Show wed L 13 BEVERLY EVERLY HILLS well all I 1 know Is just what I 1 read in the papers the lame duck duch congress has been putting us on a mighty inspiring example ot of t just how bonery a congress can be it if they really make up el their minds to bo be te L bonery we just got 7 3 about t tour four more ARR weeks of 0 show and then these boa boys go into what some me T writer has termed oblivion oblivion jil I 1 is a one way ticket town own but the minute these guys get out of there here will come another bunch and take their places now whether the new bunch Is better than the old bunch is just kinder like cutting off a bunch of sheep as they run through the gate stopping em because they dont look so good then opening up the gate and try out the other halt 0 em to see it they aro are any better B but I 1 we got rid of an awful lot of old ra rams at this shearing anyhow we had s some me old big horned babies that had been in that senate corrall so long that their horns were getting kinder twisted twiste but some likable old animals at that well we are all getting read ready y tor for the new deal we dont know wh what kind ot of hand we will get but we want it even it if its just duces it will at least get us out of 0 our expectant mood democrats been doing a lot ot of stirring around since they got promised work couple of 0 weeks ago bunch of 0 em went flown down to Al shoals dam to figure out what they could irrigate or imi tate tale or nitrate or late with it that dam was built alien it looked like the war like depression was go ing to run forever we had an awful a atul lot ot of things figured out to do with a big dam it if we had a war but we cant think ot of a thing to do with it only have another war well congress Is working on that too I 1 been down to that dam I 1 was one ot of the first to inspect it I 1 could have told em about it without em going down dams are pretty much alike they all work on about the same principal you stop up the creek or river at some point then the water generally backs up away from it and how tar far it backs up denotes approximately how much the taxpayers paid to keep it backed up this shoals is an awful pretty dam its not like the boulder dam shoals is a long dam very long over a very wide river boulder la is over a very steep river its in the deepest narrow canyon you ever saw shoals dam Is laying down and boulder dam is standing up on end but Al shoals has got the tha most machinery and a mighty fine little city by there named florence both dams were really made for or fertilizer purposes shoals to make nitrates fertilizer and boulder to make maka conversational fertilizer tor for the los angeles real estates est aters it if we can ever get our heads up from behind these thesa mortgages every time the gov eminent starts to run it to make something at mussel shoals why the politicians from the water power states raise up and howl dont put the government in the power business they are always wanting the government C ov to spend the taxpayers money to build something then dont want em to run it why cant the government run it or anything else they have built they run the post offices and deliver a letter from the north to the south pole tor for 3 cents this dam business is getting to be quite a racket anyhow every congressman it if hes bes got a little stream run ning through his clients pasture wants to get an all appropriation to dam it up lip alth a federal generally ander a racket ra ceet called flood control it if the politicians have their way there wont be a toot foot of water in this country not standing above a dim dam we are sure getting sucked into a lot ot of things for or the sole benefit of 0 a I 1 local 0 cal community to lo be paid tor for by everybody just J u a t think ot of an old bird owning a farm away out in the country in most any out 0 of the way place no paved road no dam no 4 rural delivery yet 0 through his taxes he Is paying tor for every darn dam every road and every other dam thing that lie Is not using but the democrats are going to do some ing about it maity build some more tams lams and roads huey has been mighty quiet here lately kinder resting up for or the big show that will open some time litter after march that will be held in the nature ol of a democratic reunion there will be b scattering republicans in there but they will remain scattered febra february ary is going to bs be a kind of 0 stand standstill i i 1 month from rom a geographical mineral r a 1 and political aspect there will be slight rains raina but no heavy damage done till march everybody Is thinking up things to do and say for or the new con ress cross some soma of 0 the members are golna goine so tar far as to get a new shirt for it well the people cant attend they got a shirt Q 1933 inc ie I 1 |