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BRISBANE} THIS WEEK Explaining to Canada Mr. Morgenthau’*Work A West Point for Crime Alfred du Pont Canada, hearing of a proposed United States “camouflaged military air-

plane base near her border,” asks for Information. The State department will gladly supply it No military forts separate the two countries, no battleships on the big lakes. Inhabitants on both sides, being civilized, have no idea of attacking each other; neither craves what the other owns.

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Some day, let us hope, the two countries will be one, by mutual agreement, er Canada might annex the United States in a friendly way. If that were more acceptable, a majority of voters rqling. The North American continent, from the Mexican border to the North pole, should be one nation, or if Mexico and others would come In. all the way down to the Panama canal, so much the better. - There will be no war between this country and any part of the British empire. Common sense forbids it. Any air base of ours would probably be as useful to Canada as to ourselves, and we should la* delighted to see Canada establish a string of air bases to the north of us, especially along her Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Secretary Morgenthau. never tn business as a banker, interested, personally, In farming more than in money. has shown the outside world, to its surprise, that he can make the American dollar keep its place in the procession, regardless of many billions | of bond Issues, no gold basis, and other i novelties. Gamblers that ordinarily enjoy speculation in ‘•exchange" are afraid of the American dollar. And curiously, while | some Americans are sending money to other countries, to make it "safe," foreigners, and especially Britishers, are Investing more and more heavily In the United States. Washington discusses a "West Point for war on crime,” a seml-mllltary school under the attorney general to train fighters to meet the national crime army, that collects almost as I much money as the national government itself takes in. The war would l>e simple if government would treat crime ns It would an outbreak of yellow fever, or Asiatic cholera, taking It really seriously. Habitual criminals are known, men | of ten or fifteen convictions, racketeers, I gunmen. Make It clear that once j locked up they would never get out as ‘ long as they lived and you would see I the crime fade away. Very bad news for tfcis country, in which efficiency and energy count as public asset number one, is the sudden ■ death of Alfred du Pont, stricken with j heart disease In his residence near Jacksonville, Fla. At seventy years of * age Mr. du Pont was planning, as he i should be, all sorts of n«-w enterprises 1 that would have been Interesting to him. He needed no more money, wanted to be useful. ■ Great Britain la excited about the Germans building submarines, especially annoyed to learn that the submarines are of a “super” type, carrying guns as well as torpedo tubes, able to hunt British or other ships anywhere on earth, some alleged to carry a small airplane, easily launched. Britain has planecarrying submarines, but that Is different. German submarines now finished are about to start maneuver practice off Wllheimshafen. Nations rise to great heights, glorious power, then crumble, disappear; desert sands cover their streets and temples. Patient archeology digs them out and wonders. Read Volney’a "Ruins of Empires” to And that process well described. What causes It? Do nations grow old and die "naturally,** inevitably, as Individuals do? Sometimes plagues wipe them out: the black death nearly destroyed Europe. Malaria tore down the power of Rome and recently killed some 50.000, following a sudden mosquito attack In the Far East. You are not surprised to learn, in spite of pacifist protests and protests from certain Japanese who are not l»acifists, the President thinks it wise to explore around and see just what thia country needs id the way of "defense methods" on the Pacific. A crime, unbelievable, has been reported from Texas. Howard Pierson, aged twenty, killed his mother and father, then shot himself in the arm, pretending that bandits had done It After police had kept him awake for awhile be confessed, said he did It "for revenge.** He did It actually, authorities declared. for $17,000 Insurance on his father's life. He killed the mother because she would have got the insurance. mas Fy SyaSteats, IM, The Cherokee Alphabet The Cherokee alphabet was invented 1 by Sequoya between 1800 and 1821. J It was the product of bls contact with white civilisation. It was accepted by the Cherokee nation and thousands were soon able to read material presmred tn their own language. - i Lifrn. iec Isw.jet jua Wf* tm nrit frfft t'XiJi XwCMB WWil HOUO

News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Committee Defies President and Richberg on NRAj Extension —Roosevelt Lists “Must” Bills and Business Opposes Them. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©. Western Newspaper Union.

DISREGARDING the wishes of President Roosevelt, the finance committee of the senate adopted and reported for passage a simple resolution

continuing the national recovery act until April 1. 1936, and at the same time making these provisions: 1, No price fixing shall be permitted or sanctioned In codes, except In those relating to mineral *or natural resources which now have price fixing provisions. 2. No trade engaged in intrastate

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commerce shall be eligible for a code. X The President Is given specified time In which to review present codes to carry out the conditions laid down in the first two exceptions to the resolution. Both President Roosevelt and Donald Richberg, head of the NBA. had urged the passage of a new two year NRA bill which would set up a stricter dictatorship over business and industry. The senate finance committee, however, would not consent to this and instead passed the resolution, which was drawn up by Senator Clark of Missouri and approved by Chairman Pat Harrison. Twelve senators first called at the White House and the President seemed willing to accept the continuing resolution until Mr. Richberg came In and protested urgently; whereupon Mr. Roosevelt turned it down. The committee then took the action noted by a vote of 16 to 3, defying both the President and Richberg. i Senator Harrison said he had no doubt the senate would adopt the resolution with little debate. — ' LJ IGH optimism marked the “fireside ; * •* chat” which President Roosevelt I delivered over the radio to the people of America, which people, he said, are.

as a whole, "feeling a lot better—a lot more cheerful than for many, many years.” He asserted we are already on the unmistakable march toward recovery, and told how he means to promote the return to normal conditions with his works relief program. He promised to put to work three and a half million persons now

on the relief rolls, and to pres* (or enactment of legislation he considers necessary for carrying on the New Deal. Only once did Mr. Roosevelt allude to such critics of his administration as Senator Long. Father Coughlin and Governor Taltuadge. He said: “The overwhelming majority of people In this country know bow to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. They know. that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done In a day or a year, but that it Is being done In spite of a few who seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion.'' These six “fundamental principles," said the President, must guide the work relief program: Projects must be useful, most of the money must go for labor, “a considerable proportion of the costs'' must be returned to the treasury, only those projects which can employ persons on relief will be approved. and projects will be approved in a given area in proportion to the unemployed in that area. ~ ■ f L| EGISLATION which the President said, in his radio talk, should be enacted by congress immediately included the old age and unemployment Insurance bill, the NRA extension bill, tbe public utility bolding company bill, the transportation control bill, and tbe banking bill. Here be comes into conflict again with tbe views of business leaders ot the country. Tbe National Association of Manufacturers has just issued Its economic analysis of conditions, which says recovery is "within our grasp'' and that tbe nation is closer to breaking the back of tbe depression than at any time for years, but asks that, in order to stimulate business, tbe administration and congress temporarily shelve as "disturbing" such legislation as unemployment Insurance, the omnibus banking bill, the utility bolding company bill, the 90-bour work week, tbe Wagner labor disputes bill, the Guffey bituminous coal measure and proposed changes tn railroad lawn Os tled-up capital, the analysis said this: "Surveys indicate that close to gaa--000.000,000 in expenditures, which would give employment to 4.000,000 men for two years, is pent up in the field of factory expansion, renovation and rehabilitation alone. “The release es thia fiow at private capital by removing political uncertainties would dwarf the billions appropriated by congress for relief and make unnecessary the expenditure of much of the taxpayers’ money." This document was given out as tbe members of the United States Chamber of Commerce were gathering tn Washington tor their twenty-third annual convention, and naturally their speakers endorsed it and attacked much of the proposed legislation mentioned as unwarranted intrusion of the government into business. Before It adjourned the chamber aoopiea resolutions condemning aooutioo of utility holding companies, eppostog the banking bill, asking for relaxation and extension of the NBA MM «C the admMMMM bill, and psMsuM “for farther study” the question of social security.

Henry I. Harriman, who has been president of the organization for three years, retired from that office In favor of Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y. SECRETARY ICKES’ Department of the Interior has now been elevated to the level of the State Treasury and Agriculture departments, for congress has granted one of Harold's dearest wishes and given him an undersecretary, whose salary is to be SIO,OOO a year. This was a senate amendment to the Interior department appropriation bill, and was accepted by the house, 243 to 92. only after considerable pressure had been applied by the administration. Many of the house Democrats have asserted that Mr. Ickes snubbed them, and they would have liked nothing better than to administer a rebuke to him by defeating the amendment, but the party leaders drove them into line. t_l OW the New Dealers propose to * redistribute wealth by double taxation of large estates is revealed by Secretary of, the Treasury Morgenthau

in a letter to Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate fi nance committee. Mr Morgenthau outlines a plan of imposing in beritance taxes and also retaining the existing estate taxes, as setting this Is in line with “our fundamental Objectives." That this would result In the dissolution of lar g e properties, the secre-

tary recognizes, for he says: “To prevent the necessity of hasty liquidation of large properties in order Io pay the tax. it might be provided that inheritance taxes be payable In a convenient number of installments.” The plan as outlined by Mr. Morgenthau is to Impose graduated Inheritance taxes on estates, with rates following these of the present income tax rates, which approximate 60 per cent on incomes of a million dollars or more. The present estate taxes have a maximum of 60 per cent over ten million dollars. Thus there would first be a tax of 60 per cent upon the estate or gift, and then another tax of 60 per cent to be paid by those Inheriting or receiving it This would amouut to a combined rate of 85 per cent on an estate of one hundred million dollars. If all this money were handed out to the poorer people, even Huey Long might be satisfied. ARIZONA’S victory over the government in the Parker dafii case ruled on by the Supreme court alarmed the New Dealers for the safety of some of their other big projects of the same nature. The court decided that Secretary Ickes, as public works administrator, was without authority to dam navigable rivers unless specifically ordered by congress and that the law creating the PWA had not listed any such specific projects as the Parker dam. The same applies to many huge reclamation projects that have received PWA funds, and it Is not unlikely that suite will be brought to stop some of them. Mr. Ickes said' congress would be asked to authorize specifically the construction of the Parker dam. FEDERAL Judges Woodward. Wilkerson and Lindley of Chicago are not going to be impeached, for the house subcommittee Investigating equity and bankruptcy receiverships and practices reported the evidence taken did not warrant such action. Tbe report said that In several instances “conduct prejudicial to the dignity of the federal judiciary" was disclosed, but that substantial improvements had been made both in the rules of the court and in the law applicable to the administrator of receiverships and bankruptcy litigation. /’"‘HAIBMAN JOHN J. M’SWAIN of the house military affairs committee sent to the President a letter of apology for disclosure of defense plans outlined In execeutlve sessions of tbe committee, and assumed full responsibility for "the unfortunate Incident.” McSwain was rebuked by letter from tbe President tor the publication In a house document of possible defense plans against Canada and British and French islands In the Atlantic and the Caribbean in the event of war. Brig. Gens. F. M. Andrews and Charles E. Kilbourne had outlined the program before a secret meeting of the committee. IN AN address closing the ceremonies at tbe Grotto of Lourdes, Cardinal Pacelll. secretary of state for the Vatican. served notice on Reicbsfuehrer Hitler that the Catholic church will never come to terms with him while the Nazis persist in a racial philosophy "contrary to the Christian faith." An attack on both Hitlerism and Communism vm apparent In Cardinal PaeeiU’s denunciation of Christianity’s “enemies” whom he accused of using the depression to spread “aversion for tbe cross." i AMBASSADORS of the United 1 ** States, Chile. Peru, and Argentina i delivered to tbe Brasilian government i a collective note asking Brazil to par- 1 tldpate In efforts to end the Paraguay- I Bolivia war in the Chaco by mediation. 1 Brazil rejected such an invitation < some time ago because she had been l unintentionally excluded from a pro- 1 jected Chaco economic conference. The two warring nations were en- < gaged tn a long and very bloody bat- < tie. the outcome of which was still , undecided. ,

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Foreign minister pierrs laV’AL of France and Ambassador Potemkin of Russia finally fixed up the mutual assistance pact between the two countries In away acceptable to both and it was signed in Paris. M. Laval then prepared to leave for Moscow, planning to stop in Warsaw en route. It would seem that Laval had bis way with the treaty, for It subordinates military action of the two powers to the procedure of the League of Nations. to provisions of the Locarno pact and also to the Franco-Polish alliance. All of that probably would keep France out of war even If Russia were attacked. In Paris It was taken for granted that a secret military convention, supplementing the pact, would soon be signed, fixing the methods of mutual assistance. SETTING a new transcontinental record for transport ships, a TWA test plane flew from Burbank, Calif., to New York In 11 hours and 5 minutes. What is more important, for all but about one hundred miles it was controlled by a robot pilot. D. W. Tomlinson. the pilot, was accompanied by Harold Snead, an expert on radio beam flying, and Peter Redpath, navigation engineer. Tomlinson had the controls for only three brief intervals —over the San Bernardino range, at Durango, Colo., where a snowstorm was encountered.* and at the landing at Floyd Bennett field. The plane reached its greatest cruising speed of 262 miles an hour over the Allegheny mountains. * | 'EXANS are going to have the opportunity of deciding whether their state shall remain.dry or fall Into line with most other states and repeal the prohibition law. The legislature has voted to submit the question to popular action. Under the resolution adopted the vote would be held next August 24. Regulation would be left to the legislature and at the general election tn 1936. a vote would be taken on a mandatory state monopoly over sales of hard liquor. Local option would be i preserved under both straight repeal and the monopoly under the straight repeal plan, which also would bar the return of the open saloon. GERMANY'S latest breach of the treaty of Versailles, the building of submarines. Is stirring up a lot of angry talk In Great Britain. France and Italy. The English are especially disturbed, for they remember only too vividly how near the Germans came to starving them during the war by the destruction of shipping by the undersea boats. Anglo-German conversations on naval restriction were to have been held in London the second week In May, and these may now be I called off or at least postponed. The French are less vexed because they think the development may force I a showdown on the whole status of the j German navy and Hitler’s demand for at least 35 per cent of the British tonnage and approximate parity with that of France. Naval experts in Paris said the disclosure might “well prove of inestimable benefit for military France In awakening naval Britain to the dangers of Hitler’s armaments Information obtained by the powers was that Germany already had under construction a number of 250-ton submarines and planned a large fleet of them. Spokesmen for the German government denied that any were being built yet. but at the same time admitted that submarines were being “considered” In connection with plans for rebuilding the nnvy. KING CAROL of Rumania and his council propose to make their country the strongest military power In the Balkans. They have signed a contract with the Skoda Munitions works of Czechoslovakia for artillery and ammunition to cost $25,000,990; and they also have drawn up a tenyear armament program calling for the expenditure of $220,000,000. HAVING listened to Senator Long of Louisiana and other orators who do not like the administration and its New Deel and also have little love

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slon. They sought adoption of a resolution calling for legislation for "re-, lief without debts," • production credit without strings." and immediate repeal of the AAA. Reno denounced them aa Wail Street racketeers and henchmen of Soviet Russia. “Too can’t talk. You can’t argue. Don't try to get the floor. I’m running this meeting." Reno said. "Sit down and shut up. Get out before we get really mad." D EPUBLICANS of nine midwestern ** states who met at Excelsior Springs. Mo, decided that the “grass roots" conference of leaders of the party should be held In Springfield. HL. the date to be fixed later, though it probably will be early la June The purpose of this gathering will be the rejuvenation of the party and the launching of a campaign to restore popular government. The nine states participating, which will name delegates. are Illinois, lowa. Indiana. Minnesota. Kansas. Nebraska. MiasousL Wisconsin and Oklahoma. POLICE of Havana apparently are * well on the way to solution of the mystery of the fire which destroyed the Ward liner Morro Castle and other recent marine disasters. They have arrested three men. all natives of Catolan province In Spain, and say that they found on their persona letters of instruction concerning the destruction of the steamship Magallanes of the Spanish line, which was soon doe In Havana. The documents, according to the authorities, ordered the accused to "take necessary action to precipitate a disaster similar to that of the Morro Castle" The police say the prisoners are well-known anarchists.

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Washington.—ln the last two weeks L the National Capital has been under

there has been utter confusion as DemI ocrats fought among themselves and ! Republicans and Independents sat on the sidelines and said “sic ’em.” At : the other end of Pennsylvania avenue, ' business activity has been amazing. • The President was beginning to start : ; to commence to spend five billion dol- • | lars. In between has been the largest ■ hangover of Easter visitors the Capi- ' ■ tai city has known in recent years. 1 Mr. Roosevelt, having complete con--1 trol of the largest sum of money ever 1 turned over to one man, has been run- ! i nlng his brain at lightning speed to ' i make good on his promise that actual spending will begin In two months. He ‘ has announced that some sixty agents of the government will participate in 1 the spending function but roosting on top of the various spending groups are to he three newly created boards, each ■ s responsible to his direction and each • enjoined to bear down in order that > | the public works and relief funds In > I his charge may flow freely. 1 ! I hear general commendation of the President for selecting Frank C. Walker of Montana and New York to head ' ' up the spending operations. Mr. Walk- • j er. a lawyer, is experienced in a big business way and is accepted everyi ; where as a man with capacity to do ■ the job. The fly that is floating around ' j and threatens to get into the ointment, > > however, is the existence of two schools of thought In the administraj tlon. This condition may undo the good work which Mr. Walker is regarded as capable of doing. • • • The flve-biUion-dollar spending machine will be guided first by the Presi-

for the G. O. P, the National Farmers’ Holiday association. In session at Des Moines, lowa, decided that a third national political party should bs formed. Milo Reno, national president of the association. had a lively encounter with a group of alleged Communists during a business ses-

i statement, official announcement of • the allotment board shows the name I of Secretary Ickes as chairman. Many i caustic darts were fired at Mr. Ickes I during the two months while the pubI lie works bill was held up in congress, | because members did not like the Ickes policy as public works administrator. I Os course, as the set-up now stands ; Mr. Walker will determine the char- ; acter of spending and Mr. Ickes and his allotment board will determine ■ bow much money each may have. That | would seem to eliminate the causes of j trouble experienced heretofore by the : members of congress and the Ickes \ organization. Nevertheless, critics of I the secretary have begun to suspect | something. I Mr. Roosevelt has said in White ‘ House press conferences several times lately that be would permit no delay In getting the spending machinery in motion. He assured the country in his radio speech the other night that his policy was to be speed and assistance where the money will do the most good. The President certainly has made clear that be is anxious to get things going. ' (hi the other hand, opponents of the administration and critics of the policy of appropriating such a vast sum of money into the charge of one Individual are saying openly that they will wait and see how fast the money is spent One hears much conjecture regarding it In the first Instance, any Individual or group of individuals must admit that as easy as it is to spend money, ability to find places where five billton dollars can be pushed out Is not accorded to very many persona. Summed up, the conjecture and discussion leave the impression that If a substantial amount of money has been spent six months from this time, the administration will kava

the tent of a ring circus, if ever one existed. At the Capitol building,

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dent, second by Mr. Walker and third by Uthe various agencies now in existence.

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They are supposed to present plans and Mr. Walker will be expected to analyze and determine tbeir values. Prof. Rexford Guy Tugwell, undersecretary of agriculture, will have something like nine hundred million dollars to spend in remaking the rural districts of the nation in a job variously described as “rural resettlement” and other similar short titles. This program contemplates expansion and intensification of work now being done by the Agricultural Adjustment administration and the Federal Emergency Relief administration. Including attacks on the problem of dust storms and other types of soil erosion. Although Professor Tugwell has no plans complete, he Is working tn the direction of transplanting many farmers from poor land where living is hard to more fertile fields. Under his jurisdiction also will be reforestation and a genera! examination of land uses. A second agency i.int is new In the current set-up provides for development of rural electrification. The third new spending movement is directed at dangerous railroad grade crossings. The funds that will be set aside for these latter two. however, will total only about one-fourth as much as Professor Tugwell will spend in his orgy. Other scheduled programs for expenditure include: Assistance to clerical and professional workers—the white collqr folks. Loans and grants to states, cities and counties. Development of new housing construction in cities and rural districts and general reconditioning and remodeling of homes already existing. Extension and expansion of the Civilian Conservation corps to a maximum of six hundred thousand workers. Further public building construction but in a less extensive manner than previously was attempted. • • • Although the President assured congress that he himself would administer

the five-btllion-dollar fund, and succeeded In quieting criticism to some extent by the

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exceeded all expectations except its own. • • • Newspaper correspondents reporting Capital news bad a good laugh the

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gressional committee to satisfy all sections of the country in an announcement made by the committee respecting its organization. I can conceive of no better way to tell the story than to quote opening paragraphs from four statements issued simultaneously by the committee on the subject mentioned. The paragraphs which follow are taken from statements which were delivered to my office In one envelope: 1— "The West will play an Important part in the direction of the campaign of the Democratic national congressional committee, now being organized by Chairman P. H. Drewry of Virginia. Representative Abe Murdock of Beaver, Utah, has been selected as a vice chairman of this committee, and, under plans proposed, will have general supervision over the campaign in the West” 2— "In the organization on for the coming campaign of the Democratic national congressional committee the South will play a very important part. Not only is Congressman P, H. Drewfy of Virginia chairman of this committee, but he has selected other southern congressmen to aid him. Representative Virgil Chapman; of the Sixth Kentucky district has been chosen as chairman of the very important executive committee. His is what is historically known as the Henry Clay district. and has been a political battle ground of the nation for considerably more than one hundred years.” 3— "Unless all signs fall, the Middle West will be an important battle ground in the congressional elections of next year. Representative P. H. Drewry of Virginia has recognized this when, as chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee, he aided in the selection of Congressman Eugene B. Crowe of the Ninth Indiana district, as first vice chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee. Representative Crowe will have general supervision over Democratic campaign activities of congressional candidates throughout the central part of the country. His jurisdiction will extend from the Ohio to the Great Lakes. Practically every national election for the last one-half century or more has been won or lost in the states comprising this district.” 4— "In the reorganization of the Democratic national congressional committee Chairman P. H. Drewry of Virginia has sought to give additional prominence to members from the East. Representative William J. Granfield of Massachusetts has been selected as one of the vice chairmen and will have general supervision over campaign ac-, tivities throughout the North and East. Associated with him will be Representative William N Rogers of New Hampshire, who has been named a member of the executive committee. Congressman Rogers represents the district which boasts of Daniel Webster. the great orator of one hundred years ago.” K Os course, it was Intended that the statements should be distributed to correspondents from the various sections of the country so that western newspapers would have been told how important their section was and eastern newspapers would have had information to the effect that the eastern section was all important. It was not an unusual procedure but it happened that the statements were distributed together and that afforded the butt of the joke. • • • Senator Bankhead (Dem., Ala.), of cotton production control fame, has

another idea for legislation. This time the senator is seeking to make it pos-

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sible, he says, for every tenant farmer to become a land owner. He has legislation pending In congress to carry out his program and it appears now that It may go through. Undoubtedly, the senator’s bill has merit in some ways. In others, accord- ! Ing to the discussion I hear from among members of the house and senate, the proposal is likely to create some very bad spots if enacted into law. It Is proposed to create another gov-ernment-owned corporatioif which would have power to issue one and a half billion dollars* worth of governmentguaranteed bonds. These bonds could be sold by the corporation and the proceeds used to buy land for present landless farmers. They would become owners in name and would have the millstone of that debt around their necks for twenty years if they succeeded In earning enough Income to pay off the debt in that time. It is true the measure would open the way for land ownership and would make the terms of ownership about as easy as la possible when one borrows another’s money. Those facts, however, do not remove the conditions which a good many observers hold are bad. For Instance, it is difficult to see how the tenant can make a living and sufficient profit to pay off the debt to the government if he has been unable to accomplish that same purpose with money borrowed commercially. It is being paid freely that such legislation will serve only the purpose of relieving present owners of land which they do not want by its transfer through the government to others who may not be able to pay for It In other words, It Is another bill to put more people in debt Lastly, it occurs to me that states will oppose such legislation because while the title of the land is covered with a mortgage to the federal government it will not be subject to state taxation nor will any other Hen be operative. • Western Newspaper VaiMk.

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1935.

Movement to Preserve Totem Poles of Indians One result of the opening up of the further reaches of Canada is that the old primitive life of the Indians is fast disappearing, and with it their customs, traditions, aad folklore. An effort is now being made to preserve the family trees, commonly known as totem poles, of the various tribes. These ancient heirlooms carry the tribal histories of more than 100,000 Indians. It was tjie custom among the red Indians for each tribe to choose an animal to represent them, and thus was born the science of totemism. The carved poles show every sort of animal from lizards to lions, and it is through these that the various families and tribes can be recognized, as well as the periods when they flourished. Hundreds of totem poles are being collected, some from as far out as the lonely Beaver island, in Hardy bay, an old trading post of the Hudson’s Bay company. One of the most famous stands in Jasper National park. It is 65 feet long, and the work of carving it occupied three years.-—London Tit-Bits. Your Role Environment, heredity, circumstances all play their parts in the lives of each of us. But they never play the all-important part. What a man has may be upon others. But what he is depends entirely upon himself alone.—Grit.

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