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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
France Forming Solid Front Against Germany in New
Crisis—Paraguay Made Totalitarian State—
Chester Davis Is Sent to Europe.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union,
CIX1T thousand German troops In
^ the Rhineland that was supposed
to be demilitarized. Practically the
entire French army in and behind the
Tftst system of fortifi-
cations along France’s
eastern frontier. The
French government,
backed by the other
signers of the violated
Locarno treaty and
by the little entente,
Poland and Russia, de-
manded that Germany
withdraw her troops
from the Rhineland or
that sanctions, eco-
nomic and possibly
military, be Imposed by the League |
of Nations. Great Britain trying hard
to keep the peace, reproving Germany,
supporting the French demands in
great measure, but urging that Hitler's
proposal of new non-aggression pacts
be given consideration. Relchsfuehrer
Hitler reviewing his forces in the re-
occupied territory and receiving the
loud plaudits of the inhabitants for
restoring their military sovereignty.
That in a nutshell was the perilous
situation in Europe as the representa-
tives of the Locarno nations and the
council of the league assembled in
London to consider what to do next.
Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flan-
din of France was there with the full
support of Premier Sarraut for his de-
mands that immediate action be taken
to bring Hitler to time. He was rep-
resented as “almost convinced” that a
•'preventive war” now would be prefer-
able to "carnage two years hence,” and
In Paris it was disclosed that France
counted on having at her disposal,
from her own forces and those of
JKussia, Poland and the little entente,
a potential army of about 40,000,000
men. It was said 8,000,000 could be
mobilized in 48 hours and 31,IKK),000
were trained reserves; and that 8.000
airplanes and a million tons of war-
ships were ready.
The Franco-Russian treaty came up
in the French senate and was ratified
by u huge majority. It is this pact
that Hitler gave as his excuse for re-
—militarizing the Rhineland, asserting
that it was a violation of the Locarno
treaty, being aimed at Germany. It
is the final link in the “iron rinc”
around the reich which France has
been forging.
At first the British government’s
response to France’s demands for full
support against Germany was ambigu-
ous and not satisfactory to Sarraut
and Flandin. Alter conferences with
Prime Minister Baldwin and other min-
isters, Capt. Anthony Eden, the young
foreign secretary, appeared before flm
house of commons and declared any
attack on France or Belgium in viola-
tion of the Locarno pact would compel
Britain to go to their assistance. He
added, however, that there was no
reason to suppose “the present German
action implies a threat »f hostilities.”
Then he indicated Britain was willing
to consider Hitler’s proposals for new
peace covenants.
The British statesmen seemed so
calm in the crisis that there was rea-
son to believe they knew in advance
what Hitler intended to do. When
Flandin and the other Locarno signa-
tory representatives arrived in Lon-
don, the attitude of the British cabinet
changed and grew decidedly stiffer.
LI ITLER was not represented at
A 1 either the Locarno conference or
the session of the league council in
London. He himself, having precipi-
itated the crisis,
made his triumphal
appearance in the
Rhineland and then
awaited events. His
dramatic and sudden
denunciation of the
Locarno treaty was
accomplished i n a
speech before the
reichstag and in for-
mal announcements to
the ambassadors in
Berlin of the nations
concerned. He asserted that the troops
he sent into the Rhineland comprised
a “symbolic” army only, and that the
reich, while ready to defend itself, was
wholly desirous of peace. To prove
this he offered a plan which includes:
A demilitarized strip of German,
French and Belgian land; a 25-year
non-aggression treaty among Germany,
France and Belgium, with Great Brit-
ain and Italy as guarantors; inclusion
of the Netherlands in the system of
pacts; an air pact with the western
powers; a non-aggression pact with
Germany’s eastern neighbors, includ-
ing Lithuania; and return of Germany
to the League of Nations after her
equality is established and her sover-
eignty restored.
France's reply to this was that, hav-
ing just violated one treaty, Hitler
could not be trusted to observe anoth-
er; and anyway, France would not
even listen to the reichsfuehrer’s new
proposals until he had withdrawn his
troops from the Rhineland. The French
army was moved toward the frontier
and the “Maginot line" of fortifications
and underground passages was fully
manned. This system of defenses has
been criticized because it requires to
many troops that the army is rendered
virtually stationary—what has been
called in Paris “the concrete army.”
Remaining forces would be Insufficient
for offensive movement. But this fault
might be disregarded if France gets
the expected millions of soldiers from
her allies.
pHIEF JUSTICE ALFRED A.
^ WHEAT of the District of Co-
lombia Supreme court checked the
telegram-serzing activities of the Black
senate committee on lobbying. He
granted the Chicago law firm of Silas
H. Strawn an injunction restraining
the Western Union Telegraph com-
pany from giving the committee copies
of the firm’s telegrams.
The judge said the subpoena served
on the telegraph company by the com-
mittee, calling for copies of telegrams
“goes way beyond” the committee’s
powers.
Next day William Randolph Hearst,
newspaper publisher, began a fight in
court to keep an original confidential
telegram out of the hands of the
Black committee; and the American
Newspaper Publishers’ association de-
nounced the reported seizure of that
telegram, which was to one of Mr.
Hearst’s editors. The association ad-
vised any other editor, should he
learn of similar action, to consult coun-
sel and “take vigorous steps to pro-
tect his constitutional rights.”
/^OL. RAFAEL FRANCO, who be-
4 came provisional president of
Paraguay after the recent revolution
there, has set up a totalitarian gov-
ernment modeled aft-
er German Nazism
and Italian Fascism.
He issued a decree
which declared the
state and the “liber-
ating revolution” of
February 17 as indi-
visible and banned for
one year political, la-
bor, or other unions
which “do not em-
anate explicitly from
the state.”
Paraguay, the government asserted,
will be purged of “endemic, dema-
gogic, industrial, and sectarian evils.”
The official statement places in the
“liberating army” the principal source
of authority.
The aims of the new government,
the decree said, will be the construc-
tion of a new, strong Paraguay and
constitutional reorganization for a fu-
ture republic.
HESTER C. DAVIS, head of the
4 invalidated AAA, is not going to
administer the soil conservation pro-
gram devised as a substitute. Presi-
dent Roosevelt announced that Mr.
Davis would leave soon on a trip to
Europe to make a special study for
the government of economic conditions
bearing on the agricultural plans for
this country. Critics of the adminis-
1 tration immediately assumed that Mr.
j Davis aud Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace had disagreed and that the
former was being gently edged out of
the picture. This Mr. Wallace warmly
denied, asserting there had been no
friction and that he had deep affec-
tion for Mr. Davis and the sincerest
respect for his ability and integrity.
In announcing the assignment, Mr.
Roosevelt said: “In requesting him
to make this study for our government.
Secretary Wallace and I have had In
mind the distinguished service Mr.
Davis has given American agriculture,
especially during the last two and one-
half years. As administrator he has
been directing governmental efforts
which, to a considerable degree, were
made necessary by changes in the Eu-
ropean outlets for American farm
products.
“Information to be gathered by him
at close hand as to the precise nature
and extent of these economic changes
abroad is expected to assist greatly
in developing American farm pro-
grams.”
REAT BRITAIN is interested and
v-J pleased to iearn that King Edward
VIII may abandon his state of bach- |
elorhood and take unto himself a wife.
This was revealed when the king au-
thorized these lines in the message
submitting the civil list to the house
of commons: “His majesty desires that
the contingency of his marriage should
be taken into account so that, in that
event, there should be a provision for
her majesty.”
C'ARL BEATTY, commander of the
British war fleet in 1916-18 and
afterward first lord of the admiralty,
died in London after a long illness at
the age of sixty-five. Rising from a
sick-bed to attend the funeral of Earl
Jellicoe last November, he predicted
that he would soon follow his col-
league. lmrd Beatty had a meteoric
career as a naval commander and dis-
played his ability in the battles of
Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank,
and especially in the battle of Jutland
where he commanded the first battle
cruiser squadron. His wife, who died
in 1932, amis Ethel Field, daughter of
the Chicago merchant prince, Marshall
Field.
M. Flandin
Rafael Franco
Adolf Hitler
THE CELINA (TEXAS) RECORD
DOWER-S of the federal trade com-
* mission to Investigate unfair trade
practices will be greatly broadened by
the Wheeler bill approved by the senate
interstate commerce committee. It Is
vigorously opposed by the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, the
National Association of Manufacturers
and the American Newspaper Publish-
ers’ association. The measure would:
Make “deceptive acts and practices
In commerce” unlawful In addition to
“unfair methods of competition” speci-
fied in existing law.
Expressly give the commission au-
thority to proceed “upon its own Initia-
tive,” as well as that of the President,
or either house of congress as now
provided.
Include persons and partnerships as
well as corporations within the scope
of the commission’s authority to in-
vestigate business practices and condi-
tions in Interstate and foreign com-
merce.
Redefine “documentary evidence” to
Include “books of account, financial
and corporate records," and make such
records subject to commission sub-
poena.
/COMMUNISTS and radicals who ap-
1 peared as representatives of the
Workers’ Alliance of America went be-
fore WPA Administrator Harry Hop-
kins and made a series of demands
that were all coldly turned down by
that gentleman. These included the
dismissal of Victor F. Ridder, New
York WPA director; no cut in the
3,500,000 persons on works relief, and
full union pay and nnion hours for per-
sons on relief and pay for sick leave.
They also demanded that all employed,
whether or not on relief rolls, be given
WPA work.
IN RECENT financing operations the
A government sold $1,355,643,550 in
bonds and notes, according to Secre-
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau. The
offerings, largest since the Victory
bond issue of 3919, were heavily over-
subscribed by banks. This borrowing
brings the public debt up to the
record figure of $31,413,000,000. The
treasury’s cash balance is increased to
$2,675,000,000.
The funds will finance New Deal
spending in the near future, partially
defray bonus costs and retire $450,-
000,000 worth of treasury bills falling
due March 16.
DEANS to furnish TVA power to the
* city of Knoxville, Term., under a
project to be financed with PWA funds
were blocked by a temporary restrain-
ing order issued by the District of
Columbia Supreme court.
The order was granted on the peti-
tion of the Tennessee Public Service
company which contended its $4,000,-
000 investment in Knoxville would be
rendered practically worthless, if the
government brought cheaper power
into the city.
Also in the District Supreme court,
66 producers of soft coal attacked the
Guffey coal control act as unconstitu-
tional in its entirety on the ground
that it invades the rights of the states
and deprives producers of their prop-
erty without due process of law.
OKI HIROTA, former foreign mln-
ister, formed a new ministry
for Japan and submitted the names
to the emperor. He, besides being pre-
mier, takes the for-
eign minister's port-
folio. Lieut. Gen. Count
Juichi Tarauchi is pat
in as m>iister of war
and Admiral Osami
Nagano as minister of
navy. Military lead-
ers Insisted that Hi-
rota “show a proper
recognition of the
gravity of the times
and the necessity for
renovation of Japa- Koki Hirota
uese foreign policy,” and to this de-,
mand he yielded somewhat.
Hirota issued a statement saying that
“the present empire situation requires
independent and positive readjustment
of our foreign relations in order to
liquidate this emergency.”
Ilachiro Arita, new Japanese am-
bassador to China, told the press in
Shanghai that "it is fundamental that
China recognizes Manehukuo and
that the other North China questions
should be settled on the spot.”
“There has been no change in Jap-
anese policy in China as a result of
the recent Tokyo incident,” he de-
clared. “Japan will carry out the
three principles of Kokl Hirota, for-
mer Japanese foreign minister, requir-
ing that China eliminate anti-Japan-
ism, co-operate economically with
Japan and Manehukuo and co-operate
in the elimination of communism with
in China and along the borders."
r [EUT. ROBERT K. GIOVANNOLl
L-* of Lexington, Ivy., hero of the
spectacular bombing plane crash dur-
ing army tests at Dayton, Ohio, last
October, was killed in a crackup of his
army plane at Logsyi field, Baltimore.
Giovannolis single seated pursuit
plane lost its right wing coming out !
of a glide and hurtled doAvn in a i
crazy spin from an altitude of less I
than 500 feet, it rolled over after hit-
ting the landing field and was demol-
ished.
TAMES J. FARLEY, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, let
it be known that the party chieftains
would make no effort to keep Al Smith
out of the national convention in Phila-
delphia If he is elected a delegate and
presence pr»per credentials. And once
he Is seatea, tiiere will be no attempt
to keep him from speaking his mind.
Administration leaders. It was repre-
sented, believe Mr. Roosevelt will
dominate the convention so completely
that no attack by Smith or anyone
else on the New Deal can have any
considerable effect.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Maybe Peace, After All
Building in a Big Way
A Level-Headed King
One Strike Method
The real war news from Europe—
It sounds like peace news—Is that Eng-
land has refused
France’s request for
immediate assist-
ance in forcing Ger-
many’s armies from
the Rhineland. Eng-
land even hints
that France may be
partly to blame.
France appeals to
all members of the
League of Nations
“in a fight for
peace.” But, with
England holding
back, other signers
of the Locarno pact
are not Inclined, in the language of
the day, to “stick their necks out.”
The United States is doing and
spending in a big way. The Public
Works administration says more than
$1,000,000,000 worth of projects have
been completed, with $2,200,000,000 of
other work still under construction.
Twelve hundred millions have been
spent for materials, all involving labor;
$639,000,000 for wage payrolls, by
PWA. Organized labor presents a
building program of $500,000,000 to oc-
cupy the idle building trades.
If money holds out, and the Infla-
tion bonds keep their value, this will
be remembered as the building age.
A level-headed young man Is the
new English king. After seeing the
new giant Cunarder named for his
mother, walking seven miles up and
down in it, he visited the slums of
Glasgow, called the worst and “red-
dest” In England. Some ultra “left
wing” city councilors refused to be
presented to him. “That’s perfectly all
right,” said the king. “Tell them I’ll
come and have tea with them in-
stead.” This he did. Two thousand
ship workers cheered and called him
“Good Old Teddy.”
The king, who visited individual
tenements, knocking at the doors, pat-
ting babies on the head, keeps up with
the times. No English king did that
before.
There are different ways of handling
strikes, depending on public officials.
At Akron, Ohio, a strike of milk driv-
ers disturbs consuming families and
producing farmers.
Herman E. Werner, public prosecu-
tor, says coldly: "Anyone who Inter-
feres with milk deliveries will face
guns, and the order will be ’Shoot to
kill.’ ”
Akron has 16,000 men out of work;
too many, at one time, for that sized
place, and the city is tired of it.
How many millions would be killed,
gassed, bombed, ripped to pieces by
shrapnel and machine-gun tire before
Hitler or the nation back of him could
be persuaded that he is not a reincar-
nation of Frederick the Great, or
Napoleon?
This time a murderous war would
be deliberate. No grand duke heir to
an imperial throne has been murdered
to supply the spark.
The Department of Commerce can-
not explain the Arkansas air crash, on
January 14, that killed 17. It says
some passenger “may have incapaci-
tated the pilot or interfered with con-
trols.”
The local sheriff says somebody in-
side the plane fired a kind of pistol.
Bullet marks were found.
Let air passengers before embark-
ing pass before the electrical device
that reveals instantly a pistol or any
other metal object. No decent pas-
senger would object. Guns and knives
might well he “parked” oa entering a
plane.
Japan is the question mark in the
war situation, but wise Japan wonld
not deliberately antagonize ail her cus-
tomers and friends in western Europe
by striking at Russia, in a war inter-
esting to all of them.
It is probable that Japan this time,
as in the last war, would send “ob-
servers,” thoughtful and silent to
watch the white races cutting each
others’ throats.
Mrs. Akeley, who used to help her
husband hunt lions and gorillas before
he died, has been to Africa on her own
account and reports that in south East
Africa natives cling to their old ways
and methods; nothing will change
them.
The chief w ho is sick wants a witch
doctor to come, howl, dance and tell
him that he has been bewitched into
swallowing a small crocodile, which is
biting his insides.
Next summer, Chicago entomologists
will watch 50.(KM),000 mosquitoes, after
they have been dyed red, green, yellow,
blue and brown, and learn how far
mosquitoes can fly.
The treasury finds that in the first
eight months of this fiscal year !t has
laccmnulated a deficit of $2,410,000,000.
[The country took in $2,348,000,000 and
Tent $4,75S,000,000. In prosperous
imes, the country’s total income is
$90,000,000,000; but when will those
• nes” come back?
A Kins Feature* Syndicate, lae,
W1W Servlc*. _ ^
Arthur Brisbane
Buck Is Passed
On to Congress
President Tires of
False Criticism;
Responsibility
Now Lawmakers’
By EARL GODWIN
XX T ASHINGTON.— President
\ \ / Roosevelt has stood enough
y Y false criticism about his fail-
ure to carry out his economies
as promised, and is placing the re-
sponsibility where it belongs—at the
door of congress.
Readers of this column recall that
on several occasions I have defended
the President on his economy program,
and pointed out that congress alone is
responsible for economy or lack of it.
A President can propose a program of
tax raising or money spending, but only
the congress can enact either one.
The first Roosevelt congress enacted
an economy bill which reduced the run-
ning expenses of the established gov-
ernment 25 per cent. That was in
1933. In the next year the same con-
gress wiped out the economy act over
Roosevelt’s veto. That congress then
went home, and most of the members
were re-elected. The people approved
what they did—although I Imagine the
average voter had no idea what had
happened.
This re-elected congress listened to
the American Legion rather than
Roosevelt, and passed the bill to pay
the bonus now instead of when It is
due in 1945. Furthermore, congress
has fired a succession of bills at the
White House calling for money outside
the budget, end when Roosevelt re-
fuses to sign congress sulks.
This administration planned to run
the regular government with a 25 per
cent cash reduction, and to meet the
emergency of the depression and its
hunger-stricken millions by borrowed
money. The President’s message of
January 6 balanced the budget; the
bonus payment and the Supreme court’s
AAA knockout unbalanced It. Now
comes the President with a tax plan
that will balance it again, for It must
be plain to all that there are hut two
ways of balancing a budget—either
less outgo or more lucome. Congress
refuses to pinch the outgo, so unless
it raises the income the treasury will
have to borrow more money.
«• * *
PROTECTS NATIONAL CREDIT
Roosevelt knew that the credit of
the nation could be expanded to a point
where we could carry a $75,000,000,-
000 debt and not be in danger; but he
stops far short of that. People thought
Roosevelt was a spendthrift—but he
is going to show them that he knew
how and when to borrow—how and
when to pay cash. By adopting a cash
and carry policy he is now carefully
protecting the nation’s credit, sponsor-
ing policies to revive industry while
considering the moral obligation to
care for the unemployed now getting
scant attention from the state govern-
ments and from industry itself.
From pseudo-economic sources comes
the demand that government expenses
for relief be now cut or wiped out.
Some of this comes from the American
Liberty league which has in it mem-
bers of congress who yell for economy
but voted to override the President’s
economy act. Many cries for economy
come from thrifty New Englanders
who would be the first to protest a
real cut which would knock millions
from the ship building program of the
navy; for New England shipyards are
getting much of that business and feel-
ing the prosperity of the navy payroll.
Twenty million dollars of public works
money outside the regular naval appro-
priations have been spent in the ship-
yards of Massachusetts alone; and
every one of these projects has been
endorsed and received with joyous
cries of welcome by the same flinty-
hearted politicians who yell for
“economy.” It does not make sense.
A great middle class of merchants
are demanding less spending—and most
of them are continuing in business, are
out of the red, and are experiencing
what Harding called normalcy, all be-
cause of the public works and relief
expenditures, plus the tremendous im-
petus to recovery by the Reconstruc-
tion Finance corporation. Government
aid discontinued now would mean
nationwide ruin. One delicious bit of
evidence of prosperity is that pointed
out by Roosevelt that there is more
than $4,000,000,(XX) in undistributed
profits in corporation treasuries ; money
earned but never given to stockhold-
ers. Such things do not occur in
financially busted countries.
That pool of money is in a pro-
tected spot. Taxes can’t reach it un-
less congress takes Roosevelt’s tip and
levies a tax on that particular pile.
Such a tax would drive this money out
of hiding into dividends, and there
would be more money in circulation;
which means more purchasing, more
business, more wages to workers.
* • *
G. O. P. IN BAD WAY
The Republicans must indeed be in
a bad way to talk about running a
Democrat for Vice President along
with some good G. O. P. wheelhorse
for President. This is an evidence of
dry-rot. It is being discussed along
with the advice from eminent Repub-
licans that a Republican candidate
must promise a “non-partisan” cab-
inet. , That is a sugar coated way of
saying that if the country elects a
Republican he will choose some Demo-
crats to run a few departments of gov-
ernment.
Now a sure-fire victory ahead for the
Republicans would never produce aucto
weak Ideas as that. If Republicans
believe they are sure to win they will
never be caught promising a good job
to a Democrat. For a President to ap-
point members of another party to his
cabinet sounds like a coalition govern-
ment with a strain of compromise run-
ning through it all, but in this coun-
try coalition governments exist only in
theory. The President is the whole
thing at the executive end of the set-
op. Cabinet officers are administrative
heads, and cannot effect a change of
policy without the President’s o, k. A
Republican President makes a Repub-
lican administration; a Democratic
President makes a Democratic admin-
istraton—no mater who is in the cab-
inet. The current talk about the Re-
publicans electing a President from
their party, a Vice President from the-
Democrats, and having a pie-bald cab-
inet from both parties is plain bunk;
but It indicates that the old G. O.’P.
has lost its pep and is ©n its way to
the Old Ladies’ home.
* * *
STIRS UP HORNETS’ NEST
Congress picks up a rock and fires
it straight into a hornets’ nest when
it starts Investigating the Townsend
old age pension plan to pay oldsters
at sixty a $200 monthly pension!
That plan has between eight and
ten million voters behind it, and they
have at times scared to death nearly
every congressman I have talked to
about it. In some districts they con-
trolled enough votes to guarantee vic-
tory to any candidate they supported;
and in several districts they apparent-
ly had a clean majority. Now any
time that a congress made out of poli-
ticians goes out to monkey with a
crowd like that you may know that
someone has put backbone into the en-
tire aggregation.
A gallant little band of senators and
representatives has contended from
the start that the Townsend plan is
weak, impossible, fanatical, Insane and
what-nat. They are now going fur-
ther with their charge, and assail the
whole movement as a racket which en-
riches the managers and will never
help a single human being outside the
circle of Doctor Townsend’s campaign
organization. Senator Austin of Ver-
mont is one of the chief opponents
of the plan. His latest contribution to
the anti-Townsendites is to have print-
ed as a part of the Congressional Rec-
ord an article severely attacking the
plan, written by Donald Richberg, who
was until recently the head of the old
NR A and its Blue Eagle.
Richberg jumps on the plan from
first to last, declaring it a complete
fake, impossible of execution. “It is a
dangerous delusion” he says, “promis-
ing impossible relief to millions of de-
serving people who are in sore dis-
tress . . .” But there are others who
warmly support the idea.
Recent defender is Representative
Martin F. Smith of Washington, who
speaks of the plan as “The strongest,
most dynamic social, economic and po-
litical reform movement in the history
of America.” The basis of the plan
is a 2 per cent tax on every transac-
tion, every sale; and the $200 monthly
must be spent within the month—thus
insuring (says Doctor Townsend) a
perfect avalanche of money for all.
But the avalanche is all in your mind,
say still other members of congress.
“YTou would have to cross the dollar
with a guinea pig,” says Representative
Engel, of Michigan.
* * *
CHEAP ELECTRIC POWER
Congress now pushes definite plans
to spread cheap rural electric power.
The Rural Electrification administra-
tion has been dealing with small ex-
periments, but now, with Senator Nor-
ris of Nebraska behind the proper leg-
islation, the government will start to
finance concerns in rural communities
hitherto denied electric power. The
purpose of the Norris bill, which is
an adihinisLrative measure, is to lend
money to rural communities, farm co-
operatives, and to farmers for generat-
ing and distributing plants and electric
equipment. It is straight out-and-out
government financing of power for
folks who have not been able to get it
elsewhere. The bill will, I believe, be-
come a law at an early date, and will
he widely and fully explained when
the President signs the measure.
The widely organized power indus-
try, representing many billions of in-
vestment and receiving hundreds of
millions in profits, yearly, will fight
with every ounce of its strength to pre-
vent a spread of federally owned or
financed electric power.
This fight of the power interests for
a candidate of its own is responsible
for the quiet candidacy of Senator
Vandenberg of Michigan, where, ac-
cording to TVA standards, the electric
light and power users are overcharged
$34,000,000 a year. Nor does Favorite
Son Landon of Kansas have much to
say about the fact that the people of
his state pay nearly $10,000,000 a year
more for electricity than if they were
charged TVA rates. Frank Knox, Illi-
nois favorite son, seems, so far, to be
content witli the fact that Illinois is
charged nearly $60,000,000 more for
power (that is the state of Sam In-
sun) than TVA rates. Senator Dick-
inson of Iowa, Republican, another
favorite son, will have to answer the
fact that his constituents are paying
almost $33,000,000 more a year than
TVA rates. In fact, every state in the
Union is paying a tremendous toll to
the power trust.
There are many members of con-
gress who would like to go to the mat
on the power trust issue, which reaches
far down into the vitals of the Liberty
league and rne eastern wing of *
Republican party. The politician
ure it Is an issue reaching into
000 homes and 5.000,000 b
houses. It could be made, if
right, Into one of the surest-fi
Deal issues.
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Andrews, C. C. The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1936, newspaper, March 19, 1936; Celina, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth790788/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Celina Area Historical Association.