The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, June 11, 1936, Image 2
SEEN and HEARD around the V NATIONAL CAPITAL! By Carter Field % *fAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT ^ Washington.—In the prize ring and in war, experts agree that It is a splendid quality not to know when you are licked. Because there is al ways the possibility thut something may happen to reverse the apparent. So perhaps a good deal of credit should he given the administration leaders on Capitol hill for the eurn estness with which they push on to new legislative achievements, re gardless of the clearly printed road signs saying the roa<l Is closed ahead on account of the constitu tional bridge being washed out. Consider the sugar bill, for exam ple. Administration leaders de clared they would push through the bill continuing quotas for domestic production. They admit that there may be some little doubt as to the power of the federal government to do this, especially in view of the AAA decision, not to mention the GufTey decision. It’s a little bit humorous, how ever, when one considers wiiat Is happening out In the country. For instance, the big cone sugar produc ing state, I^oulslana. Is assigned n quota under the system that the legislators are about to continue, without the Supreme court’s bless ing, of 200,000 tons. Present estimates of the Loui siana cane sugar crop, with due al lowances for weather and other possibilities, run around BOO,000 tons. So the question arises, how will the government Induce the cane planters of the Creole slate to plow under nearly one half of their acre age, and not take the matter to court? For it Is admitted that any court would grant an Immediate in junction restraining the Depart ment of Agriculture from using any element of force. And It Is equally clear that anyone Interested could bring a suit to prevent payments under the old benefit check system. Soil Erosion There remains soli erosion, of course, but every one admits that the administration would not be willing to risk the constitutionality of Its concededly ticklish soil ero sion program In such a case. To accomplish anything like the reduc tion necessary to get Louisiana down to her quotn would require such drastic handling that no seri ous contention that soil erosion was the main objective could possibly hold. It’s just one of those curious things, on all fours with the enact ment of the Guffey coal law In the first place, when everybody and Ids brother knew It would be thrown out the window by the high court. And on all fours with the present desire of Senator Joseph F. Guffey and others to enact a substitute for the Guffey law. They persist In this despite the carefully considered opinions of such politically astute gentlemen as Senator J Hamilton Lewis that there Is neither the opening cor the time for such n measure before ad journment. And In the face of a view from a very different wing of the party—Its most radical wing— of Senator Burton K. Wheeler that it should not be attempted at this session. Meanwhile the United Mine Workers are not hnlf so unhappy us they make out. They see the pros pect of making a few fights In the very territory where they are weak est. And Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins expresses a pious hope for new labor provisions In the revised Guffey bill to come! Silver Buying Policy Despite the clamor of unofficial "Brain Trusters," economists, etc,, about the absurdity of the present silver buying policy, nothing is go ing to be done about it. The pres ent silver buying policy will be con tinued, even the paying of a bonus of something in excess of 30 cents an ounce for all newly mined sliver In the United States. Mo one really thinks the subsidy to mine owners producing silver is really either very beneficial or very harmful. The point Is that there are almost no mines In the United States that produce Just silver only. In virtually every Instance silver Is a by-product and ^ comparatively small by-product. Normally the main products of such mines are lead, zinc and copper. It so happens that ever since the depression began there has been an overproduction of all three of these metals, lienee It Is believed by mining experts that the bonus paid on newly mined sil ver has not done any barm or any good in stimulating silver produc tion in the United States. Nor Is It contended that there has been much cheating. The government has been extremely rigorous In its inspections, and officials do not believe that much foreign produced sliver has been sneaked under the wire to take advantage of the high American price. One criticism of this bonus on newly mined silver Is that it is a waste of money. In the face of ter rific federal expenditures In almost every conceivable direction, the cost to the federal treasury of this particular policy sinks Into Insig nificance. China Protests In the early days of the silver buying program Dnited States treas ury buying had a very unsettled ef fect on conditions all over the world. The world price was boosted about 40 cents an ounce. It was practi cally doubled. Another very heavy loss was tnken by the treasury here because the average price paid wag considerably above 50 cents an ounce —the price at which all domestic sliver, already mined, was com mandeered. Whereas the present world price of silver Is around 40 to 47 cents, with every prospect that It will not rise materially above that. There were other repercussions. China protested bitterly against the unsettling physical scheme and the disorganisation of her International trade resulting from it. Eventually she was driven off the silver stand ard by It. The recent agreement on the part of the United States to buy large amounts of Chinese silver Is one of the after effects. Inciden tally the treasury Is as secretive ,nbout the amounts of Chinese silver 4that It Intends to purchase under this agreement ns It has been about the use of the two-billlon-dollar sta bilization fund. The reason there Is not going to be any change In the sliver policy— certainly until after election — la that two small minority groups In this country are enormously In favor of it. One of these Is the silver mining group which now benefits from the subsidy. The mine owners of course divide this bonus among themselves. The mine workers think thnt It helps to keep them employed. The other group Is for the silver policy because It believes In Infla tion. Falling to get printing-press money through the Frazler-Lemke bill or nny other device, those bold ing this view like the silver policy on the theory that half a loaf Is bet ter than no bread. These two groups feel so violently on this Issue that a change on this one thing would probably make them vote against Roosevelt. The major ity, who think the policy crazy, will vote for or against Roosevelt for other reasons. Resettlement Coats Full Information ou how much It costs Dr. Rexford Tugwell’s Resettle meat administration to do Its reset tling became available for the first time recently, Imbedded In the hear ings of the senate appropriations committee on the deficiency bill. Resettlement's top Is $20,250 a family, reached la a prairie paradise for lit families at Sioux Falls, S. D. The final bill was $270,000. This project was described by Doctor Tugwell as financially "un successful.” The outside per family cost for a successful project uppears to be $11,040, since thut much is to be al lowed lu a project which the Tug well organization Is contemplating ut Osage Farms, Mo. Among the other projects being "planned. Just being started, or under construction,” there were listed three more whose per family cost was above $10,(HK), and five for which the treasury will pay out anywhere from $7,270 a family to $0,500. Tugwell said the average cost per family was onlv $5,000. Civil Service for Bureaus The civil service commission anil Senator George W. Norris, Repub lican, of Nebraska, recently urged the President to bring the emer gency bureaus under civil service regulations. Norris even warned the President that Ids failure to hult the spoils system would cost him a mil lion votes. At the same time, a last minute drive Is under way to secure enact ment by congress of the bill plac ing first, second and third class post masters under civil service. Since some of these new govern ment activities have come to be re garded ns permanent adjuncts of the federal machinery, advocates of the civil service reform have re doubled their demands thut the Jobs be tilled on the merit system. While the majority of present oc cupants of Jobs automatically will be retained under the new regula tions, future vacancies will be tilled only on the basis of competitive ex aminations. Besides fitting Into the announced views on the subject of public em ployment, the shifting of the new bureau* to civil service Is counted on by the administration to offset criti cism on that score. WNU Service. Optician on Ship The sailor was recounting his ex periences to a dear old lady: Old Lady—But what rank did you hold? Sailor—Ship’s optician, lady. Old Lady—Ship’s optician? 1 nev er knew there was such a rank in the navy. What did your duties con sist of? Sailor—Scraping the eyes out of the potatoes, lady. At the End of an English Sylvan Path. I Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.— WNU Service. IF ANYONE wunts to know the English countryside, let lilm go house hunting. On such a quest he will discover Nnture's cozy-cor ners thnt casuals never find. They are everywhere, hut as Ingeniously concealed as a bird's nest. There may even be a sign which says, "I lon gerons narrow road. Enter at your own risk.” Hut that Is Just the kind of place to Insist upon penetrating. Enter on foot If you are afraid, but the ear can squeeze In. You find yourself In one of those Incompara ble roads like tunnels of living green. Earthen hanks of Ivy and wild flowers rise ten feet high to he topped by tall trees sprung from the orlglnnl hedge planted a hun dred years ago. The rond keeps you guessing by innklng such curves that there Is no penetrating the se cret of what lies ahead. All at once a gate. Within, a hit of woodland, flower-brightened; be yond that, a sunny garden, moldy mossy walls, lattice windows, creep ers all abloom and reaching to the roof tiles, which are toned from dull reil to gentle green by two cen turies of soft rains and sun. Who would not penetrate the wood to gaze closer—especially when armed with a handful of permits from a real estate firm? You pass through the hit of flowered wood land gay with yellow primrose patches and massed bluebells. Hut on emerging from the screening trees and seeing the open garden lying In the sun and the house form ing a part of It, you gasp and halt. This Is the house of your dreams. A servant appears and explains that the house Is to-be-let and Is at your service; the lease Is for slxty flve years! Exclamation marks rat tle about In your head Peculiar Rental Customs. You select another house which you consider a perfect gem, only to he told that it Is not available for “Instant possession." The present tenant has the place for four years longer. These, and other interesting rent al customs you may lenrn In Eng lish real-estate offices. Mayfair Is full of fascinating real-estate offi ces, most of them seeming like pri vate homes, with their open fires. Chippendale chairs, and bookcase desks. "Mr. Upperton and Partners Is the diverting and reticent sign over the door of one of these. Lovely way of expressing it; Upperton, Stoggs. Chair and .Tones Is outdone by the dignity of "and Partners.” Any of these gentlemen can teach the eager American client new uses of English words and phrases In real-estate Jargon, whether or not he offers the Ideal ancient house and romantic garden. And It Is here that you learn that the rent of unfur nished houses Is denoted In pounds sterling, while the furnished house smartly demands guineas—an extra shilling on each pound. You also learu that company’s wnter "laid on” merely means that domestic water flows from taps In stead of being pumped up from well or cistern. Indeed, one must not visibly shudder to learn that for 200 years houses have been occu pied by gentry, modern smart peo ple among them, who have had no running water, no lights except kerosene lamps, no telephones. In credible! Without the tireless Eng lish servant, the English gentry must have died out for lack of com forts. One of the Partners may ask you strange-sounding questions. "Are you prepared to pay dila pidations?" That is disconcerting. "But 1 don’t want a house that is actually In a stute of decay." The Partner patiently explains that any sort of damage or break age must be restored by the tenant. Your bill for dilapidations may be only four shilling, about one dollar, I for a flower holder. Rut It often happens that one must nssume the dilapidations of the previous ten ant, which may Include repairs and decorations of Importance. So It Is a word to excite suspicion. What the American adventurous spirit asks of England for the sum mer Is a smallish house, even a cot tage. Rut It must he under a style name like Tudor, or more romantic ally Elizabethan, or perhaps. Queen Anne and the Georglnn, either late or early. Hunting a Country House. The hunt for the Ideal takes on the nspect of a tour. It Is possible to get about by commodious omni buses. They set you down on the main roads, where local motor cars with drivers can be hired. Gradually you come to know the districts not too far from London where certain types of the Ideal house have sprung from the soil. It Is a requisite of the Ideal Eng lish small house that it should look ns If It had pushed Itself up from Nature’s laboratory of the earth, Just as the shrubs, flowers, and trees have done. They ar<* close kin. Districts not too far from Lon don contain nn entrancing vnriety of old styles. The house of carved Interiors and scrolled gahles Is a specialty of Kent; the thatched roof hides beside the roads of Hamp shire’s New Forest; the cottage of light-gray stone makes glad the villages of the Cotswolds; and the Georglnn, or rather Eighteenth cen tury houses, scatter tlielr elegant lines In all parts of the land. Tim ber and plaster houses tempt one nlmost everywhere with their Tudor charm. Ton come to one of the richest of all districts for those who hunt the Ideal house when you arrive at the hills of the Cotswolds. Grad ually Its little stone houses catch you In the spell of their beauty. They spread themselves beside the road, taking on almost human qual ities. They lift their gables with dignity; they spread their mullloned windows with frankness. Their sym metry seems of the highest art, yet It Is said these lovely houses were built by simple artisans. They took the warm, light stone of the Innd, and even the roof tiles are made of It. All seems n pearly gray, and on this Ideal color climb the bright flowers of the garden. Many Enticing Places. You linger long and drift from road to lane, 'from village to farm, drinking In every detail of these houses—the Tudor ornament over the leaded windows, the lovely flat arch of the front door, the beau ties of the back of the house, the flowers and a cunning use of shrubs and creepers piling one thrilling beauty upon another against the light-gray stone. In Sussex and Kent, hunt out the old farms and the ancient houses of villages. They have a beauty all their own, with their bricks turned to pink and softened brown. Many have an end gable of stone fash ioned In the grand curves which fascinatingly recall the Walloons who brought with them their own traditions of art when driven to England by religious persecutions. Those curvilinear gables have, too, a Spanish flavor, n late Renaissance cnper of free-drawn curves. Fasci nating interiors those Walloon cloth weavers constructed to make the homes of their exiles resemble those they had left. In Kent Is found that enticing structure, the house of timber and plaster, or timber and brick Ingeni ously laid. It is eternally lovely, be wllderingly fantastic. How did mod est man fancy such a house easy to build, and practical? The beams, black and exposed, seem to repre sent superhuman effort In the inter est of beauty. The curved ones, the purely ornamental ones, fascinate the eye. The overhanging second story is a fantastic denial of archi tecture's law of the large base. Gay Cotton Print Dress Easy to Make and Sure to Please Sprightly Maiden Pattern No. 1882-B The time for gay little cotton prints both for older sister and the younger set is at hand, and nothing could be simpler than this darling dress—so easy to make—so comfort able for nimble dears—nnd so smart to wear. The French bodice effect and but toned panel are cunning details which all little maidens love, espe cially the flared skirt, because it pro vides ample freedom for playtime. Decorative features are hidden in the contrasting collar trimmed with ruf fled edging, and brief puff sleeves. The material may be a printed per cale, lawn linen or gingham. If It is made in a plaid or checked gingham, you can omit the ruffled edging from the collar and make the collar of plain white pique. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1S82-B is available in sizes 2, 4, ti, 8, and 10. Size 4 requires ITs yards of 35 inch material plus % yard for contrast. Send 15 cents for the pattern. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 307 \V, Adams St., Chicago, ill. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Man in the Sun Held Public Interest Bark in Year 1815 History’s human side is curiously disinterested in the Man in the Moon, but a Man in the Sun earned a heap of publicity in 1815, says the Mon treal Herald. The phenomenon was first seen in Europe, over Austria, just before sunset. A man who ap peared to be waving a small Hag was emblazoned against the sinking sun, and a whole country shuddered at the omen. The next day England saw the manifestation, and America reported having soph it in due course. But America, naturally, had to he dif ferent. They stnted that the man way lying down, appeared to be tired, and did not possess a flag. But no one ever explained the Man in the Sun. He was last seen over West America. Quite a number of people, of course, linked him up with Napoleon. BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad In another column of this paper and learn how to join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes.—Adv. True Poverty The poorest man in the world Is he who has nothing except money. GRIEF OUR CREDITOR When the world’s account Is summed up, we shall find that we owe more to Grief than we do to Joy, and that Sorrow has been the veiled angel of God to come to teach us some of thp deepest lessons which can be learnt by human students. 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