The Carbon County news., 1931-07-23
Washington SNAPSHOTS
Taken by the Helms News Service

teen years, the $150,000,000 which
4 Congress has already authorized
has been put to use, Washington
: will have no rival for architec-
tural grandeur. Its beauty will be
q enhanced also by the rebuilding
of its parks, avenues and public
: gardens.
A new proposal for helping Ger
many in her financial crisis was
laid before President Hoover in
the form of letter from the In
ternational Silver Commission at
; Denver. The commission urged
the President to consider opening
negotiations with the German
Government with a view to loan
ing it from 20O,OOO,0O0 to 100000
600 ounces of silver from the sill
yer certificate reserve in the Un-
tied State Treasury, to be repaid
by weight in twenty years at a low
, rate of interest. There does not
appear to be the slightest prospect
that this proposal will be adopted
by the government. Suggestions
of a somewhat similar character
have not appealed to administra-
tion officials.
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An effort to take Muscle Shoals
"out of politics" was begun when
the President appointed three rep
resentatives to joint Federal and
State commission to devise a meth
cd for operating the power and
nitrate plants on the Tennessee
River. This plan was suggested
by Mr.. Hoover on March in the
message accompanying his veto of
bill for governmental operation
of Muscle Shoals. He held that
the plants can only be administer
ed by "the people upon the
ground, responsible to their COM
munities, directing them solely for
the benefit of their communities
and not for purposes of pursuit
of social theories or national pol
tiles" Tennessee and Alabama
have already appointed three rep
resentatives, each with the con-
sent of their Legislatures. This
commission can take no formal
action but will undertake to for
mulate a plan acceptable to the
President and to Congress, which
must pass upon the the plan.
y
Fourteen employees Of the Cen
sus Bureau, including several
young women, have been dismiss
ed for leaving their desks to smoke
outside the bureau building. Smok-
ing in the office, one of the gov
ernment's wartime temporary
structures, is forbidden. Announ-
cling the discharges, the chief clerk
said that other employees had been
warned that the same punishment
would be meted out for similar
offenses. The bureau must drop
$500 temporary employees within
the next year, he said, and the
dismissals was one way of effect
ing the reduction. The bureau
took on the extra workers for the
1880 census.
Uncle Sam is in the reindeer
business in a big way and has had
to take measures accordingly. No
body quite knows how many of
these useful creatures, imported
originally from Lapland, roam the
tundras of Alaska, but the number
runs now we'll into the millions
all derived from few hundred
reindeer that the Government es-
tablished in its great Artic out
post as a kind Of reserve food sup
ply for the natives. The rein
deer business has grown so big, in
fact, that Secretary Wilbur, of the
Department of the Interior, the
department that runs Alaska, has
directed that reindeer council"
of five members be installed to
regulate and supervise generally
the great herds; oversee slaugh-
tering and take charge of the mar
keting. The secretary based his
action on report made by the |
Reindeer Committee" that spent
five months in Alaska investigat-
ing conditions in the reindeer in
dustry.
The Capitol Building, an old
hickory tree in the White House |
lawn hardly 100 yards from Pres
ident Hoover's living quarters, and
one of the Census Bureau build
ings were targets for lightning
bolts during a severe storm which
broke over Washington, hating
one of the most depressing hot
spells of the year. The national
capital popped with lightning and
thunder for more than an hour
while rain fell and the wind blew
until the mercury had dropped
from SO to 72 degrees.