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Show mf - Mil, j CAPITAL A ' GLEANINGS BY S3& nryDWorshalja YOUR CONGRESSMAN jMilIj With almost 5,000,000 bushels more potatoes to market than in the 1939 crop year, Idaho growers are, facing chaotic conditions with depressing prices. Therefore, the Idaho delegation at the capital is exhausting all means to secure the approval of a program for diversion of No. 2 potatoes to stock reeding. Two conferences were held the past week at the department of agriculture, one being with Secretary Secre-tary Wickard, to stress the imperative imper-ative need of cooperation by the surplus marketing administration. P. C. Hansen of Idaho Falls attended at-tended the meetings as a representative represen-tative of Idaho growers. As this is written Saturday, a final decision is pending, with excellent prospects pros-pects that a stock diversion program pro-gram will be adopted. . ' The hearings held by the house foreign affairs committee on the lend-lease bill continued to attract huge crowds during the week, as Ambassador Kennedy, Colonel Charles Lindbergh and General Hugh Johnson testified that they were; opposed to the measure. The aviator was easily the star witness of the entire hearing, according to majority and minority members of the committee, all of whom commended com-mended him for his forthright and candid expression of views, although al-though many did not agree with to ef.ct economy a.ki cjjj-i. nations na-tions in ihe fedcrai at'.imu.su au e services, became effective July 1, 1939, when there were K,...j j .. ployes. Seventeen souths luter the ; total, had increased to 1,111,530, a ' gain of 186,270, with a ;.;'oiith.y j salary gain of $2S,2-Hi,2C9. NaU'ral ly, the defense prepara' iou:: of the past several months have been 1 partially responsible, but the record shov. s the reorganization program has had anything but effect claimed claim-ed for it by administration sponsors Sines it became effective, there have been 29,100 employes added in ihe District of Columbia alone. The peak of federal executive branch employment during the World war was 917,770 on November 11, 1918. Governor Heil of Wisconsin was meeting congressmen in the Republican Re-publican cloakroom recently and, when introduced to your congressman, congress-man, declared that his state produced pro-duced many potatoes, but he marvelled mar-velled af the prestige of the Idaho product. He continued: "Idaho is doing the best job of marketing ffer potatoes of any state with any agricultural product." This indicates indi-cates what'others think of rlie advertising ad-vertising of our famous spud, and lends encouragement that possibly we are doing a much better job than we believe.. For several weeks fears have been entertained in Idaho that the forest service would, be transferred by the president from the department depart-ment oft agriculture toi supervision 'of Secretary Ickes of interior. The authority granted the executive under un-der the rpnrpnniVfltinn Villi ovnl.n I them. This highly controversial measure will come before the house the coming week, and the senate foreign relations committee will begin its hearings) then. I I The inaugural .ceremonies brought immense crowds to the capitap to witness this historical event, and the president sounded a challenge to.Jnuster the spirit and faith of America to save the nation from disruption from without. Among the prominent visitors from Idaho were Asher B. Wilson of , Twin Palls, presidential elector; 1 National Committeeman Carl ' Brown of McCall; Mrs. Will H. Simons of Boise, national commit :teewomanj and Mrs, Theresa Gra-i Gra-i hamj of Coeur d'Alene, who represented repre-sented Governor Clark officially at j the ceremonies. The house on January 24 approved approv-ed an appropriation bill for $313, 500,000 for constructing 200 cargo ships, designed to meet a world January 20, so there can now be no suph transfer unless another bill is passed. Informed many majority ma-jority party members are opposed to this proposal. If such legislation legisla-tion is passed, the forest service transfer will remain a threat, as Secretary Ickes is said to be insisting in-sisting that all public domain be concentrated in his department. shipping shortage. The maritime commission, which has already received re-ceived a presidential allotment of $36,500,000 for shipyard facilities, will supervise the construction, contracts for which will be placed without competitive bids on a "negotiated" "ne-gotiated" basis. The maritime commission com-mission already has disposed of 49 ships to Britain, as well as authorizing author-izing the sale to that country by private American operators of 146 ships since the outbreak of the war. There were 1,111,530 employes in the executive branch of the ' federal government on November 30, 1940, ,. according to the TJ. S. 1 Civil Service commission, or a gain of 25,359 over the preceding month, and an increase of 176,532 during the year. The payroll for November, 1940, totaled $168,388,-802, $168,388,-802, while for the 934, 998 employes in November of 1939 the payroll amounted to $141,655,306, showing a gain of $26,733,496 for one month. The reorganization bill, designed |