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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Bruckarts Washington Digest All Labor-Displacin- Where Canadian Government Guards Enemies WHOS Machinery Would Be Taxed Under New Bill g NEWS Wyomings Senator OMahoney Presents Congress With the Latest Cure-Al- l for Aiding Americas Unemployed. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bid?., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. I am writing this dispatch, as usual, on my typewriter. If I wrote it with pen or pencil, many hours of time would be required. Moreover, with my penmanship, there certainly would be difficulties ahead for the linotype operator in the print shop. So, the typewriter from my viewpoint is a great labor saver as well as a great time saver. It is both of those things despite my method of typing. I hunt em and hit em. I am grateful to whomever invented the typewriter. It has con tributed much to our economic life. It never complains or goes on n strike, especially a strike, unless some part is broken. As far as I know, there has never been a union of typewriters, headed by a paid agitator whose tenure of office depended largely upon how much trouble he could cause. Yet, it is conceivable that I may have to pay a tax because I own this weather-beatecreaky old machine that has served me welL There was a bill introduced in the senate some days ago that places a tax on the use of machinery that I am displacing displaces labor. labor by using my own typewriter. Of course, the use . of the typewriter illustration was thoroughly exaggerated. I entertain no fears that such a tax ever will be laid. n, ! f, : i'v & ik--i On the other hand, Senator Norris, of Nebraska, had an idea that the OMahoney bill would act as a stop sign on general progress. He ; ; $ JJ ? p& rjp: h. v a' v Ik WEEK 1 4 - By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated thought that there would be little reason for any one to invent new things. The Nebraskan thought the nation ought to hesitate long perhaps forever unless there is real compulsion under conditions that we cannot resist before we erect a stop sign of that kind." There can be no doubt that the general human reaction to the OMahoney bill would be even more severe than pictured by Senator Norris. Peo- pie are like, 1 jk I 4k r1 Official attempt at lower Their Negotiations Saw End to progress and projects that would mean better things prices. That Russo-Finnis- h War lower price thing long has represented a great clamor in this country. My own opinion is that the OMahoney bill is about as silly as any that have come into the legislative mill in my ex' perience. Classification of Machinery Would Be Superhuman Task As I said at the outset, in referring to the use of a typewriter, that was a bald exaggeration. But let me ask who is there that can say it is outside of the realm of possibility when a law is enacted that permits a group of individuals in Washington to determine what is and what is not labor-savin- g machinery? That, in itself, is a superhuman task. Labor-savin- g machinery may be an absolute necessity in one place and a luxury in another. But in either case, the general public gets the benefit The theory advanced in the OMahoney bill is part and parcel of the category of alleged "new and progressive ideas about which we have so often heard recently the things that are gurgled over and made the subject of great propaganda and that has flopped. As see it and according to the judgment of many persons with whom I have talked, here is an example of government run wild. The only answer I have been able sen. josEra c. omahoney to find is that somebody with brain sold Senator Yet, I insist that such an end is screwy conceivable under the bill spon- OMahoney a bill of goods. Those fellows and Washington Is oversored Senator by OMahoney, I say it is flowing with that type of crackpot Wyoming Democrat. conceivable because for a quarter these days have a capacity for of a century I have observed how making things appear beautiful. sometimes the most innocent use Even though the proposal is ridicof government power spawns and ulous and there is no chance whatgrows and becomes an octopus with soever of congress ever enacting it tentacles that reach far beyond any into law, I have devoted space to ones wildest fancy of the day the the subject because of the implications that are given by introduction original law was passed. The O'Mahoney bill contemplates of such legislation. It indicates a no such extension of the tax to me deterioriation of national thinking and it shows unmistakably a tendin my capacity as a correspondent. It is designed to deal with and lay ency on the part of a great many a tax on machines that, for inpeople to throw overboard the very stance, may do the work of a thou essentials of the system that has sand men and require only one at- made the United States the greatest nation in the world and the best tendant. place in which to live. 1 Qbject of 0Mahoney,s Bill Is to Reduce Unemployment The objective of Senator OMa honeys bill is to reduce unemployment It proposes to levy a tax where machines of the type just mentioned are used. It would be fair with business, according to the senators explanation in debate, a tax by allowing a tax credit reduction where an employer used the maximum of hand labor, although I do not know how such industries as the automobile manufacturers, for example, could build the cars we have today with hand labor. The cost would be out of sight and I, among thousands of others, would be unable to own a motor car. Senator OMahoney made one statement while discussing his bill that seems to have full merit He said it seems clear to me that the only way to reduce unemployment is to stimulate private industry for our experience has demonstrated that government cannot provide the jobs that are needed to restore prosBut he argued that his perity. proposal would provide that stimulation because of the system of rewards that gave tax reduction to employers who used the largest possible number of workers. Aiding Unemployment. William Bruckart today discusses a bill introduced into the senate by Sen. Joseph C. OMahoney of Wyoming, in which the senator proposes a tax on all machinery that displaces labor. According to Bruckart, there is very little likelihood of the bill passing but he writes about it because he feels it is typical of a trend In present-dainThe famous census come question is also reviewed. y month war between Finland and Russia Principal figures in bringing to an end the three and one-hawere (left to right) Viacheslav M. Molotoff, Soviet foreign commissar; Rysto Ryti, premier of the Republic of Finland; and Dr. Juho Paasikivi, Finlands outstanding expert on Russo-Finniaffairs. Ryti and Molotoff headed the groups that agreed upon terms of a peace treaty between the two countries. Russias grip over the northern Baltic was virtually clinched by the terms of the peace treaty reached with Finland. Terms of the treaty were considered by authorities to be much harsher than pre-wRussian demands. lf sh ar Scientist Proves Theres Magic in Mud Plan Convention abas-th- ten a poem about it. In one detail, however, British traditionalism again prevails. Sir Muirhead Bone, official artist of the World war, is again officially appointed as the artist of the navy, and it is understood that he also will render the graphic reC' ords of the conflict on land as well. Sir Muirhead, 64 years old, of Scottish birth, is one of the worlds most distinguished etchers. He is also a painter, but in the years between the big wars he has turned more to etching. That is, with the trend of the times, as a modern war is decidedly an etchers war. Skeleton trees on a blasted hillside, g trenches, the splintered chaos of peasants huts, the angular dynamics of war machinery, all lend themselves to Sir Muirheads superlative drypoint. There isnt much of the painters mass and color in an war no gay plumes, bright uniforms and snorting black horses. There are, instead, the sullen monochromes of desolation, the inert black and white of sharply graven ruin. There were plenty of bands playing when Sir Muirhead was appointed official war artist in 1916. He painted boldly or etched deeply his pictures for the war museum, for which be later became trustee. Much was made, not only of the Importance of a minutely observed pictorial record of the war, but of the availability of so great an artist to render its full aesthetic values. This time, there is a perfunctory announcement, only a few lines, of Sir Muirheads appointment. Not even in the graphic arts is war getting its accustomed fanfare. This writer remembers well Sir Muirheads masterful drawings in the "international studio of an earlier and happier day mellow architectural studies, or placid landscape in English byways where no airraid siren ever sounded. He was the son of a Glasgow journalist, studying art at a night school. It was in 1901 that he went to England, to become an honorary doctor of letters at Oxford and one of the most famous artists of England. He has exhibited in New York several times and has an enthusiastic following among critics and the American art public. way back to the States with an cated pack of cards, and he is ing to get away from a banana p tation. Till We M Then theres Again. For this one, Merle 0l George Brent and Pat OBrien board- ed the Beren-d- a S. S. almost every for six morning weeks for a trip from China to San Francisco. For All This and Heaven Too Bette Davis crosses the channel from England to France. And all on the same lot! Merle zig-za- Oben FI The College Qaa chosen from 462 colleges from Atlantio to the Pacific, will picked by Paramount in a satin contest inaugurated in connect with the world premiere of "IV Were the Days, to be hell Galesburg, III., on May 21. Colley girls who have beauty and dramd talent will be selected by the dividual colleges; photographs of entrants will be sent to New Yet and from the 48 chosen for the sea finals, (one for each state) 12 a be picked to go to Galesburg, winner will go to Hollywood. I -- et ;Vi STiS! 'tie a s TN 1937, Rep. John E. Miller of Arkansas made his campaign for the United States senatorship against the New Deal patronage Arkansas Senator Hi backers Is Ardent Foe of charged that Revised Hatch A ct his PPnent Gov. Carl E. Bailey, had the active support of his organization of 5,000 state employees, and of various members of the New Deal cabinet. e Miller, running as an Independent against machine politicians, achieved a sensational victory, as he won the seat of the late Joe T. Robinson. He was the first independent elected to a major political office in Arkansas since the early reconstruction days. His success was acclaimed as a triumph over patronage politics. Today, by one of those curlons reversals of political form which make news, Senator Miller is the, most conspicuous opponent of the extension and strengthening of the Hatch law, directed against political mixing in politics. He would not only block its extension to cover state supported in part by federal funds, but he would repeal section nine which bars governmental employees from political activity. The lean, bespectacled Senator Miller is somewhat professorial In appearance, and, incidentally, was graduated from Cape Girardeau Teachers college, in Valparaiso, Ind. However, he later turned to the law and has been a practicing attorney in Searcy, Ark., since 1912. He was prosecuting attorney and county judge before his election to the house in 1930. He Is a native of Stoddard County, Mo. 21-2- 3. Its The Better 01c for R. Verbal Bomber rs IN THE light A member of the crew of a British Awaiting orders are these members of the British royal air force, bombing plane demonstrated the stationed in a duty office dugout somewhere ill France. The pilots on method of dropping propaganda duty are sitting around the stove trying to keep warm while anticipating leaflets on enemy territory. The Hying orders. The switchboard at right is in direct communication verbal bombs are slipped throu-- a with R. A. F, headquarters. chute and scatter as they f of not so ancient history, it is quite clear as to why Francis B. Sayre thinks we ought to get rid of the Philippines. Our high commissioner is a holder of the Grand Cross of the White Elephant, Less pertinent, but interesting is the fact that he also is a knight commander of the Chula Krom Klav, and a Phia Kaiyan Matrl. These titles were bestowed on him by thegratefully king of Siam, when, in the early 1920s, Mr Sayre was adviser to the king and aided in many treaty negotiations. Ha j lb' s thy: tesec -a stanc ed h you see Diamonds A Dangerous, (with Isa Miranda a George Brent in the leading rota its probable that youll try to i member where youve seen one the girls who plays a minor roi The girl plays the part of a you lady who is having an extreme u,e good time in a night club. She ;ase very pretty, with blonde hair a j, g,, blue eyes and a lovely smile. Pi a(j haps youll recognize her, for s ever is Virginia Lee Corbin, who mi j n,f a million as a motion picture actu j,oo( before she was 16. y, From 1913 to 1926 she was a and name at the box office. Now sh mee staging a comeback, beginning hiz an extra. The moneys gone, pea public of today doesnt know hi men But shes on her way up again. a sit When . :llg Soenij that Dinah Shore has bees the songstress star of the Now boys at Columbia, NBC who handled her Koe u pi it ei thi r Cros licity must be thinking that m dill, is a queer business. For a I bin now these lads have been gid azeri Dinah a terrific buildup, fit i Fra must have spent thousands of i sling lars on special photographs, slue sing and writers time to publicize i sianci name and talent. And what is as Cr fruit of their efforts? Her first r d ai lazzi mercial program lands her rival network! last : ( i aerate! Repre-sentativ- Approaching its century milestone is the Illinois State Medical society, first established in 1810. Dr. James Using crude Bentonite clay, Dr. Ernest Hauser, Massachusetts In- II. Hutton, president (seated) and stitute of Technology scientist, has developed a new substance which is Dr. J. S. Nagle, oldest member of impervious to the strongest acids and alk&Ucs and is fire, oil and water the societys council, discuss plans proof. The substance may be processed to be made as pliable as silk. for the centennial convention to be The clay is mined in Wyoming, California and many other places. held in Peoria, HI., May hi nsi Bernie program via Income Question in Census Is Example of New Trend There was another evidence of this tendency disclosed in the forms to be used by the census takers. Much stink ha3 been raised around here by such as Senator Tobey, of New Hampshire, who fought vigorously against allowing the census bureau to ask every one what his income is and where it comes from. Of course, those questions were forced onto the census bureau by Harry Hopkins, former professional reliever turned secretary of commerce. Mr. Hopkins would glory in such details as the situation of every individual in the United States; but why he thought people would tell the truth about their income is quite beyond my understanding. It would make more liari than prohibition did. I believe there has been a compromise reached on the income questions for the census so that individuals can write their incomes on a plain piece of paper and mail it to Washington, without any signature. That is better. It still represents too much government in my Also, it Illustrates how opinion. government can expand and creep and soon become boss. The real danger then, as i see it, Is that politicians will go out in the forthcoming campaign and employ their best brand of demagoguery to sell more of this trash if they think that such campaigning will get votes. The difficulty, it must be admitted, is that voters will hear the glowing description of proposed political panaceas, curealls and quack remedies without having the real possibilities told to them. Using Die OMuhoney bill again as an example, the senators explanation of it made a picture of a prosperous and happy America. Artist Of Present War Has Experience High in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, west of Calgary, is located one of two Canadian internment camps where enemy aliens are kept under guard for the duration of the war. Left: One of the watch towers overlooking the internment camp. Right: Scene at guard mounting time. Here the temperature goes down to well below zero, but guards and prisoners are well equipped with warm clothing. Camp buildings are seen in the background. one to seek WNU Service. This war, so far, NEW lacked bands and banners and all other- such traditional ex citements and John Masefield has is no further need for any Features YORK. ly to feel that there A GREAT deal of trav4 1 is going on at the Warn! Brothers studio, most of it sea. Errol Flynn and Bren Marshall are sailing the with a crew of 400 Albatross and Mad' de Dios for scenes in J; Sea Hawk. On another sts Ann Sheridan and JaK: Cagney are traveling fo Honduras to NewYorkabogi the S. S. Arturo in Ton Zone. She is working v gjyrv:-- f By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper THIS Twelve Hollywood tourists m drafted from Los Angeles hote.? j jurors to , ? i y'4: J Rudy Vallce audience rea i tRudy V2: i With Am. World were treated a real jury; en supper, sa made ! promised br fast if their liberations all night. PJ ings of jury not made P by the forenJ Benay Venuta, the vivacious star of the George Jessel gram, has been telling friends story. It occurred during rehe of the program on which John rymore was guest star. A pb rapher hovered about, anxiou get some shots of the actor, fearful that he might object, a annoyed was considerably t cameramen In general at that 80, Finally the photographer enough courage to approach "Would yodnr Great Lover. posing for pictures, Mr. c Mind?' more? he asked. ow leaning Then, Barrymore. you Would whispered loudly, kissing Madeleine Carroll?" Joseph Freni, the dent of the french horn wbo featured soloist on the Viol house program. Musical Anicr U recently, is hoping that he the summer in South AnierMj is a candidate for the American Youth Orchestra, will tour Central and South lea under the direction of r- The ( ftly new show, ing Stokowski. mal and final haven't been held yet, Who heard him on Americana broadcast he has a pretty good but the feel ure chance ? sj man Ais tl |