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Show TIIE BULLETIN Tree Appreciation Will Be Difficult Easy Pickin Pretty Wall Hanging of Colorful Peacocks By ADELIA MOODY Cl Motluro NVwKpapcr tfyvdical. WSU iNrvic. National Topics Interpreted National Press Building Washington, Washington. A week or ten days the name of Frank 0. Lowden was scarcely wlils-DrapereJ around where politicians foregathLowden ered. They talked about the forthcoming Republican National convention and they mentioned Governor Landon of Kansas; Col. Frank Knox of Illinois. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and others, bnt never was the name of Lowden mentioned. In the short space of a fortnight, there has come first a whisper of the name of Lowden, then a mention of him as a possible Republican nominee and finally a full voice that approximates a "draft Lowden" movement A few weeks ago I reported to you In these columns that the prospects were very good for the Republican National convention to turn to a dark horse. There was no name at that time upon which anyone could pin a prediction but there were circumIn character, stances, undercurrent that seemed to point the way to the nomination of a man not then In the forefront of political prognostications. Of course, with the Republican convention delegates pledged and unpledged here, there, and everywhere, It Is possible for almost anything to happen but my Information Is that the leaders desire most of all to avoid a bitter battle. They wish to avoid the very thing which New Deal political strategists have been seeking to foment. Only the final ballot will tell the story, of course, but It does appear at this time that the Republican leadership may display some good horse sense and seek to accomplish a nomination without splitting their party wide open. This "draft Lowden" movement has come on with almost startling suddenness as I have Indicated above. It has resulted from the fact, apparently, that Mr. Lowden, while he was governor of Illinois a number of years ago and since that time, has built np for himself a record as a friend of agricul tore. Thus, the strategy would seem to be that the Republican leadership Is turning to a man who can give President Roosevelt a run for his money In the farm belt states. As far as I know, Mr. Lowden has not been consulted respecting the nomination. It would seem, however, that If he were nominated he would accept despite the fact that he has not sought the nomination in any way nor has he been very active in politics since he sought the nomination for the Presidency In 1020. It wns on that occasion, It will be remembered, that he and the late General Leonard Wood fought through Into a convention dead lock and Warren G. Ilardlng of Ohio finally was nominated as a compromise candidate. It Is difficult to see how the conservative element In the Republican party could refuse to back Mr. Lowden and It Is equally difficult to see how the farm representation and the liberals In the party could withhold their support when the Lowden farm record is considered. But all of this represents subject matter that must await convention action because, after all, there are still other candidates who have blocks of delegates behind them and they may be unwilling to withdraw unless they are satisfied with the dark horse that finally trots out onto the convention platform. ago, ft One hears more and more discussion In Washington these days of the tax muddle In which Tax President Roosevelt Muddle has found himself. I think It k. r Is D. C. turvy, casting out the administration's experimental levy on corporate surpluses, shows better than anything I can say how the voice of public opinion again Is being heard In Washington. The voice of the people," so often referred to by the politicians, was heard quite dear and strong by the senators and the result was a complete reversal of the position which the President desired them to take. . fair to say that his prestige has suffered considerably from the way his proposed tax Increase was handled and I think It Is the general consensus that this year's tax bill was a proposition to which the President gave too little thought. Sometime In the future, the history of the New Deal will be written In a dear and comprehensive manner. The story then will show In retrospect that which we can hardly understand now the good and the bad In the bewildering adventures attempted under the policies of reform and recovery. I believe those who write that history will dwell upon the 1930 tax legislation as one of the Important political weaknesses developed by Mr. Roosevelt, As far as I know, there has never been a public official who has been entirely consistent at all times In his methods and polldes. Mr. Roosevelt, being human, has been Inconsistent like all of the rest and there was no reason to expect that he would be the one exception despite the fact that some of his followers maintain that he cannot make mistakes. But to link the tax legislation with the fact that Mr. Roosevelt Is human, let me call attention to the further fact that he has been bold, even daring. In many of bis moves. Where his quick decisions have been sound, the country has been benefited. Where be has made mistakes by acting too quickly, his apokesnien have sought to deny that there were errors. The reason I have called attention to Mr. Roosevelt's mistakes on the tax legislation Is chiefly to show something of a new awakening on the part of tha general public. The way in which the senate took the tax bill that had passed the house aud turned It topsy- the color of your hand shifted to the right warily, though bis head remained bent above the sewing machine motor which he was repairing la Sylvias sun porch. Sylvia must have left the room, though you couldn't be nurse's sure, with those rubber-sole- d shoes of hers. He rontlnued a moment long fiddling with his tiny screw driver and then carefully turned his head full aside. Yes, she was gone. She was due on night shaft. Luckily That she trusted him completely. would make It easy. He heard the front door close a moment later and through the window 1014 PATTEII saw Sylvia drive away In her car. It was a rickety old model, Sylvia's car. How rarely one sees a peacock with Pappy snorted. She could afford all hla lovely plumage displayed I It. She better one if she wanted This proud pair of colorful birds worked quite regularly and had only will hold this unique pose long herself to supiiort. Besides, there as wall panel lasts. You'll want your were the pearls a handful of them It dona In a short time, of course, which was as far as her parents had and It will be, for the actual emever gone In the building of a genuine broidery goes very quickly, using only pearl necklace for her when site was single, running and outline stitches. a child. He had often wondered why You use either silk, wool or cotshe didn't sell the pearls. Her sent! ton may but rememler the more floss, ridicwas mental attachment to them colorful It la, the prettier! ulous. Pattern 1014 comes to you with a In a sandal Sylvia kept the pearls transfer pattern of a picture 15 by 20 wood box behind some books In her a color chart and key; mabookcase. Pappy Short doubted wheth- inches; Illustrations of er another person In the world besides terial requirements; needed. Send 15 cents la himself knew of their hiding place, or all stitches or stami (coins preferred) to even of their exlsteucy. He chuckled. coins The Circle, Needlecraft Dept, Sewing Sylvia certainly truated 1dm. 82 Eighth Are., New York, N. Y. screw driver Pappy laid down his and stumped away on Ills cork leg toward the living room. He swore under his breath at the clumsiness of his log. It was old when he bought It second hand, and must have been the cheapest cork leg In the world originally. His face lined with bitterness as he dragged It over tlie floor. He'd he us More to Come, Says House Ing this leg all Ills life, like as not You couldn't buy anything from tinMinority Leader; Raps cents an hour, kering at thirty-fivThat was all Sylvia ever paid him. Extravagance. Hitching his odious old cork peg WASHINGTON, D. C The along aa silently ss possible, he Roosevelt administration will have crossed and stood liefore the Imokense. Furtively his eyea moved ahout the TODAY spent 32 billion, 675 million dol- room and swept the street beyond the Try lars by the time this congress hia the ear, also, reported windows; Bertrand Snell, represen- presence of no human being In the tative from New York, told the vicinity. . house during the debate on the His veiny rough hand was clumsy STREAM-SMI- TH with the volume of medlevul history 803 million dollar tax bill. CHEVROLET DEALER This means that the New Deal win which he removed from the case. The have taken $1,250 from every family in book fell upon the floor with a heavy Offers about Short Jum;ied, and hla thq United States. he said. "And the slap. Pappy fluttered quickly about before he CHEVROLETS money haa been spent In a wasteful, eyea to recover the book. He set stooped added. he extravagsnt manner," It quietly upon an end table and reFORDS Ridicules Financial Program. moved two more volumes from the v AND ABOUT SO OTHER CAM Snell the deficits, Citing mounting ' All Papulat lakaa case. Sylvia must have chosen to put said: '96 models to 2 modeli o dilionsd Three times we have been told In her pearia behind the volumes lenst ad an backed br oar the President's budget message no likely ever to be removed by the rovnew taxes would be required, and In ing hand of a guest. G. M. A. G Tcrmi Pappy Sliort'a hand closed quickly each Instance we have been called upon was hox. on It sandalwood small the Used later In the same session to pass a new Good Tracks Bis Tracks locked, but Tnppy had little difficulty tax bill. Stake Smell Tracks box. Into the "All this proves beyond doubt this getting Pickups end Hjrd. Dump Bodies ltd. He lifted He the gloated. Prices end tcrmi to sail foa. administration does not have the slightWhan in Salt Lake City riait our est semblance of a financial program. Penrls were money, not beauty, to PupBIO USED CAR DEPT. Its nearest approach to a budget pol- py. lie counted them. Nineteen. That icy is to spend all the money It con meant he hnd eleven In his possession, 505 So. NUinlulait lake City gather In or borrow. In ns many ways Soon he would have to put an end to this pilfering before Sylvia discovered as possible." her loss. She never seemed to look Carry Issue to People. Minority leaders decided to carry to Into the box with more than a fleeting the people at the November elections glance, to see If the pearls were safe. 160,000 feet Used & New Pipe the Issues raised by the President's He doubted whether she ever counted them. If he stopped now, her hrlef new "corporation surplus" tax bill. V Sizes "It la a question to put squarely be- glances Into the box would not advise Structural Steel and Plates her of her loss. It hnd been easy fore the people," Snell declnred. "If the people decide that thrift In plckln's. Monsey Iron & Metal Co. business and saving for a rainy day Is He removed a lone pearl with his nilHtlliiVHt bad policy then they can endorse the thumb and forefinger. Always It was UUiOtM new taxes by their votes. I am con- Just one. ne put the pearl In his vest fident that they will conclude other- pocket while he the lock. wise." Then he replaced the hox and the KODAK FILMS Develops Sa books before It. He took the pearl sad I reprints, any prlaUaudeSaeola; Write as sow loripactalrlflottaraad aits, free out of his pocket, chuckling with sat- each. Reveal Wallace Employee eilln supplies. It's easy to Bull aa roar fllue, isfaction . . . LION PHOTO SERVICE, Ret SSL I Reaped Cotton Profits No one would guess, he smilled to Washington. Outstanding among the1 himself, as he returned to repairing beneficiaries of the AAA cotton pay- the machine motor, that there were ARROW BRANff PICKLES ments has been a $5,000,000 twelve beautiful penrls hidden In his cotton-growin-g concern, ancient cork leg. whose $42,U00-a-yepresident was also Ills work completed, he gathered his one of the ranking officials of the Agri- tools Into a worn satchel and let himTorment cultural Adjustment administration. It self out the door. He wished Sylvia soothed was revealed here when the publication were here with her car. She often Sunburn of the names of recipients of AAA pay- drove him home. But she ought to Healhi Chafing ments in excess of $10,000 were deItching paying him a miserable thirty-fivmanded from Secretary Wallace, rents an hour! And she had even Oscar Johnston, president of the gone off this time and forgotten to Delta & Pine Land Co., of Scott, Mias, him at all I . . . which la controlled by the Fine Spin- pay Short always arose at nine Pappy ners and Doublers association of Mano'clock unless the weather was stormy. chester, England, la also manager of Then he slept until noon. Hits mornthe federal cotton pool. He Is also' a It was stormy. lie woke at eleven SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY director and vice president of the Com- ing thirty. modity Credit corporation. He reached for hla old leg which alOar lobby Is delightfully air Johnston's cotton-raisin- g firm, It was atom! against the wall by his cooled darlug the sammeraweths ways revealed, haa benefited from federal i bed. The feel of it was somehow difRadio lor Emnr Rot loans up to $84,000, and haa received ferent this morning. He dragged him200 Ossies -- 200 Betti o $1774147 for not raising cotton. self upright and swung hla good leg to the floor. He stared at the cork one. 1 la 10 Cats U. S. Pay. It was different ! It was new a brand d one at that! Washington. More than 12,500,000 new leg, and a persons are now receiving checks from How had It come there, and where the federal government That la about his heart heat suddenly with furious 1 In 10 of America's 120,000,000 citipumps where was his old leg and the zens. The house ways and means compearls? mittee has admitted that another huge Confusion and fear made him fumble tax bill will be necessary In 1937. with the folded paper he picked up HOTEL from the floor. It bore hla name. InIn 3,000,000 Aliaas on Raliaf. scrawled was side Sylvia's hasty The United States gov- handwriting; Washington ernment Is supporting 8,000,000 aliens in on my way home from "I Rates 1.50 to $3.00 on New Deal relief rolls, Senator Rob- work dropped this morning. I hnd forgotten ert Reynolds, Democrat of North Caro- to Sqaara has a S The Ratal TruplaIriradlr pay you the dollar for your work highly desirable, lina, told the forty-fift- h congress of the yesterday. will always find It lanaa-lat- a, Daughters of the American Revolution anjmaaaly earn for labia, aad "This good new leg I bought for you thacamhiy aaracahla.Yaa aaa ttiMw. here. fara ndacataad arhy thla hotal iai In appreciation of your good work and DICULY RECOMMENDED trustworthiness. I hope you will like Yaa aaa alao appreciate arhyi Bigger Deficit Expected. It and be able to get ahout better. It IPs a mark at distinction to stop Washington. The federal deficit on la just a tittle surprise I've planned for at tMs beautiful hostelry April 29 was 2 billion 620 million dol- a long time. SYLVIA, ERNEST C ROSSITER. Mgr. lars. llenry Morgenthau, Jr, predicts P. S. I took the eld leg along with that It will he twice that large for the me. I can use It foi kindling. 1937 fiscal year. SHORT'S eye PAl'PY water over by William Bruckart Now, the point is this: If Mr. Roosevelt had done as he has done on numerous occasions, he Here a could have avoided the Point t,ie situation that has reacted unfavorably to him. It will be recalled that several times the President has tried out his theories on various governmental problems and has studied the popular reaction to his trial balloons. lie did not do this with the tax bill He left the Job of drafting the legislation to the treasury and the treasury, being populated with a number of men who have no conception, whatsoever of business practices and care little for American traditions, produced a piece of legislation that would have forever prevented any business unit from saving funds to carry It through times of depression, the proverbial rainy day. In the discussions around Washington, It is frequently stated that had Mr. Roosevelt taken his tax experts Into a room and made them explain the character of the bill they were presenting, much of the difficulty would have been averted. But he did not use this foresight and the result Is now history. He has alienated a considerable amount of congressional support that he ordinarily could have for the mere asking. As the tax legislation stands, It Is nothing more nor less than a makeshift boost In rates. It has added nothing at all to strengthen the nation's general taxation policies. It seems to me that the time Is ripe for a general study of the tax structure with the Idea In mind that a wholesale revision ahould take place and that scientific methods should be employed. We must not forget that we have a national billions debt of more than thirty-on- e and that several other billions In i curltles are really to be counted In since those obligations are guaranteed by the United States. That debt must be paid eventnglly and the revenue must be raised In the only way that the federal government can get Its money, namely, by taxation. The conclusion, therefore, Is Inescapable that we face heavy taxation and we may as well face the music. It may be that all of the twenty-on- e billions In tax payments and borrowed money which Mr. Roosevelt has expended can be justified In every respect It may be that In future years the nation will be grateful that this era of extravagance Is a part of our history, but the fact still remains that when a government or an Individual borrows money, that money must be returned to those who hold the evidence of the debt. The civil service commission lately has compiled some statistics Indicating that the merit system In V. S. Pay the federal govern-Ro- ll Grows ment Is being pushed aside at an alarming rate. The commissions figures show how every President since Arthur In 1SS3 has expanded the scope of the classified civil service during his administration until the administration of President Roosevelt. It would be a list much too long to record here how the number of employees of the federal government has Increased each year as the government has expanded but as a matter of hl tory It struck me as Interesting to aee how 41.5 per cent of employees of the federal government under President McKinley held their jobs under the civil service system and laws and bow this percentage Increased to 61.5 per cent under President Taft; to 72 per cent under President Wilson; to 79.8 per cent under Presidents Harding and Coolldge. and to 80.1 per cent under President Hoover. By the end of June, 1935, the number of civil service employees In the federal government amounted to only 6&3 per cent of the total number and, while the civil service commission has not tabulated the record for this year, I understand relinbly that the ratio will be about 57 per cent of the total. The total number of employees of the federal government has grown consistently since the turn of the century when It stood at 250,000. In Taft's administration, the total was 370,000. President Wilson's first administration employed 438,000 and then with the advent of the World war the government expanded Its personnel to Its highest point, 917,000. As the war agencies were llqudlated the number of employees declined obviously until dnrlng the Harding and Coolldge administrations the highest point reached wns 540,000. The Hoover administration numbered 583,000 on the pny rolls but the election of Roosevelt President Immediately brought on greater numbers and by June 30, 1935, there were 719.000 on the federal pay roll and this number was further Increased to 800,000 at the end of Mnrch this year. Whihi Stvaiwpir UaMt u FARLEY FINANCE Washington, William W. Howes, first assistant postmaster general, testifying before the house committee on appropriations, admits a deficit of $90,000,000. Last year Postmaster General Farley aaid that the postal department made a profit of $5,000,000, whereas an audited account of the department showed an actual deficit of $65,000,000. Wash- ington is awaiting with Interest Mr. Farleys forthcoming annual report. Demands Investigation of Tugwell Superstate Prof. Rexford Guy resettlement administration has In Itgrown Into a Washington. Tug-wel- ls super-governme- self, ao large that It requires 27 different buildings. It was charged by Senator W. Warren Barbour of New Jersey, who demanded that the organization be Investigated by a special committee of the United States senate. When Senator Barbour had first demanded the Investigation a few weeks before, there were only 19 buildings," the others having been added since that time. The senator charges that Tugwell's agency had 13,000 persons on its executive payroll, despite the fact that It was created without the authority of congress and Is not answerable to congress. He said that up to Dec. 15 of last year It had been allotted of relief funds by executive order. When asked by Sen. Robert D. Carey of Wyoming whether the 13,000 administrative workers did not exceed the number of persons resettled," Senator Barbour replied : I am quite sure that there are many times more employees In the bureau than persons who have been put to work or accommodated In any of the resettlement undertakings." Majority leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas had succeeded In tabling Senator Barbours original resolution. $196,-070,0- H. L. M. Says New Deal Is Due for Bums Rush New York. American citizens are fed up with the New Deal and are about to give It what, on less exalted levels, would be described graphically as the bums rush," U. L. Mencken has written In the current Issue of the American Mercury, magazine of which he waa formerly editor. A large part of the money wasted so far, he wrote, "has gone Into helping Wallace prevail against Tugwell, and Hopkins to upset and flabbergast Ickes. Whenever one of the brethren gets a new hunch there la a sharpening of activity, and the taxpayer goes on the block for another squeeze. And whenever one of them comes to grief, which Is almost every day, the others rush Into the gap with something worse. . . ." Mencken said the New Deal differed from communism. Fascism and Kazllsm only In "Its more reckless hospitality to miscellaneous nonsense. "... TIIE CRACKER BARREL Moat unfortunate, the title chosen for New Dealer Roblneone "canned" reply to Al Smith; "The voice is the voice of Jacob But the hand it the hand of Emu." The Roblneon speech came from tho Micheleon cannery. freeh New Deal Senator Byrnet tells the Smote that the ittue in the next cempaign will be "canned speeches" With 12JSOO,-00- 0 unemployed end food consumption dropping, we wonder if it will not bo Roosevelt "canned prosperity" To Paul Mellon, ue are indebted for the enlightening information that Doctor High, founder of tho Good Neighbor league, hat contributed " editorial " assistance in the preparation of the Presidents speeches. Is columnist Mellon trying lo intimate in polite language that Mr. Roosevelts speeches ere "canned" F New Deal Cost $1,250 a Family e (MEM Hi YAKltfsTpoWDER a Can ad-jour- ns, I 60 40 . Written Guarantee Trucks W, W, 2 British-co- ntrolled hisoahy Resirrol high-price- Temple Square ataaoa-pbmY- oa |