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Show THE BULLETIN Bruckaxtt Washington Dige$t jTheory of Spending Ourselves Out Of Depression Seen Unwise Course Floating Log Bore His Weight, So Man Developed a Curiosity Knitted Rag Rug to Make in Soft Colors !&' WHO'S By RUTH WYETfl SPEARS news for those who HERE isbeen writing me for more rag rug designs. A special Rug Leaflet has been prepared for you. It will be included free upon request with your order for th two books offered herewith. If you already have these two useful books, send 6 cents in stamps for the Rug Leaflet. Wooden knitting needles in diameter are used for this rug. inch wideCut or tear the rags NEWS Evidence in Congress of Definite Determinaton to Gu Down on Appropriations; Sound Sense of American People Always Finds Answer to National Problems. THIS WEEK K-In- ch By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bid;., Washington, D. C. Br LEMUEL F. PARTON i WASHINGTON. It always has been my conviction that the Ameri can people will find a sound answer to every national problem, if they re given the facts and the time to ;figure out what those facts mean, iThey may be swayed temporarily; they may be led or herded or threatened and these conditions may put mem in a wrong spot temporarily, jbut I repeat that if they are given ;time, the national conclusion, the curtailment of federal waste has begun; that the national belt is go ing to De pulled tighter by a couple of notches and that, sooner or later. even the beneficiaries of the federal cash will note the stigma and slacken their demands. One of the leaders in this direc tion has been Sen. Harry Byrd, the Virginia Democrat, who is just as hard boiled in preserving a sound government as his senior, collective thinking, will be along national the redoubtable Carter Glass. sound lines. Through thick and thin. Senator They are demonstrating these Byrd has been attacking the spend things as a fact, again. There is ing policies, calling attention to the no doubt about it. For five or six dangers of an increasing national years, a considerable majority of debt and the certainty that the counthe nation's citizenry was following try as a whole must bear the bur the theory of spending ourselves out den of added taxation. He did this of the depression. It was an un- the while administration sharp- . Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C WNU Service. Old as water transportation What an eventful day when itself, but still modern! This is man first found that a floating a gufa, water transport on the Tigris river, which goes forward log would bear his weight! by twirling in a circle. Slightly What trial and error, what round-about, perhaps, but it gets wreck and tragedy intervened there! even before the coral-beac- so-call- hand-to-han- 00 hair-raisi- ng inter-islan- sea-fighti- ng thmk new and arid day dawning. A friend of this writer, scouting material for a magazine article on a trip through the Middle West, says the drys are coming back like an army with banners. Too many saloons, too much coeducational too many tangles between barleycorn and automobiles, too much cutting of corners to meet heavy tax and license costs all this, and more, is rallying the drys for a return engagement, say the above and other detached observers. DARK sew KNITTEO STRIPS, 3j .u 2.d.?j.Li CROCHET IOGE- - elbow-bendin- g. The massive and deliberate Mrs. Boole Is 80 years old and looks much less. In New York, she addresses the luncheon of the state W. C. T. IT., commemo rating the centenary of the birth of Frances E. Willard, founder of the W. C. T. U. Her firmly set spectacles with gold bows, her crown of abendant white hair, the stern godliness of her features all are as they were. Nothing whatever has been repealed in Mrs. Boole's person or ideas. and knit them in strips 10 inches colors wide, changing every 10 inches by cutting the material close to the needle and sewing a new color to it. When three strips have been knitted with the. colors arranged as shown here, sew them together on the wrong side with heavy carpet thread. Use a crochet hook of about the same size as the knitting needles for the edge of single cro chet. NOTE: Be your own decorator. Make new draperies; curtains; slipcovers; bedspreads and dozens of other things for every room. Mrs. Spears' Sewing Book No. 1 "SEWING, for the Home Decorator," shows you exactly how, p with illustrations. Book 2 Gifts, Novelties and EmFor more than 50 years she has broidery, shows you how to make been fighting alcohol. With her hus fascinating things from odds and band, the late William H. Boole, ends and will save its cost Books are 25 cents each; pastor of the Willett Street Method ist church, she waged war against if you order both books, the Rug; tne uowery dives, away back in the Leaflet is included FREE. Adeighties. She had come from Woos-te-r, dress: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Ohio, an alumna of the Uni St., Chicago, 111. versity of Wooster, where, immedi ately after her graduation, she had taken up her for pro hibition. From 1909 until 1919, there was no important piece of Don't Let Gas, Kerve Preslegislation in which she did not step-by-ste- . many-times- Des-plain- life-wo- rk or sure participate. In 1935, she became national president of the W. C. T. U., and, in 1931, world chairman. During the prohibition years and in the preceding years of strife, she was the head of the combined prohibition board of strategy, shrewd, resourceful, tireless. Fittingly, her citadel is still a little Van Wert, Ohio, house, set down in Brooklyn, holding its n ground far in the enemy territory. As does Mrs. Boole, still standing firm and unshaken la her shoes. hedge-border- ed flat-heel- IN THE last 14 years. Dr. Donald Laird of Colgate university has written 14 books and 500 articles, but has inspired many more than that. He has Novel Ideas been heaven's of Dr. Laird blessing to the make-u- p man, Rate Display needing a snao-py little box to dress a page. As Dr. Laird retires, to engage in re search at the callow age of 41, here are just a few of his stimulating Keep You Miserable Whra Ton are coottipttad two thiaca happen. FIRST: Accumulated wastee Bp the bowela and prai on nerval in the dice, s, live taut. Thia nerve preaiure causes a dull, luy feeing, bilious spells, lorn of appetite, and disnneai. SECOND: Pirtljr digested food atarta to decay far mine GAB, bringing on sour itamacb, acid indigestion, ana heartburn, bloatinc you up until you sometimes gaap for breath. Then you caa'l at. You can't sleep. Your stomach is sour. You fed tired out, grouchy, and miserable. Adierika gives you the DOUBLE ACTION head-ache- you need. Thia efficient carminative cathartic relieves that awful GAS almoat at ones. It ueually clears the bowels in lesa than two boon. No waiting for overnight relief. Stid middle-wester- at all drug stms Our Need My neighbor is the man who needs me, or whom I need, which is in the end the same thirn?. Joseph Ernest McAfee. A. ir When yon feel Jittery, snap op some red meat. Some cases of second sight are explained by an odorless scent which almost, but not quite, wells op into consciousness. If you feel rotten today, you wiU be happy in just 28 days, as that Is the cycle of hope and despair. The Dionne quints are in danger of growing up to be on account of women nurses and governesses. Brains are sluggish in sum- all-fonr- man-hate- rs mertime. Eat candy to fight off sleepi- Still Coughing? Even if other medicine has failed, float be discouraged, try Creomul-slan. Your drunist is nnrhmH n refund your money if you axe not thoroughly satisfied with, the bene-fi- ts obtained. Creomulslon Is one word, ask for It plainly, see that the name on the tanftis. 1 nrnm,,iinri and you'll get the genuine nroducj and the relief Von nni ltArr CREOMULSION for Cou9hs or Chest Colds s. life-ordain- Wingless Love Friendship is love without his wings. Byron. Ask Doctor About This Ideal Way TO LOSE FAT BEAD EVERY WQBD ! Make up your mind now that Toull Inea some of that ugly fat and really enjoy life. No one can blame you if you don't want use narmtul drugs, go on starvation dicta and do backhreaking exercises. No aana woman would I And for acniible ... women like wmrsalf wha mlJu reduce yet don't aspect miracles ovrraight who are willing to faithfully follow a moat aimple, inexpensive and pleasant y plan, we suggest thia easy method 'Mtht on fooda and fatty ? twerta. Eat plentifully of lean fresh fruita and vegetable. And mrata, for proper functioning by removal of accumulated n ness at work. Never count sheep to put yourself to sleep. It doesn't work. Noise makes city people smaller than country people. J Women employees are more adaptable than men and stay WMtee 0 jure to take half longer on the job. in hot .water everyteupoonful ' K7Kh la nude morning. here right iaUS.iL from ftmoua En.li.h Many of these discoveries have A" J 'a get thia utraight rlrM n been made by Dr. Laird in his re NOT Juat aaa aalt search as a consultant for concerns Ignorantly iE" '.."lE. .! in heavy industries, in which field SWllaeo Ithelieve. la a blend of active mluii he has been busy and distinguished. similar to the fameua medlelaal Baa He is a world authority on noise SO" tor y?arah,M W,"lh' w,m" Farm-reared and sleep. in Indiemu but. c" ' inn wprLi n ana, he was educated at the Univer AWAY 1 I At druggiit. everywhere. sities of Dubuque and Iowa and taught at many universities before joining the Colgate faculty 14 years WNU W 539 ago. He nas oeen out m front in tne above novel ideas, with the ex. ccption of the one about our net ting back to' That has been evident for at least seven i b as essential to buaineta as is rain to growing crops. It is the years,i : as . revealed by prevailing . i i i iruuua in wormj pontics. keystone in the axchof tuccetaful ture. conBO,.'?.,.?lNew merchandising. Let us show you WNU Service. how to apply it to your buainesa. l.u 'uiT all-four- s. es CONSTIPATED? anti-liqu- e. tv S dry leaders who nn rungs: Horizontal thinking is best. It Is quite possible that a new stage of evolution is setting in which will take us back to one-fift- - old-tim- Girds Sword in DryComeback first dugout, or shooters were firing one broadside clothes, and better naviwith raft sails of skins arms and clumsy alter another at his head or hide. gation charts and instruments. or plaited grass actually put to The other night, Senator Byrd got Human Poicerhouse on the radio and told the country sea and finally reached a neigh The Venetian galley was the fight again what was happening. He had boring shore safely! craft wRen Christian uning some new facts and figures about Imagine the daring sailors' der Don John of Austria allies defeated tne situation. The Virginian asked return from that first of all the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto some rather pertinent questions, voyages. fellow tribesmen in 1571. In that battle Shouting larger vestoo, about the situation in England. crowd about as they beach their sels carried 100 crossbowmen, 40 He pointed out that England has not excited over the strange fruits cannon, and catapults for throwing oeen running deficit after deficit and craft, and weapons the dusky Areonauts stones. Power came from 150 galsources, that "you can't beat Santa that, as a matter of cold fact, while have brought back, and curi- ley slaves, chained to their long Claus," or the variation that "you the United States was adding more ously at the lone womangaze captive, sweeps and whipped savagely upon can't beat $4,000,000,000," there is than $21,000,000,000 to its national snatched from her h shel their naked backs to make them plenty of evidence to show that there debt, was balancing Its ter as the invaders retreated to the pull hard, in steady rhythm. is quite a definite determination to Duaget England and making some headwav In Greek and Roman galleys oars .quit that sort of thing. That is. in reducing its national debt Till then that distant shore, its were a arranged in two or more tiers. there is determination in most , peak dimly visible only on clear The Venetians abolished this sysinner States Take Heed and places outside of the days, had been a region of mystery: tem, all oars on the same 'circle of New Dealers. Especially Start now they had landed upon it, had level. installing Cutting Expenses The rowers, however, sat on is tms true in the halls of congress two or three different Due largely, the senator thoueht. tasted its dangers and delights. with where, unless there is an earth "Let us return for more wealth," the benches inclined levels, to the in such a fact that England had tried the excited welcomers quake, many important steps will urge. way as to leave each man's motions be taken by senators and reore- - to live within its income as an inthe sailors. "Way brothers," reply dividual would that in nation had The winds are evil and the waves sentatives the direction of sound do, er government finance. The old and a national income in 1937 that was run high. We must make a bigger familiar American traits of initia 118 per cent of its income in 1929. raft and take more fighting men, for Which is to say that it was more tive, of saving, of living within one's yonder they have mighty warriors than 1929. in prosperous Senator are income, coming to the surface to give us battle." very rapidly and the restoration of Byrd pointed out that this had hapContrast pirate pistol and cutlass. these traits to daces of resnecla. pened while our government was d techniaue billion or so to five with the World war Battle of Jut- bility in American life is being re-- running from a nectea on capitol hill in Washington. or six billions into debt each year. and, when armored giants hurled He suggested, moreover, that if the tons of projectiles at each other with Opposition to Philosophy United States had done as well this lightninglike rapidity over leagues national income Of Spending Breaks Loose country's would now of intervening blue water. instead of the It will be recalled how the oppo- be $88,000,000,000 was estimated for Man Becomes Restless nents of President Roosevelt's phi- 1938. The which thoueht was then ad- Fighting on the water, nerhaos. losophy of spending showed their vanced that had less to do with the development not had tried England in the house of representamettle to "harry and frighten business" of ships than did man's peacetime tives when that body voted to cut which was employing people who pursuits, his restless urge always to iiso.ooo.ooo off of the deficiency re- wanted find and see new lands, and to train work, not charity. lief appropriation. Mr. Roosevelt wealth by barter with faraway peo There are other thines hanrxmin asked for $875,000,000. The cut was tor ple amber, and slaves. salt, besides the Byrd attacks and the accomplished despite some One primitive craft, in use to this stories from official sources congressional action on relief approthe Polynesian catamaran. priations to indicate the growing day, is who in the administration that elimina has lived in the Anyone tion of any of the requested funds strength of those who believe spend- pines or cruised the waters Philipof the borrowed ing has would mean suffering, maybe star money been, and South Pacific know this outrigger is, unwise. Word has come throueh vation, maybe quick death, for to canoe and its age-ol- d use in Washington of the action of sev- sailing many thousands of persons. d traffic. eral governors who are insistin Aboard this catamaran, long cen Well, the house members (or a that their states avoid getting into oi not did turies believe the hole. Governor Cochran If if floats, it's a boat. With ago, dusky adventurers from them) majority of Ne- Asiatic coasts, those stories, and thus they made a stars. canvas guided only by unfurled, Miami bathing a Democrat, and Governor start at cutting governmental braska, Bricker of Ohio, a Republican, each the flight of birds, or instinct sailed girls take advantage of both wind lor countless watery miles out into spending. They gave an indication nas put tneir respective state legisla- the Pacific. Hawaii. Easter island. and waves in a new sport, surf at the same time that there must be tures on notice that expenditures and New Zealand were all colonized soiling. a general revision of the federal to be to the bone. There are these daring sailors. There is free from interference by the others. by government's machinery for relief others pared who could be named, hut The oars of each group of two or ox tne unemployed. During the de- from the information we have here some evidence that a few of them even reached the coasts of Mexico three rowers projected through the bate and In the corridors, one heard in Governors Cochran and South America. same opening or "rowlock." The frequent expressions that congress andWashington, Bricker are the outstanding bench was nearest the' center naa appropriated last year the funds high Egypt Started It of the vessel and its occupant pulled tne administration thought necessa Though history records no famous the longest oar sometimes measIt Said that these refer might be ry to maintain relief until the end ox next June. But Droflieate mend. only to states and not to national voyages made by Egyptian naviga- uring nearly 50 feet in length. The tors, it was from early Egypt that galleys themselves were about 150 ing had used up the money and the policies. Very well. No state shipbuilding ideas spread to Phoe feet long. ecutive could with get such away a had returned proiessionai relievers Greece, and later to Rome-e- ven nicia, We look now at models of the unless he had the backfor more. Some of the debate was program the Red sea to the tiny caravels of Columbus, and are through and various ing of a majority of his own peo- Orient. quite acrimonious amazed that in craft so frail he charges were hurled that the relief ple. If they believe that way about The Chinese officials had tried again to "buy" state affairs, there is no reason tn resemblance to junk bearsofa strong dared so much. We might set his ancient whole fleet, the Pinta, Nina, and pictures the election, that being why the think they will take a contrary view craft, especially in the Santa Maria, upon the decks of zunas ran snort. concerning me national treasury and Egyptian funds which it must borrow tn shape of the hulL Although sea- the new Queen Mary and still have Immediately after the house was spend. going ships grew up in the Mediter- room to drill a regiment of infanthrough with the relief bill, the op- ranean, early Chinese used the com- try. Yet, in their day, these were ponenis oi spending in the senate 'Pump Priming Gifts to pass.. Their junks, trading between stout little ships, developed by man started after the aoDrooriation. Canton and the Persian gulf in the after centuries of experience with There were many in that body who States Force Them to Borrow Third century, had magnetic iron Nile and coastal craft, ChiEgyptian wanted to appropriate only for two Further, nearly all of the federal needles; also, their junks used a nese junks, Phoenician traders, montns, proposing that in the mean- appropriations for "durid nrimin rudder mounted on the sternpost. Arab dhows, and Roman galleys, time there should be a brand new when Beyond the junk, however, Chinese successive rungs of man's maritime to states or granted relief setup devised. But the malittle. On progressed shipmakers jurisdictions, are offered on condi ladder. jority sentiment was swayed by the tion mat tne state, or city or canals, rivers, and along coasts, Caravels county, Seaworthy general argument that, whatever must put up an equal amount. In myriad junks and sampans continue the shortcomings of the Harry Hop- hundreds Despite their small size, often less of cases in the last six to haul much of China's colossal dokins relief methods, poor people years, this mestic commerce. than 100 tons, caravels became fapolicy has resulted in should not be made the goats; it states or lesser a is Phoenicia, today, forgotten mous for seaworthiness on long voysubdivisions of govwas no fault of the unemployed who ernment Yet "merchants of Tyre" cor- ages; Vasco da Gama used one in land. to forced borrow on being needed help that Mr. Hopkins, now its own bonds in to get hold of nered the world trade of their day. rounding the Cape of Good Hope; the secretary of commerce, had the federal cash. order They sent dried fruit and wine to so did Magellan. The result! made a mess of the relief program. debt. It becomes the then remote British isles, and Opening the doors of a new worldclear, therefore, brought back tin and cloth. wide era of exploration, commerce, if that the They stale executives insist on are even believed to have sailed wealth, and Beginning Only Foretaste empire, the little carareduced expenditures, they are unOf What Is Coming likely to accept these federal gifts around Africa centuries before vel poked its bows into harbors previously unfurrowed by white men's While it seems that a cut of IISO.O- because of the probable added dht Vasco da Gama. Vikings, bold sailors in their day, ships, and fled safely from unfriendburden. OO.OOO which is about h the the coasts of Gaul and ly shores, easily escaping from the amount asked Another thing likely to hanoen in ravagedin their stout oaken vessels represents somecanoes of warlike native tribes. Spain thing substantial, this beginning is some of the states is added centuries before Columbus was Among heroic pioneer navigators a foretaste of what is com- The state legislatures are due for born. only on dried fish and such in this age of exciting Living discovery ing. The spenders have had their an awakening as to the actual conlittle grain as they could carry, they was Sir Francis Drake. This Enginnings for five or six years, or dition of their state finances. Snm later explored the northwest Atlan- lish sea hawk sailed around the since Mr. Roosevelt's "economy may dodge it this year, but facts tic; about 1000 A. D., Leif Ericsson globe in the Golden Hind at the end act" of 1933 was abandoned as a will have to be faced. to North America through of the Sixteenth century, and was When new pattern of government. They have taxes come, what a howl there will voyaged seas. icy the first Englishman to pass used various names and descripbe! That howl will be heard in conIn each passing century, after the Strait of Magellan and to through explore tions, such as "pump priming" and gress, too, both concerning state Egypt supplied a pattern for sea- the west coasts of South and North to restore spending prosperity, etc. and county and city taxes on the .in going merchant craft, first the seaAmerica. Drake scraped his ship's It appears now, however, that their hand and national taxes on the ntner farers of one nation, then of another, bottom hard by what is now San days are numbered. I do not mean hand. It appears to me that taxes made improvements. Columbus' Francisco bay, crossed the Pacific that everything in the way of gov- will prove to be the best antidote flagship, for example, was a "mod- to the East Indies, and sailed home ernment cash sop is going to be for the poison of borrowing to spend ern" boat, compared with Leifs around the Cape of Good Hope. thrown out of the window at once. that can be found. open "long ship." His crew had bet- Rich with spoils from Spanish ships. I believe I can see, however, that Western Newspaper Unloa. ter sleeping quarters, bigger water he reached England after an abcasks, more dried meats, better sence of nearly three years. sound course, obviously, but money was made to do a lot of talking as money in billions of dollars will talk. Lately, however, hardy Amer ican thinking has been carrying the majority back to normal under standing, and the influence of SDend Ing by the federal government is sagging, distinctly. Notwithstanding the statements. frequently heard from Republican -- EW YORK Mrs. Ella A. Boole, the iron chancellor of prohibition, goes into action again, with Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texas and several other fa- . mm w. . e mrs.n.A.tsooie mous T ADVERTISING |