The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 10

By RODNEY DUTCHER ! (NEA Service Writer) | Washington, Aug. 16.— President | Hoover's seemingly grim determina- | tion to cut down military and naval expenditure may yet be seen to be based on a conviction that a troubl some financial situation looms ahcad ; of the government. We have a cruiser program that will | cost $250,000,000 unless some of it is abandoned, another hangover from the Coolidge administration Work has barely begun on the $159,- 000,000 public buildings program. The Hoover administration will have to raise most of the money. ood control has already taken an ‘opriation of some $25,000,000. but ap} THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE CHESTER en In fact, if he isn't successful, and/in the broad program contemplated : a business recession comes along, talk | as a permanent measure estimates of ee of tax reduction may be replaced by cost run from $50,000,000 to $750,- "i suggestions of tax increases before the , 000,000. wr tf: end of his first administration. program for develop- if One of the most interesting facts and naval aviation about government expenses is that a in Coolidge’s second re share of the responsibility for sud- | term, but the biggest expenditures for denly mounting federal expense y its completion are yet to come. Army be properly awarded to Mr. in terrible shape—Cool- ry ‘ Coolidge. when high army officers ot It looks as if Cal, with his passion uawked about them—and appropri- S ge for economy, had put off many of tl be made for new con- new major expenditures My on and repair. tacmderes necessary until federal farm board is lending + GEO, EMMERT piled up into Hoover's adm! rather than giving it away, i i Cal has left office wit! t has $50,000,000 to lend ee age Tetbor reputation for econom + come out of the treasury, lo say : 5 = is left holding the bac. He cone oa etiay mvadminictratve|| Freckles and His Friends serious embarrassment n't heard much lately about R St. Lawrence canal, expensive project. TUls PacKAcE cane IT'S HARD To WHATENER IT 1S (WELL TLL SOON FIND cause the days of penny-p' the next regular session lere FoR me Pr Now IT ISNT NERY HEANYs OUT Io IT'S FROM AND ID UKe To 5 necessarily over for some ndeubtedly start appropriating WHO DO You SUPPOSE 1 WONDER IF ANY QWAT IT. 1S — DONT we: come. 85,000,000 which it will cost to COULD BE SENDING c | cer a j ‘ Hoover has boldly proposed a build Boulder dam. The government ME ANYTHING? OF THE KIDS BACK TOO CLOSE, TAG. COULD $5,000,000 appropriation to enlarge the | expects to recover al mone; dep be a BONE COULD BE SOMETHING MiGuT ; federal prison system and end the dam must be built’ first, an e ; present ‘serious condition of over-, amortization will take 50 years. If PLAYING SOME IND one é crowding. Muscle Shoals legislation is passed bi ‘That's an excellent example of what; more expense presumably will be in- Hoover has been left to contend with | volved. by the combined Coolidge policy of | $15,000,000 program for hospi- economy and inaction. a ion for neurological and psychi- Just at the tail-end of the Coolidge | atric cases among war veterans was administration several expensive proj- ded off by Mr. Coolidge, but here ects were finally acted upon. But the in is something that will have to money must be provided by the Hoo- be carried out. ver budgets. And there are new things Government salaries appear to be AY coming up which will take more. The fixed costs of government continue to mount. Even Coolidge couldn't stop that. The cost of government for the fiscal year 1929 was $205,000.000 higher than for 1928. Nearly $60,000,000 of this increase was in army and navy president's chief worries. i} in for a boost, and that means per- haps another $25,000,000 a year. One could think of more forthcom- ing expense if it were necessary. But that’s enough. Enough, at least, to indicate that government expenses and revenues must be one of the SEEING Pueblo, Colo, Aug. 16.—What a break! GOING PLACES THINGS for miracles—and the miracle of the circus is a phenomenon of boyhood. Dawn—and through the screened| Now—watching the negroes and windows of the Pullman sleeper stand the bright orange sides of a circus train. In heavy black letters over the top are the words: John D. Robinson Circus. whites drive the pegs in the ground, it seemed like so much hard work, where once it had appeared to be a God-given gift. Unfortunately, I have | watched too many men driving rivets Jin skyscrapers since I stood on a ‘The first circus train I have seen| rainy morning listening to drivers since I changed into long pants! curse the horses, and overseers lash Then. if memory serves me. this par-| the circus slaves into action. ticular outfit was a dog and pony} But there were small boys there. show. | smail boys who, even in this day and ‘There are many cars. I intended | age, were ready and willing to carry to count them. but sleep and surprise | water for the clephants on the prom- stopped me. Besides, the porter was| ise that they would be slipped under shaking my berth—with ‘that r-|the tent at a‘certain hour of the ticular vigor that is halfway between | afternoon an earthquake temblor and a hula| Thinking back, it seems to me that wiggle. | my own particular disillusion began Here after all these years is a dawn| with such a promise. I had carried and a circus—a porter forcing me to| water until my arms ached beyond awaken in time to sec “the big tops! belicf. I was given a bit of paper tise.” What a break! with something scratched upon. it, eee and told to look up a certain indi- Rolling comfortably over—wonder- | vidual. Long before the appointed ing if I had not grown too old for, time, I arrived—and could not find such things—I found myself trying to) that Person. Nor could T find any- recall when last I had seen a circus| One who would recognize my bit of come into town. ; Paper. Long after the “great first Punny how seemingly unimportant | part” I was sneaked under the tent things cling to the memory—while. to| ome kindly gent—but bitterness gave my life, I can't recall when the led in my boy heart. I had been Battle of Gettysburg was fought. Still) 4 “sucker”—and I knew it. No one Jying in a Pullman bunk, I can see a| knows better than a boy long stretch of car track, running} Still and all, a certain thrill is left through du! and idle countryside.| —a thrill which kept me harnessed to Suddenly, there emerges a hothouse—| the circus grounds in Pueblo until the and beyond the hothouse a great field | big top, itself, was reared. A thrill, with dirty canvas rising. But they | however. changed the show grounds—and when | Of association—an effort to go back ‘—less than a mile from where I in Michigan. There was no uncertainty, then, ‘whether to rise or lie in bed for a few} moments more. The night had been UR th. There had been Bee treaties “that one's high oe CHILDREN ‘wouldn’t waken in time to call. Now that I think of it, I wonder how do awaken at dawn to call dg Ole Aoberts Barkm youngsters in time for those day- & Roberts Barloa light ceremonials that are the best part of a circus! train and the circus train into Pueblo almost simultane- | of one sort or another are saying that themselves. was just springing up over.| average family with children to get GILBERT SWAN. 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) (Copyright (O12 by NEA Serviceina More and more frequently statistics it becomes harder every day for the along. orange cars were alive.) and I know it to be true, acc . according of canvas the flunkies| to our American standards of “getting along.” circus grounds in Pueblo were | Noone knows bet ter than I do the few hundred yards from the| struggle of the mother and father with a little family that they are trying to bring up in decent clean and slack—something had | <1;+ronnd: ; lings with average advant: No longer did a barefoot boy | of health and education. yes on one leg, scraping the cold his foot. The marvel—the But on the other hand, it is to be in fact—which once had been, no longer was there. I am con- feared that in this group we are counting the parents who struggle on and deny themselves every splinter of that one must be in the mood comfort in order to give selfish chil- dren luxuries that they could and should do without. Children usually don't set 50 sel- fish unless they ere allowed to. When will we learn that children are pretty “| much what we make them, or at least allow them to become? Heartless Adolescents If they were not actually aided and abetted in their selfish demands when they were little, I doubt if we should have the large percentage of heartless adolescents today that we seem to be HERE'S A DIME AND VLL BE STANDING ON THE CORNER WAITING THAT SOUNDS LIKE TINY AND HIS UKE. AF THAT GUMMY GUY EVER MEETS PHYLLIS- MISTER STULL A KNOCK WITH THE UKE? AND, TO DEDICATE ONE OF HIS SONGS TO ME. TM THRILLED FRILL HE. MEETS: 7| tHe ours LOOKING tH, | Fae MEANS O8 FOUN TO GETIN” AND HEETN |] WWE FAIR PHYLLIS —— o———~* TVsTt WHAT, FoR INSTANCE? SINCE TH’ BABY CAME ‘OH, WHALE-OIL, CANOLES AN’ BLUBBER -Ya NEED FOOD “TA KEEP YOUR. TUMMY WARM UP, THERE Ya know! fe ni i ath knew it—his I knew denied himeelf. But feted [ i he "t that child. ‘salled. 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