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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK!
Goodby, NRA
Wall Street’* Dormouse v
Good Wage*, Short Houra
Lottery Swindles ,
The Supreme court unanimously de
clares NRA unconstitutional.
High' Judges,
whose decision no
body can veto,
short of a constitu
tional amendment,
say congress must
do its work and
cannot abdicate to
favor of the Chief
Executive.
The most Impor
tant decision In
many years, this
probably makes
further argument
about extension of
NRA unnecessary.
Arthar KrUbaac ^ ^ extend
that which is dead. American busi
ness men may now resume business
,not led by the kindly light of profes-
Jiors and others.
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Alice’s puzzled Dormouse, at the
Mad Hatter’s tea party, could not un
derstand his watch, that would not
keep time, although the Dormouse did
everything. He dipped the watch in
bis 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 tick
er, 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 what is coming next?”
And then they put the prices down.
News Review of Current _
Events the World Over
Supreme Court Kills NRA and Farm Mortgage Mora*
torium Act-—New Dealers, Congress and Business
Uncertain About Future Action.
By ED WARD JW. PICKARD
C WMtern N«w*pa.p«r Onion.
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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 organized labor has worked success
fully for generations, to improve work
ing conditions.
Some union men know that wages,
hours and other conditions Improved
In the old way are more durable, than
increased pay based on political flat
Jt is necessary for some one to pro
vide as well as for some one to take It
Peddlers of tickets In the Havana
lottery send out “come-on” letters, try-
Ing to sell tickets to foolish Americans.
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
now repeats, Is that througli foreign
lottery schemes Americans are swin
dled out of large sums. He who In
vests in a lottery throws away his
money, adding foolishness to incapa
city. The Havana lottery is as much
of a trap for fools as any other lot
tery.
Postmaster Farley’s plan to hasten
•Ir mails allows a crowd of 10,000 to
see a whirling autogiro drop down on
the roof and deliver mail, another au
togiro coming to get mail bags and car
ry them away.
Mr. Farley’s plan is to have the au
togiro fly between outlying flying fields,
where high-power, fast planes land,
and carry mall bags to the roofs of
'city post offices, saving time lost In
slow street travel.
One branch of the Standard Oil com
pany, the New Jersey branch, man
aged 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. ~
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With no sign of smoke, flame, crater
—nothing to Indicate an extinct vol
cano a new and live volcano sud
denly begins eruption in an out-of-the-
way place In Iceland. A great hole
appears in the earth, flames and red-
hot lava rise. No overflowing of
neighboring farms as yet.
What would natives have thought
had this happened in earlier days,
when everybody believed that hell,
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 stamps, Sur
*um Corda, which means “Lift up your
hearts." He sees a great summe>
ahead, “a summer of content.”
* “Car loadings,” says the postmaster
genera], “are up,” Incomes reported, by
sur taxpayers “are up," “more peopje
are buying automobiles than before^
For some, the big news Is that Little,
the San Francisco golfer, has defeated
Doctor Tweddell, the British chal
lenger.
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 sounds like efficiency.
fe Klac FeaturM Byadleata. 1m.
WNU flarviM.
T HREE unanimous decisions of the
Supreme Court of the United States
shook the New Deal to Its very foun
dations. In the first and most. Im
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
c’ode making provi
sions being an uncon
stitutional delegation
by congress of Its au
thority to legislate to
persons not connected
with the government’s
_ legislative functions.
By the ruling the exercise~6f~cbn-~
gresslonal powers over commerce was
definitely restricted to interstate com
merce, or to such activities as have a
provable direct connection with inter
state 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 fail-
.ure of the Constitution to place them
elsewhere.
Chief Justice
Hughes
may be made if there is “imminent
Next in importance was the decision danger’’ to public health. —
read by Justice Brandeis, bolding un
constitutional the Frazier-Lemke farm
mortgage moratorium act This law
provided for a five year moratorium In
the case of collapse of efforts to scale
dqwn a farmer’s debts to a figure that
would enable him to pay off his mort
gage. The court held that under the
Fifth amendment to the Constitution
private property could noL 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 Wil
liam E. Humphrey from the federal
trade commission was held Illegal be
cause the President did not remove
Mr. Humphrey for the statutory
grounds of Inefficiency, neglect of
duty or malfeasance in office, but, as
the President stated, because their
minds did not meet upon the policies
or administration of the commission.
The court held that trade commission
ers’ terms are fixed by law.
T HERE was cbnsternation and con
fusion among the administration
forces in Washington, ana no one could
say immediately Just how much the
New Deal had been damaged or wb^t
could be done to repair the damage to
its structure. Donald Richberg, chair
man of the national industrial recov
ery board, after a White House cob-,
ference. Issued a statement saying that
“all methods of compulsory enforce
ment of the codes will be immediately
suspended."
The question of the constitutionality
of" the Wagner Jabor^ disputes—bill
passed by the senate, was raised by
the NRA decision. The opinion was
widely expressed that collective bar
gaining now cannot be enforced in any
business enterprise by federal statute.
In the senate demands were voiced
to recommit to the committee on agri
culture the amendments strengthening
the AAA. Senator W. E. Borah said
that the NRA decision clearly raises
the question of the validity of much
AAA procedure.
B USINESS was as confused as con
gress and the administration after
the killing of-NRA. Heads of many
large employing corporations intimat
ed they would not make wage reduc
tions or lengthen the work hours Just
because the way was open for such ac
tion, but always there was the qual
ifying statement, "It depends on what
our competitors do." The big concerns
would prefer to maintain the code
hours and wages, but the smaller mer
chants and manufacturers, who were
hardest hit by the code requirements,
might depart .from them enough to de
moralize prices.
Among the dozens of national trade
association! whose oflicers urged mem
bers to. maintain wages and otherwise
to continue the status quo are those
of the automobile manufacturers, auto
mobile dealers, chemical industry, re
tail dry goods dealers, cotton manufac
turers, cement makers, oil industry,
wholesale grocers, and grocery chain
store distributors.
Harper Sibley, recently elected presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of
fhe United States, called upon Amerl-
•an Industry and business men to pre
serve for the present wages and work
hours established under the NRA.
Instead of cutting wages Standard
Oil company of New Jersey and the
Pide Water Oil company announced an
increase of 5 per cent In salaries and
wages, effective June 1.
The United Textile Workers, 350,000
m number, tlireaten to strike if any
mills cut wages. And there Is also a
chance that 450,000 bituminous coal
Miners will go on strike because there
s no wage agreement/with the oper-
itors and a scale conference collapsed.
The liquor business was thrown
vide open without any federal regula
tion except that exerted by the Treas
ury department in the collection of
taxes. Officials of the federal alcohol
control 'administration said that the
Supreme. coufPa'“^NRA ruling took
away 'from the FAOA every iota of
control It had over the distilling busi
ness. .
A CTING with surprising suddenness,
*Mhe senate passed the Copeland-
Tugwell 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 1006 food and drug act, in the
dClTrflTi(7n8br'aauTferafed“6f'mTsbTand-
ed articles, and provides penalties of a
year in jail or a $1,000 fine for viola
tions.
It was designed originally to permit
the secretary of agriculture to order
wholesale seizures, which would per
mit _the destruction of a business, if
he deemed the articles in question
adulterated. As amended, however,
only a single article may be seized
pending a court hearing. -Exceptions
Originally, also, the bilL provided se
vere penalties for publishers and radio
broadcasting companies. a$ well as ad
vertisers, for violations of regulations
to be laid down by the 1 Department of
Agriculture. This was changed so that
no publisher, radio -broadcasting com
pany, advertising agency, or other me
dium for the dissemination of adver
tising may be deemed to have violated
the “false advertising’’ provisions un
less they refuse to furnish the name
and' address of the advertiser.
F RANK C. WALKER’S present Job
as head of the division of allot
ments and information In connection
with the work-relief program is hot so
important as had been
expected, and proba
bly by the end 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 defi
nitely decided to re-
-tlre_ from the eitbine*
H AWAII was treated to a magnifi
cent display of American naval
pqyver-urTfie Pacific that continued
through Jwo days. First the forty
planes that had taken part in the mid-
Pacific maneuvers retqjmed and the
entire armada of 225 planes participat
ed in an aerial review/ Then the ves
sels of the fleet returned and moved
to Pearl Harbor, the great naval base,
which they alj>entered in a crucial
test of tfaeTiarbor’s capacity as an an
chorage. The navy’s largest subpia-
rines 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 forttf' a pamphlet from the
navy’s propaganda bureau., which made
significant . allusions to the United
States. It said: ^ s ~
‘“Then Russia was the rival and the
danger. Today that is changed. We
had. to face In another direction.
We are confronting another great sea
power which is Increasing its navy
wltp Japan as the target.
“We need a navy sufficient to pro
tect 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 ef
forts tp reach a new naval agreement
and leading to a nnvaT constflTCtron
race, the responsibility will not be
oUrs. In such case the only thing for
Japan to do is to resort to resolute
measures for seif-protection.”
'"pHOUGH the League of Nations
-J^council ended its session in Geneva
with the hope that it had arranged
matters so that war between Italy and
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 Imnve*
dlately thereafter ‘-'ll
Duce told the cham
ber of deputies in
Rome he would not
allow Germany to make of Ethiopia
“a pistol perennially pointed at us in
case of trouble In Europe" and assert
ed 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
i inimical to Italv.
Following this address, Mussolini
ordered the mobilization of thousands
of officers and technical experts of the
class of 1912.
Benito
Mussolini
Frank C.
Walker
—voluntarily, it is said
—so that, he can devote all bis time
and energy to directing the campaign
of Mr. Roosevelt for renouiinatlon and
re-election. He expects to remain not
only as chairman of the national Dem
ocratic committee but also as chair-
man of the New York state committee.
In order that he may have an income
he plans to make a business connec
tion with an Important organization/
There has been a lot of talk about Mr.
Farley’s alleged ambition to be gov
ernor of New York. Melvin C. Eaton.
Republican state chairman, dares him
Jo run for that position.
O NLY nine states of the Central
West will send delegates to the
"Grass Roots” convention of the Re
publican party which opens June 10 In
Springfield, 111., but
the meeting will never
theless be rather na
tional in scope, for it
will be attended by
unofficial delegates
from other states and
by national leaders of
the party. It was be
lieved that Harrison
E. Spangler, national
committeemair Tr o in
Iowa, would be made
temporary, chairman A ’ M ’ Hyde
and a* such would deliver the key
note address. Others on’ the tenta
tive program for speeches are Arthur
M. Hyde, former governor of Missouri
and secretary of agriculture In the
Hoover cabinet, and Edward Hayes
of Decatur, HL former national com-
mknder of the American Legion.
The keynote address, according to
reports, wlll ; take inventory of Ameri
can affairs under, the Roosevelt New
Deal and indicate the trend of the
party in opposition. Mr, Hyde Is to
talk on the Great Emancipator at the
Lincoln tomb in Oak Ridge cemetery,
and fclayes is expected to deal with
the theories of the Republican party
on constitutional government
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A DOLF HITLER has proposed that
Germany,, Great Britain, France,
Italy and Belgium enter into a mul
tilateral western European pact
against aerial aggression. It follows,
the lines of the proposed Anglo-French
air 'pact and would ,do'-for th&-stations
named what the Locarno- pact does
with the land forces for France, Ger-
many and Belgium.
I/'ELLY PETILLO of California
won the 500-mile auto race at the
Indianapolis Speedway, setting a new
record with an average speed of 108.24
miles an hour, . Clay Weatherly of
Cincinnati lost control of his car and
was killed.
S AN DIEGO’S beautiful world’s fair,
the California Pacific exposition,
was thrown open to the public practi
cally completed. Thousands of visl-
tors moved ajong'the ancient El
ino Real to Balboa park on the open
ing 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.
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National Topics Interpreted
1 by William Bruckart
National Press Bunding
Washington, D, C.
r APAN, ready to take control over
more Chinese territory, delivered
to the government at Nanking an ut-
timatum charging that Dictator Chiang
Kai-shek, as well as Gen. Yu Hsueh-
cljung, chairman <ft 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 Mqn-
churia.
Dispatches from Tokyo said Japa
nese officials admitted plans had been
made to include Peiping,and Tientsin
within the demilitarized zone, which
at pr^Rent lies north of the two cities.
Threats were made to bomb and oc
cupy both those cities.
F IGHTING desperately to savft the
franc and prevent Inflation, ♦Pre
mier Flandin of France staked every
thing on a demand that he be given
dictatorial financial powers until the
end of the year, and lost. The Cham-
ber 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.
D R. ALAN ROY DAFOE, Judge J.
A. Valin and Minister of Welfare
David Croll of Ontario, guardians un
der 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 the fes
tivities. The five little-girls, who are
In good health and growing rapidly,
were displayed briefly and jwer! per
mitted to crow or cry Into the radio
microphfNl®.
C ARLOS MENDIETA, president of
Cuba, has announced that he. will
not be a candidate next winter to suc
ceed himself. Therefore the race Is
expected to narrow down to Miguel
Mariano Gomez, twice mayor of Ha
vana. and Mario G. Menocgl, formei
president of the Island republic. -
general of the United States, has had
his bookkeeping sleuths at work on
the records of the Tennessee Valley
authority. It being a government cor
poration. Mr. McCarl was not con
cerned about the yardstick for power
rates nor was he interested in experi
ments designed to qjrove 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 Gar
den of Eden.
It happened that Mr. McCarl’s re
port on the audit of TVA affairs was
made public coincidentally with a
movement by the TV A directors for
new legislation—amendments *to their
basic law which would give them addi
tional 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 gen
erally agreed that TVA* suffered in
prestige, and government ownership
advocates came off second best be
cause disclosures before the commit
tee were of such a nature as to con
vince most sound thinking observers
that there la a colored gentleman in
the TVA woodpile.
For instance, Mr. McCarl showed In
his report that the federal govern
ment 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 govern
ment to the Tennessee Valley author
ity, 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 trans
ferred.
Disclosures of this fact brought
many charges in the course of the
committee hearing and led to the con
clusion hy several house members that
no- electric rate based upon 38 per
cent of the cost of the production fa
cilities 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 he made of rubber.
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Mr. McCarl told the coiuuilllee also
that he had found various haphazard
and “trick" methods
“T rich” - of bookkeeping and
Bookkeeping t»'«t he had found it
necessary to disal
low ex|>enditures of something over
two million dollars which he.said were
illegal. The comptroller genera) did
not refer to these exi>enditures as hav
ing been fraudulently made but he
told the committee it was his opinion
that the law had to be st
er far by any spending agency to con
strue the payments as Justifiable.
The comptroller general took sharp
exception to the bookkeeping meth
ods 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
eaVnings from the sale of power hy
charging 10 per cent of the gross rev
enue to operations as depreciation and
accumulating the amount of such
charges a» a reserve for depreciation.
VAssuming a very conservative rate
of valuation consumption for example,
2 per cent, the amount of depreciation,
properties in question were capital
ized by the authority, would be ap
proximately $1,000,000 per annum.
“A larger revenue will proportion
ately Increase the reserve for depre
ciation at the present 10 per cent
method of amortization, but to ac
cumulate 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 Httie basis for as
suming that revenues will ever reach
such a figure.”
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The comptroller’s report touched on
many other phases of TVA affairs
which he found sub-
main. 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.
Doctor Morgan and othef directors
Washington. — President Roosevelt
Announced a year ago that the Ten
nessee Valley su-
Probing thority and the ex-
the TVA periment of govern
ment production of t/utiu* -—
electric power on a huge scale was to of the TVA were subjected to ques-
serve as a yardstick on electric rates tioning of a type about as severe as
charged by private power companies, any witnesses before a house commlt-
7 J. R. McCarl, comptroller tee in recent months. They had
friends on the committee who at
tempted continuously to shield them
from the fire of TVA opponents,-bot
apparently Chairman MoSwain was
unable to choke off the attack by such
men as Representative McLean of New
Jersey and others who doubt the ad
visability 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 ac
tion of the TVA board in its attempts
to block private power devel opment
the course
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^-Offe
not much larger than a city block and
the other only a few acres in extent
Under questioning, TVA directors ad
mitted this land lay In the middle of a
proposed reservoir planned by a pri
vate 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 reser
voir 300 feet under water. The pri
vate Interests could not force the TVA
to sell and, without that land the whols
reservoir program was destroyed.
The TVA probably will win and ob
tain the amendments its board of di
rectors desire. There are public own
ership advocates in sufficient strength'
to carry out the President's idea In
going ahead with the TVA develop
ment. It is made to appear, neverthe
less, that as a result of the disclos
ures before the house committee. TVA
may not henceforth proceed in a man
ner quite so arrogant.
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Politics is politics and apparently
politicians will play the game always.
If better proof he
Playing needed, it seems to
tke Game the demonstra
tion over immedi
ate payment of the rnsti bonus to
war veterans will suffice, The bonus
has been Tfeked for this session of
congress "Hilt all indications point to
a belief that the country may not bo
so lucky in the next session of con
gress which is not far ahead of the
1936 elections. ’
An—organized—minority^the—World
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war veterans—were very close to suc
cess in forcing congress to appropriate
$2,000,000,000 and pay It over to them.
They failed because President Roose
velt—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, Cooildge and Hard-
He win ne criticized Tand—At
tacked by this local minority Just as
the others were criticized and at
tacked. While a veto message is re
garded by many as not being as strong
as It might have been, nevertheless
Mr. Roosevelt was firm and his firm
ness pave courage to enough senators
to avoid the debacle of additional
waste. —^ 7
I am informed that the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and various and sundry other organi
zations of former soldiers, sailors and
marines are prepared for a bitter fight
next year against those representa
tives and senators who dared to 'op
pose cash payment of the bonus now
when it Is not due until 1945. The sol
diers’ lobby Is the greatest and most
expensive lobby in Washington now.
It knows its power and it does not
hesitate to -characterize opponent* of
* - .. . the cash bonus as traitors. The lobby
based upon the value At w c e ^4gt* are certain to go Into every state
,t /utoatlrm vpre rnnitfll-
and congressional district nexi. sum
mer and seek to defeat those who
dared to follow their own conscience
and vote against this raid on the treas
ury.
As a result of thp vote on the bonus
and the subsequent Presidential veto
some keen political observers have be
gun 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 en
titled 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 approximate
ly two million a year or almost thirty-
six million since the end of the World
war. These observers contend that the
new voters and those who are not en-
wnicn ne lounu buo-
Mach to ject .. crH^n, an, 'I/'!/ “tS
Criticise it made mention of
a factor that. It
seems to me, jodght to be of vital im
portance to communities throughout
the country. That factor is taxation.
It Is to be remembered that govern
ment agencies, federal national, state
or local, pay ho taxes into the treasury
of its Jurisdiction. Consequently, the
government which foster* a municipal
ly owned power plant simply must
forget, for taxation porposes. that
suttb property exists within its do-
ity. Thus, they seek to show that
there is a great majority of the voters
of the country unwilling to see such a
sum of money voted to a minority, es
pecially at a time when ’the govern
ment Is taxing its citizens and bor
rowing In billions to give relief to all
whether they fought for tMr country
or not The question Is then whether
the politicians will wake up in time to
represent the majority or be fooled
by the pbwer of a highly organized
minority. • T
• WsaUm N«wsp*p«r Osles.