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DIGjEST OF .IMPORTANT ACTS
PASSED.Bflr FIRST SESSION OF
SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS
By E L Bartlett
WASHINGTON, July l.—With the
thought that a digest of sbme of the
more important' acts passedkby the
first' session of the Seventy-third Con
gress- and of the administrative poli
cies'may prove of interest,, tbe high
light of the same are herewith briefly :
sketched.
Economy...
To effect total economies of $500,-’
800,000. Retrenchments to date total I
$108,000,000. Among the economies j
are:' 15 per cent pay ctit Vo date in
salaries of 950,000 Federal workers; j
Department of Justice comp/eting 40 ]
per cent cut ii> present force of 3,00ft i
dry agents, j
Banking,
Activity of conservators under)
emergency enactment gradually les-j
sening with 5>536 member banks of t
the Federal Reserve System now li-1
censed to reopen.
Loans nod investments increased,
$525,000,000 between March 1 and,
June 1.
American prices of six bask ma
terials—cotton, lard, silver, copper;
tin ijnd rubber—reported 60 per cent
higher in June than in Fehruary.
During month after gold embargo
(April 20 exchange value of dollar
fell to>83 per cent. Commodity price
advances ^corresponded to decline in
dollar value.
Veterans.
Arrangements announced for se
lecting reviewing board members
early in July, boards' to act in fields
where cases arise.
Original enactment mpdifijfd as fol
lows ^
1. $15,000,000 additional cost to
Government as result of . Spanish
American war veterans’ benefits.
2. 154,000 *presumpt^ye” wa* cases
continued on pension rolls until Oc
tober 31..
3. No reduction -of any pension by
more than 25 per cent; average 18
per cent.
4. Veterans receive pension- if
disabled 10 per ‘ cent; with diseases
from war.
Ket potation.
1,433 camps now have enrolled
about 240,000* men.
! 35,000 expert woodspien have been
hired, with about 18,000 other civil
ians on staff jobs.
$40,000,000 of anticipated $250,
I 000,000 already expended.
Additional lands purchased and to
be purchased in development projects.
Railroads.
Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman
of the I. C. C. appointed coordinatory
of railroads and plans initiated for
^setting up regional coordinating com
mittees.
Home^jwiiecs Loan Act.
Directors announce organization
• Thrill employ approximately 6,000 per
sons. . The corporation will be repre
sented every place., whore business
warrants it. All applications , fos
-Aoaus must be made through State
(or Territorial) managers- Only
Home owners t'acrng foreclosure will
i receive federal aid. During organiza
tion period President peqnpts .credit-,
ors to refrain from bringing foreclos
ure proceedings. s
National Recovery—^ubbc'Wwrks.
Industries are ..now .^rawing , up
codes, and hearings are in progress,
while .the public works administration
is preparing to launch a long list of
projects at the .earliestj possible mo
ment.
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HIGHWAY XQLLE TO BE
IMPOSED, SAYS Hj'HES i
Tolls will, be imposed on Rietyard^prJ
Highway, despite protestts of >A’as
kans individually and collectively
through their varieus civic and .com- >
mercial organizations, according to a 1
letter received by the Fairbanks city :
council from Harold L. Ickes, Secre
tary of the Interior,, says the Fair
banks News-Miner of recent date.
The council had sent the Secetary
resolutions it had adopted against
imposition of tolls. i
Secretary Ickes’ letter of reply ja
as follows:
“Gentlemen: Your telegram pf
June 15 has been received- I have
given very careful. consideration to
the matter of license fees on the
Richardson Highway, but no sufficient
reason^ has been presented to me for
changing the order pf my predecessor,
dated February 15,. 19331 It was. ap
parent to me from my investigation
of the subject that a nominal fee was
warranted cn all private passenger
cars, and that the egular license ap
plied to trucks carrying merchandise
for hire should be extended to private
trucks which haul merchandise for
their owners:
“The delcit of the Alaska Railroad
has been met for many years by the
taxpayers of the United States, and
there is no apparent reason why the
‘Government should maintain a com
peting highway which further reduces
the railroad revenues. While I ealize
the fees to be charged will not cover
the cost of maintaining the highway,
nevertheless the subsidy will be re
duced by the collections, to sopae ex
tent, andi will show an. effort on the
tfhfrt of the people of Alaska to share
in the expense now carried completely
by the tampers in the States-”
“There’s a man to see you with a
mu cstha,esir.”
“Tell him I’ve go* a mustache al
ready.”—Everybody’s Weekly (Lon
don).
Are you a Kusisojpmes subscriber?
Why jiot johi throng?
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■ Swift's OvenizeoJ^ams and Bacon
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W. CARLSON
RIGHT TO PO$£E9SL $5^00 GQLU
(Alaska Weekly,, Seattle)
Senator William Borah last week
told the Senate that, if he had $>,000
in gold and the, Government demand
ed its return he would tell the Gov
ernment to “Go t$ hell.” Like Senr
ator Borah, we are inclined to agree
that there is no constitutional justi
fication for this federal interference:
with a man’s right to possess gold!
any more than there would be ter the
j Government to say that a citizen
might not own silver, diamonds or
; any pther purely personal property.
Many editorial writers express the
viewpoint that the man who keeps
gold in his safe deposit box is a pub
lic enemy, a slacker who is withholdn
ing money from circulation upon
which he pays no taxes and which is
not working for the puhlic weal in
any sense. Therefore, they say, it is
: perfectly fitting that he be forced to j
return it in order that it may lie in
vaults of the Federal Reserve- rather
, than in. his own. We fail to see why
the gold hoarder is any more culpable
or less public spirited than the man
who makes extensive investments,
abroad or the man who carefully
' chooses tax-exempt securities as his
! method of tax evasion,. This tatter
j group are all among, the wealthy.
They get out from under the tax load
! hnd the man e fmoderate means does}
! the paying until it hurts,
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X UTJ^E OF EVERYTHING.-.
M A.rlsT,:o vgq cmfwy bgkq gkk.
Mrs. Almeda D. McClellan,, of Salt
Lake City, who is 101 years old, has.
| 432 living descendants.
Helen Hqflfar, o£ Reading, Pa.„
claims the world championship as a
pretzel twister1, her record being 48
pretzels per minute.
Born in slavery, Dinah. Watt P*geT,
a negro teacher who had educated 465.
g|rls and 235 hoys, died recently at.
the age of 80 in Covington, Ga.
The deepest fresh water lake in the
world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia. .
Brick veneer only an inch thick has
been invented b ya Detroit man. fpr
covering frame buildings.
Census figures reveal, that there ^re
in the United States nearly 2,000 ppr- .
sons both blind and. deaf,.
Of the 401,000 American citizens
who live permanently outside of the
United States, 223,000 reside in. Cic
ada.
Jericho, around which - Joshua's
army marched, was.destroyed by fire,,
is the findin gof archaeologists.
Milk is no wretailed in cellulbse
boxes which are formed, dipped in.
superheated paraffin, filled, and sealed,
in one continuous operation.
WHY PBOPLB SMILB.
uwu 'ii i-i.inv\,.Mmeamamtamam
Tongue Twister. '
Wife—When you came home tot
night you said you had been to > the
Grand with Ur. Jenes. Now- you say,,
it was the Trocadero. Why did you.
lie?”
Husband—When I came home h
couldn’t say Trocadero.— Montreal
Gazette.
Refused
The young man had just proposed.
“No!” she replied. “A thousand
times, no!”
>: “Well, don’t rub it in,” he retorted.
“I only asked you once.”—Answers
i( London).
Following Instructions.
He—Have you time to sew vim. this
button?
Wife—No; I’m foliowin&^ft. re
cipe, and it says not to,ts|f£j£jjtr 20
minutes.—Answers (Lon)
Takotna Generali Stores I
We shell continue iGent
plete Stock of Merchindiwu.
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