The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, December 19, 1935, Image 2
SEEN _ _ and HEARD around the NATIONAL JC API TAL fty Carter Field ^ Washington.—Roosevelt Is going t* cash In, »ext month, In his bud get message, on spade work which goes back for two years to his first budget message. In January, 10:14. His first message asked for ex traordinary appropriations of $5, 100,000,000. No one thought at the time that he could possibly spend It. and he didn’t. The following budget message, January, 1935, asked for the eight hundred odd million left over, and $1,000,oon.ooo additional. Again everybody knew that he couldn’t spend It all during the fis cal year, am! many did not hesi tate to say so. This time he asked for many of the appropriations to be made for two years. Best calculations available nt the moment are that not less than $1,000,000,000 will he left at the end of this fiscal year, June 30, next. Which means that In appro priations to be asked for In the next month's budget message the President will he able to make a magnificent Bhowlng so far as working toward a balanced budget Is concerned. But that Is only part of the pic ture. The President did his utmost to paint the picture, one year ago. In Its darkest possible shades. With the result that almost any picture painted next month will appear to be a long step forward. For ex ample, there was no reference what ever In Inst year’s budget message to the $2,000,000,000 profit on gold, which has been locked up In the secret stabilization fund. There was no Intimation to he found that any of the billions loaned out h.v the RFC and other government agencies are an asset, although ns a matter of fact If the RFC books were closed today, and the paper It holds auctioned off In the open market, not only would the gov ernment recover 100 cents on the dollar, but there would be a profit. Dramatic Touch Aa though all this were not enough, the President Just recently added another dramatic touch to the picture, which is Intended to reassure business and taxpayers and meet the criticism of such Re publicans as former President Hoover and Governor London about too much spending by the federal government This was his statement that he had been assured by hankers that the federal credit would not be In much danger until the national debt reached a total of from 55 to 70 billions. As the President knew It would before he made the statement. It roused a flood of comment, criti cism, and curiosity. Hankers here and there denied they had made such statements, and demands poured In that the President name his Informant. A1I of which accomplished per fectly the President’s objective In making the statement—to attract a lot of attention—rivet national attention on the huge figures—and —Inevitably bring about a differ ent Impression entirely from what .might otherwise have been the case when his hudget message figures are given to the country. So that when the figures come out the country will be reassured, instead of l>elng freshly alarmed. And the totul national debt that will be disclosed, together with the prospect that it will he slightly In creased If the New Deal program goes forward, will seem much small er than the snme figures would have appeared without this prelim inary flurry. It's the kind of thing Mr. Roose velt likes very much. He gets the same sort of kick that someone else might get from a shrewdly cal culated attack In chess. It’s the same thing he worked during the campaign of 1982 on the people who kept heckling him on the sol dier bonus. Victory for Hull Lots of conservative business men are going to put George N. Peek on the back, and sympathise with the -gross Stupidity” which he fought in vain on the Interna tional trade policy. Some of them will really mean what they say. but a very considerable majority will be trying to pour oil on fire Instead of oil on water. Their real object will be inflame Peek to the point where his attack on the ad ministration will be red-hot. For the truth is that most con aervatlve business men Interested in International trade agree with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and not with George Peek. Hence they approve the action of Presi dent Roosevelt in awarding the vic tory in this long drawn out battle to Hull This is not a discussion of the merits of the controversy. Its mer its have nothing to do with the political point involved. But it is not guesswork that most business men Interested In International trade approve the Hull reciprocity treaty plan, and enthusiastically fa vor maintaining the •'most favored nation" clause. Swap Plays Havoc Germany took more coffee than she needed on one International swap, dumped It In New York, and broke the world price—thus play ing havoc with the country she was swapping with as well as that country's competitors. In the normal processes of Inter national trade, the wants of the buyers are studied. Little things are compiled with. Curious shades of taste In food, preference In col ors etc., are studied. Barter comes along, and the customers sometimes do without rather than buy the goods offered. Naturally, too, the exporters and Importers want to run their own business. They don't want the gov-1 ernment running It for thPin. On the other hand, the “most favored nation'' clause frequently benefits a nation making no con cessions whatever to the United State* us much or more thau the nation for which the concession was made. Japan has benefited enormously by some of the reci procity treaties this country has made. But all the objections to Peek’s policies are going to be forgotten, now. There is no need of fighting nlnnit them. The questions are settled. So the very men who op [M>sed Peek most bitterly, In many Instances, will seek to use him now as a weapon to hit Roosevelt. Even the big Importers, while they like the Democratic Ideas about tariffs more than the Repub lican, are mostly conservative. They do not enthuse much about the New Deal, and the taxation they fear it will bring on big corpora tions ami big Income*. Different Picture Mure Independent voting tlinn President Roosevelt has Imd to face so far promises to charac terize the sessions of congress to convene next month. The whole picture Is entirely different. Pri vate comments of a lot of return ing senators and members of the house, many of whom are already in Washington because their chil dren go to school here, Indicate that it will he an “every man for himself" session. The tendency was already ap parent when congress adjourned. It cropped up sharply when house and senate paid no attention to the White House wishes on the neutrality net. It Is perfectly true I that the administration did not bring up Its heavy artillery on the neutrality act. In fact, the White House was not expecting the meas ure to pass at all. Rut the wishes of (he President and of Secretary of State Hull were made known very clearly on Capitol Hill. It Is Interesting to note that these wishes were expressed hy State department men — who normally, with the exception of the secretary himself, have almost no political In fluence, however thoroughly they nmy understand the department's problems, and however able they may be personally. Actually, the President was so busy concentrating Ids barrage on other legislative problems that there was no ammunition of the political variety available to cajole or threat en legislators tending to he Rule pendent on this Issue. Feared to Speak Out Three years ago, two years ago, and even one year ago congress men faced a situation where Frank lin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal cause were unbelievably popular. Republicans In the National legis lature hesitated to speak out against him or his policies. They feared it might ruin them. Wit ness Senator Vandenberg. And many others. Then there were more than a hun dred Democratic members of the house who had been elected from normally Republican districts. And a hundred more from highly doubt ful districts. Their main hope was for Roosevelt's strength to pull them through the next election. It worked marvelously well In 1934. Rut meanwhile two things have happened. By the end of last ses sion both of them had percolated to the politically minded legislators, with their ears close to the ground hack home. Hy now the casual newspaper reader knows It, as u result of numerous polls. One Is that Roosevelt has lost a great deal of his popularity, lie muy still have enough to re-elect himself, the legislators figure, hut uot enough to exert any substan tial Inlluence for others running on the same ticket with him. The other, as also demonstrated by polls. Is that a lot of people still approve Roosevelt heartily, but do not like many of his policies. So that a great many voters may be expected next November to mark their ballots for Roosevelt electors, and then vote against a senator ami representative just because these legislators voted for the Roose velt policies. There is no point In saying this Is not logical. It hap pens all the time In politics. And politicians are not interested in logic so much as In votes. So look out for a lot of Inde pendence, which will prove very an noying to the White House on Cap itol UHl this session. Copyright.—WNU Servlet. EMPIRE ST^TEi Shirt Factory in Troy, N. Y. Prepared by National Geographic Society, CWaahlnyton. D. C.-WNU Service. K\V YORK conjures up a vi sion of a great metropolis, a great atate where the for ested Adlrondacks rise above vast agricultural lands, where the Hud sou river flows placidly from the north woods to the sea, and where the Niagara river spills a portion of Its waters and lures hundreds of thousands of tourists annually. Hut few laymen are aware of the state’s economic and Industrial fea tures. Nearly one-flfth of all the life In surance In force in America, both ordinary and industrial. Is held In New York. Approximately half the nation’s Imports, measured alike by tonnuge und value, enter the Unit ed States through the custom house at the mouth of the Hudson, and more than half of our total ex port tonnage clears through that port. One-seventh of all the net retail sules In the United States were made In New York In a recent yea r—$7,000,000,(XX) out of S4U.000, 000, MO. The Empire state’s role in the manufacturing realm Is a particu larly interesting one. There ure some 16 Industries In which Its products constitute more than one half of the total output of the en tire country und about thirty oth ers In which its share of the na tion’s production Is more than a third. With the gradual growth of man ufacturing west of the Alleghenies, there hns long been a falling off in New York state's relative standing In many Industries; but us there has been a recession of rank in the making of these wares, there hns been a corresponding expansion in the fabrication of clothing. This expansion has been so notable that it has more than made up for all the losses In other fields and en ables New York still to stand out as the lending Industrial state of the Union, with about one seventh of all the nation’s manufactured wares to Its credit. Lead* All In Clothing. There tire only seven states in the Union whose totnl output of manu factures of every kind surpasses clothing alone In the Umpire’s state. These seven stutes are Mas sachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and California. In 1921) New York made clothing at factory prices was valued at ap proximately $2,700,000,900. It in cluded three-fourths of the nation's production of women's apparel und nearly one-half of the country's clothes for men. The Dutch practically began their colony on the strength of the fur trade, and the latest census shows that New York is still active In marketing furs, accounting for $228,000,000 worth of manufactured fur goods out of a total of $277, 000,090 for the whole United States. Practically all of the Industries in which New York holds this sort of leadership are of the lighter kind. The scepter for the heavier industries has largely passed Into the hands of other communities. Specialization In Industry applies to communities as well as to wares. Rome calls Itself the copper city, und makes about one-tenth of the nation's output of eopperware. Glov ersvllle is pre eminent In the man ufacture of gloves, and turns out more of them than any other com munity in the country. Rochester Is the optical und photographic equipment capital of the nation, producing more than a third of the optical goods of the United Stutes and most of its photographic sup plies. Sometimes those who are not New Yorkers have been inclined to complain that the Empire state seems to get more than its fair share of benefits, particularly more than its share of the country’s In come. Especially are they Inclined to think this true of the metropolis itself. When thus they complain, per haps It Is because they lose sight of the other side of the ledger—the measure of how much New York produces for the country. Pays Huge Sums in Taxes. If you were told that every great Irrigation project of every state In the West, from Yuma and Yakima to Shoshone, has been built from i funds supplied to the federal gov ernment by the state of New York and is maintained by funds from her citizens, you would be aston ished. Likewise, If you were told that every dollar of ull the federal-aid money the government has spent so unstintedly In helping all the states to develop their highway systems comes from New York, you would be amazed. But wait! As the old showboat captain of radio fame exclaims, “That Is only the beginning." For when Uncle Sam sat down to reckon up what the state of New York did to help him pay for the running of his government in he discov ered that she supplied him with In come taxes and Internal revenue receipts reaching the grand total of $744,000,000. He next found that If New York had paid her taxes on a per capita basis, her share of the national excise would have called for only $209,000,000. When he de ducted this amount from the $744, 000,000 actually paid in, he found that New York had given him $475,000,000 more than would have been required under a per capita quota. That $475,000,000 certainly proved a godsend to Uncle Sana in meeting ids ever-intensifying problem of financing the operations of an In creasingly exacting household, lie found that with it he could pay for each and every one of the follow ing items in his budget: every dol lar voted to every state for federal aid, whether to roads, National Guard, forest protection, or agricul tural experimentation; the entire expenses of the legislative branch of the government, including the Library of Congress; the entire cost of the Judicial branch, including all federal courts and llrlsons; the cost of the independent offices and bu reaus, from the Smithsonian insti tution and the National museum to tiie Interstate commerce, the fed eral trade, and the civil service commissions; the cost of the De partment of the Interior, including the general lund office, the bureau of reclamation, the geological sur vey, the bureau of Indian affairs, the office of education, etc.; the whole outlay for the Department of Labor; the cost of the Department of Justice; and the expenditures required In the scientific bureaus of the Department of Commerce, from the bureau of standards and the coast and geodetic survey to the bureau of fisheries, the patent office, and bureau of mines. In other words, all that Uncle Sam gives the states in federal aid, as well as all that he spends to maintain two of the three branches of the government and three de partments of the third branch, plus all that he spends for scientific re search in a fourth department, plus the maintenance of the independent offices, can be met out of New York's added quota of taxation. Abounds in Dairy Farms. The traveler roundabout the state of New York readily discovers that much of the attractiveness of Its rural scene is due to the marks of careful tillage upon the face of Its fertile acres. With a population that is five parts urban and one part rural, there is a vast demand for milk— New York city itself must reach out 300 miles for its supply. Dairy farms therefore abound everywhere. And they call not only for grass lands, but also for cornfields and general crops, with the resultant mosaics of color, alike In the Hud son valley, the St. Lawrence region, and the Mohawk country. In 1929 the state produced 80,000, 000 gallons of milk, enough to fill a vat ten feet deep and four and one-half wide, extending from the southern end of Manhattan to the eastern end of Lake E rie. The vineyards, the orchards of small fruits, and the truck gardens that flourish on the slopes that en viron the Inland lakes, because the warming waters of the latter cut short the frosts of the springtime and hold back those of the fall, add as much to the beauty of the area as they add to the prosperity of the region. The vineyards in the Cha tauqun country and around Keuku 1 lae are especially noted. The Empire state Is wedded to its inland waterways. Through its canal system as a whole It Is pos sible to send ships of 10-foot draft and 300-foot length from New York city Into Lake Champlain, to Duluth by way of IlufTnlo or Welland, or to Watkins and Ithaca by way of Seneca and Cayuga lakes. GOLDEN PHANTOMS Fascinating * TaleS Of rdiiha l. Walsoa Lost Mines ©« nu THE LOST FIND THE Funeral range of mountains, east of Death Valley, conceals a lost mine known us the Find. A man named Smith was its discov erer, and he went to New York with the first of his new wealth, spent it lavishly, and at the end of two months died of apoplexy. He left a map, a fairly accurate one, showing the eastern part of Death Valley, and In the northern most range of mountains a canyon had been drawn In detail. Near the head of this canyon a red cross marked the Find. Basing their itineraries on this map, many people tried to reach the mine, but with no success. Then a “location notice,’’ written pecul iarly and apparently designed to give clews only to those who knew which were real and which false directions, was unearthed from beneath a location monument where the copper camp of Greenwater stands. The notice read as follows: “Notice is hereby given that we, the men that wrote this notice, Is over the age of twenty-one and are citizens of the United States, Cuba, and the Philippines; we do this day locate one gold mine. Known as the Bryfogle, and more particu larly described as follows: "Commencing at this big monu ment of stone on a cold rainy night and running 35 hours with Indians after him, come to a big canyon that leads up to the north with two big rocks on one side of the mouth of the canyon, the one on the right round and smooth, and the one on the left rough and rugged. These rocks stand 20 feet high. Follow up this canyon about five hours on burros or one and one-half hours on horseback you will come to the fork of the canyon. Take the left hand one and ride hard for two hours and you will come to a small gulch leading up to the right. Go up this about one-fourth of a mile you will come to a small water hole. Sometimes It’s a dry hole. If It’s a water hole when you get there, water your animals, fill your canteen and then go on until the gulch forks again, then take the right hand one until It forks, then lead up the left one just a little ways and you will discover the find we have been unable to locate. The canyon is yet, and we take this means of locating the big find. The map of the above described prop erty will be furnished to anyone on application to the undersigned. Lo cated this first day of January, 1902. Locator, "J. W. Trotter." “P. S.—Don’t look for this mine In the summer time, as It Is dan gerous. Doc.” ****••« SWIFT SILVER MINE THERE seem to be three distinct eras in America during which mining was most important. The first was during the Spanish occu pation, tlie second after the Civil war, and the last the present time. But the Swift silver mine belongs to none of them; it produced Its silver shortly before the Revolu tion. Swift was the captain of a sail ing vessel of those times. He met a man who had been adopted into an Indian tribe, and this man re vealed that the Indians had dis covered a fabulously rich deposit of silver In Kentucky. The mine was in a cave, well hidden from the casual searcher. It was all that hud been promised, and Swift set to work mining and smelting the ore, running It into molds and stamping it with a dol lar die which he had brought with him. When they had made a* much of this money as they could carry, they concealed the place as the In dians had done and started east ward—none too soon, for the tribes men discovered that their mine had been plundered and started on their trail. In fact, pursuit grew so hot that the white men were forced to bury a large proportion of their spoils. Then came the Revolutionary war, and Swift was busy with many matters. We next meet up with him when he came into Kentucky with Boone, and told the story of the Indian mine at Boonesborough. tie said that he could find the place again, although his sight was failing, and a company was formed to go with him. He led them truly, and at last toward evening one day he recognized the location. The night was spent in dreams of great fortune, and at daybreak every one was eager to uncover the bidden shaft—but alas! during the night Swift’s eyesight had left him com pletely, and he could not see even the sun as It poured its rays against his face. He tried to tell the men where to go, but It was useless. They were forced at last to abandon their search and return home empty banded. That mine has been banted ever since those days, but It remains hid den. Will Efficiency in Killing Bring About Peace on Earth? Famed Publicists, Thinkers Answer Much-Mooted Question. Will nations ever abandon war? Will efficiency in killing hasten Its end? Is peace on earth possible? These questions were put to famous publicists and thinkers by Cosmo politan Magazine. Among those who give their opin Ions are: Oswald Spengier, Arthur Brisbane, Havelock Ellis. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt, and Amelia Earhart Put nam. Preparedness was advocated hy gome, a better understanding be tween nations, and taking of profits out of war by others. Havelock Ellis says: "1 have no doubt whatever that a permanent world peace Is possible and will be achieved when the will to it exists. There is no war among the animals nearest to man and no evidence of its existence in early man’s history. It Is a phase of human development which may once have been beneficial In aiding social discipline and co operation but today, in the opinion of the majority of people, It has be come useless and mischievous. Even when successful, It falls to achieve the security for which It Is chiefly waged.” Arthur Brisbane says: “World peace will come when some nation or group of nations becomes power ful and civilized enough to put an end to war. If necessary, as Cardi nal Richelieu put an end to dueling by executing a few that fought duels. . . . Efficiency in killing will hast en Its end. ‘Elimination of inferior races' may continue for a while aft er ’civilized’ nations cease killing their ‘equals’ with the consent and approval of the ‘equals.”’ Oswald Spengier says: “If there were to take place In Asia today a great uprising against the white race, countless white people would join in it because they are tired of the peaceful life. I’acifism will re main an Ideal, war a fact, and If the white peoples are determined to lead no more, the colored races will, and they will become the rulers of the world." Amelia Earhart Putnam says: “I believe war can be outlawed, but not until mere 'ivlng offers a substitute for the beguiling pageantry of the milltafy; nor until mental attitudes change through such basic economic adjustments as rational control of ©ssho He Knew Pet Mike—I haven’t seen my Uncle Pat for ten years. I wonder what he's been doing all that time. Ike—I can guess: ten years. Nothing Gained Math Teacher—Now we tind thrt s Is equal to zero. Student—(Jee! All that work for nothing.—American Boy. The Profeuional Angle The champion athlete in bed with a cold was told that he had a tem perature. "How high Is it. doctor?” he want ed to know. “A hundred^an l one.” “What’s the world’s record?” Just Average Wife (heatedly) — You’re lazy, you’re worthless, you’re bad-tem pered, you’re shiftless, you’re a thor ough liar. Husband (reasonably)—Well, my dear, no man is perfect. A Good Reader Mistress—Mary, how could you sit there reading while baby is crying so hard? Nurse—It doesn’t disturb me a bit, ma’am.—Answers Magazine. Parliamentary “Do you think you’ll be able to get the speaker’s eye?” "The speaker hasn’t done any thing to me yet,” said the athletic young member. “If he does, I won’t aim for his eye. I’ll aim for his Jaw.” V WRI I BRjn population and of the production and distribution of life necessities." Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Permanent world peace is a pos sibility; a probability only if the world ns a whole determines that self-preservation demands organiza tion for pence instead of war. We cannot expect to make any treaties, which will not need change. Wjr must find a basis on which repre sentatives of the people may meer nnd calmly consider changes occur ring throughout the world, and the needs arising therefrom. It is ob vious that populations will change and economic conditions vary. 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