Evening star., 1922-12-29

| The Chlef OF the BOY SCOUTS OF
America, James E. West, protests
that it Is not fair for the government
| to spend $6,000.000 on taking care
| of the pigs of the country and only
| half a million on the boys and girls.
He should remember that pigs is
| pigs" and soon become fat enough
| to kill, while boys and girls develop
! only into men and women and run for
| the presidency or for Congress And
SO why expect the government to in
| vest as much in one as the other
| animal?
| The Constitution gives to Congress
the power to regulate commerce with
| foreign nations and between the
states. Hitherto Congress has isnor-
4 ed it's obligation to maintain free the
roads connecting the various states
SO that an automobile licensed in one
state should be privileged to enter
all other states. The principle In
volved is illustrated in the provision
| that the decisions of the courts OF
| any one state must be recognized in
all other states.
| 1t is now proposed in Congress that
! federal aid for road construction
shall be withheld from all states
which refuse to enter into reciprocity
! with all other states in giving inter
state recognition to automobile
| licenses.
| 1t was intended to attach sucn a
| clause onto the agricultural appro-
\ -. in HOugP.
| parliamentary confusion of the com. .
| inittee of the whole House the bill
| was rushed through without tnat pr :.
vision. 1t will probably be inserted
! in the Senate. The bill provides $2S.-
| 100000 for aid to the states In road
building. Some members question
| whether Maryland would grant reel
| procity even if it lost federal aid Tor
road construction. since what IT now
| collects from foreign tag licenses
exceeds the federal apportionment for
road construction. On the other
hand. other members. knowing that
| the whole matter of interstate tramc
! rests exclusively in Congress. ques-
tion the legal power OF any state 70
! make any laws which interfere win
| crossing state lines. by automobile
or otherwise. and there are threats
of testing the Maryland law in the
courts. Washingtonians would well
come Maryland into the Union.
|
| Uncle sam will give every man.
woman and child in America Christ
mas present worth $40 il the Town
send bill passes Congress, distrib-
uting more than billion dollars
worth of leftover war material to
| the several states on the basis OF
f; population This war material con-
| siSts largely in road scrapers, army
F., trucks, rolling kitchens and other
means of carrying on war aside from
/; guns aud explosives. All the prop
I! erty will go to the several states.
! not TO individuals: but the benefit
;amounts to the same thing. since it
will save taxes and help build roaos.
! To hold the valuable machinery IN
1 idleuess while Il is constantly De
teriorating would be the height OF
| folly and extravaganza.
| A committee of the House is Civ
ing "hearings.' on bill presented by
Representative Goldsborough, but
backed by the well known economist.
DR. Irving Fisher of Yale University.
The bill proposes to make the amount
of gold in a dollar" fluctuate ac-
cording to the varying buying power
of gold. expressed from time to time
in the Index value of certain stand
ard commodities"
| The proposition has some of the de-
batable elements of the old Bryan
| campaign contention. to wit: That
the price of commodities is not hlgn'
but that the buying power of golo
is lower than it is normally. There
fore to increase the buying power OF
the gold dollar it is proposed to put
more of that cheapened stuff-gold-
into the dollar. Then when food and
other commodities fall in price, so
that a heavy gold dollar buys TOO
much thereof. call in that dollar. melt
IL up and put out lighter gold dol
lars In actual practice 1t is ho'
intended to circulate real gold dol
liars at all but only certificates TO
represent so many pennyweights OF
| gold subject to call at any time
II will take a five-foot shelf "i
hooks to discuss the intricacies OF
ithe difference between letting the
fuctuating of values be measured ny