Big Piney Examiner from Big Piney, Wyoming • Page 2

BIG PINEY EXAMINER. BIG P1NEY. WYOMING ItUN OF THE MINE John L. Lewis glances up dourly as he finishes signing: new wage contract for his United Mine Workers with the mine operators. The miners returned to work after a brief strike.

POETIC JUSTICE John B. Kelly of Philadelphia, whose father was barred from diamond sculls rowing- classic in 1920 because lie had done menial labor, saved iamily honor by winning the meet this year at Hciiley-on- the-Thamcs, England. CALLS THE TUNE James Caesar Pctrillo, boss of the musicians' union, has issued an edict that he will prohibit broadcast of musical programs on network hook-ups after February 1, 1U48. HATES TAXES So violently opposed to "excessive and confis- catory induidual income taxes" is E. B.

Tilton of Milwaukee, that he voluntarily cut Jiis own income to lower his taxes. President of a manufacturing company, he says he will work without pay in November and December so that he way lower his tax contribution. YOUXGEST RADIO STAR Self-styled "youngest story-teller in the whole world," Robin Morgan, five years old, has her own radio program over a New York station. She is the nursery set's own disc jockey. Presidential Veto Poses Problems Roosevelt Said, 1 Forbid' 631 Times for New Record By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator.

forbid!" said President Truman. He said it 74 times to the 79th congress while Democrats were still in control. The score for the Republican-controlled 80th is not quite complete at this writing. Every American president is permitted to say he forbids, but he has to say it in Latin. The word is "veto." Of course the congress can sa "So what?" right back, as they did so emphatically this session in the case of the Tail-Hartley labor act, but they have to say it two-thirds strong, a strength they aren't always able to muster, as history has shown Why the founding fathers were generous with presidential power, which they never conceived as expanding to its modern breadth, we don't quite know.

The veto is written down in Roman law, but Latin is a dead language. In England, the crown has a veto power over parliament, but it is almost as dead as Queen Anne, since it hasn't been used sine? her time. It seems to have flourished on American soil. In ought to call it National Veto Week." House Majority Leader Halleck is reported to have remarked when the third presidential veto in one week of June bounced back into the lap of the 80th cong studying headlines "President Nixes Tax Cut," "Truman Vetoes Labor Legislation," "Wool Bill Down," Baukhage shook their heads and opined that Harry S. Truman was the veto- ingest president yet Nonsense, said capitol old-timers.

Harry Truman, according to the record, has been very sparing of his veto, and has a long way to go before he attains the really big-time veto statistics racked up by Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had more time than anybody else to exercise his thumbs-down power), Grover Cleveland (the veto runner- up), and Ulysses Grant. "Why," the olil-timers grunt, "when FDR was president, it seemed as if we had a veto on something or other almost every day." And the record shows that he said, "I forbid," or achieved the same end by the pocket method in 631 instances. (A "pocket veto" comes about in this way: The president has 10 nn Irees For years now 1 have walked back and forth to mv labors under a Gothic roof of green, formed by the interlacing elm branches which, since Civil war days, have made my street one of the world's most beautiful avenues. Today there are some rude Raps in the raftered ceiling where huge branches have been ripped away by the wind and storm.

But now there is a threat of greater devastation for our and other elm trees, ancient and historical, or merely beautiful, for the dreaded dutch elm disease has descended upon America--two cases of virulent infection have been discovered within the District of Columbia alone, and no cure is known. IU generation found nothing exotic in Hie idea of the village smithy under the spreading chestnut tree. Today the smith would have a tough job finding a chestnut tree under which to build his smithy, even if you could find the smith. For, thanks to the infamous chestnut blight, a horscchestnut tree iu this country is now almost as rare as a horse. Must the elms go that way? I talked this question over with a member of the American Forestry Products Industues, Inc.

(a private industrial association). He said: "A recent house action reduced the federal appropriation for the control and research of the European beetle and dutch elm disease to $51,000 If the cut is approved by the senate, it means the end of the dutch elm disease laboratory in Morristown. N. where the department of agriculture's bureau of entomology and plant quarantine has conducted extensive research into the control and possible prevention of the insect and fungus. An elm, according to official classification, is "prized shade tree in the noitheastern and central United States." But passing over its esthetic value, consider that its "wood is used for variety of purposes--especially slack cooperage, market and bushel baskets, for heavy crating and for veneers.

But what does an economaniac care for all that? Consider the White House grounds, for instance In these quiet 18 acres there are something less than 350 trees comprising some 90 species. The two great magnolias planted close to the rear portico were placed there by Andrew Jackson Nearly every president planted a tree--there is the Benjamin Harrison oak, the Harding beech. days, not including Sundays, to act on any bill. Congress sends a bill to him. If congress adjourns before the president's allotted 10 days are up and he still hasn't acted on the bill, it cannot become a law.

That is considered a "pocket Cleveland, during his two terms in office, used his veto power 584 times, and was overridden only twice. The majority of the Cleveland vetoes were personal pension bills, many based on utterly absurd claims growing out of the Civil war. At first, Cleveland's forthright refusal to permit these myriad, lili- pufcan treasury raids infuriated Civil war veterans. Later, however, the GAR came to consider him its friend. Ulysses S.

Grant, a poor third to Roosevelt and Cleveland, vetoed 92 bills, was overridden four times. All told, the veto power has been used more than 1,833 times by pres- idei.ts. George Washington started it cfl by killing two important acts-on" hnving to do with legislative organization; another which would have reduced the size of the army. He was not overridden. There were eight other presidents who never experienced a veto upset by congressional action--Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk.

Buchanan. Lincoln, McKinlcy and Harding. On the other hand, there were several presidents who scorned the veto entirely: John Adams, Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Taylor, Fillmore and Garfield. Perhaps because all was harmonious between executive and legislators in those days. Perhaps because, as some students suggest today, a sustained veto is a contradiction of the principle of majority rule--a rule of a minority of one-third of either house plus one, plus the president whd is not supposed to have a vote.

(It takes a two-thirds vote to kill a veto.) the birch, several species set out under Hoover. Maples predominate, but the elms are next, and many have historic memories. Just southeast of the south portico is an elm said to have been planted by John Quincy Adams. There are others planted by Lincoln and McKinley. Under these trees history lives, but for beauty nothing surpasses the high arched cloister, thick-tapestried in summer, stark but graceful in silhouetted line in winter, which roofs my avenue.

A wilting and partly defoliated 30-foot American elm severely affected with dutch elm disease. FIRE'S TKAGIC AFTERMATH The tragedy which invariably follows in the wake of fire is typified In this picture of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tate of Chatsworth, standing in the charred ruins that once was their home. A brush fire that swept the area destroyed many houses including some under construction.

NEWS' REVIEW Mine Pact Draws Fire; New Aid Parley Opens BETRAYED: Mine Pact Rep. Fred A Hartley N. J-), co-author of the Taft-Hartley labor act, has charged big business and big labor with betraying the public in negotiating the latest John L. Lewis coal mining contract. Hartley's attack followed shortly after southern coal operators followed northern and midwestern operators in signing soft coal contracts with the United Mine Workers.

He told the house that "at least one clear violation of the law" was contained in the contracts, referring to the section providing for a "checkoff" from the miners' wages. The Taft-Hartley law, he said, permits a checkoff only for union dues, but the contract calls for a checkoff of initiation fees and union assessments. Hartley added that other sections of the contract "violate the spirit and intent of the law." Noting that the contract afforded a "prime case history of the evils of industry-wide bargaining," he said that there was evidence of "collusion between the mine operators and the TJMW with the intention of violating the law." R.S.V.P.: Paris Parley Pro-Communist Hungary turned down its invitation to attend the Paris conference on European reconstruction as 17 other nations lined up to participate in the talks, first step in carrying out the Marshall plan for aiding prostrate Europe. The conference, previously boycotted by Russia on the grounds that the Marshall plan will be a foothold for American intervention in the internal affairs of Europe, will attempt to set up a scheme whereby Europe, with the aid of American dollar credits and supplies, be able to lift itself from its economic morass by its bootstraps. In addition to Hungary, four other Communist-inspired governments-those of Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria--also refused the invitations sent out by Great Britain and France.

As the deadline for replies approached, Finland and Albania had not yet been heard from. NAVY RESIGNATIONS GROW Higher pay and a more satisfactory home life are the two main lures which' have drawn the most bright and capable young career officers from the navy and army into civilian jobs at what is called "an alarming rate" during the past year. In the last 10 months more than 1,700 naval officers have resigned commissions won at Annapolis to take higher paying civilian jobs. During the same period, the army lost only 259 West Point officers via the resignation route, but they are men whom the service can ill afford to spare. FARMERS PROSPER Both farm assets and farm income have expanded tremendously since the outbreak of World War II, according to a late report released by the National Industrial Conference board.

Total assets increased about 90 per cent from 53.7 billion dollars at the beginning of 1940 to 101.5 billion dollars six years later. Gross income from agriculture shot up 124 per cent over the same period. That income, plus government payments, totalled about 11 billion dollars in 1940 and only a little less than 25 billion dollars in 1945. Virtually all the gain was registered by income from agriculture. Government a were not changed during the years covered by the report.

Cash receipts from farm marketings rose from 8.3 billion dollars in 1940 to a very considerable 20.8 billion in Real estate was by far the largest item among farm assets, rising from 33.6 billion dollars in 1940 to 56.6 billion in 1946. ROMANCE: Royal Road Princess Elizabeth, 21-year-old heiress presumptive to the throne of England, and Lt. Philip Mount- batten, 26, former Prince Philip of Greece, are formally engaged to be married this autumn, probably in October. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cleared the road to royal romance by giving unqualified approval to the match and announcing the engagement in a traditional court circular. Lt.

Mountbatten is a second cousin to the king and a great grandson of Queen Victoria. As the husband of Princess Elizabeth, he will be Britain's first prince consort since Queen Victoria's husband. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. He cannot become king, but probably will be given a dukedom shortly after the wedding. King George is expected to ask parliament to increase Princess Elizabeth's income and perhaps give her husband a special allowance.

OIL EXPORTS: Supply Russia A special export license for the shipment of petroleum products to Russia was granted by the department of commerce hours after. Representative Weichel chairman of the house merchant marine committee, demanded the license be refused. Weichel previously had telephoned William C. Foster, undersecretary of commerce, urging him to halt the movement of 248,000 barrels of petroleum being loaded aboard three tankers on the WesI coast. Princess Elizabeth INDEX HIGH, TOO Gain Shown in Farm Income WASHINGTON.

Farm income during the first six months of 1947 was 30 per cent higher than that of the corresponding period last year, it was revealed in the agriculture department's monthly review of farm income. Farmers netted $11,700,000.000 from the sale of their products during that period, with the total increased to about 12 billion dollars through government payments, the report showed. Largest increase was 70 per cent registered in sale of meat animals. Cash receipts from dairy products were up 30 per cent from the corresponding period last yeat. Cash receipts from crops were around $3,800,000,000 in the first half, or 20 per cent above the corresponding period last year.

Most of this increase was in grains and tobacco. Preliminary estimates, for June show that farmers received about two billion dollars from marketings, an increase of 30 per cent from June, Receipts from livestock and their products were up about 50 per cent on the same basis of comparison. "Demand for meat for domestic consumption and for export continues unusually strong," the agriculture department's statement said- "Meat animal prices in mid- June were about 50 per cent higher on the average than a year before." The declining wheat prices are expected to continue into August or September. "Because of the very large export demand, however, the price decline will be less than is usual when a very large crop is marketed." Prices paid by farmers for their needs in June averaged 230 per cent of the 1910-14 average. Prices paid for feed advanced to the highest level since last August.

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