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Show THE BULLETIN a PRODUCE FIREFLYS GLOW Tha chemical equivalent of hugs fireflys luminous, cold glow has bees produced In test tubes and lasted ! Adventurers National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington. J have received a letter from a reader in my home atute of Missouri, propound-Ou- r ng a very timely Debt Qulry concerning the public debt of the United State. It la timely for more Chan one reaaou. The United Slutea government operate on a fiscal year running from July 1 to the next June SO and we are, therefore, Juat about to close another fiscal year. A second season why this Inquiry Is timely relates to the slxe of the present public debt, almost $32,000, 000, UUO, Our public debt has surged higher than normal during two periods of the last twenty years and the course of the debt, therefore. Is one with which most nature persons are more or less fa nlllar. But It remains as a fact that, .while most people are Informed concerning the total of the national debt, jthey have not had opimrtunity to learn exactly what It means to the Individual. Treasury transactions, as a whole, ore rather difficult to understand and since the sums In which government figures now run are so huge, the general attitude of Individuals Is to let the thing pass as a matter for expert attention. It ought not to be so. The public debt Is a matter of direct concern to every one of us and that Is a further reason why the Inquiry mentioned above Is Important I have often wondered whether Individuals, In considering whatever obligations they Imve In the form of debt, take Into account the fact that the public debt actually Is a commitment against you and me and everyone else. Persons who have not so thought of the public debt, probably will be shocked to learn that In addition to their obligations that have been contracted personally, there Is something like $245 which, although an Infinitesimal portion of the public debt, constitutes actually an Individual obligation. Therefore, when any person looks at that vague and shadowy term, "the public debt In this light, they cannot help but realise that It has a very real and personal meaning to the Individual. .That enormous sum of nearly $32,000,-000,00- 0 must be paid off as any other debt and the government must collect It from everyone who lives In this country. Again, the public debt may seem a thing far removed but It Is brought home directly to each of us through the taxes we pay and In more ways than most of us care to admit we are contributing that tax. So, when the government contracts a debt and arranges to pay it off, the only way collection Is possible for the extraordinary amount Is by Increasing the share of government expenses which each of us "bears, meaning of course, an Increase In our tax. ' In 1857, $28,700,000. the public debt was only Some ffiatory In that year, each per-son- 's share was only $i.oi. with the ad- vent of the Civil war, the government needed funds and began borrowing additional amounts until In 1866 the debt reached what In those days was a fclgh figure $2,750,000,000. At that time, each person's share was $77.69. Good administration and sound financial policies followed and the debt was reduced, paid off, until during the early 1900's, the debt was reduced until each person's alia re was something less than $17. Continual retrenchment was carried on until the World war Interrupted the program and fresh borrowings were necessary for prosecution of that great conflict. The borrowing of the war days carried our public debt to n new high point of $20,594,000,000 on August 19, 1919. The debt, because It was a new peak, looked Insurmountable and It was dangerously high but through the administrations of Presidents Harding and Coolldge, the Job of paying off the debt was seriously attacked and this program eventually resulted In reduction of the debt to about $16,500,000.-00- 0 during the administration of President Hoover. It was from this low point that the present debt burden has mounted and continues to climb. The depression reduced government Income from taxes and left the treasury with a deficit In two years of the Hoover regime. The result of those deficits was to Increase the public debt because money had to be borrowed to pay current running expenses. The borrowing did not appear serious, however, either In the last two years of the Hoover administration or the first year of the administration of President Boosevelt because Mr. Boosevelt bad pledged the country during hla campaign to economise In every direction. It was his promise that he would curtail expenditures by and therefore make the outgo and Income of the government approximately the same. Instend of that course, Mr. Boosevelt Initiated the present program of expenditures In huge amounts. The first plan called for the use of vast sums for expenditure by the government In the belief thut the paying out of public money would revive Industry and that Industry, once on Its feet, would Mgnln yield profit and that profit would In turn produce tuxes fur the govern one-four- th Club Waahlnf ton, D. C. National Prana Building ment. Then came the public relief programs for which larger sums to be exact, $3,500,000,000 In one year and $4,880,000,000 In another year were appropriated and spent Thus, we see In the last three years that the debt of the nation has grown from approximately $21,000,000,000 to approximately $32,000,000,000, and each person's share, as stated previously, la about Tell the Story an enormous and In-- comprehensible num- ber of dollars have been spent millions of them needlessly. They tell more of a story, Indeed, than just the fact that within another year there will have been approximately $3,000,000,000 more expended and that the debt then will have been Increased something like n $13,000,000,000 since the Boosevelt of spending began. To understand the situation In which the United States government and, therefore, the people, find themselves, It might be better to picture what would happen to an Individual In the same circumstance. Hundreds of thousands of individuals are In debt but nearly all of them seriously try to avoid getting In debt beyond their capacity to pay off tlielr obligations. If sickness or poor crops or poor business or any one of many other afflictions overtake that individual, even though his personal debts might be liquidated under normal conditions, he la well, be Just sinks. Our government differs from that Individual only In the fact that its citizens regard the government's credit as virtually limitless. It can continue to borrow and people will accept government bonds In exchange for their money for quite a while. But let us attempt to visualize In our minds eye what would happen should our government be called upon to meet some extraordinary conditions tlist would be comparable to the loss of a Job by the Individual who Is In debt Just how would our government meet the requirements of another war, for example? Just how would it be able to care for the destitute and the Jobless, for another example. If our economic conditions would go Into another tallspln and we would find ourselves In another depression? The answer seems fairly obvious. 80, I cannot help asking which Is the wiser policy to prepare for future emergencies or to Indulge In reckless spending with no thought beyond the present? cam-imlg- It seems to me that the Boosevelt administration has followed the latter course on the optl-To- o mlstlc base, entirely Optimistic too optimistic It appears and has plunged this country too deeply Into debt I do not mean to Imply that gorern-mesecurities are not good any longer. Far from It I maintain that as long as our money Is any good, our governments bonds are good. Yet It must be apparent to every thinking person that we cannot continue to spend at the rate that marks the last three years. I prefer, as against the present spending policies, the policies of President Andrew Jackson, who fought always against excessive costs of government; who demanded consistently that the expense of government be raised regularly for each year's and that there be a little extra put away for the proverbial rainy day when the government was called upon for emergency payments. The policies of Andrew Jackson were so effective that during his administration in 1837. the public debt was wiped out and there was actually cash in the treasury besides. Supporters of the present spending policies will say, of course, that the public debt of those days was In no way comparable to that of 1930. That is true but neither were the yesources of the United States In those days comparable to the resources and the wealth producing capacity of the present-day United States. Likewise, the population of the United States In Andrew Jackson's term In the White House was only s mere hundful compared to the nearly 130,000,009 of 1930. So, answering the inquiry as to what the public debt means to the Individual citizen, the answer must be s relation of the fact that his family's share as we start a new fiscal year In the government approximates $1,000. It means, further, that through one form of tax or another, that Individual Is helping to pay the Interest of more than every year, ft means, In addition, that his government is In a position for the first time In the lives of most persons now living where It would face extreme difficulty were It called upon to defend our country In war or meet a fresh emergency like that through which we have been passing. Lastly, since government debts in the United States are held to be honorable debts and not to be repudi- ' ated, none of us can avoid commands from that government In the future to dig deeper and deeper In the old pocket for the payment of taxes. nt pay-men- ta $710.-000,0- c Westers Newspaper Uaiea. 5 several minutes. General Electric JMovie Radio By The Ghost of San Vito By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. VTOU know, boys and girls, for a long time I've been telling the 1 world that truth is stranger than fiction, find now here comes PE: VIRGINIA VALE more and more likeITlyLOOKS that Paramount and RKO will merge in the future, which will mean another of those upheavals that take place every so often in the motion picture business. It's rather like shuffling a pack of cards; the same that, tqke In a little mountain tavern near San history of a room a simple Vito In the Italian Alps. The story of that room was this: A year or so before, the curator of an Italian zoo stopped there with his wife. He had with him a collection of reptiles which he had caught In the mountains and one of them a venomous snake had bitten his wife to death. Thereafter, that room was hoodooed. Four tourists died In It, and all of them had been found with terrible expreesions of horror and surprise on their faces. The doctors who examined the victims said they bad died of fright. No one In San Vito had the slightest doubt as to what had caused that fright. The ghoat of the curator's dead wife haunted the room so they said. And a terrible ghost she must be, to cause people to die from the eight of her. er Aurelius Goes Calling on the Spook. That's the history of the room. Now let' turn the clock ahead year or no to June 16, 1930, nnd get on with the atory of Aurelius Menegus. He was more than a little Interested In that ghost yarn, for he was something of an amateur zoologist and taxidermist himself. 8o, finding himself In the neighborhood of Ban Vito, ho determined to spend the night In that mountain Inn if possible In the very room where five people had died. He wasnt superstitious, and he certainly wasn't going to be frightened by what he considered an idla peasant's tale. He asked for tbe room and got it. He bad with him five white rats which he kept for experimental purposes, and these he put In the room. Then, after feeding the rats and getting n bite of supper himself, he prepared to go to bed. White Rats Were Companions on His Weird VigiL The room was s small ona In the attic of the Inn. It was lighted by candle nnd furnished with a small canopied bed, washstand and a few chairs. Thera EDGE JAR RINGS KEEP EVERY BIT OF DELICIOUS FLAVOR LOCKED IN TIGHT. ..AND THEIR TWO BKjLIPS take PE-K- alltKework out OF MAKING THE SEAL AND BREAKING THE SEAL KO: DON'T ACCEPT ANYTHING JUST AS GOOD". GENUINE EDGE JAR RINGS ARE REALLY WORTH INSISTING ON! PE-K- men bob up over and over. And, curiously enough, some of those men are not too competent One of the big shots who gets important Jobs, over and over, has consistently been a company wrecker. (Incidentally, hes not among the Puramount-BKassortment!) Yet when one company lets him out, another one takes him on. Aurelius Menegus of Clifton, N. J., to agree with me. He had an adventure once and well he admits its so fantastic that he has to pinch himself every once in a while in order to believe it could have actually happened to him. I warn you right at the start that this is a ghost story. One of the best ghost stories I ever heard, at that It happened to Aurelius on June to the top so rapidly since she 6, 1930, but the beginnings of the yarn go back farther than In the to re- search workers report not-so-dist- $245. Now, the figures here set out tell much more of a story than Just that t STAR j DUST ap- peared in "Midsummer Nights Dream," remarked the other day she had tied up her Income In a trust fund, allowing her self only $250 a week, (wise girl!) and that furthermore, shed spend her spare time between pictures In her home town, Saratoga, Calif., because there's nothing like a small town where you know everybody to deflate your ega A girl whod grown up with lier Ir that some small town declares tliul Olivia has always been one of the grandest girls alive, an opinion aliarec by every one who knows that verj lovely young actress. And what i break for her that shes to play opposite Bobert Montgomery In The Marriage Clause." Working together they should muke a team that movie fans will talk about for a long time to come. Edge Fe-K- o JAR RUBBERS UNITI IUIBEI HIS Owen Sw MIS. V.lwBt face Broken Out?" Start today to relieve tha soreness--aid healing and improve your skin, 1 Resmol Small but Mighty present may be the testi- A email mony of a great love. Petrarch. "Show Boat may bo pretty hard on your pocket book, because you're going to want to see it over and over again. Compared with tho stage play and tha acreen version made years ago. It cornea out on top. A hardened movie goer who had never liked Helen Morgan, a man who had seen her at night clubs and on the stage, capitulated whan he heard her aing "My Bill. An. other one said he felt as if hed never heard "Old Man Rivar till Paul Robeson aang It this time. And Irene Dunne's dance to "Cant Help Lovin That Man la worth the price of admission all by itself. INSTANT SURE RELIEFI Apply New Do Luxe Dr. Scholls wherever tbe shoe rube or and you'll have instant relief! Coma. raUomea or bunions atop hnrtiat a " Thaw Zino-ped- s g nullinning r or raUwea. They ere L cokr. watarprocf; dont coma off to the - Sold evwvwhcnh A Three-Foo- t Snake Wae Colled on the Floor. was a small grating In the floor evidently part of the ventilating or heating system. Aurelius let his white rate out of the perforated vallae In which he carried them, to let them run free for the night Then he slipped on his pajamas, blew out tho eandle on the ehalr beside hie bed, and erawled under the covers. He waa tired, and in a few moments hs was asleep. But ho wasnt destined to eleep long, for the ghoat of the attie room wae to eome back to haunt him. Aurelius had been asleep for half an hour, when auddenly he wai awakened by a strident squealing. Tbe squealing, he recognized, was coming from the white rats, which were scampering madly about the room. Specter Turns Out to Be a Venomous Adder. Aurelius began to feel tbe hair on his head rising, gome people say that an animal la conscious of supernatural things long before humans are. What did those rats see that was throwing them Into such a panic? He sat up In bed, lit a match and applied it to the eandle. The dim yellow glow lit the room, but showed no presence other than hla own. He wae about to get out of bed and aeareh the dark corners where the candle's raya didn't penetrate, when auddenly, he atopped, pulled his feet back Into the bed again. There on the floor waa a three-foo- t snakol Aurelius knew enough about snakes to recognise this one. It was an Alpine adder a deadly reptile that strikes with the swiftness of lightning nnd Injects a venom that kills Its victims almost Instantly. That was the answer to tho mystery or the haunted room. The snake which had killed the curator's wife had never been recaptured. Double-Barrele- d Shot Gun Exorcises the Murdering HGhostM It hsd crawled sway down the ventilator and had been living there ever since, killing the people who happened to be lodged In that room. A simple enough explanation. But Aurelius' plight was a bit more complicated. I didn't dare move," he says, "for fear of tho adder whieh would spring at tha slightest stir. I wondered if tho reptilo would tako a notion to erawl up on tho bed. If he did, there wasnt much hops for mo. But no. Tho adder wasn't Interested In ms. He waa attracted by the possibility of a meal from these squealing rate of mine. It turned to stalk one of them, and at that moment, the door of my chamber opened and the landlord, Giovanni Florlanl eame In." Aurelius started to shout a warning, but It wasn't necessary. The old landlord had heard the rata squealing and scampering about overhead and, knowing the reputation of the room, had come prepared for any eventuality. He had a shot gun In hla hand and he fired point blank. The reptile's bead was blown to pieces, and the white rats gathered round tbe body and began completing the destruction. Tbe murdering ghost of San Vito wound up by furnishing a uieal for some of Its Intended victims, double-barrele- d e-W- NU 175 Medieval "Monsters' Left in French Flanders recent census In France reveals 175 medieval monsters existing In French Flanders today, writes a Lille (France) United Iress correspondent They are tbe world's biggest toys, averaging 22 feet la height and are one to five centuries old. The Flemish populations of France have been amusing themselves with these monstrous playthings since the Fifteenth century. The muulclpa! councils provide communal shelter for these wood, cardboard and doth giants which emerge once year to preside at the town festivals and carnivals. Garganlua. the historic brain child of llHbeldls, resides at Bulileul and receives the hoinnge or his subjects on Murdl liras. Calais, the seaport town, Is ruled by two glguntlc sailors, each 20 feet tall, while ISergnrs has Its own Individual citizen named llergueiuard, A that there are A new series of historical shorts is under way, and It's about time I Most of us remember what we see on tha screen, so this ought to be the best possible method of teaching children history. The first one, "Song of the Nation," dramatizes the writing of The Star Spangled Banner," nnd its finished. Some of the other subjects are Lincoln's boyhood, the fall of the Alamo, the dravrlng up of tbe Declaration of Independence, the Purchase and the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Anna 8ten, whoso movie career went up like a skyrocket and came down liko the rocket's stick, has returned from Europe, where she made a picture. No announcements yet about her making any more over here. STREATOR--SMIT- Speaking of Douglas Fair- banks Sr, has just about, decided not to make pictures any more; all the talk about "Marco Polo has come to nothing. Ho admits that ha's been away too long, that has progressed too rapidly for him. picture-makin- g Fred Astaire has finally got things fixed to suit blin. From now on he'll make Just two pictures a year. And Ginger Itogers (who's had some rery smart Barries. new sandals named for her. Incidentally.) will have a chance to a giant of 1830 who wears stove-pip- e dramatic In some go hat that Is five feet high. of the ones she makes Goliath Is st Ath, a village of French without him. She InFlanders. Mrs. Goliath lives with him sists that she doesn't tnd their sole exercise Is their annual want to be nothing and hilarious promenade through tho but a dancer, and streets of Ath. ahe'a right. She should The most socially prominent of tho have a chance to show group Is Gaysng who has lived In her other talents In acting and to deDoual for 407 years. Dating from mevelop them further In pictures. dieval times, he Is fittingly outfitted with a shield and lance sad Is brought ODDS AXD EXDS . . . Harriet Hilliard out every July 6, to repulse an Imagiwill Iravrl to California toon to play one nary Invader. of the leadt in Count Pete " . . . Ginger He Is followed by Mrs. Gaysng. who Hogert hat written a tong Can't if hy You C'an'l Understand dresses ss a lady of the Benalssance period, and then come their three chil- Met did both u ortit and music . . . Syl-I'Sidney's making a picture in Engdren, Jacquot, Fllllot and Blnbln. There Is even a royal jester of colossal land, and being urged to ttny and make tome more . . . Errol Flynn aloinst got dimensions who accompanies the pa- di mrled becaiite he rade. Gaysng has still another ad- rise . . . 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