The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 6, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 June 1935 — Page 2

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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Goodby, NRA Wall Street’s Dormouse Good Wages, Short Hours Lottery Swindles The Supreme court unanimously declares NRA unconstitutional. High Judges.

whose decision nobody can veto, short of a constitutional amendment, say congress must do its work and cannot abdicate in favor of the Chief Executive. The most important decision in many years, this probably makes further argument about extension of NRA unnecessary. You can’t extend.

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that which is dead. American business men maj- now resume business ; not led by the kindly light of proses- j sors and others. Alice's puzzled Dormouse, at the ; Mad Hatter’s tea party, could not understand his watch, that would not keep time, although the Dormouse did j everything. He dipped the watch in bls tea. put butter In the works. “It was the best butter," he said, “but nothing seems to please It." The stock exchange is something like ■ that watch—nothing seems to please it. either. At first, stock broker gentlemen, whose “Kaaba stone" is the stock ticker, began a weird dance of joy when they heard that NRA was dead, and pushed up stock prices. Then, suddenly, as the day wore on, one broker asked another, and every broker asked every other broker, “How do we know wbst 1* coming next?" And then they put the prices down.' It Is announced, but not by Mr. Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, that a great strike will be called in protest against the Supreme court's NRA decision. Mr. Green Is too wise to permit. If he can prevent it. a strike against the United States Supreme court He may. should, and probably will, take a wiser course and work, as organised labor has worked successfully for generations, to improve working conditions. Some union men know that wages, hours and other conditions improved In the old way are more durable than increased pay baited on political fiat i It Is necessary for some one to pro- j vide as well as for some one to take It Peddlers of tickets In the Havana | lottery send out “come-on" letters, trying to sell tickets to foolish Americana. On one such letter this is printed: "Arthur Brisbane says large sums of ' money . . . are won by Americans : buying foreign tickets." What Arthur Brisbane has said, and ’ new repent*. Is that through foreign j lottery schemes Americans are swindled out of large sums He who invests in a lottery throws away his money, adding foolishness to incapacity. The Havana lottery is as much of a trap for fools as any other lottery. plan to hasten air malls albws a crowd of 10.000 to see a whirling autogiro drop down on the roof and deliver mall, another autogiro coming to get mail bags and carry them away. Mr. Farley’s plan is to have the autogiro fly between outlying flying fields, where high power, fast planes land, and carry mall bags to the roofs of city post offices, saving Ums lost in Slow Street travel. One branch of the Standard Oil company, the New Jersey branch, managed by Mr. Teagle, notifies 6,000 of a bonus of 5 per cent added to their pay envelopes to meet the higher cost of living. With no sign of smoke, flame, crater —nothing to indicate an extinct volcano—a new and live volcano suddenly begins eruption In an out-of-the-way place in Iceland. A great hole appears in the earth, flames and redhot lava rise. No overflowing of neighboring farms as yet What would natives have thought bad this happened in earlier days, when everybody believed that bell, the devil and all his wickedness were Just beneath our feet and heaven Just over our heads? Postmaster General Farley thinks of printing on all postage stthnps. Sursum Cords. which means "Lift up your hearts." He sees a great summer ahead, "a summer of content” "Car loadings," says the postmaster general, "are up," Incomes reported by our taxpayers “are up,* “more people art buying automobiles than before.” For some, the big news is that Little, the San Francisco golfer, has defeated Doctor TweddelL, the British challenger. For others, more Important news is the killing of 300 Chinese by Japanese troops. The 300 killed are said to have been professional bandits The killing of 300 armed Chinese bandits cost the lives of only six Japanese, which eonnda like efficiency. .’ — ■ Quit*, Quit* Secret Coral fishermen- of the Island at Sarin, -along the Dalmatlon coast of Jugoslavia, often go out to their reef* at night, to keep their choicest grounds a secret The best reefs lie ton milas offshore and a thousand feet below the —*• ■ Twoasu&fc. The tong oil used annually to the United States paint manufacture—if floated from j China In barrels- would require one barrel for every 300 fleet st the 3,000 miles of ocean.

News Review of Current Events the World Over Supreme Court Kills NRA and Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act—New Dealers, Congress and Business ) Uncertain About Future Action. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Waatarn Newspaper Union.

THREE unanimous decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States shook the New Deal to Its very foundations. In the first and most 1m-

portant. read by Chief Justice Hughes, the heart was cut out of the NRA. for the court ruled that the entire code structure of the act was invalid, the code making provisions being an unconstitutional delegation by congress of its authority to legislate to persons not connected with the government’s legislative functions.

Chief Justice Hughes

By the ruling the exercise of congressional powers over commerce was definitely restricted to interstate commerce, or to such activities as have a provable direct connection with interstate commerce. The court held that no economic emergency could Justify the breaking down of the limitations upon federal authority as prescribed by the Constitution or of those powers reserved to the state through the failure of the Constitution to place them elsewhere. Next in Importance was the decision read by Justice Brandels, holding unconstitutional the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act. This law provided for a five year moratorium In the case of collapse of efforts to scale down a farmer’s debts to a figure that would enable him to pay off his mortgage. The court held that under the Fifth amendment to the Constitution private property could not be taken without Just compensation. There has been no previous instance, the court said, where a mortgage was forced to relinquish property to a mortgagor free of lien unless the debt was paid In full In the third decision President Roosevelt's dismissal of the late William E. Humphrey from the federal trade commission was held illegal because the President did not remove Mr. Humphrey for the statutory grounds of inefficiency, neglect #of duty or malfeasance In office, but Jas the President stated, because toelr minds did not meet upon the policies or administration of the commission. The court held that trade commissioners' terms are fixed by law and that their removal must be for the grounds stated In the act. THERE was consternation and confusion among the administration forces in Washington, and no one could say immediately Just how much the New Deal had been damaged or what could be done to repair the damage to Its structure. Donald Richberg. chairman of the national industrial recovery board, after a White House conference, Issued a statement saying that “all methods of compulsory enforcement of the codes will be Immediately suspended." He added that the administration now faced the problem of “maintaining the gains which have been made in the last two years," and expressed the hope that employers would voluntarily maintain “fair standards of commercial and labor relations." Senator Pat Harrison said be believed congress Should proceed rapidly with the enactment of appropriate legislation to continue NRA In some form, and Senator Robinson thought It would not be difficult to provide for new codes to prevent unfair trade practices. The question of the constitutionality of the Wagner labor disputes bill, [Missed by the senate, was raised by the NRA decision. The opinion was widely expressed that collective bargaining now cannot be enforced to any business enterprise by federal statute. In the senate demands were voiced to recommit to the committee on agriculture the amendments strengthening the AAA. Senator W. E- Borah said that the NRA decision dearly raises the .question of the validity of much AAA procedure. BUSINESS was as confused as congress and the administration after the killing of NRA. Heads of many large employing corporations intimated they would not make wage reductions or lengthen the work hoars Just because the way was open for such action. but always there was the qualifying statement. “It depends on what our competitors do.” The big concerns would prefer to maintain the code hours and wages, but the smaller merchants and manufacturers, who were hardest bit by the code requirements, mtght depart from them enough to demoralise prices. Among the dozens of national trade associations whose officers urged members to maintain wages and otherwise to continue the status quo are those of the automobile manufacturers, automobile dealers, chemical industry, retail dry goods dealers, cotton manufacturers, cement makers, ell Industry, wholesale grocers, and grocery chain store distributors. Harper Sibley, recently elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, called upon American Industry and business men to preserve for the present wages and work hours established under the NRA. Instead of cutting wages Standard Oil company of New Jersey and the Tide Water Oil company announced an increase of 5 per cent to salaries and elUllv L» * <«• ' The United Textile Workers. 350.000 to number, threaten to strike if any mills cut wages. And there to also a chance that oituminou* coai miners will go on strike because there to no wage agreement with the operators and a scale conference collapsed. The liquor Immlmks was thrown wide open without any federal regain-

tion except that exerted by the Treasury department in the collection of taxes. Officials of the federal alcohol control administration said that the Supreme court's NRA ruling took away from the FACA every lota of control it had over the distilling business. ACTING with surprising suddenness, the senate passed the CopelandTugwell food, drug and cosmetic bill, which had been modified to meet the objections of Senators Clark, Bailey and Vandenberg. Dr. Copeland said he believed it would get through the house without difficulty. President Roosevelt favors the measure. The bill greatly Increases the scope of the 1906 food and drug act, in the definitions of adulterated or misbranded articles, and provides penalties of a year in jail or a SI,OOO fine for violations. It was designed originally to permit the secretary of agriculture to order wholesale seizures, which would permit the destruction of a business. If he deemed the articles In question adulterated. As amended, however, only a single article may be seized pending a court hearing. Exceptions may be made If there is “imminent danger" to public health. Originally, also, the bill provided severe penalties for publishers and radio broadcasting companies, as well as advertisers, for violations of regulations to be laid down by the Department of Agriculture. This was changed so that no publisher, radio broadcasting company, advertising agency, or other medium for the dissemination of advertising may lie deemed to have violated the "false advertising" provisions unless they refuse to furnish the name and address of the advertiser. FRANK C WALKER'S present Jo# as head of the division of allotments and information in connection with the work-relief program is not so

important as had been expected, and probably by the pud of the year or earlier he will be able to delegate his duties to others. Then, According to current rumors, he will enter the President's cabinet as postmaster general, to succeed Jim Farley. Mr. Farley has definitely decided to retire from the cabinet —voluntarily. It Is said

Frank C. Walker

—so that be can devote all his thne and energy to directing the campaign of Mr. Roosevelt for renomination and re-election. He expects to remain not only as chairman of the national Democratic committee bnt also as chairman ffitbe New York state committee. In order that he may have an Income he plans to make a business connection with an important organization. There lias been a lot of talk about Mr. Farley’s alleged ambition to be governor of New York. Meltfn C. Eaton, Republican state chairman, dares him to run for that position. In a speech at Syracuse, Mr. Eaton said: "For years, now, Mr. Farley has tonded himself as a candidate for governor of New York. He has repeatedly told his very close associates that be will Tun when the time is ripe.’ 1 challenge Mr. Farley to be the Democratic candidate for governor to 1936. I challenge him to run on his record. I know a great many Democrats who are ready and willing to contribute lavishly to a Fatley-for-governor campaign fund, for no other reason than to get a crack at him through the polls." ONLY nine states of the Central West will send delegates to the “Grass Roots" convention of the Republican party which opens June 10 in

Springfield, HL but the meeting win nevertheless be rather national In scope, for it will be attended by unofficial delegates from other states and by national leaders of the party. It was believed that Harrison E. Spangler, national committeeman from lowa, would be made temporary chairman

and as such would deliver the keynote address. Others on the tentative program for speeches are Arthur M. Hyde, former governor of Missouri and secretary of agriculture to the Hoover cabinet, and Edward Hayes of Decatur, BL former national commander of the American Legion. The keynote address, according to reports, will toko inventory of American affairs under the Roosevelt New Deal and Indicate the trend of the party to opposition. Mr. Hyde is to talk on the Great Emancipator at the Lincoln tomb to Oak Ridge cemetery, and Hayes to expected to deal with the theories of the Republican party on constituUonal government. ADOLF HITLER has proposed that Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium enter into a multilateral western European pact against aerial aggression. It follows the lines of the proposed Anglo-Freneh air pact and would do for the nations named what the Ixxarno pact does with, the land forces for France, Germany and Belgium. IT ELLY PETILLO of California. ■N. woa the MO-mite auto race at the Indianapolis Speedway, setting a new record with an average speed of 1004 miles an hour. Clay Weatherly of Cincinnati tost control of his car and

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UAWAH was treated to a nragnifi- * * cent display of American naval power in the Pacific that continued through two flays. First the forty planes that had taken part to the midPacific maneuvers returned and the entire armada of 225 planes participated in kn aerial review. Then the vessels of the fleet returned and moved to Pearl Harbor, the great naval base, which they all entered in a crucial test of the harbor’s capacity as an anchorage. The navy’s largest submarines were with the battleships and cruisers, and there were 700 marines on the target ship Utah. Navy Memorial day In Japan, the thirtieth anniversary of Admiral Togo’s destruction of the ■< Russian fleet, brought forth a pamphlet from the navy’s propaganda bureau which made significant allusions to the United States. It said: “Then Russia was the rival and the danger. Today that is changed. We have had to face In another direction. We are confronting another great sea power which is increasing its navy with Japan as the target. “We need a navy sufficient to protect our sea routes to the continent of Asia and to face the menace in the direction of the great ocean. That is why Japan demands parity with the greatest navies. If Japan’s Just and reasonable demands are rejected by the powers, causing failure of the efforts to reach a new naval agreement and leading to a naval construction race, the responsibility will not be ours. In such case the only thing for Japan to do is to resort to resolute measures for self-protection.” THOUGH the League of Nations council ended Its session in Geneva with the hope that It had arranged matters so that war between Italy and

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allow Germany to make of Ethiopia “a pistol perennially pointed at ns in case of trouble in Europe” and asserted he was ready to take the supreme responsibility to sustain by every means Italy’s position in east Africa. He alluded bitterly to Britain and France, and indicated that he believed that Ethiopia was perfecting its army with the help of European powers inimical to Italy. Following this address, Mussolini ordered the mobilization of thousands of officers and technical experts of the class of 1912. SAN DIEGO’S beautiful world’s fair, the California Pacific exposition, was thrown open to the public practically completed. Thousands of visitors moved along the ancient El Camino Real to Balboa park on the opening day and viewed with delight the handsome buildings and Interesting exhibits. The climax of the opening ceremonies came in the evening when President Roosevelt addressed the throng by radio from his study in the White House. The exposition has been built to be a symphony of sight and sound, combining the grace of nature and the cunning of science for the pleasure and edification of an expected tourist throng of 10,000,000 people. The show stretches over 14 winding miles of exhibits and pleasure palaces housed in buildings of delicate Spanish architecture scattered through 300 acres of landscaped gardens. ” 1 ".. TAP AN, ready to take control over ** more Chinese territory, delivered to the government at Nanking an ultimatum charging that Dictator Chiang Kai-shek, as well as Gen. Yu Hsuehchung, chairman of Hopei province and commander of Chinese troops in north China, were directly responsible for a long list of alleged infractions of the Tangku truce signed May 31, 1933. marking the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese hostilities over Manchuria. Dispatches from Tokyo said Japanese officials admitted plans had been made to include Peiping and Tientsin within the demilitarized zone, which at present lies north of the two cities. Threats were made to bomb and occupy both those cities. FIGHTING desperately to save the franc and prevent Inflation, Premier Flandin of France staked everything on a demand that he be given dictatorial financial powers until the end of the year, and lost. The chamber of deputies voted against him, 353 to 202. after a dramatic debate, and Flandin and his cabinet Immediately resigned. M. Fernand Boulsson. who was committed to the support of the franc, was called on to form a new government. DR. ALAN ROY DAFOE. Judge J. A. Valin and Minister of Welfare David Croll of Ontario, guardians under the king of the Dionne quintuplets, put on a party for those famous babies on their first birthday, and there was a great crowd of visitors in the little town of Callender. But Mr. and Mrs. Dionne, resentful because the Infants have been removed from their charge and home to a special hospital across the street, refused to attend t*e festivities, The five little girls, who are in good health and growing rapidly, were displayed briefly and were permitted to crow or cry into the radio microphone. CARLOS MENDIETA, president of Cuba, has announced that he will net be a candidate next winter to succeed himself. Therefore the race Is expected to narrow down to Miguel Mariano Gomez, twice mayor of Havana, and Mario G. Menocal, former president of the Island republic. Gomez, who is 43 years old and a son of a former president, probably will be supported by *a coalition of the Liberals. the Nationalists and Aeeion Re übltcdha. **

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Ethiopia would be averted, the prospects for such a settlement are not bright Under pressure from Great Britain and France, Mussolini consented to recognize the league’s jurisdiction over the quarrel and agreed to arbitration. But Immediately thereafter II Duce told the chamber of* dep nll e s in Rome he would not

Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH BY DR.U.OYD ARNOLD College of Medicine. THE THIN MAN AND THE STOCKY MAN

Have you ever stopped to think how very little you notice about your own

body when you are feeling well? Beyond brushing your gums, do you ever pay much attention to your mouth when your teeth aren’t aching? Do you ever consider how your stomach is acting when it isn’t upset over something or you aren’t hungry? It isn't only the

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layman, but the medical profession as a whole has never paid any real attention to our bodies when they are well. There have been libraries and libraries written on disease, but the books written on what is normal health are virtually non-existent. The whole effort has been to study disease and then to cure it. It has been a good way and has accomplished a very great deal. It has in fact Increased the span of our life expectancy so that it now stands at* approximately sixty years. But now that we are rerfching this ripe age, a number of the medical profession are saying: “Instead of waiting for a disease to manifest itself, let’s see if we can't prevent it. Let’s see If we can’t keep people so healthy that they won’t ever be laid up with long spells of sickness. We have cut down enormously the death rate from such contagious diseases as diphtheria, smallpox, rabies and measles. We have ma'de progress with diabetes and pernicious anemia. Now let’s see if we can’t prevent the degenerative diseases that break down the proper functioning of the organs of the body, or at least keep them flaring up until a person is well along In years.” Obviously the first step in this objective is to make a study of normally healthy individuals so that we can learn how a healthy body reacts to certain stimuli. In the hospital connected with the University of Illinois Medical school, we had recently for a continuous period of 450 days two men, one thin and the other stocky. They were both healthy and twenty-five years of age. We made many tests. We drew blood from each every other day, and sometimes twice dally. Stomach analysis was done at frequent Intervals. All urine specimens were saved and analyzed. Bastal metabolism was done daily. Ten different skin tests were made twice each week. The stocky, blocky type proved a stable sort of fellow. He did not vary from day to day. When put into a hot room or into a cold room he was not uncomfortable. He showed little if any metabolic change as a result of these climatic environments. His urine was acid In reaction. He semed to have little use for the alkalines in his food. We gave him certain foods to determine Just how stable he could maintain his equilibrium of chemical reactions. He can be summed up as a vegetable organism. He was a digestive creature. He gained 20 pounds. He never did any type of work but stayed in bed all the time. To eat and sleep were his major functions in Hfe. He would read little beyond the daily paper and he napped between turning the pages. He was happy and contented. The tall man showed great variations in his body functions from day to day. His metabolism was unstable. His urine was always alkaline. He was uncomfortable in the hot room; he was excitable and uneasy; his temperature went up. His stomach stopped secreting acid and his urine became concentrated. He lost weight the day following and did not get back to normal weight for ten days. His whole water metabolism was upset On the other hand, he fared very well in the cold room. Changes in diet produced considerable changes in his metabolism. His was a skin and nervous organism, and he was completely different from the stocky man. He was always up and about and looking for something to do. He never slept during the day. He washed glassware, helped In the laboratory, and became a real laboratory assistant in the year and a half he was under observation. * Then we made a study of a hay fever, migraine heedache and hive group of patients, normal in other respects. These we found belong to the unstable types. Their various reactions charted upon paper look like a profile of the Rocky mountains. They change more during the course of a day than the stable type change after having been given the same stimulating medicine. They are put together to a different manner and react differently to things around them. They show more changes to their blood chemistry from day to day than one would expect to find la sick people. But they are normal, that Is, to so tor aS their fluctuating, vaccilatIng and spasmodic type of controlling machinery will allow them to be normal. We began these studies to gala • better understanding of normal people Much to our surprise we found the normal range of variations to be much wider than we had previously -supposed. We have still much to learn, ffi, Wutan Newspaper Untaa. Glow Worm Grotto The New Zealand Glow Worm Grotto is one of the strangest sights. Ob the ceilings of the vast, gloomy underground caverns twinkle millions of little lights. Their illumination Is sufficient to light up the interior, making the place almost as bright an a ballroom. No Tickee, No Waabee A Chinese doctor explains that to China when a doctor’s patient was wen tie MB to presented and paid. If the patient dies no blll to sent to.

f© National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Press Building Washington, D, C.

Washington. — President Roosevelt announced a year ago that the Ten-

nessee Valley * authority and the experiment of govern-

Probing the TVA

ment production of electric power on a huge scale was to serve as a yardstick on electric rates charged by private power companies. The millions then being poured into the Tennessee river valley for construction of dams and power plants, living quarters and farms, oflices and laboratories were to produce ultimately as near perfection as eould be conceived by the mind of man in an Industrial unit. Lately, J. R. McCarl, comptroller general of the United States, has had his bookkeeping sleuths at work on. the records of the Tennessee Valley authority, it being a government corporation. Mr. McCarl was not concerned about the yardstick for power rates nor was he Interested in experiments designed to prove the value, of government ownership in the power field. His job was to determine what had happened to all of the money that had been taken from the treasury and spent in the effort to transform the Tennessee valley into a modern Garden of Eden. It happened that Mr. McCarl’s report on the audit of TV A affairs was made public coincidentally with a movement by the TVA directors for new legislation—amendments to their basic law which would give them additional authority. This circumstance resulted In the TVA and its yardstick being examined by a congressional committee under the strong lens of a magnifying glass. I believe it is generally agreed that TVA suffered in prestige, and government ownership advocates came off second best because disclosures before the committee were of such a nature as to convince most, sound thinking observers that there Is a colored gentleman in the TVA woodpile. For instance, Mr. McCarl showed in his report that the federal government had expended a total of $132,792,000 in development of the power facilities, equipment and necessary appurtenances. This property was transferred by the federal government to the Tennessee Valley authority, a corporation, and is carried on the corporation books at $51,000,000. This is 38 per cent of the actual cost to the taxpayers of the property transferred. Disclosures of this fact brought many charges In the course of the committee hearing and led to the conclusion by several house members that no electric rate based upon 38 per cent of the cost of the production facilities could be considered honest. In other words, the thought was that a yardstick based on such a method of calculating investment necessarily would have to be made of rubber. Mr. McCarl told the committee also that he had found various haphazard

and “trick” methods of bookkeeping and that he had found it necessary to dlsal-

“Trie*” Bookkeeping

low expenditures of something over two million dollars which he said were illegal. The comptroller general did not refer to these expenditures as having been fraudulently made but be told the committee It was his opinion that the law had to be stretched rather far by any spending agency to construe the payments as justifiable. Some of these expenditures were made, for example, for such things as airplanes to be used in transportation; for cows and pigs to stock a TVA farm and for the purchase of numerous other Items which Mr. McCarl said could not by any stretch of the imagination be considered as necessary In connection with power production. The comptroller general took sharp exception to the bookkeeping methods used by the TVA. It is upon these records that the electric rate is based. Likewise it is upon the basis of these records that the TVA must show whether It has earned a profit "Despite the apparently excessive depreciated value at which the Muscle Shoals property was taken up on the books, the authority is not using the valuation basis for depreciation but instead is basing depreciation on the earnings from the sale of power by charging 10 per cent of the gross revenue to operations as depreciation and accumulating the amount of such charges as a reserve for depreciation. "Such reserve appears to be entirely Inadequate. The properties in question are depreciating in value and if the return from operations is to be pYoperly determined, the reasonable value of ail things concerned including depreciation of original investment must be token Into consideration. “Assuming a very conservative rate of valuation consumption for example, 2 per cent, the amount of depreciation, based upon the value at which the properties to question were capitalized by the authority, would be approximately $1,600,000 per annum. “A larger revenue will proportionately increase the reserve for depreciation at the present 10 per cent method of amortisation, but to accumulate a reserve on the 10 per cent plan equivalent to the amount that would be charged to depreciation on a valuation basis at 2 per cent, the gross revenues would have to be more than ten times the present amount or about $10,000,000 per annum. “There is very little basis for assuming that revenues will ever reach inch a figure." The comptroller’s report touched on many other phases of TVA affairs

whlch he found subject to criticism and it made mention of a factor that. It

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portance to communities throughout the country. That factor is taxation. It Is to be remembered that government agencies, federal, national, state or local, pay no taxes into the treasury of its jurisdiction. Consequently, the government which fosters a municipally owned power plant simply must forget, for taxation purposes, that such property exists within its domain. Likewise, such a plant Is not required to consider interests on the investment In the shape of dividends to the stockholders who, in turn, pay taxes on their income. There seems to be no doubt that the board of directors of the TVA, headed by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan", is determined to push ahead with this, the greatest socialistic experiment of modern times. Doctor Morgan and other directors of the TVA were subjected to ques- . tloning of a type about as severe as any witnesses before a house committee In recent months. They had friends on the committee who attempted continuously to shield them from the fire of TVA opponents, but apparently Chairman McSwain was unable to choke off the attack by siich men as Representative McLean of New Jersey and others Who doubt the advisability of the federal government engaging in power production. There appeared just no way at all in which friendly members of the house committee could justify the action of the TVA board In its attempts to block private power development. It was shown in the course of the hearing that the TVA had gone far away from its base of operations to buy two small parcels of land—one not much larger than a city block and the other only a few acres in extent. Under questioning, TVA directors admitted this land lay in the middle of o. proposed reservoir planned by a private power corporation. In acquiring the parcels of land the TVA made it Impossible for the private interests to proceed with their power development because the land in question would have been in the middle of the reservoir 300 feet under water. The private interests could" not force the Tl’A to sell and without that land the whole reservoir program was destroyed. The TVA probably will win and obtain the amendments its board of directors desire. There are public ownership advocates in sufficient strength to carry out the President's idea In going ahead with the TVA development It Is made to appear, nevertheless, that as a result of the disclosures before the house committee, TVA may not henceforth proceed to a manner quite so arrogant. Politics Is politics and apparently politicians will play the game always.

Playing the Game

ate payment of the cash bonus to war veterans will suffice. The bonus has been licked for this session of congress but all indications point to a belief that the country may not be so lucky in the next session of congress which Is not far ahead of the 1936 elections. — An organized minority—the World war veterans —were very close to success in forcing congress to appropriate $2,600,000,000 and pay it over w them. They failed because President Roosevelt —like three Presidents before him —had to view the problem from the standpoint of the country’s welfare and not the welfare of this minority. Credit is due the President for the stand he took just as credit was due Presidents Hoover, Coolidge and Harding. He will be criticized and attacked by this local minority just as the other* were criticized and attacked. While a veto message is regarded by; many as not being as strong as it might have been, nevertheless Mr. Roosevelt was firm and his firmness gave courage to enough senators to avoid the debacle of additional waste. I am informed that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and various and sundry other organizations of former soldiers, sailors and marines are prepared for a bitter fight next year against those representatives and senators who dared to oppose cash payment of the bonus now when it is not due until 1945. The soldiers’ lobby is the greatest and most expensive lobby in Washington now. It knows its power and it does not hesitate to characterize opponents of the cash bonus as traitors. The lobbyists are certain to go Into every state and congressional district next summer and seek to defeat those who dared to follow their own conscience and vote against this raid on the treasury. As a result of the vote on the bonus and the subsequent Presidential veto some keen political observers have begun to calculate In their own minds what the view of the country Is. It was pointed out, for example, that a maximum of four million would be entitled to a bonus. At the same time attention was called to the fact that new voters are arriving at the age of franchise at the rate of approximately two million a year or almost thirtysix million since the end of the World war. These observers contend that the new voters and those who are not entitled to the bonus constitute a majority. Thus, they seek to show that there is a great majority of the voters of the country unwilling to see such a nm of money voted to a minority, especially at a time when the government is taxing its citizens and borrowing in billions to give relief to all whether they fought for their country or not The quesUon is then whether the politicians will wake up in time to represent the majority or be fooled b7 the power organized minority. • WnUrs N«w»p*pw Unto*.

If better proof be needed, it seems to me the demonstration over immedi-