staged a demonstration for a boycott
ings, shirts and neckties were burned
against Japanese goods. Silk stock-
ickard
Budget Message Summary
MORE vitally important than his
annual message on the state of
the nation was President Roose-
velt's budget message to congress.
In it he forecast a deficit of $1,088,-
129,600 for the current fiscal year
which ends on June 30, and a deficit
of $049 606,000 for the 1939 fiscal
year.
There was no promise that the
budget would be balanced in the
near future, the national revenue
estimates being reduced because of
the business depression.
Nearly a billion dollars was asked
by the President for national de-
fense because of “world conditions
over which this nation has no con-
trol,”” and more may be called for
soon for the same purpose.
Summarized, the President's
budget statement said:
Revenues for the next fiscal year
will total $5,919,400,000, a decrease |
of $401,076,000 from the present fis- |
cal year.
Expenditures,
retirements, will total $6,869,000,000,
a decrease of $539,600,000 from the
present fiscal year.
National defense appropriations
will total $991,300,000, an increase of
$34,300,000. Later the President may
ask for additional funds to construct
several extra naval vessels.
Relief expenditures for the next
fiscal year will total roughly $1,138.- |
304,000, a decrease of $841,356,000 |
from the present fiscal year.
The deficit will be financed |
through Social Security and other |
trust funds and not through public
borrowing.
The deficit estimate for the fiscal
year which ends June 30 has been
raised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,
100,000, because of the business re-
cession.
Expenditures for new highways,
new rivers and harbors projects,
new public buildings, new recla-
mation projects and other new pub-
lic works will be reduced sharply.
The public debt will reach a reec-
ord high of $38,528,200,000 on June |
30, 1939.
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For National Defense
EFORE the reading of the
budget message in congress had
been concluded, the President was |
in conference in the White House |
with men who will have most to do
with putting into effect his plans
for strengthening the national de-
fense. These were Assistant Sec-
retary of the Navy Charles Edi-
son and Admiral William D. Leahy,
chief of naval operations: Chair-
man Edward T. Taylor of the house
appropriations committee, Chair-
man Carl Vinson of the house naval
affairs committee, and Representa-
tive William B. Umstead, chairman
of the appropriations sub-committee
on naval appropriations.
The group considered additions to
the navy building program, includ-
ing recommendations for beginning
construction on five battleships to
replace all obsolete American capi-
tal vessels, ten to fifteen cruisers,
and additional submarines, destroy-
ers, and auxiliary craft.
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Senators Hear About Autos
A FIER listening for two days to
government officials, the sen-
ate committee studying unemploy-
ment and relief turned to industrial
leaders for information and advice.
It began with the automotive in-
dustry, receiving a long and ex-
haustive statement from the Auto-
mobile Manufacturers’ association
which includes all the most impor-
tant concerns in the industry ex-
cept the Ford company.
Major points in the statement
were:
In 1937, 4,800,000 automobiles
were produced in the United States,
10 per cent less than in 1929,
Employment averaged 517,000,
largest ever and 16 per cent above
1929,
The automobile industry was the
only one having an increase in la-
bor cost per unit of output since
1929. Weekly earnings of workers
averaged $32.04 for first eight
months of 1937.
At present dealers have on hand
about 400,000 new cars, highest
since 1930; manufacturers have
very large inventories of parts and
sub-assemblies.
Hourly wage rates are 30 per
cent above 1929, all direct manufac-
turing costs equal to 1929, but auto
prices per pound are still 13 per
cent below 1029.
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Sutherland Retires
AVING passed the retirement
age of seventy-five years, As-
sociate Justice George Sutherland
notified the President that he would
p- mee quit his seat in the
Supreme court on
January 18. Like
Justice Van Devan-
ter, he will still be
eligible for duty in
the lower courts at
his own pleasure.
Justice Suther-
land, a former Unit-
ed States senator
from Utah
Sherman the American
Minton association, was ap-
pointed to the Supreme court by
President Harding in 1922. He was
was brought to the United
States in his infancy. He was iden-
tified with the conservative wing of
the court.
Immediately upon the announce-
ment of Sutherland's retirement, ev-
eryone began guessing as to his
successor. It was taken for granted
that Mr. Roosevelt would select a
liberal,
Prominent among those men-
tioned for the place was Senator
Sherman Minton of Indiana, a
supporter of the New
Deal. If the appointment goes to
the Middle West, Gov. Frank Mur-
phy of Michigan seemed to stand a
good chance. Except for the fact
that New York state already has
three men in the court, Senator
Robert F. Wagner would be near the
top of the list of possibilities. Solici-
tor General Stanley Reed of Ken-
tucky was the favorite of many,
but there are two other southerners
on the bench. Others suggested were
Judge William Denman of Califor-
nia, Lloyd K. Garrison of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, and Donald
Richberg, former general counsel
and later chairman of the NRA.
Remembering the Hugo Black
episode, the senate will carefully
scrutinize the President's rominee.
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Ford Won't Comply
R EFUSED a reopening of its case
before the labor relations
board, the Ford Motor company
served notice it would not comply
with the board's order to ‘‘cease
and desist” from alleged violations
of the Wagner labor act, and to
reinstate certain discharged work-
ers. The board decided to ask a
circuit court of appeals to enforce
its decision, and the case probably
will be carried up to the Supreme
court.
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Can't Limit Strikes?
HE national labor relations
board informed congress in its
annual report that legal limitations
on the right to strike would be un-
constitutional. The statement was
made in the face of a reviving drive
to amend the Wagner act, under
which the board operates, and to
take steps to increase trades un-
ions responsibility,
Hill to Be Alabama Senator
EP. LISTER HILL, administra-
tion adherent, is to be the new
senator from Alabama. In the Dem-
ocratic primaries he defeated for-
mer Senator Tom Heflin, and that
is equivalent to election. The seat
he will have, formerly filled by Hu-
go Black, has been occupied since
Black's elevation to the Supreme
court by Dixie Bibb Graves, wife
of Governor Graves, but it was
agreed that she would resign as
soon as an election was held.
Mr. Hill, who is forty-three years
old, will be one of the youngest
members of the senate. He has
been serving as chairman of the
house military affairs committee.
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No New Deal Retreat
R EADING his annual message on
the state of the nation before
the senate and house at the opening
of congress, President Roosevelt de-
clared his purpose
to advance upon the
same fundamentals
of the New Deal that
have hitherto been
proposed. He said:
“I do not propose to
let the people down.
I am sure the con-
gress of the United
States will not let
the people down. We
hold our principles
and our objectives
to be sound. We will
never go back on
them.”
The President again urged con-
gress to enact legislation for con-
trol of wages and hours of work. He
asked that all segments of the na-
tion co-operate with the government
to achieve better economic balance.
President
Roosevelt
posed changes in tax laws, he said:
mind. First the total sum to be de-
rived by the federal treasury must
not be decreased as a result of any
changes in schedules.
abuses by
business corporate and otherwise—
abuses which we have sought, with
change certain provisions where
business men of the nation.
“But speculative
not be
come.”
the nation's business as a whole,
Mr. Roosevelt declared:
business men and bankers intend
to be good citizens. Only a small
minority have displaced poor citi-
zenship by engaging
is straightforward and true,
**No person
ed States has ever taken any posi
tion contrary to it."
He called for prompt agreements
on a farm program-—now in con-
ference between the house and sen-
ate—and asked specifically that con-
gress “keep the cost of its adminis
tration within the figure of current
government expenditures in aid of
agriculture.”
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O.K.
administrator, said
$21,674,408 as federal grants,
opinion of the court.
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Farley Finds a Surplus
IM FARLEY,
12 millions for his department.
mail subsidies and all free mail
Dealing with the activities of the
postal inspection service, Farley
said the traffic in spurious lottery
tickets is believed to have been
broken up with the arrest and con
viction of a band of racketeers in the
East who disposed of more than 10
million dollars’ worth of such tick-
ets in the last few years.
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China Reorganization
NSTEAD of surrendering to the
Japanese invaders, the govern-
ment of China has been reorganized
and nlans made for continued re
n sistance against the
enemy. Chiang Kai
shek, as was pre
dicted some time
ago in this column,
has dropped all his
civil duties and will
devote himself to
building up and
leading the army.
He is now command-
re
and tem-
ang porarily at the head
of the navy. Finance
Minister H. H. Kung, his brother
in-law, succeeds him as president
of the executive yuan, or premier,
and other important changes have
been made in ministries and key
It was announced that he has in
training a new army of 800,000 men
to support the $00,000 who are com
bating the Japanese.
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A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
1. Why do stars seem
pointed?
2. When did the White House re-
ceive this name officially?
3. What is the curvature of the
earth per mile?
4. What is the highest denom-
ination of postage stamp issued
by the United States?
5. Is water in a pail perfectly
level at the top?
6. How long was the original
Greek marathon race?
7. What speeches are on the
walls of the Lincoln memorial at
Washington?
8. Was Sequoia a full-blooded In-
dian?
9. The names City of Mackinaw
to be
Favorite Recipe
of the Week ~
Shrimp Crecle for Sunday
Night Supper.
HRIMP Creole is an excellent
dish to serve for Sunday night
supper, not just because it is es-
pecially good to eat, but because
it can be made the day before
or in the morning and reheated
when ready to serve. That is a
real convenience for the housewife
who does her own work.
Shrimp Creole.
« 2 medium size 2 cups canned
onions sliced tomatoes
2 cups canned peas
2 thsp shortening 1 tbsp vinegar
1 thsp flour 1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt 2 cups canned
1 to 2 thsp chill shrimp
powder 3 cups hot bolled
1 cup water rice
Cook the onions and celery in
the fat until a delicate brown.
Add the flour, salt and chili pow-
Add
from the peas as part of the wa-
ter). Cook until thick and smooth,
Add the to-
matoes, peas, vinegar, sugar and
shrimp and heat thoroughly.
If the shrimp creole is made |
before serving time, you will find |
venient to use for reheating it.
The amount of chili powder to!
It would be a good idea to add |
just one tablespoonful and after |
Chilled canned pears served |
with a custard sauce would make |
a pleasing dessert for the supper. |
MARJORIE H. BLACK.
Disturbance Checked
of the wise is
of imprisoning |
the heart.—La
he serenity
merely the art
their agitation in
Rochefoucauld.
and Straits of Mackinac are of the
same Indian derivation. Why the
difference in spelling?
Answers
1. Their apparent points are due
to the scintillation arising from in-
equalities of the earth’s atmos-
phere,
2. The name “White House’ be-
came official during the adminis-
tration of Theodore Roosevelt.
3. The earth's curvature per
mile is approximately 8 inches.
4. Five dollars.
5. It is slightly concave, due to
capillarity and surface tension.
6. The runner who carried the
message of Greek victory after
the Battle of Marathon traveled
about 24 miles.
Lincoln's second inaugural
dress are on the walls,
8. His father was white and his
mother a Cherokee
blood. He grew up in an Indian
tribe.
9. The difference
serves to distinguish the places.
The pronunciation is the same.
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Unele Phil
Says:
It's Perfect
Old folks find that the way to
escape boredom is to take a nap.
If people had acquired a taste
for apple seeds, by this time ap-
ple seeds would be as big as fil-
berts.
Tourists visiting Egypt ask to be
shown where Pharaoh's daughter
found Moses in the bullrushes. In
America, if the event had hap-
pened here, they would be shown
the spot with affidavits.
When unskillful people try
employ tact
flattery,
There's No Escape
The question is not is life worth
living, but how best to go through
to
it turns out to be
Saying a wise thing is useless if
the listeners are not wise.
Which gets the most enjoyment
out of “I told you so’? The op-
Pesgimists are persistent deflat-
and sometimes deflation is
needed badly.
News is even more startling
how reliable?
AROUND
the HOUSE
sides of friction tape with an old
will enable you to unroll it with-
out tearing the edges.
- ® .
Furniture Coverings. — Zipper
fasteners on furniture coverings
make the coverings easy to re-
move for laundering.
» . “
Growing House Plants. — When
soil in which house plants are
potted becomes more like clay
adding sand to it. Plants grow
® . .
Don’t Burn the Cake.—Set an
It can be heard all
over the house and acts as a re-
minder to the busy housewife
who, intent on another job, may
have forgotten the time.
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Grouping Furniture.—Groupings
of furniture, including pictures
and lamps, should generally bal-
ance each other in height, width
and effect of lightness or heavi-
ness, housing experts say.
*® * *
Prune Salad.—Cook some large
prunes, one for each person. Stone
and stuff with cream cheese which
has been softened with a
milk. Let the stuffed prunes set
orange on the round and place
and in the center of
stuffed prune.
Serve with mayonnaise dressing
on each plate. Cut a slice
i » * *
Non-Skid Clocks.—When an or-
nament or clock slips on a pol-
ished mantelpiece or sideboard,
try cutting four small squares of
felt from an old hat and sticking
one to each corner of the base of
the article. It doesn’t show and
“non-skid.”
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Answers to the
Mistake-O-Graph
Smoke is coming from
tank
There is a door on the side of the
buliding
Electric power on the steam engine.
Two names for the same town
Timetable gives weather report and
coal sales
Taxi has steering wheel in the back.
Porter is carrying man in luggage
Carrier
Coal car is plied high with wood
Freight car has runners instead of
wheels
. Coal car has no wheels.
» Gondola car is labeled “Pullman. ™
12. Neckties under rails
Porter telli
instead in
Station light has chain
has fox tail
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