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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1937)
SEEN and HEARD' around the [ATIONAL CAPITAL By Carter Field AMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington. — Republicans in the ise and senate are receiving an onishing number of letters from long G. O. P. voters insisting t practical expediency dictates breaking up of the Republican 'ty as a national institution, be writers almost without excep 1 take the ground that the im tant thing, both from their own Ish interests—which they gener r construe as the good of the mtry—and the carrying out of old Republican economic ideals, lot only to prevent the re-election Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 but prevent the election of any one isen by Roosevelt who will carry the New Deal policies, he only thing that holds the Dem iatic party together at the mo ot, many of these writers insist, he presence on the field of battle heir enemy, the Republican par Some of them make the point t the old truism that there are re Republicans in the United tes than Democrats—that this i Republican country—is no long nccurate. A new generation has pe of voting age, which has no ty ties rooted in the old tradi i, they insist, and apparently a y large majority of the younger s have very definitely affiliated l the Democratic party, ven the often made statement Republican Chairman John D. M. nilton about the tremendous iber of Republicans who voted the last election, nearly seven i million, is the bunk, many of ;e writers go out of their way assert. They point to the fact , a tremendous number of these ipublican" votes were actually t by Democrats who have no ( whatever for the Republican ty, its traditions or leaders. They ance Alfred E. Smith, John W. is, Balnbridge Colby, former ator James A. Reed of Missouri, though he never made a public ement that he was going to vote Alfred M. Landon, many writers mention Newton D. Baker. >uld Scrap G. O. P. >ere is no way of telling how ly Democrats, unhappy about New Deal tendencies of their y, voted for Landon. But every of the folks writing in recently asking that the Republican par e scrapped in order to open a r road for an effective conserv* e opposition to the New Deal ns to think a great many. ;t the opposition to being sed as a Republican, or to giv aid and comfort to a revival of G. O. P., the writers point out. rred literally millions of Dem its from jumping party lines, ly of the letters mention such -known Democratic leaders as itors Carter Glass and Harry F. i of Virginia, Millard E. Tyd of Maryland, Josiah W. Bailey lorth Carolina, and Walter F. rge of Georgia as among the locrats who supported ltoose some tepidly and some strong nerely because he was the Dem tic nominee, running against a ablican. Ithout the national Republican y opposition to hold it together, y of these letter writers be >, the Democratic party would >st immediately split into two ies, giving the country the con ative and progressive division economic lines to which it is Jed, and getting rid of bygone' ;s, labels and prejudices which Id no longer be permitted to be ll our presidential campaigns. ding Corporations t many votes are involved, so * is no telling what congress do about it, but there are a t many individuals on Capitol who think the personal holding oration, in many instances, is ?ctly moral and justified, e best demonstration is one did not happen. But let us take case of the author of “Gone the Wind.” That book came just over a year ago. It is rally estimated to have earned million dollars for Margaret hell. All of that million was ed in two calendar years, most in the first. And the govern t will take approximately half latl w no one would object to the rnment taking fifty per cent of icome of half a million dollars ar—if the income came every —if it was interest on invested bal or earnings from a going ern. it here is a case where an au certainly from a comparative ipoint, eked out an existence rg the ten or fifteen years in h this major opus was under truction. Furthermore, while statement may be confounded , most authors think it is ex ely unlikely that the writer of le With the Wind” will produce ler highly profitable work. As atter of fact, there is no in lion to date that she will at it it w to apply the corporation idea, irgaret Mitchell had incorporat he government would have tak fteen per cent of that one mil lion dollars—the normal levy on cor ; poration earnings. The rest could have remained in the surplus, save j what part she drew out for spend- , ing On that part drawn out in divi-' dends she would have to pay in- i come taxes, of course, but she would escape pie enormous sur taxes that an income of half a million dollars rates. She could dis tribute the taxes over the rest of her natural life, and the govern- | ment would be lucky to get $200,000 instead of the $500,000 it gets with Margaret Mitchell unincorporated. How It Works The point here is that there are a great many people who have brief periods of very high earning power, sometimes coming toward the end of a lifetime, and sometimes very early. It is just possible, for ex ample, that Shirley Temple will never earn a dollar after she is ten years old. Or nine for that matter. Often a comedian or more serious actor will struggle in comparative poverty for twenty years, as did the late Frank Bacon, and then have a wonderful three or four years. Sometimes it is only one year. There are other forms of occu pation where the same thing works out, with plenty of ups and downs, mostly downs. But the only way to prevent the government taking half or more of the profits in good years, although not helping out in bad years, is to incorporate. To hear the testimony of the gov ernment experts before the house committee, and to read the news paper articles about their testimony, the casual reader might assume that the person thus incorporating actually dodged all taxes in that particular directon. Let’s look at what the government actually does to corporations! In the first place, it takes fifteen per cent of all net earnings. That is a fair sized tax in itself, more than one dollar out of eight. In th<j second place, the corporation pays two additional taxes to the federal government, on its capital stock and on excess profits. In the third place, when the corporation pays out dividends, they become the income of the person receiving them, and are subject to all income taxes, even including the normal tax, from which previous to the last March returns they were exempt. May Be Long Session Only a surprise move by President Roosevelt, which may come but is not expected, can prevent the pres ent session of congress running into October. Actually congress can adjourn within two weeks of any Tuesday on which the President lets the leaders know that he is willing for certain legislation to go over until next session. This legislation in cludes of course the Supreme court enlargement measure. The legislation which would have to be put over until next session als’b includes much of the govern ment reorganization proposal made by the President. Mr. Roosevelt can get part of this without any delay whatever, notably the half dozen additional secretaries he wants. But certain phases of it would be fought to the death by senators and rep resentatives. some of whom are in entire sympathy with the President on most of his proposals. But if Mr. Roosevelt should take the advice given him by Vice Pres ident John N. Garner before that astute gentleman left for Texas, it would amaze every one how quickly congress could clean up its odds and ends, clear its calendars of everything to which there is no real opposition, and scatter. It has been apparent to every one with the slightest interest in looking beneath the surface that congress has been stalling for months. Time Not Wasted But meanwhile the time is not being entirely wasted. There are reactions from the constituents of the congressmen. They gradually find out enough about home senti ment to determine whether they dare support or oppose certain measures. They can appraise the value of trades they contemplate making. This year, however, this watchful waiting process has cjme pretty near to breaking all records, large ly because of the two major pieces of legislation. One of them, the Su preme court proposal, is a major issue. The other, government re organization, involves personal pol itics. And while they have hung back on this, with the senate adjourning for British week-ends, and meeting only a few hours—sometimes minutes— when it does actually convene, the labor issue has become more im portant than anything actually on the agenda. In holding congress in session to break the filibuster that is certain il the President pushes his Supreme court plan, Mr. Roosevelt is acting against the advice of most of his friends and party colleagues. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. ‘DOWN UNDER’ ■ Bowling: on the Green Is One of the Favorite Sports In New Zealand. New Zealand Is Country of Scenic Wonders and Many Odd Paradoxes Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. ON DECEMBER 16, 1642, Abel Tasman stood on the deck of the Heemskirk in the South Pacific and gazed out toward an unknown "great, high, bold land.” At the hands of an unimagina tive cartographer 'the new wavy lines added to the map became New Zealand, after the Netherlands Province of Zeeland, to which it bears not the least resemblance. The inappropriatenessof its name, however, is not the only par adox of this British dominion of the Far South. Captain James Cook, who first explored the islands a century and a quarter later, took possession of them for his country only to have his claims rejected. Britain still la ter hoisted the Union Jack over the land to prevent French immigrants from settling in the place they cher ished. The country’s capital bears the name Wellington, but the Iron Duke stood firm against the annex ation. Many New Zealanders who have never been away from the island’s shores, and whose parents likewise were born in the Dominion, still speak of England as "home.” Here in an area approximately the size of Colorado are grouped the snow-mantled peaks of Switzer lend, geysers of a Yellowstone, vol canic cones of Java and Japan, and the lakes of Italy; the mineral springs of Czechoslovakia, fiords of Norway, seacoasts of Maine and California, and waterfalls higher than Yosemite. Largest and Smallest Pines. Glaciers slip down sharp moun tainsides from vast snow fields into subtropical bush. A short ride through a pass in the southern Alps will take one from impenetrable evergreen forests into barren tus sock-covered lands. New Zealand is the home of thfe massive kauri pines, some of which measure 22 feet in diameter and have reached hoary ages that rank them next to the sequoias. It also is the homo of the smallest known representative of the pine-tree fam ily. Giant fuOhsias grow to the height of 40 feet; a white buttercup has blooms four inches in-diameter; flax is produced from a lily; man has imported all of the mammals, and many of the native birds can not fly. The Maoris were the first-known colonists of these southern islands. Guided only by the stars and a knowledge of the winds and ocean currents, they boldly piloted their slender double canoes from their homeland of “Hawaiki” (probably Tahiti and the Cook islands) to the shores of New Zealand in the Four teenth century. Legend credits them with having followed the sailing di rections of the famous Polynesian navigator, Kupe, who is said to have preceded them by 400 years. To the new land they gave the lilting, vowel - studded name, Ao tea-roa, which is variously trans lated as “The Long White Cloud,” “The Land of Long Daylight." and ‘The Long. Bright Land.” Here they lived, increased, warred against each other, and cul tivated their taro and the more important kumara, or sweet potato, which they brought with them. Then came whalers, missionaries, and traders; and colonists arrived with gunpowder, conflicting social stand ards, and the desire to carve out new homes. Principal City Thrives. Protracted Maori wars, contested land claims, the discovery of gold, land booms, ar.d a heavy depres sion—New Zealand passed through them all before she settled down to economic equilibrium. With its 221,300 people Auckland today has more than twice the British population of the whole country in the early 60's of the last century. As a ship nears the end of its 6,000-mile journey from the west coast of the United States, or the 1,200-mile span from Aus tralia, it skirts the islands that stud the cobalt waters of Hauraki gulf, enters Waitemata harbor, and finally ties up at the very foot of the thriving city. The early colonists chose well when they staked out this harbor side settlement that once served he country as capital and now is the largest city in New Zealand. Long ago Nature’s forces, not man’s industry, reigned in this local ity. Within a radius of ten miles there are more than 60 burnt-out volcanic cones. Stand on the top of Mount Eden, one of the best preserved of the craters, which rises like an observation post near the center of the city, and you see the once-flery throats bulging or forming symmetrical cones on the landscape. From this same vantage point it is apparent how narrowly North island escaped being divided in two. The isthmus upon which Auckland sprawls, between the Waitemata harbor, looking out toward the Paci fic, and the Manukau harbor, open ing westward to the Tasman sea, is only eight miles wide. River estuaries and other indentations narrow it in places to a scant mile. Veritably, water seems almost to encircle the red- and green-roofed maze of the city’s business blocks and suburban residences. Abounds in Flowers. Business hovers close to Queen’s street, which leads up from the wharves, and in its adjacent nar row, twisting thoroughfares. But if the people responsible for the city’s growth have failed somewhat in town planning so far as the streets are concerned, they have more than exonerated themselves in providing broad park spaces. The parks seem almost number less. To them the flush of the sub tropics gives perpetual freshness and color. Flowers luxuriate all the year round. One cannot move about Auckland long without the new War Memorial museum claiming attention. It stands out boldly, a massive white Grecian building, above the wide greensward on the heights of the Domain. Here are housed treasures from many lands, but most inter esting of all is the comprehensive collection of Maori objects on dis play—the homes, elaborately carved storehouses, war canoes, war im plements, and handicrafts of that powerful native race. Rolling southward in January from Auckland on the ribbon of concrete and asphalt, you pass soon into smiling open country, check ered with fields. Men are haying and herds of sleek cattle and sheep graze on a hundred rolling hills and valley. Agriculture was the task to which the New Zealand colonists first di rected their efforts, but in the pass ing years they have come to rely more and more on pastoral enter prise. An experimental shipment of frozen meat sent to England in 1882 pointed the way out of a pinching depression that had followed the collapse of a land boom. Historic Battle Scenes. Today New Zealand butter and other dairy products h3ve attained world-wide distribution. Of more than 4,300,000 cattle pasturing on the land, nearly half are dairy stock. More than 28,600,000 sheep also range North and South islands, making New Zealand the world’s seventh largest sheep - producing country and the fifth largest in wool production. Near the little town of Mercer was the old frontier between Maori and colonist. The whole region is historic ground, for here in 1863-4 the Maori warriors tested the best mettle of the British troops and long made pioneering a perilous venture. Today, iifstead of a battleground, the district is a peaceful, English havored countryside. Upon a hill now stands the St. Stephens Maori Boys’ college, where Maori youths are being trained for useful pur suits. Just beyond Hamilton, the largest provincial town in Auckland prov ince, you may run into peat fires that are smoldering and eating into the black soil in many places. The continued dry, hot summer weather causes an outbreak of many of these destructive fires. A few miles to the west of the main road that leads to Te Kuiti are the fascinating Waitomo caves. Interest in the caves hinges on a tiny worm—an unusual carnivorous glowworm—scientifically, the Bole tophela luminosa. The Glowworm grotto is a magic ally uncanny spot. Floating along in a boat on the stillness of a subter ranean stream, one looks up at myriads of these tiny creatures, with their lamps alight, that cover the roof of the cavern like a dense, greenish-blue Milky Way Third Term Ballyhoo. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. —After a president has been re-elected it’s certain that some inspired patriot who is snuggled close to the throne will burst from his cell with a terrible yell to pro claim that unless the adored incumbent consents again to succeed himself this nation is doomed. Incidentally the said patriot’s present job and perquisites also would be doomed, so h e couldn’t be blamed for privately brooding on the dis tressful thought.You wouldn’t call him selfish, but you could call him hope ful, especially since there’s a chance his ballyhoo may direct attention upon him as a suitable candi date when his idol says no to the prop Irvin S. Cobb osition. He might ride in on the backwash, which would be even nicer than steering a tidal wave for somebody else. Political observers have a name for this. They call it “sending up a balloon.” It’s an apt simile, a balloon being a flimsy thing, full of hot air, and when it soars aloft nobody knows where it will come down—if at all. It lacks both steer ing gears and terminal facilities. There have been cases when the same comparison might have been applied not alone to the balloon but to the gentleman who launched it. So let’s remain calm. It’s tradi tional in our history that no presi dent ever had to go ballooning in or der to And out how the wind blew and that no volunteer third-term boomer ever succeeded in taking the trip himself. • • • Modern Prairie Schooners. '117'E’RE certainly returnin * — * * with modern improvements— to prairie schooner days when rest less Americans are living on wheels and housekeeping on wheels and having babies on wheels. Only the other day twins were born aboard a trailer. And—who kn ws?—per haps right now the stork, with a future president in her beak, is flap ping fast, trying to catch up with somebody’s perambulating bunga low. So it’s a fitting moment to revive the story of early Montana when some settlers were discussing the relative merits of various makes of those canvas-covered arks which bore such hosts of emigrants west ward. They named over the Cones toga, the South Bend, the Murphy, the Studebaker and various others. From under her battered sunbon net there spoke up a weather beaten old lady who, with her husband and her growing brood, had spent the long years bumping along behind an x team from one frontier camp to nother. “Boys,” she said, shifting her snuff-stick, “I always did claim the old hickory waggin wuz the best one there is fur raisin’ a family in." Pugs Versus Statesmen. IT’S confusing to read that poor 1 decrepit Jim Braddock, having reached the advanced age of thirty four or thereabouts, is all washed up, and, then, in another column, to discover that leading candidates to supply young blood on the Su preme court bench are but bound ing juveniles of around sixty-six. This creates doubt in the mind of a fellow who, let us say, is quite a few birthdays beyond that en gendered wreck, Mr. Braddock, yet still has a considerable number of years to go before he’ll be an agile adolescent like some senators. He ;an’t decide whether he ought to join the former at the old men's Home o enlist with the latter in the Boy Scouts. • • * Quiescent Major Generals. SOMETHING has gone out of life. For months now no general of the regular army, whether retired or detailed to a civilian job, has talked himself into a jam—a rasp berry jam, if you want to make a cheap pun of it. May be it’s being officially gagged for so long while on active service j that makes such a conversational Tessie out of the average brigadier when he goes into private pursuits and lets his hair down. It’s as though he took off his tact along with his epaulettes. And when he subsides there’s always another to take his place. You see, under modern warfare the commanding officer is spared. He may lead the retreat, but never the charge. When the boys go over the top is he out in front waving a sword? Not so you’d notice it. By the new rules he’s signing papers in a bombproof nine miles behind the lines and about the only peril he runs is from lack of eve-cise in the fresh air. Maybe, in view of what so often happens when peace ensues, we should save on privates instead of generals. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. For Discriminating People ■^OW is the time for all smart women to come to the aid of their wardrobes. Sew-Your-Own wants to lend a hand, Milady: hence today’s trio of mid-summer pace makers. At The Left. A trim little reminder that care ful grooming is an asset any where, anytime, is this frock. It features simplicity. Its forte is comfort. Make one version in cot ton for all purpose wear, another of sports silk for dressy occasions. In The Center. Here you have a light and breezy ensemble that’s the per fect attire for Society. It has cos mopolitan dash, refinement, and engaging charm. Once more you’ll be the subject of compli mentary tea table talk with your delightfully slender silhouette. At The Right. The little lady who likes unusual touches in her frocks will go for this new dregs and pantie set. It has the chic of mommy’s dresses plus a little-girl daintiness that is more than fetching. Wrap around styling makes it easy for even the tiniest girl to get into and it’s quite a time saver on ironing day. A splendid idea is to cut this pat tern twice and be assured of little sister’s all summer chic. The Patterns. Pattern 1237 is designed for sizes 34 to 46, Size 36 requires 4% yards of 35 inch material plus % yard contrasting for collar. Pattern 1333 is designed for sizes 36 to 52. Size 38 requires 7% yards of 39 inch material. The dress alone requires 4% yards. To line the jacket requires 214 yards of 39 inch material. Pattern 1322 is designed for sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 years. Size 6 requires 314 yards of 35 inch material plus 51£ yards ®f ribbon for trimming as pictured. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. MAKES 10 BIG GLASSES AT GROCERS [BECAUSE IT’S THE | SEAL OF A PERFECT UNION. " DV If A EDGE Jab rll'nll ROBBERS If your dealer cannot supply you, send 20c and your dealer’s name for a Trial Package of 48 genuine age-resistant, live rubber Pe-Ko rings; sent prepaid. ___ United Statesfdii/lRubber Company f"7 You Stand Alone As you start upward in your ca reer you get slaps on the back; at the top, you get none. Squeezed From Her Many a girl on receiving a pro posal is hard pressed for an an swer. LIFE’S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher I BUBBLES .c<«.w IMT Ct Kr»d Nrtwfl “I always look . . . there might be an old maid there.”