Show I I T Dont Quote Me Mei Me- Me n. n i By United Pre Press S I i These words are the ones most frequently heard by WA Washington Washing Washing- ton correspondents Items which never appear In the regular dispatches dis g i I patches and little Intimate pictures a of public characters will i iI I 1 appear In this column from time to time I w ww J i. i WASHINGTON Dec Dee 22 Some Som Some Somebody e- e i body s somewhere is tolling toiling over scales scale s and drawing boards making a ma map p of he the world on a scale of one one mil mil Month that that is one-millionth one the size I of the world itself Probably no one would realize that except a few sei and cartographers were it not for the fact that there appears in Uncle Sams Sam's budget of t f the 1933 fiscal fiscal fis fis- cal eal year an nn item appropriating 50 toward the noble cause The 50 goes to the central bureau of the international international map of the world on a millionth address not given The e United states Stales government has Jails in the tho former Ottoman empire Egypt Ethiopia China Morocco and Persia It costs a year to maintain maintain main main- tain them They arc are result of extra extra- extraterritorial extraterritorial territorial rights in those countries which give United States citizens the privilege gc of being incarcerated inI in I American jails and of being tried by American courts S SOne One hears a lot about the public debt these days Only yesterday Otto Kah Rah it Jt would be fine to drop a large portion of it into the middle of the o ocean What a nuisance e it is may be imagined when one learn learns s it will cost the tho government 0 next year to take care of it that it-that that is Just the overhead of at caring for caring for it Of that amount all but will goto go goto goto to clerical and similar help in keeping keepin g track of the money that's owed Then additional will be spent for paper on which to prin print t paper money and bonds For preparation prepa ration and md delivery of farm loan Joan bonds alone the government will spend It costs the postoffice department to have its postage stamps printed for a single year After quite an absence from the public prints the modern modem youth question question ques ques- tion ion has popped up again on Capitol hill This tIme tune the complaint comes from the scholarly halls of the library of congress The tabloid education of at these young people exclaimed a serious serious- minded library lifting his hands in a gesture of at despair They won wont vont t read a thing According to this librarian the young people will seek all aU sorts of short cuts in the reading prescribed in high school or college They even ask for the criticism that were published when the books came out he said rather than read the books themselves Any kind of a synopsis will do just so they can cnn get an an idea of what the book is about There ought to be quite a demand for Lambs Lamb's Tales Toles from Shakespeare commented the interviewer Even that is too long for tor them the librarian retorted askIng asking ask ask- ing log now for tor a n condensed version of ot it |