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| SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936,

“A REASONABLE PLAN” HE private-public power pool in the Southeastern states > which apparently is being seriously considered by the " President and the Tennessee Valley Authority looks to us like a reasonable solution of a difficult problem. It recognizes an important fact that at times heretofore has been forgdtten by some of the opponents of TVA. . That is that the government's: power-navigation-flood control project in the Tennessee Valley is not something

3 cents a copy; delivered . |

. that can be “wished” out of existence. The dams and the | power houses |are there; more are being built; more are be- |

ing planned. |

The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the | operations at (Wilson Dam, thereby approving the heart of | TVA’s power program. The people of the valley are deter- | .. mined to get the full benefits from the:development of their |

the public rivers. panies seem to have forgotten that. They seem also to forget that TVA is the result of long, hard years of fichting for the public| interest. Roosevelt, the public won that fight.

ple will not permit their great victory to be turned into de- |

Fair Enough

feat and the consumers forced once more to be at the mercy of the monopolists. On the other hand there is a large private investment in power facilities in the Southeastern states. ‘The TVA recognizes this. More than two years ago,

TVA’s concern, about this private investment was expressed |

The power com- |

Finally, with the help of ‘President |: We believe the peo- |

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By Westbrook Pegler

"NJEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Driving to the

in a letter Power -Director David E. Lilienthal wrote to |

President C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond and Share. Mr. |

Lilienthal said:

‘office this. morning, George Spelvin, American, thought as follows: Have to cut that out. No sense to it.

| Must have had a dozen Scotches; but those

“Duplication of facilities and territorial competition | in the area of fits operations the Tennessee Valley Authority |

has consistently sought to avoid wherever there was a rea- | 51 time, never miss it. Bs | another drop for six months any- '} 2WaY. aie "._-| tough though. power manufacturing and |

sonable alternative.”

proposed that tix

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. transmission facilities of the government and the pri- °

vate utilities be used jointly for the general good; that | T, f { about $100,000 a mile to build these

power transmission lines be made common carriers. That's -a sensible proposal. Wholesale rates for electricity would be the same throughout the region. They would be iow. That's sensible, also. :

_tensive warfare, in the courts and out, between TVA and

. plan, that is but a vain hope.

brandies in between. do that. Well, I'm through, that’s all there is to that. Glad it’s never got a grip on me like some guys. Quit Quit dozens of times. Not

Maybe a year. Christmas be iu Everybody wanting i guy to drink.Christmas. Look at that creeper poking

| along in the middle of the road.

Get over, get over dope. Costs

| roads and some dope creeps along

‘pinch a few. { course. { Um-m,

Apparently this Administration is prepared for a fin- |

“ish fight if it|can not get the co-operation of the private utilities.

The utilities and - their stockholders will have only

themselves to|thank if they refuse to co-operate and the fight goes on. | V

: THE MAN AND THE JOB AAKING work for the jobless is the government's regrettable duty. Fitting them into private jobs is a happier one. It is a sign of better days that President Roosevelt refers to the work of the National Re-Employment Service, now engaged in the constructive fask of finding the right man for the right job.

The President has allocated $4,000,000 to this far- |

flung service's 1700 main and branch offices, for a special project. as possible of the 3,000,000 WPA workers registered in the service, : Since PWA and WPA began, many relief workers have become skilled in new tasks. By reinterviewing and re‘classifying them the Re-Employment Service can place thousands mare into private work. The oi already has made 16 million placements, of whi¢h 314 million have been .in private industry, 7,500,000 on relief projects, and 5,000,000 on public works. ;

| don’t drink.

so nobody can use them. Oughta Woman driver, of Probably a battle-ax. nice. How ‘do you do?

; des : : a . ; { ‘Sneak another look in the mirror, We share Chairman Arthur Morgan’s-hope that the in- | 9 | my business. feels . ; ‘ { you'll be late fer work. the utilities will be ended. But, unless agreement is reached |

on the proposed power pool or some similar and equally fair |

Certainly nice. Oh’ well, none of

Keep going, sap or Mr. Pegler Look at that truck tear. Must be 20 tons. Using regular box-cars on the roads now. Crash right along without regard for anybody. Know my rights, though. Better not smash me. Sue for a million. Gentlemen of the jury, I was driving to work in the morning, doing about 35—no, doing about 22 miles—driving cautiously, perfectly alert, perfectly sober, in fact Quit drinking, but don’t object other people drinking, gentlemen of the jury. : :

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| Alas! No Witnesses

helper be sure to claim I hit them.

HIS enormous juggernaut, tearing along 45 miles an hour, way over wrong side of the road, struck me head on. ‘No witnesses, though. What am I going to use for witnesses? Truck cnauffeur and : Anyway, their Insurance company probably drag me clear up to the United States Supreme Court. Lucky to get hospital expenses in the end, after paying lawyers, court

| expenses and all.

This is to restore to private employment as many |

| ticket and I'd demand jury trial.

| jury

Lawyers fix it so rich millionaires don’t pay income taxes, but I got to pay $86 and then they come after you two years later for $12 more, with 6 per cent interest. Show me where I can get 6 per cent Interest on my savings. A racket. Four hundred dollars exemption for a kid, Try keeping a kid on $400 a year. No exemption for doctor bills, either. Rich corporations charge off depreciation, but no allowance for depreciation of your health. Motorcycle Cop., Go on, vou goggle-eyed punk and pick up some of these creepers and truck drivers. Let sober, alert cautious drivers alone. Give me a I'd say, your honor, this officer is a liar, committing perjury. Demand trial. I'm a respectable taxpayer. . Moreover, wasn't intoxicated, either. It happens I don't drink.

| My word against his and I know my rights, Convict

me and Tl fight it to the highest court in the

| land. Spend $100 fighting ‘rather than pay, $10 fine

| dictator arcund here a few. months. police and courts, crooked politicians, racketeers.

Without much fanfare private employers have been | taking on mare help. According to Secretary of Labor | ~ Perkins, nearly 5,500,000 workers have been returned to | private jobs since the depression’s low in March, 1933, while |

rolls. Industry's gradual absorption of men, slow as it is, will prove of much more lasting benefit than the hectic method tried out by Hoovet's “spread-the-work” drive. will take such men as it can employ at profit. The government's part will be to offer private employers its up-to-date

become available. To try to force extra men upon private industry through government pressure or ballyhoo is futile. Too much spreading dg work means spreading Guisery. President Yoosevelt avoids this hand-washiyg gesture. He urges employers to “realize their deep responsibility to

fake men off the relief rolls,” and shows them the way to-

_-_an orderly labor market.

~~: | SENATOR NORRIS" AA/ HEN we think of Nebraska we think of rolling plains, : waving cornstalks, goldenrod, William J. Bryan, Willa Cather and Senator Norris. For a while it looked as though Nebraska liberals, for the first time in 34 years, would go through an election

without the chance of voting for their most dearly beloved

~ independent.

come out for Roosevelt's re-election and had gone fishing. Republicans and Democrats had nominated candidates for his seat. But a “Draft Norris” movement was launched by “Democratic Editor James E. Lawrence and finally: it was ' announced that Norris’ name would be on the ballot as an

We hope The Senate would be a lesser body of the peopie’s tribunes with his seat occupied by .a

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: the good people of Nebraska still feel as we do about “Uncle George.”

~~ 3,000,000 are now on the government's emergency work |

{ Your head off if you try. Industry |

| gets the nights I've worked overtime,

: a a. i : { it ever enter your so-call i ir. lists of men qualified by skill and experience for what jobs | ed intelligence, Mr. Nilly,

on cop's testimony. Need a

Clean up the

Matter of principle.

"Morning Mr. Nilly

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psa not so hot if you don’t like the guy, though. Some enemy squeals you said the dic-. bang-bang against the wall.

tator was just a crook and Or chop your head off with an ax. Those cock-eyed crazy Dutchmen. Heil Hitler. Heel Hitler more like it. Ninety-nine per cent vote for Heel Hitler but strictly one-way ballot. No way to yote now Chop No wond cent. Other per cent dead or in igi 20: 9 ne Gee, getting late. Step on it, brother, or you'll be’ late. Let him try to bawl me out. I'll tell him. ForI'll say, “Does

that I do two men’s work around here and no raise

| in three years?”

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Just under the wire. ‘Morning Mr. Nilly.

Man's an awful fool

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CRITICISES HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS By C. L. H.

The writer, a church worker in an official capacity at one of ‘the large city churches, tried to call on one of his boys in the City Hospital. He was unable to see the patient, and not only refused admittance, but rudely told he must wait until visiting days, which it seems occur three times each week from 2 until 3 o'clock, : j The City Hospital is owned by the taxpayers of this city, and while I realize that one could not expect io

‘i run out to the City Hospital at all

hours, loved ones and close friends

‘should be able to see patients each jday, and not be obliged to wait

three days. It would be indeed futile to take this case up with the Mayor or the superintendent of the hospital. Public sentiment is the answer, There must be hundreds of taxpayers of this city who feel as I do in the matter. Let's take the City Hospital out of the jail class. Treat patients like human beings, and not wards of an institution they themselves own. : Visiting hours should be each day, if only for an hour.

HOSPITAL OFFICIAL EXPLAINS HOURS

By Dr. Kenneth Kohlstadt, Assistant Superintendent, City Hospital

Visiting hours at City Hospital have not been reduced, but changasd to, take care of the increased number of callers. The new schedule, which allows one-hour visits on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday :afternoons and half hours on Tuesday and Thursday nights do not apply when a patient is in serious or critical condition. We are always glad to make exceptions in special cases where con= ditions do not allow callers to time their visits with our regular hours. Increasing visiting hours necessitates extra help to regulate ‘wards and in addition, we feel many patients are often actually -harmed by frequent visits. Criticism of our present -schedule is unfounded, we feel, but any caller who has such criticism is welcome to come in and we will be glad to make satisfactory arrange-

‘ments.

” = bd FINDS OHIO ENFORCES TRAFFIC REGULATIONS By Jimmy Cafouros, at Buffalo, New York

Before leaving the Great Lakes Exposition, I nosed around a bit where General Motors, and General Elegtric had their displays. I saw some luggage trailers that were pippins. Little affairs about a yard and a half deep and with about a yard of space inside. They looked like little boats. In another department I saw what was the equivalent of a house on wheels. Kitchenette with stove,

tables, plenty of seating space, rlec- | |:

tric lights, electric fans, running water. It seems that in time ‘to come people will stop living in houses and move up and down the land as work varies. : Si There is something about the towns and cities up here that is

Gener al Hugh Johnson Says——

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Baa BEACH, Del, Sept. 12.—The stories coming out of Washington about a complete re-

organization of the Federal government, if Mr. Roose-

velt is re-elected, are neither reportorial conjectures “nor trial balloons. No subject is closer to the Presi‘dent's heart. -° : ' No close friend to whom he talks freely is unaware of his hobby or organization charts. He is an expert on

| the subject and knows all the answers about “func- | | tional”. and “subjective” divisions, “direct” and :“indirect” authority “supervision” and “direction.” This

colmun has frequently harped on the “tive assistant Presidents” setup, to detach the big boss from admin-

| istrative detail and to let our Presidents live.

Senator. He had cried a plague on both old parties, had |

" ® = T= President has frequently discussed almost the 4 same idea with his friends from the very beginning of his Administration. In his economy program

that marked the first six months of his Administra-

tion, he was planning many simplifications of the Fed-

. eral structure. Nothing was a greater disappointment

| to him than the whole idea of reorganization forced

| aside by the avalanche of new problems, new admin-

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istrations, and the greatest. load of business that ever descended on the White House. ’ 4 He has never lost sight of the idea. In 1934 he received a confidential memorandum showing how the British government, without a spectacular upheaval, had gradually, and very quietly, liquidated the top-

heavy war organization by using a very sma i committee within the Bm Boy a ire This was the inspiration for the ill-starred 1934 attempt to make Mr. Richberg a sort of chief of the general staff and the order giving him precisely the powers of a prime minister. It wasn’t done quietly. It was ne Every prima donna in the Administration cast began knocking over tables and chairs and whetting up stilettos for Grand Vizier

blazoned with trumpets.

Richberg. ? 8 zr = E is 10 times harder to but sitting so long chairs of the sta look like a waffle.

The difference between previous efforts and the “her. the President's jutting, and sometimes stubborn, Dutch jaw, is that this is an obsession with him and he will carry it through for better or for worse. Such things can’t be done by fiat.

long-cherished plan behind

* = 2 I addition to all that, the best organization plan that was ever written, without competent men in the key spots, is not as good as the worst plan with

proper men to put it into effect.

Regardless of all the false starts and errors of the recovery effort in a time of unprecedented turmoil, it is the conviction of this writer that the second four ablest national Admin- |

years of Roosevelt will be the

] “into the older Federal bureaus and ousf ancient retainers, who have been the old-fashioned cane-bottomed ry departments that their. backs

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) E

entirely lacking back in Indianapolis. surrounded by fields. Up here the boat life is part of the blood of the people. 2 : : There was another thing that attracted a whole lot of visitors here. That was Abraham Lincoln's state carriage. It was the very same one in which he journeyed to Ford's Theater in Washington on that fa-

tal night in -April, 1865.

Cleveland has a slogan: “Slow down—we love our children.” In Indiana no trailer-truck can be more than 34 feet in length. In Ohio .and on into the East there is no limit and it is° no unccmmon thing to see a double truck. “ Another peculiarity of Ohio is that it is one of the few states from Indiana east to enforce the law in regards to trucks stopping at railroad crossings. Indiana has the same law, but it is not enforced as it is in Ohio. . " = VOTER APPEALS FOR GROSS INCOME TAX By a Reader, Frankfort

A few days ago a local merchant received a circular letter from an association representing his line of business ‘in which he was urged to

I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL I'll never.smile again the smile A woman wears when knowing she Is loved securely all the while, With faith and trust and honesty.

I'll never feel the bliss again I felt at touch or sight of you; So proud, so sure you were my man, . So positive that you were true.

What's left to ease the broken heart That finds a trusted man untrue? There’s nothing left except to part; But life. is death when there's no you! >

DAILY THOUGHT

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. —Job 16:20.

HERE is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of

weakness, but of power. They speak

more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep confrition, and of unspeakable love.— Washington Irving.

The Scherrer, Pyle, Ferguson, Fishbein and Science columns have been moved from this page to the Feature Page (Page 9).

Philippines. not be averse Department,

him.

In Indianapolis we.are entirely”

‘Springer had to do in the framing

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{toc find out is to declare a mora-

| the same opinion. .

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—There is some doubt in WwW minds of one or two Cabinet members as to whether their ‘chief will keep them on after November—if he is re-elected. a o i i n mark is in the mind of Daniel CalChis: gies etary of Commerce. He has indicated to subordinates that he sees the nandwriting on the wall; will make a polite exit. Naval Secretary Claude Swanson, who has been in

poor health, also may retire, mings can stay if he wants to—or he can go to the The President is fond of him, but would

to a younger crusader in the Justice

houn Roper, Secr

Hull, Morgenthau, Farley wants to come

No one will be appointed until after election to fill the War Department vacancy left by Dern. Also there: will be no ambassador immediately appointed to Russia. The President needs bait with which to entice “contributions to Jim Farley's war chest. After all, this is a campaign year.

H=E is a pretty accurate index of returning pros- |

Fg YS ities and Exchange Commission, which new stock and bond issues before they can

oppose ‘the gross income tax. If stated that the time to beat it is next November. It ‘quoted what each candidate for Governor has to say on the subject, which is well known. In the course of the discussion it was proposed that we secure a moratorium from it and ail substitutes for two years and” then if it is found to be needed we should have the Legislature pass a net

income tax law.

Just how Candidate

much of this policy will probably not be known. However, it would not be an easy matter to convince any one that he had no hand-in it. Whether he has ever openly come out for the net income tax I do not know.

I suspect the association would not |

have made the: suggestion without Mr. Springer, if elected. Think of -it, they don’t seem to know whethér the revenue from that source is or is not needed, and, according to the suggestion, the way

torium on present tax for two. years and await results. . If we run in the hole, the tax is needed. By using the old rule of trial and error, those who know much more than any one else about the balancing. of the budget propose to take | the risk for two years of cutting out entirely one of the best tax laws we have ever, had, run the risk of cutting short the state revenue and impairing thereby our schools and the like, all merely to deter-. mine whether we need the tax. ‘Mr. Voter, what do you think of such a. proposal? What do you think woulg become of our state if left in the Bands. of those who show. no better business sense? Citizens of Indiana, unless they are blind, should get behind the gross income tax law and see fo it that it is not endangered nexi November. Se 2 2 =»

ASKS BETTER HOUSING FOR WHITE FAMILIES

By B. E. I have just finished readihg about the: new housing project to replace the slums of the city—about the three-room doubles to be equipped with shower and water. I also have been reading recently about the housing project .put up for the Negroes of the city—the Lockefield Gardens—not three-room doubles but magnificent brick apartments with refrigeration, with four or five rooms of the latest construction arranged so the sunlight reaches each one, and with playgrounds nearby. > § . From the description and thé outward appearance they are apartments any one would be proud to live in. They seem betler than most of the apartment biuldings of the city. 4 ; 1 think the housing project and the clearance of the slums is a fine thing, but I don’t see why the poor white people shouldn't be entitled to at least as good as the colored, and T've heard many people express

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The Liberal View

By Harry Elmer Barnes (Substituting for Heywood .Broun) l JEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The. noisiest and: most persistent hullabaloo raised by Republican warhorses ‘and Liberty League - spellbinders against Mr. Roosevelt relates to the charge that he has carried ‘through a veritable orgy of spending which the rich ava paying for. It is alleged, in season and out, that the President has put into operation a determined policy of soaking the rich. Mr. Landon has -echoed "this . _ allegation. : : ; : I do net propose to debate’ the wisdom or unwisdom of the spending policy, though it is evident that. the rich have benefited as much or more than the poor. Governmental spending has been the chief cause of the business and securities boom from which the rich have profited. Moreover, relief expenditures have kept the masses calm and have protected the rich against the diSorder and rioting which might have re=sulted from four years more of the’ “let them eat cake” policy of Mr. ; Hoover. : oo But there is one matter which does not admit _ of debate, and that is the fact that no “soak the rich” policy has been adopted by. the Roosevelt Administra=tion. The facts are clearly set forth in an analysis of Federal taxation and Federal budgets since 1929 in the current volumeé of the “Labor Fact Book” (Inter=national Publishers, $2). Let us look first at the Federal budget -of 1928-1929 and that proposed ior 1936-1937: i : Federal Income in Millions 1928-29

Dr. Barnes

1936-37 $1,943 551

Income taxes Estate, gift taxes, etc. ........ Miscellaneous internal revenue = taxes : 3,153 ”n

Where Increase Lies

HESE {figures show that the income to be dew : rived from the wealthier classes in the budget of 1936-1937 represents an increase of only 1.5 per cent over that of 1928-1€28. On the other hand, tha income to be derived from the lower middle class, workers and farmers in the budget of 1936-1937 con=stitutes an increase of more than 118 per cent over that of 1928-1929. : ; Of the total governmental receipts in 1923-1929 the consuming masses contributed only 37 per cent, but they are expected to contribute nearly 56 per cent .in 1933-1937. The contribution of the wealthy: has been proportionately lowered from 63 per cent in 1928-1929 to 41 per cent in 1936-1937. The benefits from Federal expenditures under the Roosevelt Administration have also distinctly favored the wealthier classes. In the budget proposed for 1936-1937 the benefits to the weaithier classes «in subsidies and other grants will be 48 per cent greater than they were in the boom days of 1928-" 1929. Over against this is the proposal sharply to curtail relief expenditures. : :

: zn = un No Soaking the Rich : f one prefers to stick to taxes actually paid by various incomes classes in the community the story remains the same. In 1930 the total of taxes paid

by the wealthier classes to the Federal government amounted to $2,475,000,000, or over 68 per cent of the total Federal taxes. The taxes which: fell mainly on the consuming masses. in 1930 amounted to $1,152,000,= 000, or less than 32 per cent of the total. Turning to 1935 we find that the taxes paid by the wealthier groups totaled $1.409,000,000, or a littla over 38 per cent of the whole tax payments. But the taxes falling on the masses increased to $2,233,000,000, or over 61 per cent of the total tax burden. Go Statistics of this sort vould be multiplied, but the facts cited above are sufficient to show that so far , at least, the Roosevelt Administration has not soaked

Attorney General Cum-

Wallace, Ickes are fixtures. Jim back, and the President wants

in the capital. Lights burn in its offices every night. - Up until a few months ago, most of the issues go= ing through the SEC were refunding issues. But now brand new issues are being floated—a sure sign that business is healthy. : un = = i : . ZNJHAT is really worrying Hull and ‘Roosevelt about the Spanish civil war is the effect upon Latin America. ’ : This is the one foreign fleld where closer co-opera« tion with the United States is not political dynamite, and the President has been counting heavily on the forthcoming Pan-American conference to cement his “Good Neighbor” policy. : But now war in Spain is a serious obstacle. If war had come in any other country—Austria, Poland. Germany, France—it would have been diff ent. But it came in sleepy, -loving Spain, mother country of moSt of Lalin America. : Latin Americans are following the - Spanish war avidiy. And whichever way it goes, political repercussions will result in South Amierica. If the radical government wins out in Spain, there may be attempted radical revolutions in Chile, Peru and possibly Argens . tina. fo : 5 : If the Fascists win in Spain, there will be a tendency toward Sictatarshipe in South America. =