The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-01-17
What Will Happen7

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What Will Happen7
@But aside from that, what will hap
pen to these legal bottles? Your or
binary hotel bar will have case OF
some special gin. say. In the new
legal bottles. VIII the fact that the
bottles have these words blown into
their glass stop that barkeep from re-
filling them when they run low7 We
know they are doing 1t now. What
will be the difference?
The bootlegger who refllis the emp
ties he obtains from trash collectors,
ETC., viii have an additional point to
convince his patrons that he Is giving
them genuine stuff. Bottles are very
cheap. Most bootleggers would rather
buy their bottles In quantities. But
the glass bottle plants being licensed
now, they cannot So they will turn,
to the freshmen. Bottles will be used
over and over again. not only BY the
bootleggers, but by all the bars will
Ing to make dishonest penny. Also
by bartenders whose employers may
be honest but who wish to graft
little.
$50 In the long run think the bottle
makers will sell less bottles. and the
amount of bootlegging Will not be de-
creased one iota.
ho hn
ought to do, what 1t ought to have
done long ago. Is to put the taxes down
to such low point, for a time, and
make the restrictions 80 mild. that the
bootleggers and moonshiners would
be driven out OF business. Then taxes
could be raised gradually"
Ready for Matching
Looking ahead to possible work re-
lief and construction activities this
year, the recovery program has es-
tablished several agencies, which
might be called breeder units"
These are now sitting on string OF
goose eggs In the form OF plans which
can be rapidly Matched II figure and
dollar mark Is placed In front OF them.
Federal Emergency Relief admin
istration has rural-industrlal housing
plans on potential scale beyond the
federal housing which has gone be-
fore. Soil erosion service not only
has been developing extensive plans
but has trained 1000 college men how
to handle the work In the event the
government goes into soil protection
on big scale. THESE men were
trained last summer and fall, show
Ing that certain New Dealers were
looking further ahead and planning
more practically than the brain trust
Is usually given credit for doing.
Citizens Concentration camps. tying
In with the forest service, park service.
War department and others has
framework, which can be expanded
by hundreds of thousands of workers
virtually overnight. Plans for rural
electrihcation, and the various phases
of hydro development key into this
system.
Almost any Of several overlapping
agencies is willing to spread Its wings
over any sort Of nest-egg the new
program provides-from humming birds
to ostriches.
Much of the ghesswork which has
been going on abonr what the govern
ment would do, had what those talk
Ing 1t thought was authentic informa-
ton behind 1t. The only thing left
out before the story had been told
many times. In each instance was
that the scheme, though made by high
officials OF the administration, had not
yet been approved by the President.
Some Surprises
And the President has been spring
Ing lot Of surprises. To cite con-
verse example. he cur the ground
from under group of admirals who
had been working very quietly but
effectively drumming up congressional
sentiment to increase the navy by
btSNo uiSH. hNy udu-HEpEEu ~lUF @l1ll3
addition back In the curly fall. The
President and the budget bureau had
turned them down. They thought
they could use the resentment based on
Japan's denunciation OF the naval
treaty to put 1t over. Then suddenly
the President decided that they could
have $500 men--500 more than they
had originally hoped for
Old Hoover admirers-yes there are
a few Of them left around-are get
ting a big chuckle out of Secretary OF
Commerce Roper's plan to ask con-
gress for big increase In personnel
so as to take care Of foreign trade
service. trade treaties, and the newly
authorized free port zones The
Hoover men are laughing because
right after the Roosevelt admnlstra-
ton came In 1t fairly tore the clothes
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