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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Goodby, NR A
Wall Street's Dormouse
Good ages, Short Hours
Lottery Swindles
The Supreme court unanimously de¬
clares NBA unconstitutional.
High Judges
whose decision no
body can veto,
short of a constitu¬
tional amendment,
say congress must
do its work and
cannot abdicate In
favor of the Chief
Executive.
The most impor¬
tant decision in
many years, this
probably makes
further argument
about extension of
NRA unnecessary.
Arthur Rrluhnne You can't extend
that which is dead. American busi¬
ness men may now resume business
not led by the kindly light of profes¬
sors and others.
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
his tea, put butter in the works. “It
was the best butter,” lie said, “but
nothing seeing 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 corning 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 he 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 lias 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 ns 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 Rrishnne has said, and
now repeats, Is that through foreign
lottery schemes Americans are swin¬
dled out of large sums. lie who in¬
vests In a lottery throws away his
money, adding foolishness to incapa¬
city. The Havana lottery is as much
of a trail for fools as any other lot¬
tery.
Postmaster Farley’s plan to hasten
air mails allows a crowd of 10,000 to
see a whirling autogiro drop down on
the roof and deliver mail, another nil-
toglro coming to get mail bags and car¬
ry them away.
Mr. Farley’s plan Is to have the au-
toglro fly between outlying flying fields,
where high-power, fast planes land,
and carry mail 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 f> per cent added to their
pay envelopes to meet the higher cost
of living.
With no sign of smoke, flame, crater
—notiiing 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.
Wh’af would natives have thought
had this happened in earlier days,
when everybody believe^, that hell,
tile 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
sum Cerda, 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
are buying automobiles than before.’
For some, the big news is that Little,
the San Francisco golfer, lias defeated
Doctor Tweddell, the British chal¬
lenger.
For others, more important news is
the killing of 300 Chiuese by Japanese
troops. The 300 killed are said to
have been professional bandits. The
killing of 300 armed Chinese bandit*
cost the lives of only six Japanese
which sounds like efficiency.
©, Kin* Feature* Syndicate. Inc.
W.NU Service.
CUBIT EVENTS
PASS IN REVIEW
8UPREME COURT INVALIDATES
NRA AND FRAZIER-LEMKE
FARM MORTGAGE ACT,
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
®, Western Newspaper Union.
nptIREE unanimous decisions of the
A 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
code making provisions being an un¬
constitutional delegation by congress
of its authority to legislate to persons
not connected with the government’s
legislative functions. By the ruling
the exercise of congressional powers
over commerce was definitely restrict¬
ed to interstate commerce, or to such
activities as have a provable dfiect
connection with interstate commerce.
The court held that no economic emer¬
gency could Justify the breaking down
of the limitations upon federal au¬
thority as prescribed by the Constitu¬
tion 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 Brandeis, holding 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
down 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 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 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.
'TPHERE was consternation and con-
A fusion 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 Rlchberg, chair¬
man of the national industrial recov¬
ery board, after a White House con¬
ference, Issued a statement saying that
“all methods of compulsory enforce¬
ment of the codes will be immediately
suspended." He added that the ad¬
ministration now faced the problem of
“maintaining the gains which have
been made in the last two years,” and
expressed ttie hope that employers
would voluntarily maintain “fair stand
arils of commercial and labor rela¬
tions.”
Senator Pat Harrison said he be¬
lieved congress should proceed rapidly
with the enactment of appropriate leg¬
islation to continue NRA in some
form, and Senator Robinson thought it
would not be difficult to provide for
new codes to prevent unfair trade prac¬
tices.
The question of the constitutionality
of the Wagner labor disputes bill,
passed by the senate, was raised by
the NBA decision. The opinion was
widely expressed that collective bar¬
gaining now cannot be enforced in any
business enterprise by federal statute.
In the sennte 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.
PRANK C, WALKER’S present Job
* as head of the division of allot¬
ments and information In connection
with the work-relief program Is not so
important as had been
expected, and proba¬
bly by the end of the
year or earlier he will
he aide 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¬
tire from the cabinet
—voluntarily, it is said
—so that he can devote all his time
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 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
that will not interfere with his politl
al activities.
There has been a lot of talk about Mr.
arley’s alleged ambition to be gov¬
ernor of New York. Melvin C. Eaton,
tepublican state chairman, dares him
o run for that position. In a speech
t Syracuse, Mr, Eaton said:
“For years, now, Mr. Farley has fan¬
ted himself as a candidate for gov¬
ernor of New York. He has repeated¬
ly told his very close associates that
he will ’run when the time is ripe.’ I
challenge Mr. Farley to be the Demo¬
cratic candidate for governor in 1336.
I challenge him to run on his record.
I know a great many Democrats who
are ready and willing to contribute lav¬
ishly to a Farley-for-governor cam¬
paign fund, for no other reason than
to get a crack at him through the
polls.”
TA 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
committeeman from
Iowa, would be made A. M. Hyde
temporary chairman
and as 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, 111., former national com¬
mander of the American Legion.
The keynote address, according to
reports, will 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 Hayes Is expected to deal with
the theories of the Republican party
on constitutional government.
T N the May survey published by
* the American Federation of Labor
industry Is charged with withhold¬
ing 4,000,000 jobs in a "strike” against
New Deal legislative proposals. The
survey referred to powerful lobbies
against the Wagner labor disputes and
30-hour week bills; holding company
control and the banking act; NRA
and economic security legislation. The
opposition grew into “open revolt” in
resolutions passed early in May by
the United States Chamber of Com¬
merce, the labor federation said.
On the other hand. President Green
of the federation has been openly
threatening a general strike of or¬
ganized labor if the measures men¬
tioned above are not enacted. How
many jobs a general strike would take
away from workers now employed
has not been closely estimated. There
seems to be a lack of consistency som#
where.
QETTING a new precedent, President
Roosevelt “acted as his own mes¬
senger” and personally returned to
Speaker Byrne the Patman bonus
measure with his dis¬
approval. Before a
joint session of the
house and senate and
crowded galleries the
Chief Executive read
his veto message, an
able and well ordered
document in which he
set forth his convic¬
tion that “the welfare
of the nation as well
as the future welfare
Roosevelt of the veterans wholly
justifies my disapprov¬
al of this measure.” Asserting that an
able-bodied citizen, even though he
wore a uniform, should not be accord¬
ed treatment different from that of
other citizens, he said:
“Ttye veteran who is disabled owes
his condition to the war. The healthy
veteran who is unemployed owes his
troubles to the depression. Any at¬
tempt to mingle the two problems is
to confuse our efforts.”
Mr. Roosevelt’s stern warning
against the dangers of inflation Inher¬
ent in the measure was listened to in
silence, though there wag mild up-
plause at other times. All his argu¬
ment was in vain so far as the house
was concerned, for as he left the
chamber there were quick demands for
a vote and by the time he had reached
the White House the representatives
had overriden his veto and again
passed the bill by a vote of 322 to 5)8.
in the affirmative were 248 Democrats,
64 Republicans, 7 Progressives and 3
Farmer-La borites. Those voting to
sustain the veto were 60 Democrats
and 38 Republicans.
The debate in the senate was long
and perfervld, and quite unnecessary
because the result of the vote had been
a certainty for several days. Fifty-
four senators voted to override the
veto; but 40 supported the President,
and only 32 were needed to kill the
measure.
SECRETARY HULL signed a reel¬
ed procal tariff bargain with Sweden,
the fifth to be completed under his
program which he has been promoting
for about a year. The results of his
efforts have been seemingly small and
consequently a good many people are
paying more attention to the alterna¬
tive plan advocated by George N. Peek,
special adviser to the President on for¬
eign trade. The Peek proposals em¬
body a system of trade restrictions
such as have been adopted by most
other nations, and he warmly argued in
their behalf before the Mississippi Val¬
ley foreign trade conference at St. Louis,
only a few hours before Mr. Hull
signed the pact with Sweden.
T AWSON LITTLE, the brawny
Ls young Californian, won the Brit¬
ish amateur golf championship for the
second consecutive year, being the
first American to accomplish that feat.
His final match with Dr. William
Tweddell ended only on the thirty-
sixth green, and he decided to take a
month’s rest before competing in the
British open.
TTAWAn was treated to a magnifl-
cen t display of American naval
power in the Pacific that continued
through two days. First the forty
planes that had taken part in the mid-
Paciflc maneuvers returned 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 all entered in a crucial
test of the harbor's capacity as an an¬
chorage. The navy’s largest subma¬
rines were with the battleships and
cruisers, and there were 700 marines
on the target ship Utah.
The personnel of the underwater
fleet had some strange tales to tell,
for the submarines had just completed
the longest cruise ever undertaken by
fighting craft of that kind—nearly a
j month at sea.
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
j 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 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 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.”
'T'HOUGH the League of Nations
1 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. BHt imme¬
diately thereafter II
k ■ ■■■>■■ Duce told the cham¬
Benito ber of deputies in
Mussolini Rome lie 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
inimical to Italy.
II Duce admitted the problem of de¬
fense was one involving great difficul¬
ties in strategy in supplying troops.
He accused those “who can pretend to
be stupefied or simulate protests
against the military measures which
we have taken or those which we will
take” of being enemies of Fascist
Italy.
Following this address, Mussolini
ordered the mobilization of thousands
of officers and technical experts of the
class of 1912.
fv p EICHSFUEHRER HITLER, ap-
pearing before the reichstag, out¬
lined a 13 point program for disarm¬
ament and the improvement of Inter¬
national relations, and did it so well
it cannot well be ignored by the other
nations of Europe. He again rejected
the resolution of the League of Nations
council condemning him for the rearm¬
ing of Germany, but said Germany
might return to the league if that body
divorced itself from the principles of
the Versailles treaty and from the
“psychology of victors and vanquished”
and “after Germany is granted full
equality rights, extending to all func¬
tions and privileges in International
life.”
To the great satisfaction of Great
Britain, Hitler promised to respect the
territorial clauses of the Versailles
treaty, which, he said, could not be
modified by unilateral action. He de¬
clared Germany was willing to sign
non-aggression pacts with all her neigh¬
bors except Lithuania, and to agree to
an arms embargo if others would do
the same. Also the reich is ready to
sign an air convention supplementing
the Locarno pact
'TVIREE world’s records were
J- smashed and another tied by Jesse
Owens, the wonderful colored athlete
of Ohio State university, in the West¬
ern Conference meet at Ann Arbor.
The new marks he set were: 220 yard
dash. 0:20.3; 220 yard low hurdles.
0:22.6; and running broad jump, 26
feet. 4J/4 inches. He won the 100 yard
da«h in 0-.09.4, which equals the world
record set by Frank YVykoff in 1930.
The meet was won by Michigan.
\ f -* 1SS JANE ADD AMS. “first citizen
of Chicago,” internationally famed
as a social worker and peace advocate,
has gone to her reward, and her pass¬
ing is deeply mourned by the many
thousands of poor and unfortunate per¬
sons for whom she had made life more
endurable. She started her real life
work in 1SS9 among the Italians and
other foreigners on Chicago’s West
side, founding Hull House, which grew
into the most famous social settlement
in America. Later her activities were
extended to the amelioration of sweat
shop conditions, the child labor prob
lem, and then to the matter of inter
national peace.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
National Press Building Washington, D. C.
Washington. — President Roosevelt
announced a year ago that the Ten¬
nessee Valley au-
Probing thority and the ex-
the TV A periment of govern¬
ment production of
electric power on a huge scale was to
serve as a yardstick on electric rates
charged by private power companies.
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 cor¬
poration. Mr. McCarl was not con¬
cerned about the yardstick for power
rates nor was he interested in experi¬
ments designed to prove the value of
government ownership determine in the power
field. His job was to 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 TVA 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 is 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,-
i 792,000 in development of the power
j j facilities, equipment This and property necessary was
! appurtenances.
transferred by the federal govern-
i 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 th#
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 prodnetion 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 be made of rubber.
* • *
Mr. McCarl told the committee also
that he had found various haphazard
and “trick” methods
“Trick” of bookkeeping and
Bookkeeping that he had found it
necessary to disal¬
low expenditures of something over
two million dollars which he said were
illegal. The comptroller general did
not refer to these expenditures as hav¬
ing been fraudulently made but he
told the committee it was his opinion
that the law had to be stretched rath¬
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
earnings from the sale of power by
charging 10 per cent of the gross rev¬
enue to operations as depreciation and
accumulating the amount of such
charges as a reserve for depreciation.
“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 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 littie basis for as¬
suming that revenues will ever reach
such a figure.”
• * *
The comptroller’s report touched on
many other phases of TVA affairs
I which he found sub-
Much to ject to criticism and
Criticise it made mention of
a factor that, It
seems to me, ought 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 no taxes into the treasury
of its jurisdiction. Consequently, the
government which fosters a municipal¬
ly owned power plant simply must
forget, for taxation purposes, that
such property exists within its do¬
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, pav
taxes on their income.
Doctor Morgan and other directors
of the TVA were subjected to qu es
.
tioning of a type about as severe as
any witnesses before a house commit¬
tee in recent months. They had
friends od the committee who at¬
tempted continuously to shield them
from the fire of TVA opponents, but
apparently Chairman McSwain 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 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 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 whol*
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.
* * •
Politics Is politics and apparently
politicians will play the game always.
If better proof be
Playing needed, it seems to
ike Game me demonstra¬
tion over immedi¬
ate payment of the rmsft 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 ho
so lucky in the next session of con¬
gress which is not far ahead of the
1936 elections.
An organized minority—the World
war veterans—were very close to suc¬
cess in forcing congress to appropriate
$2,600,000,000 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 jus t as credit was due
Presidents Hoover, Coolidge and Hard¬
ing. He will be criticized and 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 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 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 opponents of
the cash bonus as traitors. The lobby¬
ists are certain to go into every state
and congressional district next sum¬
mer and seek to defeat those who
dared to follow their own conscience
and vote against this raid on the treas¬
ury. bonus
As a result of the vote on the
and the subsequent Presidential 1
some keen political observers have be¬
gun to calculate in their own min< s
what the view of the country is- 5
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 hi.
new voters are arriving at the age
franchise at the rate of approximate
ly two million a year or almost thmty
six million since the end of the W
These observers contend that t e
war.
new voters and those who are not < ■■
titled to the bonus constitute a major-
ity. Thus, they seek to show tba
there is a great majority of the
of the country unwilling to see sv<
of voted to a minority. * ^ s
sum money go'tta
pecially at a time when the
ment Is taxing its citizens and
rowing in billions to give relief f0 a “
whether they fought for their conn
or not. The question is theD whet, e^
the politicians wiil wake up Id be tim^ too ^
represent the majority or organ.-e
by the power of a highly
minority.
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