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Show PAGE TWO THE PARK RECORD Thursday, June 2, 1938 National Topics Interpreted William Bruckart National Pres. Bulletins Washington, D. Washington. Congress is packing Its duds. It doesn't know exactly what date it will Want to go home, but go Go Home home it will, in just a few weeks more. There is nothing more con tagious than homesickness among congressmen when primaries are in the air and votes around the grass roots await to be garnered. I suppose that when they go, there will be a certain amount of criticism criti-cism about the do-nothing congress. Particularly will they hear barks that they have left the nation's most important problem unsolved. They will be told how they should have charted a course to lead the country out of the depression and how they failed to do anything towards restoring restor-ing unemployed to permanent jobs. The prospect of this condition, it eeems to me, warrants a general discussion without pulling punches. Congress is supposed to formulate national policies. It, therefore, must accept some blame for its failure. But it is not alone to blame, and the voters ought to know it. There are some other spots to which attention at-tention should be directed in all fairness to the members of the house and senate. Let us look back a bit. It must be agreed, I believe, that recovery is the foremost problem. Recovery dans must be divided. Attention must be given, first, to relief of the destitute, the unemployed. Second ly, policies must be laid down that will permit business, big and little, to take on workers or obviously they will remain on the relief rolls. Since last November, there have been pleas, threats, argument all seeking establishment of policies that would permit business to have confidence. There has been nothing from President Roosevelt in the way of suggestions or proposals along this line, and congress re fused, cowardly enough, to lead the way. As the session wore on, unemployment unem-ployment increased until the other day the social security board made public figures showing that about 19,900,000 persons were receiving government assistance of one kind or another almost 6,300,000 fam Hies. And during the same period, the volume of business fell further into new low levels. The whole picture pic-ture undeniably has grown worse. Then, there came from the President Pres-ident the request for the use of further money, some six billion dollars of it. It was the so-called lending-spending program that has just been enacted and the congress, anxious to avoid conflict with presidential presi-dential will, Tubbed its collective hands and said, in effect, "There! That takes care of the unemployed." So we will have new post offices, new bridges, new roads, new this and new that some time. Those things can not be put over on a day's notice. It takes time to get them started where they will employ workers. The portion of the six billions allocated for relief, of course, can be used at once because Mr. Harry Hopkins can have his boys and girls write checks at a rate which is positively amazing. The public construction phase will be valuable, or ought to be, to the candidates because the candidates can say to their political meetings: "Here it is and from my hands, too." After that money is spent, then what? My conviction is that we will be just where we started. That is to say, we will be just where we were three years ago. Every one recalls, of course, how there was a pump priming of business then. It cost $4,880,000,000. The result was some very nice postoffices and other public buildings and an addition of $4,880,000,000 to the national debt. The administration tried some other pump priming, too, and succeeded in building up the national debt still higher. It is now pushing right up to the forty-billion mark. Since the pump priming and the other spending ideas failed to accomplish ac-complish anything Spending m the other trials, Fails there seems to be no reason to expect ex-pect the new outlay of cash to do more than create a new high record for the national debt. It will do that, beyond question. But I said at the outset that there were others to blame. This fact has been brought to the fore by the condition lately much publicized in Chicago and Cleveland. Scenes distressingly dis-tressingly reminiscent of the lines of starving in 1930 were re-enacted in Chicago and Cleveland within the month. The cities were out of cash end the xelief lines became riotous. There is not much to be done about starving people but to feed them. That is accepted. Yet, how did that happen? Why was the condition condi-tion allowed to reach that stage? Here is the fact that will make me very popular, I am sure, in the areas where the shoe fits: The states have failed to assume their proper share of the responsibility. Let me repeat that: The states have failed to assume their proper share of responsibility! They have consistently done so, and the reason they have been chiseling and pull ing at the federal teat is because they have been taught by the Washington Wash-ington government through six or eight years that they could do it and get away with it. The politicians politi-cians within a state can not be blamed wholly, because they are politicians, seeking election or seeking seek-ing to hold office or party power or what have you. It was so mucn easier to bring pressure to bear in Washington, go home with big checks, shout to the folks that they were bringing home the bacon without adding to the tax of their home folks. That is, they said there was no additional tax because it was a federal tax that had to make up for what the states drew out and the federal taxes are not as easily seen as taxes in a state, a county or a city. It has come to such a pass these days that few state politicians dare to suggest at home that they raise the relief funds locally. It would be political suicide, they feel. So they follow the beaten track to Washington, and the Washington politicians from President Roosevelt down haven't the courage to send them back home without some token of appreciation something oT a minor mi-nor character like a check for a few millions and a promise of more. If one is really going to trace this thing down to its start, I believe it has to go back to Herbert Hoover's Hoov-er's administration. It will be recalled re-called that Mr. Hoover proposed and obtained concessional action on a plan by which the Reconstruction Finance corporation was created. It was to loan money to tide business over until the depression had worn itself out. It was not a sound plan then; it is not sound now. It was opposed by Democrats then but it has been expanded and enlarged and glorified by them since. But the fact that it was created constitutes consti-tutes the tragedy. The fact that there was a spot where government cash could be borrowed started politicians poli-ticians looking to Washington. It was a pretty soft touch for them. The LaFollette type of mind and the group of professors who figured the nation could spend its way out of the depression moved right into the long halls and took over desks in every place they could find chairs. The thing spread like wildfire and it is still is going, as witness the latest program involving six billion dollars. . It is going to require many years of effort to restore states to their own boundaries. Long Road They have got Ahead themselves into debt with the fed eral government; they have found how easy it is to do tnat and they will do more, unless the people them selves realize what it means. Un less the states again take control of their own affairs, state lines will mean nothing." The nation will be run from Washington bureaucrats' desks and good government by the people themselves will be a thing of the past. There is a phase of this control from Washington upon which I want to record a few especial observations. observa-tions. I refer to the great waste that occurs when the federal government gov-ernment attempts to handle such a delicate and direct proposition as relief. This phase irks me and it ! ought to irk every one who hates to see stupid administration use up so much money needlessly. My morning morn-ing paper a few days ago carried a dispatch from Cleveland announcing announc-ing that public funds from Washington Wash-ington were going to be used to give work to four hundred men for six monlhs. They are going to count the trees in Cleveland. Think of it counting trees as a means of giving giv-ing work! Surely, it is possible to create some other kind of work. I believe it would be better to give that money outright for the con struction of some homes for fifty families, or any one of a hundred thousand things. Such things as this are bound to happen, however, when the states, counties and cities lean so heavily on Washington. Citizens lose control con-trol when they let their politicians dodge responsibility by calling on Washington for everything. And there is no doubt in the mind of any one who has studied the problem prob-lem but that the citizens will pay more when their relief needs are met from Washington than if they forced their own officials to assume the responsibilities of their offices. I suppose, however, that it is not in the interest of the politicians to bring about recovery in a normal way, whether they are local or state or national politicians. If they can accomplish election the way it is now being done, they may as well continue. Each one has only one political life to give to his country and if he can make that political life a good long one by kidding his constituents well, why not? I repeat, however, and there can be no denying the fact, that relief is going to cost each citizen more because be-cause the money is being chiseled out of Washington rather than the state or local treasuries. Western NtT.ipapr UUon. Speaking of Sports Softball H c n r i c Led h t o Big Leagues By GEORGE A. BARCLAY Y'OUNG Tom Henrich used to knock softballs over the playground play-ground fence and be quite a hero to the neighborhood kids. Now young Tom Henrich knocks hard baseballs over the fence in American league parks and the wise boys predict that future diamond historians will rank him in the same outfield flight as Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and his teammate, team-mate, Joe Di Maggio. For Henrich is making the fans around the circuit cir-cuit sit up and take notice because of his brilliant work as right fielder of the New York Yankees and as one of the team's sluggers. It was back in Massilon, Ohio, that Tom began playing softball. It wasn't long before he found this game rather tame and turned to sandlot baseball. He looked so good that his father got interested and gave him encouragement. Townsfolk began talking about Tom's uncanny fielding ability and his knack of hitting baseballs where the fielders weren't. Soon the Cleveland Indians heard about him and one of their scouts wired the home office that he was one of the finds of the bushes. The Indians signed him and then indulged in-dulged in a bit of "cover up play" that came to the attention of Commissioner Com-missioner Kenesaw Mountain Lan-dis. Lan-dis. The commissioner declared young Henrich a free agent. Yanks Step In That all happened in the spring of 1937. As soon as other big league clubs got wind of the fact that Tom was footloose, a deluge of scouts descended on Tom's home, talked with him and then with his father and tried to induce him to sign. TOM HENRICH The emissaries of Col. Jake Rup-pert's Rup-pert's New York Yankees talked most convincingly. Tom was signed with them . and given a bonus of $20,000. At the time Joe McCarthy hap pened to be overloaded with out fielders, so he sent Tom across the river to Newark where the Yankees maintain their main talent farm. At Newark Tom lived up to his ad vance notices. He got away to a good start, was flashy in the field and soon was slamming the ball all over the International league. Then the Yanks began to encoun ter some tough going. The outfield powerhouse was crippled by injuries. in-juries. Roy Johnson, whom Mo Carthy had secured from Boston, couldn't get going. Desperate for talent, McCarthy sold Johnson to the Boston Bees and recalled young Tom Henrich from Newark. Injuries In-juries then played further into Tommy's Tom-my's hands. George Selkirk had to take time out, on account of bad leg. That put the job of right field squarely up to the rookie Hen rich. Tommy fulfilled the story-book : tradition by making good in a big way. lie proved Dy hard rutting that he had a right to be included in the Yanks' Murderers' Row. He didn't confine himself to singles or doubles, but began punching the ball into the bleachers. His fielding was sensational and his throw-ins from the outfield on close plays were every bit as good as his phenomenal young colleague, Joe Di Maggio. Now at twenty-one, Tommy Hen rich seems to be on the way to a great major league career. He has gone at such a pace that there seems little likelihood that Selkirk will win back his job from him. If the Yanks win the American league pennant this year, Tom Hen rich will be one of the reasons. So will a former International leaguer by the name of Joe Gordon who is a second baseman by trade and who succeeded the durable Tony Laz- zen, now a member of the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs. Henrich and Gordon give new coverage to second base and right field. And coming up through the school that developed Gordon and that Henrich attended for a while last year is another young fellow who the scouts say, will be ready for the big show next year. His name is Charley Keller and he's an outfield er. Coming out of the University of Maryland last year, he led the In ternational league in hitting and is continuing the pace with Newark again this year. Tennis Dilemma PROFESSIONAL tenuis appears to be at the crossroads. Its future will depend largely on which direction direc-tion it turii3. Small galleries at the national professional tennis championship cham-pionship tournaments this year presage pre-sage a diminishing of public interest inter-est in the pro game unless several remedies are applied. Followers of the game point out that the top-notch pro talent does not compete in the national professional tournaments as does the top pro talent tal-ent in golf. They cite the example Fred Perry Ellsworth Vines of Fred Perry and Ellsworth Vines probably the greatest players in the world today. Both failed to enter the national professional championship champion-ship and did not compete in any of the various other tournaments held in the South last winter and this spring. The appearance of either of these stars in the championship events would insure their success and heighten public interest in the tournaments. tour-naments. It is explained that Vines and Perry can make more money playing exhibition matches than they can in tournaments. In tournament tourna-ment play, for example, if Vines won both singles and doubles titles he would make from $500 to $1,000 a week of continuous play. In exhibition ex-hibition play at present his net receipts re-ceipts would far exceed that in a day or two. bull, for the sake ol the pro game s tuture, those on the inside assert that it would be good busi ness for both Vines and Perry to enter the professional tournaments. They might sacrifice some income for a week or two, but in the long run they would probably make more as a result of increased interest in the game among fans everywhere. It has also been suggested that closer co-operation be established between the pro players and the professional association itself. Here and There THE handicap of being a deaf ivi tit A rl nacn't hrtf Ti ni TrVr flri w seventeen-year-old nephew of the late John McGraw, who lives in Mystic, Conn. Baseball is in John's blood the same as it was in the blood of his famous uncle. Young John is a natural ball player, a good hitter and possessed of an agile baseball mind. He is the star of the Mystic Oral school. The Cubs last season whipped ev ery team in the year's series except the Pirates, who took them, 13 games to 9 . . . And it looks as if the Pirates are going to be the jinx again this year, though it appears the Boston Bees and New York Giants may soften up the Pirates so much that the Cubs can catch on to how it's done . . . Lou Gehrig has taken all the charms, rings, and other trinkets gathered m his baseball wanderings and had them made into a bracelet for Mrs. Gehrig. Baseball Oldster Vf HEN a man reaches the ripe old age of thirty-five in baseball, base-ball, he has arrived at the patri arch stage and is permitted the privilege of becoming oracular. Such a man is Charley Gehringer, brilliant second baseman of the Detroit De-troit Tigers, who seems to have caught bis second wind as be romps S CHARLEY GEHRINGER through his tbirteenth season in the big leagues. One of Charley's contentions is that the pitching today is better than when he came into the American Amer-ican league in 1925. "There were some star pitchers when I came up and they were real stars," he recalls, "but the ordinary pitchers were not as good as the ordinary pitchers of today." Charley doesn't, have any trouble naming the best pitcher he ever faced. "Lefty Grove," be says without hesitation. And Grove, he says, was much faster in his prime of speed- oamng man is Cleveland's Bob I Feller today. C Western Newspaper Union. V 1 r Star bp us Hollywood Modistes k Amazing Women Tf Private Radio Jokes Ily Virginia Vnle- CAROLE LOMBARD and Clark Gable really ought to go into the dressmaking business. They co-operated on a sports jacket which Alice Marble, the United States' Number One woman tennis player, will wear when she steps out on the courts of Wimbledon, Wim-bledon, England, to battle for a championship. Carole designed the jacket, (she'g Alice Marble's best friend) and Clark had his tailor make it. It's a knockout. And Alice, tall, blonde and pretty, will wear it. Remember "Dawn Patrol," In which Richard Barthelmess starred, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., after pleading and fighting for the role, played the second lead so ably that ERROL FLYNN he stole the picture and proved him self a good actor? Well, it's to be made again, with Errol Flynn, Pat-ric Pat-ric Knowles and Basil Rathbone in the leading roles. Claudette Colbert, who recently got home from that European vaca tion, likes simple clothes but listen to the description of the dress recently recent-ly designed for her by Travis Ban-ton, Ban-ton, one of moviedom's ace design ers. It's frilly, it's frothy; it's of white organza, covered with a print ed pattern of cherries in black. The skirt is shirred and full, the neckline neck-line is outlined by a flounce, with wider flounces forming the sleeves. Sounds anything but simple 1 Alice Brady has had years on the stage and years in the movies, but when you hear her on the radio you may be sure that she is nervous The microphone simply scares her into such a state of nerves that the pages of her script have to be pasted past-ed on cardboard, to keep them from rattling. 25 Encouraged by its- success In building Ginger Rogers up as a dramatic dra-matic star, RKO is going to try to do the same thing with Ruby Kee-ler, Kee-ler, the dancer who is Mrs. Al Jol-son Jol-son in private life. You'll see the first results of the new campaign in "Mother Carey's Chickens." With Fay Bainter and Ralph Morgan also in the cast, the girl will have to act or be utterly swamped. Bob Ripley has discovered, in his search for "Believe It Or Nots," that it is three and two-thirds times as easy for a man to become an amazing person as it is for a woman to do so. He finds that amazing women are just as interesting as men, but rarer. The only reason he can give is that they don't have as much chance to distinguish themselves them-selves as men do. The first thing any of us know, someone is going to form an organi zation to protest against radio programs pro-grams which are awfully amusing to the audience in the broadcasting studio, but pretty dull to those who just tune in, and can't see what is going on. Eddie Cantor is one of the worst offenders. offend-ers. After all, radio ra-dio is supposed to beheard.notseen, And I know of Eddie Cantor more than one instance in which a listener, at home, swore never to buy the sponsor's product because it was so annoying to hear the laughter and not know what was funny. ODDS AND ESDS-Paramount may follow Metro't example and launch an air show in the fall . . . Stan Laurel and his Russian bride plan a fourth uedding ceremony cere-mony . . . Frank Black saves the stampg from foreign letters, and gives them to his friendsuhich keeps his office filled with both friends and stamps . . . Around Hollywood they're calling "The Aventure of Marco Polo," 'Mr. Deeds Goet to China" . . . Gale Page, known to radio but not to movie fans, has been made tj star by Tamer Brothers. O Western Newspaper Union. -A I f V . - J pv ' s i ? I ' f 1 Jt Mi M)vrt How HOTELS HOTEL PLAN DO ME, SALT LAKE 4th So. Stale Hates 11.01) to (2.00 QUIET RKSPECT ABLE CLEAN When in 1KNO. NEVADA itop t th. 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