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Show LEH1 FREE PRESS. LEW. UTAH SFFN and HEARD around the Electricity for a Million Farms ih . it f U B !; x t i Kt; ! i's I- - Off the beaten track In travelers sometimes find A PITA I A TATinTAT 11.T1JI IV Hi 11 vi XXI XXaA m.m. Field CarterCORRESPONDENT ByWASHINGTON FAMOUS LEGENDS OF AMERICA L Euron pea. whn believe that the street America are paved with gold. aS that the skyscrapers of NVw y0rk are so high that, like the Alps, th are capped with snow t!.e round. 7k tZ 'pJif Week' Supply of Postum Fre, Head offer the made by the Postoa In another part of this Company memand t1-tthe or seniors tributed not so p. Washington. Tammany IlalL per. They will send a full week's eo to any plan for carrying New l'erk bers of the house who attempted to of health Postum giving fre the ply for Franklin D. Roosevelt next year, stand by Presidents in opposing elecanyone who writes for It Adv. has not the slightest reason at the bonus were killed off by their present moment for desiring the Pres- torates one after the other. Trouble Maker ident's continuance in office. It has Curious a man who is worr!e Usually Complication gotten so little patronage that it is ibout future of civilization" "the curious Is another complicaThere most Inconsequential On the contrary, make to trouble for people. going Several Tammany leaders feel that it was tion to the present situation. told the known to have senators are who Roosevelt and James A. Farley were responsible for Tammany's not bonus lobbyists that they would Tote having the tremendous New York city to override PreMdent Roosevelt's reto (surwuse) patronage at the present moment For if that one additional vote would put It was a Roosevelt lieutenant Joseph it over. This Is not just patter by the V. McKee. who ran with the tacit blesslobbyists. Two senators, whose names the writer is not permitted to mention, more and the House White the of ing open support of Farley for mayor on have confirmed such reports. They told an Independent ticket, thus bringing bonus workers later that If It could be about the election of Mayor Florello H. demonstrated next time that one more La Guardia. And the President has vote would do the trick, they would been almost as friendly with La Guar- produce. dia since the hitter's election as be At least two such senators. In telling has with certain other Republican Pro- about It afterward, said they would gressives, notably Senator Robert M. probably htve to "vote with tne boys" La Follette, next time, adding that It is always the SIMPLE SIMON Even this is not all that Roosevelt last vote before election that counts. MET A PIEMAN and Farley have done to Tammany. Both senators In question are coming AND ORDERED THREE OR FOUR next fall, and both HE NOW EATS TUMS When Roosevelt was governor he went up for WHEN HEARTBURN COMES . . . after the administration of Mayor are expected to have hard fights. DON'T SUFFER ANY MORE I Jamea J. Walker, aided in its being By making thar halfway pledge they shown up in spectacular fashion, and removed in advance any grounds for finally forced Jimmy Walker out. the Legion leaders making any drive SAYING Tammany never held this against against them, in fact, both fully exRoosevelt. Its leaders are always prac- pect to vote for the bonus 'next time, TO FAVORITE FOODS isn't only pie that disagrees with soms tical. They knew there was nothing and for the bonus to pass over the the in people. Many say that even milk else Roosevelt could do, unless he Rooosevelt veto, thus eliminating any a gassy stomach. The very best gives foods may sour acid co stomach, gas, indigestion, abandoned all hope of becoming possibility of repercussions for them being heartburn. Millions have found that Turns, President They knew that to pick at the polls. But last time they did quickly relieve acid indigestion. Munch 3 or 4 after meals or whenever smoking, hasty eating, a fight with Tammany has always been not feel strong enough to risk the Preslast night's party, or some other cause brings he when on ident's them Ire on acid indigestion. Turns contain no harsh bore down national And besides, good politics. alkalies, which physicians have said may inveto. while many of them were sorry per- to sustain the They were intercrease the tendency toward acid indigestion. in of Instead an antacid which neutralizes stomach bits ested that $4,000,000,000 about sonally Jimmy Walker, they put the stomach or :icid, but never their own man In as mayor, and the work relief, for instance. No't to menWood. You like their minty taste. Only 10c tion several other possibilities of PresHall continued to flourish. FOR THE TUMMY But It must be remembered that for idential favor or disfavor. Next time, the understanding on Capthe two years preceding this. Tammany TUMS ARE ANTACID . had been deprived of any share of itol Hill Is, there will be no threats ItAMVf TO C4HV NOTALAXA1 state patronage. Tammany rather ex- from the White House, not even ImTaw weefc at yuur drueutwt'8 ones. lesu. a this of Presidential CDriTi candidate, plied pected tlful6Color si momptfr-witthe purchase of a Mc roll ot Tuns but when Roosevelt's protege, Herbert or 2Sc box of WW (The All Vegetable Laxative ) H. Lehman, continued to starve the Morgenthau's Trip Secof that the Rumors trip persist tiger, despite the fact' that Al Smith had supported Iehman, the grievance retary of the Treasury Morgenthau to A Bit in AI! bagan to grow. Europe is not just a pleasure excurSelfpity Is always ostentatiously This would have made no difference sion, despite his emphatic Insistence. enounced, but everybody has a titIf It had not been for the La Guardia Silver senators especially attach far le. election, which left Tammany without more significance to it. They Insist he federal, state or city jobs to dispense. is seeking an International agreement In fact, at the lowest ebb of Its power for the reiuonetization of the white Til WIRftllTllw"" metal. They point out that more than rLimuumi since the Civil war. usual pains were taken to hide the reAUTOMOBILES Always Dangerous cent conference between Mr. Morgenthau and famous But that does not mean that TamMontagu Norman, in Awards for many will be weak In the next election. and mysterious head of the Bank of By no means! If the record of past England. FUR Shipper This visit Is alleged to have occurred campaigns Is a safe guide, Tammany Who prepare their pelts carefully and parwhen furthest from the patronage at Bar Harbor, Maine. Montagu Norticipate in Sears 7th National Fur Show. You don't even have to sell your furs trough. Is always the most dangerous. man slipped into that Down East rethrough Sears. FREE new Tips to Trappers Nor Is this due to desperation, or to sort with not even a society column book tells how you may share in awards. the Idea of fighting with one's back mention of his movements. At the Also how Sesrs act as your agent, getting to the wall. It Involves other elements same time Morgenthau, always a dutiyou highest value we believe obtainable for your which very few people out In the counful son, realized that he had not seen 'furs. Mail coupon below. IVa try, to whom the very word "Tam- his father for several weeks. Henry ' Mail to tmint many" Is one of approbriuni, under- Morgenthau, Sr., by ' a curious below nearest to yout stand. But It Is a thing which a very was also at Bar Harbor. So brief conversation with any old New the secretary of the treasury slipped SEARS, ROEBUCK and CO. Chicago Philadelphia Memphis Yorker will confirm. up to Bar Harbor and paid his parent Dallas Kansas City Seattle The point Is that when Tammany Is the long deferred visit he owed. Please mail me, without cost or obligation, fur In power at the city hall everything So much the silver senators know. shipping tags and latest edition of "Tips to that goes wrong is blamed on the Wig- They add that they aiso know that the Trappers.': wam. By the sam token, when TamBritish financier and the head of Uncle Kama. many Is not In power at the city hall, Sam's treasury had a protracted tlk Postofflca.. .. ' ... .Stat- e- M -everything that happens which does so protracted that It was the subject not appeal to the voters Is an asset of much clatter in the servants' quarRural Koute...MMMM.BozNon...MMM for Tammany. ters all over Bar Harbor next day. Street Address. . . .mm. ..... ...-- . B3W2U Moreover, and this will surprise Nobody even claims to know what folks west of the Mississippi especially, they talked about. Montagu Norman most people who have lived in New Is famous for saying absolutely nothGood Tasta York for a few years, and have had a ing In his Interviews. Morgenthau is Good taste comes more from Judgchance to contract Its administration not quite so taciturn but almost with that of other cities, believe solShortly thereafter Morgenthau an- ment than from intellect emnly, whether right or wrong, that nounces a pleasure trip to Spain. the taxpayer In New York gets more What the silver senators think Is for his money than do the taxpayers that some very important financiers, of most other cities In the United and some of the leading finance minis13. ters of Europe, will also suddenly deStates. cide that a brief rest In Spain away The writer Is not attempting a statean sT W a ment of the merit or lack of merit of from all - the excitement about Italy this contention. He Is stating a po- and Ethiopia Is Just what the doctor ordered for them. litical fact, which can be easily demWhat they earnestly hope Is that onstrated by a few conversations with MOSQUITOES New Yorkers on your next visit to the Morgenthau will be able to persuade FLIESSPIDERS them how much It would be to the admetropolis. vantage of all concerned for there to an be an International agreement on silHope for Bonus OTHER ver. not In of full bonus the Payment INSECTS long after congress meets in January, Silver Program Bogs while not a certainty. Is considered at Behind this desire on the part of the least probable. President Roosevelt has made no definite commitments, de- sliver senators and behind the possispite the face that certain American bility that Mr. Morgenthau may be goLegion leaders have been giving that ing to attempt Just that Is the disSALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY impression. No one really doubts that couraging fact that the administration he will again veto the measure. The silver program has rather bogged down. Oar lobby Is delightfully air change fti the situation as compared to It Is perfectly true that the United cooled daring the summer months last session is that the President Is not States treasury has acquired an enorRadio tor Every Room expected to turn on anything like the mous quantity of silver at very low 200 Rooms 200 Baths heat to prevent his veto from being prices. It Is true that even at the overriden that he did last time. present world price for silver the Without so much Presidential pres- United States treasury has a handsome sure, congressional experts say, there profit on what It has bought But It is not much doubt that the senate will Is also true that the present hopes for follow the house In overriding the a greatly higher price In the world Chief Executive's disapproval. In fact market are not particularly bright this theory Is commonly accepted In 1 The language of the famous sliver J congressional as well as Legion circles, act directed the treasury to buy silver In short, official Washington believes until either (1) the price was $1.29 an the bonus will be passed months before ounce, or (2) the value of the moneHOTEL the national conventions meet In June. tary reserve behind the United States Bonus politics Is one of the queer paper currency was d that of exceptions to general rules. It has the gold so held. . Kates $l.SO to $3.00 come to be generally accepted that It Actually, of course, the sliver senadoes not hurt a President to oppose tors cared nothing about the actual Th Ilotcl Temple Srnai ha a bonus payments. But Just as generalhighly desirable, friendly Imniao-ttluUquantity of silver the federal governo""''v tihera.You will always find it ly It Is believed that voting against ment might acquire. Especially as the atinremrl comfortable, and anything the soldiers want fs littla treasury, by paying a fixed price for Ihoroiwhly acreeahle.Vml can therefore understand vrhy this hotel l" short of political suicide for a senator nil newly mined silver, took care of HIGHLY RECOMMENDED or member of the house. that angle. What they were very much Tow can alao appreciate wlrft This theory may or may not be ac- Interested In was to have such buying It's mat k of d'sf ncflon to stop curate. It has never been adequately force the world price of silver up to ot this beauV.'ul hostelry tested. FRNEST C. ROSSITFR, Mgr. $1.29 an ounce. But, whether opposing the bonus con WMTJ Brvte (yousWSP 9 ..." . .J 1 1 liVAo-- : " 1 1 L Shown in the inset it Morris L. Cooke, director of the new Rural Electrification authority, and around him are some of the tasks REA hopes electricity will soon be doing on a million more farms "mothering" chicks, household work and filling silos. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY light ELECTKIC for a million set of hired hands who never get tired and who work for very little wages for ach of these farms. from backbreaklng Emancipation tasks for 9 million farmers' wives. These are the ambitions of the newly formed rural electrification authority which lias been created by the federal government to extend to farms throughout the nation the benefits 0 which are belns enjoyed by only out of 6.Htu.0O0 of them today. But the ambitions, if they are realized, will have consequences reaching far beyond their own limits. For bringing electric power to a million farms will create thousands of jobs 'in city of light Manufacturers factories. bulbs, washing machines, refrigerators, irons, radios and other appliances will iiave to keep their factories humming to keep pace with the demands of Mrs. Farmer. And Mr. Farmer will want motors, milking machines, cream separators and other electrical "hired Before either of these hands. be satisfied lines will have to be built and wiring completed. Farmers will be able to buy these appliances, for the government has extended the Electric Home and Farm authority to a national scope. The EI1FA has enabled farmers in the Tennessee valley to buy appliances on n easy payments financed by the Finance corporation. The government, under this scheme, arranges for manufacturers to sell atandard quality equipment to consumers at low prices. The purchaser lias to make a cash down payment, but the EMFA remits the remainder of the cost to the dealer in cash. Appliances may be purchased from recognized dealers In any communities where the by reducpower company ing prices for current. What charges remain after the down payment are spread out over three or four years and are added each month to the customer's bills for electricity. The pay ments are turned over to the EllFA as new ' 731,-D0- ) Becon-structlo- they are made. $100,000,000 for Jobs. The Rural Electrification authority, tinder the direction of Morris I Cooke, has been assigned $100,000,000 to use in the next year or two. Even a vast sum like that would not go very far if It were used In constructing lines to farms which are now a comparatively long way from the lines of any power company or municipal plant. But there are some 5,000.000 farms in America today which are without In its compalgn to elec electricity. trify 1.000.000 farms, the REA, accord ing to director Cooke, will attempt to bring service only to those In areas where no new generating plants will be necessary, where lines can be built economically from a source of power which already Is working. The REA, however, will not even In estlgafe the applications of farms where there is service In the Immedi ate neighborhood. 1 will be Interested in projects where new sectional lines can be built to electrify whole farm areas, but not where a mere extension of an already existing line Is asked by a farmer who lives close to IL Such cases as these h will leave for the local power company to develop. As an example of a case that Is eligible to get REA help, take that of a group of neighboring farmers who want electric service. There Is a plant in a city a few miles away, but the power company has refused to build lines out to them for the very good reason that the potential business does not seem to warrant It. Power companies, despite the feelings of cranks and unreasoning people, are not In business "for their health." , Feeling that this la a fair attitude of the company, the farmers, who want electricity and are willing to pay for it, band themselves together In a little group, go to the company officials and offer to buy power to be delivered at the nearest point on the company lines. Here's One Difficulty. The farmers themselves will build lines to their farms. To finance the construction they will borrow the money from the REA, who, theoretically, Investigates the group from every angle to mke sure that the loan is a sound one. "There is nothing very complicated about this," says Mr. Cooke. "It Is not like launching a great new power project Involving millions. This whole operation will not exceed $20,000." Ah, but only part of the story has been told. The REA plans for these groups suggest that the farmers shall buy power from the company at wholesale rates, to be fixed by negotiation or by the state's public service commission. This does not "set" very well with many of the utility companies who have farm customers. Why not? is the natural question, glancing at the cnse only superficially. These farmers who are have paid for the Installation of the line; are they not entitled to some sort of extra consideration for what they have done? It so happens that the other farmers who are already receiving current from the same power company at ll rates will, In effect, have paid 'or their lines, too. Why shouldn't they get wholesale rates? Actually, they have not, or have paid only In part Here is the way It works, although this must be taken as a hypothetical case, for all power companies do not have the same agreements with their farm customers. Who Pays for the Line? Let us say that the cost of a line built out to a farm Is $S0O. The farm er, supplied for the. snke of example by a middle western utility company which has been outstanding for its rural electrification work, Is given SO months in which to pay for the cost of the line. He "pays" for It by guaranteeing to use a monthly minimum of electricity equal In cost to of the cost of the line, which in this case would be $10, until the 80 months are up. If he actually nses less than $10 worth of "Juice" during a month, his bill Is $10 Just the same. Rut he Is entitled to all of the benefits every month that $10 worth of electricity will bring to him, so he might Just as well use it np. It's like going to a metropolitan theater restaurant where there is a minimum charge of $2.50 a head; you can eat just a sandwich if you want to, but your bill Is $2.50 just the same; If you're hungry, you might as well eat a full dinner, for It Isn't going to cost you any more. And farmers today are really hungry for the benefits of electric power to ease their dally tasks. "If you take away my electricity, you can Just take the farm, too," Is the way Farmer flus Swanson, of Fountain county, Indiana, puts IL Actually, a farmer buying power from a utility company on such an agreement is paying for the cost of his line only If he falls to use $10 worth of electricity each month. If his bill Is $10, he gets back dollar for dollar In electric power. But If such a customer has a cousin or a friend pver in the next county who la a member of one of the REA groups and Is getting power at a lower rate, power company officials would have about as much chance explaining the reason for that to him as they would have of making Mm under stand the Einstein theory. Ua would Insist that he was paying for re-ta- his line as surely as his cousin, only a different way. The Women Want It. This, then. Is one of the obstacles that confront the REA ambitions. They are ambitions, however, that are worth struggling to attain. Ask any farmer's wife. The worker In the city puts in 40 hours of labor every week; she works 64 hours. If she has a large family she probably works longer than that. If she has a small baby, she works even longer. He gets paid; she doesn't. If she hasn't electricity to assist her she has to do everything the hard way the tiring way that puts lines In her face long before she should have them. Yet housework Isn't all she has to do. About 20 per cent of her tim9 is taken up with actual farm work. out of a hundred farm Eighty-nin- e wives manage the hen houses. Sixty-si- x out of a hundred make butter. Do you think their lives wouldn't be "heavep" If they only had vacuum cleaners, washing machines, electric lroners, and the possession usually dearest to the heart of an "electrified"' farm housewife electric refrigerators! In the state of Wisconsin It has been found that the farmer spends an average of $250 a year on his passenger automobile. In a census of more than half the farms of the country five years ago It was found that, on the farms counted, there were 1.13 passenger automobiles per farm. That would Indicate that the farmer Is able to pay for modern comforts if he wants them badly enough. It must be remembered that these were passenger cars, not farm trucks. The REA wonders why. If there are cars on 3,050,000 farms, It can't put electricity on a large share of them. It has been said that the average farm Income Is $500 a year. But the REA will of necessity not be looking to electrify the average farm, but the one that Is above average, for It Is the farm, as a rule, that Is located near power service. Bathtubs Are Luxuries. One survey made by the government showed that 85 per cent of all the farms of the land have neither bathtub nor shower. Yet more than half the farms have an automobile! The reason for this antiquated bathroom equipment Is the difilcuty In pumping: enough water to provide for modern equipment Seventy per cent of farm women today have to carry water from a well or spring. If this could be done with electricity the situation would be much different. To supply all the American farms with modern bathroom equipment, the manufacturers of the country would have to work without stopping for seven years, It has been estimated This Is perhaps the most elemental of all needs for electricity on the farm. There are others. Four out of ten farms are still lighting with kerosene lamps; there are perhaps 6 or 7 per cent which either use candles or go without any artificial light at all Shades of Lincoln studying by the light of the fireplace! We'd hardly think that was necessary at all today. Of course the REA Is not going to correct these conditions on u!i farms, or even on half of them. "There are farms in neighborhoods too sparsely settled to afford power," says Mr. Cooke. "There are farmers too poor to pay for it After nil, there are plenty of people In the cities who do not use electric power yet. If we can bring wires Into the homes and barns of 1,000.000 farms within the next year or two, we think that Is not too much to hope for and we think that will be a useful Job." With $ino.iMUH of government funds to spend. niH.vV l!E. run do It If so and If you'll forgive the pun-m- ore power to HE A. In above-averag- . e "NO" Stop 11 TUMS t. JyjLU n . 31 fgftOO fj I f P" coin-denc- e, - 4 0kN Y BB BH ItlllS J one-thir- . Temple Square |