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Show THE BULLETIN (2. 4jou.lt on Cfoudill Qfjfjctl Practical Advice on How to NEWS THIS HMOHAi ntli ti3 President Roosevelt addressed a letter to Chairman Stuart Rice of the Too Many central statistical b 0 board the other day, in which he asked in effect why there is need for so many "official reports from individuals and corporations engaged in business. The Presidents letter indicated a feeling that, if there are so many reports as complaints have disclosed, something ought to be done about it. It is now Mr. Rices job to find out when, and where, and why concerning these floods of reports which But how government demands. about me finding out, too, I thought! I started on the job like a bird dog through the bush. It did not take long for me to realize that I had set myself to a task that is likely to occupy Mr. Rice and his staff of several hundred perhaps a year to assemble an answer. I learned a lot of things, however, and that is the reason I am writing about "official reports at this time. Speaking generally, at first, I can say that never in all history has there existed a condition such as business men and women now face, and, of course, within the last few years farmers have had to make out reports, too. The reason for the statement that the condition is worse now is that the situation represents a growth. Year after year, generation after generation, succeeding Presidents and succeeding congresses have added to the functions of the national government. Government has gone into new fields, taken on new obligations, new commitments, increased its scope of regulation of this and that and the other. As these functions have increased, more and more reports have been ordered and required; more facts have been needed, and, in addition, bureaucrats have relegated to themselves additional and unanticipated powers. Now, what we have is a tangled mess, a slimy octopus whose tentacles reach into every corner and nook and cranny of the nation. Before considering some of the horrible details (which are horrible only because they are so general in application), it seems to me we can well consider who is responsible, mentioned above how succeeding Presidents and congresses have expanded the functions of government. Those Presidents and members of the congresses were elected by the voters. The campaigns, in nearly every instance, for establishment of some new agency, passage of some law to drive money changers out of the temple; to prevent grinding the little fellow, the poor, into the earth; .to regulate monopolistic business; to care for the aged after their lives of useful work had been spent; to collect new taxes' here and there; to assure the agricultural community a parity price for its products a thousand and one things were campaigned for or against. So the voted and elected a Seople a senator or a representative. They also elected a governor and the various officials of their state wherein a legislature operated as does congress for the country. It has not mattered, therefore, whether there has been a Democrat or a Republican in the White House, except in the matter of degree to which the new laws have been enacted. The growth has gone on just the same. Every time a politician conceived an idea to get votes, he campaigned on it and a new law resulted. With the new law came another deluge of official reports. In a general way, therefore, the voters must accept some response bility. But the chief responsibility must rest with members of the house and senate and the various Presidents who have served in their turn. Why? Because no one can be expected to understand fully this gigantic machine called government unless that person has had an opportunity to study the machine. The layman has not had that chance. Presidents and congresses have had the chance. Report a included & To get down to the is, to relate some of har-rangui- pense enters directly into the cost of the dairy products for which the consumer pays. It could easily result in an increase of one cent per i bottle for the milk served to its customers. It takes no stretch of the imagination to conceive what the cost is for a large corporation to handle its official reports to various agencies of the national, state and local governments if that corporation operates, say, over half of the United States. The expense runs into millions upon millions of dollars annually. Wno pays? You and I, the consumers. I have not had access to all of the records required by the departs ment of agriculture because many of them are confidential, but I believe it is safe to say that some d reports have to be made respecting every farmer who has signed up in compliance with the crop control law's and the land conI think the servation program. farmer directly involved has from eight to ten of these reports and official documents; the county committee which inspects and reports on him has others; the county agent has still more reports to make all still involving this one farmer but including others as well and these are followed by regional and national reports until all totals are entered here in Washington. Or, at the risk of being too personal in dealing with a national problem, I might cite my own experiences. Mine is what is called a n office. That is to say, with the aid of a secretary, I must run my own little business. But even as inconsequential as that office is, consider this situation: I must file an income tax return annually. That return must include an extra statement which covers a general outline of my meager income and the expenses of my office. I must pay ten dollars a year for a "license which gives me the privilege of writing to earn my living, but I must file a report before I get that license in the District of Columbia. Twice a year, I must file a report of my gross return from my work in the District of Columbia and pay a tax on that income. Each month, I have to file a report to the District of Columbia employment board, showing how much I pay my secretary, how many hours a week she works and pay a tax which theoretically is saved up and paid to her in case she is unemployed. Each month, also, I am required to file a report with the United States social security board, giving the same information and pay another unemAnd each three ployment tax. months, I am required to file another report with the social security board which seems to be a report showing that the monthly reports are correct. fifty-od- details; that the incidents which had become The Congumer known to the Pres-Pay- ident 0 e and which resulted in his letter to Mr. Rice, we might begin with taxes. The head of a dairy company which operates in three states reported to his stockholders lately that in one year his firm had been compelled to make and file a total of 11,115 separate tax reports. That company maintained a staff for the sole purpose of handling the various reports that had to go to the federal government, the governments of the states in which the company operated and the cities where milk and dairy products were sold.' Having such a staff, the company knew exactly what it cost $265,000 a year. It should be added y that the cost of these reports became a part of the compa-- . nys overhead and the overhead ex neces-'saril- one-ma- e It has been my good fortune to have gained a legal education by virtue of four long What a years of night The Use? school, so I have i con-scien- ce remained ! i I lor the Ixm bulletin cm Cool with Food," ottered by C. Houston Goudise. It outlinM the prindplee of planning a heallhiul lummox diet lilts ''cooling" sad "hosting" foods and ii complete with SEND a East 39th Street. New York City. the standpoint of health, the summer months FROMthe most important period of the entire year. They fore Romain Rolland finished should be used to build stamina and vitality that will fortify Leo Tolstoi "Jean Christophe, your body against disease. But to many people, the warm called him the warden of the of Europe. weather means merely a succession of exhausting days and Rolland in his quarter- - restless nights. And hardly a week passes without reports Cornea Home century exile in of heat prostrations. he Switzerland, easily digestible, as chicken, To Die it beef and lean fish. ' , With this Fra Bulletin on Planning a Correct Summer Diet By C. HOUSTON GOUD1SS By LEMUEL F. PARTON "VTEW YORK Several years be- - : )mrxoV Keep Cool With Food WEEK WASHINGTON. and WHY IWHAT to WHOS has "above the battle, warning of war, decrying hatred, pleading for peace and understanding. His has been a voice crying in the wilderness. His exile ended, he returns to France, "an old man, broken and despair-inas the news dispatches report. The world seems to have little heeded his impassioned appeals. He rants to die in Clamecy, the village where he was born. The greatest novel of a century, possibly of many centuries, "Jean Christophe has been called by great critics and multitudes of lesser lights. It was published in 1913. This writer has found few young persons, even those majoring in literature, who have read it. He has found others who have never heard of Romain Rolland, the Nobel peace prize winner exiled from his country, while Carl von Ossietsky, German Nobel peace prize winner, was impoverished, jailed and harried to his death in the same "years between. There is in this age swift obsolescence in the spiritual heritage as well as in machines. But another, even greater teacher, looking sadly down on the multi-tud- e from a lull in T eaehinga Jerusalem, was Spelamb, lean cial emphasis should be placed on milk, cheese and eggs. These feel tired during the day. This( IThile abnormal heat or huand ward off, splendid foods not only supply will satisfy thirst a rest by the road: midity may be a secondary cause, Grade A protein, in an easily di- exhaustion like , a long hard tramp. the real reason behind much gested form, but also fortify the after beverToo sweetened highly vitamins. with and minerals suffering is a fail- diet ages, however, may be beating to, ure to meet the challenge of sumthe body, though they are cooling Essentia! Liquids mer with a judicious diet. To help you keep cool, the sum- to the palate. For this reason, ltj mer diet must include an abun- is advisable for homemakers to. Automobile owners know that dance of liquids. These are neces- mix their own cool drinks so that1 no car is better than its engine, sary to make up for the large they can control the amount of; warm amounts of moisture lost from the sweetening used. It is possible to! in and careful buy inexpensive packaged bever- -' weather, body through increased perspiradrivers watch the tion. age crystals in a variety of 11a- -' which make delicious, redashon the gauge Liquids .may be taken in the vors, board to be sure form of milk, fruit juices and cool- freshing and Cooling drinks for the engine does not ing drinks made from pure water general family use. One of these become overheat- and packaged beverage crystals contains added vitamin D, and as the sugar is added by the homeed. But most peo- containing dextrose, fruit acid, flalittle maker, you can be the judge of give ple voring and coloring. how much to use. This is an exthought to that cellent idea, especially in housemost remarkable Hot Weather and Vitamin C holds where there are children,; of all engines the Two European investigators ree drink satisfies; human digestive cently found that exposure to high for the needed energy' thirst, provides machinery. temperatures causes a 50 per cent -, Compared to the engine in your loss in vitamin C from the body and discourages them from buyof doubtful bottled is a in car one beverages the ing your body, tissues. And lowered vitamin C crude, rough affair that can stand reserves are partially responsible purity. no end of punishment. Moreover, for that tired feeling so often exFoods the automobile is driven for a cerin warm weather. Their to readers of this free I offer tain length of time and then per- perienced research indicates that drinking column a new bulletin mitted to rest. But the marvelous orange or lemon juice, which containing are which a list of cooling foods, plus prac-- . transforms rich in vitamin C, mechanism actually helps your food into blood, bone, mus- to mitigate the effect of the heat. tical, specific advice in planning; for the warm weather diet. There are and thought cle, your capacity k also menus showing how easily' and action is never wholly at Choose Cold Drinks Carefully can KEEP COOL WITH rest A cold drink is comforting on a you FOOD. hot day. And in addition, sweetO WNU C. Houston Gaudies 1B3S SO Importance of the Right Food ened beverages help to relieve fareIf the automobile engine tigue, for their carbohydrate conquires special attention, how tent supplies available energy much more important to stoke Sugar is the least heating of the your body engine with food suited energy producing foods, for less to the weather! of the energy than No one .would think of going MAKES 10 GLASSES. to the body is conit supplies about in midsummer wearing the verted into heat. The rest goes BOYS! GIRLS I ASK YOUR same garments that were worn all into brain and muscle power. GROCER winter. Yet many women continue Therefore, one good way to pre- FREE to serve the same type of meals vent in summer needless which were required to keep the is to take a fatigue cool, moderately World of Difference body warm in winter. Such a sweetened drink whenever you Many a man has mistaken practice is sure to make you miserable. But more than that, it "gall for grit lowers resistance and may, therefore, lead to illness. Meeting the Challenge of Hot Weather g, warm-weath- er j home-mad- k-C- ooling also unheeded: Will Be Remembered i menu suggestions. Iiutaddxeei C.Houiton Goudiio, 6 Eait 39th Street, New York City. A poet cord is all first is necessary to circy your request How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her But wings, and ye would not! neither He nor His teaching was altogether forgotten. .There will also be those who will remember Romain Rolland. When he was exiled from France, vast sums of money were offered him if he would go to America, to write and lecture. Publicity, or any form of is to him profoundly distasteful. He withdrew to a secluded villa near Zurich, Switzerland. There is one definite attitude in all these post-wwritings. He had no faith in "move- Hm Knew ments, in "idolo-Beating the Heat gies, right or left. Righteoua There are several factors to Can Be Cruel He repulsed Henri bear in mind when planning the diet. The first secret Barbusse, his clarte group and the various "united of keeping cool is to supply the fronts," as he did the emissaries of body machinery with food fuel bloody reaction from the right. He that can be utilized with the least knew that the righteous can be as expenditure of energy. cruel as the wicked, once they find Warm weather is responsible reliance on force. for muscular relaxation In the diLike the great German Fichgestive tract, as well as other te, whom he esteemed, he beparts of the body. And you run lieved only in the "inner light the risk of digestive upsets, with never in organization or force. their discomfort and health hazBut he was not a "political agards, unless you make every efnostic. He fought, and suffort to lessen the work of your fered, to arouse the world condigestive system. science, as the dying Tolstoi Eat lightly of rich fatty meats, had enjoined him. pastries, rich cakes, sauces am He is a tall, spare, pallid old man, gravies. At all times, choose easwith thinning hair and sad, deep-s- ily digestible foods. eyes as he returns to France at Dont overeat. The task of hanEducated dling excess food is a burden to the age of seventy-twin music, at the Ecole Normale, he the body at any season. In hot became a devotee of Wagner, weather, it will cause the body whose genius inspirited his life temperature to mount along with then of Tolstoi and Shakespeare. He the thermometer, and may result has written many times in the last in a serious upset. It is also adfew years that he sees little hope visable to cut down somewhat on that the world will escape a last the quantity of heat and energy devastating war. producing foods consumed that e is the carbohydrates and fats. WAS reported that Sir John Reith, director general of the Foods Need for British Broadcasting corporation, The protein requirement rewas badly licked in that internamains the same summer and wintional Arabic ter. Some people think that meat Sir John crooning contest a should not be eaten in summer, or while back. Virtu-- should be reduced to a minimum Beaten in aUT 811 observers Radio Duel But there is no closed season for gave the decision growth in children, and moreover, to Italy. If so, it probably was the they play so constantly and inonly time he ever lost a contest dulge in such strenuous exercise The tall, bald, grim Scotsman that they break down body tissue Is upped to the job of running very rapidly. Adults also have a the Imperial Airways, as a civil constant need for protein to rearm of rearmament, with a build the millions of cells that are sizeable hike in salary. It Is worn out daily. now $50,000 a year, Instead of It Is desirable, however, $35,000. avoid rich, fatty meats and He is an engineer, and in 1916 was select protein foods that are more here with 600 technicians checking He on war material contracts. didnt like America or Americans but eased up on us later on. Running British radio, he has been execrated as a tyrant, but he has held to his line and confounded all his adversaries. His views on radio programs were outlined by him as To set out to give the follows: public what it wants, as the saying is, is a dangerous and fallacious ar iiiHiuunr th Add Radiant Beauty to Your Bedroom hot-weath- er not had to hire a lawyer to help me with my reports. They have been comparatively simple, generally. But that is not the case with a larger business. Lawyers, however, would be no help in the circumstance that I am now about to relate. A young lady who had served as my secretary several years left my service. When filed the last monthly report for her name and paid the tax, I attached a letter explaining that she was leaving and that there would be no further reports in her name as far as I was concerned. The letter was written in the hope that the file would be complete. This incident happened last Octo- -' her. In March, 1938, I received a notice from the board, advising me that I had not paid the tax on the salary of the lady in question for the month of February, 1938. Not a word about the other months from October to February. And if I didnt pay, said the notice, there were penalties, court proceedings, etc. Yes, you guessed it! I threw that notice into the waste basket. Two months later, I had the honor to be visited by an inspector. He was courteous and gentlemanly, but firm. I must pay the tax not for February, but for December. You can let your own imagination run high, wide and handsome about the results of that visit. Well, I merely bring out those facts because they show the need for the voters of the country to take some action on their own and quit following blindly the demagoguery of the politicians. Previously in this column I have written about several corporations which, after filing several thousand reports, have had inspectors visit them to see whether they were com- policy. O Consolidated New Features, plying with the law. Since that WNU Service. of one the business men about time, whom I wrote originally has told me Contents of the Foiato A potato is more than that other inspectors have come to h to see whether the first crew had comwater, only inlaw source of in the excellent with an making starch, plied vestigations. phosphorus and iron, and a fair Vi Western Newspaper Union. source of vitamin C. et o. 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