Show J Released by Western Newspaper Union YOU ARE IRE MORTGAGED FOR SECRETARY OF COMMERCE Jesse Jones reports the income of the American people for 19 10 was including what was paid by the government for relief and farm subsidies That is just about what it would take to pay what th the federal government government gov gov- which is us owes We are in the red including appropriations that have been made but not nt yet spent and including the obligations of the several government corporations corporations corpora corpora- for which the government is responsible something over To pay what we owe would take all the income of all the American American Ameri Amen can people for the entire year of 1940 the highest income year since I I 1929 1 I I Former President Herbert Hoover told me some three years ago that he believed the nation could carry an indebtedness of close to 70 billions billions billions bil bil- bil- bil lions before going broke and becoming becoming becoming becom becom- ing the victim of extreme inflation If that is correct correct and and I believe Herbert Hoover comes nearer knowing knowing knowing know know- ing than most men men we we are on the verge of bankruptcy and inflation tion Who is responsible The congress of the United States the men we elected as senators and representatives tives No dollar can be taken out of the national treasury until congress has I approved the expenditure The President President Pres Pres- President ident cannot spend our money unless unless unless un un- un- un less congress has authorized the ex ex- The billions that have I been spent on foolish boondoggling projects and for other things had to have the consent of the men we sent to Washington to represent us in the senate and house of That mortgage of more than 70 means some for each one of us to pay or about 2690 for each family of five When the time comes for us again to select senators and representatives tives it behooves each of us to examine examine ex ex- amine the records of those asking for our votes and to turn thumbs down on those who have put us inthe inthe in inthe the red to the extent of our entire income for one year NINTH FORTY-NINTH STATE SEN WILLIAM H. H SMATHERS of New Jersey proposes that we make Cuba the ninth forty forty state but Cuba very definitely does not want to be either the ninth forty-ninth or any other state in the Union Out in the Pacific ocean standing as the outer guardian of our western western west west- ern cnn coast is Hawaii an American territory that does want and has repeatedly asked to be made the ninth forty-ninth state In the last World war Hawaii produced a larger percentage percentage per per- percentage of volunteers for military service than any anyone one of the present 48 states The islands were offered to and accepted by the United States under a promise of statehood If we are to have a ninth forty-ninth star in the flag why should it not represent represent represent sent Hawaii Vernon Yap a Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese I know in the Islands does not feel that he will be an American until un un- un- un ti til he can vote for a President S S S QUEEN BESS' BESS MRS BESS CROSS of Deering Alaska has been paying her every every- year fifth-year visit to the States Sounds prosaic but to her sourdough friends in and out of Alaska and to the fashionable ble feminine apparel dealers in New York it is an event eagerly I awaited To every sourdough sourdough miner miner trapper trapper trap trap- per and those in other lines to every Eskimo in fact to all Alaska Bess Cross is known as Queen of the Arctic She went to Alaska as a bride of 16 Her first husband operated op op- crated a trading post and she assisted assisted as- as assisted as as- him When he died Bess carried carried car car- ried ned on and expanded Today she has a large string of such posts all aU allover over the Alaskan wilds and especially especially especially espe espe- along the shores of the Arctic ocean In Alaska Bess wears a fur parka walrus-hide walrus boots sealskin trousers as a matter of necessity not from choice She is definitely feminine and about once every five years she comes to the States always traveling traveling travel travel- ing by plane She goes to New York and indulges in a regular orgy of clothes buying She selects the daintiest most luxurious of feminine apparel lives in a fine suite suit at the Waldorf entertains lavishly for a period of from two to three weeks and then flies back Jo o her string of Alaskan trading posts to the white men and Eskimos who love and respect respect re re- respect re- re her and to whom she is always always al al- always al- al ways Queen Bess of the Arctic S S S SA A GREAT WINDOW DISPLAY THERE IS A window display in Wilmington Del which I look at every time I visit that city In it there are always a considerable number of things each one of which represents an addition to the com corn fort Cort and standard of living and an increase in employment in America All of these things are the products of an industrial laboratory operated by private capital The maintenance nance of such laboratories means continued prosperity in America And its it's no government job f |