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Show UINTAH DASIN RECORD '3STS?n BEAUTIFUL Dre-Alik- T WHOS National Topes Interpreted by 'William Bruckart The record ot congress has been fully written and a No Congress backward look of a few weeks gives Like It one the impression that probably there never was a congress like it. Certainly, I can say without equivocation that I have seen nothing like it in the 20 years that I have served as a Washington observer. has been almost The Seventy-fiftconstantly in session since January, 1937. There were two regular sessions long ones and there was that extraordinary session of last November 15 which succeeded completely in one task only, the matter of the traveling expenses which are voted the members when they come to Washington. They got that money in a hurry even though the 20 days of actual meetings proved insufficient for any other legislative act But for a serious review of the Seventy-fifth- , let us set down these facts: it spent more money than any other congress in peacetime history. That is, it voted more appropriations. It spent more time talking than nearly any other congress that I recall and there were fewer laws passed, I believe, than the record of any other congress shows. (For the latter condition, I suppose we might be thankful for there is now and always has been too many laws on our statute books.) There has never been a congress, peacetime or otherwise, which indulged in so many political acrobatic stunts. The start of the first session was completely under President Roosevelts domination. There came the fight over enlargement of the Supreme court and the senate went into full cry against the President. There was another stage when the house and senate both were using the rawhide on the executive branch. Then, the other day before adjournment they voted a gigantic pot of gold for presidential spending and followed that by overriding a veto. Consider this action if you want to find something that really represents perfection in backward somersaults: late last year, congress rejected the wage and hour bill and fought off the bill with a fervor that was good to see. It rejected the Presidents plan for reorganization of the government and did it quite vigorously. But it found a new spring board and jumped off into passage of a wage and hour bill for the nation which the President wanted very much as a sop to labor. It had in the meantime passed a tax bill so contrary to the President's wishes and so objectionable to his theories of taxation that he refused to sign it. True, it became a law, but it was the first time Mr. Roosevelt had allowed an act of congress to go across his desk without either his signature or his veto. These things might be considered to have represented a vast amount of independence except that, as the time approached for adjournment, the members took Mr. Roosevelt's proposal for appropriation of another $5,000,000,000 for lending and spending and gave him a free hand in spending it. They had been doing that before, but the significant thing was that the members, faced with a wide open opportunity, refused to free themselves from presidential domination. It will be remembered how four amendments were offered to the spending-lendinbill, each designed to prevent use of tlie relief funds in politics and those amendments were defeated in the senate. They took those votes in the very midst of tirades about mixing relief and politics and attempts of the admmistration to lick unfriendly Democratic senators and representatives in the party primaries. Indeed, it seems to me that they actually voted tire President powers with which to force New Deal opponents into line on his programs. WASHINGTON. the Seventy-fift- h h d g g As a result of all of the flow of money authorized in the Sevcnty-fift- h congress, it Enormous seems a fair guess t( say that the na Deficit tional debt by the end of June, next year, will $47, 000, 000, 000. That w ill represent an increase in the national debt of 27 billions in six years. It is an increase in the debt that exceeds the World war debt itself. The deficit for the year which has just ended was disastrously large for a year in which there had been earlier announcements by Mr. Roosevelt and others that the budget would be balanced. In view of the appropriations made in the last session, I think that a $3,000,000,000 deficit in the fiscal, year that ends June 30, 1939, is a fair prediction. Nor is the end in sight. Have you noted how little talk there was in the waning days of the last session of congress about any plan to balance the budget Folks, congress mm-It was gave It a thought! intent upon getting money voted because business conditions were bad and there were too many votes that r THIS C. Washington, D, By CHERIE NICHOLAS NEWS RIVIERA National Press Building Fashions Ponul; e could be had for a little relief job or a little relief check. Thats something which congress cant very well deny, even though the members hide behind the Presidents ample frame by saying that Mr. Roosevelt asked for the money. With respect to the nations financial condition, it seems to me it is high time to be worried. Congress and the administration ought to be worried until there are deep creases in their collective brow. And, there are some who are worried, men like Sen. Carter Glass, the Virginia Democrat, who knows something about finances since he was once secretary of the treasury. Senator Glass appears to fear a collapse is approaching. As an Indication of how far into the depths the nation has fallen financially, atten-Job- s and tion may be rected at several circumminor stances which taken singly mean little but which taken collectively bulk congress large. The Seventy-fift- h added something like 5,300 new names to the pension rolls. While these names were being added through passage of pension bills in a steady stream, new bureaus and the consequent bundle of new jobs were being created by congress at the request of the President, or sometimes just because a senator or a representative had the idea. Those jobs, of course, carry salary checks. They are jobs scattered throughout the country in many instances field offices, they are designated. It goes without saying that each office had to be fully staffed, and so there were clerks hired here and there. Most of the new jobs were not placed under civil service by the laws which congress enacted, and so they constituted political plums to be picked when most needed in a campaign year. And no review of the Seventy-fift- h congress ought to omit an item that seldom has been noted in the history of earlier congresses. The representatives and senators met so many times and talked so much when In session that a month ago they had to increase the appropriation for publishing the Congressional Record, the official "newspaper of proceedings In congress. The appropriation a mere drop of water in the vast sea of expenditures, being only $400,000 was necessary, the government printing office reported because the last session of the Seventy-fiftcongress used up about 10,000 more pages than had been estimated os needed for the session. One really is not being facetious or humorous at all in saying that $400,000 really has gone with the wind." So, we have seen a congress, in which the President in his 1936 election achieved a stupendous majority, look to that President, for guidance in a most subservient fashion. We have watched it seek his innermost thoughts and strive to execute his ideas. None thought, I believe, that there was ever a possibility of a revolt. Yet, it did revolt. It fought back and won on a number of occasions, only to turn again to him in the final hours when an election is in the offing and where scores of members believed that only the Presidents personal popularity would carry them through. Unique is hardly the word to describe the Seventy-fiftPersonally, I think the Seventy-fift- h probably passed out of existence with a record that is not equalled for slime, cowardice and petty politics. And, thus, the members go Into their biennial dance to attract votes. They have started their circuses already in many contested areas; some primary battles already are behind us, and others lie only a few short weeks ahead. Political fences are awaiting new posts and new promises have to be made. It will be a funny story if and when it ever can be pieced together, which, of course, it never will. We, here in Washington, have listened to the demagoguery almost two solid years. You folks out there can have them for awhile. I hope s the tell the truth about their jobs in Washington. I sometimes think it would be a program for a candidate for the house or the senate to go out and tell exactly what has been done-h- ow little worthwhile, I mean. And then to follow that with a declaration that he was going to go back, if and see to it that a real service for the nation Is performed. Wouldnt that be refreshing? h office-seeker- vote-gettin- g Western Newspaper Union, Chesapeake Bay Laboratory The Chesapeake Bay Biological laboratory is on Solomons Island, Md. It is sponsored by the University of Maryland In With Goucher college, Washington college, Johns Ilopkins university. Western Maryland college, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Maryland conservation department. As a study and research center it offers a comprehensive survey of the bioia of the marine, brackish and freshwater areas of the Chesapeake region. WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. It is perhaps just NEW well 5$ I bachelor. patent models, including a corpse- preserver, Roquebrune and Monte Carlo. Beautiful Scenery, Gaiety, Sports And Quiet Life on the Famed Riviera Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service VACATION nu- merous visitors to the synonym for vacationland. The Riviera stretches toward the sunrise and the sunset. Genoa is the dividing point. To the east is the Riviera di Levante "the coast To the west and of the rising sun. on across the French border exthe tends the Riviera di Ponente coast of the setting sun. Two distinct designs for living are traced along the beautiful coast of the Italian Riviera. One is splashed with gaiety and sport; the other is as normal as life in any of the other provinces of Italy. Whoever neglects to penetrate the vicissitudes, hopes, and trials of the life of the native for the sake of that more obvious life of the casinos and luxury places misses the true soul of the region. To find this life of the people, one must flee hotels and villas and nest in a tiny house clinging to the cliffs, not too far from the sea to run down for an early morning splash. There is a problem that one is never able to settle: whether the Mediterranean is more beautiful when it is viewed from the height of a villa or when it is explored along the shore. Gazing down at the points of rock and at the sea that slips in between them to make blue bays with an edge ot waves in fluffy ruffles, one may prefer the heights. Portofino is an unbelievable sort of place. It gives no intimation of its existence until it lies before you, below you. It is reached by leaving Santa Margherita and the sea and wandering over a road in the hills. Portofino a Lovely Picture. All of a sudden, as the high road turns, a picture lies before you. It is something of the imagination, unreal, but with such charm as thrills a child after the visit of Santa You want to thrust out a Claus. sudden hand and topple over the row of colored houses set in the water in an outward sweep, for the fun of standing them up again. And where does the water come from? All around are wooded hills; no sight nor sound of sea. But for the little yachts at anchor, it might be thought an inland lake. But not even that nor anything else, gives reason for the curving line of high houses which seem to have been transferred en bloc from some crowded town. Take a climbing footpath up the opposite hill. As you mount, you pass gardens of an occasional fine villa. They seem not to belong at all, but must be tolerated because it is the way of some rich Genoese to build such misfits. Up at the top of the path is a little church on a terrace. Walk forward beyond the obstruction of verdure, and the sparkling Mediterranean lies spread at your feet. One good jump, a stiff fall of 500 feet, and you would be in its frill of waves under the cliff. Contrast it with the harbor of Porto-fln- o just behind you. You laugh with delight at the beauties of inconsistencies. A gate beside the public terrace opens into a path along the top of the cliff and reaches ultimately a villa. It has been used as a setting for novels, as a retreat for distinguished individuals, as a home of reasonable revelry for orderly intellectuals, but the casuals of the road may not penetrate. It is the Castello San Giorgio, a private property, and one stops, longing like the peri outside the gate of paradise, Rapallo Now Is a Resort. Rapailo has become rather much of a resort. Nature gave it a harbor curving in from the peninsula of Portofino, but a shallow harbor, just nice for fishermen, not yachts. A promenade follows its pebbly beach, where children played without danger and where groups of maidens walked on Sundays and threw important glances over the shoulder at groups of young men who did the same. Ail these things go on still, but under the eye of the people of a casino and big new hotels. Where a mountain stream ran down to join the waters, women are washing. A common sight, but if you think on the details it is a saddening one. The woman who washes gossips with those near her; somet.mes a d young one breaks into a gay song. These ameliorations are but trifles cruises to the against the discomforts. Italian Riviera, continuation of the French Riviera section which has become Europes well-know- n that Crosby Gaige is a He drags home 200,000 She who washes must do her work kneeling and bending W'ell over the water, which is lower than she herself. What aches and weariness must be hers! And the water itself is as cold as mountain heights can make it. Mountain cliffs coming down into the bay have split into occasional chasms. In one such chasm the early Italians chose to build a village and called it ZoaglL It is a mere crack in the rock. The railway to La Spezia is fastened on miraculously high above. Was Zoagii originally a smugglers nest or a refuge from Saracens? Its appeal is strong; its beauties are unique; even its occupational life deserves both these adjectives. As it has no width, life there is lived on the perpendicular, a sort of Jacobs-ladde- r life. No Privacy at ZoagH. The beach is a place of entry and departure. It is like a gate in a walled city, for movement and for No one can go or come gossip. without the cognizance of all the village. Can life hold back any secrets when lived on a series of lad- ders? A few donkeys do the heavy carrying up steep ways, exclusive donkeys that by sharing the isolated life seem to take their place with the people. Their life may be arduous, but they have the honor of sharing the house as well as the labor of the humans communistic donkeys, in a word. You can see them all alone, digging their toes into the upward path or turning suddenly into a doorway of this village without wheels. The innkeeper tells you proudly that the best velvets of Italy have always been made in Zoagii. That was its specialty. Hand-mad- e velvets, "certo." You can see the hand looms and the weavers at work up above now yes, just as it had al- ways been. Patiently you climb, although skeptical of a trap to catch a tourist. But it is true. The hand looms are there. The women weavers are at work. Piles of narrow ruby velvet lie about, catching the light like gems, in small, clumsy rooms that smack of the Thirteenth ctntury. Coast of the Setting Sun. Leaving the Riviera di Levante, you may experience the joys of motoring to places on the Riviera di Ponente, and in that glad territory that now belongs under the French flag but keeps the Italian soul in the breast of its oldest people. Everywhere you drive your car you run into the Saracens their towers, their history, and their evil reputation. They belong to that marvelous Mohammedan civilization that in the Middle ages surpassed in certain things the culture of Europe, much of which was then undeveloped. They began the habit of leaping across the Mediterranean from North Africa when the first detachment of these able pioneers touched Gibraltar and proceeded to possess Spain. And what did they there? They built at Cordoba a mosque, now a cathedral, which is still the glory of the city; they built at Granada a palace which still makes poets and artists of all who have the happiness to linger in its recesses; but they were routed by the people already living in Europe, and ever since have been branded as criminals and savages. The people who drove them out were even less mannerly than they. This you learn at the marvelous village of Eze near that point of the Moyenne Corniche (as the middle road from Nice to Menton is called) where the rock rises like a monument above it and seems to dominate sea and penetrate sky. All the world is on wheels nowadays; but no wheels of any size enter Eze only those of hand cart, perhaps, and the feet of men and donkeys. Toiling up the slope wdth delight at every step, you pass through an archway. It Is the city gate. No city opens before you; only a paved path, narrow and steep. There is not a yard of level walk in the entire maze of ways. Of real streets there are none. Extended arms touch both side walls at once. One might be in a crypt, so fiequcnt are the arched spaces through which one gropes. Yet from tiny windows above are bright eyes peeping and taking in every movement of the stranger. hog- Bachelor Has catcher, burglar 200,000 Odd alarm, 'an early Hoe printing Gadgets a dentists press chair, a machine gun, an an engine, a steamboat, a nding machine and so on, and on. The patent office models had been gathered by the late Sir Henry Wellcome and kept at his estate in 3,251 packing cases. Mr. Gaige bought them. A friend of this writer, remembering with remorse he hadnt bought a birthday present for his wife, stepped into an auction room. He became confused and bought ten barrels of tin cookie cutters. It almost broke up his home. Mr. Gaige will have no such trouble. Mr. Gaige was born the son of the postmaster at Skunk Hollow, N. Y., and became a Broadway theatrical producer, estate at Peeks-ki- ll with a on the Hudson, where he indulges his taste for knickknacks such as the above, but wdth more discrimination than this ensemble suggests. egg-beate- r, pretzel-be- 300-ac- re He is a gourmet, with 300 cook books in his kitchen, has a de luxe machine shop where he makes art objects, is a master of viticulture and a maker and connoisseur of beautiful wines. He has cattle folds and breeds blooded cattle, a printing plant where he prints typographical knock-out- s in limited editions, a huge library with 5,000 reference books, and is distinguished both as a bibliophile and a cook one of the best cooks in the world, his friends say. All these concerns are merely In his 29 years on Broadway, he has Theaters hit off his full Out of Red share of successes, thea' for 29 Years built ters and kept steadily out of the red. In Columbia university, he wrote the 1903 varsity show, "Illusia." He got a job with the late Elisabeth Marbury, famous play broker, reading plays at ten cents an act. He saved his money and headed into the show business with a fast running start. His life is the fulfillment of every commuters dream. He is of clerical, almost monkish mien, of somewhat austere countenance, with octagonal pince-ne- z and, like all epicures, abstemious in all things saving such things as patent models. extra-curricula- r. t16 He wears red, white and blue suspenders and is very fussy about his handkerchief pocket. He always has the tailor sew a button on it. NEED to search the family to trace relationships, the new and popular mother and sister, sister and sister, likewise little brother and sister fashions will give you a clue at a glance. This sentidress-alik- e mental program which is being carried out so enthusiastically is proving more than a mere passing fancy and it is with increasing interest that designers are turning their attention to this type of dress. Sometimes the charming frocks in the family group are identical In color, fabric and detail and a pretty sight it is to see mother and daughter clad alike or big sister and d little sister gowned alike. Methods vary in that the dresses may be made alike and of the same material but differ in color. And again, the fabric may be the same but the styling unlike, or, vice versa, they may be styled exactly alike with the fabric contrasting. Oh, its lots of fun designers are having, handling this proposition from a family relation standpoint, and the wearers are just as enthusiastic as the style creators over this merry fashion game now being played with everybody concerned a winner. Little sisters love to get dressed up just alike, especially when styles are as adorable as the quaint frocks made of everfast awning stripe cotton shown above in the picture. Mother takes pride in these dainty frocks too, for she has the satisfaction of knowing that they will tub without shrinking, safe washing assured by the scientific feature of the cloth. Smocking trims the waist. Tiny full sleeves give a smart look. Small buttons march primly up the back comfortable dresses for big and little sister both. Those cunning youngsters pic NO hand-in-han- full-skirt- pre-shru- ATTACK of laryngitis gave ANMargaret Sullavan her big start. Lee Shubert saw her in "Three Artists and a Lady at .Princeton, and Sore Throat rushed back-stag- e with a contract. Gave Start You have a to Screen Ace voice just like Ethel Barrymore, he said. She explained that it was merely laryngitis, but the excited Mr. Shubert wouldnt listen. There was nothing to be done about it, so the helpless girl was signed for five years. That was a bit of luck which. In Miss Sullavans career, offsets embarrassing entanglements in some of the most elaborate flops In current stage history. Today, she is at the peak of her career as critics turn cartwheels and back flips over the new film, Three Comand Miss Sullavans rades, performance therein. Her story has none of the up y success routine. She is the daughter of a prideful family of Norfolk, Va., a descendant of Robert E. Lee. Her journey to Boston to study dancing was indulged as a passing whim, but there was considerable family when she switched to the theater and began adventuring in summer stock, on Cape Cod and way points. Her father got her home once, but only for a short time. It is to be hoped that her story won't be widely circulated around Hollywood. It would start all the extra girls sleeping in a draft. ConaolM itprf News Feature. WNb broad-shouldere- d SATIN IS BIG NEWS I By CHERIE NICHOLAS Squeaky Doors not forgetting the sweeper and vacuum It wont take 15 minutes and you Will wonder why you did not tend to these tilings long ago. ck-ane-r. high-waiste- d Western Newspaper Union. WEAR WHITE HATS WITH DARK GOW all-whi- - g Why not get out that little oil can one of these mornings and go around the house and tend to all those squeaky doors, v indows, etc., 1 By CHERIE NICHOLAS Ask your milliner to show the voguish draped turbans in white that are so stylish to i with your dark dresses and suit For later in the summer the vogue calls for huge Bretons white felt or fine white straw, can get stunning models als starched white pique, or in v i linen-lik- e straws. swan true is It interpreting wear millinery evei the veil and the flower trim, o rbbon- banding which tailor-ni- t women prefer. However, thei another angle to the mode that for a dash of bright color, a vivid green quill or 8 colorful chenille dots, Colorful vet ribbon is used on those v bats also. The flower toques mad of white posies "get you at first ' them especially when you see matched up with a corsage or f. tonniere. from-povert- Service. tured in the foreground are wea cunning little outfits of fine pique (you can get them in ei pink or aqua) embroidered ' sprightly astrological motif k to the wearer. Swiss edging au the collar and bolero effect adc dainty touch. The fun of it is, are attached to these adorable trological fashions, entitling i The child to a horoscope. sister dress has an inverted for fullness and tiny puffed Ste that give a feminine air. Brott suit is simply cut with stra cuffed sleeves and brief stra trousers. Another thing that is happenir the family fashion group is the thusiasm with which milliners entering into the scheme of thi A picture to go in the family all is inset above in the illustra Here you see similar hats for ir er and daughter created by Victor, who has been turning some charming versions of rel fashions. Because the bonnet i important a theme in the cur season this distinguished artist eludes a number of fluted bo brims often developed in a rr colored straw weave. As sum advances one will also see me and daughter wearing picture leghorns with duplicate trim, happy prospect, well say! please to note the dainty just-- i lingerie neckwear which ,mc and daughter are wearing in i picture, Sister frocks of fine imported tons are shown in enchanting sions. You can get models in cess styling in sizes for both and little sister. Then there style picturesque gayly colored floral patterning white Swiss organdie. Ruffles little bows to match the sash entrancing details. La Now Combinations Are Pop' Black-and-Whi- About as important fabric news as has been flashed on the fashion bulletin this season is in regard to the vogue for summer silk satin that is spreading throughout the style centers of the world. The picture presents a day dress of beige silk satin sheer with an Ahx-typshirred bodice and slim skirt worn with a natural straw hat for town and country club. All the important designers are going in for summer silk satin in a big way. e te The importance of lace for I noon and evening by now is tablished fact. When used as ming it Is most popular or 'whiten-- i e black-on-whit- combinations. Chantilly and nearly every fashion house has its om of the white chiffon or de sole evening gown trimmed of black Chantilly M |