SEEN HEARD
around the
National Capital
Sins By CARTER FIELD as
Washington.-—~With nature moving in
to help extinguish the cotton surplus,
as she had already on hogs, cattle
and to a lesser extent wheat, probabili-
ties for trouble in the future for cot-
ton growers in this country are not di-
minished, but Increased.
The point Is that the dust storms
in the big cotton producing areas of
Texas and Oklahoma—more than half
of the cotton raised in the United
States Is grown west of the Mississippl
despite the prevailing opinion to the
contrary—have already boosted the
price of cotton. Pressure on AAA Is
expected to continue loans at around
12 cents, despite the desire to drop
them gradually. All of which means
that the price of cotton will be main-
tained at this high level next year,
So far, so good, but unfortunately it
is Impossible for the United States to
keep such a situation secret. If this
country could only do what Russia did
a few years back with wheat, it could
imake a killing on cotton—perhaps—
mext year,
The Russians, it may be recalled, clr-
culated stories that thelr wheat crop
had failed, back in the days of Secre-
tary of Agriculture Hyde and the farm
board.
wheat, and the Russians began selling.
Hyde thought they were selling short,
and actually denounced them In public
speeches for such a nefarious practice.
Jut the Russians delivered the wheat.
Whereupon the price the
tussians having been the only wheat
farmers to get a real
product, and the money for that com-
ing out of the United States treasury.
3ut the whole world knows
crops In the United States. Down in
Brazil they know about the dust storms
that are wrecking crop
pects west of the Mississippl,
know about the agitation
the 12-cent loans
collapsed,
cotton
tificially maintained 12-cent price next
year. And they know that In
} cents a pound!
Big Brazilian Crop
cotton next
square yard possible. This “possible”
amount is far from trivial. Tremen-
dous overnight expansion is impossible,
acreage season by every
of course, but Brazil's agricultural ex-
perts figure that only
the 6
ton—always with cents,
tivation. So that the real problem is
labor. But there is labor for
much more expansion. So It can safely
be assumed that will be a big
increase In the next Brazilian crop.
enoug}
inh
there
Over in England the cotton spinning
people know about these dust storms
and about the prospect of the United
States maintaining the 12-cent price.
Some of their big mills have made the
change In their looms so as to spin the
Jrazillan cotton. More of them are
now expected to do so. They will nat-
urally figure they can buy Brazilian
cotton cheaper than United States cot-
ton.
Over In the Japanese puppet state
there are now 30,000,000 acres In cot.
ton. Very small so far as world fig
ures go, but there also the facts about
the situation In the United States are
known, and may be expected to have
results. Similarly in Egypt and India.
All of which point unerringly to the
probability that throughout the world
there will be a mad rush to take ad-
vantage of the situation.
ises eventually to leave
the United
ing millions of bales of cotton for
which It paid 12 cents a pound, when
the world market will be around 7 or
probability.
But this is snly part of the trouble.
Johnson and Johnson have already an-
nounced their plans for setting up cot.
ton mills in Brazil, the idea being not
away from the processing tax. Prod.
ucts of this mill would be used in place
of goods formerly exported from the
American mills of this big firm,
Army Is Stirred
Army and navy officers are terribly
concerned over the bill Just passed by
the house, and soon to be considered In
the senate, for taking the profit out of
war. They assure everyone who will
listen to them, In private, that it will
also take national defense out of war,
which might be very serious Indeed to
the nation In the event of a conflict.
The pacifists hail the bill as:
“A bill to keep the United States out
of war by providing In advance that
there will be (1) profits for none, and
(2) confiscatory taxes for all, so that
it will be to every American's interest
to keep the United States at peace.”
Army and navy experts say that It
should be called:
+ “A bill 3) to transfer the war mu-
nitions industry now in the United
States, and which might be started
here, to foreign soll, (2) to provide for
murderous delay In preparation in case
a war Is forced on this country, (3) to
conscript soldiers and employers but
not workmen, and (4) to repeal the
oldest law of military strategy: that
the best offense Is a vigorous offen.
sive”
Goaded by a $2,000,000 bonus to
~Bugene G. Grace, by screams of the
cifists, by complaints of soldier bonus
bhyists that “these boys fought and
ked their lives while profiteers were
making millions,” the house voted
down every qualifying swendment,
passed the bill, and privately hopes the |
senate will write some sense Into it
Tax on Profits
More serious, from a preparedness
standpoint, is the tax provision on prof.
its, Half of all profits up to 6 per cent
and then 100 per cent is the house
provision. Suppose, say army and navy
officers, the du Ponts had been faced
with such a situation at the entry of |
the United States into the Wdrld war.
Would they have dared expand their
plants? Suppose, instead of a prelimi
nary period of nearly three years dur. |
ing which the allies were buying all
the munitions they could get, and
which naturally caused tremendous ex:
pansion of the du Pont, Bethlehem and
other munition plants, the United States
had been involved from the first, with
such restrictions on earnings as are
now proposed,
The point made by the army and
navy men is primarily that no manfac
turer would dare expand his plant to
take care of a war need. He would
not be able to make enough to scrap
the plant after the war, and he would
have to take his chances with govern-
ment auditors on depreciation charges,
Altogether he would be much safer it
his plant were located on foreign soll,
where it would be welcomed as an ele.
ment of military strength.
So that the natural development
would be for foreign countries to bene
fit—even In time of peace—by the train-
ing of thelr workmen in the making of
munitions, and in time of war by the
possibility of big profits, which these
foreign governments could tax to their
heart's content and still leave some
thing for the manufacturers,
Nearly everyone agrees that the pro-
law would be repealed as the
first act of congress after the next dec
Critics are not much
What really wor
posed
worried about that.
moving abroad
wholesale to escape such conditions,
not only depriving the United
States of this element of strength, but
actually providing it for potential en
emies.
The
enterprise
bill would have no chance of
3
ly to vote for such a measure than to
vote against it, and then try to explain
Groups lob.
bying for are militant.
And, almost to the last man and wom-
an, they would remember at the polls!
See Long Session
Congress is not going to ba rushed to
It will be with us
Almost surely un-
September,
the measure
an early adjournment.
3
» vet,
til August. Probably until
Possibly longer than that,
il the flat pre-
“must™
This is true despite
leaders that the
dictions by
be rushed
spre «131 : Te
items will through
else will be abandoned. Many
But they
of the
erything
things may be “abandoned.”
will not be abandoned
time element,
because
They will be abandoned,
if at all, because actually they are not
wanted examination the
leftovers at of adjournment
will reveal the truth of this statement.
Utility heads got all pepped up a
few ago at this list “must”
It did not include the pub
ility holding company bill. Now,
all the statements, the proba-
bility of the moment is that a holding
company bill affecting the utilities will
Careful of
the time
days of
Measures,
lic ©
despite
be passed. It will not be passed in the
form desired by President Roosevelt.
It will be much more moderate. It will
actually be what some of the utility
chiefs favored as much as ten years
Ago,
But its omission from the “must” list
given out by house leaders Is very
amusing. It was a bit of Intra-party
strategy. The house leaders In partic.
ular are getting very tired of the Pres-
ident’s treating them the way he goes.
Hence their public statement of a “pro-
gram” which would be put through and
then followed by speedy adjournment.
The legislative veterans were laughing
In their sleeves at the time, but their
statements made good newspaper copy.
What they want Is for the President to
take them more into his confidence, and
stop treating the house of representa
tives like a stepchild,
Soldier Bonus
Naturally, the soldier bonus was not
on the “must” list. The President does
not want that. Bot If anyone thinks
that it 1s not going to take a lot of the
senate’s time, he just does not know
very much about the senate, Especial-
ly, as the best predictions now are that
the bonus legislation, after passing
both houses, and being vetoed, will be
passed over the veto by the house and
then fall of passage in the senate,
This unofficial program calls for two |
separate considerations of the measure |
by the senate!
That Is not all. Very few administra. |
tion leaders are optimistic enough to be-
lieve this congress will adjourn without |
giving the soldiers something. Which
means that time must Intervene—after
a sufficient demonstration of strength
to frighten the White House, and after
a sufficient demonstration of weakness |
to frighten the American Leglon—for |
a compromise to be worked out. i
The President has let it be known to |
a few friends on Capitol Hill that he |
is willing to go to a compromise of
about $1,200,000,000. The bonus lead.
ers know that, and will move heaven |
and earth to obtain It If they find that |
they are going to lose out on the main |
fight. i
Incidentally, there is nothing on the |
“must” program about the AAA amend. |
ments, nor about the growing move |
ment to rescind the cotton processing |
tax. Nor the corn and hog processing
tax. Flat prediction Is hereby made
that there will be a lot of oratory in
the senate on both before the final |
gavel taps, |
Couyright-WNU Servis |
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“IN DIJON-"
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By JACK DE WITT
©. MoClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU Bervice.
IKE DELANEY of the plain
clothes detail flicked at his
immaculate civilian sult with
a whisk brush.
“Golng out deep tonight, Mike?” the
question was tossed at him in friendly
carelessness by Lieutenant Reese,
“Takin' Ann to dinner,” replied the
plain clothes man, “and no gags from
you.”
Lieutenant Reese looked up from the
fiimsles, reports and “Wanted” circu
lars he had been perusing, and his
‘arge face beamed.
“Ann's a swell kid, and no foolin',
But—ever been In Dijon, Mike?”
“Dijon?” queried the plain clothes
officer. His lean, clean-shaven face
came alive with a happy memory. “You
mean“ Dijon In France? Sure, I was
there. Right after the war, Why?
“Ever meet the Bluebeard of Dijon?
asked the lieutenant, without humor.
Mike Delaney eyed the officer sus
plciously,
“What you getting at? he wanted
to know befare committing himself,
“Just this” the lieutenant thrust a
paper towards him. “First pickup or
der we ewer got from a foreign country.
And them frogs go for rewards, too,
See the Agure? Fifteen hundred Amer
fean dollars reward for the Bluebeard
of Divyn”
Mike Delaney read hurriedly.
“Phey seem to think this mug's In
this town,” he sald to the lieutenant.
Seah,” agreed the desk officer with
out enthusiasm, “but they
ying to trall him for five years
chance pickin’ him now.
women, didn’t he? I didn't read it care-
Mul.”
have
Wanted for Murder. Nicholas
six women
Mesurance for last victim. The trall of
where it was lost five years ago.
circular,
available
by the subject of this
photograph of Lamaire is
spent the greater part of his
the restagrant business
@ Inches tall, Weight
Dark Pair and eyes. His
has wdoubtedly changed considerably
but be may be readily {dentified by a
triangular scar, result of a
wound, two Inches below the p
his right shoulder blade,
160 pounds
appearance
knife
oint
He may be
and he may be the proprietor of a res
taurant of the better type”
Delaney paused in his reading.
Heutenant observed: “How
after these years?
he works in restaurants.
"
when he reached the sidewalk.
denly he laughed aloud,
It was 7:30 when Mike Delaney pre
sented his broad shoulders in the door
way of a neat suburban cottage.
Ann Morgan met him at the door,
“Late, Mr. Delaney, Fifteen minutes
late. Give an account.”
Mike Delaney said nothing. He nsn-
ally went tongue-tied for the first few
minutes in Ann Morgan's company any-
way. When bis little coupe was nos
ing through downtown traffic again,
and when Ann had eunddied comfort.
ably close to him, he sald half mus
ingly:
“If we had fifteen hundred dollars
we could get that bungalow in the
Sunset addition and make a good, big
down payment to the real estate peo-
ple"
“Mike Delaney,” the girl interrupted
him, “quit worrying about that bun-
galow.”
The subject ended there. Ann was
dreaming her dreams; Mike was
dreaming his. Both dreams were very
similar when he piloted her through
the garishly lighted doorway of a
downtown restaurant Gilded letters
on the restaurant window announced
that the place specialized In French
cooking.
When the walter brought soup and
turned with a dexterous flip of his nap-
kin to leave the booth, a sharp ejacu-
lation from Mjke Delaney brought him
Mike Delaney was holding by the
tall—suspended above his plate—the
“I'll show it to every customer in the
“M’'seur, Mseur—" stammered the
control his quivering vocal chords he
“Please—please,” he begged, “1 will
Please. Fifteen
Eventually Mike Delaney allowed
himself to be placated by none other
than the proprietor.
As they walked toward another res
taurant, Ann sald: “But you shouldn't
taken his money, Mike. You
“Teach him a lesson,” her compan.
fon assured her. “Forty dollars is a
lot of money to a mug {ike that. IH
let him suffer until tomorrow then take
it back.” ’
In the next restaurant Mike Delaney
again chose a booth. The walter went
through the preliminaries with expert
uess and dispatch. After the soup was
brought, he, too, whirled in sudden
alarm,
hearsed a little act. Spms of
ranging from ten olarcy
inal forty, went Into Mike Delaney's
pocket and the curtain fell on the serio-
comedy with Ann and her escort on the
sidewalk seeking another eating house,
It was as they were approaching the
sixth restaurant that Ann Morgan
turned an amazed and hurt expression
upon Mike Delaney,
“If that's your way to get that fif-
teen hundred dollars you say we need,
I can assure you, Mr. Delaney, we no
longer need It.”
She stepped Into a taxicab parked
at the curb and was gone,
Saddened, alone, Mike Delaney en-
tered still another restaurant.
The act proceeded. The head waiter
came and went. And then there was
a hitch in the play. An Irate, pig-
eyed gentleman came crowding to the
booth,
“Ah,” sald this one, “the old mouse
trick.” He filled the booth with his
bulk. Mike Delaney rose and seemed
to be estimating his chance for a fast
getaway,
jut the proprietor had another idea.
“Call the police, Oscar,” he sald over
his shoulder to the hovering, alarmed
walter, “And you, wise guy, sit down,”
He pushed Mike Delaney back into his
seat,
“It's the old, what yon call, shake
down trick,” resumed the cafe propri-
etor viclously, "and you go to jail for
it"
A uniformed policeman was elbow-
ing his way through a knot of curious
restaurant patrons the
“What's wrong? the asked,
and then he saw Mike Delaney, The
wondering traveled
to the now almost
near booth,
officer
policeman's
from Delaney's face
purple one of the cafe owner,
gaze
“You've seen that trick before,” De
laney was saying and with a
menace In his volee that the cafe man
did not miss, in Dijon.
A gang of carefree American soldiers
slowly
“You've seen it
used to pull it there to get a little cash.”
At the word
fat man suddenly glinted
“It's a lle. Dijon—1
what it means Arrest that
ficer—arr—" but trailed
It was his turn now
for an avenve
Dijon the eyes of the
not know
man, of-
off.
to look furtively
of escape.
do
his voice
*. « « and hurry off his shirt” In-
structed Mike Delaney, at police
headquarters a few n ip
want (o see that sear before 1 go take
Ann to dinner, return
collected—and do some heavy
the
gone gdonug
.
of 70 Passed by Many
ionary conclusions about why
did a
be expected
still longer in the future are
new #8 of death
in Great Brits
wople live longer than they
eneration ago may
0 lve
suggested by stndie
in by three
mathematicians, Col. A. G.
McKendrick, Dr, W. OO. Kermack and
Dr. P. LI. McKh f Edinburgh,
BAYS the Providence Jo
One conclusion is that
rate statistics
lay, all
the chief
lives
is what kind fc-
quired during the first 10 to 15 years
of life. Another Is living to
be ninety or one hundred promises not
to be improbable instead of the tradi-
tional limit of three score and ten,
Sanitation and medical science have
greatly decreased deaths among chil
dren and young people, so that the
percentage of middle-aged people has
been increasing. There has been no
direct evidence, however, that the old
people are living any longer or that
the maximum span of human life ia
lengthening.
Many experts have suspected, in-
deed, that this life span might de-
crease, as one result of keeping alive
many children who are naturally weak
and cannot be expected to live long
AByWay.
The new Scottish investigation Is
the first evidence that this pessimis-
tie conclusion may be wrong. British
children born In each decade since
1845 are found to live a little longer
than children born in the previous
decade.
an indivi
of constitution is
that
cept the year of birth, which implies
that what happens to children ‘under
fifteen seems to be the chief factor in
living long or dying early. Extensions
of the same computations to future
decades imply that substantially in.
creased percentages of the people now
ninety.
Derby Races
Epsom, Surrey, England, in which none
but three-year-olds race for a gener.
ous purse. The most important race
at any track Is sometimes called the
Derby but the Kentucky and other
specified American races are patterned
after that of England. British pro-
nunciation—Dar-by-is derived from
the old spelling of Lord Derby's verri-
tory, Deorabl, Of late there has been
a tendency in America to adopt the
English pronunciation,
Sables’ Luxury Life
Sables, destined to provide fur conts,
lead a fe of luxury at the nursery
established in the forest at Barguszin,
eastern Siberia. Here is thelr menu:
Breakfast (7 a. m.) : biscuits, oatmeal,
or rice with milk; luncheon (1 p. m.):
minced meat with vegetables and cedar
nuts, Once a month the sables are
weighed. Those which are not up to
the mark receive extra food--eggs and
cream,
Fi gure on
No one who hag not been in one of
the dust storms which have swept
the western plains for more than a
year can appreciate their devasta-
tion and the. apprehensions of the
people in the region extending from
the Gulf of Mexico to the Great
Slave lake.
Science knows full well the po-
tentialities of this terrible phenome.
non, It has innumerable records of
other soll transformations brought
about by the wind. Much of the rich
er soll over vast areas in the United
States was carried there by dust
storms,
in Missourl a year ago revealed the
characteristics of soll in the Da
kotas, All solls are easily identified
by their mineral content, The Da
kotas had been exposed to drouth
for a number of years. The soll was
deprived of Its protective
Thus, when the wind blew,
was carried away to be
in other states,
To most of us who
moisture Is sufficient
needs, it is difficult to
the storms hav
al winter,
been sufficient to keep the dust down
vegetation
the
deposited
for
realize
dust been
even In mountainous states like Col
Heavy r
Mississip
orado,
lower
shortage of 1
on in the pl
or Saskatchey
to rise and
thing, tl
worse
Neediess to say, the d
non has greatl
uation In the
fects ments and
responsible
Hard for Japanese to
of
‘
job the
Japanes
his own Ia
» seven hours a week 1
ciass, seven b
total of fourteer
years, At t!
has mastered only
Chinese 1deograph
or pix different meanings).
read a But he
baffled by a magazine or book.
less written In the most colloquial
speech,
Even university students have a
very uncertain knowledge of the lit
erary language. It Is supposed to be
used In the composition of letters, ar
ticles, books. A young friend of
mine in Tokio Imperial university,
principal Institution of learning in
Japan, confesses that his uncle rare
Iy hears from him-—because any let
ter to him must be written in the old
literary form, and Its composition is
& long and fatiguing task,
Even the greatest scholars eannot
write without a good dictionary at
hand. Educated men find it easier
to read Japanse classics In an Eng
lish translation than in the original.—
Willard Prince, In Asia Magazine,
¢ end of that time he
3.000 of the
having five
He
newspaper,
un-
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the orig:
inal little liver pills put up 60 years .
regulate Bivar and bowels~Ady.
ali
“What's Your Hurry?”
*Darling, answer me, I am on the
rack.”
“So Is your hat,” came a deep volce
from the hall. Whereupon the young
man took the hint, his head-plece and
his departure,
to a minimum, If It persists this
Year, there will be no reserves of
corn left, From surplus induced by
excess production in our own and
other countries, we are In danger of
passing to scarcity due to drouth
and dust,
Records of drouth are readily
traced In the rings of trees. There
are records of other drouths in the
plains as bad as or worse than the
present drouth, This i8 not, how-
ever, an assurance to science that
We may now be witnessing the be.
ginnings of one of those deserts in
which nature delights, It was when
the Southwest became a desert that
the Indians moved Into Mexico, Life
follows the molsture-bearing alr cure
rents, When
region south of
region
they passed from the
the Mediterranean to
of the Mediter-
The Asi
accustomed to
following the mois.
the north
followed them.
atics have long
up and
been
Science would not eare to assert
They
may ¢ consequences of just an.
other drouth, Or they may be the
ing of end for all that
sgion where buffalo grazed, Rei
knows has happened,
What Is to happen is on the knees of
St. Louls Post-Dispatch,
be tbh
the
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that my
red blood
corpuscle
strength
was low and
I simply took
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and built it
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