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Show rr SMITTIFTCUUH THE SMITHFIELD SEXTIXEL, - Xcirs lletlew of Current Events CLIPPER IS LOST SAMOAN Boat Six Others Die as Flying and Musick Captain Samoa Destroyed Near Pago Pago, National Topic Interpreted by William Bruclart KilltHt Praai Bulldlns Wsnhlnslon, f D. C. It is made to appear that we cannot avoid such expenditures as those for national defense, those for veterans who have served their country well, those in payment of interest on a debt that ought not to be so great. There is not much chance, therefore, to effect economy in that direction. Thus, it seems that if the President is sincere about reducing government expenditures and if the politicians in congress have any courage, they had better start looking at the children that are growing up. I mean the children of older government agencies as well as the new children whose parents are politicians. In this connection, let us advert to that budget mentioned at the opening of this discussion. The Department of Commerce that year was getting something like seven million dollars, as I recall. In this year's budget the appropriation is for Now, I assume some one will point out that the functions of the Department of Commerce have expanded immeasureably. That is true. The development of aviation has added many millions to the required exof that government penditure agency. In other words, the federal government has to meet new conditions just like its citizens must meet new conditions. But the point I am trying to make is this: there are enough of those necessary expenditures, outgo that cannot be avoided because they represent real governmental functions, without adding a tot of trick schemes, visionary ideas, theoretical possibilities to the functions of the federal government. There is not space here to list them, but every one of the older agencies has been guilty of biting oil new billion dol- appropriations through the medium matter of thirty-eiglars in national debt? Then, we of a new child or two or three of ought to remember there has been its own every few years. 1 am not a deficit for nine successive years suggesting, therefore, that those esnine years during which the gov- tablished agencies, those that have ernment has spent more than it re- proved necessary, arc to be cut ceived in income, and there probab- out. I am only proposing they bo ly will be at least one more. restricted. As the figures were approved by the President and sent to the cnpitol, I have authority, too, for terming the government will spend $539,000,- - many of these expenditures waste. 000 (its deficits) more during the The authority is fiscal year that starts next July Wanton comptroller 1 than taxes will bring into the of the Waste general of That means, course, treasury. United States. The more borrowing and more borrow- comptroller general sent his aning moons on increase in the public nual report to congress recently. debt. Onward and upward! Or In it he charged there had been should we say it in a revised form: wanton waste of government money upward and upward! by most of the federal agencies. He Uost of the newspapers made did not charge dishonesty headlines out of several items be- something like weak minds in just the cause they were huge, immense. way they planned and spent and Attention was called to the fact that did not books to show exthe appropriation for national de- actly whatkeep had happened. fense the army, the navy, the maThe comptroller general, R. N. rine corps was $991,000,000. That was the greatest peacetime total in Elliott, told congress that there was a regular campaign going on among history. They also referred at length what is usually xall'the Spending to a billion dollar appropriation for of the government to get relief, and to an item of $976,000,-00- 0 agencies in interest on the public debt, control of their spending without and to $538,000,000 for pensions to checkups by the general accounting office. There are continued efforts, veterans of wars. These are startling in their size. he said, "to secure for spending They should occasion, comment:" agencies legislation making further Sometimes I think it requires stag- surrender by the legislative branch gering totals to cause people to stop (congress) of its right and authorand think a bit. Maybe these will ity to direct by law the use of public do that. But in any event, the funds. Of course, Mr. Elliott made budget just submitted to me seems to no reference to the President's redemands of congress for carry some additional significance, peated matters that deserve more thought what is called "blank check approthan the size of those items men- priations. There were few persons, tioned. I refer to the general trend however, who failed to connect the as exemplified by the President's two. The report singled out the remark that we may expect seven Department of Justice, the War billion dollar budgets in the future. and Navy departments and a whole As to that indication, is it not flock of the independent children as agencies that are getting out of line about time to call a halt? Throughout the nearly twelve hundred pages in keeping track of what they do of figures in the budget, as printed, with their appropriations. From these facts, it may be apeverywhere one can point to new items or expansion of old ones. parent to every one that a real need When I say new items, I refer to exists for a tight grip by congress expenditures that have come along on appropriations and an absolute in the last six or eight years. cessation of the great game of startScores of them have bobbed up in ing new agencies. the last four or five years in the And here is a story about one great war on the depression; others have just bobbed up. teeny. weeny item of government expenditures. It is I prefer, therefore, to call attena story that stems tion to these scads of little items to belie the discusStory that, like so many sion above about Where hotes in a tank. waste by the government agencies. Danger Lies are allowing pub- The fact is that the storv shows lic money to tlow how niggardly the government is in away without trace or benefit. That some instances when we all know is why I think there should be a how wanton waste and recklessness good deal of attention paid to the characterize larger spending. general heading in the budget "inLrig. Gen. Harold C. Because, tucked of the marine corps, is Rcisinger, dependent units. being in the list is danwhere the away on a charge that he "padgers lie. ded" his personal expense account The total for the independent units by $ 7.35. That is to say the genof the federal government is in ex- eral may be dishonorably discess of $1,835,000,000. Each of the after a useful life and pervarious agencies therein has its charged haps even jailed because the claim "necessary expenditures to keep is made that he did not spend as going, and a good many of them, much money as his voucher showed about half a doren, certainly have The point of this story, however! their value to the country as a dMs not involve General whole. But the new children in that Reisingcr 1 wa by mere coincidence family are growing up. They are tnat his trial started as it did durfunny looking children in some cases. What they will grow out to ing the closing days of the extra be, their proud parents surely can- session of eongress-tl-- .at session, will recall, that met not forecast. ho knows whether you Xovembn ana la adjourned December 22 withthey will develop their own clan and out having passed a single major become rooted as a permanent dram on the taxpayers. Unless his- piece of legislation. The legislation tory is changed, quite a number of fct.ed, .n favorably by that session them will have children of their own passage of one appropriain the shape of new bureaus and tion bill. It appropriated S225.1M be paid to representatives new duties as the politicians and senators as "mileage. ways of spending money. C vitcra Washington. Some seventeen or eighteen years ago when I was a staff writer for the In Terms of Associated Press, specializing in fiBillions nance, I was called upon to write the lead or general story about tlie annual estimates of expenditures sent to congress that day. The late L. C. Probert was my chief. lie read my story and ordered me to rewrite the first paragraph, saying: You ought to stress that total more; make it read something to the effect that billion dolShow lar congress has arrived. where these government expenditures are heading. The circumstance impressed me for some reason. I can recall the incident as vividly as though it were yesterday: "The era of billion dollar congresses appears to be upon us but it was one of those incidents that was just a good story to a writer. Little did I realize then what it would mean when viewed from the perspective, say, of 1033, for only the other day President Roosevelt submitted the annual estimates, now called the budget, for the next fiscal year. The call was for $0,809,043,000. That was not all. He said there likely would be additional requests for money later and he added a mast significant expression nr observation that probably we can expect the annual federal budget to run around seven billion dollars in the future. In truth, where are these government expenses heading? And what do they mean in the lives of present and future citizens and taxpayers? What does it mean in taxation and especially when one considers that besides this list of scheduled expenditures, there is a little ht the . court-martial- Ntvaptpcr VhIw. with toe speaker President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, shakes hands left, of the house, William B. Bankhead of Alabama, dinner in Washington. John Nance Garner looks on, at the Jackson Day tMuntcd W. PuJcefcJ. 17 THE WORLDS SUMMARIZES e WMUrn Nawipoptf Ualon. Big Flying Boat Destroyed CAMOAN CUPPER, huge flying Air3 boat of the ocean Pacific the into fell ways, near Samoa, carrying the seven of the members crew to their deaths. There were no passengers, for the ship was making one of its pioneering flights on the newly established route across the Pacific. It was on the way from Pago Pago harbor, American Samoa, to Auckland, New Zealand, and had turned back toward Pago Pago because of an oil leak. Presumably it was dumping gasoline to facilitate landing and the fuel exploded, destroying the plane. First in the list of victims was Capt. Edwin C. Musick, considered the most experienced ocean flyer in the world and chief pilot of the PaHe cific division of was one of the most conservative of flyers and officials of the company said he and his flight crew were entirely blameless for the disaster. Those who perished with Musick were First Officer Cecil G. Sellers, Junior Flight Officer Paul S. Brunk, F. J. MacLean, J. W. Stickrod, J. A. Brooks and J. T. Findlay. n. in C.I.O. head of the U. LEWIS, TOHN L. who , and David Dubmsky, chief lieuten- his of one been has seem to have reached the partbeen have and wV toTrf wiO each other in pubHc ief of out restraint Dubuy, Garthe big International Ladies addressing ment Workers' union, his xectjy 1,200 members of boards, said Lewis was to the collapse at peace "etiatl0"s A. F. between the C. I. O. and the man haa one no declared of L., and movement. a mortgage on the labor of He also denounced the infiltration O. I. C. the into Communists To this Lewis retorted with what and the Dubinsky called wisecracks, latter said: "I venture to say that, or without distinction ss to group of masses laboring the formation, America are hungering and prayis my belief, ing for peace and it conMr. Lewis wisecracking to the that they trary notwithstanding, will not be denied such peace for long. Civil War IO a decrease of $841,356,000 from the present fiscal year. The deficit will be financed through Social Security and other trust funds and not through public Expenditures for new highways, new rivers and harbors projects, new public buildings, new recla- mation projects and other new public works will be reduced sharply. The public debt will reach a record high of $38,528,200,000 on June 30, 1939. More G.O.P. Programs SNELL, minority the house, and CoL Frank Knox, Republican candidate for the vice presidency in 1936, have set forth programs for the G. O. P. and other opponents of the New Deal. Mr. Snell in a raJJERTRAND dio address pro- ning? Jewel In the Rough Said Mrs. Browne to her new maid: "I trust you did not have any high words with your last mistress before you left? No, I locked her in the bathroom and slipped out quietly, replied the girL in Hig-gi- 304.000, borrowing. The deficit estimate for the fiscal year which ends June 30 has beenraised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,100.000, because of the business recession. Others in the Field "Have you proposed?" "Well, I was just coming to it when she said she loved Shelley, Wordsworth and somebody els. What chance do X stand with three other blokes in the run- "I dont mind washing dishes for you," wailed the henpecked knsband; "I dont object to sweeping, dusting, or mopping the floors, but I refuse to run ribbons throngh my pajama Jacket Just to fool the Two More for Franco and baby. PHIEF officials of a Austria conference after Competition Hungary, with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano, Returning to the village after would announced their governments her runaway match, the new bride of said to an old gardener: recognize the Spanish regime Gen. Francisco Franco. I suppose my elopement was The two powers, linked with Italy a nine days wonder? "It would ave been, mum," reby the Rome pact, expressed symaxis the old fellow, only pathy with the plied and a determination to fight Comdog went mad the same folmunist propaganda, but did not night. low Italy into the pact with Germany and Japan. Rome-Berl- WEEK miles lam-basti- to Japanese Too Arrogant BRITAINS government, QREAT to dispatches from 2 WAY RELIEF F01 THE MISERY i OF London, has finally been driven by to Japanese arrogance at Shanghai resist- the point of ance. The invaders have been demanding full control of the captured city, to the virtual exclusion of other foreign interests, and jtjjeir troops therewSve treated British policemen in the international settlement very roughly. Minister Prime Neville Chamberlain has taken personal command of British program designed to curb the Japanese expansion of power, and is keeping Washington and Paris fully informed of his plans Also he has been in and. actions. conversation telephonic frequent with Foreign Minister Eden, vaca tioning at Cannes. A high government official in London said Chamberlain had resolved not to stand for Japanese use of military superiority in the present emergency to force concessions in Shanghai. It was made plain that Britain would act only in harmony with the United States and France. That the Japanese are not afraid of Great Britain was indicated by a statement by Rear Admiral Tanet-sug- a Sosa, retired, maintaining that it would be easy for the Japanese navy to reduce the British strongholds at Hongkong and Singapore before the British main fleet could get there. Sosa saidffife only thing that could save Britain was to draw the United StatA into the war. Talc. 2 SAVER ASPIRIN tablets amt drink a full lod of wator. Report tfoataiMt lo 2 boars. If throat Is soro from tho cold, crush and stir 2 BAYER ASPIRIN toblsts In Vi Blot of wator. Carpi twice. This oasot throat rawness and soronass almost instantly. All it usually costs to relieve the posed to restore is 31 to confidence to the inmisery of a cold today relief for the period of your vesting public and cold 151 to 25A Hence no family revive business acneed neglect even minor head tivity by stopping colds. wasteful expendiHere is what to do: Take two tures, balancing the BAYER tablets when you feel s cold coming on budget and liquidatwith a full glass of water. Then repeat, if necessary, ing Roosevelt social and economic Plane Crashes in Rockies according to directions in each experiments that .he said have inpackage. Relief comes rapidly. of Northwest Airlines new spired distrust of the government The Bayer method of relieving and fears of the destruction of the QNE colds is the way many doctors Zephyr passenger capitalist system. planes, flying from Seattle to Chiapprove. You take Bayer Aspirin Colonel Knox, speaking at a dinfor relief then if you are not cago, struck a peak ner in Cleveland, declared that the of the Rocky mountains near Bozeimproved promptly, you coll the family doctor. man, Mont., and was smashed and Republican party must turn away burned. All aboard, including eight from the high protective tariff, passengers and two pitots, were which it has championed for deckilled, their charred bodies being ades, and recognize that the time found by a party that made its has come to reduce tariffs to meet Naval Building Race way through a raging blizzard to changing conditions. PRANCES reply to the recent an-- 1 the scene of the accident. Protect wage standards, yes! nouncement that Italy would Officials of the company could not he said. "Continue to protect mo- build two 35,000 ton battleships is 2 FULL DOZEN 25c explain the disaster but said all nopoly, no!" the decision to construct two battleships of the new type were grounded ships of 42,000 tons each, exceeded Virtually 1 cent a tablet pending investigation. in size only by the British battle War Vote Plan Killed Hood. The navy committee REPRESENTATIVE LOUIS LUD- - cruiser Blow for La Follette Be True LOWS war referendum resolu- of the chamber of deputies was preTo God, thy country, and thy 7TSCONSIN'S to ask Minister of paring Finance Supreme court tion will not be acted on at present, Bonnet to supplement the friend be true. Henry Vaughan. gave a smashing blow to the for the house, a vote of 209 to Georges by 1938 La Follctte program for public own- 188, left it in committee for the francsnaval budget by 2,000,000,000 from the sorely pressed ership of utilities when it declared remainder of the session. the Wisconsin development authortreasury to keep ahead of MussoThis was a victory for the adminlinis forces at sea. ity act unconstitutional, being an il- istration forces and was brought jfij legal delegation of the states sov- about after President Roosevelt ereign governmental power to a pri- himself had taken a hand in the Marriage Mills Stopped vate corporation. controversy. Through a letter to J NDIANAS notorious marriage By knocking out the WDA the mills were given a death blow court also sounded the death knell Speaker Bankhead the President for the Wisconsin agricultural au- had warned congress that adoption when the State Supreme court upof the resolution would hamper any held a statute enacted 86 years ago thority act, court attaches said. chief executive in the conduct of forforbidding county clerks to eign relations and would lead other marriage licenses to women issue who Budget Message Summary nations to believe they could violate are not residents of the county in 10RE vitally important than his American rights with impunity. which the license is issued. 1 1 annual j message on the state of The decision was hailed by ofthe nation was President Rooseficials of states that have raised velt's budget message to congress. Jackson Day Feasts their marital standards by In it he forecast a deficit of $1,088,-129.6enacting LMOCRATS who partook of hygienic laws regulating issuance for the current fiscal year Jackson day banquets in vari- of Slain Foes licenses. marriage which ends on June 30, and a deficit ous large cities paid about $250,000 The sweetest honey comes from of $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal into the purse of the nafoes we slay. Tracy de Land. Civil Service Lags year. tional committee. At thepartys dinner in There was no promise that the Washington President PONGRESS was told by the civil Roosevelt budget would be balanced in the pleaded with the nation to undercommission that its fail-ur- e jervice Are You All near future, the national revenue es- stand that his to place employees of administration benewly cretimates being reduced because of lieves it is ated government agencies was behelping and not hurting the depression. Coloridn Spring. business by the drive "a matter of grave public Coin. rC. I. against mo- coming lln. 1012 Nearly a billion dollars was asked nopolistic practices. His concern. S. .ouiMlifrjr, talk was by the President for national de- rather (Wade Ave., M : In its annual report the conciliatory. He promised a 'Hr. IWi Favorite commisfense because of world conditions fight, but he called it a cheerful sion said there was no rreacriplinn atiimiljilrd important exover which his nation has no conmjr apiirliie ami tlwi inr fight on his part, against a mere tension of the civil service during the wonderful lot u( good trol," and more may be called for handful of the total business (nr that nervotia. l men fiscal year of 1937. soon for the same purpose. and bankers and industrialists who fori Icvling." luy il in "Wholesale exemptions such IniihI lalilrta nr al jrnui Summarized, the Presidents can be expected to "fight to the have been permitted in the last as year I; " budget statement said: ,,l'l ' See Uow much Minor last ditch to retain such autocratic must cease if the merit Iwl ailer u.in Revenues for the next fiscal is to l,i year control over the industry and the prevail, the commissionsystem said. 'Vi,,SL5'919'400-000- decrease finances of the country as they now VVN1T- -W $401,0 6, 000 from the 38 present fis- possess." Wheeler Hits I.C.C. cal year. At the New York banquet Jim Expenditures, exclusive of debt duhton k. wheel. Farley staged the debut of Robert SEFnAT? retirements, will total $6,890,000,000 'Tontana. chairman of the H. Jackson, assistant attorney a decrease of $539,600,000 from ll dnen t mailer wliat you're lliink ins id gensenate railroad finance the eral, as a candidate for the governorinvestigata.har-por a lulir new present fiscal year. ing committee, charged in a stateInr Jiiiiinrura aeinldiniiig-rou- grand. urniiure--ill"-ud .1 of the Empire state. The ship National defense young ment that the interstate commerce (lari time .hopping mur l ""In appropriations lawyer, who has attracted 'h atn1' l open oeu.papvf- public commission is using "trick rabbits S34inJw91,300'000 nn incren of tention recently by attacks !1 N will carry rim a I twiiilr .Vi!!1.!1 on big the President may mmuv.riiet nl ilio raliian Nir.tafc business, was the principal speaker! m,uvns.carricr Problems. ask for additional funds to dulrii't In s ire was aroused construct At a luncheon iiil.. r. i'u i an rely Ninppino on modern mlrfiii. by party he admitted he extra naval vessels. V guide til Ki mu value., you can com par g jMn Relief expenditures for the next bJhe Democratic nominee $8,000,000 surrounding ' Jd'iiii anil t inidira, jiut d for -by the RFC to the Erii lilllm'll1. if the party wants fiscal year will total "ending in g (lore. 2 i! "I" i":"' roughly $1,138,- - me." nf remJ inm the advcrliacinrno i?id Bn ,a000'000 RFC loan In il. 1. week. 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