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Show THE BULLETIN Bruckart's Washington Digest Roosevelt's Latest Budget Has Higher Liquor Tax Considered Congress Pretty Badly Muddled To Finance-Defens- e Program; Election-Yea- r Levy Unpopular Arguments, 'Ifs, Suggestions and Suppositions Leave Solons in Daze; Leaders in Congress to Seek Facts for Themselves. WASHINGTON. Congress is pret- gestions and suppositions and an official defense of the policy that for II years has seen government income fall far behind the expenses 11 years of deficits. And. along with these things came a proposal by the President to add a special tax. or a tax for a special purpose national defense. In view of the fact that few persons have been able to arrive at an absolute conclusion on the financial problem submitted by Mr. Roosevelt, some of the more Influential leaders of congress have taken the lead In a plan to find out for Men themselves. like Senator Pat Harrison, the old war-horsMississippi who has been chairman of the e, analyze the true results. I have a bench that more disapsenate committee pointment Is doe. The badget that on finance for years and who once was aent to congress the ether day, missed being Democratic leader of In my opinion, la not going to be the senate because President Roose- nearly all that will be needed In the velt wrote a letter to "Dear Alben" way of money. Berkley of Kentucky. Senator HarIt is Just a guess that I here rison has support in the move and make: the totals for relief and for I am told that he is determined to agricultural benefits and public et affirmative action. works, etc., are not nearly large The Harrison plan calls for some- enough for 12 months if an election thing new in congressional policy. He would have a Joint committee of BRUCKART ON THE BUDGET 12 senators and 12 representatives, divided equally among two senate and two house committees, to do Finds congress badly muddled some spade work on the new budget over the latest estimates. the budget for the year beginning Harrison plans for congress to next July 1. It Is a thing never Information about the budget get before and may or may not its own channels. Somethrough be a wise course since it smacks of new. thing utilizing a great new power by conPresent estimates will leave the gress. But this much can be said: in the red $2,416,231,-00government for the first time, if the Harrison is plan eventually adopted, congress Condition of budgets these days win get some information through merits earnest consideration. its own channels instead of acceptPossibilities cause wonder as to ing the unsupported statements, the the future. wishful thinking and the planned extension of power by the bureaucrats intent upon preserving their agen- falls within that year. So, the cies. forecast I offer is that requests will of congress, in Annual Federal Budget Once be in the hands January, 1941, for deficiency approComparatively Simple Thing priations to cover expenditures that In years gone by, the annual fed- have run short eral budget was a comparatively Present National Debt simple thing, or as simple as messes of figures could be made. Its pro- Runs Right Close to Line posed Hems of expense were set There is, however, still another down and totaled. The anticipated "if" to be considered. Mr. Rooserevenue was calculated. But such velt advised congress that if all conis not the case with the current ditions materialised as he expected, budget, nor any in the last few years the national debt on June 30, 1941, since operations of the federal gov- would be $44,938,577,622. That is ernment have become as general right close to the line, for the presas flies around the barn in midsum- ent law limita the national debt to mer. It was suggested $45,000,000,000. Tunes have changed. Indeed. Here that the administration was able to Is a badget that covers the astoand-tn- g stay under the limit only by taking It la away some of the funds from the total of S8.42l.191.S7t. smaller by S67l.tM.0M than the last and stepchildren, known as one and that redaction waa de- government corporations. That scribed by Mr. Roosevelt as a first probably is proper, for the governstep toward gradual accomplish- ment gave each of them money with ment of balanced badge!. which to aet up housekeeping. It But the total of proposed expend- was more Important to the adminisitures shown was circumscribed with tration, however, since it thereby handful of "ifs." The amount of became necessary to ask congress $8,424,101,570 will remain that way to raise tne limit of the national if cuts are made (from last year's debt a request that was sure to totals) in public works, in federal raise a row. One cannot survey the badget and jobs, in CCC camps, In relief and farm benefits end If there are no an of Its possibilities and probabiliother increases voted except for a ties without wondering what Ilea la vast program of expansion in the the future. army and navy. Whether this is the reason behind On the basis of the budget calcuthe action of the conservatives In lation, the governments income will congress who seek to end this spendbe $5,547,960,000 in the next fiscal ing spree of seven long years or year if congress will lay a special whether the conservatives are wor.tax for paying the cost of a part of ried about future burdens of taxes, the cost of expanding the army and the fact remains there should be navy. The President said this tax some tangible policy laid down. And should be made to yield $460,000,000. that policy must come from conThus, on the basis of the budget, gress. The present administration the government will be in the red will not do it Each year, there next year. If all things remain as have been statements abour a balplanned to this point, by a total of anced budget in the future. Take a look at this general diviThe President in$1416.231,000. of where the federal money is sion to cut that tends, however, 'way CONGRESS: Budget Blues BALKANS: Squabbles What Franklin Roosevelt's budget message tossed into the congressional lap was a choice of following his recommendations and getting a deficit of only $1,716,000,000, or defying him and making it about Slashed were most items, but boosted to a peacetime record was national defense. If the President's ideas are followed, and if previous authorizations are appropriated, the cost will run well over Before 1940 has gone its way the brave nation of Rumania may see $3,000,-000,00- 0. $2,000,000,000. Very shallow was the hope that an early European peace may obviate the defense program. It appeared, instead, that congress must enter an election year trance and decide which plan the public would swallow the easier: More taxes, to raise $460,000,000 as the President asked, or a boost in the national debt limit? Within a few days it was obvious that good Democrats were sparring for time. They gathered in huddles to wonder where tax money might be raised, tentatively settling on new liquor taxes and a slight boost in income levies. Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance Bucharest heard that Bulgaria, its unfriendly southern neigh bor, had signed a trade pact with Russia, which wants the Rumanian province of Bessarabia. Next King Carol heard that Hungary's Count way. Stefan Csaky, whose nation will seize Rumanian Transylvania if Russia invades Bessarabia, was conferring in Italy with Foreign Minister Ciano. A political realist Italy's Benito Mussolini knows the Balkans have a better chance of blocking Russian aggression (which would also hurt Italy) if they settle their squabbles In advance. Purpose of the Ciano-Csak- y conversations, therefore, was to urge Hungary and Rumania to settle their revisionist problem im mediately.' In so 'doing, II Duce tock a hearty slap at the Soviet So did King CaroL Encouraged to defend Bessarabia now that the Finns are doing a remarkable Job against Russian aggression, Carol and his retinue crossed into this dangerous province, defied Moscow and smiled while Bessarablan minority leaders shouted: "We pledge our lives for our beloved Rumanian fa therland." 'The time is now ripe for eitablish-me-nt of a new central government in China. Careful study reveals that the an conobjectives of Wang Ching-we- i sonant with Japan's manifest efforts toward helping in the formation and expansion of the proposed new govern ment. Thus, after much g and tutoring, Puppet was announced Wang Ching-wready to take over Japan's make-believ- e "government" in conquered parts of China. back-slappin- g, brow-beatin- ei PAT HARRISON Will John Barleycorn pay? committee, publicly doubted whether the defense program was Justified, yet he shied away from criticizing the President Finally, with White House blessing, he sought more time by asking a Joint legisn lative committee to study the budget. But congress, apparently refusing, turned instead to that hardy perennial, the bill Roose-veltia- anti-lynchi- By DR. JAMES W. BARTON CAN remember as a boy an older brother telling me of a wonderful drug that would "cure" rheumatism. The new drug was acetyl sali- TODAY'S I RAILROADS Daniel Willard, President of the B. & O. railroad, said he wanted coach fares reduced to two cents per mile, thus meeting bus competition. Present eastern rate: 2Va cents. The tariff AGRICULTURE commission was told that imports of cheap Canadian wheat were keeping the domestic crop price below parity, thus threatening the success of farm aid measures. SHIPPING The U. S. warned Britain it will be held accountable for injuries to American vessels or crews taken into belligerent ports for searching. cylic add (aspirin). It does not cure LABOR: A. F. of L. Damned By receiving mere votes than either of his fellow members, NLRB's William Leiserson was ranked "least unpopular" in a poll by the magazine Factory Management. But all three members (Leiserson, Warren Madden and Edwin S. Smith) should be fired, said voters. This contrasted with a Supreme court ruling which held congress, not NLRB, responsible by virtue of too much "Chronic unpopular decisions. and mm g testimNLRB went on trial again before THE WARS: Shaheup Far bigger than the war on France's western front was the but tle of London. Called to a cabinet meeting by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was Leslie dynamic, Jewish minister of war who has built the British army from a stodgy and antiquated organization into one of the world's a smartest Minister' Hore-Belish- a, L the house committee to appointed MRS. HERRI CK New evi- - Ilowlong.ohLord...' dence: A discharged NLRB trial examiner said that Regional Director Robert Cowdrill of Indianapolis always speeded C. I. O. cases, but tossed aside A. F. of L. cases with the statement: "There's another damned A. F. of L. case." Commented the witness: "The A. F. of L. usually was referred to as the damned A. F. of L." Next came a dramatic paper prepared by Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, New York regional NLRB director, complaining about delays in procedure. Said her paper: "We must waitl Wait! Wait! . . . How long, oh Lord! How long must we wait!" Investigate it and Eugene F. MedicalAssociation. As these many fac- torsinjury, New Boss s ot a ay down by using up some odds and ends of money lying around among the government-owne- d corporations. By executive order, the President can restore to the federal treasury funds loaned by it to the various corporations. He said there was something like $700,000,000 in this pot of gold and that will be used to reduce the deficit further. Budgets These Days Merit Earnest Consideration AS IT seems to be the general 1 1 opinion that the pain In appendicitis must be In the lower right side of the abdomen, many health writers, including myself, try to remind readers that the pain "usually" starts up near the stomach, then, gradually shifts down to the appendix and stops there. It might therefore, to learn that while-thpain usually starts high in the abdomen, in i number of eases it i iv.f:-- SB fm - 1 And there you have it. If all of the things go through as planned and if there is not anMher request from any office or agency of government and if there is as much tax collected next year as calculated HORE-BELtSH- be-wel-l, e 43-ye- ar starts elsewhere. -- . -- - Appendicitis Pain May Be Varied in-la- - Infee- tion tack rf necessary food elements, inherited tendency, changes In climate, emotional disturbances and. others may be causing arthritis, all must be taken Into consideration In the treatment. Factors to Consider. For a long time, the usual treatment of arthritis was to remove all infected teeth, tonsils and gall bladders, as they were believed to be the entire or whole cause. Today, while they are not believed to be the whole cause or, in some cases, even a part of the cause, they arc removed Just the same in order to build up the general health of the patient By improving his general health, his resistance is increased. It is in improving his resistance U Infection that has set up the new-die- t method of treating arthritis. "The diet should, in general, be tow in carbohydrates starches, especially as to concentrated, refined starch foods such as white flour, corn starch, rice and sugar. If patient Is very thin, more fats butter, cream, egg yolks may be eaten. One serving of meat, eggs or fish Is allowed daily. Dr. Barton Hore-Belish- NIBLETS (rheu- Traut, In the Journal of the American NAVY: si Cannon roared aboard dread-naughtin San Pedro harbor. FinalNotes was asked to sign his resignation' Adly, after much saluting, six-foIn an election year, congress and Also fired was Lord MacMillan, miral James Richardson from Paris, politics are intimately associated. bundering minister of Information. Texas, strode down the PennsylAnnounced purpose of the shake- - vania's Many G. O. P. comments were quarterdeck to shake hands was to establish national unity. with Admiral Claude Bloch. Admup President's forthcoming after the iral Richardson stayed as commander-in-cbudget message. Samples: hief of the U. S. navy; Ad4 At Topeka, 1936 G. P. Candidate Alf Landon thought this about miral Bloch went ashore as a rear the slash in expenditures: "If the admiral in retirement Ahead lay President really is serious in his of Pearl Harbor commandership naval base in Hawaii. budget plans, you will hear howls all over the place. He couldn't get the nomination now if he wanted it He COMMERCE: is too smart a politician to try it" Game? X At Chicago, Ohio'a Sen. Robert chalIn far-awTaft accepted the President's Buenos Aires took a submit to a show that may have been for place balancing lenge plan the budget The Taft Plan: (1) destaged for the benefit of the U. S. termination by the President to balcongress. Broken off suddenly were ance it; (2) elimination of bureaus, reciprocal trade treaty talks between Ambassador Norman Armour reduction of employees; (3) return of relief to states, and changes In and President Roberto M. Ortiz. Reasons given: (1) influence of Brithousing, agriculture and loan agenain, No. 1 importer of Argentine cies; (4) elimination of local works A beef; (2) a forthcoming election in grants, reduction of federal public works and reduction of subsidies; Social grounds? Argentina; (3) refusal of Argentina to remove discriminations against U. (5) elimination of budget "pets," Neville Chamberlain did Just that: S. goods, and most important (4) like army and navy items. There was national unity, but it was refusal of the U. S. to import Arunity of opposition to the "sacking' gentine canned beef and flaxseed of an efficient war minister in fa from Argentina without quota limvor of Oliver Stanley, the itations. old board of trade president whose Maybe yes and maybe no. but it father (seventeenth earl of Derby) was possible that U. S. insistence on HERE'S WHY At Moscow the was a war minister in World war quota limitations, even at the price magazine CommunUl International of sacrificing the treaty, was dedays. explained, m answer to foreign reBy next morning every British signed to allay the fears of western ports that Russia had ambitions to paper, regardless of political lean- farmers and their congressmen. Up "Sovetiac" Finland: "Russia's only ings, was blasting against the gov for renewal this year is the reciproaim is to free Finland from a gang ernment Typical was the London cal trade act, basis of the adminisof oppressors and imperialistic war- Star: "If it is shown that Mr. Hore- - tration's entire low tariff program. mongers and to safeguard Finnish Belisha was thrown overboard to Already faced with enough opposidemocratic development" satisfy a clique of generals who dis tion to either destroy the act or give CASET AT BAT At Washington liked him on social grounds, or be- ratification power back to the senand Canberra it was announced cause he was pressing the pace of ate, the state department Is eager simultaneously that the U. S. and democracy In the army too strongly, to show farmers that the trade proAustralia will establish diplomatic then public resentment will be wide, gram won't be allowed to hurt relations for the first time. (Pre deep and lasting." them. viously, Britain represented Austra and the To both Hore-BelisUa here.) First Australian minis Prime Minister an opportunity for PEOPLE: ter will be Richard G. Casey. Soon rebuttal was coming, but it would to be named Is the U. S. minister to probably take place behind closed Dawes Death Canberra. doors in the house of commons, 4 At Chicago died Rnfns C. Dawes, being spent and I think you will SPENDTHRIFT Of her $25,750 Meanwhile it was rumored that 72. president of A Century of Progagree there is a critical need for personal allowance fur 1939. the 16- Winston Churchill, first lord of the ress Exposition, financier, brother of a general revamping of the funcHeiress Gloria Vandcrbilt admiralty, would soon follow Stan former t year-ol- d Charles G. tions of the government at WashDawes. spent only $10 for books. ley as war chief. While Democrats ington: BANQUET Last November Son Elliott RooseOther war news: wined and dined throughout the U, National Defense. $1,800,000,000. Western Front Minor artillery velt fathered the Transcontinental Work Relief Programs. $1,300,000.-000- . S. in honor of President Andrew fire. Entertainment by the fabulous Broadcasting System which first Jackson's birthday anniversary. Re- Albert, French airman whose daring planned to start operations with 100 publicans at Indianapolis held a 25-- antics along the Luxembourg fron stations on December 15. then JanAgricultural Programs. $900,000,. cent milk and cracker feast honor tier keep natives in stitches. 000. uary 1, then February 1. In Fori Abe Lincoln. Finnish Northern ing Front. Worth, where he heads the Tcxa destruc Public Works and Investments, In Hollywood died tion of still a third Russian divi SECRET State Radio network. Elliott mi si.iqp.ooo.ooo. with John sion (the forty-fourtFlora Finch, near Suo- - nounccd his from TBS Interest on the Publie Debt Bunny in early movie comedies. Her mussalmi at Finland's waistline, C. At Boston resignation died Mrs. Eflle 1. Can$1,100,000,000. secret was her age, probably about Fighting was stalemated in the far ning Carlton, about 84. who uttci 80. Her chieftains' secret: The fact Pensions. Retirements and Assistnorth and on the Karelian isthmus, made up an impromptu tune to ul ances. $1,200,000,000. that Flora Finch's contract with M- - but In the centrsl part Finnish troops to sleep the restless baby of a neigh G-was regarded by the bookkeep Regular Operating penetrated Russ lines to dynamite bor. The song: "Rock-a-by- e Expenses, Br.j. ing department as a pension for the Leningrad-Murmans- k $1,000,000,000. railroad ft At New York. W. Alton Jones wt an old trouper. named head of Cities Service & thus lsolatine the northland. arthritis 0 middle ear, gall bladder. Intestine "there are three ways In which arthritis may be produced. Cue 1 from without (Injury or strain); another Is from within (infection). The third combines these two, the effect of strain on a Joint damaged by disease resulting in a vicious circle. Other factors entering Into the cause of arthritis are gland condition and lack of vital elements in the food. Still more subtle or difficult to find Is an inher ited inferiority of Joint tissue." I am quoting front an article on treatment of arthritis by Dr. Bernard Fantus for NLRB's eursed by such conflict-in- COLUMN matism) counts more victims than tuberculosis. While not as fatal, it may be quite as disabling." Instead of just the one cause, focal infection infected teeth, tonsils, sinus, power Coddled HEALTH relieve pain and the spasm or tightness that aggravates painful conditions. A few years later it was discovered that infected teeth and tonsils caused rheumatism and it was felt that with the cause known, and then removed, rheumatism would be soon a disease of the past. ony, ASIA: Wang's Ready Senator Harrison 0. It started that trouble Roose- Japan. Released by Western Newspaper Union. and if the proposed "national defense tax" Is passed and collected, the government deficit for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 1941, will be $1,716,231,000. Senator Harrison may be wrong or he may be right in his proposal to have congress do something about understanding this and subsequent budgets; but it must be said there is something about the condition of budgets these days that merits earnest consideration. These latter day budgets somehow remind me of the broomstick horse that I used to ride when I was a kid. That broomstick had at least 20 different names, but it was always the same broomstick, and my imagination was never successful in transforming it There was merited applause from congress for Mr. Roosevelt's declaration that he was prepared to curtail spending. He tossed some cold water on that enthusiasm, however, by a statement of policy that he did not favor too much curtailment at one time. Rather, "government support" for the many functions now a part of the federal structure ought "to be tapered off." There was not too much pleasure about that among the real supporters of an economy policy, and there was considerably less when attempts were made to If President NAVl" velt's $1,224,521,833 naval appropriation request (Sea COSGRESS) is adopted, the U. S. will become the world's No. 1 sea power, bigger than Britain, twice as big as (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldf., Washington, D. C. ty badly muddled up over the latest Roosevelt budget of estimated expenditures and receipts for the government's next fiscal year. And well It may be. There were thousands of greater and lesser items of government cost dumped into its legislative lap at once the other day, but these were not alone. There were arguments and "iff" and sug- Arthritis May Be Result of Three Factors WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Dr. Gordon Murray, Toronto, nr Canadian Medical Association Journal gives an analysis of 1.000 cases of appendicitis whose records In General hospital have been carefully studied. In this group, the proportion of appendicitis In the male was four to one In the female. Abdominal pain was the first symptom In 80 per cent The situation o waa (1) rmrril rrimn. In. abdomen. 75 ner cent: (2) riM im. er part of abdomen (appendix region), 10 per cent; .(3) above the stomach proper, 7 per cent; (4) umbilicus or navel region, 2 per cent; (5) at side of abdomen, per cent; (0) underneath the stomach, 1 perOf DB In I cent Fain Area May vary. It can thus be seen then that the pain in appendicitis may start from various parts of the abdomen, only 10 per cent did the pain as-i- start in the appendix region. How- ever, in all cases whether the pain, started high up. low down, or at the side of the abdomen, in 100 per cent of the cases the pain Anally shifted to the region of the appendix. The pain was crampy at first but frequently became less severe, leaving a dull aching sensation In the appendix region. Aside from the pain and its location, other symptoms mentioned are: Loss of appetite was an early symptom; vomiting occurred early and in about 80 per cent of the cases; nausea was present often. (Released by Wtstcrg Newspaper Union.) |