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Show THE BULLETIN Bruckarf Washington Digest TAXATION: Rehash WEEKLY AEJFS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH IT. LaBISE HoanVGood Government' Plea Three Democratic Candidates Ignored by Washington Press Start Campaigns; Milwaukee Mayor's Criticism of Relief Administration Avoided Carefully Practices as LaGuardia ADVENTUROUS No. 1 surprise of this season's economy minded congress Is that the senate should vote $1,218,666,000 for farm purposes. To the White Pre-Seaso- n House not economy minded this was also a surprise, so much that administration pressure will probaToe-Steppinr g i bly make congress "buy" its farm summer all sitting appropriation by Neglected Mayor to figure out new taxes. Reason: (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, the? Elmo Scott Watson The President charges congress Furnishes Usual Newspaper Copy. not are those of the news analyst and necessarily of this newspaper.) vote not to broke its any promise Relcued by Westers Nawipaptr Vnfam. special appropriations without proof Garner and Farley forces. viding new taxes to meet the cost By WILLIAM BRUCKART Immortalized by a Dam POLITICS: . In 1940 a million col McNult Last year's parity payments ot $212. WNTJ Service, National Press Bldg., D. dam in the C. Washington, lege students win cast their first 000,000 (compared with the senate's BONNEVILLE Rumblings Early the mem-- : unvoted were has come to Republican when he came in. but he From coast to coast extend the votes, and newly organized Student current $225,000,000) who WASHINGTON. Itfor of an adventurous explorer ory mayors of wandered around into three or four great rural regions whose political Opinion Surveys finds their choice der similar circumstances and left was both a and a' success great o ex-Gv. (17.7 in is Roosevelt's hole a Indiana's Mr. per cent) budget big cities and governors of states to different political parties end seems power has been recognized too late great failure. In 1832 French-bor- n come rushing to Washington for ap- now to be among the bell wethers by many an office seeker. More vo- Paul V, McNutt now high commis Capitol Hill's two major tax fig- Capt Benjamin Bonneville of the. than sioner to the Philippines. Mean ures are Mississippi's Sen. Pat Har- United States army obtained a leave pearances before congressional com- of the American labor party. Any cal, more government-minde-d mittees.' They appear as out of the way, the New York mayor is a great their apathetic city cousins, Ameri- while, from Indianapolis, Manager rison, chairman of the upper house of absence to engage in a fur trading blue sky; rush to the capitol; testify little testifyer In favor getting all of ca's small towns and farms write Frank McHale is busy broadcasting finance committee, and North Caro- expedition on condition that he exDemothat Mr. McNutt is the only before a committee; repair to a ho- the money for New York city that three-fourtlina's Rep. Robert Doughton, whose plore the of all letters to conWest and tel suite and hold a press conference is possible so long as it comes from gressmen. They vent an opinion crat who can carry Indiana and is ways and means committee must obtain information concerning the a therefore throughout originate all tax legislation. Gen and gain a lot of publicity, and go the federal treasury. the counreadily on such matters as those the northern powerhouse states. Hurrying back erally speaking they agree with the Indians, the topography of back home. They usually come for economic and its Mayor LaGuardia is a great fa destined to determine 1940's elec- home from his Pacific possibilities. post, hand- President on one fundamental: That try tion, namely: (1) foreign policy, and vorite among many news correjust one thing money. years later he set out at the some Mr. the McNutt is first Demo- levies on low incomes shall not be Two U. to the as related Visitations to Washington, there- spondents in Washington. He Is what (2) agriculture, head of a party of 110 mi. a. crat to actually open his 1940 cam- raised. They therefore agree also fore, have become fashionable as a is called "good copy." That is to S. economic, labor and relief prob- paign. Significantly, his venture was a Commercially he has that any tax revision this session however, political game. And if, as a result say, he always is ready with com- lems. failure. He built forts in complete no Roose taken Messrs at cracks reof a rehash be must In 1938 serious Democratic present merely of the words of alleged wisdom ment on well, on about any sublocations that the fronlevies. Less mutual such poor gave rise to a velt Farley or Garner; a vice pres- upper-brackdropped from the lips of the ject Picture it for yourself; if you verses in farm states called them "Fort Non tiersmen nation's idency (which is the most likely is another White House principle, purveyors of people's were a writer and had to have sto- Republican hope: That the so nign in uie were Some sense." to no be is berth for him) not must longer vote pool wiU go G. O. P. in that government income thoughts, new checks should be ries for your next edition and you midland mountains that they were cut off is what sneezed at after conhappening But lowered. 1940. having be A congress, recently from the outside by the first snows forthcoming from the United States found the mayor of a great city will- firmed Gallup poll Democratic hope- to Cactus Jack Garner. Invited deficit with its farm bill, has of winter. But his expedition was treasury "ah," they say, "we got ing to talk. Mayor LaGuardia will fuls theit givingand forcing premalittle choice. Revenue can hardly successful jitters Let there be no mis talk, in that he explored the it for you." camBUSINESS: now. lowered be ture rumblings of next year's South Pass for wagon route The traffic in mayors and gover- understanding about that through With several weeks' debate still trains and mapped the passage of paign. Nobody yet knows whether Distribution nors, especially mayors, has grown LaGuardia' s Statement run will Roosevelt sesPresident again if tax revision comes this the Columbia river through the CasIn 1870 about 75 per cent of U. S. ahead so heavy that it is seldom news, ex(31 per cent of U. S. voters would sion (it should, because corporate cade mountains. Moreover he was Politically the Expedient workers were producing goods, cept for the mayor's home town; approve it) but this month three taxes expire an able leader for he did Surely, then, a casual reader can other 25 per cent distributing them. next yielding $1,300,000,000 and, frankly, the news writers desome solution like not lose military December) man during all a understand the a single Cen Twentieth as why about worth 1930, the scribe them comparative By being reports this is possible: Abandonment of the his perilous journey through the dime a dozen from a strictly news statements of mayors of two great tury Fund, production efficiency had undistributed profits tax and retenn-infested wilderness. increased so much that only 50 per tion of standpoint. I don't mean to neglect cities had the effect on me that I stock and excess profcapital have to cent of U. S. workers were needed to the East he return After his attempted the governors when I stress the report One of 18 per met its levies; creation of a flat for this phase. Meanwhile distribu at the home number of mayors. It is a fact that them giving consideration to the fuWashington Irving one of instead cent corporate levy the result tion had absorbed the other 25 per and of Astor John Jacob there are more mayors who come, ture of the nation as a whole, a to as at present from 16',i book "The Adventures of was the cent accounting for half the jobs. varying, hat in hand and a bouquet to toss to statesmanlike examination of a par19 per cent; lower rates for corporaA possible conclusion: Distribution themselves later, than there are amount policy; the other apparently Captain Bonneville" by that famous tions $25,000 or less. Pro of writer. The book was a "best sellprotecting the pomay be costing too much. A possi ponentsmaking governors. It is Just like the fact thinking only expect the rehash would er" of its time but it did not help ble rebuttal: Men must eat and that there are more freshmen in litical hide of himself. a for touch business $2,000,000 year men kicked out of production by la So, I say that Mayor Hoan's testi high school than there are graduates much in Bonneville's reputation greatly. Ha more than at present-n- ot to turn must of hundreds because was almost while from college, machinery overstayed his leave of mony sensational, actual cost but a lot in principle had long and when President Jackdistribution jobs or starve. Though when next absence them drop by the wayside. Mayor LaGuardia was singing the year's election is this raises per item cost to the conson reinstated bim as a captain in same old refrain of "gimme, gimHoan Flay 1836 many people protested that me." And I brieve thoroughly that sumer, every man benefits by a Bonneville should have been disRelief Spending the words of tne Milwaukee mayor higher living standard. NAVY: missed from the service instead. Those preliminaries ought to ex will sharpen the wits and stir the Breaking down a sample year's Steiv Beef Bonneville proved them wrong by of Cenmen those women in and the the here Twentieth courage sales total volume, appearance plain why Fresh Argentine beef Is barred his conduct during the Mexican war other day of Mayor Daniel W. Hoan congress who are seeking an honest tury Fund found 1929' s finished which won for him a citation for of Milwaukee, Wis., failed to get solution for the relief problem that goods cost $68,000,000,000. Of this, from the U. S. by sanitary regulabe$39,000,000,000 (or 59 cents on the tions, which is one major reason gallantry in action. In 1852 he anything like the attention it de- is now scarcely less repulsive than served from the press. Now, Mayor a festering sore. dollar) went to distribution. This why Argentina disrupted the Pan came commandant at Fort Vancoumeant that production, which em- American conference at Lima last ver which stood 30 miles down the Hoan is a socialist He is, however. It was quite by coincidence of river from the dam that now bears an individual who thinks about city course that Mayor Hoan's observaploys half the man power, gets less December. But canned beef ("wilRooseCANDIDATE FARLEY his name. He waa brevetted a brigPresident not Of total barred. revenue. is the administration along many practi tions should have come about the half the than ly") Just bolting around. 1929 distribution cost $13,000,000,000 velt made news recently by asking adier general In 1869 and died in St cal lines, thus differing from the time that a house subcommittee went to retail distribution, $7,000.-000,0mine run of mayors who are con should have unearthed some evi- Democratic nomination congress to permit the navy to buy Louis in the spring of 1878. campaigns or i dence concerning uses of WPA mon- are canned beef from Argentina at fts to cerned only with $9,000,000,000 wholesalers, taking shape despite wise cvin- to $9,000,-000,015 a pound. 8 cents less than cents another The not mayor stinks. I do transportation, political promotion. ey that actually 'A Message to Garcia' sel the administration had bet distribubeef. Moreover, he said, American to manufacturers' came to testify, but the mayor know about the truth of the evi- ter that on man lives an a settle Immediately OUT In California the Argentine product is better. wasn't in the capital city just to dence, but it Is a matter of official who can be elected, rather than tion costs. officer retired army Smallest item of all was adver At Buenos Aires, Argentine Forbeg for money for Milwaukee. He record now. think only of the nominating whose name was once on every saw some things around here which tising, which (contrary to popular eign Minister Jose Cantilo thought American's lips. He is CoL Andrew A subcommittee investigator preThe campaigns: cost less than Mr. Roosevelt's taste for South he believed were wrong, as national sented statements to misconception) carthe effect that Farley. At Mexico, Mo., Ameri- $1,000,000,000 and probably paid its American beef was "a fine gesture Summers Rowan, the man who policy, and he talked about them. WPA money was used to build lakes ca's smartest Garcia." to ried "a a told message group politician by giving consumers a better which may become an important Said the Milwaukee mayor, in sub- in Tennessee "without reference to of In 1898 wsr with Spain was imstudents that "we are way for their money. buy stance: you fellows are spending a the need for recreational facilities onemilitary precedent in friendly relations be- minent and President McKinley of the few nations where a tween the two countries." But at wanted to know if General Garcia, lot of money for relief of the desti- considered on any statewide or com- man's destiny is in his own hands." Washington a congress tremendoustute; you are wasting a lot of that munity basis." The statements were Postmaster General James A. Far- EUROPE: commander of the Cuban insurwith the ly conscious of the farm vote thought gents, would money, and it ought to be stopped. attributed to a member of the Ten- ley's destiny probably lay in the trip Peacemaker otherwise. Discovering a mum American forces if an army was It ought to be stopped because you nessee fish and game commission, he was then taking, a There are knott in European poli celebre, Illinois Rep. Leo Allen sent there. The man chosen to find are letting the states and the cities and the Investigator's conclusions tour in which he s, recount to the tword is, raised visions of congressmen out waa young Lieutenant Rowan. get into the habit of coming to Wash- were that the money had been di- placed some 200 delegates under tic!, but not neceuory to cut them. g more and for to money. money smacking their lips over a verted in this manner in order ington Rowan proved that the confidence lock and key for himself or the man knou theie need that is then contest Said he: "Many of us of his superiors was not misplaced. They are, therefore, getting out of increase the value of real estate held he chooses to run for President be untied once end for eu because beef has no su- Making his way through the steamthe habit of justifying to the people by several politicians. Carefully avoided waa any statement tometimet a hard reality it preferable believe American I am offer- ing, insect-infeste- d reason For that of their communities the necessity m long uncertainty.'' perior. Rooseto offend Mr. either that jungle, drinking The investigator and his sources might of germ-fille- d committee for a a resolution of expenditures they are making and of information ing Benito Mussolini's statement re or Vice President Garner, but water, living on such velt named money their poor are using. In oth- George L. Berry and Gov. Prentice Jim Farley was sizing up matters ferred specifically to two "knots," five to Investigate and determine food as he could find and in constant beef is better." er words, you ought to make the Cooper, as holders of as a good politician should. A Ro- his own demands against France for whether Argentine danger of capture and execution by of states and the cities kick in with a land which Tennessee, could the Spaniards as a spy, Rowan not be Catholic man WPAthe benefitted probably by PEOPLE: greater share for the support of built lakes. This is the same Sena- elected President but Mr. Farley's found Garcia, got the information those on relief, and force them again tor he sought and safely made an equalBrinkmann Finale Berry who sued the Tennessee 200 votes might easily make him to recognize that taxes must be paid vice presidential nominee. dolly perilous return trip. a for million Authority Valley unorthodox, Germany's complex, for wasted, as well as proper use of, lars or so on account of a Never Rowan was taken to the White southerner Garner. has Inflationary financial situation Is funds. And, more important than claimed to have been done damage con been elected President the more so where he received the thanks House by bite his banker to make any enough . anything else, you ought to put this struction of one or more of the TVA today because Negro voters almost When Dr. Hjalmar of the President and promoted to fingernails. relief business on a lieutenant-colone- l of volThe then member of the furnish a balance of power in sev Schacht was removed from the the rank of basis and stop getting further into dams. which made But unteers. the United States senate charged that eral northern states. But John thing Reichsbank presidency last winter, debt. was an editorial, writsome of his marble quarries were Nance Garner's campaign manager famous him Rudolf Dr. named Adolf Hitler Hoan's not were Those Mayor under 50 feet of water as a result has concentrated in south and southBrinkmann as his successor. Last ten by Elbert Hubbard, for his magwords, of course. Yet I have pre- of TVA dams. west states to line up 200 delegates the following what as them February Banker Brinkmann was azine, the Philistine, sented substantially whose intense for Texan under the This aging published editorial, year. found lighting cigarettes reportedly his testimony meant and seldom. Move Started to to Garcia," popularity is the year's No. 1 politi with ($20) bills, suffering a the title of "A Message In recent years, have I heard betcal phenomenon. If a secret agreeWPA Salaries Into 20 languages, complete nervous breakdown. Giv- was translated ter sense spoken to a committee of Publish exists between Democrats ment use WPA this As of a part reprinted all over the world and is general en a leave of absence, Herr Brinkcongress. To me, it was almost of dollars. Farley and Garner, the tactics thus mann still did not recover and has one of the best known pieces of Engstartling testimony, the more so be- and misuse of millions of lish prose ever written. Martin Joe Massachusetts, far bear it out Each has studious now been retired permanently. cause it was offered while another Rep. of the other's an As for the man who Inspired it of committee was looking into Presi- has started a move to find out how ly avoided invasion Puerto 41. Named governor general nei and to not though grounds, until 1922 did he receive public is those stamping much 0 being money for paid dent Roosevelt's request Rico to succeed retiring Blanton from his country in the recognition for relief in the next year. who run WPA. He has introduced a ther has spoken there is every indi D. William Leahy, form of the Winship. Admiral Both see that cation headWPA they to have the resolution Mr. Distinguished Service that here said be It should just retiring chief of naval Cross for and both the "message to carrying Roosevelt's appeal for the annual quarters here supply the house with advocate economizing, operations. with alarm on the President's looked unof salaries Garcia." list a or complete paid was, appears relief appropriation C. When Germany seized Austria, fall. Since a northern to be, modest That is, the amount der WPA. You know, there have "purge" last Baron to cannot the Catholic Eugene de Rothschild of the carry hope is modest if it is all he will ask for. been many charges tossed about Death Valley Samaritan IL DUCE International a since banking family fled to southerner and South, out might of salaries the that paid who concerning expect There are those went into his was knots There in are fortunate Less in France. Europe. the trouble North, have nothing of LOU WESTCOTTto BECK work be will ask congress next winter for WPA funds and the lack wealth but seek Louis de Valley Rothschild, Baron a than more union logical concessions in the Mediterranean, brother, mid-Ma- y a deficiency appropriation when the done for them. In other words, Mr. could be He stayed there almost to exroute en was perished. in who some to know wants facts Martin and Germany's demands against projected sum runs out. to devote his life to saving others. 14 months incarceration at why only about 60 cents out of each Poland for Danzig and a slice cf the ile after Hotel Death Valley of the days before where he Vienna's Mctropole Shirk States line down ever WPA the dollar gets Charges Polish corridor. This offer to reroads snd tourist facilities was $10,000,-00- 0 a good for held been had reported to the poor devil out of a Job and sort to conciliation in place of war Relief Responsibilities well named. Hundreds of American "ransom." a wife and children to feed. gave heart to France and Britain, adventurers never returned from it How the wind in blowing . . . Mayor Hoan appeared to believe with but they probably forgot that Signor and This states the action on the part of Mr. were, of some A barren waste with trails that led that Los Angeles' VOTING Judge Mussolini's speech fitted perfectly are, shirking their responsibilities. Martin seems to link into contennowhere, and alive only with crawlBen Lindsey recommends voting numerous into a chain of events which matches that come to made to tions so poli Washington Is long It easy ing lizards and darting poisonous 21 to from be should reduced age with the pattern created last autumn and tell a congressional committee ticians have placed their pets in snakes. Death Valley was a treach18 because today's youth "is the 1 air JUNE English Imperial at Munich. erous trap baited to lure adventurthat "our people are destitute and WPA top Jobs where, if need be, to start trans most moral . . . intelligent . . . scheduled ways we have no money to care for they could be quite influential, politAt that time it was Mussolini who ers with promises of gold. via ever world seen." has the atlantic service Southampton, hopeful Beck became known as the "Good them." Aside from the mayor's be ically. Mr. Martin tried to obtain "counseled" Der Fuehrer to talk New York. Montreal and S. U. EXPORTS First quarter of Death Valley," piling Munich. Hitler won at over Samaritan lief, it ought to be observed that the information about Massachuthings armament exports totaled JUNE 7 King George, Queen and putting signs on them was and rocks concessions reward the mayors and the governors are setts, but Col. F. C Harrington, up Italy's which was 43 per cent Elizabeth to enter U. S. from German support in Spain and Albadirecting prospectors to water holes. prone to think only of how much WPA administrator, refused to make last similar more pethan at Niagara Falls. Canada year's contended that He went out searching for those who nia. This spring D Duce again apmoney they can pay out without hav the facts public. He riod. Reason: World preparedJUNE 12 Thomas J. Pender- were known to be lost and guided as Europe's peacemaker Just ing to assess their own taxpayers disclosure of the salaries would be pears ness. them to safety. a few weeks after the Rome-Berli- n .for it They are not to be concerned gast Kansas City political boss, "embarrassing to those who receive AGRICULTURE AAA is making For 13 years, aided only by Rufus, goes on trial for evasion of $442,-53- 6 with federal policy in relief mat them." Mr. Martin told the bouse, axis has been cemented Into a miliin 1935 and 1936 Income taxes. aerial photographs of 215,192 his Newfoundland dog, Beck braved Frightened France, realtcrs, and they are all too willing to however, that federal salaries tary pact enacres of farm land in 16 central JUNE 15 Nation-wid- e the hardships of the Colorado and avoid references to their own re- should always be a matter open to izing her Mediterranean argument Bato check farmstates western Tidal near and have believed he is there and opens one of is the the Mojave deserts, as well as Death with Italy campment public sponsibility. They apparently "knots," er compliance on crop control sin in Washington. a new slogan: "Pull Uncle Sam's no more right to secrecy about WPA Valley, and saved between 300 and will probably untie it and persuade 400 lives. In 1917, although warned n of about the 34,000-toonce than 17 salaries programs. more to Britain salary JUNE Mauretania, by appease leg." not to by his dog. Beck drank from Cunard-Whit- e A new Austrian Another mayor was around town the President or a member of conRELIGION Star liner, leaves conceding Germany's right to Danan infected spring and never reat the same time that Mayor Hoan gress. to maiden on Nazi order requires official sancvoyage zig. Liverpool covered from the resulting illness. was here. He was Mayor LaGuardia tion of all personnel changes in New York. It will be interesting to see if the Today's most likely solution of the Although comparatively unknown of New York. Nobody seems to know house votes the order to make the Catholic church clergy, also re Danzig problem Is a plebiscite with JUNE 24 Government reorgani Lou Westcott Beck Is probaFlower Little "the today, where in Nations on of who which to sanction, psss exactly list public, but it will be more interLeague serving the right sation (creating federal loan, one of the most bly should be catalogued, politically. He esting to see the amounts of those shall study for the priesthood or Danzig's 96 per cent German popupublic works and security agen ot all the great American advenonce was a member of congress ss pay checks. lation will make quick work of an inenter a religious order. cies) goes into effect turers. was he a Republican. That is, ternational crisis. iRrkaM by Wfrtern Ncwapapcr Union I f) Western Newspaper Uuloa. AMERICANS uy trans-Missou- ri ed - India- bor-savi- con-ventio- g, cross-contine- per-hap- beef-tastin- $1,750.-000.00- eye-to-ey- e. Trend JUNE NEWS 5, 4-- H |