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Show Brucharts Washington Digest Roosevelts Latest Budget Has Congress Pretty Badly Muddled Our Helping Hand Extended to Devils Island Fugitives THIS penditures and receipts for the governments next fiscal year. And well it may be. There were thousands of greater and lesser items of government cost dumped into its legislative lap at once the other day, but these were not alone. There were arguments and ifs and sugofgestions and suppositions and an ficial defense of the policy that for 11 years has seen government income fall far behind the expenses 11 years of deficits. And, along with these things came a proposal by the President to add a special tax, or a tax for a special purpose national defense. In view of the fact that few persons have been able to arrive at an absolute conclusion on the financial problem submitted by Mr. Roosevelt, some of the more leaders influential of congress have taken the lead in a plan to find out for Men themselves. like Senator Pat Harrison, the old war-horsMississippi who has been chairman of the e, senate committee on finance for years and who once missed being Democratic leader of the senate because President Roosevelt wrote a letter to Dear Alben Barkley of Kentucky. Senator Harrison has support in the move and I am told that he is determined to get affirmative action. The Harrison plan calls for something new in congressional policy. He would have a joint committee of 12 senators and 12 representatives, divided equally among two senate and two house committees, to do some spade work on the new budget the budget for the year beginning next July 1. It is a thing never before and may or may not be a wise course since it smacks of utilizing a great new power by con- gress. But this much can be said: for the first time, if the Harrison plan eventually is adopted, congress will get some information through its own channels instead of accepting the unsupported statements, the wishful thinking and the planned extension of power by the bureaucrats intent uun preserving their agencies. Annual Federal Budget Once Comparatively Simple Thing In years gone by, the annual federal budget was a comparatively s.mple thing, or as simple as messes Its proof figures could be made posed items of expense were set down and totaled. The anticipated revenue was calculated. But such is not the case with the current budget, nor any in the last few years since operations of the federal government have become as general as fi.es around the barn in midsummer. Times have changed, indeed. Here is a budget that covers the astoundIt is ing total of $8,424,191,570. smaller by $670,000,000 than the last one and that reduction was described by Mr. Roosevelt as a first step tnuard gradual accomplishment of a balanced budget. But the total of proposed expenditures shown was circumscribed with a handful of ifs." The amount of $8,424,191,570 will remain that way if cuts are made (from last years totals) in public works, in federal jobs, in CCC camps, in relief and farm benefits and if there are no other increases voted except for a vast program of expansion in the army and navy. On the basis of the budget calculation, the governments income will be $5,547,960,000 in the next fiscal year if congress will lay a special tax for paying the cost of a part of the cost of expanding the army and navy. The President said this tax should be made to yield $160,000,000. Thus, on the basis of the budget, the government will be in the red next year, if all things remain as planned to this point, by a total of The President in$2 416,231,000. tends, however, to cut that 'way down by using up some odds and cuds of money lying around among the government-owne- d corporations. By executive order, the President can restore to the federal treasury funds loaned by it to the various He said there was corpor ilions. sunething like $700,000 000 in this pot of gold and that will be used to reduce the deficit further. Budgets These Days Merit Earnest Consideration WEEK And there you have it. If all of the things go through as planned and if there is not another request from any office or agtncy of government and if there is as much tax collected next year as calculated D. C. and if the proposed national fense tax is passed and collected, the government deficit for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 1941, will be $1,718,231,000. Senator Harrison may be wrong or he may be right in his proposal to have congress do something about understanding this and subsequent budgets; but it must be said there is something about the condition of budgets these days that merits earnest consideration. These latter day budgets somehow remind me of the broomstick horse that I used to ride when I was a kid. That broomstick had at least 20 different names, but it was always the same broomstick, and my imagination was never successful in transforming it There was merited applause from congress for Mr. Roosevelts declaration that he was prepared to curtail spending. He tossed some cold water on that enthusiasm, however, by a statement of policy that he did not favor too much curtailment at one time. Rather, government support for the many functions now a part of the federal structure ought to be tapered off. There was not too much pleasure about that among the real supporters of an economy policy, and there was considerably less when attempts were made to analyze the true results. I have a hunch that more disappointment Is due. The budget that was sent to congress the other day, in my opinion, is not going to be nearly all that will be needed in the way of money. It is just a guess that I here make: the totals for relief and for agricultural benefits and public works, etc., are not nearly large enough for 12 months if an election If death is taking a brief holiday on the west wall, the opposition is making the most of it The life brigades press NEW de- , ?! 1 V, ' .;i vii I;1 , 4,ttj ' f ' k- - , J V1 I I " , Jewitr Finds congress badly muddled over the latest estimates. Harrison plans for congress to get information about the budget through its own channels. Something new. Present estimates will leave the government in the red $2,416,231,-00- ,'f-" Condition of budgets these days merits earnest consideration. Possibilities cause wonder as to the future. - Eight men who are fleeing from the dread French penal colony at Devils island are shown lined up at the beach at Ensenada Playa, Puerto Rico, as they listened to instructions read by an immigration Inspector before setting sail In their small boat, in which they hope to reach Mexico. The fugitives first sailed to Venezuela, to Trinidad, then to Puerto Rico, securing help at each port. They hope to obtain a pardon, and if successful will join the French army. Australian Farmers Strive to Maintain Production Like Father, Like Son? Definitely Not! falls within that year. So, the forecast I offer is that requests will be in the hands of congress, in January, 1941, for deficiency appropriations to cover expenditures that have run short Present National Debt Runs Right Close to Line There is, however, still another if" to be considered. Mr. Roosevelt advised congress that if all conditions materialized as he expected, the national debt on June 30, 1941, would be $44,938,577,622. That is right close to the line, for the present law limits the national debt to $45,000,000,000. It was suggested that the administration was able to stay under the limit only by taking away some of the funds from the and stepchildren, known as That government corporations. probably is proper, for the government gave each of them money with which to set up housekeeping. It was more important to the administration, however, since it thereby became necessary to ask congress to raise the limit of the national debt a request that was sure to raise a row. One cannot survey the budget and all of its possibilities and probabilities without wondering what lies In the future. Whether this is the reason behind the action of the conservatives in congress who seek to end this spending spree of seven long years or whether the conservatives are worried about future burdens of taxes, the fact remains there should be some tangible policy laid down. And that policy must come from congress. The present administration will not do it. Each year, there have been statements about a balanced budget in the future. Take a look at this general division of where the federal money is being spent, and I think you will agree there is a critical need for a general revamping of the s of the government at Washington: National Defense, $1,800,000,000. Work Relief Programs, $1,300,000,-000- . Science, Unlike Death, Pauses Not for Holiday medicine, search ence, Interest on $1,100 000.000. Public Pensions, Retirements and Assistances, $1,200,000,000. Regular Operating Expenses, $1,000,000,000. rv i George Young, ace marathon swimmer of years ago, waited 12 years to get the $25,000 cash prize he earned by winning the Catalina island swim in 1926. He was a lad of 17 at the time, and was given the money when he reached 30. George and his wife, residents of Canada, turn thumbs down on a swimming career for George Jr., who practices his strokes on the piano stool. The $25,000 is all he and his wife have left from swimming careers wbich won them $125,000. Latest wrinkle in beach fashion notes from Miami, Fla., this winter is a freckle proof sun mask, complete with dark glasses and breathThe new 6iyle note prevents er. sunburn of delicate faces. Its popularity depends on beach beauties, who may not care to remain hidden. Brother of Soviet Chief Hits Red Tactics Would Deny Vote le v4 s terial. Remove stuffing at high e end u end. Now, make bles like those illustrated. T: dotted lines indicate how tl couch fits under these box table and how a partition and shelve are put in the one at the low end. Paint tables to harmonu with fabric. The final touch the back and end cushions co ered with the upholstery maten, Full directions f NOTE: changing an old iron bed into t latest style, are given in M Spears Book No. 3; also step-step directions for making T Rug That Grew Up With the Thirty-tw- o pages of fascin. ing ideas for Homemakers. A for Book 3, enclosing 10 cents coin to cover cost. Address ; Mi, Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford K, box-lik- ...ila in their second Aged persons, childhood, should be denied the right to vole, according to Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins university. 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Wi houses, allows only the head of t institution to walk in the midc excep of the halls and passageways. A tonal others walk close to the walls, in wa a gesture of humility. Collier body i 1 rR. loosely called civilization, is , for pi ery n to be can c murs. for pi roar. Pea the w 20 ye signet years have THROAT Has m cold made it hurt even to talk? Throat rough and scratchy? Get a box of Ludens. You'll find Luclen's special ingredients, with cooling menthol, a great sud in helping soothe that sandpaper throat!9 would LUDENS 5 obscu Austr Menthol Cough Drops off for the Maya country of Mexico, Look Within leading an expedition which will Within is the fountain of go hunt new clues to early Indiah cul- and it will ever bubble up, if tf tures. It is a renewal of Mr. Stir- wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurehw lings explorations of last January, in which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the Americas equivalent to November FEEL GOOD 4, 291 B. C. 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In British Guiana, in 1927, he found pjgmies who, for full dress, wore artificial tails; whose babies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were barkless. In Florthe ida, he found the lost Caloo-has5 earliest Americans. In the Jivaro, s he was clubby with , (W 'T 4 f' and learned much, not only of their recipe for shrinking heads, but of Harry Beckett, Mr formeiljr Mgr., Ben Lomond ' their visions, legends and customs. He was reared in the Salinas cow country of California and attended Only the University of California. His explorations have been in North, Central and South America, Europe and the East Indies. He is 43 years Can Be CONSISTENTLY yWvert old, and, as usual, having the time of his life. BUY ADVERTISED GOODS (CoBnolld.itcd Feature, WNU Service.) A , Hliile his brother, Gen. G. M. Stern, Irads Soiet aimy forces against Fin'and, Morris Stern, alioe, waits on customers in his modest I.os Angehs grocery store. Morns Stern's sjmpathies arc with Finland. A naturalized citizen, he stated: I don't like it, why don't they let them alone. V New York. w' 1 B: Fa-il- elbow-bendin- V. i tf- -y 1 Indo-Europe- ? j i ALEXANDER LESSER of Brooklyn college finds there isnt any such thing as social evolution at least not in the old sense. In the form Sees Our Hope glven it by In Understanding the classical Human Behavior evolutionists, it is dead as a door-nai- l, says Dr. Lesser. But, tossing aside subjective judgment, he finds ample hope of new understanding as he assails the old rationalization of haunch, paunch and jowl darwinism, as rationalizations of force. Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, as above, sees our ultimate hope in understanding human behavior, and urges the scientists to keep on swinging. Dr. Mitchell, it will be recalled, is the widely known Columbia university economist who headed President Hoovers research committee on social trends. Man Possessed Yen for D. T.s 0. Debt, ?1 y, free-for-a- ll Found Primitive and Investments, the sci- philan-throp- Even the sedate American Philosophical association feels a touch of the new elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological as it tries to understand John Dewey. The occasion was a special meeting to honor Professor Dewey on having become 80 years old last October. Never before has this courier seen a year wind up with less arthritis and more punch, in the field of science. Young blood is helping a lot. Dr. Albert B. Sabin, of the University of Cincinnati college of medicine, who scores against infantile paralysis and viruses attacking the nervous system, is 33 years old. His paper, read before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Ohio university, reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the entrance of the viruses into the nervous system. It is regarded as an epochal advance toward understanding of the disease and later conquest. Dr. Sabin was born in Poland, and acquired his academic and medical education at New York university, from 1923 to 1931, later studying at Lister institute, London. In 1932, he became associate research scientist at Rockefeller institute, New York city. During his tenure with this institution he discovered a new disease, caused by an agent which he calls the B virus. His new discovery of the antivirus goalkeepers in human tissue was announced in connection with his receipt of the Theobald Smith award in medical sciences. head-hunter- $1,100,000,000. re- W. STIRLING, an- throgologist of the Smithsonia institution, who delves into exciting origins and inducements of what is func-tion- $900,000,-00- r ,( PA0DIN6J forward in VfATTHEW in-la- Agricultural Programs, TABUS TO COVER ing. rXi This is our land and to keep it so we must maintain our primary industries. Thats the rallying cry of young Australia during war time. The picture is symbolic of the commonwealths part in preparation. A farmer continues harvesting his crop as an armored car section holds maneuvers on a nearby road. Following their initial maneuvers, many of the armored car regiment members returned to their fields to complete harvesting. 0. VAKE BOX YORK. social inquiries and studies, and all that has to do with the two healing virtues of compassion and understand- BRUCKART ON THE BUDGET Public Winks middle picture. First paint the front of fram. then cover well up onto the hes portion with cotton batting; ne use bright cotton upholstery nik. By LEMUEL F. PARTON Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, WASHINGTON. Congress is pretty badly muddled up over the latest Roosevelt budget of estimated ex- By RUTH WYETII SPEARS XT AS there a couch like the plc v ture at the top of this sketcl in the family sitting room whe you were a child? Lets get down from the attic, for just se what can be done with it! Prope ly streamlined it will look like tL Y NEWS By WILLIAM BRUCKART 1VNU Is Made Streamlin WHOS Leave Arguments, Ifs, Suggestions and Suppositions Solons in Daze; Leaders in Congress to Seek Facts for Themselves. Couch Old-Tim- e Kill ' Good LIercuareis ! j' |