The Coolidge examiner., 1940-03-28

the census next month. While
cannot say what the outcome will
be, the time is so short that 1t is
possible no change can be made
in the questionable, as the print
ing has been done and materials
distributed There is a phase OF
the census matter which has not
been brought so prominently to
public notice as has Republican
contention regarding the questions
scheduled to be asked. Behind the
scenes on the Hill certain Con-
gressmen are attempting to ex-
clude aliens from consideration In
such a way as to give a state no
additional representation in Con-
gress because of those aliens. This
Same attempt was made ten years
ago but was not carried through.
Some congressman, who favor the
idea. doubt the constitutionality of
and are not willing therefore to
write that provision into law.
Last Thursday an appropriation
bill was brought before the House
including provisions for CCC, NYA
and other social matters. Because
we are approaching the debt limit
Of s45. 900 100000 set by Congress
during the first World War, the
effort now is to cut expenditures
rather drastically. This tendency
is evidenced in the present bill as
in previous appropriation bills THIS
session. The Budget and Commit
lee plan would reduce the total
number of CCC camps from 15Oo
TO 1875. 1t looks as though Arl-
IONA may lose three or more
camps because of this reductloh'
asst year the budget, that is, the
Presidents recommendation, for
he National Youth Administration
was a so percent increase over
what had been spent for tnal
work he year before. However
year ago the Committee III
drafting the bill wrote $42,O0O,Ooo
less than the Budget suggestion
-hic year the Budget suggestion
e s15.OO0,00O less than last year S
appropriation. It's question
whether Congressman Ross Collins
of Mississippi, Jed Johnson or
Oklahoma and John R. Murdoch OF
Arizona can do anything about 1t,
though it is their intention to
4rv. Last year through such ef-
forts Sl9,0O0,0O0 was added to the
Committees recommendation by
an amendment on the floor OF the
House. Such amendments are ex-
ceedingly hard to get at any time
even under the most favorable
conditions.
Several times I have consulted
DR.. Kearney of the Agriculture
Department, whom l first met IN
Arizona in the summer of 1915. 1t
will be recalled that he was the
man who brought long fiber cotton
from Egypt to Arizona. He has
great faith in that variey Of cot
ION and in Arizona's future in pro-
ducing it. No man has done more
than he toward that end. Now that
q little different and better varie-
", known as SKIP, has been de-
veloped which is quite prolific,
long fiber cotton should come in
to increasing prominence about as
It was at the time it sold for a
dollar a pound in Phoenix. This
il mostly the work Of sclentlflc
and business men in breeding,
growing, and selling, and manu-
featuring the fiber. The law can
help some. | asked Marvin Jones,
CONGRESSMAN Sulmer and the Agrl-
culture Committee of the House
on November Is, 1887, to leave,
long fiber cotton, IL" or more IN
length, entirely unrestricted, and
that was done in the subsequent
Agriculture Bill of 1888. On
August Is, 1899, asked the Tariff
Commission, when they were
studying the effect of proposed
1hc per pound export subsidy for
cotton, to place a quota limitation
On long fiber cotton from Egypt.
The Commission did this on Sep
tember 20, 1889, and apparently it
has been a measure of protection
10 this unique Arizona product.
Ex-service men and their wives