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Show REAVER PRESS ent U.i 3d helD and Phrases fntcrorcted William Brucbrt it.. wont fby far Washington, pres, Bulldlnsr you ... d fI MCft-enar- , .Qpnntor arose In the senate recently to nffr a bill that a would repeal Democrat, -. r- f . $mea Lf fwife provision employment of law of boU the government. since the sum-f- S The provision ought by gent effect 1 repealed probably see there far as I can fn. do sense in the national will be Lnt refusing to employ because a man . husband al-- L a woman's federal pay rolL the on L Dot the importance of this Car repeal proposal, how-interest- D, tion respecting government oubli- The Origin of Sitdowns cations recenUy when the house ap-- , CA.NTA MONICA PAT TV propriations committee was holding Wlth the Barnum show hearings on a bill appropriating !r re once was an elderly funds for several government de- - O lady elephant named Helen. partments. Mr. Taber estimated that gov-- : Now Helen had wearied of ernment publications were costing traipsing to and fro in the in the neighborhood of twenty-mil- a year, tie called them administration propaganda. "Every organization In the government, "Mr. Taber declared, "is sending out all sorts of propagan da, propaganda In fancy colors, pampniets with pictures of resettle-- 1 ment projects, pictures of WPA propositions and all that sort of! rting." me. Senator It was the first I hart Lf! action was significant been able to obtain estimate of the cost ofj when because keresting only government publications for it is nuuwsc not of the easy to ascertain how muchj federal law was pro-- and marked tj of one of the beginning of the most abortive of legislation xnai nas umi T f 4 ratal in ihp S(V docb.. .. -l - jatute 1933. I economy act of Innot refrain from recalling a tion tnat i maue wucn v act was before congress in It was introduced and supNew Deal legislature by the effort to carry out a cam- - made when was running for Presi-ooseve- promise will remember promised to reduce the cost 1932. e li of- - You e jjvernment twenty-nvjig in many speeches per cent, that the jtof government was too high 4 that a reduction in taxes was like- sessary. It will be recalled how he said that "Taxes come g the sweat of every man who as." fill, the economy act was driven wgh, despite declaration from y senators and many represens tnat it was lmposstoie 10 ate the structure of govern- as proposed in that bill and have a government that would And here were ion properly. of the most ridiculous provi- in that legislation to come be- congress in many years: They jked injustices on veterans of the fli war, on farmers, on retired ierament workers, on the army j navy and marine corps, and jnstrung and handicapped gov-ineagencies in a manner I i not seen in my long experience jan observer of national affairs. 8 was on that occasion that I de the prediction mentioned kve, and to which I call atten-because of the McKellar pro-a- l these beautifully done magazines cost each department or agency. Nor is it easy to determine how! much is paid for the distribution of the countless thousands of state. ments issued for the press or mailed 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 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- - one-hal- well-planne- e ut that Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. WNU Service. Bell Syndicate. her two mornings to make Eddie's suit and my dress. Won't Eddie LeRoy with her. She lives you help me with my doll clothes in Palm Beach in the wintertime now?" TVI RS. DICK EVANS has come to town and brought Ann and THERE ARE "Indeed I will, Ann, and then we will have some of those oatmeal cookies you like for lunch." The Patterns. Pattern 1272 is available in sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 4 yards of 39 inch material and 2'i yards of ribbon for tie belt. Pattern 1275 is for sizes 6 months to 4 years. Size 1 requires Vh yards of 32 inch material. Patterns 1403 comes in sizes 2, 4, and 6 years. Size 4 requires IVz yards of 36 inch material. Pattern 1212 is designed in sizes 34 to 48. Size 36 requires 5 yards of 35 inch material plus yard contrasting for the collar. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring meetings." "I'll bet you can sew fast, too, and Summer Pattern Book. Make the way Mother does. It only took yourself attractive, practical and NO and, of course, knows all about style. That's why she wears this directorie type frock that is both new and figure flattering. In the floral print she has chosen she is perfectly gowned for the parties that will be given for her in the home town. The kiddies are wearing the simple styles appropriate to childhood and therein their smartness lies. Auntie Rose Sews- Too. Ann is asking Auntie Rose Little More Taxes and Taxes, when everybody is taking if she makes her clothes too. JUST from the yodelled prom- "Sure enough, dear," comes the ises of that happy optimist, Chair- reply. "I made this percale for man Harrison of the senate finance mornings and have a beauty in committee, that the government yellow crepe cut from the same will be able to get by for 1937 with- pattern to wear to the r i SPIDER-WE- B CHECKS IN MY FURNITURE. I PROTECT IT BY USING ONLY GENUINE O-CED- J POLISH s", . It's may-sand- 1 ,d ; je i t h,aidCe0anCorfeteequalitgy .... whereas, the - j to ireeaom provided he may cling hn fetish of equality. Yankee tweedledee and British tweedledum may be brothers under the skin, but they have different skin diseases. The Parole Racket. but seemingly ITtrue astonishing that, of five young gang-in sters recently caught 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 panot role boards over the union are practitioners turning loose qualified defast enough to keep up with the need we Maybe mand? self-ope- Those sentimentalists who abhor be the idea that a chronic offender latest senrequired to serve out his tence should take steps right away to correct this thing before it goes must too far. Our parole system if it costs the lives vindicated be as many and property of ten times innocent citizen as p. WNU Service. Fire Damage Slight national forests Only 100 acres of by fire were damaged Colorado in 19Zo, since record best in 193&--the when 71 acres were burned. r LLO u fl n. LAW-AND-ORD- MELVIN PURVIS, tUKIYlb NtW tUKfi OF SECRET OPERATORS! G-M- ER former ace who founded the Junior OPERATORS.They have special codes, G-M- ization Below is a "candid camera" snapshot of a squad of Secret Operators who have a special problem Melvin Purvis' Lawtand-OrdPatrol. Members are SECRET er HM. FALSE CLUES. EH' THEY OFTEN TPAP THE PERSON WHO LEAVES THEM! I CAN ANSWER US ? THIS LETTER BEST BY TEL UNO ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE OF MY OWN... AND WHILE rM DOING unuu AiiniiT. nnuii e it GEE. THAT'S we Ought to white to MELVIN PURVIS AND ASK HIM WHAT HE DOES! iv5- rM J -, TO"" !A mi), purvis! Flushing, Edmond Hackett, Olcott Colton. Stanley Fields and Teddy Bruce. (Had Secret Operator), John Appleby, L. i WELL. WELL. THIS IS laTOtigatiox 1 bulk robbery Vf f I DIDN'T DO IT! WVt J SOME QOOY MUST TpJ IsToiwrrGuwsJ HUNCH... LEFTY LOLUt mSt y Avfta 5SJ?4 oless u UtJ (CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS. EH. LEFTY LOUIE . THE GLOVES YOU PLANTED BY THE VAULT ALMOST HUNG THAT CRIME ON MULLIN- S- OUT THE STAIN ON THE I LEFT GLOVE POINTED AT YOU. A LEFT 1 H- AND THAT ILLUSTRATES THE GENERAL RULE ALL SECRET OPERATORS KNOW. WHEN A CLUt"S TOO SIMPLE USUALLY FALSE! NOW HOW ABOUT SCWtf AAORE PAUL AND I vd 7" ron NO ESCAP eT lWtVE ALL SET. l MIMIC r OT- - BADOI OIILS (left), SAD0I (above). Both of box-top- 1m! a9 ME,TOO! THEYE5' V7VtTHtF,NtsTTHIN w (XrHfRf is for mt akfast! 7 MANY OTHER SWELL FREE PRIZES SHOWN IN MANUAL l?! 1 77riTrr COME ON. SOW AND GlUSf BE A SECRET OPERATOR IN MY NO fatiloli err y new ftcurr OrtlATOR'S IHIEID AND MY SfCRIT OFfATO'S SOOK C0NTAININ9 SFICIAL I- N- a. wrf, ESto flakes are toasted rrtucTiows ... also ncrimrs Or AU MY WOMPERXUi mt WISH iUST SENO MI THI couroN aow. with tSU TPMTHI fACKACt to keep their crunch y goodness longer In milk or cream. Get a package . at your grocer's made cereal A Post by General Foods. SK rOR POST CHANCe atin-gol- ... tors, r--- ACT NOWI --W. SO. MeMn Purvis, Bettfo Port Toasties, Croek, Michigan Please send me I endow 2 Post Toaies packare-topSecret Operator's Badge and Manual. Check whether boy ( ) or girl ( ). Put correct postage on letter. J5t. ot R. F. D Name. s. TOASTIES RESTAURANTS IN HOTELS, UNO DININC CARS t d polished gold bronze. onith. Sent FREE, together with Secret Operator's Manual for 2 red Post Toasties MELVIN PURVISl X TRIED "vf SHOULDNT TO FOOL is TOASTIII, JOAN ? the better corn Millions call Post Toastle. made only from are Toastle. for Post flakes of the corn, where most of Z n stored. And these 4olden-browp k BUT WITH QUIETLY "IT'S TREAT I A REAL BREAKFAST doubfe-cris- Yl V GOT TO MAKE THIS RAIO I 150 fg ' HANDED AAAN ALWAYS HOI OS HIS CIGARETTE IN HIS LEFT HAND1 "iVJSl THE DO YOU AU KNOW YOUR POSTS? HAS EVERY ONE A COPY OF THIS DIAGRAM? REMEMBER. WE HE? REPORTED TO BE IN THIS VICINITY. . . "My aides took op their positions corering erery exit of the building. Two men and I slipped quietly Into the building, and ..." i - SAFECRACKER! A CLUE UKE THAT AROUND. kWK . . I- GLOVES WERE PROBABLY LEFT TO THROW US OFF THE TRAIL1. THERE'S A FAINT TRACE OF CIGARETTE STAIN ON THE LEFT GLOVE. I HAVE A 'TLA f 1 I THEM INTERESTING... IS THIS MAN MULLINS HERE ARE THE CLOVES MULLINS, OUR CASHIER. FORGOT TO TAKE AWAY FOUND WITH HIM--WTMEM RIGHT BY THE VAULT TOAtTlIS f COST ' Ilea Six members of Kiagster Cotton's Squid of Secret Opera tors. Long Island. Left to right: Kiogsley Cotton "I wu 2ii ... LOOK HERE, TEOOY HOW CAM WE TELL WHETHER A CLUE IS REAL--O- R A FAKE ONE LEFT TO DECEIVE A passwords, and special equipment. G-M- an Corps, has formed a great new organ- IS d MELVIN PURVIS FORMER ACE INVITES ALL BOYS AND GIRLS TO JOIN HIS PATROL! NEW ," sub-fttut- d, patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cpatterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents today for your copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New easy-to-mak- - FORMERLY the states jealously T guarded their sovereign quisites. Once but that was soe long ago many have almost forgot-thten it they fought among them-lishe- d selves one of the bloodiest civil wars in history over the issue of states' rights. Now we see them complacently to federal bureaus surrendering s those ancient privileges and the thing that's proper all, after be, to do, if in centralized authority lies the hope of preserving a republican form of government s Still, one wonders what English-riodicalmen would do under like c.rcum-Irostances, since Englishmen are ussy about their inheritance of se Perhaps the d.stinc termination. tion is this: In democracies here exists the false theory that .rt men are born free and equal. So the 'Englishman insists or ha 1 gov-me- the date of depature the next spring. There Ws no more bustle about winterquarters on morning than for weeks past But always, when Irvin s. Cobb the handlers entered 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 they'd 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. She'd quit weeping then and wipe her snout and accept what fate sent her. So please don't come telling me 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 self. de- becoming clothes, selecting signs from the Barbara Bell Conn, Nobody ever knew j n ap-W- back Bid-or-- B " ProbahW h .wju seen j nuitu one everything anyhow. So each fall, when the season ended, she went rejoicing home to Bridgeport, out asking this congress to boost taxes, what happens? Why, in a most annoying way. Governor Eccles of the federal reserve board keeps proclaiming that, 0 make treasury receipts come anywhere near meeting treasury disbursements throughout the year, he's afraid it's going to be necessary to raise the rates on incomes and profits higher than ever. And meanwhile state governors and civic authorities scream with agony at the bare prospect of any reductions in Uncle Sam's allotments for local projects. A balanced budget would seem to Santa Claus, something ke evcrybody talks about but nobody ever eXpects to see. nt I land. n Weighing out the the Cost There is country. 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 His curiosity had been week. aroused by the tremendous volume that had been delivered to his oMM fficeboth by mail and by special messenger and so he weighed the week's grist. It totaled more than f three and pounds. This, as I said, was from only one depart ment ana me weigni was me weigm of the paper alone. One need not employ a great deal of imagination to think of the cost involved. First there was the pa- per itself. In the second place there was the cost of typing the material and then of mimeographing it. But for repeal of the marriage before it reached either one of these fcise. I wrote at that time my stages, it was necessary that a vast Jfinite conviction that the economy amount of work be done by well was silly; that it would work paid men and women writers and edships and that its basis was research workers who prepared the iety per cent politics. I predict-- i material that was used whether in further that within a year the or in printing. ticians in the house and senate mimeographing two publications that are There Ao had shouted so loudly about come to my desk regularly that scnomy would begin to chisel varas being extraordinari- me strike ious provisions out of that law. The "Consumers' &ch of those things has happened ly expensive. a product of the Agricul- id now we see the end. administration and The end of the law has come but ture Adjustment "Electrification News," pub- the end of its effects. Prac-ke- s Electrification Rural the by in federal government admin-toatioadministration, are the two most ex-that had been operating pensive and most elaborate periodi-- , '.;sfactorily and very efficiently cals that I regularly see. They are iroughout the years were thrown sent out free not only to the Wash- -' 0 the discard and new ideas but to thou-- ! The discarded methods ington correspondents of voters thousands ere the upon development of experience d to any voter whose name either were serving the purposes for obtains. And they are paid 'eh they were intended. Some of agency out of taxpayers' money. em have been for restored and are in Typographically, each of these pe-lunctioning as they should but can wander is exceptionally well done around through the fraze of a magazine standpoint. They government corridors and attempts still being made to are replete with pictures, and cop-- j ar-- ! me schemes work that are engraving is expensive; the in contained in news items practice, schemes from tides and show- thus minds of theorists. well written, ; are them It will be number of years before the effects tog thai good writers are on the of these agencies. economy rct will be obliter- Ld so it is throughout the gov- ernment. Everywhere a correspond- ''J the chisHing began and the ent goes among government --offices tonomy act fell to pieces under he meets "leaerai wur... the eovernment personnel, engaged; thinkin8' thnder pending distributing the was in DreDaring and Orgy launched the go' ernment's stories for public reading. rgy any nation ever witnessed. It oaS Continued . :;tu Now, let me touch on another uarty and is still mniinm, phase of the cost of government Jistandmg the fact that publications. I re-- ! within ie last few i fer to the use of wpp!c i,o Franking 4.. ciavc licaiuj ernents tne frank'ng privifrom administration Abuse K'Wces to the effect that nmf.i.. lege. As everyone Nation mail goes government fart im expenditures a 'iaVe n0twill be cut. The knows, the United States mails Riii tiT been C"t. through the average person outside of without the payment of postage. .sees 'nd hear, only That does not mean, however, that lea 10 Iar8e totals of the railroads or the airplanes or rn , cn. spendine surh nn reiio gov- the steamships haul that mail free. the . QestitutP difference between that mj trugrami oi The only d0 not hear mail and the letters you write or Z k, ,'lding- receive is that the government pays ong agencies of the government the transportation lines on a pound t0 and on stamps are used. It is small basis Item. , comparatively out8mney th"6 bulk transportation whereas when small m the ums when taken together, that you and I mail letters we pay let!0 ,are even those on com! of cost transportation though by Panson with relief the total ters to the government by means insignincant. of a postage stamp. on,8? ging 10 caU attention to just It is entirely proper and reason3 8maI1 ltem as that government mail should able frent It g0- - about which 1 not require postage stamps. would simply be taking government the h mSt Persons who do me hAr n.tuTn. iii.it: 3 money out of one pocket and puthav. C7 .. it). reaa MJcao ai e information. havl They ting it in another. Vet, in the end n"d little information because you and I, as taxpayers, pay for the t)e isolat!? ln a Psitir to see only transportation of the government examples. I refer to mail and we pay for the millions Publications. of pieces that are sent out from the VorkPrefntative Taber of New various government departments. called attention to the condl- C JTintern Newspaper Union. lJ?n snake lurks in the grass. Nuit blanche. (F.) A sleepless night. Sui generis. (L.) Of its own kind. Vient de paraitre. (F.) Just published, or, just out. Maladie du pays. (F.) Homesickness. Mieux vaut tard que jamais. (F.) Better late than never. Ab initio. (L.) From the beginning. Dal segno. (It.) Repeat from the sign. Polisson. (F.) A rascal. Femme couverte. (F.) A married woman. C. Uuii-uu- serieux. (F.) In dead earnest. l.atet anguis in herba. (L.) A Au grand ly never fae Smart, Flattering Dresses PJ13 MM ill Foreign Words I ""-- "" moiki toys Sme. txpmt Dcctmhrr il,l9S7. Good mtb in U.S. A.) 1 I |
