ter nau ouwien ima uescenuea to
ft the point three end a half years ago
sphere their favorife expression was
gptt they had “lost their shirts”
gander the regime they had built,
1 supported, financed and voted for.
pjjlost of them were given back their
||nhlrts by the Roosevelt policies, and
jrthey know It They have now re
covered so they can be expected to
ghave clothes worth $7,500 for them
| selves, while any New York news
paper carried almost dally, all win
■Kfpimg, advertisements of wom
rjen’s fur coats running from $5,000
i-vto $20,000. It takes a lot of busl
ifness to have Incomes like that
■:; This $7,500 basic wardrobe for the
HMwage New York business man
^ contains one dozen suits of ordinary
'^ everyday clothes, with half a dozen
I'sWts of dress-up clothes to wear
^around at evening functions. There
pure a dozen overcoats; fancy trous
.ers, and one unbelievable Item Is a
panft of silk to wear at home while
pnafifig. There are 132 different gar
Mfjfats- In this $7,500 wardrobe, not
■Including shoes, shirts, hats and un
faerwear. I am glad such ahffch
I standard exists, and that these
■Krall Streeters will be 'generous
ptnongh to want to hand some of
pthls prosperity around Instead of
keeping it all. United States bureau
fnf labor statistics show that the
’leverage working man in America
■pfirely spends more than a hundred
;-dollars a year all told on clothes f
|toe rural householder doesn’t aver
” age more than seventy-five on his.
-The contrast between what the aver
. age man has and what the well
l^ressed New Yorker considers a
:.#asic standard makes me wonder
apben these bawling brokers will
Salt their noisy attack on Roose*
pipit and his wealth-spreading New
criticism of ths Now Deal Jed jh
to believe ho would come Seat
with a plan to aotra ear prdbMhs.
Pnnkly, he had no plan, All be
says la that the attention la t»
rlble, and must ha studied. Knox
does pot attract people with Oat
dull-witted poUey; and ths Bepnb
Ucpna here who thought he was a
tremendous figure an feeltng (light
ly seasick. Meantime, the Republic
ah national committee, whose propa
gandists hare been making fun of
the so-called “Brain Trnst;" has
hired a brain trnst of Its own com
posed of five professors, three from
Harvard and two from Tale, to work
oat some hlgh-pressun Intelligence
for the G. O. P. which appanntly is
beginning to wake op., to the fact
that brains count after alt
0. 0. P. IN BAD WAY
80 far the ordinarily smart O. O.
P. has not raised an Issue, the rea
son being that the Republican party
Is In a bad way with Its most pow
erful vote getter—Borah—on' the
rampage. One trouble with the
party la that the western agrarians
are no longer going along with the
eastern Industrialists. The G. O. P.
was made up of those two widely
separated wing*; and the western'
wing was always revolting and pro
ducing liberals and progressives, yet
trailing along after the leadership
of the Bast But Roosevelt attract
ed a Tremendous number of those
western liberals Into his party and
they appear to be staying. Roose
velt’s main political job now is to
hold (hose wandering liberal Repub
licans. Thera Is where Borah la the
key to the situation because he Is
one of the few western agrarian
leaders holding out against Roose
velt .
If Borah bolts the Republican
party now or later on this year, he
will probably bolt right straight into
the New Deal. That would probably
mean a realignment of political par
ties, making the Democratic party
the dominant party—as In the days
of Jackson. Yet the Republican
leaders do not see this at all. They
keep on trying to make mid-western
London (who was almost a New
Dealer) Into a Wall Street Tory,
and are saying that if Borah doesn't
look ont they will throw him out of
the party entirely. And If they do
throw Borah out he will carry so
much of the G. O. P. with him that
It will look as If a cyclone had hit a
hay barn!
. • * *
THE TAXPAYER PAYS
When you view the' general In
efficiency of the average county
courthouse, the average city hall, lu
contrast to the bang-up efficiency of
modern business, jou are prone to
take It for granted that government
simply cannot compete with private
Industry when it comes to clenr-ent
methods of getting things, done.
Well, then, multiply the local? situa
tion several million times add you
have an idea of the duplication, lost
effort, waste, red-tape and fat-head
ed stupidity that will grow up la
a thing as big as the national gov
ernment — with headquarters at
Washington, D. 0.
This general overgrowth of weeds
Is responsible partly for the extra
taxes yon have to pay to Uncle Sam.
The New Deal’s emergency or
ganisation to take care of the hun
gry, the Jobless, the broken down
banks, the distressed borne owners,
the muddle* agricultural situation,
of .course-Added to the burden of
government machinery here. But
now the party Is over. The time Is
at hand to clear up the mess and
find ont what should be saved and
what should be scrapped. What
emergency organisations should be
dropped; what should be contin
ued! Which ones should be merged
Into the regular government estab
lishments to carry on Indefinitely!
To determine this the President ap
points a trio of administrative ex
perts; the senate appoints a some
what larger committee, and the
house expects to have its own group
of efficiency experts. They will ail
get together and frame a new gov
ernment set-up to be presented to
the next congress. This Is the be
ginning of the "execution of the New
Deal’s promise to reduce govern
mental expenses and perfect ad
ministration.
WWW
DIFFICULTIES IN WAY
Now here’s a practical Illustra
tion of what an efficiency program
will encounter. There Is nothing
■o popular nor so well ordered as
the CCC camps. They have proyen
their worth in scores of ways. Only
recently the CCC boys of, the flood
id Bast and Northeast moved late
the stricken areas and Immediately
took charge of the work assigned
:o them. Bat the camps, with .500,
XX) yotjog 'men, cost vast sums of
noney, and at an economy move
:he President ordered the camps-re
lace in number and the enrollment
-ednc to 850,000. Immediately
here t revolt In the Democratic
>arty the house of-representa
tives. Reduce the CCC camps?
tfeverl Bitch one Is an asset to
ny congressional district 1 Eactt one
tas its thousands of friends. They
ire good business. • >They • make
noaey . and give jobs I v Art right;
ays the Prestdent—-but some one
nnst pay. Are you willing to vote
jEwassttr- h',h
can ral taxes.
S
• - 8
As Told tot
FRANK E. HAGAN and
ELMO SCOTT WATSON
The Double Tragedy
fit FEW years ago a group of fop
ty Chicago and Milwaukee
fcewspaper men were guests of the
Milwaukee railroad and Rocky
Wolfe; now a widely known radio
sport commentator, on a week-end
outing in Manltowlsh, wis.
Among the extraordinary sights
of the resort town were live porcu
pines strolling about a nine-hole
golf Cpurse played by the scribes
and a mother hawk, whose broad
back and spread wings were used
by three baby hawks as a landing
stage, high above ground.
A dormant appreciation of Na
ture having been awakened In the
minds of the visiting city folks,
they were' treated by Wolfe to the
prise story of the vicinity.
A MaaitoWlsh hunter, according
to Rocky; reported that he had shot
a fox which hhd a dead porcupine
In Its mouth. The fox was already
dead when shot, for the spines of
the porcupine had killed It
It was learned later, Rocky
averred, that , the porcupine had
been a pet which earned a living by
carrying fruit on its back from Its
owner’s orchard to the cider mill.
'“And I am ashamed to report,
gentlemen,” Wolfe > concluded, “that
both animals were Intoxicated when
the double tragedy occurred.”
The Colorado Cinder Beetle
WHEN the Santa Fe railroad
was built Into Colorado, its
coming brought rejoicing to the res
idents of the rich Arkansas Blver
valley. It meant an outlet for their
crops and prosperity. But that last
ed only a little while. Then dis
aster swept down upon them.
Every night a large section of
the roadbed disappeared. Some
thing was taking away the cinder
ballast. Train schedules were dis
rupted and there were endless de
lays until the damage could be re
paired. In several cases freight
trains were wrecked or derailed.
Santa Fe officials were frantic,
for no one could discover what was
carrying away the ballast. Finally
a newspaper man, Charley Blakcs
ley of the Kansas City Star, sug
gested that possibly the Colorado
cinder beetle was eating up the bnl
last and his surmise proved correct.
How to check the ravages of the
insects was the next problem. That
wsb solved when It was discovered
that the cinders used for ballast
were from soft coal. So hard coal
cinders were substituted and the
cinder beetles broke their jaws try
ing to eat them. For some time, It
Is said, passengers on the Santa Fe
were kept awake at nights by the
cinder beetles screaming with the
pain of their broken Jaws. So the
railroad speeded up the schedules
of their passenger trains. They
now went so fast that the passen
gers heard the moaning of the bro
ken-jawed cinder beetles merged
Into a symphony of sound, like the
rustle of wind through pine trees,
that quickly lulled them to sleep.
When a hardier race of cinder
beetles developed with-jaws capa
ble of eating bard coal cinders, the
Santa Fe was ready for them. They
began using crushed rock and since
that time have had no trouble with
the little pests.
Massachusetts Melons
THE visitor from Georgia motor
ing through the Berkshlres of
Massachusetts looked , rather scorn
fully at the crops In the fields along
the road.
“Why. e any melons up
here," the farmer
Ing on {“Can’t •«
them’"
“No, seem to
luck i ui melons,” replied tne Yan
kee. I tried to raise some a while
back—tried It year after year, but
I couldn’t ever get a good crop
somehow. The. trouble was that
the soil was Just too rich for ’em.
“Td plant my seeds, the vines
would start growing, the blossoms
would come out, and then they’d
set and the melons would begin to
form. Then the sun would get hot
ter and the nights would sprinkle
our Berkshire dew on ’em. And
that dew, I tell you, acts like mag
ic, It makes things grow so. But
I never could get
though.”
“Is that so?” exclaimed tne aouin
erner, “why couldn't you?”
“Wen, I tell you,” answc
son of the Berkshlres. “Those
just naturally grew so fast
dragged the melons all ovei
field. They Just plumb wore cm
out before they bad a chance to get
ripe. So I just had to give up tryln’
to raise melons.”
. B Nwpiqtr Cnlom.
An Implosion
Ap Implosion—a bursting inward ;
from external pressure-,can occur
with as much force as cm explo
slon. This was proved when a \
clinical thermometer, wrapped In;
heavy very j
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALEA**
WHEN Mae West’s effects
were moved off the Para
mount lot, a fashionable gal
lery of Hollywood celebrities
watched the strong men carry
her furniture out to a red mov
ing van. The list of onlookers
Included Carole Lombard, Blny
Crosby, W. C. Fields, Jack Oakle
Mae Weet
and Herbert Mar
shall Mae, who
voluntarily r e 11 n
qulshed her con
tract, was not
there. She will be
gin a new picture
for Columbia
which Is headed by
I Emanuel Cohen;
who was her boss
at Paramount when
she made her first
film hit. She Is to
receive $300,000
»ur inis picture. June was repre
sented at the moving party by Jim
TImooy, her manager, who checked
over the list of furnishings from
her dressing room which were
moved to the new studio. These
Included a piano, a desk, a divan,
a chair and an oil painting of Mae
herself.
A special automobile that will
speed more than three miles a min
ute Is being built for M-G-M for
use in Its new picture “Speed." It
is expected that it will be sent out
on the road - for publicity purposes
when the picture is finished. The
producers promise that it will not
be driven at anywhere near its
maximum speed..
Grace Moore has never sung the
aria “Woman Is Fickle" in Itlgolet
to, for that is the tenor’s Job, but
it might be a theme song for her
off-again, on- again, act with the
movies. After announcing thnt she
was through, she says she has
changed her mind and is going to
make some more pictures at Co
lumbia. She has made one impor
tant reservation, though. No more
scenes where she Is singing while
milking a cow.
Anita Louise, whose blonde beau
ty has captured many hearts, will
be cast for the feminine lead In
Warner Brothere^ne*1 picture, “The
Charge of the Light Brigade." This,
it Is said, is the biggest film op
portunity Anita has yet been given.
Hard luck has dogged the foot
steps of many a movie star of yes
teryear, but it has nipped rather
constantly at the heels of Alice
Lake. She is now the ward of the
Film Welfare league In St Vincent’s
hospital. Fifteen years ago she was
In the big money and had an Im
mense following. Recently when
brought Into court and her plight
revealed, she said she could not
even get work as an extra.
The success which has followed
David O. Selzntck’s ventures In re
vlvlng classics of
literature has
won him a well
deserved acclaim.
“Little Lord Faun
tleroy,” In which
young Freddie
Bartholomew, the
English star, U
featured, has at
tracted about as
much attention as
"David Copper
fleld,” which en
deared Selznick to
Freddie
Bartholomew
U1C 1S1CKCUB lulls OI
America and abroad. Faithful ad
herence to the story Itself in the
talkie version was responsible for
much of its effectiveness.
Luclen Littlefield, co-author of the
screen version of "Early to Bed,”
has joined the cast which already
includes Charles Ruggl id Mdty
Boland. The pictur originally
called: "Where Am Is a farce
detailing the life and loi f a clerk
In a glass-eye factory. Ruggles
plays the role of the clerk, who
is engaged to Mary Boland. i*tle
picture develops a kick when the
downtrodden Ruggles goes berserk,
job and successfully es
rlval glasi
ENDS Katherine
uepourn Has so many p her home
resembles s menagerie, what with
cocker spaniels, canaries, _ monkey, a
Siamese cat and a poodle . }, Robert
Montgomery's face is adorned with a
mustache for the first time in a new
picture . . . Doug Fairbanks, Jr, has
sailed for Europe .,. Carole Lombard
teas ill recently with a throat ailment
that, affected her voice . . . Al Jolson,
Jr^ recently celebrated hiit first birth
day; there was a party; a take, one
candle and all the other trimmings...
ft ip reported that Gary Cooper and
will return from Bermuda a week
than they expected . . . They
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Boss—Great Scott, Mose, how you
come to be all bunged up like this?
I thought you were one of the best
mule-tenders in the business.
Mose—So 1 is, boss, but we done
got in a mule lash night what didn’t
know my reputation.
Bird Bath
Teacher—Now, Bobby, can you tell
me what a canary can do that I
can’t?
. Bobby—Yes, Miss Smith—the ca
nary can take a bath In a saucer.
True, Bat—
Trainer (encouraging his man)—
What you've got to do Is to stick
to it and go for ’em, and you’ll come
through with flying colors.
Boxer (doubtfully) — Yes! But
they’ll be at half-mast—Royal Ar
canum Bulletin.
WRIGLEy'S GUM 1
BRINGS YOU . r
enjoyment^;
Woman Patron
Asks Butcher
He was just a co
lie deals with a la
and he must be alei
put nothing over or
cussing the suggest
the customers who
so dumb that be coi
for porterhouse st«
pie he explained tb
into bis shop and t
of ham. This be ct
surprise the custc
please burger It."
The butcher did
quest Immediate!}
dawned upon him
wanted meat for a
Trying to explain the makings used
for a hamburger, the worn
very Indignant, saying
wlmt she wanted. .
Not willing to accept his explana
tion, he did the next best thing and -
ran the slice of bam through tha^
chopper, wrapped It up. and the cus- .
tomer went away In contentment..;
Her subsequent visits to the storitj
were friendly and the subject was |
never mentioned.—New York Sun.
TIMES DO CHANGE
‘Hiram writes from school tljat
they are putting In an electneis
switch.”
“There’s no end o’ them new-fen
gled ideas. The birch rod was good I
enough In my day.”
An Old Decision g
“Why don’t you show yonr wife .
who’s master of the house T*
“She knows.”
WRIG LEY'S.
■» PERFECT GUM™
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new Neighbor I
TO KEEP HIS
CHICKENS OUT J
OF OUR YARD.p
OR I'LL KILL H
EVERY LASrrJi
one of ^mm
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FOR MEMBERSHIP/ J|
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-KIR 'EM !
-ANDTHROW 'EM
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JACKSON A
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-BET HE KEEPS!
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FEATHERED ffl
friends homm
after
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OH, PETER, You]
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DONE THAT* NOW M
YOU'LL NEVER JB
GET INTO THE
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tell ' *m
Wf HER TO PIPE %
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j WRING THOSE 3
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j-AND JACKSONSjl
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■ OVERLOOK 1
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I LATELY- - i
I HIS HEAD 1
| ACHES, AND §
HE CAN'T Ji
^ SLEEP/J
Bur PETER.,. ALL RIGHT, W
rr helped . r'u try rr / ■
MR. JACKSON/ -IF YOU'LL KEEP ■
-irWONT STILL ABOUT M
HURT VOU TO THOSE MEDDLING ■
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