NOTES IN THE NEWS
notes in the news Storm over TVA The Tennessee Valley Authority program, in some respects the finest achievement of the New Deal, faces the fight of its life in the months ahead—a struggle to save...
...The newest of the studies we have seen was a poll conducted by the Milwaukee Journal among a cross-section of members of the Allied Industrial Workers' Union, formerly the UAW-AFL, long dominated by hoodlum Tony Doria...
...That's a lot of dough...
...I don't bother much," said a fourth...
...If they did wrong, it's up to somebody to take care of it...
...Raymond R. Paty, who could serve as watch-dog for the public...
...Labor's Daily, in a survey of public opinion, found that nobody, except an occasional clergyman, has the slightest concern about the nuclear tests conducted so close to Las Vegas...
...More disturbing still is the revelation that while serving on the Kansas State Corporation Commission, Jones helped make Kansas the only state in which the power trust can take customers from rural electric systems, thus giving private power companies a stranglehold on rural electric development while maintaining their indefensibly high rate structure...
...Said the worker, a member of Construction Workers Local 872 "No, I don't think A-bomb testising should be stopped...
...Long may it continue to thrivel" Apathy in the Ranks The melancholy story of the racket-infested leadership of a segment of organized labor is matched, it would seem, by incredible apathy among the rank-and-file members who are victims of the hoodlum labor czars...
...It ain't me," was the fairly typical reaction of one union member...
...Bully for Winnie The House of Delegates, the policymaking unit of the American Bar Association, chose London for its 80th annual conference this year— and proceeded to make an international exhibition of itself...
...I don't know anything about it," said another...
...Anywas isn't all life a gamble...
...Love and chariw are for church on Sunday...
...The Pious One John Foster Dulles is reputed toB a pious man, but our Secretary ¦ State is usually careful to keep im churchmanship from interfering wi« his brinkmanship...
...I don't care one way or another...
...This last comment has turned up in other surveys—-the vague feeling that if something is wrong, somebody ought to do something about it...
...Becausa millions of dollars could be used for better purposes, such as meddcinal But she was almost the only one is a community which has become M accustomed to the roar of explodiffi atomic weapons as to the click of the little ball on the roulette table...
...it is Las Vegas, Nevada, where gambling with life doesn't appear to be much different from gambling with money...
...Paty died last month, leaving the board without a minority member to champion the purposes and principles of the TVA idea...
...One or two of the 30 queried condemned Doria for the financial shenanigans exposed by Senate investigators, but the rest seemed almost totally indifferent...
...Kremlin propagandist* need not trouble themselves to co|-jure up distortions of American #• titudes so long as John Foster Duttp is around to provide them wij, ready-made ammunition...
...The lawyers, apparently without a murmur of dissent or reservation, fell for the fallacious argument that the Supreme Court, in applying tlie Bill of Rights in fifteen cases involving the liberties of the individual, strengthened the prospects for Communist spying, sabotage, and subversion...
...But one community seems immune...
...In the first place it creates a lot of jobs...
...The notion that union members might try to purge their leadership of racketeers and crooks doesn't seem to occur to them, or if it does with some, they seem convinced that it is a job beyond their reach...
...Invited to address the final dinner of the convention, Sir Winston raised his ubiquitous glass in toast to the legal profession of America and then, with a silky smoothness that omitted all mention of the Bar Association's attack on the Court, said: "The Supreme Court of the United States has often been the guardian and upholder of American liberty...
...Said the public relations man: "In the first three months of 1957 his directly connected with serving a Atomic Energy Commission had...
...Quite apart from the crudenest and un-Christian character of these reflections by a celebrated churchman, it would be difficult to imagine a more self-defeating statement by thfe official spokesmen for American fcgj eign policy...
...When a second vacancy occurred recently, the President selected much the same kind of foe of public power and regional development when he appointed Arnold R. Jones, now deputy director of the budget...
...President Eisenhower, who once dismissed this monumental development of a great watershed as "creeping socialism," will have appointed all three members of the TVA board before the year is over...
...A public relations man and a construction worker summed up community feeling in statements which put the emphasis on what Las Vegas loves most—money...
...Most surveys show that, with only occasional exceptions, they just don't seem to care...
...The purpose of the] State Department is to look out fo* the interests of the United Statsj Whether we make friends, I do iml care...
...It remained for that old Tory and ancient foe of Communism and friend of freedom, Sir Winston Churchill, to give the Bar the scolding it deserved...
...There's Money in It Americans of conscience who have sought to rally public opinion against the continuance of nuclear weapons tests have cheered their countrymen by the extent to which they have succeeded in mobilizing public sentiment in support of a moratorium on atomic explosions...
...But Dr...
...Testifying before a House subj committee recently, Dulles said: "Notf for one minute do I think the purj pose of the State Department is toj make friends...
...I haven't been reading the papers," said a third...
...As for foreign nations receivul American loans, Dulles asserted: ^ do not care whether they like us W hate us...
...payroll of $4,186,000, and the luaf sum contracts by private firms totaa $6,494,841...
...Eisenhower's first appointee, Brigadier General Herbert D. Vogel, has betrayed his oath of office by weakening the TVA program, making common cause with its private utility enemies, and seeking to destroy its independence...
...Should President Eisenhower appoint a third member whose background and views parallel those of Vogel and Jones, the greatest public enterprise in America—the one most envied and emulated around the world—would be wholly in the keeping of a board whose three members reject the very heart of the program they were chosen to manage...
...notes in the news Storm over TVA The Tennessee Valley Authority program, in some respects the finest achievement of the New Deal, faces the fight of its life in the months ahead—a struggle to save itself from destruction by those appointed to administer and care for it...
...can take your fears away...
...Testimony before a Senate Public Works Subcommittee has disclosed that in his budget bureau post Jones sought to dilute the financial independence and integrity of TVA and paralyze its capacity to expand facilities needed to meet the threatening power shortage in the valley of the Tennessee River...
...Even with Vogel and Jones on the board, friends of TVA felt there might be some hope of saving the agency from sabotage because the board would include one friend of the TVA program, Dr...
...In the secofll place, a lot of people are testing bombs, so why shouldn't we?' One union girl, a member of Culinary Local 226, said: "Yes, wa should stop testing...
...It accepted, without protest, a report of a special committee which expressed alarm that recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court threaten the right of the United States to protect itself against Communism...
...indiffqp ences to the needs of others and « crassest selfishness are the ingredienfe of diplomacy at the State Department the other six days of the week...
Vol. 21 • September 1957 • No. 9
