Show I Inside ns id e t-L t Stuff jj s By PAUL MALLON Copyright 1935 by Paul Paui Mallon l WASHINGTON Feb The 18 of fich tidal bad luck S song was Wall sun suni suns gain again when the Macon crashed 1 11 is 15 the same tun tune i Macon lacon Crash heard when lh the f. f Brings Bring's Bad Dad United States Brit tr r Lack Luck Song am am ain and Fran oi each of ot the inre ure f airships each has had and Italy losi her one Apparently no on has an any i good luck with dirigibles except Germany Ger Gel many and her Herr Eckener t. t This official tune was merely a J pOlite cover up for an almost F c conviction inside the govern govern- meat that dirigibles arc are too ve as 05 war playthings Sea Sea admirals have always sneered 4 at t th them as ag weather fair-weather ships Au- Au Authorities Authorities will I tell yo you record the today that no rio more will be built But ut after all th the dies die Aff current clamor down you ou will see money apPropriated ap- ap for another dirigible half halt the lize t u ot of the Mac Macon and the Akron n nI ie I iW navy general board has it There is H a small but s strong lIghter air J than air clique in the navy now has nothing to do Sales Sales- SaS men for f u ships have ha been able to ert strong pressure in Washington a s in the past ait They cannot anything at this thi session of con Ir eC of f the tho state stale of ot general j en cn e een en t 7 Inside In si de Stuff Continued nom irom Fuse pue One opinion but they will certainly try at the next one The real excuse offered inside the thc navy for both the Macon and Akron disasters is that the ships were too long feet Light structures cannot stand such length they say in terrific crosswind crosswind crosswind cross- cross wind pressures which can break them themas as you would a l match This excuse has made no great impression in view of ot the fact that earlier shorter ships have broken also There has jias las long been an unspoken tradition in the navy that the Germans Ger mans are the only ones who can build and fly dirigibles You may have noticed that the Germans are arc designing their latest one strictly for Cor commercial use This is s probably the future of or than air air craft They will be bc the freight trains of ot the air i m President Roosevelt is Js plodding along in his own unostentatious way with the digging o of a tax grave for forthe forthe forthe the bonus That was what Tax Leave inspired the latest Tax Grave of words Seen for thrown out by the White House on the government salaries legislation rn En n approving that legislation Mr Roosevelt s said d ways would have to tobe tobe tobe be found to pay the extra budgetary expenses involved in it and an any other new appropriations Everyone knew he meant the bonus The fact is several extra budgetary appropriations are in the congressional congressional fire including for social security and for tor seed loans These three will throw the regular budget into the red by This would not cause much fretting fretting fretting fret fret- ting in a year when nearl nearly five billIons billions billions bil bil- bil- bil lions will be spent outside the budget except that the bonus is coming along The president Is Js going to Insist that it carry taxes to pay it iL e The tax talk has been rather warm on the thc inside lately It If started several weeks ago Authoritative new nev V dealers began to Murmurs wag their h heads ads Hint Higher her confidentially in Tax Totals the presence of outsiders and murmur murmur mur mur that they were going to have to increase e taxes this year Not a word has been said officially but inspired stories have been broadcast that a general bill increasing taxes will be introduced in March Some skeptics have suspected this was part of or the bonus strategy and have remained unconvinced They may be wrong It is certain that a small resolution will be passed renewing some of the taxes which expire this year The general assumption has has has' been that it would not include any in in- creases This is still the general but decidedly uncertain assumption e a to a Liberal senators are prying into the A A A A shakeup to see for tor themselves themselves them them- selves what There has been some cloakroom talk about a senatorial investigation especially to ascertain if it any distributors were overjoyed at the change Colorados Colorado's Senator Costigan is supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have written a letter to the White House expressing his perturb perturbation tion What probably will happen is that the new deal will make some pay r restitution to those who were fired or els else find jobs for tor them elsewhere in the government There will be no enate senate investigation unless s the A A A purge urge is carried further It w wont won't nt be It a a a The cruelest crudest political sidelight in-sidelight of ot many a year Is that a great number I of af aged persons poor and unemployed unemployed have been Many Write misled into beAbout beAbout beAbout be- be About Old Heving they are arc Ate Ape Pension going to be supported sup V ported in style by the government It shows up In the mail of ot congressmen People who cannot realy afford the stamps are lre writing in to ask whom they should see about getting their a month They need it right away The maximum payment which now seems to be possible is 30 a month It will go at first to only the few aged now on relief rolls Not a cent Will go to until anyone the states enact en en- act cooperating legislation This will require at le least i a year ear and perhaps three V |