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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Krttehart's Washington Digest Pension Schemes Figure In Primaries in Several States Carry On Yankees Tradition Pennant-Winnin- g Old-Ag- e ADVENTURERS CLUB Lead to Success of Senator Pepper in Florida and Defeat of McAdoo in California; Delude Age and Infirm Voters; Fallacy of Plans Shown. WNU By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, A good many WASHINGTON. Easterners had nearly forgotten about Dr. Francis Townsend and his pension plan until lately they were suddenly awakened by the far South and the far West. Sen. Claude Pepper won a Democratic nomination to the sea ate in Florida largely because of espousal of the Townsend plan and just recently Sen. William G. Me Adoo had his public career abruptly terminated because Sheridan Downey, his opponent for the Democratic senatorial nomination in California, proposed and promised some fantastic scheme of paying $30 every Thursday to persons over 50 years of age. In addition to these results, there have been 12 or 15 candidates for the nomination to the house of representatives who have won in primaries by saying the Townsend or plan or the some other impossible and illogical and unsound pension plan would be put through congress. I cannot describe them all; they are obviously variations of the Townsend plan, and none of them will work any more than the Townsend bubble will work, and each has been used to delude aged and infirm voters whose ballots were needed to swing an election. It is tragic that such things have happened, and are happening today, The fact can not be Ignored, however, because the condition is with us. The one thing to do, then, I believe, is to attempt to disillusion those folks who have swallowed the slick words of those campaigners or those racketeers who are preying upon the faith of folks who, through no fault of their own, do not have access to information that shows these schemes to be rainbows. And, as far as history records, nobody on earth ever has found the end of the rainbow where the pot of gold is reputed to be. I am not concerned about the public career of Mr. McAdoo who has been in public service off and on since 1913. He never impressed me as being any great shakes of a statesman. As secretary of the treasury, he did the job probably about as well as the average political appointee. I never have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Downey. So I cant comment. Senator Pepper's senate record is a great deal like many another senators record, and probably will continue to be just so-sIn other words, here were two average senators one winning with the aid of the promises about the Townsend plan and the other losing because he stayed away from such promises, although he was thrice blessed by the President of the United States. That situation, along with some letters accusing me of giving the Townsend plan a silent treatment in these columns, seems to warrant a new analysis of the conditions that now confront the country. It Appears Townsendism Is Not Dead After All As I said there is evidence that Townsendism is not dead at all. It has formed the basis of a dozen new panaceas, of which the is but an example. It happened that this scheme was proposed in California which, particularly in its southern sections, has a vast population of aged people who have gone there to enjoy the famous climate and have the health that it y gives them. Old people are behind these schemes. That is one of the reasons why Mr. Down-e- y was able to boast more than a million signatures to the petition that made the question an issue in California. And Florida, too, with a fine winter climate, is a fertile field for the racketeers who promote such ridiculous programs. It is a harsh tiling to blame the strength of these movements, all of which crop up during depression times, upon elderly people. It is nevertheless the cold fact that they are the type among whom such schemes are promoted, and because they have votes, the candidate for oilice stoops to the level of adding further to hopes that never can be fulfilled in that manner. To show how silly the scheme of is as a cam$30 paign iue for Mr. Downey just as nil example he is a candidate for the United States senate. The pension dream he has advocated is planned as port of the welfare program of the state of California. IIow Mr. Downey can do anything about it as a member of the United States senate, I can not understand, and I sit loir ly doubt tout Mr. Downey c m explain it. Nor will the plan work if made into law without bmkrupting the state of California. I doubt that it will woik anyway, but assuming that It may work, the state will be assuming a burden that will cost it so much money that the California books will be so far in the red as to cause them to appear splotched v llh blood. This idea of placing btamps on each warrant each week so that an actual $1.04 mili-tantl- every-Thursda- y HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! Stream of Death By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter D. C. has been affixed by cash payment in a year will stop the transfer of them very shortly. Few storekeepers, for example, will accept them beyond the necessities of their tax payments to the state of California; conit is certain also that those tinue to accept them would not pay the face value, and the possessor would be forced into paying higher prices for the things that he buys. That is, the possessor would be buying 50 cents worth of sugar and probably would be handing over a dollar warrant for it All of this is the result of a lack of confidence among the people in any form of exchange except the currency that is backed and guaranteed by the United States, as has been shown so many times before. Hello everybody: Dunford of Chicago is todays tradition this seaHere are the 1938 New York Yankees who are carrying on the famous pennant-winnin- g son, leading to another American league championship and perhaps a world series victory. Left to right: Frank Crosettl, shortstop; Rob Red Rolf e, third base; Tom Henrich, right field; Joe DiMaggio, center field; Lou Gehrig, first base; Bill Dickey, catcher; George Sekirk, left field; Myril Hoag, right field; and Joe Gordon, second base. ' Practicing a Famous Picklcpuss Downey Plan Would Make Trouble for New Dealers Then, I believe I foresee some other trouble respecting such warrants as Mr. Downeys scheme proposes; not that I think his plan is worse than any others but it serves as an illustration. It is proposed that the possessor put a two-cestate stamp on the warrant for each week in his possession, or 52 such stamps in a year. Well, I imagine that the warrants would be in the hands of many persons who had no cash at all not a cent. Immediately, there would be a cry go up to have the state supply the stamps free, and it is quite certain that there would be some politicians dishonorable enough to campaign for office on that issue. Now, assume that Mr. Downey comes to the senate; assume that he is elected over his Republican opponent in November. I seem to scent some added trouble for President Roosevelt and his New Deal friends who have been promising too many things and too much of them. Of course, many persons believe that Mr. Roosevelts methods to date have encouraged all kinds of quackeries because he has talked at length of humanitarianism. He has aroused the minds of elderly persons who are suffering under conditions not of their own making. He has likewise aroused a lot of flabby brained individuals among the younger people who live on illusions. It is made to appear that congressional leaders, seeking to follow presidential policies, are going to be confronted with frequent bulges for national pensions of a kind that no nation can bear. The number and type of these panaceas ebbs and flows with the economic tide. When business is good and there is plenty of work, when storekeepers are able to sell and people are able to buy, we hear little or nothing of the dream-worl- d children of the Townsends and the Downeys and the others. When there are hard times and there are thousands upon thousands without work and food and clothes, those suffering minds become easy prey to the silver tongue. Pursuing the thought a bit further, it then becomes possible for a movement which demands not $30 every Thursday for persons over 50, but one demanding $40 or $50 every Friday or $00 every Saturday. The amounts can be pushed up and up and the fervor of the suffering under this illusion grows greater and greater. And always, such movements provide the breeding ground for other racketeers who want to promote dissension and dissatisfaction. Always, too, there will be political champions for the cause whatever it may be, because there is something, some halo, about public office that will lead men into the strangest views. President Cannot Dodge Some of Responsibility SEEKS NAVY FUND Maury made a rush for the station. Firemen from all m town were running to the same point. They poured into the build the big truck rolled out even before the sound of the siren had . away. The burning building was only two blocks from the fire house ' It a small dwelling and the fire was in the attic. Maury says that was pouring from under every shingle. He grabbed a line and went around to the back of the house looking for ing through which to get at the fire. Then, seeing no opening went into the house, dragged the hose up through a small triC in the ceiling, and crawled with it into the attic. Fighting Fire in the Attic. The heat and smoke were terrific, he says. I started cree forward so I could get at the seat of the blaze. Water was now b ing through the nozzle in my hands, and the boys outside were pL Annie Farley Lawson, granddaughter of South Carolinas Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, imitates the famous picklepuss expression that helped her grandfather win renomination in his states recent Demo- cratic primary. SHE WAS QUEEN OF GRAPE FETE Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, leaves the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt on next years naval building program. Admiral Leahy said it would probably be necessary to increase the budget over its present level by $200,000,000 because building costs would increase as advanced on ships now under construction. The program will come before the next congress. Maury couldnt even move a muscle. He couldnt even turn around. another hose. The water from that hose was drenching me, but 8.. doing little toward putting out the fire." The little attic was fairly flooded with water now. Whats more water was hot. It felt as if it was cooking my knees, says r I was kneeling in it, between the sills, with my head bent to my chest to keep as much smoke out of my lungs as possible." And then it happened, ne felt as If something had grabbed him all at once. He tried to look around and found that be L. 1L-fo- couldnt. He simply couldnt move His whole body was stiff. It wasnt Maury as if something was trembling shaking up of his life. All at once he trie shock! Firemen Block Attempted Suicide a muscle. exactly trembling, but inside of him, giving realized what it was. it fe. him As e Paralyzed by Electric Current. w-u- Where was the shock coming from? He had stepped on no There wasnt any wiring anywhere within ten feet of him. It took L. a minute or two to figure that out The hose! That stream of r. had found a bare electric wire somewhere back there in the smoke flame. The electricity was traveling down the stream to the nozzle, Maury was gripping that nozzle with both hands. His wet clothes . the water-soakefloor were completing the hook-uthat was see. the voltage through his body. He tried to move the hose divert the stream of water away i that wire but he couldnt budge an inch. He tried to drop the net but for the life of him he couldnt let go of it He tried to use voice and that worked. Somehow his vocal cords werent paralyzes the flow of electricity, and he shouted at the top of his lungs. off the juice, he was yelling. But he didnt think any one could h him over the bedlam and confusion of sounds that came up to him t i d y . if XVtvJv id; p s, below. The pain was getting terrible, he says. Every joint every muscle every bone in my body was aching. Smoke was choking blinding me. I was held there by that shock, as immovable as if Id been chained there. What was I to do? Wat Mbl was. going to happen to me? Was I going to stand there the fire crept over and burned me alive? Or would I succumb to the shocks of the electricity before the fire reached me? Vv aM Though many California communities harvested grapes this autumn, and although many of them held grape festivals where they chose queens of the grape harvest, residents of Escondido, Calif., believe their queen is about tops. She is Miss Margaret Wiley, who reigned supreme over the bounteous crop of grapes grown in that territory this summer. The celebration is an annual affair, bigger than usual this year because of the fruitful season. Some One Pulled Like the late John Warde, who killed himself last July In a sensational leap from a Manhattan hotel, William Ahearn, a psychopathic patient in New lorks Bellevue hospital, 6tood on a narrow of the hos-pitledge s ninth floor for several hours before Fireman Thomas J. Kchoe (left) gripped him by the ankle and dragged him back to safety. The Incident attracted a large crowd. al If Asteroid Should Strike New York Harbor! Mr. Roosevelt has said with emphasis several times that none of these things will work. He believes they should not be propagated and spread, because he recognizes how easily miserable humanity can be ? if f lead off at a tangent. It is a type W iv: of hysteria, an emotion. The President, however, must not 'dodge responsibility for a part of it. As I said above, his methods have been ''C A fL , , conducive to hysteria of several kinds. These panaceas that threaten again to cause grief for his administration are but an outgrowth of the numerous plans that have been given birth by various persons in official position. True, they hae been fed by the dregs of hard times, but they had their encouragement fust fiotn illogical phases of the New Deal. Truer words were never spoken than President Roosevelt uttered at Pittsburgh, Pa., in his 1932 campaign when he said; Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns, but you and I know that a continuation of the habit means the poor house. Adoption of any of the pension schemes, whatever their This drawing by Walter Favreau of the Hayden planetarium shows variation from the Townsend plan may be, means the poor house be- asteroid, such as Hermes, which came within 220,000 miles of the earth list cause there can not be enough taxes harbor. A tidal wave would inundate the city, shipping would be destroyed bridge. levied or collected to meet the need. scrapers would burst into flames as a result of the terrible heat. i? if t A ' , - y; yA f " ,VI - - , ' ' - a. " J s !- of New 1 V, fa rk ,f - j " " Now York crumble and sky. 1 Sit the Switch. Maury knew that even house current could kill a man under proper conditions, and he was sure that current would kill him ii bet on long enough. The pain was getting worse by the minute. Be as if he were about to lose consciousness, but he fought that giddy was making his head spin round and round. Once he let t himself well he knew that would be the end. tr e: And then, all of a sudden, Maury felt his body relax. He move found that he could and turned the nozzle upward. Some curren' downstairs had pulled the main switch, shutting off all the the building. And hed done it just in time to save Maury from lapse and probably from death. The force of the upturned stream of water bac Says he: through the roof. Shingles went flying. Sunshine came port And I felt like a million dollars! Copyright. WNU Servic. Thought and Language In its broadest sense language Is any means of expressing thought, and this would include the sounds made by a baby or by a dog, observes a writer in the Detroit News, Only the very simplest of thoughts can be expressed without words, though musical composers, mathematicians and others have their own ways of expressing thought by music, figures and letters, etc. Language had to be evolved in some way or other. Possibly the language of the most primitive man consisted of largely gestures and cries or giunts, but this is mere speculation. A j 0 Western Newspaper Union, distingujc adventurer. He was a volunteer fire fighter and sn eater in the little town of Russelville, Ark., in 1929 his adventure happened. It was a quiet, warm, in the little town that nestled in a at foot of the Ozarks close to the bank of the Arkansas n. Every one was dozing and taking life easy, but sudd the fire siren let out a shrieking blast that brought the nr town to life. Tungsten, Lamp Filament Wire The use of tungsten as a lamp filament wire is based upon certain properties which make it a metal of extremes. Outstanding among a melting tt;se1roiwrtics point degrees Centigrade, a low vapor pressure, and a tensile m wotked condition of fiimCniu)th pounds per square inch At one time tungsten was a brittle metal, but an regarded as expert succeeded in drawing a wire m such a way as to make it bepdable at room temperature. Magna Charla Signed is Magna Charta was siPe 1215, and there are in existed originals signed at Runnymed& cording to London Tit-B' zine. Two are in the British cathedral1 seum, one in Lincoln the best specimen in The actual sign-l the charter took place in Three island in the river. most important clauses siac that no man shall be imPr' without reason, the king sba 8" levy taxes indiscriminately. cities of England shall be " their ancient freedom and r.f li it Ventriloquists, Belly Spes Once it was believed vJr quists produced voices in achs. Hence their title, Latin words meaning ers. Actually they frm the usual manner but with control of breathing throat. Anyn lips and tongue. healthy vocal organs cafl th trick, asserts a writer in ( lngton Post Ancient P00, masters of ventriloquism- - the art. Its believed. their statues of pagan gds ' f 3 V S U,C tc ii f I 3 e |