WASHINGTON.—City officials and newspapers of Washington, D. C,, have worked themselves into a ter- rible dither lately over a new kind of bootlegger—a bootlegger of milk and cream. This city, like every other city, has tight regulations con- cerning milk and cream that en- ters the national capital. They are regulations designed to protect the health of those who reside here. Moreover, maintenance of such reg- ulations are an entirely proper func- tion of government, because there can be nothing more important than health. According to the charges filed and dairy four or five hundred miles from Washington, inspected and li- censed by the state of its location, brought in a truck load of refrig- erated cream without first having obigied a permit to do so. »fficials, prodded perhaps by Saree and nearby threw a couple of men into jail and place because of this bootlegger. The local press reports indicated the city officials had made asses of themselves over the whole matter, keted with a variance of laws on most subjects that it seems almost a hopeless job to untangle them. For example, there are 170 differ- ' ucts. ear of corn in another. My friend, cepted as No. 1 in one state, and find himself as No. 3 in another. A bottle of beer in Missouri, tax paid and respectable there, becomes vir- tually a bottle of slop in an adjoin- ing state. Wines from grapes grown in California cannot possibly be as good as wines grown from grapes in so and lays a burdensome tax to prevent Oregon citizens from having their stomachs corroded or some- thing. Cement entering Florida, for a time, was not as good as cement produced in Florida and Florida was prepared to tax it—until the case got to the Supreme court of the United States. to this discussion. The incident is very important as illustrative of a condition that is rapidly endangering the national un- ion of states, and is, matter for analysis here. ly, great national issues lie around, or are kicked around, for months before somebody a match to the powder; and it hap- pened to be local officials who struck the match. Barriers to Trade Between States Has Become Flagrant The thing called to national at- tention by the cream bootlegger is the existence through the nation of barriers or obstacles to trade be- tween the states. grant. Selfish interests have been operating, first, in one state; then, in another. utilizing proper government func- tions to accomplish unscrupulous ends. measures. Other states have passed laws to ‘‘get even'' with those acting ahead. State officials, state Constitutes a Truck Load Take another and less known con- because fewer people come in contact with it, but you buy, I refer to state just the same. laws about load limits of don’t have any love for trucks; they are so doggoned big the timber when I see one of them have rights. Yet, there learn that have the same regulation about the size of a truck's load. The trucks can be regulated because they use the highways, and yet one state says 120,000 pounds is a load and another state says 18,000 pounds is a load. The others have laws | ened, and have been threatened right back, until now we have throughout the United States thou- sands of people sticking out their tongues in the most childish fashion at other thousands of people. Each otherwise: ‘“‘you’re another.” It is serious business, and there is no doubt in my mind but what the condition bodes ill for national unity. It takes ro expanded imagination to think of the time when we might have 48 little nations, snarling and frothing at the mouth as crudely, and quite as unintelligently, as they do throughout Europe. Now, it is one thing, proper thing, to use regulations for the preservation of health, for the protection of property, for the sup- port of government, or governmen- tal policy. It is quite another, and dastardly, thing to make use of those regulations to prevent the flow of and factory. It is such things and there you are! Just what is a load, anyway? The truth of the matter is that local interests are to blame in most cases. They are taking advantage situations to further their own And where are they leading to with this polyglot of leg- islation? The whole thing seems a bit in- congruous to me. Here, on the one hand, Mr. Cordell Hull, the very able and valuable secretary of state, has been moving heaven and earth If the now rather ill-famed monopo- ly investigation is worth its salt (which it has not demonstrated thus far), it could demonstrate its value by examining into trade barriers be- tween states. Proper Legal Power Used, But It Is Used Selfishly Representative Halleck of Indiana has been engaged for weeks in dig- ging up facts about these trade bar- riers. he intends to try to break them down, either by constitutional amendment or by national statute. There are plenty of difficulties con- fronting him, he admits, because all of these things have been done by using entirely proper legal power, but by using it selfishly. To illustrate, Mr. Halleck referred to that oft-repeated assertion that ““the power to tax is the power to destroy.” Indeed, it is! The power to tax for government revenue is, and always has been, used. But there are many instances of record where that taxing power was em- ployed to levy such high rates of tax that the tax collector took every- thing produced. The business was destroyed. And it is the same thinly disguised use of proper power that is getting the nation into an awful mess, now. This choking of trade is going on despite the constitutional provision which says emphatically that no state may levy tariffs against importations from other states. The bright law makers, and their henchmen, have got around that in the manner mentioned above. Mr. Halleck supplied some facts to show how widespread the condi- tion has become. He mentioned, moreover, that the nation is so blan- Reciprocal trade treaties, seem to work badly, and some oth- ers appear to be producing results, but no one knows yet whether the whole system should be kept or thrown out. That question does not belong here. It is the national pol- icy of breaking down obstacles, jar- loose log jams, so that our products may move into other na- tions that is important to be consid- ered when within our own bounda- ries every kno¥n means is being used to block shipments and sales between I cannot figure it out unless some folks are strict fol- ical injunction not to let the left hand know what the right hand doeth. National Government Policy To Blame for Conditions I have been wondering, therefore, what had actuated the selfish inter- ests of the country to start on this spree of battling among themselves. There must have been some reason behind that. At least, 1 have come to believe there is. 1 believe that the condition fundamentally springs from national government policy which for years now has been in the direction of destroying the rights of individual states, Little by little, the federal government has torn away the rights of the states—and the states, with pain reduced by fed- states. Suddenly, however, the states and whole jurisdiction is enveloped in creeping paralysis. noted resentment regulation upon individual rights and freedom. oped a new disease as a counter other fellow off. than socialized medicine to correct it. The national government's poli- cies, having started it, will have to assume the blame and will have to find a way to remedy the condition. I hope Mr. Halleck, and those he has enlisted to help him, can find the proper prescription for the cure, © Western Newspaper Union. California’s First Capital Monterey, a quiet and unhurried little town on the shore of the blue Pacific, was the first capital of Cali- fornia. There, under three flags— those of Spain, Mexico and the Unit- ed States—California’s administra tion was carried on from 1776 to 1849. Because of its historic role in the settlement of California, Mon- terey has been described as the “Williamsburg of the West.” F YOU have not already been seized with a mania for a new frock of gay silk print, call a physi- cian. Your case serious néeds immediate 1s attention, the inspiration of bright prints in the springtime of the year (any time of the year for that mat- ter) as it is for flowers to turn their pretty selves toward the warm rays of the sun. It is positively exhilarating to look over the new prints this spring. The colors are so out of the ordi- tile Colors that lead? Answering the question, fuchsia shades perhaps come first in favor although a flair for prints that pattern navy black backgrounds with chartreuse or spring green motif is definitely evidenced in the ensembled cos- tumes featured at various prevue showings. These green and black or green and navy prints are won- derfully attractive. Major trends styling viewpoint? Well, for one thing, there are the very chic jacket costume suits. And when we say “jacket’’ casual jacket types we are accus- tomed to seeing season after sea- son. The new jackets are done in a man-tailored way with lapels and stitched pocket flaps, are frequent. ly lined with a the niftiest are double b toning (large pearl buttons) with real honest-to-goodness worked but- tonholes. There's nothing smarter ‘“‘going'’ than these extremely prac- tical and attractive print silk jacket suits, The better shops are show- you aspire to “make a few yards of swank a reliable pattern that in point of high style and is no reason why, if you are handy at sewing, you cannot turn out a costume that will give you “class” wherever you go. The pleated vogue continues a big factor in printdress styling. The latest call is for pleated bodice as well as pleated skirt. The model centered in the group gives the idea. This short-sleeved daytime dress is made of pure dye printed with white medallions with green and magenta your own," silk, has "it" there centered sun-gold print silks word’' for spring. To the right a slim jacket dress is shown of a silk print featuring tones in a spaced wool violet pattern. Quilting bor- ders the wide-shouldered jacket and a nosegay of violets makes an ap- propriate flower accent he belt is of violet colored leather—a cos- tume that sounds a refreshing note are the “last closely New lo ooking and stunning in ef- fect is the combination of print with plain silk fabrics as carried out in the mode to left in foreground. The worn of white Often the removable thus two-dresses-in-one, a very over a dress monotone skirt is affording € Western Newspaper Union. World Fair Print Just out! It's an official print showing all the New York World's fair buildings in their natural color- ings. Of course this print is des- tined to cause talk and create ex- pitement. See here pictured pretty Elaine Mulligan selected as “Miss Chicago’ at the fair, posing in a charming housecoat ‘made of this unique washable print. Spreading skirts and corded flounces illustrate the new romantic influence, in strik- ing contrast to the geometrically formal symbols of the fair—the obe- lisk and sphere. This World's fair housecoat is one among thousands of new styles that were displayed during national Spring wash apparel show held recently in Chicago. Fashions Stress ‘Little Girl Look’ If you follow fashion's lead you will be wearing clothes with the “little girl look,” such as designers are turning out with such enthusi- asm this season. The magic of these new ingenue fashions is that not only do they subtract years from your appearance, but you will be sedh at your prettiest. Notable among the young looking dresses that now center the fashion stage are the types that have short, full swing skirts pleated, or if not pleated, then gored in as many as 16 sections. It adds to their cun- ning that these skirts reveal tantaliz- ing bits of frou-frou frill, which ac- counts for the term ‘‘petticoat dresses,”’ as registered on fashion’s program. We could go on and on telling of this youth trend but “nuff said” for your shopping tours will convince you of the claim that the new clothes look as if they had been dipped in the fountain of youth. Lovely Things in Latest Neckwear Dainty white organdie fichus with the val edging your grandmother wore are charmingly feminine and so flattering on a black dinner or daytime dress. Another variation of your belt, or as a vestie. quaint, Should you feel an attack of “‘pet- ticoat fever” coming on you, re- member there is a reason for it this year—Mainbocher did adorable pet- ticoat dresses with cute touches of white at the neck in his collection. Buy embroidered batiste by the yard and sew it on the full skirt of your pet dark dress. Star Dust % Tracing Resemblances % For the Cause of Art % Indians Above Par ‘— By Virginia Vale — the 20th Century-Fox producer made a mistake when it abandoned “I Take This Wom- an” as Hedy LaMarr’s sec- ond American-made picture. Certainly he liked the idea of taking that woman. to be his lawful wedded wife. Oddly enough, there's a strong resemblance be- tween the new Mrs. Markey and the first one, Joan Bennett, as Joan ap- pears in her brunette wig in “Trade Winds.” And there'll probably be a resemblance in the setting of ““Trade Winds’ and the next picture in which Hedy LaMarr stars—“Lady of the Tropics,” in which Robert Taylor will be her leading man. This business of tracing resem- blances can go on and on forever, Old timers can try to find one be- tween the glamorous Hedy and that HEDY LA MARR glamour girl of an earlier day, Bar- bara LaMarr (surely there couldnt have been a thought of Barbara in the mind of the person who suggest- ed “LaMarr’” when the lovely Vien nese Mrs, Markey was choosi ng a yame for her Americ an career! Believe it or not, Merle Oberon had her face washed with kerosene the other day. The same thing hap- pened to Laurence Oliver and David Niven, and all in the cause of art. Not that the makeup man had anything against them. Kerosene, when mixed with paraffin and heat- ed slightly, provides a quick-drying spray which dries white, so that he who gets sprayed looks as if frost had appeared on hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, 3 — Wi wani th the cops and robbers cycle ing, motion picture producers are certainly taking to playing cow- boys and Indians in a great big way. Paramount has three big westerns scheduled for this spring a sum- mer-— i: Bill” “Geronimo,” “Buffalo and “The Lives « f a Texas Ranger,” a sequel nd a I i to ‘Texas Rs There's going to be a premium on Indians in the Hollywood studios, first thing anybody knows. singer Muriel Wilson, formerly known as “Mary Lou” on radio's “Showboat” program, recently received a gift that moved her to tears. It is a crocheted tablecloth depicting a scene from ‘“‘Showhoat,”” and was designed and made by a blind woman, There's a man in California who, if he could be granted the wish near- est his heart, would ask that Cecil B. DeMille decide to broadcast a play with a good wind storm in it. The man is Charlie Forsyth, sound effects expert who officiates on Mr. DeMille’s Radio Theater, and he has two dozen new wind records that he wants to use. 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