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SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1940
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Proposals To Change Control of Forest Service
Is Always Good for a Row in Washington i
Letting His Conscience Be His Guide!
PAN T YOU
JOHNSON
Railroad Problems
Need Careful Study
Gues
Boot
I surrounded by national forests which
would remain under Agriculture Depart-
ment control. Recreational activities in
the national forests would be transferred
to Interior, as would all wildlife work.
These changes would result, so friends at
the Forest Service say, la agents of two
governments departments going back and
forth over the same areas with divided
authority and conflicting jurisdiction
There also are reports that the Food
and Drug Administration will be trans-
ferred to the Public Health Service, or in
some other way be placed under the
Federal Security Agency, and that the
Rural Electrification Administration plac-
ed under the Agriculture Department in
the first reorganization-bill plan A to be
transferred to the Interior Department.
7.............Editor By RAYMOND CLAPPER
Business Manager TVE long-standing feud tietween Becre-
--------------------j tary of the Interior Ickes and Hecre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace, growing out
of their rivalry over certain important
bureaus, is heating up again with the
possibility of becoming
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“Give Light ana the People
Will Find Their Own Way."
4 ’And Tombed Them
• One By One’
I HOME weeks ago the House of Rep-
. D resentatives, full of New Year’s
I resolutions and a high menne of fiscal
*" responsibility, was pitching into
/ propration bills with a cleaver.
ap
...... But economy is a short-lived pas-
in the Administration.
/The trouble centers, |
as usual, around the
Forest Service, a large
bureau which has re-
mained highly efficient
in spite of the fact that
for years it has been a
football of controversy.
Gifford Pinchot blasted
it out of the Interior
By HUGH S. JOHNSON
QUR log jam of unemployment
U should be scientifically at-
tacked at the key timbers. For
seven years we have been doc-
toring the symptoms by band-
outs "to distribute purchasing
For I
Clauur, Department in the Taft 1
- I administration, and ever 1
since then each succeeding Secretary of | .
the Interior has | been conniving to get
it tank from the Department of Agricul-
ture And each Secretary of Agriculture
has fought tooth and nail to keep it The
issue luce become a point of honor between
the two departments.
Another reorganization plan is being 1
put together, and word to • circulating that
In this plan some of the functions of the
Forest Service are to be taken from |
Secretary Wallace and given to Secretary
leken A transfer of the service la aup- |
posed to have been included in a draft
reorganization order some weeks ago, and
the rumor to that effect was sufficient
to net off an explosion in Congress If
the transfer was planned, it was frustrated
| by the outcry. Now the word is that the
| service will not lie transferred but that
| It will be wrecked by having some of
' lls activities, taken away from it about
' 30 per cent of its work one official esti-
I mated
a sion, in this Congress as in others.
tih First the Senate, with one ear to the
E electoral ground and the other cotton
stuffed against the dirges of the
budget-balancers, spurned life cleaver I
for a ladle and began dishing out qn
• budgeted millions for the farmers And
now the House has caught the fever,
wee For the CCC, $50,000,000 extra.
- For the NYA, $17,450,000 extra To be
* - sure the House upheld lia committee
In shaving the budgeted funds of the
wage-hour division and the Labor [
" Board, but less for economy’s sake
" than for “‘disciplining" two trouble- |
... gome agencies.
The situation was sized up honestly.
-+ by “Rep. "Woodrum (Democrat, Vii - |
5 one finis, who told the House after the
15, CCC vote
, "If we are now going to go ahead,
»».. pell-mell, and appropriate above the
! budget, then I submit to you that It la
only legislatively honest to decide how
you ore going to pay. the bill.
... ‘re you going to have a tax bill
nei or n you going to raise the debt limit
, . and borrow the money?
“You know as well aa I know that
‘ the Congress has no idea of doing
THE proposed changes, ax now under-
1 stood, would include depriving Agri |
culture’s Forest® Service of control over
some 17,000,000 acres or more of forest
lands which are predominantly grazing |
Large nationalforest wilderness areas |
would be transferred from the Forest [
Hervice to the Interior Department, al- |
though moat of these lands are entirely
NONE of tbia may mean much to you.
but there is an unbelievable amount
of slewing over it both to the execu-
tive departments and in Congress, and
among various outside groups interested
in forestry, Senator Pittman, who, In ad-
dition to being chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committe also repre-
sents the State of Nevada, took the trouble
some time ago to place President Roose-
about transferring the
power." Every
| single one of
these rules and
s u b sidies. by
increased taxee.
debts and regu-
latory burdens,
tends to in-
crease the1 cost
of things ss
fast or faster
than it spreads
the purchasing
power to con-
sume them.
Mr. Johnson
velt on record
Forest Service.
He obtained
from Mr Roosevelt a
letter promising not to transfer the
Forest Service from Agriculture to In-
terior But Heriator Pittman thought he
maw a crack in the door, and he asked
the President for a se.....d letter prom-
ising not to transfer any of the functions
either Mr Roosevelt promised Before
he would vote for the original reorgani-
ration bill, Senator Pope, then represent-
ing Idaho, obtained oral assurances from
Mi Roosevelt that the Forest Service
would not be tampered with under the
new powers other Senators, including
Byrnes of South Carolina, have held that
the White House to uiujer pledge to
Congress not to give the Forest Hervice
to Secretary Ickes
It may not matter a great deal to
most people or to the forests whether
Wallace or Ickes wins, but there isn’t
any issue that will send up the blood prea-
sure In Washington faster than this one
Green Replies to Pegler
(NOTE: This is the second of three
article* written by President Green of
the American Federation of labor, in
reply to recent articles by "Westbrook
Pegler criticizing certain policies and
labor leaders in A. F. of I., — Editor.)
INGRESS
# either one of those things st thin
sion . . .
de "I feel this afternoon very
nes
much
t like the poet who maid:
"‘I was st the funeral of all my
or hopes
And tembed them one by one;
Not a word was said, not a tear
was shed.
When the mournful task was
done.’’’
Canwi
Are gi
Club
Men bers
donned then
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By WILLIAM GREEN
President, American I ederation of Labor
THERE la just as much truth to ths
I charge that the American Federation
of Labor la a racketeering organization
preying upon the workers of the country
as there is to Adolph Hitler’s charge that
democracy is a device by which, racketeer-
ing politicians pray upon the people
Would It be fair to condemn American
democracy because of a Teapot Dome
scandal and the disc closure that even a
Cabinet officer has been corrupt *
Would you lose faith in the courts and
American justice because the Senior
stitution provides the means of getting
rill of him Ir the officers and members
of the union feel that Mr Bloff’s record
is a good one and that he should be res.
tallied, they have the right to stick by
him The American Federation of Labor
itself cannot intervene in such cases, and
"I will explain why in the next article.
Now as to Mr Scalise. I have known
LETTERS
The Fact Communists Are in a Small Minority
The latter effect cancels out the
former. The result is a com-
plete failure of fundamental Im-
provement at a cost of billions
of increased debt and taxes and
constant undermining and de-
struction of the whole job-making
machine.
Everybody renders lip - service
to the self-evident truth thst the
only answer is increased jobs by
lowering costs and increasing
private —, rather than public —
investment, employment and pro-
duction Everybody talks about
it but, almost every governmental
action moves in precisely the re-
verse direction.
Recently more intelligence has
been applied to releasing .one of
the key logs in the jam-building
construction. Another equally im-
portant key log is the railroad
mess. Many railroads are over-
capitalized until they cannot pos-
sibly earn enough to pay a fair
return on their securities. Oth-
ers are to bankruptcy. Neither
class can attract private capital
necessary to their upkeep and
operation.
THERE has been so much de-
1 cay and so many Improve-
ments to the railroad industry
that if they could get that capi-
tal, the modernization of our rail-
road system would afford very
targe re-employment. It could
speed up our whole economic sys-
tem — save time and lower costs
Che hund
members a
They wore
overalls, boc
fro ks and
Mrs Clyi
man of ar
.committee v
Fritz and J
The hono
Neva Brad
Marguerite
Walker, Jos
Neuberta K
and Audrey
Mrs. R
Honors
Judge of the United Circuit Court of
Appeals is now serving a jail term for
betraying his trust?
Would you lose confidence in the Fed-
| eral Reserve System and start hoarding |
your savings under a mattress because
| a number of prominent bankers have been
l sentenced to prison for crookedness?
Would you condemn the police system
of an entire city because an Individual
member of the force la exposed as a bribe-
taker”
Would you reject the capitalistic sys-
tem and join the Communist party be-
cause certain corporation officials have
run off with the stockholders’ money"
Well, then, there la just as much sense
me. ‘Influence’ In Oil
AS THE influence-peddling lawyer to get-.
A .in Westbrook Pegler a attacks upon the 1
»*’ting to be a common character American Federation of Labor because 1
6 to Texas oil men. , | he has found two union officials with
*• This type of parasite to telling oil criminal records
* people that for a substantial fee he can | . , •
*1887 . . u THE two men named by Mr. Pegler are
51 so grease the slides that they will be j Willie Bioff and George Scalise
able to get what they want from the
Railr ad Commission
The commissioners apparently are
I have never met Mr Bloff nor spoken
to him He la an appointed representa-
tive of his union The facts in his case
unaware of his existence,
every oil man knows him
are that he has been associated with the
but nearly|
union movement only five or six years
If they want to extinguish these |
pests, the commissioners can find out j
who they are with little effort and
denounce them
9 They can tell oil men that they
M. can get their rights before the com-
mission speedily, in open hearing and
... with little fuss and delay. And they
* » can easly make it so.
Most lawyers despise the influence
peddler. But they haven't done any-
thing about him They went before the
; 1 Legislature last year and on a plea |
‘ * of purifying the profession had a spe-
E cial law passed creating a sort of law
: . yers union.
If they were sincere in asking for
"ne such a law, let's see them use It.
. If they will belt a couple of influ-
Mr Scalise during the two years he has
been president of the Building Service
Employes’‘ Union It appears that Mr.
Scalise at the age of 17 waa convicted
of a crime He served his sentence to
Atlanta penitentiary When this fact was
published by Mr Pegler after a lapse
of 25 years, Mr Scalise came to me and
voluntarily told me his story.
He said thst ever since he got out
of jail he had gone straight. He submit-
led a detailed record of his life to prove
that assertion it showed he had worked
steadily at various jobs, in an automobile
plant, for an insurance company and as
a chauffeur He became active in.a local
teamsters’ union in Brooklyn, and later
accepted a job as organizer for the
Building Service Employes' Union, which
promoted him to higher positions until
he became president in 1937.
MR SCALISE said he had married and
N had a daughter and that the first
knowledge his wife and daughter receiv-
ed of his criminal record was when they
read it in cold, print in Mr Pegler’s
column. He said he lives with his wife
and daughter and his parents in a cot-
| tage in Brooklyn
The i rime for which he was convicted
in Chicago took place many years before |
that and had nothing to do with his |
subsequent union activities He is now |
charged with having evaded his sentence, |
and the case is before the courts. It is |
up to the officers and members of the |
union by which Mr Bloft is employed |
to decide whether they wish to be rep- |
resented by a man of his character. My
personal views in the matter are well
known to ths officers of this particular
union However Mr Bioff is not respon-
sible to me, but to them. And the slect-
ed officers of the union are responsible
to the members of the union If the of- 1
ficers and members of the union are dis- 1
satisfied with Mr Bloff the unions con-
Furthermore, Mr Scalise charged that
certain local officials of his union whom
he had exposed for alleged misappropria-
tion of funds were responsible fur reviv-
ing and spreading by anonymous circulars
the unfortunate early chapter of his life.
Mr Scalise made the point that if he
were himself a racketeer he certainly
would not be active in extirpating rack-
eteering in his union
If Mr Scalise’s story is true and I
have no reason to doubt it—surely Mr.
Pegler rendered no public service in ex-
posing the sordid story of his past As
I understand the theory of penology and
the principles of decency, the object of
punishment is to make the culprit see
the error of crime and mend his ways.
If a man commits a crime, pays the pen-
alty and then goea straight is he to
be penalised for Ms past for the reel
of his life ?
The American Federation of Labor’s
membership la made up of human beings
They are subject to human frailties They
cannot all be perfect But during its 60
years of existence, dishonesty has been
the rare exception rather than the rule
in the American Federation of Labor, and
I think that Mr Pegler has unconsciously
helped to prove this
Editor. The Press
1 HAD A LETTER in reply to
my letter in The Press, trying to
ahow that our democracy la in
danger from Communism and
Nazism, and our American democ-
racy is in fact in danger In some
elections the Communist candidate
polls as much as 5 per cent of the
total vote. That does not seem
alarming until you learn that the
Communists in Russia were only
% of 1 per cent of Russia’s popu-
lation at the time the*Communists
seized the government of Russia.
Therefore, 5 per cent of the vote
is ten times- ’* of 1 per cent, so |
thst makes them 10 times as
. of everything that moves in
Doesn't Mean They Aren't Dangerous; See Russia commerce. This is the surest
------------------------------------------------------------- and soundest way to increased
(NOTE: The Press receives
more letters from readers than
it haa space in which to pub-
'One Sane Effort'
T T ERE is a statement which could
Il with profit appear on every other
9 once peddlers across the head with dis- page of the Congressional
a barment suits they can clean up a sit- |
a. Ration that is bringing disrepute on
di their profession.
" How about it, commissioners and
lawyers”
The Empire Holds Fast
CANADA has voted to keep the
U Liberal party and it# bachelor pre-
Mrs. Run
toe Blvd
with a par
Beverly Jar
day
The party
of Mrs. Bel
Peavy, 2317
A pink a:
ried out ir
were sacks
china dogs.
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Dorris, Jim
Casey Jack
ana Sue N
Jane Ann 1
rick, Pat M
Mary Ann
Charlotte
Pickard Jr
Hamilton.
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and George
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Those pr
Faulkner,
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W E. Brov
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Gaither, J
Adams.
Mrs W
erside Dr.
April 10.
The majority of our national or
state representatives could tell
you that over-taxation by local
consumption, hence production.
hence employment —'and to farm
relief.
government and excessive utility! Senator Wheeler's bill for rail-
rates for two or more decades road reorganization is among our
are responsible for a badly stag- | most important pieces of legisla-
nated real estate and building in- | tion. It recognizes that some rail-
dustry throughout the state and
nation, but would they dare place
ered. If there to a good reason any blame to local government
for not publishing your name, which would be nothing short of
we will use Initials or nom de political' suicide? It has been- my
plume, but the origins! letter observation that representatives
must be signed as evidence of find little fault with local govern-
goed faith. Editor.) ment, therefore it appears the fate
lish them. Those printed are
chosen for their interest and as
they represent a true cross-
section of reader opinion. They
should be as brief as possible.
Unsigned letters are not consid-
road capital structures must be
"put through the wringer" by
prompt and realistic court action
reducing obligations to pay for
dead horses of past mistakes or
on values of property beyond their
reasonable power to earn.
It therefore proposes to scale
down the capital values of rail-.
of badly needed activity in both
real estate and building rests en- roads to a multiple of their past
tirely in the hands of local pub- average earning power - regard-
lic spirited men and not a minori- | less of past investment. That is
have him explain to the people A
, legislator should lay aside his per-
strong her? as they were In Russia sonal opinion and be the voice of
when they seized the government the majority in his district or else
of Russia. give the people an explanation
The Communists or Nazis will while the session is .till open and
never get in power here, by way the people have a chance to do
of the vote. If they get, in power | something about it
here it will be by aid of machine Had I been a Senator in the last | judgment against the gas com-
gun and some of those armored Legislature I would have backed pany, refund to depositors to the
tanks that can travel miles per the governor s program 100 per Texas National Bank, City Coun- .
cent. cil controversy, etc., and after re- I trends of taxation., labor costs.
Let the local representative be viewing such proceedings, why be
big boy and let the Senator be a surprised at a threat of commis-
mediator. If the local represen- | sion form of government again?
tative must take the responsibility I've seen the city operate under
he should at least, have the lead in both forms and am personally still
what is done. Our Constitution 1 favorable to the present form if
hour
Consider for a moment how easy
it would be for them to hold this
country in subjection. If and when
they get in power. It would not
take any larger police force, of
them, than we are now using as a
regular police force, or say five
Communists to a town the size of
Ranger, Texas.
With machine guns and an ar-
mored car, both of which they
would use, they would patrol the
streets and shoot us down at the
smallest show of resistance How
do 1 know ? Because that is the
way they have proceeded in all
countries where they seized power
With me patriotism, democracy
and safety are the primary con-
siderations for the general wel-
fare
ty of habitual office holders.
Public sentiment seems to be
less of past investment.
good, but the bill as drawn omits
one other vital principle without
which it becomes simply a man-
... ... errors. If
that omission is not cured, Sena-
that we recently had in the bag .
such things as reduced utility | date to repeat past
rates, bus fares, refunds from
so provides, operated in a way that real es-
There is separate place for tat# and building, badly stagnat-
both senator and local represents- <
live. The thing for us to do is to
get each one back in his place.
Put the long trousers back on the
local representative and we will
see some results. Lets flatly re-
fuse to support a corporation law-
yer for the legislature. We can’t
j hope for any common good to
come from a group that is influ-
tor Wheeler’s intelligent effort
will fail.
The bill does not consider the
and rates to determine whether
future earning power can support
even the reduced capital struc-
tures and, above all, finance the
absolutely necessary research and
constant modernization which are
DEB Cl
the D.
at a lunch
Den honor
They are
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Virginia A
Allister an
Plans hi
spring for
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Music will
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absolutely necessary to any com-
petitive enterprise in this rapidly
ed for years, can again carry’on. changing age. . .
It is inconceivable to me that D EGARDLESS of the physical
anything else could happen more R differences among the several
capable of restoring prosperity lines, it applied the same inflex-
than substantially reducing some | ible reorganization rule to all, not
of the various layers of expense considering the fact that it re-
now compulsory to ownership quires a far greater investment
When we think in terms of how in "bricks and mortar" to give
necessary service to some sec-
our country than to
closely related these industries are
No Bug
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down the
of spring
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fied unde
washing <
furniture
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venient ti
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of putting
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summer «
covers, Al
erings.
they are too momentous and in-
enced by special interests. volve too many elements (viz: the
Next I shall talk about some various material#, consumption of
things in general that are of vital
tions
others.
of
If the bill is not amended in
this regard, some reorganized
roads can't attract capital from
careful investors now and even if
others do—whether from careful
or foolish investors—the result is
bound to be a new crop of rail-
road bankruptcies and investors’
losses, five, 10 or 20 years from
now.
In other words, the job is not
so simple as just running the
roads rapidly through the wrin-
ger of bankruptcy on some in-
flexible rule of recapitalization on
the average earnings of the past
12 years. Mere capital reorgani-
sation is not enough. Each road
needs to be examined separately
—not only as to past earnings but
as to present physical plant, man-
agement and future prospects —
exactly as any other industrial
organisation is examined before
1 refinancing.
- If that is done, here is one of
the most fertile fields for grow-
i ing part of our necessary crop
of restored prosperity. If that is
not done, this could be just an-
other well-intentioned New Deal
blunder.
power, man
utilities, consumer
JOE H. SHEPPARD
Ranger. Taxaa.
HOW A STATE
SENATOR SHOULD ACT
Editor, The’Press:
I THINK we should get a clear |
picture of what our legislature
should be and then select law- |
makers who fit the picture
The Senate has been the Water-
loo of too much legislation if I
were a senator I would first give
the big britches back to the local
representatives where they belong.
The local representative is our big
boy. All legislation should begin
in the House at the hands of the
local man.
I would get to my proper place
as a double-check over the various
representatives in my district. 1
would first consider how ths peo-
ple had instructed each one and
seek to hold the entire district to
the platform adopted by the vote
of the district.
I would call these various rep-
resentatives together often and
let them tell me what our policy
on district matters should be.
Where a man from one county
was instructed differently from
the others of the district 1 would,
at once, let the entire district
know it and seek harmony
I would keep in touch with the
people and if any representative
did not stick to the majority back
home, as in the last session, I
would either get him in line or
interest to the people.
JUNE K. HENDRICKS,
Eastland, Texas.
TAXATION CRAMPS
BUYING POWER
Editor, The Press
I WISH to commend our' Real
power, etc.) to be destroyed or
even limited by taxation while the
paramount question remains how
to employ and restore buying pow-
er to from eight to ten million
men.
A READER.
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR
Estate Board and especially its
chairman for the stand it has ., Do not say, “The new- tax rates
taken against the City Council’s will be as follow:" say, "as fol-
zontag or tax-finding program, lows.” .
Miss C
Mr and
2406 Colun
the weddi
Miss Mar
Mr C. R.
The coupl
therford 1
home at
dress
Mr Jort
Mrs. C. R
SIDE GLANCES
| all those who realize that economic
disarmament and political disarmament
are two aspects of the same problem.
For the United State# now to repudiate
the outstanding effort it haa made in
the direction of peaceful and orderly
economic relation# would be one more
victory for the dark force# of violence
and greed
. 'Even more important today is the
fact that the longer the war lasts the
greater will be the economic exhaustion
of the participants, the greater will be
the need of sound economic foundations
plore the current wars and look anxi- upon which to build a new world of
ously for their termination. How can law and order. To continue the Trade
they help to remove the causes of war Agreements program will improve the
and help build permanent peace, so
that these terrible calamities will not
Record
throughout the Senate debate on ex-
tension of the Hull trade program.
It is a manifesto signed by 600
prominent American citizens
tors, economists, industrialists
educa-
and
farm, labor and religious leaders -
who have banded together in an or-
ganization known as the American
Union for Concerted Peace Effort#
"The people of the United States de-
mier, W. L. Mackenzie King, in office.
.. The chief critic of the King regime
and of its handling of Canada's war
• effort — Dr. Robert J. Manion, leader
' of the Conservative party- has been re.
* tired from Parliament by his con-
stituents. The Liberal majority is the
no greatest in history.
so Thus Canada is free now to give
politics a holiday and concentrate on
... helping; win the war. From India,
meanwhile, comes word that under
Gandhi's leadership the threats of
IT trouble for England in that area have
. been eased. And the Mauretania clears
... the Panama Canal, apparently bound
for Australia to carry more Anzac
N troops to Europe or the Near East,
me It looks as if the Empire were hold-
ing fast to its moorings.
Fd like to debate with Gene Tun-
ney on boxing.—LI’l Arthur Johnson,
former heavyweight champ.
keep recurring *
"We, the undersigned, believe there
is at hand at least one practical way
in which the United States can con-
tribute to the removal of the economic
causes of war and can keep open the
channels of international trade against
the day when the war will be over
and the gigantic problems of economic
reconstruction will be before us.
"That way lies through continuance
of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements
program.
“Amid all the international economic
insanity of the past years, the trade
Agreements have marked one sane ef-
fort to keep open that flow of inter-
national trade so essential to peace.
They have been a rallying point for
chances for a peace that will not carry
with it the seeds of fresh trade rival-
ries and antagonisms. The choice be-
fore us, in whether we shall turn back
to the old exclusiveness of economic
nationalism or shall lead in showing
the way to that economic freedom,
without which political freedom, is im-
possible.”
I want everybody to know that I
have coined a new word. It’s “Tobey-
hoo!"—Dr. Vergil D. Reed, chief as-
sistant director. Bureau of the Census,
commenting on senatorial criticisms of
the census.
a a •
The duty of thia government is
clear—to wage war in all domains.-
Premier Paul Maxon head of ""
Little Lines
By MANGLE B. BOSWELL
Gatherers of gossip are usually
scatterers also.
Some brands of sweets leave bad
farewells. , AL
Levity and learning are seldom
seen together.
Some even hunt for places to
buy bitterness!
In 4PP water, beware at the
Fortune to a# wavering as spring
weather.
Drizzles may last longer than
downpours.
Today's Poems
ALONE
As I sit alone on my doorstep to-
night.
Watching the moon in the heavens
so bright.
Bailing along up there in the blue
Darling, my thoughts turn back-
ward to you.
Oh. how well I remember the
nights you and I,
Watched that same moon.
Ball through the sky.
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“George, 1 wish you’d pick some hobby I could share with
you comfortably!"
Now you are gone.
So I git alone and watch it.
Shining up there above.
Setting the scene for romance.
Paving the way to love
How fleecy white cloud# float by
Hiding the moonbeams from view,
A=“I TeNM ngamn of you.
GERALD A. GREEN
2617 Columbus Ave., City.
THERE
I Steve
make it:
shove off
You can
yourself 1
arm and
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