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Show I UINTAII BASIN RECORD Glacier Priest Returns From Alaskan Trip Bruckarts Washington Digest Pins in Wishing Well Wishing wells are common u many parts of Britain, the usual c- utom being to into water while you make your tie The most famous one is at Unwr. in Dorset, though there is no legend WHOS President Irked by Georgias Refusal to Alter Constitution , .pm NEWS - THIS State Will Get No More Money From Federal Government; Possibilities of Staggering Burdens of Taxation Pointed Out by Hoover and Byrd. WEEK Statue to Annonymous By LEMUEL WNU The state of WASHINGTON. Georgia has a provision in its state constitution that effectively prevents an accumulation cf state debt. It is one of the few states having such a constitutional inhibition of that kind. But the fact that such a provision exists in Georgia suddenly has become momentous in the eyes and minds of the New Dealers, headed by the President, himself. Because it is in the news, however, Mr. Roosevelts criticism of the provision forces a review of the facts and implications flowing from that charter provision. Mr. Roosevelt said recently while sojourning at Warm Springs, Ga., as he does frequently, that Georgia will get no more federal money. His particular peeve at Georgia resulted from the fact that the state has not amended its constitution to permit it to borrow directly from agencies of. the federal government as most other states have done with federal money flowing like streams at flood. The President was disgusted with Georgias attitude; hence, the federal government is all through with giving the state more money. Of course, it is only my opinion the opinion of only one observer but it nevertheless strikes me that in years to come, the citizens of many states will have cause to regret the absence of such prov.sions from their respective state constitutions. It is only a question of time. s advoPoliticians and cates of improvements and the like have been rushing to the federal feed trough in droves, carrying away checks. They have borrowed billions from the national government; they have received grants or gifts of other billions for the country as a whole on condition that they put up additional funds to match or equal the federal gift, and they, in consequence, now are loaded down with debt. So, I say there will be cause for regret that so few states have the same provision as Georgia has when the time comes for payment There must be taxation if the debts are paid, or there must be that awful thing, repudiaover-zealou- tion. Must Be Additional Taxation, or Repudiation Former President Hoover has had much to say about the waste that has been going on, and has coupled those observations with the possibilities of staggering burdens of taxation. So has Sen. Harry Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia. Mr. Hoovers criticisms have been laughed off by the administration here because Mr. Hoover is a Republican. Senator Byrd's jibes have been pooh poohed because he has insisted on sound government and has been frequently anti-NeDeal. But Mr. Hoover and Senator Byrd each have stressed a little noted phase of potentialities inherent in the situation. They have talked about moral codes. Now, it appears, as I said above, there must be additional taxation to meet these loans (whether from the federal government or from private borrowers) or there must be repudiation. Repudiation is simply and plainly a refusal to pay a debt. Refusal to pay an honest debt makes deadbeats. In the light of these facts, I want to make a little prediction. I am going to predict that there will be movements in many states within 10 years to have the federal govern-mus- t relinquish its claims against those states; to have congress pass legislation that will say to the states, in effect, Just tear up the papers and we will tear up your notes and bonds and forget about the whole , thmg. Politicians of the unsavory, demagogic type will leap onto such a thought and shout from the housetops of every community in the state that the federal government that great and rich government ought to forego collection. They will have all kinds of arguments why it ought to be done, but their real reason for doing so will be to obtain votes for their own election to office. They will be saying to the people that it will not be repudiation if the federal government says it does not desire to collect, yet, it is my contention that such proceedings will be thoroughly dishonest. It will be exactly the same as if the state had said I won t pay. President on Wrong Track In Lambasting Georgia Uhen Mr Roosevelt was giving the people of Georgia a tongue lashing therefore, I believe he was on the wrong truck. He was lambasting them for continuing to run tliur uffurs on a sound basis, for t to avoid subservience to the nation il guvernmint, and f r rvfus-- i' g to surrender completely the ri, hts of a sov cri ign state lor, bo it known, tiu re are viry few easier wavs to forte a state or county or city cr oilier subdivision of govern-imn- t bossed by the to become nat-ona- ss shay. Presidents Statement May Be Clever Political Move I am position to know whethof Georgia to obey the Roosevelt command entered into the discourse that has since become an issue. Nor am I well enough acquainted with New Deal plans to say whether the President has taken his first step for 1940 convention delegates in this way. It is possible, obviously, that the Warm Springs statement may be a clever political move. Think of it this way: by starting a row, the President possibly could be laying the groundwork e for uniting the forces If they are united and fighting, it is within the realm of possibilities that they could take the Georgia delegation out of Senator Georges control in 1940. That would be a great victory for the radical element of the Democratic party. Then, too, the Warm Springs declaration may be designed to have an effect on the forthcoming congress. I think it goes without saying that the new congress is going to be very much different than that which it supplants. For one thing, there will be less very much less money voted for the administration to use as it sees fit There will be a bloody battle before congress again writes out blank checks for Hopkins or Harold Ickes to use. It is likely, Indeed, that there will be some rather rigorous investigations of things already done under the blank check appropriations of money. If the investigations are thorough, there will be a stench rise from the committee room where the job is done. Thus, if Mr Roosevelt hopes, by the Warm Springs statement, to awaken a fresh thirst for money among local politicians throughout the country, it may be a piece of clever politics. Whatever the purpose of the criticism of the Georgia prohibition against borrowing, it can not alter the fundamentals of the situation. Georgia, as a state, is better off. It will be far better off 10 years from now when the country has sorted out the good things of the New Deal and put them to proper use Its citizens will be happier and less burdened with taxation at a time when the people of Pennsylvania, for example, are using piofane language about paying for needless and usea state of less improvements mind they surely will reach as soon as they have forgotten the mouth-ing- s of politicians and have begun to pay through the nose. in no er the failure anti-Georg- Can Washington Horn in On a States Policies? There is yet another element involved in the situation precipitated by Mr. Roosevelts Warm Springs statement. It involves the question, directly, whether a state shall determine its own policies or have them dictated from Washington. Only a few days ago, the department of labor disclosed that it was trying to persuade all of the states to pa legislation exactly like the federal law governing wages and hours of workers. The departments bureaucrats have drafted a model law which they are trying eagerly to get the states to adopt, so that business within a state will be subjected to the same provisions as business operating across state lines. That same com se was put sued whtn NRA was young and bfore it was discovered that the blue eagle hid more feathers in one wing than it had in the otiur. Those things are dangerous Once such tattus aie successful, they are followed bv dt rranls and commands of brondi r sc pe Vt sH rn Ncvnp ipor Union. F. PARTON The other day, a dapper little old man street instepped into a big Wall asked and office vestment banking for the top boss, W.C. Durant W1th an air of In Scrimmage assurance. He . had an audience Again at 77 and came out full of business and stepping high. A friend, who was doing business there that day, reports to me that the peppy visitor was William G. Durant, twice head of General Motors, once the master of $100,000,000, and that, and of Santa Clara, Alaskan Father Bernard R. Hubbard. S. J.. (circle inset) geologist of the University at the age of 77, Mr. Durant was twelfth corsecutive ye his from to this returned who country recently explorer, scouting new capital for another native boat as Lef : I is shown on location during his 18 month sojourn near the Arctic circle A big tourney in motor finance. tip of Point Barw. J a church. Father Hubbard celebrates the Mass for his companions on the mo My friend couldnt learn whethcontinent. Right An farthest north Mass has ever been offered in the U. S. Alaskan ma.nland of this er he got it, but said he had at world the large. surveys beard there was a deal on which babys balcony seat. Perched in the parka hood of Us mother the baby proudly might put Mr. Durant on the mam line again. He said the little Napoleon of early day auto finance looked as if he were about to merge all companies and skim the cream. It was in 1910 that the bankers crowded Mr. Durant out of the presidency of General Motors. He was back m 1915 and out again in 1920, m the post-wa- r crash, m which he of his own $90,000,000 jettisoned money, trying to stop the dowm-slid- e of the stock. He took his losses casually and was busy for years in daring market forays, but never quite converted any of his passes. . An acquaintance of this writer, who knew Mr. Durant well, told me how he laughed off his second relinquishment of his motors kingdom. I built the greatest automobile building in the world, at Detroit, he said, according to my informant, and when I did it, I fixed it so they wont soon forget me. Hidden somewhere in every column and every capital and big stark of that building there is a deeply chiseled D. There wasnt anything anonymous about that job, and I took Duke forest, is the home of 33 students at the Duke Log Cabin Quadrangle, on the edge of the 5,000-acr- e good care to leave my mark on university law school. The buildings are of log and concrete construction. There are four of the cabins, it.' with a recreational hall in the center. Cabins are linked together by a covered walkway. Accommodations are So did the king in Kiplings poem, at a premium, and those who live there are pleased with the atmosphere and advantages for study. when he was pulled off his big palace building job, when They said He Carved thy use is fulfilled. on every timber and cut on every 30,000 and the poem concludes, stone, After me cometh a builder; tell him I, too, have known. NEW national government than the way that has been chosen through the use of money. In fact, it seems l rather a sour note in our policies to witness almost complete subjugation of states or lesser areas by the use of federal money when, with another hand, the government through the various propaganda agencies or by legal action constantly threatens to send private persons or corporations to jail for seeking selfish control for private gam. The only difference that I can see is that one is purely for monetary gam in the case of private action, while m the governmental situation, the benefits are political from which rascals or crooks eventually get their graft. Some Washington writers, in conWarm sidering the President's Springs outburst, attributed his frame of mind to the fact that Georgias citizens (or a majority of them) refused to follow Mr. Roosevelts demand for the defeat of Sen. Walter George. You remember, of course how Mr. Roosevelt went into Georgia and endorsed United States Attorney Lawrence Camp for the Democratic senatorial nomination. It is of fresh recollection, too, how he said that Senator George was old fashioned out dated almost a one-ho- YORK. Log Cabins House 32 Duke University Lawyers Parachute Jumper Makes Foot Leap TO AID MEDICINE Villeneuve-St- f 1 1 r iris 4t 1 j til Hawaiian Clippers Go to the Fair It i' ... , If 4- $ - ! Two rare Tarxius monkeys, said to be the only ones ever Imported into this country, are now subjects for medical rese irt h at 1 ale unl cr sity. The tiny monkeys are about the size of l.u ge rats. Formerly located at Alameda, Calif , all base racililus for Airways' lliwanan clipptrs are bung moved lo the new Pacific Trans aliport at TreaMire island, site of tbe 1939 Golden Gate exposition, where an arlifiiial harbor (see arrow) will beiome the permanent starting place for future flights to Hawaii and the Orient, At Budapest in Hungary statute to Anonymous, a notary t who wrote a chronicle of Hungarian his tory, the first page of which having his name was lost; hence the of an unknown historian. Salt Symbol of Loyalty For thousands of years, salt has been the symbol of loyalty and fidelity among many peoples. Thus "a covenant of salt, or an agreement pledge, pact or bond of friendship ratified by a meal that includes salt says Colliers Weekly, is held to be permanent, unalterable and sacred Government Debt and Taxes The government debt in the United States in 1900 was equal to $40 per person. Last year it wa3 about $442 per person. P' C Origin of Word Sybarite A sybarite is a person; a lover of ease and comfort. The inhabitants of Sybaris, m South Italy, were proverbial for their luxurious living and A bi m in si tale is told by Seneca of a Sybarite w ho complained .that h could not rest comfortably at mgV, and being asked why, replied that he found a roseleaf doubled under is ro pe m se him. or From Longfe'lows Poem The source of the line Into each life some rain must fall, is Henry W. Longfellows poem, The Rainy Day, also called An April Day The first line reads, The day is cold, and dark, and dreary. m to Early Irish Monasteries Irish monasteries date from Fifth century. the The Greatest Tidi s When the moon Is full, the sun. eaith and moon ore nc irly in line, nnd we have the yrcaUst tides, called the spt lug fdi s C'OR several years, Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachu--sett- s Institute of Technology and one of the nations greatest scientists, the . has tor Science- - no explored man.s land between an ex Government panding government and an expanding technology. He thinks they ought to get together but he Is no advocate of bureaucracy or extreme federalization. He doesnt like the idea of the government getting on anybodys neck. He thinks the government, with its vast resources, might be an invaluable collaborator with science, and should be, in fact, but he advances this idea warily, as he finds creativeness and social progress in the old American without elaborate governmental trimmings. He never claimed an ivory tower, and sees the problem in its simple social components of jobs, a rising standard of living, social progress and security. lie notes the potentialities of the machine, in certain individual Instances, and assesses industrial management with finding a corrective. This qualified admission is in sharp contrast to the view of Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, another distinguished scientist who has wrestled with the same problem. Doctor Millikan is for throwing the throttle wide open, with the certainty that machines ultimately will make more jobs than they destroy. Both, however, prescribe as a cure for our technological Ills more of the hair of the dog that bit us. The difference tn view is that Dr, Compton urges certain collective rationalizations and Judicious controls by industry and management. For many years Dr. Compton has been blasting at the inner citadel of the atom to seize there the hidden golden key of umltm-lie- d power which has long been the pie in the sky of the great pbysmsts. He batters down rampart now and then, and, in the long view of the scientists, thinks that we may some day tap reservoirs of energy so vast that all our present ills will be easily soluble then in. He has headed MIT since 1910 N nv rounding 50 He was head of the di p irtment of physics at Princeton bifire in 50. one of the most ruddy gulundid men of his prufes si n in honors and records of aclmn emrnt irrj Now Features n St rvu e BI PI (X rei ( ail was ea to Aquila an Imaginary Place Aquila is an imaginary place. In the novel, Action at Aquila, it is supposed to be a few miles south of Luray, Va., and west of the Blue Ridge along the Shenandoah river. of ch tal lio rai Sti pri tiO wh thi Fine Furs j i job-killi- s re as Romans Wore False Teeth The wearing of false teeth common among the Romans. free-for-a- ll, Commit s at resigns job Raymond Kennedy of Cleveland, Ohio, didnt believe that he was earning the salary paid him by the government, so he resigned. His duties called for inspection of equipment valued at $1,500,000. He felt that taking the manufacturers word would be incompatible to his oath of office, and unable to inspect all of the equipment, resigned. 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