| Show washington snapshots by james preston preiton officers of the army general staff and navel general board who snap nap out the strategic policies of our national defense were not a little surprised when they were credited recently with urging nir airplanes planes to be built immediately under the national defense pending program such stich a program because of the factor of quIck obsolescence la in airplanes would quickly wreck itself according to the best experts quiet among the naval an all military nien men themselves disclosed that none of them had advocated such 11 pi pr warn A much lower figure for such mich it building program had lipen bee u set by them as the number of planes that the united states could build under a practical program mixing some two plus plu two st equals four speculation with their own inquiries the exports experts opine that the figure was sent up by the as a trial balloon to see if they could get away with a heavy spending program to the tune ot of drum beating for defend the nation at all cost the military an naval experts further argue that mat it lip Is well that mat the united states do some well considered thinking of defense inasmuch as it would be well to impress any potential enemies america might have with real defenses rather than by theatrical spending incidentally the current budget estimates now before congress cau call for spending by the federal government during the next fiscal year at the rate of a minute of a day As aa one newspaperman around the national press club xe remarked marked ked that means my income tax will run the government just one one billionth part of a second 11 among lifes little problems list this one one of the cabinet officers has a fancy for green ink he be has used wever it ever since he came to washington he finds now however that his sig signature is fading from documents and the US bureau of standards informs bim him nothing can be done about it 11 the dye used la in green ink just wont last the bureau has reported to him in a lengthy official report the cabinet member therefore has to use permanent black ink now for ids his signature to official government documents it Is better than event bet around i washington that tha t co congress ingress will soon be asked to increase Ine reace the limitation on the nat national lonal debts debt congress passed a law last year placing the absolute telling on the national debt at 45 billion dollars under unde r the law therefore the treasury cannot lawfully icum it a debt beyond that figure at the present ahme the debt Is just short of 40 billion dollars an all tinie time high the new budget however projects the debt to 44 billion which will be too close to the ceiling tor for the treasury Treas s comfort A SO 50 billion dollar limitation or even more inore probably will be e asked of congress coffee made news at ai home and abroad last week in III washington it 11 wits announced that hereafter coffee will be only ae per cup in the house restaurant where US representatives do their midday mid day dining in one or of the foreign capitals it was decreed by the dictator that coffee has been added to the list of food rationed to the pop ulace lace merchants Meichi ints are ale following nu bout 18 1 8 pound per week per person many people who have probably forgotten f 01 gotten that not so many years ago they attached only a 2 cent tamp to letters probably have forgotten too that the 3 cent postage is supposed to expire next june 30 the 3 scent cent postage v was as established us as an emergency tax mea sure sui e dont stock ity on 2 centers however for foi the budget submitted to congress calls for a continuance of the 3 cent rate CANDID SNAPSHOTS secretary ickes the administrator has his staff busy with study of giai grain ninar and punctuation these days ile he has or ordered dereda a change in the alie signs SLOW ALOW MEN WORKING ile he says the change inest be made to remote the lin plied piled aspersion it Is announced that up in III wisconsin it ii girl ims ilits become it boy rf nt tor ter it a rare sur surgical gleat operation too bad they cant find a method to make it tn tedium out of a awil givinn he be a success advertise A mountaineer told i feature ston writer that he hat hai nei ineer heard of it n rall oad rolla train we e understand lie he Is highly envie ellei by b a number of railroad of TRY A WANT AD |
