SEEN
and
HEARD
around the
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
Carter Field ^
Washington.—Democrats are not
boasting about one of their really
important accomplishments — re
peal of prohibition.
Republicans are not attacking the
administration for perhaps its most
stupid and — proportionately—most
expensive flops—the silver buying
policy which was to correct so
many things, including the power
of China to buy more American ex
ports.
These are two of the phases of
this presidential campaign which
must be very amusing to any for
eigner.
Prohibition is almost self-explan
atory. One angle, however, which
neither the wets — surprised be
cause there was no boasting about
the keeping of this platform pledge
—nor the drys—indignant that it
was kept — have appreciated is
purely financial It affects another
issue in the campaign, and one
which the Democrats do not wish
to discuss. For repeal of prohibi
tion has resulted in pouring half a
billion—five hundred million dollars
— a year more into the federal
treasury as tax revenue.
New Dealers do not want to talk
about this, for it naturally raises
the point what would the deficit be,
and how much would the increase
in our national debt be, if there
had been no repeal?
That, however, is a very minor
point in comparison with the real
reason that not one of the hundred
odd speeches at Philadelphia men
tioned the carrying out of this par
ticular campaign pledge. The real
reason is that the drys are militant
ly angry, and to boast about the
accomplishment would irritate
them further. Evidences of this
have been growing for some time.
Strictly speaking, it is not a proper
issue in this campaign. The truth
is that the Republicans at their con
vention in Chicago four years ago
were just as eager to go all the
way wet as were the Democrats.
It took all the pressure of Hoover
through his patronage • controlled
delegates to prevent it The high
spot in the humor of that situation
was the Maryland "free state” del
egation, and the supposedly du
Pont Delaware delegation voting
solidly for the merely moist as
against the wet plank.
They Don’t Boast
But there have been indications
for some time that the drys, who
have recovered from the almost
hypnotic state into which they
lapsed after the wet snowball be
gan to roll in 1930, have centered
their bitterness on the Democrats
for forcing repeal, and that some
of them may vote Republican this
fall for no other reason than to
punish Roosevelt and Farley for
their drive to obtain ratification of
the repeal amendment.
This is the real reason the Dem
ocrats are not boasting much about
the amazing achievement of forcing
repeal three short years after the
dry-controlled—at the time—senate
lobby committee took such glee in
demonstrating to its own satisfac
tion that every time the wets made
a fight they lost more ground.
Republican speakers are just as
afraid of the silver issue as the
Democrats are of repeal. Without
exception the Republican leaders
think the whole silver buying policy
was weird. In fact many Demo
cratic leaders agree with them. But
to make a political issue of it might
excite two groups. First, the en
thusiastic silver men, and, second,
the inflationists who, while caring
nothing about silver per se, looked
on the silver policy as a move in
their direction.
All of this is highly important In
several small, but important states,
which just might become vital if
the election is close.
Causes Surprise
Critics of the Passamaquoddy ti
dal project were surprised at the
recent declaration of President
Roosevelt to citizens of Eastport,
Maine, that Quoddy "will be com
pleted.” The surprise is occasioned
because President Roosevelt has
admitted several times in the last
few months that he cannot allot
money to the project until congress
has authorized it.
The point is that no one familiar
with the situation on capitol hill be
lieves that the President, even if
he should be re-elected by an over
whelming majority, will be able to
obtain a favo^dle appropriation
for Quoddy. Or for the Florida ship
canaL
It is as near a certainty as any
thing can be in politics that the
Democratic majority in the next
house will be sharply whittled
down, even if there should be some
thing approaching the landslide for
Roosevelt which James A. Farley
predicts, though which no one else
expects.
Confidential figures of some very
shrewd experts among the Demo
crats in the house are that the New
Deal lead in the next house will
not exceed fifty, as against the
present two hundred. Republicans
naturally put this figure even low
er, though the fact is few of them
think the G. O. P- will carry the
house unless Governor Alf M. Lan
don is elected. In which case they
think he would pull through a
favorable house majority.
A conservative, non-partisan
guess is that the next house will
not have a Democratic majority of
more than twenty-five. Which, in
view of the fact that the present
house, with a Democratic majority
in excess of 200, stubbornly refused
to make any appropriation for car
rying on Quoddy or the Florida ship
canal, and later on failed even to
approve a new study of the two
projects, is causing wonder here as
to how Mr, Roosevelt expects to
carry out the promise he made to
the folks in Maine.
Something Else
But, as though this were not
enough difficulty in the path of the
project, there is another. It is al
most certain that the congress
which will convene in January will
be nothing like so tractable as
either the present or the last con
gress. From a political standpoint
the answer to this is simple — and
inevitable. Presumably, of course,
if Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected he will
never again be a candidate. So
there will never be another elec
tion in which senators and mem
bers of the house will hope to ride
through to victory on Roosevelt’s
coat tails.
They will not have the same keen
interest, for the sake of party loy
alty and selfish interest, to give
him unquestioning support on any
thing he may ask. Many of them
may even get the idea that the
nominee for the Presidency by the
Democratic party in 1940 will hold
very different views on a great
many questions. A glance back
over Democratic nominees—Cleve
land, Bryan, Parker, Wilson, Cox,
Davis, and Smith — would indicate
at least the possibility.
Then, too, the patronage has been
pretty largely distributed. White
House pressure with this steam be
hind it will be much weaker than
during the last four years. Against
all of which there is not one single
element of greater persuasive
power to contribute to Roosevelt’s
control of the next congress.
Hits Wholesalers
Wholesalers, who, fighting com
petition of the chains and mail or
der houses, helped push through the
Robinson - Patman anti-price dis
crimination bill, find they may be
wiped out by its operations.
Little book stores, never interest
ed much except against cut price
sales by department stores, face
loss of many customers who bought
more than one copy, intending the
books for presents.
All sales for future delivery seem
to be up in the air, with the pros
pect of plenty of trouble for any
manufacturer attempting to carry
on normal sales at the same time.
These are a few highlights of
trouble involved in the new meas
ure, jammed through in the last
few days of congress, without most
of the people who would be affected
having more than a remote idea of
what it would do to them.
Wholesalers will be hit two ways.
The law is very specific that the
same discount must be given dif
ferent buyers who obtain the same
quantity. It is also drastic in for
bidding too heavy discounts — dis
counts larger than the actual sav
ing to the manufacturer resulting
from the sire and handling of the
order.
Emphasis during debate on the
bill was put on this last phase. But
it is the first phase which now rises
to plague the wholesaler.
For instance, a chain grocery
system can buy in quantities great
er than any wholesaler. Before this
law it was argued that the chain
forced the manufacturer to sell to
it at a greater discount than the
volume justified. But — the chain
will surely get under the present
law as much discount as the big
wholesalers — and perhaps more.
So that the chain still has a big
advantage over the little independ
ent, who must, of course, pay the
wholesaler a profit and the extra
cost for handling.
Plan Co-operatives
Whereupon movements are on all
over the country now on the part
of the independents to form co
operatives, do their buying through
them, thus obtaining the same dis
count as the wholesaler is able to
get. eliminating his profit, and —
here is the trouble — eliminating
the wholesaler!
Thus the class which had more
to do with forcing the legislation
than anybody seems slated to get
it in the neck.
The little book store is one of
the queerest victims, though most
of their owners do not know it yet.
A customer who buys ten or fifteen
copies of a novel he likes, to give
away as Christmas presents, for
instance, can force any publisher
to give him the same discount as
he gives any bookstore for that
number of copies! Whereas the
little bookstore often sends in a re
peat order for just one copy, and
has been getting full discount on it.
Which makes the cut price sales
of some department stores look like
very mild competition indeed, for
this practice, if it grows, will strip
the little dealers of the cream of
their business—the big purchasers
during the holiday trade.
And, of course, this is not only
Christmas sale stuff. It would ap
ply any time in the year, and thus
would affect purchasers who have
a lot of friends sailing for Europe,
for example.
C bell Syndicate.— WNU Serrlc*.
Eastern High, an Example of Denver’s Fine School Buildings.
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, O. C.-WNU Service.
WHEN you enter Denver,
Colorado, you come to the
urban hub of nearly one
flfth of the United States.
A state capital, a great western
city, a gateway to the mountains—
all these Denver is and more.
Spokes of influence extend from
it into the entire Rocky Mountain
area, and into large regions of the
adjoining plains • ittes as well,
making it the financial, commer
cial, and industrial center of a vast
area. No other city in the United
States with a quarter-million popu
lation is so far removed—500 miles
or more —from all other big cities.
Naturally, the people of this
great region turn to Denver,
whether they are out for business
or pleasure, for a commercial fight
or a recreational frolic. It’s a
habit of long standing. The miners
started it when they came every
so often to the rough little town
that was Denver in the sixties to
spend some of their gold for sup
plies and the rest in more or less
riotous living.
Later, when great riches were
made in gold and silver and cattle,
the fortunate ones moved to Den
ver and built the mansions and
hotels and business blocks that
started the solid structure of the
city. Globe-trotters, adventurers,
and capitalists flocked to Denver
in the seventies and eighties. Many
"younger sons" of the British no
bility and several Britons with
well - known titles made the city
their headquarters for extensive
cattle operations, and gave glitter
ing parties at the old Windsor hotel
and the American house that have
not faded from Denver’s memory.
Before its irrigation empire was
even dreamed of and while its
mineral kingdom was still unde
veloped, Denver’s location was of
little value; but young Denver, de
spite surveys, clung stubbornly to
the belief that in some way the
transcontinental railway, when it
came, could be pushed through the
mountains west of the city. When,
instead, the lines of steel were ex
tended through Cheyenne, a hun
dred miles to the north, Denverites
put aside their disappointment and
quickly raised the capital to build
a connecting line to the new high
way.
With this rail contact with the
eastern settlements established and
with the steady growth of mining
in the mountains, Denver drew to
herself in a few years direct lines
of railroad from the east. Now
these highways of steel radiate
north and south and east from
Denver like the ribs of a fan.
A result of this railway conver
gence of Denver has been to make
the city one of the country’s lead
ing livestock markets.
Never Lost Dream
While the transcontinental rail
ways went their busy wayr north
and south of Denver, the city never
lost its dream >f a line straight
west through the mountains.
Greatest and most tireless ci the
dreamers was David H. Moffat,
who visioned a six-mile tunnel
through the Continental Divide un
der James Peak. He not only
dreamed, but worked, anc' spent
his fortune on the project. He did
not live to see his plan realized,
but on July 7, 1927, the Moffat tun
nel was holed through. Now a
standard-gauge railway operates
double tracks through it into Mid
dle Park, opening up a new moun
tain realm to Denver.
You sense Denver's most aston
ishing physical achievement only
when you let your imagination
j wander back seventy years. It is
hard to believe that barely three
score and ten years ago this great
city, with its hundreds of miles of
streets, lined now with fine, tower
1 ing shade trees, was raw prairie.
Not a tree was in sight; only a
I level plain covered with sparse
grass, dry and brown through most
| of the year.
As the outJander drives about
Denver he is struck by the beauti
ful lawns. There are no excep
tions. Whether he views the grass
plot of a humble cottage or the
ark of a near-palace, the lawns
.re perfect.
The pr.ee of the beautiful lawns
.» i-.-ra moisture. At certain
hours each day in the summer a
virtual barrage of water L laid
down over the 1,600 acres of lawns
in the city’s parks. So frequent
are these drenchings that in sum
mer the watering hose is not re
moved night or day from the hy
drants. Driving through the parks
in late afternoon, you see orderly
piles of hose, as regularly spaced
as the trees of an orchard, each
like a coiled serpent on sentry
duty, guarding its allotted plot. The
public hose is of a distinctive color
combination that prevents its being
stolen.
Use Water Lavishly
Knowing that this is a dry coun
try and that water is precious, you
ask one of the officials of the water
board about the heavy use of water
in the city and run into a surpris
ing paradox.
“It is very important that we use
water lavishly today," he tells you,
“in order that our grandchildren
shall have enough for their vital
needs. Visiting water - works ex
perts think we are crazy when we
make that statement, but it is
literally true.
“This is an irrigation country.
Municipalities, as well as indivi
duals, must follow the laws worked
out under irrigation conditions in
getting their water supplies. Once
you get hold of a flow of wa
ter, if you don’t use it you forfeit
it to some one who will. We are
looking forward to a city of half
a million or more by 1950. That’s
why we want to keep every drop
of Denver’s annual water supply
busy and to increase the supply in
all possible ways.”
One way in which Denver plans
to increase its water supply con
stitutes and engineering romance.
When the Moffat tunnel was dug,
an eight-foot-square pilot tunnel
was carried through the Con
tinental Divide beside the large
railway bore. Denver leased this
small tunnel, and plans to bring
through the towering mountain
range hundreds of millions of gal
lons of water that now flow into
the Pacific ocean.
In education Denver’s fame is
great. Educators from the two
hemispheres have beaten a path
to this far-away city at the base
of the Rockies to study its scheme
of teachers’ salaries, its indefatiga
ble efforts to keep the subject-mat
ter which it teaches abreast of all
worthwhile developments, and even
its school architecture.
The “Denver Plan” for teachers’
salaries has been adopted by many
municipalities.
A Practical School
Another famous part of the Den
ver educational system that draws
educators from afar is its Oppor
tunity school. From 6:30 o’clock
in the morning until 10 at night
this practical school is open alike
to young people and old. In it
elderly men and women, denied
the education they wished in youth,
receive high school instruction; men
displaced in one occupation may
learn another; and young men and
women may be trained in practical
arts, from barbering to bricklay
ing, and from cooking to etching.
Most of Colorado’s institutions of
higher education arc naturally con
centrated in and near Denver. In
the city it the University of Den
ver, founded, when the community
was little more than a village, by
Colorado’s territorial governor,
John Evans, the same John Evans
who previously had founded North
western university, Illinois.
Thirty miles to the northwest, at
Boulder, is the University of Colo
rado. So attractive are the moun
tains that cast their shadows on
the campus and beckon for week
end rambles that the University of
Colorado is as busy in summer as
in winter.
Fifteen miles west of Denver, at
Golden, is the Colorado school of
mines. Growing up in the edge
of an important mining region, the
institution is one of the outstand
ing mining schools of the country.
In it in 1926 was established the
tirst course in geophysics in Ameri
can colleges. Graduates of this
latest course in mining lor* fare
forth with dynamite and radio sets,
electro-magnets, torsion balances,
and other devices of modem magic
to map rock strata lying hundreds
and thousands of feet beneath th*
surface of the ground. S
Roses Liven Bedspread
Pattern 1?14
With roses as its motif this
newly embroidered bedspread’s
sure of admirers! So is its em
broidered bolster, or a matching
scarf adorned this speedy way.
Flowers are easy to do in single,
outline and lazy - daisy stitch—
their effect truly lovely!
Pattern 1214 contains a transfer
pattern of a motif 16 1-2 by 19 1-4
inches and two and two reverse
motifs 4 1-4 by 5 1-2 inches. Color
schemes ; illustrations of all
stitches needed; material re
quirements.
Greetings!
Not all peoples greet each other
with our familiar handshake. For
example, the hug and squeeze,
cheek to cheek, is used in
France. Among the New Zea
landers, the Malays, Burmese,
Indo-Chinese, the Mongolians and
even the Eskimos and Laplanders
the “hongi” is the thing. This
consists in touching noses lightly.
The word itself means to
“smell.” When a Chinese is in
troduced he shakes hands with
himself.
The Italians and Germans, have
revived the ancient Roman greet
ing as a military salute. Reports
from Ethiopia, or Italian East
Africa, as it is now called, indi
cate that the Italians are teach
ing their new subjects to greet
each other in the old Roman way
by extending the arm upward
with the palm to the front.
Each form of greeting has a
meaning all its own. The hand
shake and the Roman salute, for
example, began as a gesture
showing that the hand was free
of weapons.—Washington Post.
Send 15c in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address.
rHH
X FOR ALL ITS LIGHT, CRISPY^*
DELICIOUSNESS, QUAKER PUFFED
I WHEAT RANKS IN FOOD
VALUE WITH SOLID DINNER DISHES
QUAKER PUFFED RICE HAS
THE SPEEOY DIOESTIBIUTY
SO IMPORTANT TO BUST PEOPLE
IN THESE HIGH TENSION TIMES.
THIS QUAKER pUFFEDRICE
BRFAKFATT NO.r WAS digested
IN THE STOMACH 4*M/N</reS
F*STCR than breakfast NO.ir,
ACCORDING TO TESTS MADE BY
dr. Paul g.pick.Chicago. M
COMPARE' I
beef *
UVER |
J6,5CflL0Rt£S (PEftot) f
PUFFED WHEAT S
/06 0 OUO/l/SS(Pe*oi) |
Spinach
1.02 Mgmt. ^
(IRON PER 02)
PUFFED WHEAT I
1.30 Mgms. {
2
—
(X-- /HARD LUCK AT HOME \
HOWDY LADIES . HIS DAD CAN'T SELL \
AND GENTLEMEN • \ THE PEACH CROP AN' I
SA-AY—WHAT'S ) IF HE CAN'T SELL IT /
THE MATTER WITH i HE CAN'T RAY THE /
JIMMY MARTIN2 / MORTGAGE. AN' IF HE /
HIS GIRL RUN C CAN'T PAY. S
AWAY WITH A • WELL • - /
RICH CITY _^
v FELLER?
V M
T< JIMMY--• \
THAT GIVES ME
AN IDEA ABOUT
THE PEACHES. ,
k COME ON IN, >
CK GANG.' >
■■■■ Jl ®G§(2J{$K] invites vou to'
i ftAAMNlg $m for -THE.
j TREAT OF VOUR LIFE. ITS1
^ . :i r'-S.
/ AND NOW, FOLKS, WOULDN'T MX) LIKE \
( SOME MARTIN'S PEACHES TO TAKE )
\— HOME WITH VOU? HOW ABOUT *
7 IT? ONLY ONE TEENTZV- ___
1 WEENTZV DOLLAR FOR / / HERE'SN
V A BIQ BASKET I / MV ^
— v^DOLLARy
f TAkE TWO i W
BASKETS!^ a)/
DON'T KNOW ' SHUCKS! "THANK 1
HOW TO THANK T OUR OLD FRIEND
NOLI AND THE \ ©RAPE - NUTS
toyCjOE---* \ FLAKES. MADE
JUST ABOUT I THOSE PEACHES
SAVED OUR / TASTE SO GOOD
UVES. BLESS / FOLKS COULDN'T
NOU ALL! ^RESIST 'hm!
JOE E. BROWN ASKS BOYS AND GIRLS TO JOIN CLUB
Famous Comedian Offers 36 FREE Prizes!
Send one Grape-Nuts Flakes box-top . . . and
you’ll get the swell membership pin shown here
and the Club Manual. It tells you how to get 36
valuable prizes free—how to work up to Ser
geant, to Lieutenant, and finally to Captain 1
And say—have you ever triedGrape-NutsFlakes
with whole milk or cream and
peaches? What a treat! Served
Grape Nuts that way (try it for a hot-weather
flakes j lunch or supper) Grape-Nuts
Flakes contain more varied
nourishment than many a
hearty meal. A Post Cereal—
made by General Foods.
Your breakfatt favorit* in a n*w package
Club Membership Pin—
Here’s the membership pin i
you get—gold finish with ||
blue letter, actual size 1
shown. FREE for 1 \
Grape-Nuts Flakes pack
age top. Send coupon below.
Club Membership Ring—
24-carat gold finish. Adjust
able to fit any finger.
FREE for 3 Grape-Nuts
Flakes package tops.
I........—.. . ..
! Jo* E. Bkown, , t WNU-8-22 SC
I Grape-Nuts Flakes, Battle Creek, Mich.
S I enclose.Grape-Nuts Flakes package tops. Please send
• me free the items checked below. (Put corrrect postage on your
J letter):
I □ Membership Pin and Club Manual. (Send 1 package top.)
J O Membership Ring. (Send 3 package tops.)
! Nmmm
* Street__
City . .State._
SEC JOE E. BROWN’S LATEST MOTION PICTURE—"EARTHWORM TRACTOR"—A WARNER BROTHERS PICTURE!
