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The only reason for the 15-day delay is that this length of time Is required for advertisement for bids Despite the President's expressed concern about delays on grade cross ings incidental to the acquiring of the land, approval of the projects, and selection of only Important highways crossing mainline rallroads, the fact Is that all difficulties have been solved by the public roads bureau of the De- partment of “uiture. than one thousand projects are ready for bids, 756 more will be ready Inside f year, and 2.3062 additional will be ready within two years. So officials of the burean are champ. ing at the bit, and wondering why the President takes such a pessimistic attl. tude, The President's point about acqulir- sti...) Pou wun wan Apri Slightly more first thousand projects, now ready, op- tions on the land needed have been ac- quired by the states in which the pro} ects are located, and the states under stand thoroug that the uries must pay for the land, with the federal work, materials and over! state treas- government paying ead, first year Is 1,758. for over a thou- sand of which the land options ure in hand. The total would be £184. 314,000. The total number of additional projects to he ready within a year 1s 2.302, at a total cost 277.567.5600, So that within a year work could be started on a total of 4.058 projects, at a total estimated cost of £481. .881. 500, In addition there is much other pro- jected work which is ready to go Just waiting for White House approval now cost of that the work relief bill is a law. The burean of roads gtart at the flash from House on road contracts parceled out on the time-honored fore the White These mi lald down by hetween the states, so the esting. law, as Renreg fro so Inte HEUTes are not so inter. Takes to Mining The government is about to engage the t It cer. bu will iinly go In for some other minerals. in mining siness ! Outside the precious metals, the ernment prog wonid aes to mine only met: which not isting m g sitnatic products already in For example mining of copper, lead or zine. Most importa besides gold and sil or with the it of the metals under eonsgiderat! are yer tin chiros inst, Not is dir te idea a sharp the steel Com. n torn wonild with Belgian the United States by the recently approved recip. rocal trade treaty-—more difficult. In addition to these metals, two other minerals are under consideration, These are special grades of mica and graphite, There is a bill pending In the sen. ate, introduced by Senator James P. Pope of Idaho, which would allocate a hundred million dollars from the work relief fund for mining. This bill is not expected to pass. But while this Is down the same street. the bill Is net necessary if the administration wants to act. It has plenty of authorily under existing, law. The projects conld be gotten under way as pure work re lief on force account. as operations not arranged by contracts are ealled make thelr competition steel—|ts cost lowered In Experts Approve The gold and silver mining, decision to enter which has practically been made, are almost {deal from the gov- ernment standpoint. The experts advis. Ing President Roosevelt Insist there Is no doubt whatever that mines conld be worked by the government-for gold and silver—which would produce enough not otily to pay the wages of of operation, but actually to yield a is that there would be no element whatever The government would just take the gold and silver and put It In the treas. ury. If there were no profit at all, no harm” would be done. If there were a Some of the other metals mentioned, as vital from a national defense stand. point. This country is deficient in Mining experts are most anx- pment In this The malin problem of corse is that part The men are skilled miners, so that neo training would be necessary. They would be far happler, carrying on thelr accustomed work, It is argued, than in working on grade crossings or on pub. le roads, for example. Anvway. there i i i § 3 is not a Inck, but a surplus, of men needing Jobs who could be put to work | on grade crossings and roads. i So far the mine experts Insist proj. | ects are In as good shape as any for | putting men to work immediately, All that would be needed would be the Presidential 0, K. And they expect that very shortly. { Cotton a Problem With the AAA under fire from so many quarters, King Cotton remains one of the most important world prob- lems, threatening to save or wreck the administration's plans to lift the farm. er up to that “parity” of purchasing power which President Roosevelt Is so fond of discussing. Most southern statesmen wave aside so-called threats to Ame¥ecan Supremacy in cotton, They contend that nowhere else In the world can cotton be produced successfully to ccmpete with the United States. Either the cost 1s too high per pound, or the quality Is too low, they insist. The threat Involved In Brazilian ex- pansion In cotton growing has been discussed at length In these dispatches, Including the confidential view of the present Brazilian administration which Is that the United States efforts to hold the price of cotton up will crash, as did thelr own with respect to coffee, and therefore they are not too optimistic. But they hasten on to add that they can produce good cot ton at a profit at 6 cents a pound. This the Urited ported to Great Britaln 563.000 bales, as 1.008.000 and 1.045.000 the This things, season States ex- against Inst season, season before, explained finally as a producer of cotton is partly by two Japan has passed Brital: textiles, and so has become the chief consumer of the raw staple, But the disturbing fact about the two previous paragraphs Is that the United States exported to the entire Orient this season 1348000 bales. as against 1.080.000 last season and 1,508. 000 the season before. In fact, the total exports of cotton this the United States were 3.505.000 bales ag against 6.033. bales last and 6.046.000 bales the previous season Not an encouraging picture! season from season, Disturbing Facts Two seasons 12.0681 .000 the United States of cotton, This sea- AAA restrictions, in the India’s record for last three seasons was 4,100 000, 4.500000 and 3.800.000 bales. China produced 2.200.000 this season, 2.000. 000 last, and 1.871.000 two YOars ago. Russia, In fourth place, Is crawling REO bales - son 0.610.000 bales What rest happened peanwhile of the world? 1LESO000 to 1.007.000 this sea. increased more than half generally re. Two years 15.000 bales, This year season? comes Brazil, ago she pr year Next ‘reased in the three erops ties 325.000 Mon tn to bales; 225.000 ¢ Mexico B5.000 to MY . ! from 135.0060 to 1530000: Manchuria Belgian Turkey from 60. and Greece from 22.000 from NOOO to 100 OA from 38.060 to 00,000) - G00 to D0O000, tn OO O0n The really disturbing fact comes In adding these and other foreign in. creases In cotton production together, America has decreased her production 2.000000 bales In the three SeaAnons, The rest of the world this season pro. duced 12450000 bales. as against 10. 0.000 two years ago, Defenders of the AAA program in- sist that the world this year has used up a large quantity of surplus cotton, and that prospects for next year are therefore bright despite this inereas ing foreign production. Meanwhile the the two biggest cotton producing sintes, seem to promise further eur. tailment this year even than had Leen phnned, and correspondingly increased incentive to foreign cotton producers to expand, the short American crop promising a continued high price, even If there were no AAA. Planning New Taxes A one per cent tax on all life In- Surance premiums and a tax on all movie admissions above 10 centg—in. stead of the present limit of 40 centa— are among the levies that the treasury will recommend to congress some time before this session adjourns, Some of the treasury experts, who were or. dered to the job of figuring out the new taxes, liked the idea of the sales tax. But President Roosevelt was con. sulted about this, and at once turned thumbs down, One thing the treasury experts do not know-the motives for thelr be. | ing ordered to get up this list of taxes. ! They are not sure whether this is an bona fide lst, which the administra. tion will push through If possible any- how, or whether this 1x a “bla” lst, | Intended by the President to be used | a8 a club In his expected veto message | on the soldier bonus. The reason for thelr doubt is the suggestions they have received, includ. Ing the two named above. Because their own thought seems to be that the taxes the administration seems to favor are ealeulated to stir up more resentment than would be justified by the amount of money they would raise, Especially the movie tax. This line of reasoning drives the experts to figure that the President is merely getting up a highly objection. ahle line of taxes %0 as to get the country excited against the soldier bonus, Coprright—WNU Service, . Some brief descriptions have come down to us about one of the Seven Wonders of the anclent world, the Ligkthouse of Alexandria. It was bullt on the Island of Pharos In the harbor and was connected with the city by the Seven Furlong bridge. Accounts placing the height of its tower at 600 feet are belleved to be overdrawn and 400 feet is reo garded as more probable. Built by Sostratus of Cnidus, it was begun un- der Ptolemy 1 of Egypt and was fin ished under Ptolemy 11, its cost being placed at 800 talents, which by some valuations might be the equivalent of as much as $1,000,000, From the Pharos of Alexandria is traced an addition to languages and an influence on lighthouse and also on other architecture. The word Pharos came to be applied to light houses generally and with some change In spelling is usage In certain modern while pharology became a technical term for lighthouse building. first of the lighthouses In western Europe, bullt by the Romans, Mohammedan and possibly minarets symbolize earlier ones we of 1 in may lighthotGses Bee andria structure, looked like. Influence on the steeples of Chris western hemisphere, a like wonder of Christopher Columbus. Its site will not be at any modern land of Haytl, on which he landed during his very first voyage, where he established the first American col ony and where his remains were bur. fed In 1586, 80 years after his death. During the partial occupany of that island by Americans of late the proj ect has been advanced to a stage where success seems certain. If the plan 1s carried out as con- templated, no other undertaking will be representative of the New world In as complete a sense, for it is pro- | posed that every western national government, large or small, shall con- tribute to its $2,000,000 cost. A de. sign for a noble structure has al- ready been made, embodying special | precautions against a Caribbean peril, | the original Pharos having been de- | stroyed by an earthquake in the Thir- | teenth century. To some It will seem Important te know whether the remains of Colum still rest In the Santo Dun repul ancient the | reference recent works of authoritative the Spanish government years at opened and Col . y net ’ mi iumbus’ sons tak ago, the the th wrong hones I Away, Hm very convincing. rved by those during an examina at the cathedral som accurate, a as observers tion § Fears ago are ns Insignia, mistake w= made by | the lettering Spanish, other small the t« nb which had been and the observers were men of intel ligence, Including high ecclesiastics, officials and others, ut whether or not their opinion was correct, this Is an appropriate site for many other reasons, and what could be a more appropriate form for a monument to the greats est navigator of all than a splendid OIE carrying a perpetual light for the guidance of his SUCCessors on the seas? This will be more than a flame seen afar for directing those who ply the ocean. It is also doe signed for those plying the upper alr, Aviation is now farther ad- vanced than was the lore of the gon in Columbus’ time. Probably air routes along the short parallels of latitude in the Inclement North will always be follow=d, but distance is much less important than safety to aviation, making miles by the dreds In an hour May we not believe that the fs ite routes of the future w warmer, milder, Lune VO ill be along safer that the parallel fikieg ft will the sout} Rubber Turf for Racers 3 ssid nt a min rq f ans? Russian Auto-Sleig Mojotow worker in the that holds bones | another tomb fragments now the few of Columbus’ NON-SKID TREAD lowest cost per mile. See your nearest Firestone Service Store or Firestone Tire Dealer for today's prices on these tires SPECIFY FIRESTONE TiR hauling speeds of today. more dependable service. Gladys Swarthout, or Nelson Monday night over N. 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