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Tht BaraweU.Pcople-3—tin«l» BtimwIU 8. Cm Thoraday, Jaanary a, 1887 Ask Me Another # A General Quit • Ben S indicate—WNU Servian. 1. Into what stream did AoMBm? mother plunge him? 2. What was meant by aa M lDdbh man”? • - ^ 8. Of what joint is the patella a part? 4. What is a biconvex lens? 5. What is a dormant partner? 6. Where is Dartmoor prison? 7. What country was sometimes referred to as the “Celestial Empire’'? 8. What was a satrap? 9. Which is the “Bayou State’’? 10. In what Dickens novel does “Fagin” appear? 11. Who wrote “Miss Pinker, too”? 12. What is a ship’s log? Answers 1. The Styx. 2. A large ship in the Indian trade. 3. The knee. 4. One rounded on both sides. 5. One who supplies capital but takes no part in managing busi ness. 6. In Devonshire. 7. China. 8. A military governor. 9. Mississippi. 10. “Oliver Twist.” 11. Mary Roberts Rinehart. 12. Its daily record. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB When I c*.n wbJU in gooey mud Fly silent rapture* know5 no hounds. 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Nnw Ynrti National Topics Interpreted by William Bmckart Washington. — When President Roosevelt took office for his first term, one of the About outstanding obser- Monty vations that he made was to the effect that the American people “feared fear” and of this condition was bom instability. It was a re markable statement and the truth of it may not now even be denied. It accurately presented one of the fundamental influences disturbing American life and if that psychology could have been completely swept away, I believe things would have been different now. As I remember, I commented at that time upon the new President’s remark. Subsequently, I called at tention to the conditions of admin istration policy under the New Deal that were necessarily causing a con tinuation of that “fear of fear” in stead of calming the nation’s nerves. As Mr. Roosevelt closes his first term and begins his second tenure, I believe it is entirely proper again to advert to his significant and truthful observation of 1933. We can look at this picture only in retrospect, regrettable as it is that we cannot see into the future. It would then seem to be an entirely permissible thing to do to examine the basis of Mr. Roosevelt’s obser vation and see what has been done to correct the condition about which he complained. I shall not attempt to go into the various phases of the four-year term. Indeed, I think it is neither advisable nor necessary to analyze conditions beyond those that are basic, fundamental, in our national economic and political structure. For that reason, and because of recent developments of administra tive policy, I am writing something about money in this report to you. The Scripture quotation is: “The love of money is the root of all evil.” In treating of the subject of money from our practical stand point, “the love of money” takes on quite an unusual definition. For, may I point out in candor, there never has been a national admin istration, so far as my research goes, that has so thoroughly loved the spending of money. 1 believe Mr. Roosevelt himself enjoys it but Mr. Roosevelt is not the chief of fender of his administration in this regard. The two men whose rec ords stand out with an absurd will ingness to throw money around as I used to throw pebbles when I was a boy on a Missouri farm are Harry Hopkins, Works Progress ad ministrator, and Secretary Wallace, of the Department of Agriculture. I am quite convinced that Mr. Hop kins is the worse of the two. My conclusion is based on a conviction that Mr. Hopkins is the more waste ful. I am afraid that when the his tory of this great depression is set down in the cold light of facts as they will appear a quarter of a cen tury from now, Mr. Hopkins will have a place in that spotlight that will not do credit to the hundreds of people who have the real welfare of the poor at heart. • a • The latest development concern ing Mr. Hopkins in his public state- ment that there Money must be at least for Relief three-quarters of a billion new money appropriated for his relief work. President Roosevelt previously had said he would ask congress for only half a billion. It is difficult to rec oncile these two statements or the reasons therefor. Some slipshod thing has taken place or else Mr. Hopkins again is indulging in his favorite sport of spending and wast ing taxpayers’ money. Now, the figures reveal that re lief operations, as managed by Mr. Hopkins, are costing about $165,- 100,000 a month. If Mr. Roosevelt intends to use only $500,000,000 for relief, curtailment in sharp fashion must take place. If no such cur tailment is intended, even the Hop kins figure is too small. Thus, we are brought face to face again with a question: What is to oe the policy? I hear more ancf more discussion as congress gets under way that some definite state ment ought to be made, some com mitment given, so that the nation would know what it is proposed to do tfith all of this money and how much qf it is to be used. Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt re cently spoke rather curtly to some of his departmental heads about their printing bills. He thought they were too large and that money should be saved in that direction. Now, it happens governmental printing bills amount to no more than a drop in the bucket when com pared to the waste that goes on in the enormous relief set-up of which Mr. Hopkins is the head. It has been shown too many times to need elaboration here. Since Mr. Roosevelt has taken note of the departmental printing bills, however, I would like to make the suggestion that there is no valid reason any longer for excluding re lief appropriations from the regu lar estimates of expenditures as in cluded in the annual budget. Like many other items, the relief totals may have to be revised later, but that does not excuse the rather care less practices that have grown up in the calculation of relief expendi tures. It does not exclude the ne cessity for a real protection against heedless spending nor does it pre vent the formulation of intelligent policies. Individually, I do not quite under stand why the administration should fuss about a few millions of print ing bills and toss out half a billion or three-quarters of a billion, as the case may be, with reckless abandon when such tossing is done without any evident continuity -of sound pol icy. • • • I referred to Secretary Wallace’s spending proclivities. Mr. Wallace has been going Wallace about the country Talk* Money lately talking of the necessity for soil conservation and the payment of a subsidy to farmers to accom plish that end. He has been talking about money in sums as large as a billion dollars a year for crop in surance—a program in furtherance of Mr. Wallace’s “ever normal granary” idea. In theory, there is much to be said in favor of spreading unpredict able losses of farming through in surance. A large part of the dis tress found in agricultural regions is due to the destruction of crops by causes over which the farmers have no control. If the consequences of these hazards could be minimized by adjusting losses over wide areas, and by using the surplus of one year to offset the shortage of the next, one major farm problem would be solved. But, as matters now stand, there is a natural tend ency to regard this move with a skeptical eye. This is necessary be cause, like so many theories, the Wallace crop insurance, ever nor mal granary plan seems to omit the one element that is necessary to be included. If this proposition is to be successful, there simply can be no doubt that it must have almost unanimous support. It does not have it and never will. The reason is that it calls upon the government to pay part or all of the cost and human nature inevit ably resents taking from one to give to another. Mr. Wallace’s ideas were adopted by the President’s crop insurance committee. That committee was supposed to have the interest of ag riculture at heart. Its recommen dations indicate that it had not only such an interest but an even greater interest, namely, making sure that the farmers were given everything. From all of the discussions that I have heard, I believe it is quite apparent that the committee went too far. It went so far, indeed, that it is arousing resentment from the consumers who think that they will have to pay the bill. There fore, by proposing a program that is too extreme, the crop insurance committee and Mr. Wallace have forced a cleavage between producer and consumer and that is likely to result in a renewal of warfare be tween these two segments of our national life. It will cause a re vival of an age-old quarrel insteac of a healing of old wounds. No one can deny that the farmers, as a class, have not been getting their fair share. From the attitude of many thinking farmers, however, I rather believe that agriculture would prefer to have a farm aic program which would permit it to produce and sell to the cunsumers under harmonious conditions anc regulations rather than get too much and earn the hatred of the masses who are to buy the farmers’ output. To advert to the original theme, Mr. Wallace likes to pass out mon ey. He knows, as all others in pub lic life know, that the government will be generous with agriculture and I am afraid that fact has caused the otherwise genial sec retary of agriculture to lose his per spective—to forget that he is foster ing a program that will change tra ditions and practices on the farms of America as surely as the sun shines. Farmers are human as everyone else is human. Some of them, like some of us, who must exist among modern cliff dwellings of concrete and steel, entertain a fear that a policy of government payments equivalent to a dole, may have the effect in the end of destroying rather than saving the business of agriculture. • Weatern Newspaper Union. UNCOMMON AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson O Western Newepeper Union Busy Sunbonnet Girls Sam Hawken, Riflemaker TirHAT a Stradivarius is to vio- Unists, a Hawken rifle Is to those who love fine firearms. For a genuine example of the work manship of “Old Sam” Hawken ol St. Louis is one of the rarest weap ons In existence. So far ss is known, there are pnly five. * But it is not alone the rarity of these rifles which makes them in teresting. It’s a case of “the man behind the gun” as well. He was Samuel hawken, born of Pennsyl vania Dutch stock in Maryland in 1792. He was s soldier in the War of 1812 and after his return from it he began practicing the trade ol gunsmith. In 1822 he moved to St. Louis where his brother, Jacob Hawken, was already engaged in making guns. That was the golde i era of the fur trade and the fame of the rifles which Samuel and Jacob Hawken were making soon spread all along the frontier because they were the most accurate and finest pieces of workmanship available, not even excepting the famous Ken tucky “long ifles.” The demand for Hawken's prod uct was limited only by the supply, which was small. For Hawken made every rifle by hand, welding the barrels out of strips of iron which he got from an iron furnace on the Meramec river In Missouri. These strips were hammered into five-inch lengths and welded around a steel mandrel, thus making the tube which was bored out with a rifling tool afterwards. It was a tedious and thoroughgoing job of work, unusual even in those days of careful and honest craftsmanship. But what was even more unusual was the fact that Hawken had ona price for his rifles. That was $25— no more, no less. He could have had twice or three times that price, so great was the demand, but ha refused to charge more because ha believed that one price brought him trade. Jacob Hawken died during the cholera epidemic of 1849 in St. Louis and Samuel Hawken contin ued in the business until 1859 when he sold out to an apprentice, John P. Gemmer who was running the Hawken shop when Samuel Hawken returned to St. Louis in 1861 to spend his declining years. “Old Sam” became a regular habitue of the shop so long as he lived and could scarcely keep his hands off the tools, so greatly did he love the work. Once Gemmer allowed him to don an apron and make a rifle complete as he had done in years gone by and this rifle, prob ably the last which “Old Sam, 1 honest workman, ever made, is one of the two Hawken rifles now owned by the Missouri Historical society. Pattern 918 They’re never without their sun- bonnets, these seven diminutive] maidens who make light of their own chores, and yours, too. See how pretty they’re going to look, embroidered on a set of seven] tea towels? Stitohes are of the easiest—mostly outline, with lazy daisy, running stitch and some! French knots. Keep them in mind » Uncle Phil SajjAs Rejoice in Friend's Success Allow no shadow of envy to mar the sunshine of a friend’s suc cess. He that from fear doeth good, is still more meritorious than he that doeth no good at all. The swan knows how to use its neck; that is why it is beautiful. The giraffe doesn’t and is gro tesque. Following precedent Is always good for those whose bursts ef wisdom are doubtful. Features of Gentility Two main features of gentility are propriety and consideration for others. If one knows a mean story himself, let him remember It when he Is tempted to Ml a maaa story oa frain. Aren’t the ladies* pages full of advice on how to manege e hue- band; but where do you find ad monitions on how to manage a wife? for gifts. Pattern 918 contains, a transfer pattern of seven motifs averaging 8 by 7% inches; iOus- trations of aU stitches needed; color suggestions end material re quirements. Send ID cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly your name, ad dress and pattern number. Foreign Words ^ and Fhraseq * Allans. (F.) Comq on; let us be going. Bonhomie. (F.) Good nature; credulity. Commune bomim. (L.) The common good. Dux femina fact!. (L.) The lead er of the deed e woman. Grisette. (F.) A young working girl. Mai a propos. (F.) Ill times; out of place. Nunc aut nunquam. (L.) Now or never. Otium cum dignitate. (L.) Lei sure with dignity. Parole d’honneur. (F.) Word of honor. Tempera mutantur, et nos mu- tamur in illis. (L.) The times are changed; and wa are changed with them. "The LIGHT of 1000 USES" AIN Mantle LANTERN U— your Colwaai -with this ^ finer shortening in the bright rad Jews/ carton/ Our Early Watches The first watches were produced in all sorts of fanciful designs, with cases shaped like crosses or shells or mandolins, says a writer in the Washington Star. A peculiar fash ion was that of a watch-case shaped like a skull, to remind the owner when he looked at it that'time was fleeting and death was drawing near. The lovely and unlucky Mary Queen of Scots had a skull-shaped watch, and in view of her death on the headsman’s block it was gruesomely appropriate. Cavaliers had swords and poniards with little watches set into the hilts. $50,000 Signature '"P HERE’S no doubt that John D. ■■■ Rockefeller’s signature, or that] of J. P. Morgan, would be worth $50,000—if it were on a check! But the only American whose written name (not on a Check) has ever been worth that amount was Button, ] Gwinnett. Gwinnett was born in England in I 1732. Despite that fact, he can be listed as an American because he came to America in 1770, was chosen as a delegate from Georgia to the Continental congress and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. ^ i The next year he was an un successful candidate for governor] and he was also defeated as candi date for brigadier-general of the Georgia militia by Gen. Lachlin Me- ] Intosh. As a result of a quarrel, Gwinnett challenged McIntosh to u duel which was fought with pistols at 12 feet. He was mortally wound ed t.nd died on May 27, 1777. Most of the 56 signers of the Dec laration of Independence lived for many years after that historic event, wrote many letters or signed many documents. But with Gwin-] nett’s career cut off in less than a ] year after he joined that company of immortals, he left few examples of his handwriting. So his auto graph is the rarest of all the signers and it is that rarity which gives it such great value. In 1926 Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, the noted collector, paid $22,500 for ] a will which was signed by Gwin-j nett as a witness. That was an unheard-of price for an autograph. But it was only the beginning of a] “boom in Button Gwinnetts.” Later in the year this same col lector bought another—this time a signature on a promisory note and it cost him $28,500. In 1927 an aH-time record for ] autograph prices was reached when Dr. Rosenbach paid $51,000 for a letter signed by Button Gwin nett and four other signers of the] Declaration who were serving on the marine committee of the Conti- rental congress. Aside from the Declaration it is the only known document dealing with national af fairs which this jGeorgian signed. •Many a famous Southern cook has made her reputation with Jtmt pastry, cakes, and hot breads. A Sptciol-Blmd of vegetable fat with other bland cooking fata, Jewel actually cream fosUr; makes men lender baked foods. And, with a high smoke point, it’s excellent for frying. PREFERRED TO THE COSTLIEST SHORTENING* VERA CRUZ 1ml a 9 go nr kmc a BEFORE YOU NEED A QUART Winter driving puts an added burden on motor oiL It must flow freely at the first turn of the motor ... provide constant lubrication... have the stamina to sand up. 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