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compromise for the Justice Depart-
ment tax claims, lands, criminal, etc.
He is in loco parents" when Solicitor
General Robert Jackson Is away.
Mr.. Bell has argued five important
cases this year. In the Mountain
Producers case" the Supreme Court
decided that the lessee of State land
Is subject TO income tax. This Is a
feather in Mr.. Bells legal cap. He
argued the Mellon tax case a few
weeks ago. On the calendar now is
a case involving the power of the
Federal Government to collect income
taxes from employees of the New York
Port Authority.
Mr.. Bell has a persuasive personal.
ity. They say chat ephemeral
consensus of opinion) that he puts
forward the best possible defense Of
Government cases.
The powers that be" dislodged him
from the West four years ago. On the
national scene he started off in charge
OF litigation and investigation of
antitrust legislation under Judge
Harold Stephens, then Assistant At
torney General and first head Of the
antitrust division. Mr.. Bell was a
member of the Federal Alcohol Ad-
minlstration, 1894; acting general
counsel for six months of the Mari
time Commission. He divided his time
then, concentrates it now.
Mr.. Bell has long hours He keeps
fit by walking, golfng, fishing, when
time permits. He appears rugged
individual mot 'individualist" in view
of recent interpretations He admits
smlllngly to taste for poetry. pas
sion for anonymity" Fishing and
anonymity combined may prove sig
nlfcant qualifications for a presiden.
tlal adviser. This Is pure speculation.
Mr.. Bell, the son Of a miner, was
born in Pinos Altos, n. Mex, in 1885,
when gold was magnet for Western
migrations. Pinos Altos was a com.
munity of 300 people Education
started off in the proverbial little red
schoolhouse, where there was little
room and big room" Mr.. Bell SAYS.
His education continued at Beloit Col
lege, University of California, Harvard
Law, graduate 1910. Mr.. Bell prac-
ticed law 80 years in San Francisco.
He specialized in admiralty law, left
| the West in 1919 to be maritime ad-
visor for relief in Belgium, returned to
his practice until his appointment in
1888.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Congress and Spending
Lawmakers Can Specify Projects and Get Prestige
for Selves, Observer Says.

sturdy sales-resistance against eco
nomic white rabbits.
But probably there is still enough
faith to believe that spending will,
OF itself, bring sound prosperity. In
addition. many communities wish for
the projects which pump-priming will
bring. Many Of these communities,
in due course, will suffer an additional
and special kind Of disillusionment.
Without doubt a large number Of the
Public Works projects are needed and
useful-but q lot Of others will turn
out to be white elephants to the COM
munities in which they are set up.
A new school building or a new city
hall may look like a gift. After it
has been up year the community
may find 1t Is merely something that
requires additional local taxation to
maintain. Experts who follow such
matters know that considerable mum.
ber Of towns and cities, and perhaps
State or two, are headed toward
bankruptcy.
Assuming that Congress will enact
the appropriations. second question
arises. In what form shall Congress
give the money? Shall Congress give
the money in such a way as to take
itself farther toward that subordina-
tion Of the legislative branch which
means the beginning of authoritarian
government? During the Roosevelt
administration Congress has made its
appropriations for relief in lump
sum" form. That is. Congress turns
over billion or two billions or five
to the President. and the President
or his subordinates determines what
the money shall be used for, and
what communities shall receive the
projects the money pays for. That
method exalts the Executive, reduces
Congress. To the President, not to
Congress. goes the gratitude OF the
community that receives a project.
An individual Congressman who wants
a project for his district must ask
the Executive to please let him have
one.
Congress Can Take Power.
There is another way a way by
which Congress can preserve its pres
tige and hold on to the power of the
purse" Congress can itself name the
cities and communities which shall
receive the projects.
At this moment P. W. A. has list
Of 2,727 projects which it proposes
to embark upon as soon as Congress
enacts the necessary appropriation.
Congress can send for that list. Con-
gress can add to the list or subtract
from it. When Congress has arrived
at list Of its own, it can enact an
itemized measure, naming each project
and the amount of money to be spent
on it.
Congress has done this before In
1882, when Mr. Hoover was Presi-
dent, the House was controlled by the
Democrats, with Mr.. Garner as
Speaker. Mr.. Garner, with other
Democratic leaders, ms de out a list
Of post ONCE buildings and other prof.
ects to be erected throughout the
country. If that was good way
then, it is a good way now II it was
a good way for Democratic Congress
to prevent Republican President
from getting prestige. it Is likewise
. good way for any Congress to check
President who. Congress itself thinks,
reaches out for too much power.
(copyright. 1889
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kins, officials OF the Public Works Ad-
ministration, the National Youth Ad-
ministration and so on.
That may have been merely an off,
hand remark. Yet 1t is likely to have
certain psychological effects It serves
notice on Congress that Mr.. Roose-
welt expects them to pass his pump
priming appropriations. 1t tells the
public that spending is afoot, and
suggests to them that they come early
and avoid the rush. BY creating this
psychology. 1t tells the public also
to get busy and put pressure on their
Congressman and Senators to pass
the appropriations. 1t has the effect
OF creating a looking psy-
chology and spending psychology,
kind Of recovery ballyhoo, similar
to that with which N. R. A. and the
Blue Eagle were launched in the now
sad-to-remember recovery push Of
1888.
AS to Congress, there are two ques-
tions: The first is whether Congress
will enact the appropriations. Most
of the signs say that Congress will
enact most Of the appropriations Yet
a majority OF Congress has doubt
about the whole pump -priming theory
they are disillusioned by the pre-
vious experience with it. This disillu-
sionment is shared by much Of the
public. The public's faith in magic
phrases such as pump printing, and
magic devices. has suffered a good
many blows during the past 20 years
List Of Slogans.
A brief list Of the slogans and
white rabbits that have entranced
much Of the public includes not only
the New Deal ones, the first pump
priming and N. R. A., but also the
Townsend plan-$200 q month for
everybody over go, and II they were
required by law to spend the whole
5000 in the month in which they re-
ceived it, untold prosperity would re-
suit. Before the New Deal there was
brief enhancement with q word,
"technocracy" Before that there
was, in 1881. prosperity is just around
the corner" While the boom OF the
20s was still on, there was Two cars
in every garage" and New economic
era or New economic plateau -
meaning q new level OF prices from
which. a distinguished professor OF
economics assured us, we would
never descend-there was going to
be perpetual economic sunshine,
"tain't goin to rain no mo-" Before
that there was Coolidge's They hired
the money. didn't they?"-meaning
that the European governments would.
OF course. repay the money they had
borrowed from us. There was Hard
ing's Back to normalcy'-Lord, shall
We ever see that again!-there was
Wilson's War to end all wars" and
War to make the world safe for
democracy"
One reflects that what America
needs-among many other things-is
q wholesome skepticism about slogans,
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policy
Opposed anything fortnight
Wallace
the the
feared lest might
the the
Mr. James Roosevelt who felt that the political situation called for
everything peaceful according
In this formidable opposition
only
1ckes or harmony Henderson,
Administration economic
economist and author
special assistant
Berle the aboriginal Secretary
state occupying Ray Moeys old office doing
White House aion Job Moey having
wrath Of C6rden Hull, his departmental superior.
Inevitably this "5-to-4' decision by President
caused the resulting
means then on broad national ends That criticism
Is why feel sure. New York friends
President had
human for would
have become purely incidental
necessary actions for the prosecution
Of coursefa right
thing the President
the real facts
cratic bokkeepers who have taken
Tor the parrotcs OF confidence from politically ambitious
Evening star., 1938-04-21
RADIO BICYCLE KEEPS
CHILDREN AMUSED
Husband Rigs Up Contraption to
Give Mother Chance to
Clean House.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y. April al
Neighbors haven't complained yet
about noise from the radio-equipped
bicycle that keeps Mrs. James Diste-
pianos children busy while she does
the housework
But Mrs. Dstephano isn't resting
essily-she expects her first complaint
any day now.
Mrs. Dtstephano's husband rigged
up the contraption to keep the chill
dren out from under their mother S
feet during spring housekeeping.
1t consists Of regular childs BIZ
cycle, with sidecar attached. In the
sidecar is storage battery and an
automobile radio
And Dstephano guarantees it will
placate children whose crying and
yelling bothers mothers 50 much they
can't get their work done"
Evening star., 1938-04-21
COMMON SENSE HELD
NEED IN POLITICS
Judge James Presses Campaign

Judge James Presses Campaign
for G. o. P. Gubernatorial
Choice in Pennsylvania.
By the Associated Press.
MERCER, Pa. April 21-Superior
Court Judge Arthur H. James carried
his campaign for the Republican
nomination for Governor into Mercer
and Clarion counties today.
The judge outlined six-point pro-
gram in his talks last night at In
diana. home town Of former Gov.
John S. Fisher. in which he attacked
the Democratic administration and
declared:
What We need in our politics as
in our daily living is a good old
fashioned dose of common sense.
With just little Of its application
you will hear the factory whistle
calling men to happy employment in
stead Of the honking Of the horn of
the w. P. A. truck calling you to
drudgery and despair"
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stock
broadly F. loans utilities
aglaed utilities
effect.
but Mr.. Jones is preparing to do
depends
largely Valley Authority
Commonwealth Southern If uiarn modus vivendi
Valley utilities
will perk and breathe easily
And chances Of settlement the Tennessee Valley
100 The negotiations
A. Commonwealth southens Valley properties.
month piece-mea behalf
Wendell Wlke a
the purchase the
important properties
halted
suggestion purchasing
stock repue Moreover they interpreted
Wilke suggestion a
Recently personally
the utilities problem friend Of Lenthals He
ties him. settlement
Lentha friend
Mr. We demand that the purchase the stock
of his valley properties
o
ke purchase
his Wikie replied while the
v. A. might believe
transfer OF stock simplest solution
problem perfectly willing
the Tennessee Valley however offered
The auditors
Lenha
chief point Of disagreement eliminated from And
1t deal should be
friendly clique economists in
A
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news. he auQeQ,
as II to save us
from complete
disapp ointment,
that during the
next ~ days or
so the newspaper
men would see a
procession pass
ing through his
office. The pro-
cession, he said,
would consist Of
omcials having to
do with spending
Works Progress
A d m ! n istrator
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The Capital Parade
Clause in New Glass-R. F. c. Law Arouses Specula.
ton Over Stock Underwriting Projects.

JOSEPH ALSOP ROBERT KINTNER.
AN exceedingly influential
in
Glass ae delightedly convinced
that the Cs
authorized the
for Federal underwriting Of industrial
Of the Securities
Exchange Commission
by Mr. Jones' and would doubt
urged him. Yet the left wingers
Glass Mr.
tion for what amounts the
The clause in question authorizes
OF reasonably
Evening star., 1938-04-21
YOUNG INDIANS APPEAR

About 20 young Indians from the
Bacone Indian School in Oklahoma
will furnish the musical entertain
ment at the first annual banquet Of
the Interior Department Recreation
Association in the cafeteria Of the
new Interior Department Building at
$50 o'clock tonight.
Presentation Of silver trophies to the
championship teams in basket ball,
indoor baseball and mems and wom-
ems bowling, and brief talk by Sec
retary 1ckes also are on the program.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Lecture on Totem Poles.

DR.. Marius Barbeau, Dominion eth
nologist of Canada. will give an IL
lustrated lecture on How Totem Poles
Originated at the meeting of the
Washington Academy of Sciences to-
night at BIS o'clock in the National
Museum.
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that Tor the priv
ilege of borrowing
m o n e y" But
and here are the
exact figure s
worked out by ac-
eountants:
For every $lo.-
900 loan a busi-
ness man has to
earn xactly $l3,-
382.27 under our
present tax laws
before he actually
has a net income
Of $4,000. This
Is b e c a u S e the
Federal taxes eat
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Talk on Aeroecolopy.

DR.. Basil Bensin, internationally
known agroecologist, will give an IL
lustrated free lecture on "Agroeoology
as Basic Science of Agriculture" at
the auditorium, south building, De-
partment Of Agriculture, tomorrow at
4:45 pm.
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general Of the
United States.
He looms large
in inner legal
councils b ot h
physically a n d
mentally. His
Government du-
ties involve pre-
pairing all opin-
ions. which the
Attorney G. n
eral renders TO
t h e President
and heads Of all
executive depart
ments. He passes
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oAid DdlAbOoAieu DuciilcoSlIlCll.
However the main thing is the
fact that the big decision has been
taken at long last and the present
"do-nothing" Congress must make
its final and most momentous de-
cision on whether to fight human
misery by feeding the starving and
using the powers and funds of the
National Government to increase
production and employment.
The other course is for Congress
to cave in completely to the Tories
Evening star., 1938-04-21
Nal Hallett to Appear.

Nal Hallett and his swing orches-
ira will appear at the Raleigh Hotel
April % from pm. to / am. under
the sponsorship of the Central Busi-
ness Association.
Evening star., 1938-04-21
An American
You Should
Know
Golden W. Bell Looms
Large in Inner Legal
Councils.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

BY DELLA PYNCHON.
n ELLIS the Government has by
K the dozen-but only one
/ ] Golden. Very properly he
halls from the West, where
the gold comes from Mr.. Golden
Voolfolk Bell Is assistant solicitor
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Filling Place
of Equity
Money
Federal Funds for Loans
Held Unacceptable
as Substitute.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

q 1NCE the Government now is
willing to lend money to busi-
ness, the question might well be
asked, Why should business
borrow Especially when it is going
to cost, under present conditions,
about SO per cent a year for the use
Of the money.
"Thirty-three per cent?" it will be
exclaimed. Why. the Government
isn't going to charge anything like
Evening star., 1938-04-21
By MARK SULLIVAN.

W YHEN q man has achieved q
M reputation for subtlety. sub
" tlety is sometimes attrib-
uted to him when only
matter Of fact innocence exists. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, opening q press con-
ference this week, said he had no
Evening star., 1938-04-21

Mr.. Jones answer to the left-wing
Interpretation is that he wrote the
measure extending his agency's
powers, that he ought to know
what it means if any one does. and
that the clause doesn't mean what
the left-wingers think. He has
remarked privately:
In the first place. there is no
authorization to buy common stock
In the bill, and, in the second place,
the bill concerns the r. F.. c.. and.
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opinions OF the 1oriters this page their oU
~ necessarily TIE Stars Such opinions are presented IN
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars ~
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and let the people eat cake the
jumbo Wall Street ogarchy whose Richard
whitney start everything booming confidence
The issue up Congress whether will let the
andT esyndica
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collected by Commerce Depart-
men facilities
ay Dan Roper manages his facilities badly that the statistics
completely inadequate So Nation
them &
madness Therefore the White House " their scheme
industrial
suer buying all the
Bureau Of Agricultural
after show Of interest the President discarded
AianceI
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tual information for the White
House. They draw the graphs. dig
UP the figures, and lay out the blue
prints. Just at the moment, they
are gnashing their teeth and wall
ing over the Presidents failure to
include provision for bureau Of
industrial economics in his recent
recovery program.
TrJ,cfriel etn{;e},,e ava ,,ou,
Evening star., 1938-04-21
We, the People
Roosevelt Might Have Done Better Job Selling
Citizens on Human Program.

BY JAY FRANKLIN.
$00o0ooo0o spending rather thing
pened A friend Of mine called
his voice tense with disappointment Of
leading
liberal culture who have achieved
competitive field
to the President.
They intended initiative mobilize the cultural
Evening star., 1938-04-21

leaders OF publishing, stage and
screen in Nationwide support Of
Mr.. Roosevelt. They were deeply
chagrined by his speech, which
they said sounded like streamlined
Hooverism, and felt that their
friend in the White House had
let them down.
AS well as I could, tried to
explain the fierce inside struggle at
the White House over the whole
spending program and how only by
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led and. l am convinced, always
must lead to a dictatorship OVER
the proletariat and OVER the party
The Russian debaele again dem
onstrated obviously that you con-
not get away from honest methods
without getting into trouble
his conclusions to spe-
cific problems in the United States,
Professor Dewey said.
1t is to be hoped that the Amer
lean worker will appreciate the
bearing which these developments
have upon his situation, for at pres
ent the labor movement in our
country is in danger of being torn
to pieces~by- the fight between the
two Communistic factions. And
yet, it is the great majority which
belongs to neither of these fac
tons that is the important element
in any consistent labor movement
in this country
we must depend in our own
country upon our own democratic
methods for the working out of ouI
own problems.
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vided in said subdivision "(b)' shall
be forfeited; and the Trustee shall
convey the full and absolute title
of the property to the bidder under
said subdivision Ia"
The amount of the advances,
costs, expenses and fees required
to be first paid upon a sale under
the terms of the Conveyance in
Trust cannot be now determined;
but the Trustee will mail to each
bondholder a statement Of the esti-
mated amount thereof, together with
copy of this Notice of Sale, prior
to the date of sale, and will state
publicly in the presence of by
ISLANDERS at the sale, and prior to
offering the property or receiving
bids thereon, the true amount there
OF, together with. such other in
formation as deemed proper as to
the, terms and conditions upon which
sale will be made.
Dated, first published and posted
this 9th day of January, 1898.
JAMES O. GULL,
AS Trustee,
Address: P. 0. Box Sc, Yakima,
Washington. j6-27 At
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The Balance Wheel

Coming at time When threats
of more government spending and
control of business are being heard
from administration headquarters,
the return of Congress to the Ma
tional Capital is heartening sign.
A year or SO ago the converting
of Congress, to the refrain of such
warnings as those heard in recent
weeks, would have instilled fear IN
the hearts of most of us. But those
were the days when the legislative
branch of government followed the
dictates of the executive branch out
of fear of political assassination
But the legislators know now
and have exhibited this. knowledge
that government must not lose its
sense of proportion and response
biity, even in an emergency, lest
its purpose be defeated by the very
unsoundness of its efforts. The de-
feat of the wage and hour bill and
the decision of Congress to take
steps toward tax relief for industry
are recent testimonials to this new
thinking.
It is reassuring then, that in
Washington today there is. in place
of rubber stamp, balance Wheel
"a Congress of able thinkers die
tated to only by its dignity con.
science and sense of proportion
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Is Capital On Strike

As business drifts further down
ward and unemployment increases
there is heard time and again the
report that capital is on strike
This, if true, would mean that those
who have money to invest are not
investing.
Common sense alone answers that
People who have money accumulat-
ed it by making each dollar they
had earn another dollar They seek
profit and risk their principal on
the chance of making the profit
And until human nature has been
completely legislated out of exist
ence, there will be no strike OF
capital SO long as that capital is
given the opportunity to flow into
legitimate investment.
What is wrong with investment
moneys then out of which come
expansions and more employment?
Have you ever heard the story of
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,
and the William?
In the first chapter, the William
tied Nellie to the railroad track.
In the second chapter he beat her
up. In the third he threw her in
front of a buzz saw. And in the
last chapter climax he asked, Mel
lie why don't you trust me-
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Leader Says Communism
Has Failed

Communism has collapsed as a
possible means of bringing about
social reform in America, John
Dewey, 80-year-old liberal leader
and philosopher believes, and de-
clares that American radicals must
60 back to truly democratic
methods. /"
In an interview published recent
ly, the liberal leader declares:
THE Russian, experiment proves
conclusively that when violence is
nsed to bring about economic and
political reform, tie same method
Of force must be employed to keep
the new government in power The
dictatorship Of the proletariat has
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cry. tools. appliances and/or' equip
ment of every kind and nature now
upon or about or used in connec-
ton with the said mining claims.
Said property, both mining claims
and personal property, will be sold
as a whole and as-eFTe groupZof
claims and as single unit of min
ing property. without segregation
or separate offer or sale of any part
thereof