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Show " --,- V C7J -"CAPITAL It BY iS?S YOUR CONGRESSMAN jliiflilMiSQf commodity credit corporation on 1941 Suction, ahlnaigh itoiwo-operate;-; will find it more ilii'i'iruli t'1 d;.-po;e of their crops in excess of marketing quotas. The compul-J compul-J oory 'feature: of this marketing pro-j S'" xt were eriii A-r;, but compli-j aiue ,as stressed as an essential1 part of the agricultural program now in effect. Final action on the inter'or trc-partment trc-partment appropriation bill for 18-1:1 has been delayed until about. May S, although the measure was debated de-bated one day this week. The grand total provided is $177.019.07S, a reduction re-duction under budget estimates of about $6,000,000, although about j $21.4GS.00o in excess of the current year. Most of this addition is to accelerate construction of power I facilitie-. 'n tne northwest, of which $22,85S.Cno is for the Bonneville Power ministration. Power transm':, en lines are being extended ex-tended in the Seattle area, as well as- fro; -, Peiidlel-n to LaGrande, Ore. Appropriations for the Bureau of Fceiamat'on. to; il $78,934,000. Of j this, a few largo projects, like Central Cen-tral Valley, California; Grand Cou-ee; Cou-ee; Washington; and Boulder can-n can-n and ' 11-American canal, get a a-ge share of the funds, Secretary Pckes concentrating his support on i 'hose developments which involve ' uge hydro-electric plants. The National Park service gets a total cf $14,406,775, to administer 162 units, including 26 parks, S2 national na-tional monuments, and 12 national cemeteries. Revenues during the fiscal year of 1940 from park service ser-vice activities totaled $1,928,078. During the travel year of 1940 16.-681,695 16.-681,695 persons visited areas administered ad-ministered by this service. War deve'.oiimenis abroad are daily be-.' :..g more eruical, and directly a ic.ct ;epara n.ns t. : plans of the ,,re.--.i -n' to redouble aid to Britain. '.'hc,e i; fc ...kc in the capital that the ndmini Oration Ora-tion leaders are peiturbed because of the sentiment throughout the country against our -participation as an active belligerent. When the lease-lend hill was passed, leaders stressed its desirability as a peace' measure involving aid "short of war." Recent statements by administration ad-ministration spokesmen reflect plans to insure war munitions and supplies reaching Britain, regardless regard-less of consequences. Although not yet ready to defy sentment against use of TJ. S. convoys, con-voys, Secretaries Hull and tnox have taken a vigorous stand to see that these supplies safely cross the Atlantic; and the president told his press conference the neutrality patrols, established after the outbreak out-break of war to warn against aggressors' ag-gressors' ships coming near the western hemisphere, are being extended. ex-tended. He stated they will be extended ex-tended to the seven seas if necessary neces-sary to protect this hemisphere. Another current proposal is to utilize all available shipping for British aid in the battle of tne Atlantic At-lantic and the president has as'.e-Chairman as'.e-Chairman Land of the U. S. marl time commission to secure the service! ser-vice! of at least two million tons C' mediant shipping which now exists ex-ists in order to make their cargo space immediately effective in accomplishing ac-complishing tho objective of "all out aid." Although several coast guard cutters cut-ters and 2 fast torpedo boats have just been assigned to Britain, Secretary Sec-retary Knox has declared that no more combatant vessels are available avail-able for transfer at this time. He also released a statement showing lhe combatant strength of the navy on April 12, 1941, as 329 craft, compared com-pared with 359. on January 1, 1940, or a loss of 30. Although congress has authorized a two-ocean navy, the Knox report showed that only nine vessels had actually been added add-ed to the shipways in 15 months, and that while . he reported 361 combat, craft under construction, only 63 were actually on shipways, the remainder being listed merely on paper as under contract, or on order. ' Some idea of the future plans of the, administration is contained in the remarks made by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones this week before the convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, when he predicted that the national debt would amount to at least $90,000,-000,000. $90,000,-000,000. "As we build the national income, we can carry more debt," said Jones ; "but whatever amount we have to borrow, we must commence com-mence to pay back the day-the emergency is over. We have noc yet made any sacrifices, but plenty of them are in store; for us." Clyde Davis, of the supplies section, sec-tion, decpared recently that the American soldier is better fed than at least GO per cent of the population. popula-tion. Under the field-ration system, sys-tem, he said, every soldier receives re-ceives 5,000 calories daily; the food allowance being 43 cents per day per soldier, and 40 cents for each sailor. The army uses 1,000,000 pounds or meat, 600,000 pounds' of potatoes, and 125,000 pounds of butter daily. The house on April 30, passed and sent to the senate the agricultural agricul-tural marketing bill fixing loans on cotton, corn, rice, wheat, and to-liaceo to-liaceo at 75 per cent parity and imposing 50 per cent penalties for marketing surpluses. This legislation legis-lation will materialy increase the price of wheat through loans by the |