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Show gand HEARD J aroundtlte V osal CAm4 V Carter Field fflclent revenue. The only question Is when they will be imposed. Cutting the Costa Economy cutting government expenditures: Tremendously important impor-tant but not frightfully Interesting to the average reader. Moreover, it is difficult for the proverbial milkman milk-man In Omaha to get worked up over whether economy is achieved by a horizontal cut of ten per cent in all appropriations, or fifteen per cent in such appropriations as the President in his discretion, may consider proper. A really self-governing self-governing people, in his school-book school-book sense of the words, would get all hot and bothered about this, but there is no indication of much Interest In-terest Neutrality: Promised Just a few months ago to be a real Issue. But at that time there was genuine fear throughout the country that there would be a big European war very shortly, in which the United States might easily become Involved. For reasons difficult to explain, and having hav-ing very little to do with the truth, this fear, which was so high but a short time back, has subsided. Consequently Con-sequently there was almost a total lack of Interest when the neutrality bill finally was passed. Government reorganization: This never did excite the public half as much not a tenth as much as it did the senators and representatives. representa-tives. The lawmakers have selfish interests, friends in bureaus which might be reduced, transferred or abolished. But the mechanic in Detroit, De-troit, the steel worker in Gary, and the farmer in Iowa care nothing about it whatever. Economy Road The economy road is not so easy for the federal government as the average business and professional man seems to think. In fact it is just about as difficult a thing as one can imagine. Consider the mental processes of a senator or member of the house, for example, when he tries to decide de-cide whether he will follow the wishes of the President and vote for a discretionary cut of fifteen per cent in all appropriations, or whether wheth-er he will follow some of the house and senate leaders, and vote for a horizontal ten per cent cut The discretionary cut means simply sim-ply that President Roosevelt could, at his pleasure, make a cut In any appropriation congress might vote, the only limit being that the cut must not exceed fifteen per cent of the total. The horizontal cut means simply sim-ply that congress would arbitrarily reduce every appropriation by one-tenth, one-tenth, leaving the President no discretion dis-cretion at all! In approaching a decision as to which way to vote the congressman knows that both solutions are bad unbelievably bad. In fact probably the only thing that could be worse would be not to economize at all! The discretionary cut theory hits the congressman right where he lives. He knows if he votes for that and should later on want a little mercy shown some particular project proj-ect affecting his own district or state, he will have to go on his hands and knees to the White House for it Or worse still he might have to go to some arbitrary and not even politically minded bureaucrat bureau-crat for his favor say Harold L. Ickes or Harry L. Hopkins! And before he got what he wanted he can be sure as he now looks at the picture he would have to promise to vote for whatever the White House or that particular bureaucrat might want at the time. hsn iS old r Itlt in-when na- about the present Si ted out in these St toll as the consensus ington'. diplomats-s3IeD diplomats-s3IeD informed a group Ss, exists to the world L nation sends her S longest-eared dlplc Stogie! and ftere ri of Influence that ' Sot opportunity for information. u that no one of the big nations that come under ,nd tinder-box category ti ready for war. All are i St war is coming, but all i to avoid until they 1 fVtt. so that with no- H to .tart a war now p $ may fly " Lke' Ll in wet powder. ,i has been sounding off the diplomats point out ki this at frequent inter-it inter-it ten years ago, in the 1927, ,he made a terrific ,uch more sabre-rattling tan ni recent one. He to of 1935, strangely ! aying that by 1935 Italy I ewmany airplanes that Id hide the sun. that then j Le must be heard, and ! re along the same line, j on that schedule he at-Mopia, at-Mopia, defied the League j-t fairly safe practice i the long-suffering British riction y, however, some friction loped between Germany , Which confirms another t forth In these dispatches and originating in the dip-orps dip-orps here. This was that i ao certainty of allies for " being; that the crystalizing i l' uniting groups of nations : nevitable conflict had not npleted. :t remains that while there rera! idea that Japan and 1 would fight the Soviet re-A re-A possibly France, there is ubt as to which of the two '" ould attract certain other J ate here privately point Britain seems to have re-part re-part of her war policy, far i huge air force and her new armament pro-J pro-J obviously not planning for expeditionary force to be fd to the continent of Eu-!'"e Eu-!'"e event of a war, as she i h m out In the same con-fct con-fct Prance is concentrating y. and not attempting to at sort of navy she was about just a few years i ! ii planning two addi-j addi-j rplane carriers of consid-! consid-! and building a strong force, but she is not on battleships. each viewpoint is that they j concerned one iota with the j Neither the British or the ! pies navy! There is no j '7, as the French view it I w being In conflict with I 'e within the possible useful I'l ship that might be con-now, con-now, Doldrums Finds Reasons But when he examines the ten per cent horizontal cut, he finds there are plenty of reasons why he should oppose that. On its face it Is unscientific. un-scientific. It is clumsy. It is inflexible. in-flexible. Its surgical cure not only impairs but destroys efficiency in the most unexpected places. Judging Judg-ing by the results, it Is like taking a sixteen-inch naval gun to kill a mosquito. Yet to attempt to discriminate-to discriminate-to have congress perform its logical function of deciding just how much shall be spent by each bureau of the government is impracticable in the face of the certainty of log rolling. You vote for my appropriation appropria-tion and I will vote for yours. Which always winds up with the total appropriations ap-propriations bigger than ever. Then there are the personal angles. an-gles. A senator may believe that economy-Inspired cuts should be imposed in bureaus A and B and C. He may be enthusiastic about more spending In X and Y and Z. But it suddenly appears that he has a host of political lieutenants who are employed in bureaus A and B and C, Some of them would lose their jobs If he votes with a majority to cut the allotments of these bureaus. So his logical course would be to vote for larger appropriations for all six bureaus. Privately, most senators and representatives rep-resentatives admit that the only way for the federal government to economize is to permit Presidential discretion. C Bell Syndlcate.-WNU Service. hot White House news P President's fishing trip W of Mexico brought out ft doldrums Into which Pi has dropped in the last what amounted to a '!bo of sensations earlier ession. '!f,l Very obvious reasons first place there has " of reaUy important rPments hi other places &tteSPanIsh nasco, ' un of Mussolini over the . faring that the troops ' ' ft?i DvWere not as lnvin-i lnvin-i 2 ans had come to j Hindenburg disaster, 1 iterely shovel already JJwwfcd subjects to the I IS; Let s l00k t them i enlargement: Suf-iSmuch Suf-iSmuch wordage.Ev-a wordage.Ev-a 2 aIgument on either tOShun8, a,nCed n0t 0nCe S smr6'- More" ?enew development, nJa fl from gld(; Ubtful senators beSt Pin,on i abie outcome not hav- S J I ' 'kc,y "ndidate for -ax4 rne's paper. 5 iDVS!v,AJr-vbnfly knows s ,n-w. sooner or later. j, , v roughly that e x : , ,ny nnd corpora-'" corpora-'" ""t produce su- |