans but they have been flying the Republican banner for a good many years. Vet, the President verbally pals them on the back and offera his blessing. During the same period, we have watched Mr. Roosevelt playing touch-and-g-o with the I.a Toilettes In Wisconsin. Of course, the La Follcttcs catalogue themselves as Progressives but they never have had a great deal e In common with Democrats. Likewise, In the seuate If one Is to believe gossip frequently bandied about. Senator McNary of Oregon, the titular Republican leader, has been only halfheartedly fighting the New Deal In fact, some of Senator McNary's own colleagues claim (hat he haa really given aid and comfort to their political enemies. Iu the meantime, one can wander around the balls of congress and hear prlvute observations from men who were supposed to be stnlwnrt partisans that they have been unable to determine yet what their course ought to be. One of them remarked confidentially to me that he believed he would have to consult a clairvoyant before he could say whether he was going to support the New Deal or oppose It or try to straddle the fence. Of course, his remark waa In a humorous vein but It old-lin- epitomized the thought nml, 1 limy ray. the worry of a very great ni:iny pnrtl-suii- s at this time. So, we have a picture six mouths abend of tbe actual casting of the ballots In which party Hues are torn asunder for countless hundreds of more or less luiNirruut party figures. I think everyone agrees that the condition rnmes from the development of New Deul principles and sdicies under llie leadership of President Roosevelt. There will lie tunny who ure now douhlful as to their coarse who will realign themselves with the New Deal because they were originally Deino-crut- s anil there will lie many who will ngiiin follow the Repaid lean banner down the slrefeh. But It seems to me lint three years of Roosevelt probably have established s greater segment of Independent voting strength In this country than Intd resulted from a quarter of n century of partisan politics before. Tlie situation must be construed those then os Ridiculing that hen-afte- r who stick dejlnltely In purty hnrnoss will continue to stand bitched hecuiise they hare political aspirations nml ambitions or because economic conditions In their communities are better fostered by the party with which they have nllgncd themselves. Beyond that, It seems to me, citizens, In most cuscs, will vote In Increasing numbers fur the man Instead of the party. 1 At lust, after almost two years of Roose-ve- lt promotion . work, President - has abnn-'Quod- Dream j,inpj two of his cherished dreams: Dropped the harnessing tides of Pnssnmnquoddy bay In Maine and construction of a gigantic canal across Florida. The 'Quodily project designed to produce electric power la quantities. never before turned out, was to cost $40,000,000. The great Job of excavating a slit across the face of the state of Florida to let ships go direct from the Atlantic to the Gulf without going around the toe of the state was to cost $150,000,000.- Only a small amount, that Is, a small sum compared to other New Deal expenditures, had been wasted on the ship canal plans before It was tossed into the Umbo of forgotten things, but something like $10,000,000 already baa been used In the attempt to make the moon work through the medium of tbe tides of 'Quoddy bay. Roth projects can be charged up to politics and 'experiments and probably tbe country will be better off to take tbe loss nml avoid the use of further money. The resident fully Intended to go through with his plans reflecting these two projects until he ran Into vicious opposition In congress. Too and senators mnny representatives realized that they were going to hare the names Quoddy bay and Florida canal hurled at them through the coming campaign If they voted their approval by iuclmling additional funds for these projects In the relief appropriations. I dont know what Is going to become of the homes, the model city, erected for workers near the 'Quoddy bay project. I'hotographs of this village Indicate It to he a community of which any resident might be proud. It was constructed to assure the workers .bn the Quoddy project a comfortable place In which to live. They still have the comfortable place In which to live because the government still owns the homes but what is to become of those people and whnt disposition Is to be made of the property Is something else again. Thus, development of electric power from tli tides of 'Quoddy bny has been an engineering question that has raged for years as a controversy. It has recurred frequently as a political matter but never until the New Deal came In were any tangible steps taken to Install electrical equipment In that bay where the tides run higher than anywhere else in the world. ' Most engineers have contended thnt It wns impossible to place In the bay equipment thnt Faced could filnctlon sutis- Difficultiee f!Ult"ri,Y while nt the same time producing electric current at u rate thut would bring a return on the tremendous Investment necessary. Further than that, no one yet has been able to show where so much electric energy could he marketed. The territory Is sparsely settled and the industrial production Is smnll. While It wns contended that limitless power would bring Industries Into that section, the Indications were, even after actual work started, for only a small increment In the number of factories and other users of energy. The Quoddy power idea probably was the most fascinating and most romantic of anything proposed by the New Deal for the purpose of creating Jobs. Like the proposed Florida ship canal, It held potentialities but those whose opinions heretofore have been sound remain unconvinced that either the power plan or the canal for s short cut across Florida ever could repay the government for money spent there. Wwtvra Niiiviw VbIss. WASHINGTON', D. C.-- Tlie day is not far distant, observers Geneva, Switzerland. Figures re- here believe, when the federal leased by the liiierimthmal l.nlxir office show that tlie l'i;1leil Stales lags government will have to begin far other major lowers In re- paying for its spending sprees of turning Its Jobless to work, despite the last three years by cutting the the fact thut the Roosevelt adminisincome tax exemption tration has sjient 10 billion dollars for personal from $1,000 to $7$0. work relief, relief uml the priming pump for recovery. The resirt revealed that In the last three years Japans unemployment has decreased IS per rent ; Grant Britain's 24 per cent ; Belgium's 27 jier rent ; Sweden's Iff! per cent, uml Canada's 42 jar cent. Fnemplnym'tit In llie United Stutes lias decreased only 10 per rent, but through tactics which have hardened the taxpayers with the largest mllonul debt of nil time, nearly 31 billion dollars. In these other countries no public works projects comparable to tbe WIA, the IWA and other Roosevelt administrations Imre been attempted, rule lie eonstrnetlon projects have been extensive, hut In all rases they have been within the nationul budgets of the nations. Bed-Maki- ng Complex, Says WPA Supervisor Chicago. J. Ilerpont Morgan recently defined the middle class home as that which can afford to keep one servant. Now (XX) girls In Illinois are being trained by the federal government, st a cost of $I0.(XX), to lierome servants. The first of the classes, containing 19 girls, Is conducted by what Is called the Household Occupations Training center here. Among the alms of the Institution la teaching girls to make a lied correctly, said Miss M. Elizabeth Barker, In chnrge. This Is really an Intricate, complex process." Other arts in the course are: How to dean a goldfish low1, how to run a dust mop over a floor, how to dean a bath tub and how to bend forward gracefully when serving soup. 99 The Servant Problem By FLOYD GIBBON8 Famoua Headlina Hunter. After two weeks or so of wrestling the President's plan to raise with a year hy taxing the unsurpluses earned hy corporations in the future, It has been developed In the ways and means committee thut the tax will raise s considerably lesser sum. Spending Must Eventually Stop. Some time, It Is admitted by even the most ardent 8ieiider, the spending of $2 for every $1 the government takes In must come to an end But thnt end is so far nowhere In sight. Treasury statements of March 18 revealed that since the start of the current fiscal year July 1, 1935, government standing Increased by over the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year. The deficit on March 23 was 2 billion 201 million 903 thousand dollars. President Roosevelt In his first annual budget message said that the nation should plan for a balanced budget In the fiscal year which Is now entering fys third quarter. Yet a deficit which some estimate! have placed as high as 4 billion dollars looms for the 1937 fiscal year. In Capitol. Boondoggling With such a situation already In sight, the dilemma of congress scratching about for a means of raising when actually about five times that much Is needed to balance the budget, the observer In the shadow of Capitol Hill ean hardly be blamed Is for assuming that boondoggling becoming as rife under the great dome as In tbe hinterlands. Between 3.000,000 and 4,000,000 persons turned In Income tax reports this March. The remainder of gainful workers, numbering shout 40,000,-00have so far been able to assume that the tax burden was not weighting them down, directly, st least schemes have gone But about as far as they will go, and within the next few years the government will have to choose between three alternatives: Choking Industry and thus forcing more unemployment, with Its subsequent relief expenditures; taxing the poor as well as tlie rich, or making wholesale cuts In expenses. The taxing of Incomes above $750 will probably be the first step. $t 2(i, (UNLINK) divided $17U,-373,3- $020,-000,0- up and meet Frances Walton Mrs. F. R. Walton of New, city. Frances has come to tell us an adventure yarn the of how she ran into the servant problem. Only dont make any. story mistake about that problem of hers. It wasn't how to keep a servant. It was a totally different sort of problem that had more to do with her own safety than it had with getting her housework done for her. It happened in the fall housecleaning time. Frances was living in a lioiixe at 25 Hast Eleventh street, and tlie windows needed washing. It was the year 1919, and help was hard to get She didn't know anybody she wanted to give the Job to, so she asked a bellhop In a nearby hotel if he had any friends who wanted to earn a few dollars. STEP The bellhop said he knew Just the man for the job. He' promised to send him around early the next morning. And sure enough, along about half past eight, a man came to the door and said he was the window washer Frances had asked for. Frances put him to work on the windows, and that bird sure was a bustler, lie did so well that day, that Frances told him to come back the next, to do some other Jobs that needed doing. Hut the next day, Hint bird didnt show up till about half past eleven. And when he did coine, he brought Old Lady AdJ venture with him. Window Washer Turns Out to Be a Thug. The first thing Frances knew of bis arrival was when he came to her room on the second floor. The maid had let him In. lie told Frances that the water was running In one of the laundry tubs In the cellar and he couldn't shut It off. It was a common enough complaint, and Frances didn't suspect anything. She started down toward the cellar with him, but the minute they reached the foot of the baeement stairs, the man grabbed both her arms. "Keep quiet, he said, and you wont be hurt A chill allot along Frances' aplne. From the back of the cellar another man d man. with a clothesline In his hands. Another man appeared a small, came from somewhere behind her and put his hands over her eyes so she couldnt see him. The three men tied her hands behind her back and led her down the steps to the cellar. There they tied her feet rat-fuce- Frances Is Bound While Robber Gang Ransacks House. When they had tied her feet, they started to gag her. One of them wanted to stick a wad of rolled-unewspaper in her mouth, but Frances begged him not to. She was short of breath, and that wad might have killed her. The man p 0, Sell Potato Stamps to Humor Collectors tax-the-rl- Washington, D. CL The potato control set Is dead, but the memory of one of the most ridiculed of all the New Deal's fanciful excursions Into the realm of farm economics will live on In stamp albums. When congress succumbed to the overwhelming thrusts of public opinion and repealed tlie act some weeks ago, the sale of the potato stamps was discontinued. But so great was the clamor of stamp collectors for specimens of this curious Item of Americana, the sale has been resumed. Stamp collectors may obtain tbe stamps tax laid from the bureau of Internal revenue In Washington. .Orders are limited to one sheet of 50 stamps of each denomination per person. Balks at S9c Dollar ' Washington, D, CL While Americans call 59 cents In gold a dollar under Roosevelt, Iunnma doesn't The United States Is bound by treaty to pay Panama $250,000 annually as rent for the canaL The Isthmian republic refused to accept the Roosevelt dollar, claiming it would lose on the deal, so now we must pay her In her own money balboas. A WPA Gty Building (1) Bayard, N. M. This tiny village Is going to have a fancy new place for its public meetings. Its population Is only 100. Rut the WPA plans to construct for Bo; nrd a city building at a cost of $.L8S9. THE CRACKER BARREL A tip to the Black Committee why not search tha malla? You cant enjoin Uncle Sam. TrmrgSrTr Polish hams Argentine grain Canada dairy products Brazil cotton, evidently in are going to share the life more bountiful." Smith, Talmadge, Ely, Bruce, Colby, Breckinridge the Sidewalks of New York has started the Big Parade. TS Senator Joe (Mike) Robinsons attempt to popularise boondoggling" might succeed if it were not for the horrible examples in our own backyards. In Chicago, families on relief rolls were outfitted with aluminum kitchen utensils and modern furniturs. ExWe must keep up their planation: morale. SNOW, SNOW, BEA - U-TIFUL SNOW? The Ruffiani Overpowered and Tied Her Up. went out and got a pillow slip, tore It Into strips, and put one of them over her mouth. Another, he tied across her eyes. Then they put her on the floor against the wall and one man the one who didn't want to be seen was left there to watch her. All this time, fear was growing in Frances heart What were those men up to? Did they intend to kill her? Frances didnt honeitly think so. Still, you never can tell what is liable to happen to you when you fall Into the hands of ruthless men such as these seemed to be. She leaned back against the wall, her heart pounding violently, and waited to see what would happen. Meanwhile, the other two men had gone upstairs and were gathering together all the valuables they could find. The maid asked one of them where Frances was, and he told her she had gone out lie also told her that Frances had left word that she was to clean up the top floor and the maid, suspecting nothing, went upstairs, leaving them free to ransack the lower floors at their leisure. Frances Keeps Her Wits; Makes Guard Uneasy. lets get back to Frances, down there In the cellar, watched But now, by the third bandit After 15 minutes or so, she found that the bandage over her mouth was loose. By shaking her head from side to side, she managed to work It off, and then she told the man who was watching her that a man who lived In the house was coming back at 12 o'clock. It was almost noon by that time, and the bandit began to get uneasy. After a few minutes, he got up and went out About five minutes passed after that Then Frances heard footsteps upstairs. The bandits were leaving the house. Frances waited until they bad gone and the door was closed behind them. Then she began calling to the maid. Thieves Are Caught, but Valuables Never Recovered. She bad to call several times before the maid heard her. Then site heard her footsteps in the kitchen, and on the cellar stairs. But that maid wasn't much help. She was so frightened that her fingers trembled and she couldnt untie the knots In the ropes. Frances told her to go outside and see If she could find a policeman. The maid came back In a few minutes and said she couldn't find a policeman. By that time, the maid was more excited than Frances. Frances sent her next door to get a man to untie the ropes, and so at last, she got out of her predicament Then she called the police. The three men were all caught and sent to prison. But none of Frances valuables and many of them were heirlooms were ever recovered. WNU Strvlc. West Ireland Has Wealth That Has Brought Fame All West Ireland Is rich In literary associations. Just off the coast, across or the Atlantic like chips on Its back. Frail as curraghs pppenr, the islanders often transport domestic animals from one island to another In them. ' North of the Islands Is Sligo, where William Butler Yeats was born. Sligo Is built on a wide bay with mnny Inlets, and across from It la Knocknarea, where the host Is riding." On Benbulbln, the chief mountain of the section, died Diarmuld, with whom Crania fled from Tara, Jilting her oth-e- r suitor, the giant Finn MacCooL Later when MacCoo)Aame asking hospitality, Grana persuaded Diarmuld to give It He and Finn went hunting together, and on Benbulbln he met his death through Finn' spells. MacCool then went off with Crania, who became hla queen. the mouth of Galway, bay, He the Aran islands, where John M. Synge went to live after he had decided to write plays of Irish peasant life. They are among the last homes of Gaelic In Ireland, and long before travelers came to see the fascinating native life on them, scholars had come there from all Europe to study that language, according to a writer In the Lea Angeles Times. Synge told of the life of the Aran fishermen in his Riders to the Sea, and many times acknowledged his debt to Irish peasants such as these. One of tbe most conspicuous features of the Islands Is the great slabs Citya Tanaats ToUl 1,354,295 The total numberof rent pnyera In New of limestone on them, which In some places tower up a thousand feet. Be- York city la reported at 1,354,293 famcause the surface of the stone Is so ilies or 78 per cent of the population. soft Of this number 55.203 families slippery, the Islanders all wenr living rawhide moccasin, held together with In Manhattan paid less than $20 of rowboats they monthly and In the Greater elty, repthongs, and in place get about In curraghs, light ennoes resenting all boroughs, a total of 83,. of wickerwork. These are covered 020 families come under this with canvas, and ride over the waves |