THE SUPER-POWER LOBBY SWINGS INTO ACTION
KING, JUDSON
THE SUPER-POWER LOBBY SWINGS INTO ACTION Thirty-seven State Headquarters Busy Poisoning Public Opinion On Muscles Shoals And Boulder Dam By Judson King gp.VXNTS nave proven that the waxnjp 0{...
...a. 4an«er spot ever since the new work ocean, CaiV.a^ Qaugh had always been hoverhW about that, watching it, urging others to be careful—"taking no chances With tt," as he said...
...A series represented "The Horrors of War...
...The cemeteries were most popular...
...C^rumba—or 'c6uld.it baye, been vjrftb hto aid and consent in or'dgr...
...How they worked there under the river whenever there vat anffldextt space to...
...morris on the Madden Bill Concerning the Madden Bill Senator "orris btated the following to your correspondent: ' "The Madden bill will not give the tamers cheap electricity...
...Farmers' Union Cooperatives Its Greatest Achievements By Murray E. King gtudy of the Fanners Educational and Cooperative Union of America has convinced me that it has developed the largest 'and most significant group of cooperatives in the United States...
...Five Terminal Markets The Farmers' Union handles grain in five terminal markets and leads all other grain sales agencies...
...to Dern virtually ordering this action.' Also, he showed a copy of Dern's message to the legislature urging the withdrawal, the action following within a few hours...
...Pacifism: a bugaboo, a dnujon, an .ogre of which W« are as tearful as In childhood of the ogre of a fairy-tale.— giving it about as much reasoned thought...
...While there has been perhaps thousands of local failures, the movement hats grown steadily for twenty-five years to a prominent leader of this organization Its present proportions, and I have heard make this remarkable statement: that the Farmers' Union has not sustained a single figure of a major cooperative in the last ten years...
...The cemeteries, the Grave of the Unknown Soldier, the "Horrors of War," had given a sensation: therefore it seems quite logical that the women should rush from those centers, and take sure steps to keep those cemeteries filled, to give the Soldier more comrades under the sou, to see that more young men might be photographed with arms and legs off, new variations In the "Horrors oi War...
...The activities of Hawes of Missouri against the resolution ind his manifest pleasure at the smflee on printed aUp« to the friendly senators to.be.s^^^^JJ^lpeases...
...4. Efforts of the power interests to grab the power sites on Indian reservations...
...Events should decide...
...heads bowed...
...What will be the upshot of this development* Can this economic class movement of the farmers withstand the real attack when it comes from an enemy intrenched in mttopioly and government...
...The Chief objective of the power interests is to prevent the American people from learning the truth about the extortionate 'profits being made in this business...
...Ten Banks In Kansas Nebraska Union members have developed so extensively the cooperative dlsttibuti'on • of gas and oil' that they are taking steps to establish a uniform gasoline purchase through a state agency...
...What friends of the Indiana Suske and Merritt, comnalssionera of the Indian Bureau, continue to be...
...national organization is engaged almost' exclusively - in welding these numerous local growths into' a great national systeni by its persistent educational and organization work...
...an^ ^ith:'the coi^ref*e, men following to' put in a form, of ych' Which no river weight could break, the very worst happened, for it was Just at this point where the iron roof and the mud of...
...It epuW sell it to the power trust or use K for its own manufacturing purposes...
...Chairman Oettle of the'Wiscon...
...ohi£ oight'la sjpite at St...
...If fpr a Republican candidate you prefer oil graft...
...Oh, Mrs...
...were my land's taxes, and revenues levied, collected and controlled entirely by that land—the strongest nation of the earth...
...aj any rate If this bin passes the people •f the South will get nt> benefit so...
...The contract provided in the bill is fuU of jokers on UUf point...
...1£13- lucky number) direct from the Bureau on Indian Affairs and introduced by Senator Smoot, under the guise of an allotment measure, transfers all power sites on Indian Reservations from thair present owners—the Tnrtiapn . and thy^t them ordinary public lands...
...He was supposed to watch closely, but having had fear glasses in rapid succession and meditating on their excellence as wen asr that of the hot frankfurters, the while he was Jesting with the men who' were making ready to leave,, he forgot about It What now—was i man always to keep iris eye on the blanked thlnkT What was going: tfl happen anyway...
...Up with it now...
...Why not* It is our creed- n%yt done it often...
...In with the bolts!, Quick, flow, with yar riyeter—giucki' qjuck!'' I And the men...
...Pick Your Grafters If New York State is to supply the issues in the campaign this year Republicans can point to the big sewer graft of Tammany Hall and Tammany Ball can answer'by advertising the Republican graft in the census taken by their former Secretary of State, Mrs...
...turn, a terrible turn, reall...
...They are saving the farmers many millions of dollars in the things they sell and buy...
...aay,irbe Indian Bureau, Secretory Work: and Congressman Crampton of Michigan are all for the deal...
...But it shows how absolutely Smoot and the power interests dominate Utah...
...Since legislation, superinduced by high pressure methods of corporate Industry, is responsible for an American standard 0/ Bring which so vitally affects the farmers cost of production, legislation must" be called upon to restore equality oi" opportunity...
...man, ane of tie power eombtne It is prohahic that he fin break an* rules of precedence and refuse to appoint Walah on the...
...resifiy...
...We shaU be received by a government committed to njaking the dollar safe tor our democracy...
...But these are niinor things...
...compelling these cooperatives to report to the national secretary of the Farmers' Union...
...Governor Dern of Utah, Democrat, appeared ' ljefore the Senate Cqnuntttee...
...The Walsh investigation tends in the tame direction,, hence many, many thousands of dollars.—we do' not' know how mtich—are being poured out to stop the public advance...
...At the most Ihcy would only be compelled to make Ml»O0 ions and under the conditions surratading the matter this would not afleet lb* market...
...Under Cavanaugire direction" the work progressed swiftly, and mcg'sfhery anJ he, in due time, became once more good friends, an<1 the former an expert bracer or' iimberer, one 6T the best, and worth, seven a day really, which he did not get...
...Again, speeches, flowers...
...The Muscle Shoals and Boulder Canyon issues are the most vital but all are Inbortaht...
...U might have been due, to tjrte fact that, his, prosperity had, made him a, UtJtle more lax...
...These great marketing institutions, insurance companies and local cooperatives number thousands in more than'half the states of the union...
...than he shpi£d haye been, or proud, or not qjiite as thou^hJEiil of the...
...The bases of the cemetery flag-poles were heaped with flowers...
...Should one laugh, or rave...
...bore holes upward through the mud, But these were tovariably stanched) with chty, or, tf growing serious, bags or shavtsga or waste, the air, pressure Mowing outward from below bring saActont *o oW Uj#pe vi pjp.ee, provUtod the breach wax not too wide...
...Bringing their' local political pressure to bear they have gotten Utah to withdraw from the interstate com part as to the allocation of Colorado waters...
...nor indicate their attitude upon the Boulder Canyon and Muscle Shoals issues, it is of tremendous Importance and should be rrotided'foT futirrt rfeferenc*.' ' Since Watson Is a candidate icr the Presidency, it is understood that he resented being made "the goat...
...one showed a section of men laughing at having their pictures taken, and then the same section half an boor later, after a shell had exploded, with the same men...
...professed tenorance...
...but these —rt"nrrf knew no doubt...
...But thank Heaven that that valiant fighter, Jvohn Collier, Executive of the -American Indiau Defense Association, is hare on the job and not much will get past his notice and opposition...
...Up with it...
...Without organization, neither of the other two would be at all apesible...
...Aren't they too dreadful...
...t« lithe square inch—all they...
...Organisation Is the most Important of the three factors in the solution...
...Senator Walsh of Montane, m a heated speech before the interstate Annimerce Committee declared that he hatseen nothing like it In his seventeen Man in Congress...
...Incidentally, they were all Shifted from day to night work, wbich somehow was considered more important...
...Anpther amazing bill (s...
...arms, and backs and breasts mud-smeared ana wet, their >bair~ tousled, thair eyes bleary—an artist's dream of bedlam, a heavenly inferno of toil—so they labo'eJ...
...Whfte they' wese working at midnight under *he new form of bracing, baaed 9? toe pilot' tunnel, and with an aiir presjsure pi...
...In national politics, whether Coolidge and Smith or Hoover and Reed lace each other/graft is the issue and you can endorse it no matter which way you vote...
...a&oi( a new steel band to be segmentauy set...
...Do they understand the limitations of their movement In the face of capitalism organised Industrially and politically...
...The Auxiliary, American Womanhood, was there in force...
...the way of cheap electrical rates from Muscle Pfoals...
...power lobby, made a long speech: Representatives of the American investment Bankers' Association anti vainy other interests iflied with the' power crowd have appeared...
...Could we envision a 100 per cent, organisation of farmers who were 100 per cent, coopers tors, that of itself would offer the most effective single agency...
...His blU is now bsjore the Senate Agricultural Committee...
...It was...
...What a picnic for the power crowd...
...He went down with the rest l°{ the men and began cleaning out tljat nearest section of the tunnel where first water and then earth had ft^Uy oozed and caked...
...Probably, to ten years', time, there win be an ^jnericap Legion Pilgrimage down there: Nicaragua is a picturesque country which we would all like to see...
...Tithing, of course...
...tton'ia'nabbml of Us vitality, to introduce f to m ^»^,t^.fjen»te...
...could feel it pushing at him at times, pushing at the thick layer of mud arid silt above him and below Which with the aid of this new pilot shield they were burrowing...
...men looked grave and sad...
...There is probably a gentlemen's agreement as to the division of the power...
...Pacifism...
...sin State unities Commislson and Chair-' man Ainey of the Peiinsyivania commission on behalf of the National Association of State Utility, Commjnfrtonerg—the gentlemen who regulate rates—testifiled for the power crowd on the grounds that they feared federal invasion of the state jurisdiction when every intelligent man biows that the resolution will do no such thing...
...he, proposed to build « model summer and winter cottage...
...The issue in November is...
...What" had ewer happened in the mat eight months...
...Columba, he contributed liberally, to bis Orphans' home, a dollar a month, say, lit a fresh candle before bis shrine every Sunday morning, after high mass, and bought two lots out on the Goose Creek waterfront,—on rime—on which some day...
...This was admit tart by Richardson under' direct cross^exarnjnat(bn by Walsh of" Richardson and Lentos...
...Sublime, and so ridiculous, such bland assurance...
...The Swing-Johnson bill for a public b; owned dam and power site at Boulder Canyon in the Colorado River...
...While this vote does not absolutely identify the predilections of the Senator...
...When the Legten Met Much has been written about the meeting of the American Legion in Paris, but the exquisite irony of that great occasion has gone unchronlcled...
...Up with it...
...Four Storm Centers The struggle centers around four concrete measures: 1. The Walsh resolution to investigate tie financial and rate structure'of the power combine...
...But he had to obey esdera...
...Its cooperative business in 20 states stretching from Florida to the state of Washington now amounts to" over a billion dollars...
...Then they tore themselves from all these things, from the cemeteries, from the "Hosrors of War," from the rapt contemplation of the Orave of the Unknown Soldier, and rushed to a meeting, There, a resolution was introduced, and passed at price, as a matter of coarse, without djaeuaston, that the organisation should "oppose pacifism in all its forma...
...Senator Norrts' bill by continuing and extending public operation of the Shoals wB afford a competitive factor with the pjwer monopoly, force* down rates arid thus benefit every power-user in that Wtton of the South...
...We accepted tfie tributes...
...San.Carloi.AKBrCbe ftetl^rXStiop to to bp developed for the tenant of the aievada Consolidated Copper Company with no rates mentioned...
...Congressmen md Senators heretofore identified with the public interest in power legislation ire silent, or wavering...
...Don't be long, men J" was hie constant urge...
...THE SUPER-POWER LOBBY SWINGS INTO ACTION Thirty-seven State Headquarters Busy Poisoning Public Opinion On Muscles Shoals And Boulder Dam By Judson King gp.VXNTS nave proven that the waxnjp 0{ mobilizaton of an elaborate •aper-Power Lobby was a consti valfcM ssement The present power lobby fc se largest, boldest and best organisgj) jobby that has appeared In Washington face Roosevelt's day when the railroads mustered their forces In an attempt'to Jefeat the Hepburn bill regulating raq(nad rates...
...and sunbeam and color were singing from aU my native hills, my land glowing with its plenty from sea to sea, how high were my hppes'U—how sweet were timet Were I a Nicaraguan, and my Government's bank and its railways in control of a far-distant land...
...to keen the ri,ver from bleeding water dow$ on them and drowning them like rats...
...Which graft do you prefer...
...There are the great sectional cooperatives—the fruit growers of California,— the tobacco growers and cotton growers of the South, the almost unbelievable cooperative creamery 'development in jponespta, and WJaconsui, but these vast sectional associations lack the ftatioriwide binding and cohesive force, direction and class purpose that Inheres In the Parmer Union movement Figures covering the business of the Farmers' Union cooperatives are hard to assemble, because1 there Is no rule or lav...
...Cavanaugh's voice urging them so was like music to them, their gift of energy, their labor song, their power to do, their El Uchnam.' '¦ But there were times also, hours...
...John— son then unexpectedly produced copies, of telegrams sent by Senators Smpot and> King, both of Utah, on January Xf>, 1927...
...the women wiped tears from their eyes, shook their beads in mournful sorrow...
...The beauty of consistency...
...There was a succession of views...
...Up With it...
...caused the greatest tension until thoy, had been done away with...
...However, such a happy situation is so remote that additional agencies must be called upon to assist...
...Senators Hawes of Missouri, Smith of South Carolina...
...Nothing happened, of course, fpr days and weeKs and months...
...Tod awful, enough to make job sick...
...Smith's from Nebraska, lent she...
...The hearings closed Jan...
...cower before it, as the case may be...
...The views were on sale for the benefit of the Parti Post...
...McGiathery attempted to explain its merits to his * Ife, who was greatly boncerned for am, ^ incidentally each morning a d evening on his way to and from h 1 task he dropped in at St'Oolumo i's to offer up a short praye...
...A Significant Development The...
...And then...
...another such collection of victims showed in the foreground a young boy of IT or 18, bis face turned toward the camera, both togs shot off at the hips: the trunk had a curiously nnrmman look, an object rather than a person...
...The ab> had a tendency to...
...And overhead was the kcren...
...This' enormous volume of business gains additional significance from the fact that it is conducted by the farmers and for the fasmers as a class and that a' single nation-wide parent organization functioning as educator and organizer in uniting this widespread collective enterprise into a great ' single system...
...Oh, here's one from my state...
...Gep F. Hiboer...
...They cleared a thousand feet without a hitch...
...Sentimentality, sweet as syrup, was the medium...
...By a vote of 40 to 3d with 13 Democratic Senators deserting Walsh and voting with the' power interests and 13 Republicans standing by Walsh, it was referred to the Interstate Commerce Committee, headed by the reactionary Senator James k. Watson of Indiana...
...if for a Democratic candidate you can ratify steals, if you forget the war graft of the wpjspnlan era...
...For at that point it was, of course, tha> the river might break through, they tugged, sweated, granted, cursed, in this dark muddy bote, lit by a f£w guttering electric area—the latest tbjUjLg In tunnel work...
...As matters now .stand the fight is a draw—but it is to be hoped that when the battle comes to the floor of the Senate public opinion will force favorable action lh the public Interest Were I A Nicaraguan ww/ere I a Nicaraguan...
...Such dawning knowledge of the limitations of cooperatives under the prese.it system, of the vhlue of control of legislative processes, and of the basic value of economic organization, is one of the signs of the present agrarian evolution toward independent political action' to save end •complete cooperative development...
...What could happen...
...The cmef excuse being used for this bin is that it win furnish cheap Fertilizer to the farmers of the nation...
...There were more speeches and many flowers...
...Hearings have been going on concerritag the advikiujrfiry and scope or this' Whr%p since January ^Senator .*Lenroof of Wisconsin was retained by the power interests as counsel and" let fine fight, e was assisted by former Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Colorado...
...There wQi be a iqng wrangle in the committee aver the form which the resolution wiU take...
...The new opposition developed shows how busy the power interests have been during the summer and (all...
...Or was it vultures...
...No new data of note has been produced...
...the river, bottom came m cokttact behind the piliot tunnel tiiat thexe was...
...t it paries and in whatever form tt .wfll then be up to VIce-PreavMBs Dawes to appoint the lnvestiga.tlng committee, pawes is a pubis ntmty...
...Where are we going to have lunch...
...With, it...
...That done h| helped install the'new pilot tunnjl which was obviously a great improvement over the old system...
...Among Its amusements were stersopttoon pictures...
...t«a Be Caiyteaafl Hast v»e*i...
...Columba had certainly indicated that all would be wjeU with him—but still— A man is entitled to a few doubts even when "^er the protection of the best of ¦•hits...
...What the committee wfll do remains to be seen.' ' when it comes to the .floor of the, Senate another crises wfll be had...
...Seventy-two dollars...
...The Chicago house showed a proportional gain due to the rapid growth of the Farmers' Union in northern zuinois...
...The next article wfll deal with the political phases of the' Farmers' Union movement New Attempt to Steal Indian Land Betrays Hand of Super-Power Intereste f«S MoBt—, -Bewail TOW any \m***g*tmm to Wawbhawton sure 4 aaalttof* pe«n^t on-tbe JTat Head Indian power site in Montana safl also legislation which will tnable them to divert a major portion df the revenue derived from the use of thos site from its owners, the flat Head Indiana, to white settlor* and the Power Commission...
...Yet nothing happened for months and months...
...pour still more of your blood upon the bands and hearts of those whip seem as demons from a long-dead century where nations were drunk with conquest, that your blood may become as a flame to point this enlightened century to the enormity of the crime that Is here.' Were I a Nicaraguan, and school and press, rostrum and pulpit of that powerful land were with ears of marble for all that would not crush a way for Trade, how faint were my hope I—yet a hope, for Liberty Is yet an ideal burning at hearts all around the earth...
...Also it is rumored that he win cef use to appoint Cousens of Michigan who has wide knowledge of high finance methods, who is for the investigation and whose services win be invaluable...
...Here's one from Nebraska...
...That they do understand these limitations and that there is high hope that they win evolve toward the use of their political as weU as their industrial arm is inchoated by the following statement by A. C. Davis, national secretary of the Fanners' Educational and Cooperative Union: "No one remedy will cure the farmers: troubles...
...a gain in one year of $35,050,000...
...Now the riveteri That's it...
...Smith...
...No wonder we are the greatest advertising country in the «orid: .we teaot so obligingly emotionally to the suggestion of • phrase, without allowing common sense to interfere, question, or modify...
...what's the Power Act between friends, anyhow...
...There were ringing" discourses...
...river...
...Once more now...
...Senator Johnson ^.California asked him wtff the Utah Legislature had voted to rithdraw...
...And go home with the virtuous conviction of having made a' good show...
...The site hi as large or larger than Muecle «ioale—M0,m) H.P...
...Knapp...
...Nebraska's big union creameries are running up into the millions In volume 6l business...
...Chosen emissaries brought prickly wreaths thousands of miles, much discommoded physically by the awkwardness of the charge, but gravely conscious of the implied personal importance...
...But we have not yet formulated a national phrase, "Dying for Dollars...
...This vast group of cooperatives is steadily growing...
...They wandered about among the graves, looking at the inscriptions...
...rlt' would, only require 104,000 horsebower of electric energy to satisfy the contract but the bill provides for 1,000,000 barse-powtr at Muscle Shoals when foBy Jeveloped...
...The good saint, due to'soine error oh the part of MCGfathcry, n.Jght change his mind...
...trust official and fftular head of the...
...There were innumerable speeches of welcome: ther French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frenchwomen, Englishwomen, spoke...
...eonipittee...
...They're terrible...
...X know a family by that name...
...The real solution binges upon the ability and willingness of farmers to work along these three general line*: Legislation...
...A GHOULISH BUSINESS "American Womanhood" Enjoys a Paris Holiday By Natalie Scott |T Is the phrase that does it, of oouzse...
...George B. Courteyou, Secretary of the Treasury in Jjibas^vejt'i jcabfnet, nojf...
...In the last fifteen days of November this concern handled $564,000...
...Any movement t;->af hopes to enlist the support of the farmers must offer first of all an organisation...
...There was always a diaturbfng trana^tjon period every half hour betwwen twelve and two, during wMcfl one group was going and another coming, which resulted at times to a dangerous indifference which Cavaneuga had come to expect at tmrt about this time and in conseqtiencd be was usuahy watching for it On the other hand, John Dowdl ditcher, told off to keep an eye on the breach at this time, was replaced, en this particular night by Patrick Uurtha, fresh from the corner saloon, a glass of beer and the free lunch counter still in his mind...
...Suddenly, there has awo popped, up a new rafd on Indian propel to in the ApftxoprtoUoM this ,unie a 13,000 H.P...
...It is estimated that a hew Farmers' Union gas and oil station is born every hour...
...cooperation...
...a'Jobbing'association buying' and selling at wholesale prices so members through 500 stores and grain elevators...
...Urn...
...wounded, mutilated, dead...
...1 Give us a pixr&ae, and up rally round it, or...
...This instance will show how things are being done...
...Make the country sale tor democracy": Hurray...
...Their chief q&tW** »*n-t*WrT axdaipj, .was ccnfian«y yn the Job, very busy, sat among the newspaper correbfeto^Biew^a^ (ktosf .• ' : .Having much, money to spend, the piwer crowd aacured as soon as written a typewritten copy of the official record of the hearing, and had it mhnecgraphed and irfnnejdiately sent to 3*'press associations and newapaper syndicates in Washington...
...In the field of mutual property insurance elgtit states reported in 1926 insurance in for<3c aggregating the tremendous sum of $121,2^0,000...
...views reproachful, the flame on the (Soldier's grave resentment...
...two thousand pounds to the square ihch which bad so far sufficed to support the iron roof plates which were being put in place behind the pHot tunnel day after day, as fS|s.t a# space ^rniltted...
...The nine big livestock commission houses of the Farmers* Union which handled In 1936 livestock to the value of $112,149,469, have aU made gains this year...
...It was a highly dramatic and revealing Incident, this Johnaon-Dern Clash...
...Buying groups of farmers in thousands of localities are purchasing goods in wholesale lots' at wholesale prices...
...After they have produced lft,M0 Ions of nitrogen they need make M more until this Is sold...
...Now the bolts...
...In addition to the material spread ground Washington hundreds of thouatnds of pamphlets and news releases are going out over the country from yew York and from the headquarters »/ the 3? state propaganda bureaus of the power interests to mold public opinion...
...Smith, took, here's one Cram Nebraska...
...A|t ajo^rate...
...Bugles sounded taps...
...And yet, on an American Olympus, what Homeric laughter must rock the contemplative gods,—unless there Is an impotent Prometheus to weep...
...McGiathery began to feel rather comfortable about it aU...
...For example, an amazing' development of cooperative cotton gins has covered Oklahoma and is said to be grow - ing at the rate of a mfllion dollars in new equipment per year...
...The cwmmteaion house at South St.* Paul had t» double Its stockyard space during the year...
...this w«y...
...Columba...
...his due...
...Haye !The Apache Indians been coxumltad...
...t. Senator Norris's bill for public operation of Muscle Shoals...
...Jt Hemed decidedly safe...
...Colomba and the River - By Theodore Dreiser (Continued From Lasjf Week) ]upgtathery gratefully eyed his r superior, then departed, only tcj return the next morning a little dubious but willing...
...in with it, Johnny...
...Cooperation may be ever so efficient, but so long as it goes no further than the saving of small commissions, it cannot hope to resicb/the root of the trouble...
...organisation...
...Hence all the rest of this energy ' can be used by the Cyanamld Company under no limitations or control bj[ the government in any way it chooses...
...H* has made a strong plea to the committee for n. .snhraiasicn: ft win probably be reported oUt...
...Of coarse, the real fight over Muscle Shoals will come in the Senate and at the present it is a 50-50 chance either way just as it has been tor the last three sessions...
...The Horrors of WarThere was a large, many-roomed frame building, that was headquarters...
...We converged to the Arc de Trtomphe, to gaze aplemnly at the grave of the Unknown Soldier...
...Do come and look at these, Mrs...
...Certainly not...
...But the Apache Indians, After .seaing "1110,000 of their money taken to build traiuiiiilaston Unas, and bajrur permitted to buy power at ton times as sanch as \*- costs to produce it, will get nothing in the way of royalties, tat the Power Act of 1630 provides "that all proceed* (of power sites)) from any Indian reservaftion shall be placed to -the credit of the Indians of such resfryations...
...Of course the power crowd wants to cut out any investigation of lobbies and their propaganda methods as provided by Walsh, also investigation of rates...
...saint as...
...Naturally, as a token of gratitude to...
...Warning is given that no dependence can be put upon this literature 'even h to statements of plain fact, even when quoted from official authorities or supposedly disinterested college professors...
...Just shows you what war is...
...new development in the Muscle Shoals situation is the apparent fact that the Cyanamld people and the power trust people have come to terms and are ho longer rigfrttng each other for possession of the Shoals...
...Every night' he went' down and every morning came'up, as hale ari'd healthy as ever, and every 'second week, on a Tuesday, a pay envelope containing the handsome sum of seventy-two dollars Was handed him Think of it...
...These same eight states this year reported insurance iri force of $156,300,000...
...the ministry of Foreign Affairs wiH commend our generosity and- national discernment...
...power site on the...
...He mast be related...
...We are doing It now in Nicaragua...
...Hence the bitterness of the effort and the resort to every known nfcans of monopolistic control of legislation and public opinion...
...Well,- perhaps, as he thought aiterwar...
...power?—t% wretched sneaky riy4r'd)4 hjo^ another, bad...
...Such cheerful' ghouls are we...
...and again be1 tweeh Cavanaugh and Henderson, aqd Cavanaugh and other o&ciais rf the ; company' who came down to see, "Which enlightened McGla,thery considerably as to the nature and <doniji.r of the work.' Just the same, overhead was still the hesvy r-.ver*-h...
...were the bodies of a thousand of my countrymen rotting about my feet slain by servants of that far-away,'powerful land—ah, and the tramp of her soldier* were upon my hills, the sweet air throbbing with her motors bearing death for yet more of my cQunJaymen, w$tat faint hope were mine!—what faint hope when I plead— as I would—-Give yet, oh brothers, of your blood, your flesh and bon£s to your na'tive'sbfi (soli already so rich...
...Kansas has' developed ten successful cooperative farmer banks with resources of nearly a ftiiilion...
...to, show IfcGlaJthe'ry h...
...They hovered like butterflies...
...tfartQaf to...
...Fess of Ohio, aided the lower crowd...
...rgp& wjAUng...
...But the exhibition was a demon.tratlon of the control of the public utility xi'mmlssioners by the political machines iomlnated by the power interests...
...we aba# take many wreaths and pluck the flowers of the country to heap on the graves of the Marines, while we make speeches with sweet, tender, sorrowful intensity, drop a few tears between luncheons and dinners, glean with proper expression of horror all the bloody, harrowing, and gruesome details of the "unfortunate war...
...Atlantic liners resting upon it, thirty or fifteen or ten feet of soil only, sometimes, between them and this thin strip off mud bustatoed) supposedly, by two, thousand pounds of air pressure...
...Their total business has passed the billion mark...
...Stripped to the ' waist, in mud-soaked trousers and, boots, their...
...The first move of1 th'e'"power Interests' was to secure the reference of the Walsh resolution to investigate '"blue sky" securities to a committee which would either bury it or hamstring it They won first honors...
...In s] *te of his novena and undergtandu % with his saint he wns still susP clous of his dread river above him, *fd of what might happen to him in spite of s.t...
...It certainly seemed reasonably safe undier: the new system...
...Public ownership and operation of Muscle Shoals and Boulder Canyon, by furnishing cheap electricity like Ontario, Seattle, Taconta and Los Angeles, wfll give an absolute demonstration—a yardstick by which to measure rates— hence the power trust has decreed "they bhkll not pass...
...The Madden bill backed by the American F^nn . Bureau Federation to lease Muscle Shoals to/ the American Cyanamld Company for flfl^y years wfll probably pass the Bouse whicfc, as in previous sessions, Is under the ohntrol of the power interests...
...Senators Wheeler, Cousens, Dill and HoweU, members of the comnittee, helped Walsh...
...Between August 1 and December 15, 1927, its sales amounted to$4,000,»0p...
...A child, with imagination, might have been a little hesitant, touched with some dissenting fancy, that showed the white crosses as so many accusing Angers, the dead bay's face of the sterooplicoe...
...Leaks had bsen dtocoMawed - from, time to time, small triokUaga and droppings of earth, which brought Cava a a ugh and Henderson to the spot and...
...when thft alow forwVcJ mover, .ment of the pilot- tunnel, encountering difficult earth before it, left this small dancer section unduly exposed to lb* rotary action of 'the water overhead which waa constantly operating in the bad of the river...
...Booldtr Canyon gearings before committees of both bouses on the Swing-Johnson bill have been going on...
...There were long conversations now...
...Keen when "all hand*" were working directly under a segment wJkfe enough few a ring of Ptojtea, one mast waa told to "fcasm an eye on it" On the evening b» question, however, after twenty-eight men, including Cavanaugh- arks MoGtathery, had entered at six and- worked until nridaigbl, pushing the work as vigorously as usual, seven- of the men (they mere tokt oflV tor lot*- of seven to da thto) were allowed to go- up to- the mouth at the- twsaet- te> a nearby allnight saloon for a drink and* a bite of-foodi A half hoar t» eaoh wrss s* towed, when amother group wwofd dopart...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 8
