anaheim-gazette 1936-02-20

ANAHEIM GAZETTE MRS. HENRY KUCHEL THEODORE B. KUCHEL Editors and Publishers ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS $1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. THE NEW DEAL CHANGETH That the first act of the experiment of the New Deal in the regimentation of the farmer and the production of the abundant life through planned scarcity is now over, is indicated not only by the decision of the Supreme Court in holding the activities of the AAA unconstitutional, but in subsequent moves of the administration. Upon recommendation of the President, three more New Deal activities are being liquidated by the repeal in Congress of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act and the noted, if not notorious, Potato Control Act. Bills for the repeal of these three laws went through the Congress without causing a ripple of excitement. The passing out of the Bankhead bill marks the termination of the first effort on the part of the Brain Trusters to regiment the farmers by compulsion; in other words, to require them to reduce their cotton crops whether they desired to do so or not. The potato control law will be missed by the cartoonists and newspaper paragraphers, who have been having a lot of fun caricaturing and lampooning the humble tuber and the effort made to give it the cellophane-Wrapped status. At the time all of this is being done, a bill is under consideration in Congress which would authorize the government to sell the cotton it holds at the rate of 25,000 bales a week. The supporters of this bill, introduced by Senator Smith of South Carolina, believe that in this way the government could get out of its cotton holdings with less disturbance to the market and less depression of prices than if it followed the plan of Secretary Wallace to hold this federal supply of cotton for higher prices. They think that the mere knowledge that the government has this vast supply of cotton is a price depressant and prevents the return of higher prices. Those who remember Uncle Sam's experience in the wheat business will be inclined to believe there is some weight to this latter contention. ment to sell the cotton it holds at the rate of 25,000 bales a week. The supporters of this bill, introduced by Senator Smith of South Carolina, believe that in this way the government could get out of its cotton holdings with less disturbance to the market and less depression of prices than if it followed the plan of Secretary Wallace to hold this federal supply of cotton for higher prices. They think that the mere knowledge that the government has this vast supply of cotton is a price depressant and prevents the return of higher prices. Those who remember Uncle Sam's experience in the wheat business will be inclined to believe there is some weight to this latter contention. At any rate, things are being done to the New Deal's first plan for the resuscitation of agriculture. What the second act will bring forth remains to be seen. END OF AAA DOES NOT SPELL DISASTER When the NRA was invalidated by the Supreme Court we had many direful predictions from Brain Trusters that the day of reckoning was at hand. Any pick-up in business was due to the efforts of the NRA, we were told, and with this act out of the way there would be a recession in business and an increase of hard times. Yet, despite these prophecies, we know that business did not go to the dogs. On the other hand, it commenced accelerating its pace almost immediately after the NRA went into the discard. The records will show that and most anybody will admit now that business became better than it was in the closing days of the NRA. The reason for improvement is not hard to find. Business has been getting better for two years, all over the world. This is true in Great Britain, in Canada, in Sweden and other European nations where the forces of recovery have been given full play. The NRA with its artificial restrictions in America was slowing up rather than accelerating the worldwide recovery. So its invalidation speeded up rather than retarded recovery in America. Now there has been a tendency on the part of many of the Brain Trusters who devised the AAA to predict dire things for the farmers since that alphabet has been liquidated by the Supreme Court. The farmers, we are told, are facing over-production, lower prices and ruin, all because the AAA has been invalidated. Let us remember the NRA and not become too discouraged at this time. It is true, of course, that the farm income of the United States had, in 1935, gained nearly $3,000,000,000 over the low of 1932, most of it while the AAA was in action. But it is to be remembered, too, that farm income has been increased in Argentine, in Austrialia, in Canada and other agricultural countries where there has been no AAA. It is a little too early, therefore, to predict disaster for the farmers in our country because the AAA has been disqualified. Foreign farmers have been doing pretty well without any AAA at all. It is true that the benefit payments which went to farmers out of the processing taxes increased the income of the farmers. But it is not sound logic to assert that this was all gain. For when the farmer received this income he had to cut his production, and with less production he had less to sell than he would otherwise have had. And when the processing taxes were assessed this depressed the farmer's prices, so that he really, in part at least, received money for benefits which had been taken out of another of his pockets. CONSOLIDATION GETS INTO POLITICS The matter of consolidation county offices and their fiefs might easily become the issue in supervisorial cases this year and two years. Officials of the county have injected the question declare it will be kept alive. There has been a dispute among some to regard the stir over consolidation as politics. It is easy to resentment toward the Grate part of those who the organization should stick to cultural matters. It is that some axe-grinding done, but the situation naturally out of the active Bureau in the study whole field of taxation; activities have been steadily. The consolidation merely one phase of it. Grange and Bureau state that the county govern act as amended in 1932 broad powers to a board of visors. They say their read the law is that several sho possible. They are: Sheer tax collector; auditor and clerk; auditor and taxor; treasurer and recorder;urer and assessor; treasurer and tax collector;urer and public admin district attorney and o sheriff and public admin. Which of these combats might be recommended Bureau for Orange county known. No complete study show definitely what might be affected, has been WHEN IS A LAW MADE TO BE BROKEN? Private citizens can be number of laws in a day early, therefore, to predict disaster for the farmers in our country because the AAA has been disqualified. Foreign farmers have been doing pretty well without any AAA at all. It is true that the benefit payments which went to farmers out of the processing taxes increased the income of the farmers. But it is not sound logic to assert that this was all gain. For when the farmer received this income he had to cut his production, and with less production he had less to sell than he would otherwise have had. And when the processing taxes were assessed this depressed the farmer's prices, so that he really, in part at least, received money for benefits which had been taken out of another of his pockets. Restriction of production in certain lines brought higher prices of those commodities, even if they did not increase the income of the farmers commensurately. But they had one other effect. The price rise was general and as a result the farmers had to pay more for what they bought. The scarcity program, however, had one effect. It greatly increased our imports of farm commodities, so that money which should have been kept at home to pay for American farm produce went abroad to pay for alien farm produce. And this increase in imports is continuing. It is being encouraged rather than discouraged by such trade pacts as that entered into by Secretary Hull with Canada. With scarcity at home, the farmer has lost his foreign market and is losing an important part of his home market. Evidently what he needs is not more planned restriction, but some additional effort to get back the one he has lost abroad. Former President Hoover says: "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." In a way they are like the meek, who if they inherit the earth, will find that a 90 per cent mortgage goes along with it. Well, it's too bad. Just as the humble Irish potato had a chance to jump into the caviar class, the Supreme Court had to knock out the AAA. The future doesn't look so bright. It is said there are more than 50 taxes levied on a loaf of bread from the time the grain is planted until the loaf is placed on the table. No wonder it takes dough to make bread. Some mechanical experts say that automobile engines frequently get "intoxicated" during an accident. But one main trouble is that so many automobile drivers get intoxicated before the accident. WHEN IS A LAW MADE TO BE BROKEN? Private citizens can be number of laws in a day without knowing they have so. County officials can same, not only as private but officials too. Some infractions come to light now then. Usually they are co. In the course of years practices in the conduct of affairs creep in and become habit. They seldom cost anything, but they cause technical violations just then. The first one that popped the limelight in Orange was the matter of the re-extending credit to large co for their recording fees. A showed up last week when treasurer announced that co and employees could not draw against their current salary. "No more I. O. U.' ed" was the rule. In testifying in the W case the county auditor said many officials outside of the seat were guilty of nu technical violations, though specified none directly. Some of these little have come to attention grand jury. How seriously findings and recommendations will be regarded in various cannot yet be told, but it is there will be a tightening reins. It will not all be since the public which dealt these offices cannot always No Way To Treat a Timid Lady LADIES FIRST, YOU BIG LOUT! PROSPERITY HI TAXES ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment by and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County APPEARING IN THE FOLLOWING: Huntington Beach News Newport Beach News Garden Grove News Santa Ana Bulletin Westminster Gazette Coastline Dispatch South Coast News Buena Park News Yorba Linda Star Placentia Courier Anahelm Gazette Seal Beach News The LETTER BOX Editor, Gazette: A common criticism of the Townsend Plan, and one often voiced by some who are friendly to it is that if Dr. Townsend had advocated a pension of $50.00 to $75.00 per month instead of $200.00 that the bill might have “There are still the half-crazed I said, leering at to the hand of the Lucie had been notice the evil towards her daughter Carton learned that Mme. Defa child he was given Dr. Mánette had with Danton him terview had no had Lucie’s with Dr. Manette was borderland of she had been re-Bastille, Mr. Lorrie. “There’s no Lucie wildly to don’t you say it? comfort her, but he could say, and “It’s going to see Sydney, afterward could see him or even do that!” Mr. Med and told Lucie was calling for her was alone with Mr. Med him if he had Paris when ever Lorry’s affirmation continued: “Lucie Miss Pross and have theirs. You fast.” “But why? The valid any time.” “Until cancello what I’ve gathered will see that the Doctor is su behaviour at the ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment by and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County APPEARING IN THE FOLLOWING: Huntington Beach News Newport Beach News Garden Grove News Santa Ana Bulletin Westminster Gazette Coastline Dispatch South Coast News Buena Park News Yorba Linda Star Placentia Courler Anaheim Gazette Seal Beach News La Habra Star Tustin News Brea Progress CONSOLIDATION GETS INTO POLITICS The matter of consolidation county offices and their functions might easily become the principal issue in supervisorial campaigns this year and two years hence. Officials of the county Grange have injected the question and declare it will be kept alive. There has been a disposition among some to regard the sudden over consolidation as mostly politics. It is easy to find a sentiment toward the Grange on the part of those who think the organization should stick to agricultural matters. It is possible that some axe-grinding may be done, but the situation arises naturally out of the activities of the Bureau in the study of the whole field of taxation. These activities have been steadily growing. The consolidation matter is merely one phase of it. Orange and Bureau officials state that the county government has amended in 1933 gives road powers to a board of superiors. They say their reading of the law is that several shifts are possible. They are: Sheriff and collector; auditor and record-keeper; auditor and tax collector-treasurer and recorder; treasurer and assessor; treasurer and tax collector; treasurer and public administrator; district attorney and coroner; Griff and public administrator. Which of these combinations might be recommended by the bureau for Orange county is not known. No complete study, to now definitely what savings might be affected, has been made. MEN IS A LAW MADE BE BROKEN? Private citizens can break a number of laws in a day's time made to understand. And after all, an official feels that some things can best be left to his judgment, with attendant accommodation to the public and no damage to the county. COUNTY HANDLES OWN ACCIDENT INSURANCE A good many concerns have discovered that with a little luck they can carry their own insurance. Orange county is one of those concerns. It has found that in the matter of compensation insurance it can easily keep ahead of the game. For three years the county has handled personal accident and injury cases among its employees without the aid of an insurance company. By so doing it has saved at least $20,000. Formerly this insurance was written with the state compensation fund. The total premium ran to about $12,000 a year. A check on the numerous claims paid showed the company was getting plenty of gravy. So the board of supervisors set up the amount of a year's premium as a fund from which to take care of employees itself. The first year the total claims paid for injuries were only about $1,000. The next year they ran considerably larger. This year has been more unlucky than normal and the fund is pretty well exhausted, but at that the county is much to the good. This method of handling the business has put considerable additional work on the purchasing department which was the one elected to handle the insurance work. Personal investigation of each claim has to be made and thoroughly checked, and when the accidents and injuries happen to legislators want to bill this year to levy, raising only for the new farm they are frankly that the threat a man's pocketbook comes no more than year, will make him he votes. The discovers last year that "tax sounded good, but didn't have enough bills." LETTER BOX Editor, Gazette: A common criticism of the Townsend Plan, and one often voiced by some who are friendly to it is that if Dr. Townsend had advocated a pension of $50.00 to $75.00 per month instead of $200.00 that the bill might have been passed before now. Now this is not taking into account the recovery and stability features of the plan, which to my mind are quite as important, as the aid to the old people. Some in favor of the smaller pensions say they would have no strings attached as to how or when the money should be spent, it seems plain that under such a system many would still hold their jobs, and if they saw fit might hoard part of this money. And again, how would it be possible to pay even those smaller pensions without a transaction tax? It would seem out of the question to ask the government to borrow more money, in our present financial condition. Now in looking up one side and down the other, we are waiting for suggestions as to how our most pressing problem can be solved. Is there any other plan so simple, so wise, so just and workable, which in helping the old people, will at the same time benefit all? May we criticise less, and strive to work in unity and harmony for those things which we believe are for the betterment of mankind. C. E. CHAMBERLAIN. WASHINGTON SNAP-SHOOT Howls of anguish are shattering the crisp winter air over the nation's capital. That unwelcome, unwanted, and inevitable guest has arrived. He is TAXES, and taxes in capital letters, aimed at the small incomes which in the end must bear the debt burden. He may have to eat at the second table this year, but his arrival, Congressmen concede dolefully, is uncovering some very unpleasant facts for the people back home. First, the legislators find that legislators want to bill this year to levy, raising only for the new farm they are frankly that the threat a man's pocketbook comes no more than year, will make him he votes. The discovers last year that "tax sounded good, but didn't have enough bills." WHEN IS A LAW MADE BE BROKEN? Private citizens can break a number of laws in a day's time without knowing they have done so. County officials can do the same, not only as private citizens but officials too. Some of these reactions come to light now and often. Usually they are corrected. In the course of years certain petitions in the conduct of county courts creep in and become a bit. They seldom cost the coun-anything, but they constitute technical violations just the same. The first one that popped into limelight in Orange county is the matter of the recorder lending credit to large concerns in their recording fees. Another sweep up last week when the insurer announced that officials employed could not legally buy against their current month's salary. "No more I. O. U.'s cash was the rule. In testifying in the Whitney case the county auditor said that many officials outside of the county were guilty of numerous criminal violations, though he specified none directly. Some of these little matters come to the attention of the public jury. How seriously their findings and recommendations will be regarded in various offices will yet be told, but it is likely there will be a tightening of the laws. It will not all be easy. The public which deals with these offices cannot always be trusted. This method of handling the business has put considerable additional work on the purchasing department which was the one elected to handle the insurance work. Personal investigation of each claim has to be made and thoroughly checked, and when the accidents and injuries happen to come in bunches it makes quite a job. SINGLETONS Viewing the furore stirred up over the recordership, an observer might get the impression that most members of the board of supervisors have committed permanent political suicide. A little knowledge of human nature and county politics, however, is sufficient to support the belief that much of it will be forgotten by the time election day rolls around and that comparatively few people give a hoot one way or another. The outcome of the recall election in Anaheim township was widely noted and commented upon. It is plain that the recall idea is not at all popular. The defended candidate has now moved his office in with a little sheet known as the Orange County News in Anaheim, and is reported to be running it. Boy, ain't he a bear for punishment? The matter of getting Colorado river water for Orange county is pretty much in the "talk" stage, but it is not to be tossed aside with a yawn. Several wise and serious heads are working on the idea, and it may develop into the most important piece of news that has broken in Orange county in many a year. The men in Congress who shape tax bills are studying four methods of raising the money to pay for their spending spree: An exercise levy on processing to replace the invalidated AAA levies, a boost in the taxes on incomes of $10,000 to $100,000, a non-pyramiding 3 per cent manufacturers' sales tax, and an increase in the taxes on individual incomes. The processing levies, the students report, wouldn't raise enough money, nor would a levy on the $10,000-$100,000 income group. That leaves only the sales tax and the jump on Mr. John Citizen, who is the voter. Already taxes are taking more than one-fifth of the nation's income. Still politically-minded, many levies, raising only for the new farm they are frankly that the threat a man's pocketbook comes no more the year, will make him he votes. The discord last year that "taus sounded good, but didn't have enough bills. An illustration mind on Capitol Hill of these developments happened in the Speaker Byrns war comparatively small partment approach in a few members asked to was up, not about explain things to our home. Some members sive, too, about the additional relief money go to Congress showcite a call for $100,000. And the Harry L. Hopkins, trator, is attempting for the investigation develop then. He does members who do WPA to get out; he workers that they on the job and pay. But he was in a private contigroup of Senators still 20,000,000 per the same number 1934. In other doggling" was no restore jobs in india. Newspapers generally attention to the reefer of F. G. Awalt "A TALE OF TWO CITIES Adapted by LEBBEUS MITCHELL from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PICTURE! "There are still Evremondes," the half-crazed La Vengeance had said, leering at the child clinging to the hand of the departing Lucie. Lucie had been too despondent to notice the evil glances directed towards her daughter, but when Carton learned from Miss Pross that Mme. Defarge had seen the child he was greatly disturbed. Dr. Manette had been to plead with Danton himself, but his interview had no better result that had Lucie's with Mme. Defarge. Dr. Manette was back in that borderland of sanity in which he had been rescued from the Bastille. Mr. Lorry put him to bed. "There's no hope now," cried Lucie wildly to Carton. "Why don't you say it?" Carton tried to comfort her, but there was little he could say, and Lucie continued: "It's going to seem a long time Sydney, afterwards... If only I could see him once! But I can't even do that!" Miss Pross appeared and told Lucie that her father was calling for her. When Carton was alone with Mr. Lorry he asked him if he had a permit to leave Paris when ever he pleased. Upon Lorry's affirmative nod, Carton continued: "Lucie, Dr. Manette, Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher have theirs. You'll have to move fast." "But why? These passes are valid any time." "Until cancelled — and from what I've gathered Mme. Defarge will see that they are canceled. The Doctor is suspected from his behaviour at the trial. It is death enough to get Carton introduced into Darnay's cell for ten minutes. The latter was writing farwell letters when Carton entered and was left alone with him. Darnay sprang to his feet, astonished. "I bring a request from Lucie," said Carton, with an air of authority. "She begs that you do exactly as I say." "I don't understand, Carton, what you have in mind... It is utterly unless to attempt to escape." "My plan won't fail. Write what I dictate. At once! Write, 'It is my last message to you. I ask you to recall the words that passed between us on a certain occasion. I am grateful that the time has come when I can prove them. That I do so is no object for regret or grieving...' I said it ever I could do anything for those dear to you'..."" "Remember, Sarsad. Get him to Mr. Lorry's by eight o'clock. We'll tell the guard he was overcome—I staggered in entering so the guard would think I was half drunk. "I'm faint. What's that queer smell?" Darnay, looked up, saw Carton waving a handkerchief. Carton threw the handkerchief over his face, held it there until Darnay became unconscious. Then he began quickly to change clothes with the prisoner. The exchange was complete when Barsad returned at the end of ten minutes, and Carton had pocketed Darnay's farewell letters." as though you welcomed death." "Perhaps I do. Perhaps I do before: I hold a sanctuary in the hearts of those I care for. It is far, far better thing I do not than I have ever done; it is a far better rest I go to than I have ever known." When the little seamstress has been despatched, he walked firm up the steps of the guillotine. The setting sun broke through the clouds and shone upon his steadfast face. THE END OBSERVATIONS STANDING ON YOUR OWN BOTTOM The Happy Warrior of politics fame the other day in an impassioned address said the constitution of the United States gave him the opportunity to step from a newsboy on the sidewalk, o New York to the governor's chair of that great commonwealth. He said if the constitution wins, at the people win. That famous document must stand as the roe of Gibraltar in order that this nation may endure. He thunderever that there can be only one capitol in this country and that must be in Washington, D.C. AIN'T GONNA HOLLER DOWN THEIR RAIN BARRELL The Happy Warrior the other evening gave a sizzling speech to a couple thousand people in New York friving the folderroll out Lorry's affirmative nod, Carton continued: "Lucie, Dr. Manette, Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher have theirs. You'll have to move fast." "But why? These passes are valid any time." "Until cancelled — and from what I've gathered Mme. Defarge will see that they are cancelled. The Doctor is suspected from his behaviour at the trial. It is death to sympathize with the condemned. And to that tiger, Mme. Defarge, even the child—is an Evremonde." "But that's unthinkable!" cried Mr. Lorry. "I can get to see Charles—I know a man—the way we drinking fellows do. . . Mr. Lorry, lend me your coat and hat. Take the Doctor's permit — Lucie and Miss Pross's, too—and here take mine and keep it until tomorrow. No, no don't protest! Take the word of a drinking man for once. At eight o'clock tomorrow morning have your horses ready. If Lucie hesitates, you must force her. Tell her it is Darnuty's last wish that she leave before the execution." "Do I wait for you?" asked Mr. Lorry. "You wait for nothing but to have my place occupied. Keep the bargain, Mr. Lorry. I shall keep mine." He left hastily and sought out Barsad at La Force prison. By a threat to reveal to the Committee of Public Safety that Barsad had been a spy in the employ of the Marquis of Evremonde, Carton forced him to aid in his scheme to save Darnay. Barsad had authorized legislators want to limit the tax bill this year to the processing levies, raising only enough to pay for the new farm program. But they are frankly apprehensive that the threat at the average man's pocketbook, even if it becomes no more than a threat this year, will make him think before he votes. The discovery was made last year that "tax the wealthy" sounded good, but the wealthy didn't have enough to pay the bills. "I'm faint. What's that queer smell?" Darnay, looked up, saw Carton waving a handkerchief. Carton threw the handkerchief over his face, held it there until Darnay became unconscious. Then he began quickly to change clothes with the prisoner. The exchange was complete when Barsad returned at the end of ten minutes, and Carton had pocketed Darnay's farewell letters. The plan worked; the guard suspected nothing ... At seven o'clock in the morning, Carton heard the door of the cell being unlocked. Despite the gloom, he recognized the form of Lucie. To prevent her crying out in amazement he said loudly for the guard to hear: "Lucie, my darling, it was brave of you to come, but there is nothing you can do—nothing but say goodbye. Remember all that I have given you I give freely. Say goodbye quickly, my dear. To make a protest would endanger the lives of the others." He whispered: "all the others — even little Lucie!" Then in a louder voice: "Say goodbye to the others for me ... Say goodbye to me now." Clinging to him for support, she looked up long into his eyes. There was shadow of fear in them. She drew his head down and kissed him as the keeper rattled the door and said her time was up. Carton half supported, half pushed her, through the door which was again locked ... The permits of the fugitives, being in order, they were held up at the Paris gates only long enough for a careful inspection ... As the busy guillotine began its daily, grisly task that afternoon, Mme. Defarge was not in her accustomed seat of vantage. Sydney Carton, awaiting his turn, held tight to the hand of the little seamstress who had been found guilty because she had listened to a criticism of the Republic. She knew that Carton was not Evremonde and had pleaded with him to give her courage by holding her hand. As her number was called she stood up. "Am I to kiss you now?" She kissed him. "You are not afraid. It's almost comptroller of the currency. But it meant much to members of Congress who knew of Awalt's frequent differences with his immediate superior, J. F. T. O'Con..." AINT GONNA HOLLER_DOWN THEIR RAIN BARRELL The Happy Warrior the other evening gave a sizzling speech to a couple thousand people in New York, frying the folderroll out of the New Deals and taking the administration for a ride, because he said, it has run around the platform of the Bourbons which was built in 1932. The man who made the Brown Derby famous said unless the present regime policies are knocked over next June in Philadelphia he is going to take a walk. CASTING LONGING EYES AT THE WHITE HOUSE From the cotton fields of happy memory of the south to the tall pines in the forests away up in the north. The perplexed G. O. P. is looking for the man to fervently plight its troth; vainly the search keeps up through the East, and sweeps out into the sunkist West and the Kansas Grass Roots grow and cling together and seek to end the quest. Whoops. PUTTING YOU ON THE SPOT If you keep on adding a little to what you have already you will have a little bit more, but if you keep spending more than you have your creditors are waiting for you at the door! There now, it looks like rain. THEM WERE THE HAPPY DAYS Time was a man got 7 per cent interest for his money, and that caused what is called speculation. Then came the collapse and the headaches. The recovery is slow. SCRAPING THE BOTTOM Once upon a time a shouter at a camp meeting passed the hat for contributions. The headpiece returned empty. Anyway he said he was glad to get the hat back. INNERSPRING MATTRESS SPECIAL Build Your Old Mattress levies, raising only enough to pay for the new farm program. But they are frankly apprehensive that the threat at the average man's pocketbook, even if it becomes no more than a threat this year, will make him think before he votes. The discovery was made last year that "tax the wealthy" sounded good, but the wealthy didn't have enough to pay the bills. An illustration of the state of mind on Capitol Hill as a result of these developments is what happened in the House recently. Speaker Byrns wanted to put the comparatively small Interior Department appropriation b111 through in a few hours. But 65 members asked to speak while it was up, not about the bill but to explain things to the folks back home. Some members are apprehensive, too, about the request for additional relief money that will go to Congress shortly. They anticipate a call for around $2,000,-000,000. And they notice that Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, is attempting to get ready for the investigation all expect to develop then. He ordered his staff members who don't agree with WPA to get out; he warned WPA workers that they could not stall on the job and continue to draw pay. But he was forced to admit in a private conference with a group of Senators that there were still 20,000,000 people on relief, the same number as in January, 1934. In other words, "boondoggling" was not helping to restore jobs in industry. Newspapers generally paid little attention to the recent resignation of F. G. Awalt as first deputy MAKE ARRANGEMENTS NOW FOR FEDERAL AND STATE INCOME TAX RETURNS ROY N. MENDOZA Income Tax Specialist and Commercial Service 219 South Los Angeles Stage Building Anaheim