Show all se 3 ab i 1 t 1 vone nani lire more aft to ta toast than those cf tilt ewt north MARCH 5 merry widow hats make their first appearance 1907 6 ring lardner humorist WG and writer born barn 1885 locse 7 first telephone patent Is ii issued to bell 1876 8 first bridge over niagara river kiver is opened 1855 OL 9 famed battle of monitor v vs merrimac 1862 liaa 10 germany declares war on an aft portugal Port ueal at last 1916 11 start ot of great three day blizzard new york 1888 THE MOST remarkable thing about the present congress Is its lack of remarkableness before it convened the prediction aas was that it would simply be an echo of 0 the president with possibly a few false notes to odd add interest t nineteen four Is at ter all the year in which all the representatives run for reelection and normally there would be a lot of personal pol poetical cal fence building done in both houses but congress has been even more mora of a rubber stamp than was forecast matters have reached the point where its doings outside of routine approval of one roosevelt measure or another arent even front page news mews the republican party has hag made only sporadic attempts to prepare for elections it has no general beneral program no outstanding national leader no unanimity of opinion among its members A large percentage of republicans in both houses vote with tho the president I 1 T the meaning of all this of course la Is that most senators anu representatives believe that the now new deal taking it as a whole still has the public confidence is still popular lax they believe that to oppose it in a strenuous way is the equivalent or of political suicide although practically all the republicans public ans outside of the insurgent wing and many of the democrats fear it Is being carried too far that the experiments in ipri ous instances are getting out of hand that some of the new mew laws and bureaus are hampering not forwarding the progress of recovery the and the consumer sumer Is a case in point A definite feeling is growing that the big manufacturing industries kure running rampant so far as prices are concerned and are sticking the buyer good and plenty costs have gone up appreciably taster than has the average income but only bi ai handful of congressmen congressman have I 1 had nerve enough to speak of 0 this and what said 1 made a dent so far as general business Is con concerned cernea the most important t law to come before congress in i the near future will probably be 4 a white house supported plan tor for 11 revising the securities act A num t ber bar ot of grave errors were the draft that became the law of the la ai ld id at the last congress it 7 was designed to prevent the sell ing of dubious stocks and and bonds j but as matters turned out it pre vented the selling of the most honest securities capital has I 1 simply ceased to flow into indus tries which sorely need it and are entitled to it revision of the bill 3 will probia bly Y include modification ot or the ilabe liability MY provisions wo visions and 1 will tone 1 I lt t down gene generally nally so ao that honest business wishing new capital will have nothing to fear tn i when offering securities to the ibe i public sa a 0 H IT T IS VER VERY Y EVIDENT that the t 0 bootlegger bootleg er la is goina coln to find 1 1 the going rather hard bard from here out as ag the now city officials swing into action during the past week there has been a number of places in ili roosevelt where have been made we are arc informed ir that out 0 the e tour four or five es cs raided no liquor was found but this does not spell the doom 3 to the raiding and on the other hand it does not mean the ellra S inaura of the bootlegger boot legeer but eventually under strict obedience to law and order the dishing put fa of 0 liquor will be more carefully handled and not dished out to minors and indians indiana 0 WHAT SEEMS TO HAVE aono wrong wo we see by the recent report of 0 the last and final session ot of the P W A board tor for utah that there was no mention in their report of any action or approval ot of duchesne ducheane school board building application wo are not sure it may have been taken up before and it if so tho the press would i like to know we will venture to bet it la Is just another case of the early bird catchine catch ine the big fat worm and this time we aro are the worm THIRTY |