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Show titajtAH BASIN RECORD Bruchart IN Washington Digest Find Joker in Department of Agriculture Appropriation Bill Its the Food Stamps and Heres IIow Advanced Thinkers Think It Will Work; Billion Dollars Is All They Want. TIIE WINK OF AN EYE Two-To- n the Boards Tony to Tread WHOS NEWS (. s f THIS Soon-to-Be-Famo- By WILLIAM BRUCKART tVNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. It was not so can take those stamps to his six or eight years, perhaps that the annual cost of the department of agriculture to the taxpayers of the country amounted to something like $40,000,000. There was some talk even in those days about the drain upon the federal treasury resulting from department of agriculture operations. The totals were questioned; many persons wondered whether the politicians were justified in voting that much money to the department because there was little to show in the way of results. That is, congressmen could show very little except the packages of seeds sent out to their districts. It was in those days, however, that the department of agriculture was seeking to operate effectively. Farming was not regarded by the folks who used to run the department as a subject for politics. The departmental officials were going about their business, rendering assistance in the form of advice and promoting better farming when Uie farmers asked for it I was reminded of those days recently when the house appropriations committee brought out for consideration the appropriations bill for the department of agriculture for the fiscal year that begins next July 1. A Rip Van Winkle who could have slept through the last 10 years would have believed, truly, that he was in another world. The new money bill for the department con0 tains a total of more than The measure, indeed, ranks as the third largest appropriations bill of this year when altogether 0 there is likely to be almost appropriated. long ago $1,000,-000,00- $10,000,-000,00- What Is Planned to Do With a Billion Dollars It is extremely difficult to realize what a billion dollars is. That is, it is difficult for me to understand what it is. I can write the figures glibly enough. But to 'comprehend that sum of money, or a billion of anything, is something almost outside the pale of human knowledge. Yet that is what the department of agriculture seeks this year, and here is how that money is supposed to be divided: $429,560 000 for soil conservation payments. $250,000,000 for parity payments. $191,000,000 for road building. $21,462,000 for soil and moisture conservation and operations. $24,984 000 for the farm tenancy program. $7,175,000 for eradicating tuberculosis and Bangs disease. $6,996,570 for the weather bureau and its services. $4 978,000 for retiring submarginal lands. $1,631,000 for soil and moisture investigation. $1,500,000 for wild life restoration. $300,000 for farm forestry. $250,000 for the water facilities program. There were some other odds and ends embracing items of 20 or 40 or 90 thousand dollars, amounts so small that men almost smirk because they have forgotten how to speak in such limited numbers. Then, and here Is the joker which is hidden away. I really should not say "hidden because no reference Is made in the agriculture bill language. The joker is that there are almost countless millions of other dollars with which the department can play around, including approximately $100,000,000 of money for use in getting rid of farm surpluses. That is the money from which Secretary Wallace and his advanced thinkers will draw funds for the food stamps. The country got its belly full of blue eagles before the NRA was plowed under. But the undistinguished, yet befitting, end that came to the NRA blue eagle has not deterred the advanced thinkers from attempting something else that is blue a blue stamp for relief food. Yes, relief workers will have the same wages as before, but they will receive free blue stamps with which to buy surplus products for foods. WEEK r-- A'L YORK. There is an Anthony flavor about the way Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles denounces Germany in the gro- Our Welles No Flop in Poll of Best Dressers The natural or reflex wink of an to V of a second, eye lasts from according to measurements taken photography unby der the supervision of Dr, J. F. Southbrldge, Mass. The sly second. to wink lasts from nt Neu-niuell- contender, reTony Galenfo, Orange, N. J., heavyweight contract in a New his cently embarked on a theatrical career. Signing of serenading the by thing into the spirit got York theater, Tony right Linda Yale, a model. The serenade was brought to a close by Mrs, Galento, left, who decided to put a stop to the nonsense. Two-To- n World Aggressors Headache to Map Makers T The marine and few consume more than half produced NE of Carl Sandburgs songs runs: "I have led a quiet youth, careful of my morals; I shall have an old age full of vice and quarrels. Youth in Peace so it goes with And Quiet ; Nou Walter Bren- makmg In Rum and Riot naa. a distinguished film career playing likable old reprobates. Hollywood pegs him as the successor to Will Rogers, and four Rogers pictures are being readied for him. He is a personable young man of 40, but, in "Barbary Coast, "Kentucky, and such earlier films as Smilin Guns and The Lariat Kid, he came through handsomely as a tough r, and now thats his ticket. He likes it, and, living these roles, becomes a sage, homespun old codger given to offhand, David Harum aphorisms. I have heard of similar trends in Hollyoccupational wood. He says he is growing old happily. With a new Europe, a new Asia and the possibility of a new Africa in the making, of America as well as the rest of the world are finding it a gigantic task to keep abreast with the constantly pochanging litical frontiers. One man Adolf Hitler has caused the cartographers untold headaches. They spend months correcting all their charts, changing names, revising colors and ordering new prints. Then in three or four days the maps are worthless except for reference works. Boundaries have again been changed. Globe maps, pictured at the left, are more difficult to correct than flat maps, and present problems altogether different. map-make- rs But West Point Was Never Like This safety precautions JV5W5WV- r ' Awywww v ' t ' V- He first upped himself as an oldster by lying about his age to get in the war. Gassed in France, he lost all his teeth and got a rasp in his voice, which also helped. He i raised pineapples in Guatemala, made money, lost it in Los Angeles real estate, and then crashed the films. Born and reared in Swamp scott, Mass., he is a master of the quaint western and southwestern 4 th publicity bis So, ifT Kvsptmm"! Qli When in KhM), HOTEL louien-- k; nl daii'ea ,i PAR' K,ndirJf,hfl!' vouth jj FELT ALTO wreck, v Auto and Truck "- the of t USED AUTO praise. ichin. 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Salt Lske V 1 V Js M tsice v MINERAL WOOL! istven tjf 1 WHEN shrt 4 The British governments new am not prepared to say that the gas Lawrence Breckcdorff, one of 20 West Toint cadets who mask for children under two years recently wild life restoration program is spent a week-en- d as guests of the National Tark college at Forest of age as it was demonstrated rewholly bad. It seems probable that Glen, Md., gels the very best of service from Niki Manos, Jean Fox cently in London. The mask has a the country ought to rebuild the Betty Bcvan and Hilda Cato, left to right, students at the girls school! bellows attached to furnish the wild life stocks that have been wanbaby The future generals reported a very entertaining with air. trip. in the days when tonly destroyed people could go out and shoot ducks or deer or what have you without thought of the morrow. It is a program for which considerable justification can be advanced. 1 rf But it is to be noted that most of these items are small. Neither the V department of agriculture administration nor the members of the Fy, house and the senate have seen fit to do more than maintain them. I have seen the inmates of the Capitol squirm and fuss and scowl about some of them, while swallowing the items reaching into hundreds of millions with the greatest of glee. How Wallaces Men Think As I said, it was not so long ago Blue Food Stamp Will Work that department of agriculture apwere regarded as huge I must write a little bit about that propriations if totalled 40 millions. As far blue food stamp, about how the ad- as they I can vanced thinkers think it will work, ter off see, agriculture is no bettoday than it was in those before I report on the main departcourse, a very great ment of agriculture appropriation years. Of number of farmers have learned bill. that the beaut.ful phrases like "the It seems to be Secretary Wallaces more abundant life and such, are idea of a more abundant life to desmeaningless. But I venture the ignate certain farm products each that the education has been week as being "surplus and to help rather expensive. get them off of the glutted market From all of these things It is by making them available for relief made to appear tnat there surely worKers kitchens. The first trial of the scheme will be limited to six are some large Ethiopian gentlemen in the wood pile. When the politiWhen Postmaster William M. Jones of ilia Grove, cities. In those areas, the relief III., found roads rlnad by n",ds he and the advanced thinkers Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway to cians appealed to the his wife expecting the stork supervisors will be supplied with l Tustola to hands nearest joined was located. manage agriculture, "here the hospital Having no other equipment handy the dii Mim'0" books of blue stamps. They are " rather pretty stamps, too. Each just then federal expenses for the caboose, tender and locomotive and rushed the slrhken mother to Tuscola The haf" h"dnt hooked UP this later, attended by Dr. K. W Tajlor, radway phjsUUn. ?rrived lw hours WPA woiker will get a book of department of agriculture began roslmastc, lo C wci and thanks to Engineer William Mercer who piloted the stork spcvial. stamps of a specified value. He zooming upward. I Stork Special Wins Close Race to Hospital Pj'lTi this writer was doing turn helping build the Panama canal, he fell in with a Jamaica Negro water boy, a sort of Gunga Din of a . J. Taylor H as squad of Parai Jamaica Boys so swampers ho was wr Idea of Canal ried about the canal being too narrow. In the quaint lingo of the British-taugisland Negroes, he used to say: Yes bahs, ships grow hugely In coming years and if some is fighting ship it must go swiftly and not fear other passing great ship. Axing parding sir, we Jamaica boys say canal need great enlarging. Frank J. Taylor, president of the American Merchant returns marine, from the canal to New York with tbe me idea- - He says congress should spend $300,000,000 to widen the canal for both commercial and national defense reasons. Mr. Tay-lors career is Brooklyns favorite boy who made good story-fr- om daylt, 35000 a year, which is the possibly vulgar epitome of such careers in this day and age. t 'V- - sjjssiwJvr, f his jbirbable rttet bas hotels idiom. Lv wuib g t jooth absence of Secretary Hull, and therejs an Edenish flavor aout our Mr. is He tall He is lean. himself. Welles He has a wee, precise mustache, and him in a w'hy nobody has picked poll is a mystery. His long, big nose is perfectly cut, too, and not a hair is out of place in the roaches thinning pompadour that forehead. domed a from back This Is not, however, to hint that the undersecretary is anycent thing less than 100 per American. He was born in New York City 46 years or so ago. President Roosevelts own Groton and Harvard shaped him, and he is at home in four or five clubs that insist on looking up candidates in the Doomsday book of the Revolution of 76. His church, naturally, is the Episcopal church, and his home now is understandably in historic Maryland, where two sons are no doubt also preparing for Vt0P Users of The diplomatic gauntlet that he ran to reach his present post extends back to 1915 and Tokyo. Betimes he has been much in South America. He has been first assistant since 1937 to Secretary HulL Learn Beautiful Phrases But at Rather High Cost Union .t Groton. See Possibility of Creating Western Nevtsouoer is popular America. If1"' game of tfength as A Usually two Inen from I FI t arated places each being Ibacked bv a population o his ovate I course is of three to foa f length, the idea being to the distance to an srcKC agreoj Detroit lie house in the fe best-dresse- d A Lot of Bootleggers 5 PARTON NEW There is another phase of the picture which was mentioned to me by Representative Hope of Kansas, one of the ranking members of the house committee on agriculture. He suggested that the blue stamps are going to create a lot of bootleggers. For example: the relief workers are not permitted to buy liquor with the stamps. They won't be redeemed if they are used to buy anything but food. However, Mr. Hope could see no reason why a relief worker couldnt use the stamps to buy liquor from a liquor store and the liquor store owner might possibly be a crook. It is possible, you know. He might own a food store, too, or he might have an understanding with a food store owner who would take the stamps at a few pennies discount. What is to stop such procedure? Its your guess. The whole thing strikes me as being so silly as to defy one's powers of imagination. It is dealt with here at such length only because I regard it as typical of a great many things that are going on within the department of agriculture for which more than $1,000,000,000 is soon to be appropriated for a years operations. The blue stamp scheme is destined to fail, even as the plowing under of crops and the slaughtering of 6,000,000 pigs was doomed and as the limitation of crop production was certain to flare back on those who were sucked into the maelstrom of nit wit plans. Now, lest I be misunderstood, let me restate with emphasis that there is good work that the department can do, and has been doing. Road building appropriations, for instance. Where would this country be had there been no attempt to build usable roads? Who can say that eradication of tuberculosis and Bang's disease among live stock Is not a valuable aid to farmers? in Elr Joutstand By LEMUEL F. cery store and use them just like they were quarters, or half dollars or dollars. The groceryman will take them and he will be paid United States money for them. Thus will the surplus stocks of food products be reduced and the remainder will bring better prices. Or so say the advanced thinkers. When I read the explanation of the program that was sent me by one of Mr. Wallaces publicity staff, the first thing that struck me was the extreme discrimination that will result It is easy to see. Take any man who is trying to hold dowm a private job. It may be paying him only $50 a month, or about the same as the relief worker gets. Naturally, he would like to be making more money. Who wouldnt? But he sticks on his job and stays off of relief. Then, when he gets paid he goes to the grocery store to buy some food. He pays cash, and gets his food. About the same moment a relief worker walks in, orders the same list of groceries, perhaps, and pays for them out of a stamp book. It appears to me that the hard bitten private worker is going to find little solace in remaining on his job. It strikes me he and millions of others are going to be resentful of such tactics. Bowling do open road' and beaqt b.uiice $o the more ' r orphan ,ad n a Manhattan slum, at work at 12 as an apprentice at Robbins dry lDhe R(d Hook section of Brooklyn. He rose in politics, n the state assembly far 12 terms, sheriff, commissioner of records, welfare commissioner and comptroller of New York Retiring from the last office Florida, but me steamship owners tracked him down h'm WUl thls 35 government intrusion on private enterprise, but says the shipping interests will ef- 1037, he went to Inexpensive. Save fuel. 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