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By WILLIAM BRUCKART
NATIONAL BLDG. WASHINGTON. D. C. |]f
Washington During the recent
bitter campaigning, both national po
litical parties en-
The Coal gaged in a good
Industry deal of palaver
about the coal in
dustry. As usual, the politicians
were patting the miners on the back,
telling them what wonderful assets
to the nation they are, and carrying
their demagoguery further by crit
icism of the mine owners every now
and then because it was popular with
labor to attack employers. Altogeth
er, it was a rather sorry spectacle
and, I think, did not do credit to
either side to any extent.
But in this report, I want to
stress a very much less obvious
phase of the problem than was made
apparent in any of the electioneer
ing. With all of the verbiage cast
aside, with all of the political hood
winking forgotten, there is a very
deep and difficult problem in the
coal industry. I think it can be sum
marized in one question: What is
the future of coal, the coal industry,
and the thousands of men who know
no other source of livelihood than
that which they eke out in the
bowels of the earth?
This question, if proper analysis
is made, encompasses more than
the usual factors that operate in
economics. It does that because of
policies of the federal government,
among states and among municipal
ities. Because of the attempts to
influence votes, the whole question
has got into politics and that of itself
is ruinous, an obstacle to a scienti
fic solution.
Not so many years ago coal mine
owners and coal labor units had
what amounted to a monopoly on
our fuel supply. Then came oil, oil
with all of the scientific development
that followed in its wake. Despite
this, operators and labor leaders
continued to take their toll from the
hapless user of coal for fuel, be that
user a great factory or an individual
consumer in furnace or round oak
stove. But that was not all. Electric
ity came along with itsr constantly
increasing automatic control. First,
of course, in the larger communities
and later it came to villages and
farm homes. Still, the mine owners
and the coal labor leaders followed
an unwise course; still, they con
tinued to take their toll and before
they fully realized what the circum
stance was, they had succeeded by
their acts in building up a desire on
the part of millions of people to
use some other sort of fuel. The end
is not yet, and that is why the
subject is most important at this
stage of our history.
* • •
During the Roosevelt administra
tion we have seen an impetus given
to public owner-
Public s hip of power
Ownership plants never
equalled. 11 hi n k
much of this development has gone
on in a hit-and-miss fashion and
that eventually the public will pay
for the shiftless methods employed
in development, but that is beside
the point. The present question is
whether our nation is going to con
tinue to expand public ownership in
such away as to ruin an industry
that is as much a part of our basic
economic structure as any other
unit of our natural life. I think some
times it goes beyond that for the
reason that, unless people awaken to
the fact that they are being hood
winked to a considerable extent by
public ownership propaganda, it is
likely to spread and public owner
ship will become a frankenstein, a
parasite on our body public.
When I referred to the destruction
of a great industry, I had in mind
the thought that the consequences
will run in two directions. Yet, para
doxically as it may seem, they
constitute a cycle. It works out like
this: As the demand for coal de
clines, it is quite natural that pro
duction costs go up. When production
costs go up, they eventually reach
the point where a further diminu
tion occurs in demand. When that
decline in demand occurs, there is
only one answer: Labor is thrown
out of work because you cannot
produce and have those products
piled high in storage. It takes money
to keep labor and machinery occu
pied. The coal itself, after being
removed from the mines, represents
money and it is subject as well to
deterioration. So, the ultimate to
be expected on this side of the pic
ture is an industry dying of dry rot.
On the other side of the problem is
an equally important factor at work.
It takes an immense amount of cap
ital, massed in corporate form, to
maintain a going concern whether
that concern be coal mining, rail
roading or any other of our great
industries. These industries operate
largely on funds obtained through
the sale of stocks and bonds of the
corporation. But it has always been
true, and human nature shows no
signs of changing, that capital is
not attracted to, it does not seek
investment in, a declining industry.
There you have a possibility at least
of insufficient funds to carry through
for the coal mining industry until it
can readjust itself to the new place
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936
it must occupy in our economic
structure. It will occupy a new place
because it will readjust itself, but
it has not done so yet and the con
sequence of this condition is, in my
opinion, coal mine labor is due
for some very hard sledding in the
next decade, notwithstanding the
honeyed words of the politicians.
• • •
Now, to turn to the part that gov
ernment plays in bringing about
present conditions
Blame j have attempted
Demagogues to show how greed
on the part of both
capital and labor was responsible in
a measure for building up what
amounts to ill-will among many
coal consumers. But the industry it
self is not wholly responsible. In
deed, I rather hold the opinion that
government is as much responsible
for conditions as the industry itself,
and when I say government, I must
limit my reference to political dem
agogues. They always have been
shortsighted and they are still short
sighted. They have been and they
are now willing to sacrifice great
masses of men and money for per
sonal political gain of an entirely
transitory character.
I have said before in these col
umns that the country is being sadly
kidded —it is almost tragic—by tha
wonders of such parasitic organiza
tions as TVA. The public ownership
crowd have had a willing leader in
President Roosevelt and his
hangers-on have promoted his poli
cies of public ownership without be
ing honest as to the ultimate goal,
or the eventual effect.
It is not alone that there have
been millions wasted in the develop
ment of the Tennessee valley electri
cal mirage. It is not so much that
taxpayers throughout the country
will be paying a bill and paying it
over and over again, that causes me
to complain. It is not so much that
the Tennessee Valley Authority will
never be economically operated or
become self-sustaining that brings
this outburst. It is the fact that
when a government, national, state
or local, leads the way in this direc
tion, it wields an influence upon a
certain percentage of our popula
tion. Since public ownership advo
cates, in many instances, plain so
cialism, where in control of these
agencies such as TVA, it is per
fectly natural that they present to
the taxpayers only the most rosy
side of the story. They do not dis
close to the taxpayers the adverse,
the costly side, of the situation. Na
turally then, hundreds of thousands
of people believe that government
can do this sort of thing better
than private enterprise. They be
come convinced that private initia
tive has been turned into a spigot
through which individual pocket
books are drained. They do not real
ize that their pocketbooks are being
drained much more heavily through
public ownership by means of the
taxes they take from you and me
and everyone else. That is the sad
story, made worse by the fact that
through nearly four years the Wash
ington government has been encour
aging people to believe public own
ership propaganda and distrust and
destroy private investment.
• • •
Recent Treasury figures show that
the Resettlement Administration has
. paid approximate-
Expenswe i y $27,750,000 of
Dream its total appropri
ation of $134,518,-
000 for administrative expenses.
That is, the organization which is
the pride and joy of Professor Rex
ford Guy Tugwell has paid that
amount of money to job holders in
trying to carry out the professor’s
impossible dream.
While the sum shown as used for
administrative expenses by Profes
sor Tugwell is small, compared to
the billions of total waste in the
Roosevelt administration, the prop
er way to consider this circum
stance is on a percentage basis. If
you take your pencil you can cal
culate that about 20 per cent or one
fifth of all the funds appropriated to
Professor Tugwell for resettlement,
has been used in management of
his plan. It may be a fraction under
20 per cent, but it is so close that
even the fastidious Mr. Tugwell
would not quarrel about the dif
ference.
One-fifth of an appropriation that
is designed theoretically at least to
serve for relief purposes is entirely
too much. It is not as great per
haps as has happened with one oi;
two other relief appropriations, but
it has always been claimed that the
Tugwell scheme was planned to re
establish those who have been re
settled on a permanent basis. That
is to say, it was planned that the
bulk of the money should be used
in providing those people with a
fresh start in life, but I cannot see
where they are getting the full meas
ure of help intended if a lot of job
holders sit around in Washington
offices or in offices in various states
using up one-fifth of the total lay
out of cash.
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Wives, Know Yourselves!—
Accurate Analysis Will Do Much to
Overcome Difficulty in Wedded Life
C PEAKING on the question of
trial marriages, a well known
writer said, “There should be no
need for trial when two people
know their own abilities and have
measured themselves accurately.
Two people who understand them
selves will never, I believe, have
any difficulty living happily to
gether after marriage.”
That is a new slant on the ques
tion of success in marriage, sup
plements a woman writer of na
tional fame. Not “Know thy hus
band” —or “wife,” but “know
thyself!”
And, come to think of it, isn’t
most of the discontent and dissat
isfaction in marriage traceable to
ideas of ourselves—that may be
misconceptions, no less than our
illusions about the other person?
How many women’s dissatisfac
tion with their husband has as its
source the thought of all they gave
up to marry him, all they “might
hve had” if they had married a
certain other man?
How many women’s discontent
with the role of wife and mother
springs from the thought of how
much more fascinating pastimes
they might have had if they had
followed that career?
How many girl’s impossible ex
pectations of a fulltime lover and
Prince Charming originates in an
exaggerated notion of their own
devastating beauty and charm?
If all discontented wives would
look deeply unto themselves,
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measure themselves, stop fooling
themselves, many might discover
that the other man they might
have married is a self-nurtured
illusion; that the career of their
dreams is not a soft snap and a
joy forever; but a grueling, ex
hausting job which might have
worn them out if they had quali
fied for it, which they probably
would have been unable to do;
that they themselves are neither
devastating beauties nor always
charming, but women who are
frequently disappointing and diffi
cult to live with. They might dis
cover and admit to themselves
that they are greatly in debt to
their husbands for many things
that make life easier and better
and more worthwhile—that they
would not get along so well with
out them.
Then they might think more of
doing their part of trying to make
those husbands happy. And that
effort on the part of one must in
evitably go a long way toward a
mutually happy and successful
marriage.
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