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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD Britain Launches New Aircraft Carrier 4 W v Touring Accommodations. 4 CALIF. MONICA, SANTA the sake of F Washington. Several weeks ago, stricted or entirely eliminated. It was like a charge of bird shot It you the apparent neThere was no target scattered. cessity for presi-MuCut dential action in mentioned except m a general way. There has been some talk that Spending the direction of a curb on spending. possibly Mr. Roosevelts message I have written about this subject and promise to use every means at many times and I have no regret his command for curtailing exthat I have done so, because for a penditures may have been intended half dozen years our government as a message to his own subordihas been spending money too rapid- nates that definite orders were to follow; that he intended his suborly. The Presidents latest message dinates should see where they themreviewing the budget situation in- selves could lop off spending plans, dicates that the Chief Executive at and could put their own houses in last has started his thoughts in the order. I hope it works out that way. direction of curtailed spending. In- On the other hand, I entertain very deed, Mr. Roosevelts message td serious doubt that such a procedure congress in which he asked for a will ever cause such individuals as billion and a half dollars for re- the impetuous Mr. Harry Hopkins, lief purposes was characterized by relief administrator, to cut down on quite a new note of firmness in his his spending. Mr. Hopkins loves to discussion of the need for cutting spend money. He seems to be hapgovernment costs. I think it is fair piest when he has billions to spread to say that in previous messages around, regardless of whether the the President gave little more than spending plans really accomplish lip service to the cause of economy aid for the destitute. I suspect that in government His previous sugcongress alone can curb Mr. Hopgestions to congress lacked force. kins and the only way congress can Not so with the current call for a do so is by declining to appropriate reduction in expenses. It had the extra money for him. earmarks of determination but it What I am trying to say in using yet remains to be seen whether he Mr. Hopkins as the horrible exwill insist strongly upon his conample, is that Mr. Roosevelt has clusions when the showdown with taught his subordinates to spend congress comes. money as freely as they can. To a The Presidents message was inconsiderable extent, he has let conteresting in several respects beside gress have a taste of new spending the note of firmness, mentioned morsels and what politician does not above. He confessed, for example, like to spend money! Therefore, the that there was no chance for a bal- President is confronted with the neanced budget in the next fiscal year. cessity of educating both his own There is no chance, he disclosed, subordinates and congress to the even for achieving the laymans new order of conserving taxpayers balance. That laymans balance money. If he does not accomplish ought to be explained for, my under- this, we will be saying in another standing of economics does not consix months what we have said many template more than one kind of times that we are confronted with budget balancing, namely, income national bankruptcy. I cannot believe that the budgetequalling outgo. But Mr. Roosevelt, in his campaign last year and in his ary situation looks any different message to congress last January, than it did last January. The difas ference in the picture is that Mr. spoke of laymans balance meaning a balance of income and Roosevelt at last has begun to see outgo with the exception of expendisome of the dangers in the situation tures for relief and for retirement which he either failed to see or of the public debt. I have heard it elected to ignore last January. y described in many quarters as a There were few who believed in trick balance which I truly believe that the tax receipts were goit should be called since it is not an ing to amount to the estimate given honest balance. congress by the President. The fact In the January message, Mr. that they have fallen short of his Roosevelt talked at length about the calculations by four or five hundred necessity for business taking on million is a serious thing but it is workers who were then on relief not so serious that a remedy can rolls. Only in that manner, he em- not be worked out. The remedy, it phasized, could there be a reduction seems to me, is a simple use of a in relief rolls. simple practice among Americans: In the more recent message, the When you do not have the money, President omitted any reference deny yourself some of the things to the responsibility of industry for you would buy if you had the cash. reducing relief rolls by workers. That is not strange Mr. Roosevelt's message asking The fact is, according to the govfor a billion and a half for relief ernment's own records, that indusserved to get the try is taking on workers at a more Relief collective mind of rate than the administration rapid congress off the Message had expected. But still there is no court Supreme hope of a balanced budget this year. The So we must look elsewhere to find packing plan only temporarily. a stir relief caused message quite reason. the Instead of one, we find in the house of representatives two reasons. The first and most imwhere there has been a decided portant of the two is the fact that, move already to continue appropriby whatever analysis you make, the sums of federal money huge ating New Deal is guilty of continuing to waste money by hundreds of mil- for relief purposes, but it held the lions and it was not until a few senate off the court question no weeks ago that any serious effort longer than one business day. I think there has been no queswas made to choke off this dram, more frequently asked in my tion assuming the current effort is setime in Washington than: Will the rious. Presidents bill to pack the Supreme That statement sounds complicated and dull. It is not either one. court pass? I have watched the ebb and flow The unvarnished truth is that Secof the tide of sentiment in the senand flock the of retary Morgenthau experts, trained only in theory, with ate constantly since the court packAs the whom he has surrounded himself, ing plan was submitted. were unable to calculate what the situation now stands, I believe Mr. present taxes would produce in rev- Roosevelt has the odds in his favor. enue. Or, to say the same thing in There is probably a margin of from a few words: Revenue receipts were five to ten votes on the Presidents far below what the Treasury experts side. Whether that will be the state of affairs when a vote comes, I guessed they would be. Thus, the picture seems to be think no one can foretell because clear. On the one hand, the Presi- the vote In the senate is going to dent heretofore has allowed the al- be close. Many informal polls of the senate phabetical agencies to run hither and yon in their money spending have been taken. The results have spree. On the other hand, the lack varied somewhat. They have vaof competent financial men in the ried of necessity because there are Treasury again is glaringly shown. many senators who remain noncommittal, and who are unwilling To get back to the question of at this time to take a position for curtailed spending I should like to or against the President's scheme. call attention to One may properly ask why this Sounds the Presidents Is. The answer is politics. A good language in his many senators do not know how Strong; but latest message, their home states feel about the lie said that he proposed to use plan. That is, they are not able to every means at my command to determine whether there has been eliminate the deficit next year. That a crystallization of sentiment for statement sounds strong enough. I or against the thing. question, however, that it can be Consequently, these senators are called a program of retrenchment. trying to wait outside of the playing In other words, Mr. Roosevelt was field until they can tell whether content in his message to congress they can be justified in going simply to criticize, if not to de- against presidential wishes or canounce, extravagant outlays insofar pitulating to the Preside it's comas new commitments are conmand. It is to be remembered that cerned. if they turn against the President, During the last few weeks, Mr. they antagonize the administration Roosevelt has called upon the variand particularly the Failey politious agencies of the government for cal machine. It is rather unhealthy statements of their financial re- for a New Dealer or Democrat to quirements and something of a re- oppose the Barley machine. view of what they have done with Another reason why many senators aie keeping their own counsel pievious funds. Considerable ballyhoo accompanied announcement of on the court packing scheme is that this survey of governmental re- they believe there will be somethirg quirement. But again, there was no in the nature of a compiomise evidence of specific determination come out of the hearings and senate by the Chief Executive as to what judiciary committee consideration. C Western Newspaper Union. governmental activity should be re I reported to ' camp and the next night at i the most expensive tourist hotel in three states, rates $25 per day per sucker. y st Jan-aur- Illll- - .rv V? 1 2 ILL - ''Ys L f ei V V - ? 1 vs w S ; ..Wav. Ark Royal, which Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the unc in the world floats on the Mersey after being admiralty, declared was the most s p Birkenhead recently. She has a displacement of 22,000 tons, and will carry 70 planes. She is the firs the British navy designed as an aircraft carrier. Great Britains new 3,000,000-poun- d aircraft carrier. Priceless Madonna Gift to Toledo Bonus for Babies Provided by New York State Emerson D. Fite, New York state assemblyman who is author of bill recently passed providing a cash tonus of $75 to all mothers and fathers, regardless of their needs. The ?1! home for lately rule8?r70u a re parison, two of us, out on a little trip, stayed one night at a wayside motor I Commuter-Good- com- At the tourist camp, the company was mixed but neighborly and, for the most part, pleasant. The only really discordant note was a lady in the adjoining cabin who, at all hours, kept waking her husband up, apparently for the purpose of telling him another thing about him that she didnt like. At the exclusive establishment were irvin s Cobb many guests who seemed to be suffering from severe attacks of nervous culture, being fearful. Id say, that, if ever they behaved naturally, theyd give themselves away. Mainly they were dull. Waxworks, even when animated, usually are dulL But stopping at a $25 a day hotel has one advantage, I find. Afterward, you can go around bragging that once you stopped at a hotel. This should be a great help socially. Wrfe-D- ont I ve read it bother, , her coat pocket. alread-you- r IkeyYou can street vidout Monsieur Consomme, bomiL d oeuvres, fricassee The Adoration of the Child, regarded as one of the finest Italian paintings in America, recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, is pictured above. It came as a gift of the museums founder, Edward Drummond Libbey. This famous masterpiece, the work of Piero de Cosimo, a Fifteenth-centur- y artist, is supposed to have been painted for Lorenzo de Medici, patron of the arts m the Renaissance. BLOSSOM QUEEN $ pre-nata- l, Smithsonian Gets First Adding Machine fc K How Times Change. JUST read what I once knew for I myself but had forgotten m the rush and bustle of these latter days. It related to the attitude which America, considerably less than half a century ago, held toward unescorted woman. For instance, as recently as 1890 not many respectable hotels would permit one of them to register. Some time after 1900 in fact, as I remember, it was about 1910 a prominent lady was asked to leave one of the smartest hotels in New York city because she dared to light a cigarette in the public lounge. As for women drinking at a bar well, not even the most forward-lookin- g liberal could conceive of so incredible a sight as that And now just look at the darned things! g p mesdeterreaug des glaces, and tell that the corner to keep hls me mon, See?'asonie r u ii Id A money awarded to the parents is for the care of every child born in the state and unless rejected by the parents is to be used for hospital and general medical expenses. Assemblyman Fite is also a professor at Vassar. t valk shillings y Dealing With Snakes. CONNECTICUT congressman is pushing an act to prohibit importation of venomous serpents from other countries for exhibition purposes. His fear is that an earthquake or something might shake the zoo apart and liberate a lot of deadly reptiles that would start multiplying and constitute a new menace to the lives of such of the populace as have thus far escaped being killed by automobiles. Without presuming to assume that the gentleman is a bit of an alarmist, Id like to point out that he can obtain millions of adherents for this Amermeasure among icans by tacking in an amendment to his bill providing that the bars likewise shall be put up against foreign-born communists. L. ELLLSr San I Francisi M fj r L (One way fare from Ofla Salt Lake City, good mar dilioned coaches or elm t. We have the FASTEST TRi to San Francisco, all meals oc tioned. Pacific Limited, $31 ROUNDTRIP to Sin ROUNDTRIP F cisco; $32 Angeles via San Prandsco-- bo fares good in standard Pullmans (berth ext Southern to L Pad oruntiD.JL Mans St., Salt Ut For information, Gf. Agt., 41 So, see NEWEST SALT LAKE'S Our lobby is cooled daring the Radio tor Every 200 Rooms 200 delight! summer b, Room Batho j m ffrisF' rr-si4-- Hardships de Luxe. TITHEN our plutocratic classes K - L A Ki ' & t decide to go simple, they go simple, regardless of what it costs em. A rich couple have just completed a trip out here, following the ancient trails of the early pathfinders. Like true pioneer stock, they roughed it in specially built twin trailers, each about the size of a pullman but much more complete, and were towed by a couple of The servants, only six in number, had to put up with two much cheaper cars. During the entire trip there was no dressing for dinner and thus, with true democratic spirit, was the primitive plan of the expedition carried out. Every hardship encountered enroule such as the champagne getting all jolted up and the caviar coming unglued in the can was cheerfully endured. An armed guard was maintained a t night to repel kidnapers and hostile Indian tribes. I wonder how Jim Bridger and Kit Carson ever stood it with no butler along in fact, not even a second man. IRVIN S. COBB. Rolls-Royce- Miss Alice Merson of South Haven, who was selected as Michigan Blossom Queen for the annual Blossom festival in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. She was picked from a group of 21 contestants representing as many cities in the fruit belt. An old macaroni box filled with an arrangement of wheels rubber bands, meat skewers and staples, the grand-daddof the present day calculating machine, which was designed and constructed 52 years ago by Dorr E. Felt, was presented to the Smithsonian institution by the family of the inventor. Photograph shows Dr. Charles G. Abbot (left), secretary of the institution, receiving the cherished relic. y Jersey Quadruplets Have a Christening WNU Service. HOTEL Rates $1.50fo$3W The Hotel Tempi deirabl highly . 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