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.
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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
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“I always look . . . there might be an old maid there.”
