Big Flying Boat Destroyed
AMOAN CLIPPER, huge flying
boat of the Pan-American Air-
ways, fell into the Pacific ocean
near Samoa, carrying the seven
, members of the
crew to their deaths.
There were no pas-
sengers, for the ship
was making one of
its pioneering flights
on the newly estab-
lished route across
the Pacific. It was
on the way from
Pago Pago harbor,
American Samoa, to
. Auckland, New Zea-
Capt. Edwin C. 1.4 and had turned
Musick back toward Pago
Pago because of an oil leak. Pre-
sumably it was dumping gasoline to
facilitate landing and the fuel ex-
ploded, destroying the plane.
First in the list of victims was
Capt. Edwin C. Musick, considered
the world and chief pilot of the Pa-
cific division of Pan-American.
was one of the
were entirely blameless for
disaster.
F. J. MacLean, J. W. Stickrod, J.
A. Brooks and J. T. Findlay.
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Plane Crashes in Rockies
NE of Northwest Airlines’ new
Lockheed Zephyr passenger
planes, flying from Seattle to Chi-
of the Rocky mountains near Boze-
man, Mont., and was smashed and
purned. All aboard, including eight
passénigers and two pilots, were
killed, their charred bodies being
Jound by a party that made its
way through a raging blizzard to
the scene of the accident.
Officials of the company could not
explain the disaster but said all
ships of the new type were grounded
pending investigation.
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Blow for La Follette
ISCONSIN’'S Supreme court
gave a smashing blow to the
La Follette program for public own-
ership of utilities when it declared
the Wisconsin development author-
ity act unconstitutional, being an il-
legal delegation of the state's sov-
ereign governmental power to a pri-
vate corporation.
By knocking out the WDA the
court also sounded the death knell
for the Wisconsin agricultural au-
thority act, court attaches said,
same
Budget Message Summary
MCRE 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 $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal
year.
There was no promise that the
budget would be balanced in the
near future, the national revenue es-
timates being reduced because of
the depression.
Nearly a billion dollars was asked
by the President for national de-
fense because of ‘world conditions
over which his 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 $5,019,400,000, a decrease
of $401,076,000 from the present fis
cal year. ;
Expenditures, exclusive of debt
retirements, will total $6,896,000,000,
a decrease of $539,600,000 from the
present fiscal year.
National defense a tions
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,-
ickard
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 rec-
ord high of $38,528,200,000 on June
30, 1939.
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More G.O.P. Programs
ERTRAND SNELL, minority
leader in the house, and Col
Frank Knox, Republican candidate
for the vice presidency in 1936, have
set forth programs
for the G. O. P. and
other opponents of
the New Deal. |
Mr. Snell in a ra-
dio address pro-
posed to restore
confidence to the in-
vesting public and
revive business ac-
tivity by stopping
wasteful expendi-
a tures, balancing the |
Frank Knox ,,406t and liquidat-
ing Roosevelt social and economic
experiments that he said have in- |
spired distrust of the government |
and fears of the destruction of the
capitalist system.
Colonel Knox, speaking at a din- |
ner in Cleveland, declared that the
Republican party must turn away
from the high protective tariff,
which it has championed for dec-
ades, and recognize that the time
“Protect wage standards, yes!”
he said. “Continue to protect mo-
nopoly, no!"
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War Vote Plan Killed
EPRESENTATIVE LOUIS LUD-
LOW’'S war referendum resolu-
tion will not be acted on at present,
for the house, by a vote of 209 to
188, left it in committee for the
remainder of the session.
This was a victory for the admin-
istration forces and was brought
about after President Roosevelt
himself had taken a hand in the
controversy. Through a letter to
Speaker Bankhead the President
had warned congress that adoption
of the resolution would hamper any
chief executive in the conduct of for-
eign relations and would lead other
nations to believe they could violate
American rights with impunity.
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Jackson Day Feasts
JEMOCRATS who partook of
Jackson day banquets in vari-
ous large cities paid about $250,000
into the purse of the party’s na-
tional committee. At the dinner in
Washington President Roosevelt
pleaded with the nation to under-
stand that his administration be-
lieves it is helping and not hurting
business by the drive against mo-
nopolistic practices. His talk was
rather conciliatory. He promised a
fight, but he called it a cheerful
fight on his part, against a mere
handful of the total business men
and bankers and industrialists who
can be expected to ‘fight to the
last ditch to retain such autocratic
control over the industry and the
finances of the country as they now
possess.”
At the New York banquet Jim
Farley staged the debut of Robert
H. Jackson, assistant attorney gen-
eral, as a candidate for the governor-
ship of the Empire state. The young
lawyer, who has attracted public at-
tention recently by attacks on big
Civil War in C.1.O.
OHN L. LEWIS, head of the C.
I. O., and David Dubinsky, who
has been one of his chief lieuten-
ants, seem to have reached the part-
ing of the ways and have been lam-
basting each other in public with-
out restraint. Dubinsky, chief of
the big International Ladies’ Gar-
ment Workers’ union, addressing
1,200 members of his executive
boards, said Lewis was to blame for
the collapse of peace negotiations
between the C. I. O. and the A. F.
of L., and declared no one man had
a mortgage on the labor movement.
He also denounced the infiltration of
Communists into the C. I. O.
To this Lewis retorted with what
Dubinsky called wisecracks, and the
latter said: ‘‘I venture to say that,
without distinction as to group or
formation, the laboring masses of
America are hungering and pray-
ing for peace and it is my belief,
trary notwithstanding, that they
long."
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Two More for Franco
(CHIEF
Hungary, after a conference
with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano,
announced their governments would
recognize the Spanish regime of
Gen. Francisco Franco.
The two powers, linked with Italy
by the Rome pact, expressed sym-
pathy with the Rome-Berlin axis
and a determination tc fight Com-
munist propaganda, but did not fol
low Italy into the anti-Communist
pact with Germany and Japan.
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Japanese Too Arrogant
(GREAT BRITAIN'S government,
according to dispatches from
London, has finally been driven by
Japanese arrogance at Shanghai to
the point of resist
ance. The invaders
have been demand-
ing full control of
the captured city, to
the virtual exclusion
of other foreign in-
terests, and their
troops there have
treated British po-
licemen in the inter-
national settlement
very roughly.
Neville Prime Minister
Chamberlain Noyille Chamberlain
has taken personal command of a
British program designed to curb
the Japanese expansion of power,
and is keeping Washington and
Paris fully informed of his plans
and actions. Also he has been in
frequent telephonic conversation
with Foreign Minister Eden, vaca-
A high government official in Lon-
don said Chamberlain had resolved
“not to stand for Japanese use of
military superiority in the present
emergency to force concessions in
Shanghai.” It was made plain that
Britain would act only in harmony
with the United States and France.
That the Japanese are not afraid
of Great Britain was indicated by a
statement by Rear Admiral Tanet-
suga Sosa, retired, maintaining that
holds at Hongkong and Singapore
before the British main fleet could
get there. Sosa said the only thing
that could save Britain was to
draw the United States into the war.
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Naval Building Race
RANCE'S reply to the recent an-
nouncement that Italy would
build two 35,000 ton battleships is
the decision to construct two battle-
ships of 42,000 tons each, exceeded
in size only by the British battle
cruiser Hood. The navy committee
of the chamber of deputies was pre-
paring to ask Minister of Finance
Georges Bonnet to supplement the
1938 naval budget by 2,000,000,000
francs from the sorely pressed
treasury to keep ahead of Musso-
lini's forces at sea.
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Marriage Mills Stopped
NDIANA'S notorious marriage
mills were given a death blow
when the State Supreme court up-
held a statute enacted 86 years ago
forbidding county clerks to issue
marriage licenses to women who
are not residents of the county in
which the license is issued.
hygienic laws regulating issuance
of marriage licenses.
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Civil Service Lags
(CONGRESS was told by the civil
service commission that its fail-
ure to place employees of newly cre-
ated government agencies was be-
coming ‘“‘a matter of grave public
concern.”
In its annual report the commis
sion said there was no important ex-
tension of the civil service during the
fiscal year of 1937.
“Wholesale exemptions such as
have been permitted in the last year
must cease if the merit system is to
prevail,” the commission said.
Wheeler Hits 1.C.C.
SENATOR BURTON K. WHEEL-
ER of Montana, chairman of the
senate railroad finance investigat-
ing committee, charged in a state-
ment that the interstate commerce
commission is using ‘“‘trick rabbits"
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Washington.—Some seventeen or
eighteen years ago when I was a
staff writer for the
In Terms of Aggociated Press,
Billions specializing in fi-
nance, I was called
upon to write the “lead’’ or general
story about the annual estimates of
expenditures sent to congress that
day. The late L. C. Probert was
my chief. He read my story and
ordered me to rewrite the first para-
graph, saying: ‘‘You ought to stress
that total more; make it read some-
thing to the effect that ‘billion dol-
lar congress has arrived.’ Show
The circumstance impressed me
for some reason. I can recall the
incident as vividly as though it were
“The era of billion dol-
us’’ but it was one of those incidents
that was just a good story to a
writer, Little did I realize then
from the perspective, say, of 1938,
for only the other day President
timates, now called the budget, for
the next fiscal year. The call was
That was not all.
requests for money later
and he added a most significant
expression or observation that prob-
ably we can expect the annual
billion dollars in the future.
In truth, where are these govern-
ment expenses heading? And what
do they mean in the lives of pres-
ers? What does it
siders that besides this list of sched-
uled expenditures, there is a little
matter of thirty-eight billion dol-
lars in debt? Then, we
ought to remember there has been
national
ernment has spent more than it re-
ceived in income, and there probab-
ly will be at least one more.
As the figures were approved by
the President and sent to the capitol,
the government will spend $539,000,-
000 (its deficits)
fiscal year that starts next July
1 than taxes will bring into the
treasury. That means, of course,
more borrowing and more borrow-
ing means an increase in the public
debt. Onward and upward! Or
should we say it in a revised form:
upward-—-and upward!
Most of the
headlines out of several items be-
cause they were huge, immense.
Attention was called to the fact that
rine corps—was $981,000,000,
was the greatest peacetime total in
history. T
to a billion dollar appropriation for
They should occasion
Sometimes 1 think it requires stag-
gering totals to cause people to stop
and think a bit.
do that. But
in any event, the
than the size of those items men-
tioned.
as exemplified by
remark that we may expect seven
As to that indication, is
out the nearly twelve hundred pages
of figures in the budget, as printed,
everywhere one can point to new
items or expansion of old ones.
When I say new items, 1 refer to
expenditures that have come along
in the last six or eight years.
Scores of them have bobbed up in
the last four or five years in the
1 prefer, therefore, to call atten-
tion to these scads of little items
that, like so many
Where holies in a tank,
Danger Lies are allowing pub-
lic money to flow
away without trace or benefit. That
is why I think there should be a
good deal of attention paid to the
general heading in the budget “in-
dependent units.” Because, tucked
away in the list is where the dan-
gers lie.
The total for the independent units
of the federal government is in ex-
cess of $1,825,000,000. Each of the
various agencies taerein has its
‘““necessary’’ expenditures to keep
going, and a good many of them,
about half a dozen, certainly have
their value to the country as a
whole. But the new children in that
family are growing up. They are
funny looking children in some
cases. What they will grow out to
be, their proud parents surely can-
not forecast. Who knows whether
they will develop their own clan and
become rooted as a permanent
drain on the taxpayers. Unless his-
tory is changed, quite a number of
them will have children of their own
in the shape of new bureaus and
new duties as the politicians find
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It is made to appear that we can-
not avoid such expenditures as
those for national defense, those
for veterans who have served their
country well, those in payment of
interest on a debt that ought not to
be so great. There is not much
chance, therefore, to effect econ-
omy in that direction. Thus, it seems
that if the President is sincere about
reducing government expenditures
and if the politicians in congress
have any courage, they had better
start looking at the children that are
growing up. I mean the children
of older government agencies as
well as the new children whose par-
ents are politicians.
In this connection, let us advert
to that budget mentioned at the
opening of this discussion. The De-
partment of Commerce that year
was getting something like seven
million dollars, as I recall.
for $44,710,000.
immeasureably. That is true.
penditure of that
agency.
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drink a full glass of water, Repect
treatment in 2 hours,
if throot is sore from the cold,
eush ond otir 3 BAYER ASPIRIN
tablets in 1/5 glass of water, Gergle
twice. This soses throat rowness
end soreness almost instantly,
All it usually costs to relieve the
misery of a cold today — is 3¢ to
5¢ ~ relief for the period of your
cold 15¢ to 25¢. Hence no family
need neglect even minor head
colds.
Here is what to do: Take two
BAYER tablets when you feel a
cold coming on — with a full glass
of water. Then repeat, if necessary,
according to directions in each
package. Relief comes rapidly.
The Bayer method of relieving
colds is the way many doctors
approve. You take Bayer Aspirin
for relief — then if you are not
improved promptly, you call the
y doctor,
trying to make is this: there are
enough of those necessary expendi-
mental functions, without adding a
of trick schemes,
ideas, theoretical possibilities to the
functions of the federal government.
There is not space here to list them,
but every one of the older agencies
has been guilty of biting off new
appropriations through the medium
of a new child or two or three of
its own every few years. 1 am not
suggesting, therefore, that those es-
tablished agencies, those that have
necessary, are to be cut
I am only proposing they be
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have authority, too, for terming
ny of these expenditures waste.
The authority is
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Waste general of the
United States. The
sent his ane
report to congress recently.
In it he charged there had been
wanton waste of government money
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did not charge
not keep books to show ex-
he comptroller general, R. N.
what is usually called the spending
agencies of the government to get
control
There are continued efforts,
he said,
agencies legislation making further
ity to direct by law the use of public
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ous trouble may be brewing and
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with their appropriations.
parent to every one that a real need
ing new agencies.
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And here is a story about one
teeny, weeny item of government
expenditures, It is
a story that seems
to belie the discus-
sion above about
waste by the government agencies.
The fact is that the story shows
how niggardly the government is in
some instances when we all know
how wanton waste and recklessness
characterize larger spending.
Brig. Gen. Harold C. Reisinger,
of the marine corps, is being court-
martialed on a charge that he “‘pad-
ded’’ his personal expense account
by $77.35. That is to say the gen-
eral may be dishonorably dis-
charged after a useful life and per-
haps even jailed because the claim
is made that he did not spend as
much money as his voucher showed.
The point of this story, however,
does not involve General Reisinger
at all. It was by mere coincidence
that his trial started as it did dur.
ing Ae Closing days of the extra
session © t session,
you will recall, that met November
15 and adjourned December 22 with.
out having passed a single major
piece of legislation. The legislation
acted on favorably by that session
included passage of one appropria-
tion bill. It appropriated $225.000
to be paid to representatives and
senators as “mi'eave
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