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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Italians Captured in Battle of Guadalajara - && National Press Building w Senator McKellar, Washington. Tennessee Democrat, arose in the senate recently to Silly Law offer a bill that Doomed would repeal a provision of law prohibiting the employment of both man and wife by the government. It has been in effect since the summer of 1933. The provision ought to be and probably will be repealed because, as far as 1 can see, there is actually no sense in the national government refusing to employ efficient workers because a mans wife or a womans husband al ready is on the federal pay roll. It was not the importance of this particular repeal proposal, how' ever, that interested me. Senator McKellars action was significant and interesting only because when repeal of the marriage clause and federal law was pro posed, it marked the beginning of the end of one of the most abortive pieces of legislation that has been on our statute books. I refei to the economy act of 1933. I cannot refrain from recalling a prediction that I made when the economy act was before congress in 1933. It was introduced and sup ported by the New Deal legislature in an effort to carry out a campaign promise made when President Roosevelt was running for ofYou will remember he promised to reduce the cost fice in 1932. that of government twenty-fiv- e per cent, saying in many speeches that the cost of government was too high and that a reduction in taxes was necessary. It will be recalled likewise how he said that Taxes come from the sweat of every man who labors. Well, the economy act was driven through, despite declaration from many senators and many representatives that it was impossible to mutilate the structure of government as proposed in that bill and still have a government that would function properly. And here were some of the most ridiculous provisions in that legislation to come before congress in many years: They worked injustices on veterans of the World war, on farmers, on retired government workers, on the army and navy and marine corps, and hamstrung and handicapped government agencies in a manner I had not seen in my long experience as an observer of national affairs. It was on that occasion that I made the prediction mentioned above, and to which I call attention because of the McKellar proposal for repeal of the marriage clause. I wrote at that time my definite conviction that the economy law was silly; that it would work hardships and that its basis was ninety per cent politics. 1 predicted further that within a year the politicians in the house and senate who had shouted so loudly about economy would begin to chisel va rious provisions out of that law. Each of those things has happened and now we see the end. The end of the law has come but not the end of its effects. Practices in federal government administration that had been operating satisfactorily and very efficiently throughout the years were thrown into the discard and new ideas substituted. The discarded methods were the development of experience and were serving the purposes for which they were intended. Some of them have been restored and are again functioning as they should but one can wander around through the maze of government corridors and find attempts still being made to make schemes work that are unsound in practice, schemes from the minds of theorists.- It will be a number of years before the effects of the economy act will be - As the chiseling began and the economy act fell to pieces under sounder thinking, Spending Orgy there w a launched the greatest spending orgy any nation ever witnessed. It has continued with unabated peculiarity and is still continuing notwithstanding the fact that within the last few weeks we have heard statements from administration sources to the effect that administration expenditures will be cut. The fact is they have not been cut. But the average person outside of Washington sees and hears only things related to large totals of government spending such as relief for the destitute and vast programs of public building. They do not hear nor do they see what is going on among agencies of the government that relate to comparatively small items of money outgo. It is these small items, when taken together, that bulk so large even though by comparison with relief the total appears insignificant. 1 am going to call attention to just on i item, a small item as government expenses go, about which I suspect most persons who do me the honor to read these articles have had little information. They have had little information because they are in a position to see only isolated examples. I refer to government publications. Taber of New Representative York called attention to the condi- - A 'Washington, D, iLrnim i - National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart , C. i w SKI xj l Three of Cards Hurling Staff - j, jXXsf ? Three star pitchers of the St. Louis Cardinals upon whom Manager Frankie Frisch is basing his hopes in the National league pennant drive this year. Left to right: Paul Dean, Lon Warneke, formerly of the Chicago Cubs and Dizzy Dean, star of the league. one-hal- MONICA, CALIF. the Barnum show there once was an elderly lady elephant named Helen. Now, Helen had wearied of traipsing to and fro in the land Probably she figured shed seen everything anyhow. So each fall, when the season she went ended, rejoicing home to Bridgeport, Conn. Nobody ever knew the date of depar- ture the next spring. There was no more bustle about winter-quarteon that morning than for weeks past. But always, when rVu, g, Cobb enthe handlers tered the bull barn to lead forth the herd, they found Helen hunkered down on her voluminous haunches, which, under that vast weight, spread out like cake batter on a hot griddle. She would be uttering shrill sobs of defiance. And neither prodding nor honeyed words could budge her. So theyd wrap chains around her and two of her mates would hitch on and drag her bodily, she still on her rubbery flanks, aboard a waiting car. Shed quit weeping then and wipe her snout and accept what fate sent her. So please dont come telling me n strike is a new that the notion or that somebody in Europe first thought it up. Thirty years ago I saw my lady elephant friend, Helen, putting on one, all by her four-to- n jfc St f "' 3 j K I Xs SR. X n Copyright-WNUS- em, fhtftiihr'n rfriniimWi rrfflrri' , ii itfnifi rnniffiiii -i Pleasant Mrs. Mary Desire Verett, one hundred and two, of Baldwin, La., who was born and has lived all her life in her beloved Acadian country or Land of Evangeline in south central Louisiana. Four of her seven children are living. She has 152 and grand, great-granShe has never worn glasses and can still thread a needle and do a little sewing. d laxative. Su Children like themBuy Reflection and Spee( A wise man reflects speaks. A fool reflects on what French Proverb. r J $''- Xfch.NX'w ' M. , 4 tt speaks he has?': it: L 3tl Jtv fc fe ssl te li o iep e Taxes and More Taxes. when everybody is taking JUST from the yodelled promMile. Jacqueline Jacolew, who has been named Miss Exposition, to ises of that happy optimist. Chairman Harrison of the senate finance rule as queen of the Paris International exposition which is to open in committee, that the government May. She was chosen from a num- will be able to get by for 1937 without asking this congress to boost ber of beauties in a contest spontaxes, what happens? sored by the exposition. Why, in a most annoying way, Governor Eccles of the federal reserve board keeps proclaiming that, to make treasury receipts come anywhere near meeting treasury disbursements throughout the year, hes afraid its going to be necessary to raise the rates on incomes and profits higher than ever. And meanwhile state governors and civic authorities scream with X agony at the bare prospect of any jrje"4 reductions in Uncle Sams allotments for local projects. A A balanced budget would seem to be like Santa Claus, something everybody talks about but nobody ever expects to see. tdi KILLS INSEC ON FLOWERS. VEGETABLES mw nd Ci!. I Demand original ucy bottles, tram yourdt ic Ifs, tot j 23! Essential Victories id Be ashamed to die ur have won some victory manity. Horace Mann. 3( te of tl eta 0 i an, Constipate 3S3 Fears For thirty years I eat I I he e div h adu ; use sausage, bananas, pi want and never felt soundly all night and en, Mra. Mabel Schott. If you are suffering from cons sleeplessness, sour stomach, ' bloating, there is quick relief in Adlenka. Many report thirty minutes after taking dose. Adlenka gives complete cleaning your bowel tract whei nary laxatives do not even r Or. H. L Slosh, Sit Tort, i thing jLn i wo had i I constipation. Sometimes four or five days. also gat bloating, headaches and the back. Adlenka helped meloi a Is addition So Inlsolliul tkamf ftorto Its growth of tmtwtwd bo i lrn a, o! s eolon bacilli. Give your bowels a with Adlenka and see feel. Just one spoonful real c how ; i a IUCCI dep com ee in In I cite! cjltu. - reliev and stubborn constipation, Leading Druggists. a 1; Lpi, SOFT On Uncertain Ground Every change makes th ite of fortune anxious.-- Sc iods. (ooi a aw are e Itnali GIRLS 1: THIN, e "When I w result d m had become thr and was a in said ence Pilger of Dearr 30 & , "Finally, ooi'-gm- n two Jtivati agne ( V3j0 7 m hun white are ro Favorite tonic. I used it off and oo over I had t and of some months t and was strong enough to go back New size, tabs. 50 cts , liqud t ajo he ior 'dfor 2rom tl A Base Possession The wavering base possession. la. Collegians Sound Eloquent Thumbs Death Knell r pe rs C'ORMERLY the states jealously guarded their sovereign quisites. Once but that was so long ago many have almost forgotten it they fought among them1 r if selves one of the bloodiest civil wars in history over the issue of f states rights. Now we see them complacently ' surrendering to federal bureaus those ancient privileges and maybe, after all, thats the proper thing to do, if in centralized authority lies Miss Veronica Lavigne, nurse at the Worcester, Mass., State hos- - 1116 hoPe of preserving a republican pital, is shown with the delicate apparatus now being used in making form of government diagnoses of mental cases. The machine, it is said, records Still, one wonders what the patient s mental status and shows when improvement is changes in men would do under like Englishcircum being made. Psychiatrists say that development of the machine may mark the turning stances, since Englishmen are fussy the in fight against dementia praecox. point about their Inheritance of Perhaps the distinction is this: In democracies there exists the false theory that all men are born free and equal. So the Englishman insists on having his freedom, which P is a concrete thing, and laughs at v vy ' thj idea of equality. Whereas, the vd American abandons his. individual freedom provided he may cling to ' rLr the fetish of equality. Yankee tweedledee and British tweedledum may be brothers under the skin, but they have different !Llf skin diseases. i .itA -- 11 Dr Pierces effective 'P Jt strati, v ect. m a baking dish and brown. Remove and with marshmallows; oven again and just le rich brown on top. back Device Makes Mental Diagnoses KZ i, t gANTA Sh Boil some sweet rmi-- t and mix in a little good-size- d lump oT butt? The Origin of Sitdowns. self. -- ACADIAN PIONEER Marshmallow Jkmkt) about 4 A l! " ' 4 tion respecting government publications recently when the house ap.A. a propriations committee was holding hearings on a bill appropriating funds for several government deVs? partments. Mr. Taber estimated that government publications were costing in the neighborhood of A f a year. He called them administration propaganda. Every organization in the government, Mr. Taber declared, is sending out all sorts of propaganfA I da, propaganda in fancy colors, 3 with of resettlepamphlets pictures V ment projects, pictures of WPA propositions and all that sort of thing. Officers and men, members of one of the crack divisions sent by Mussolini to aid General Francos rebel It was the first estimate I had forces, who were taken prisoner by Madrid government troops in the bloody battle for Guadalajara mountain been able to obtain of the cost of passes. The loyalist forces, seasoned and toughened by the long seige of this bitter war, routed the Italians government publications for it is completely, driving one division 30 miles back in a wild retreat. not easy to ascertain how much these beautifully done magazines PARISIAN QUEEN Bisr cost each department or agency. Nor is it easy to determine how much is paid for the distribution of the countless thousands of statements issued for the press or mailed 4 A in millions of copies to voters. The whole thing constitutes a maze that is so complex that it is staggering. The government printing office lists 73 periodicals of the magazine type W for which it will take subscriptions or sell individual copies. These, of course, are printed documents. They do not include the many pamphlets that are mimeographed or published otherwise by many governmental agencies. I mentioned the distribution of official statements for the press and to voters through-Weighm- g . . . out the country. the Cost There is no way, as far as I can see, to calculate the total, but one Washington correspondent recently took occasion to weigh the output of press statements from the Department of Agriculture for one week. His curiosity had been aroused by the tremendous volume that had been delivered to his office both by mail and by special messenger and so he weighed the weeks grist. It totaled more than f three and pounds. This, as I said, was from only one department and the weight was the weight of the paper alone. One need not employ a great deal of imagination to think of the cost involved. First there was the paper itself. In the second place there was the cost of typing the material and then of mimeographing it. But before it reached either one of these stages, it was necessary that a vast amount of work be done by well paid men and women writers and research workers who prepared the material that was used whether in mimeographing or in printing. There are two publications that come to my desk regularly that strike me as being extraordinariThe Consumers' ly expensive. Guide, a product of the Agriculture Adjustment administration and the Electrification News, published by the Rural Electrification administration, are the two most expensive and most elaborate periodicals that I regularly see. They are sent out free not only to the Washington correspondents but to thousands upon thousands of voters to any voter whose name either agency obtains. And they are paid for out of taxpayers money. Typographically, each of these periodicals is exceptionally well done from a magazine standpoint. They are replete with pictures, and copper engraving is expensive; the articles and news items contained in them are well written, thus showing that good writers are on the pay rolls of these agencies. And so it is throughout the government. Everywhere a correspondent goes among government offices he meets federal workers, among the government personnel, engaged in preparing and distributing the stories for public government's reading. o Ujffidt mind is Euripid1 uHiaii"11111 MODERN MOTHE Use Modem Meib for Colds on the Chi For hall century convenient economic! rn been furnishing quick or gestion chest cold, UTiUhon Keep ft psckijT1 m.dicin. eh.sl. At All Drag Slur 50c Picclto Si., Family m 'rt Now, let me touch on another vV phase of the cost of government re-I publications. ranking fct t0 uie use the franking priviAbuse lege. As everyone A knows, mail goes government rV through the United States mails Vx ;. nS f. without the payment of postage. not That does mean, however, that the railroads or the airplanes or the steamships haul that mail free. f'tegty , The only difference between that mail and the letters you write or receive is that the government pays the transportation lines on a pound basis and on stamps are used. It is bulk transportation whereas when uv you and I mail letters we pay the ?v, cost of transportation on those letV ters to the government by means 4 S k 4 l of a postage stamp. It is entirely proper and reasonable that government mail should not require postage stamps. It would simply be taking government I S money out of one pocket and putX & in it another. Yet, in the ena ting you and I, as taxpayers, pay for the V"'vv transportation of the government Cone are the days vben a flick of the thumb in the mail and we pay for the millions desired direct of pieces that are sent out from the VOU see charter members of the National Way to bcg 8 lift- Ilere Collegiate Hitih Hikers ousted thumbing from the repertoire of the veil bred hitch hiker The aln demonstrating the method that various government departments. organization started among the stu- Q Western Ne simper Union. Cents of Long Beach junior college, Long Beach, Cal.f. 150,000 feet Used Sizes Vr, iw P Structural Steel and Monsey Iron & MX 3rd Vast 709 South r y t Jr . v N' R jCI - The Parole Racket. TT IS astonishing but seemingly A true that, of five young gangsters recently caught in a criminal operation, not a single one was a convict out on parole. Is there no way to bar rank amateurs from a profession calling for prior experience and proper background? And can it be that the various parole boards over the union are not turning loose qualified practitioners fast enough to keep up with the demand? Maybe we need jails. Those sentimentalists who abhor the idea that a chronic offender be required to serve out his latest sentence should take steps right away to correct this thing before it goes too far. Our parole system must be vindicated if it costs the lives and property of ten times as many innocent citizens as at present. d g IKVIY S. COBB. Service. WNU foro-t- W of In the Strength If j man It is good for a the yoke in his youth. Dont Nf8,cct.! J Natur fnarveloua job flowing blood . rPflSo ' toxic impuntirt. i , j itself-- is constantly I natter thajciilnry f'" to the blood if l When th. k'dnyj:s(;lj, Nature yg, J J want, that may Irens. One may iI Utrkal J in(, persistent headaebj, tiriA1 petting up under the tyeo- -l J ' I worn ouL M kUni tl I requent, . evidt"1 ns y be further Madder Durban. "i' 1 he rernun.red ssi? la a diuretic medC'n oui ret rid of excess P' t's tons'. than forty years of endorsed Ins roof I'ire Damage Slight Only 100 acres of national WNU s in Colorado were damaged by fire in 1936 the best record since 1925. when 71 acres were burned. ; t'es 'n n b ; I 1 h, 'ar ftii |
