Show washington news by FRED HOLLIES fes washington correspondent ot of THE PARK RECORD washington D C march some years ago out in the so bo called windy city ot of chicago there lived a young man who as the expression goes had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth A graduate of a notable institution ution of learning where his monthly allowance had been more than generous he continued to live in the lap of luxury until the ship called daddy struck the financial rocks then son had to get down don to brass tacks and hot dogs one day lie he s sat at with the writer in a little res restaurant taura rit on dearborn street in a spirit ot of int intense ense depression he had attempted to b bolster 0 ister up his courage with a few more fiery potations rotations ions than were good tor for him or any one else As a matter ot of fact he be TABS a promising and perfectly eligible candidate for a suicides grave and bellee believe me I 1 dont mean maybe I 1 recall that he reached into his pocket and drew forth all of his financial resources exactly forty five cents he looked at the three coins for a moment or so and then said what in hell can anyone do with forty five cents with that he proceeded to throw the small change out of the window the moral of this sordid little tale Is that as a rule the most extravagant and wasteful people on earth are those who got anything it if my friend had had forty five dollars in his pocket the chances are that he would have practiced conservation but forty five cents to him was a joke 41 the united states of america as a government Is flat broke just how it is going to pay its living expenses tor for the next few years Is a rather serious question it has been suggested in our major legislative body that we tax the milk we feed to our babies As yet there iles has been no suggestion that a tax be imposed upon the air we breathe but that Is only a couple of good sized leaps ahead of us and now with an empty treasury facing the necessity ot of raising a mere mer bagatelle ot of a couple of billions to keer keep our heart beating tor for a year or so BO along comes a fellow by the name of patman hailing from the state of texas who insists that we ought to dole out a couple more billions to the veterans of the recent unpleasantness god bless em cm at that but where in the name of heaven Is the money coming from and another fellow from wisconsin named lafollette thinks that it if we scrape the floor of an empty treasury we can sift out enough gold dust to enable us to contribute several billions more tor for the relief of the worthy unemployed surel lets be generous with the veterans they deserve it and undoubtedly we owe it to them surel lets provide work for the deserving unemployed after all we must preserve the integrity of the nation sure lets help the farmer without whom we could not exist being broke we can afford to be gener ous but again where here are we going to get the money our credit Is good and ve ae can borrow saddle the payment for dead horses on our sons and grandsons start the government printing pressess pres presses and issue a lot of treasury notes future generations will have to take care of them but well be dead and burled buried so what the hell do we care I 1 not so BO very long ago calvin coolidge was running things down here in washington that Is to say calvin was doing the best any single individual could do to run things whether or not calvin was responsible lor for it things ran pretty i well for a time since calvin dropped his job of running things he has had a lot to say I 1 in 11 the public prints about how things ought to be run in all ail his career bous boss carpenter coolidge never hit the nail apil more squarely on the head than when h he e said in an article on debts and tax taxes e s 11 in a recent issue of the saturday evening post that reduction of governmental expenditures national state and local Is a prerequisite to souna sound business recovery after citing figures to show that governmental expenditures in the united state rose from in 1903 to in 1929 the last year of prosperity tax returns he declared that nearly one fourth of the net net income of farmers and railroads was demanded tor for taxes other industries mr coolidge said are likewise seriously handicapped by taxes ile he blamed congress and other appropriating bodies for the extravagance which had brought the country to its present situation oil oh some of these days we will wake up or Is that too much to hope tor for |