The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-31

This Week.
By SAM HILL
Now This is Good
In a Hard Knot
nh These Incidents
HiIarity Plus
Vatican View
= AormaIcy, We're Here!
ooms to run in the blood. A
y II nicked by Republican Pres,
c :Sant even when it is aonlterateu
lu l;tS two Democrats and the per
WIN ro of error thereby reduced
cen.@ nt seem to get away from Opa
caI :.s In other words PRESIDENT
nIE sO cabinet seemed too Good TO
hVV 1rue Aside from Andrew Mellon
Dc a leaye-Over from past dynas-
WIZ Wiz Il looked like the ten were as
tes from faint as fresh caught fish
IT. oI then like the ten little lTdlans,
H In fooled with the pitch and then
there were nliie'
Il tooms larger out IN the West
IL 4 does in the East because the
InS ns IF John w. Goods operations
scsa, " IN St. Paul, right close at home.
w ". Good is Secretary of War and
81. W. IN the army now. Formerly he
NO Congressman from Iowa, the
pps~esident's home state. Then ne re-
l;unsS No practice law. After that
- wss President Hoower's campaign
- -.rager for the West with headquar-
'Si Th a limited States Postal depart
ut wanted to build a $2,70O, 900
% msatc in st. Paul. The site it
IOS;red was covered by building,
O~rA by a Delaware corporation,
."ad and known as the Commercial
n - station. 1t had been leased
!" The government for handling and
Es.r;buting the mail at the modest
r vsrt of s12O,775 a year. The lease
tad clause which permitted the
~, .overnment to cancel it at any time.
Here enters Mr.. Good as attorney
foT the Delaware corporation.
g.
He negotiated a new lease with
.he United States government where
Nv the rent was reduced to $12O,OOO
year AND eliminated the right of
ths government to cancel the lease
and hound the government to play
I si2AOOO year until 1941. The hum
n Of this situation is that the grand
;urv in st. Paul had investigated the
4 rroperty and set its value at $3.50, 600
\ rOr lust a little more than the an
rual rent!
Every year the government bought
the building. But that was not all.
In order to get the lease changed an
sxerutiye order required that it be
submitted to the United States Bud
gpt hoard and the comptroller general
for approval. 1t was also a rule that
HE government would not enter into
sny lease that had not the cancella-
sion clause. Now the chief of the
Budget Board, Fl. M. Lord, says he
new nothing about the new lease
until 1926 and he comptroller general
shows BY his record that neither the
aN nor the new lease was submitted
b him.
Nh, Good as former Congressman
IneW the ropes and put it over will
khese few slight apparent irTegulari
hieS Why not? There was, as Col
Sellers would say, millions in it. II
night not have been uncovered but
Tor st. Paul's ambition to have new
J snd modern post office. When tht
1 government started to move it fOunk
. Itself tied in hard knot.
L Twenty years ago a revelation %
N Mat sort would have oOnvulsed tn,
tOuntry. But the American peOpl
haye become SO used to these Sigh
he aeviatiOns on the part of it's cabine
officers that the affair is describe
hughingly as an incident. It is
nilhOn dollars. Compared with tn
Teapot Dome or the Navy Yard O
Is lhe Alien Property or even the sugs
zeal of one hundred million, it
zegligible. Why worry about it? Al
Ne not the richest country In til
SOrld? We can afford it!
The conscience of the country hi
cen so impigned upon that it h;
euOme indMated. 1t has lost I'll
over to feel or to react. If you CA
nSten-and most are too busy
n-yOu could hear the voice
kaiah which thundered 26 centuri
70 but which seems as modern
.ne radio: GO and tell this poop
near We indeed but understand nc
Va see We indeed but perceive M
axe the heart of this people fat al
aaKe their ears heavy and shut thu
eS lest they see with their ey
/ " hear with their ears and mdS