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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH SEEN- -' HEARD around th National Capital t J TBy CARTER FIELD" Smclalr"! Washington. Upton suc- cess or failure In November may easily decide the future of the New Deal 1j Washington. Far more bangs on the fght that bis nomination by the Democratic party for governor of California open than either administration or opposition leaders are admitting openly, as yet. though doubtless tefore the Totes are actually cast orators in the Sierras and the coast towrs of the Golden Gate state will tut shouting it from the housetops. To begin with, overwhelming suc- cess of Sinclair may Just determine that the Democrats keep a strong enough majority in the bouse of representatives to make sure that the New Deal is supplied with the ammunition f i appropriations next winter, and wita the new powers that President Roosevelt may decide he needs. The Democrats now have eleven seats from California, and the Republicans nine. A sweep by Sinclair might mean that Instead of losing at least five seats, as most dopesters on the bouse had figured, the Democrats niigbt pick up two or three more. A sweeping defeat for Sinclair, on the other hand, might mean the carry-- t Ing- - down of any given part of the leven Democratic seats now held, all , of tbem being admittedly in some dan-- l ger, except that held by Clarence F. j.LeiK I The importance of this part of the picture lies In the confidence of con-- ; servative Republican leaders that if they; can reduce the Democratic plurality over the Republicans In the house from 200 to CO or. In short. If the Republicans can gain 70 seats, they can defeat all the more radical appro-- i prlatlons and all the more radical new proposals of the administration. As the situation now stands It would 'fee almost Impossible for the Republicans to make such a gain without aome of It coming from California. On the otiier hand, if the Republicans Y should gain eight or nine seats In California it would help mightily in rolling op a total gain for the country of J 70 or better. f Bat the really important phase far j transcends even the change of ten tit seats In the bouse. It will be a slgn-r- t post as to how the country 13 leaning, the significance of which cannot be ex- Hggerated. Consider, for example, what the effect of Sinclair's victory In would be on those sympathetic lth the purposes of the new American jLiberty league. X victory by such 1 forthright Socialist as Sinclair in a ak0 itate so rich and prosperous as Calltomla would frighten the followers of Hm Wadsworth, the du Fonts, and lohn j W. Davis to death. It would jjlrive them, literally, to the more Roosevelt for protection. ests," the fact la that the investors ta thla country have never been very vocal la our politics. Certain large apecifle organizations, yes. Certain groups as, for example, the National Association of Manufacturers, for higher tariff protection, surely. But tta average bolder of a dozen shares or s few hundred shares of stock, or. for that matter, many holders of thousands of shares, never have organized to see that their Interests were protected. Some years ago the richest district in the United States then as now tbe Seventeenth district of New York-s-ent a Democrat to the bouse of representatives. It so happened that during a his two-yea-r term the railroad bill was passed. Seldom has s bill been considered by congress of more direct Interest to every holder of railroad stocks and bonds than this. Nor was there a single congressional district in the United States where so many railroad stocks and bonds were held as In the Seventeenth New York. Yet during the consideration of this measure. Representative Pell did not receive one solitary letter from any of his thousands of big and tens of thousands of small investors in railroad securities! But when some picayune measure affecting florists came up he was deluged with letters. The florists had an organization, and a vital interest The security holders figured the railroad executives would attend to the problem for them. Or perhaps they did not give it a thought At any rate they didn't write. That is where the new organization may come in. If every stockholder In public utilities, for example, let his congressman know what he thought about any measure which came up affecting the utilities the results might be very surprising Indeed. SILLY QUESTION OUR COMIC SECTION D Slow 0 Emits in the Lives of Little Men "Where do you suppose baseball umpires jo when they diet" "It depends largely on whether they follow the advice of the bleacherltes." OFTtiE$ETAPP0u Esch-Cummln- HWE IZ6ST0PAV IN FASHION 1 "You say fintall has hydrophobia?" "Tea, he was bitten by a mad dogfish," REAL LUCK Irrigation Work At a time when, because of the drouth, Irrigation seemed the most desirable thing in the world in the arid West, work has been held up on several of the most Important irrigation projects. The reason has nothing to do with the apparent conflict between plowing crops under by direction of one branch of the government while another branch Is attempting to reclaim arid land. It concerns labor problems. It has really been , due to lack of a definite policy on 'wage rates. Public Works administration requirements apply, with an exception permitting 40 Instead of 30 hours a week, but PWA rates are only minimum for two broad classifications, common and skilled, and Ignore Intermediate grades. Rates demanded by union labor on projects of the reclamation bureau probably would Increase the labor cost This means a greater outlay by PWA, as original estimates were based on rates customarily paid by the reclamation service, and consequently the risk In collecting on farmers' notes to pay for the Job was Increased. Because Jurisdiction in any conflict regarding wage rates rests with the PWA labor board of review, a proposal Effect on Congress that specific wage rates be written ; In Short, it would destroy the only into all advertisements for bids, has lerious threat at Roosevelt's predoml-'lpeiancnot been favorably regarded by Adand the only menace to the ministrator Ickes, with the result that Jew peal, and probably would drive the letting of contracts or advertiselit-le to the storm, a loosevelt, bowing ment for bids has been held up on es farther to the Left than he had the Grand Coulee power dam on the J, utended going. Its effect on every Columbia river, the huge Casper-Al-cov- a !tJj nember of the new congress elected, Irrigation project on the Platte, 10 matter by what party, would be and additional construction on the 0 marked that it would be difficult to Owyhee project in Oregon and Idaho, k jj onn up a corporal's guard to vote Milk river In Montana, Ogden river the most radical proposals the In Utah, and cov gainst Uncompahgre In Coloa tesident may advance In the next and many others. rado, goat, ear. io is Also It would change the apparent Wage Rate Dispute ning up now going on looking toward le next presidential election. It might Comparatively high wage rates paid isfl mean that there would be no on the Bonneville navigation and publican candidate certainly not power project in Washington, of which th old sense of Republican. army engineers are In charge, is the On the other hand, a sweeping vlc-ir- y Immediate cause of dispute regarding for Governor Merriam, conserva-e- , rates on the projects of the reclamawould place a tight check rein on tion service. Because Grand Coulee T. W Slew Deal. It would tend to force also Is a power project, labor coniry I conservative votes in the next tends that the farmers' ability to pay Hiss, not only because of its actual Is not a limiting factor. fectf In changing California Created by President Roosevelt prior but because of Its moral to his departure for Hawaii, to reconice feci It would probably drive Roose-i- t cile any conflicts of Jurisdiction or polinuch further toward the Right icy among New Deal agencies, the anfhe now Intends going. And it emergency industrial committee, comjulq mean, for almost a certainty, posed of Donald R. Richberg, Secrenomination against him in 1936 of tary Perkins, General Johnson, et al, comparatively conservative Republi-- n has tackled the wage question that has stymied the reclamation service Incidentally, the administration is at the very time when activity would f more concerned about it than sp- have had a profound effect on morale ars on the surface or In any of the In the drouth area. ws dispatches. The mere fact that While this Immediate Issue Is unsete President devoted most of his fare- - tled, the Importance of Irrigation, of Jll talk to Washington newspaper storing water to mitigate the hazard ' in Just prior to going to Hyde Park of dependency on rain, is looming large 7 ; the best Instance of that Those in the administration's policy. It was many 10 have studied the President's ban-- i stressed by the President during his t. iig of the press know that he does across the country. In fact back trip CejtK t jD8t happen to talk for fifteen it is expected that a new economic latin? BtItes on'any given subject ' study of the drouth region, to relate !0 nn" and the President made a good Job future power and irrigation develop. his talk. He kept the reporters gig- ments to the best ultimate use of the ng over his sly cracks at the reac-nar- y available water supply, will shortly be id I" nature of the new organize-- a announced. irtirt the absence of any love thy ild Obviously many existing projects iimil" ghbor tinge. But there is no doubt are the result of piessure brought by OM it, despite his humorous references, states and localities Individually withitr. V regarded it as Important to rive thi out reference to developments elsewriter8 tt 3eflnlte slant on the where. Such individualistic promoQO tions, it Is Insisted, have resulted in a controversial muddle regarding water ,k do descent Investors rights, which may lead to legislation by congress next winter defining the ?he possibility that the new organ-tlorespective rights of the state and fedmanaged by Jouett Shouse and eral governments. Streams such as the nsored by Alfred B. Smith, James Platte flow across state lines. Every ;. Wadsworth, John W, Davis and there Is a shortage, which reyear do Fonts will develop an "lnves-- l sults In contrast feuds between Wyourses. bloc" Is In a way the most Interming farmers and Nebraska farmers tig phase of the movement Such downstream. So It Is wltb most bloc" has never before existed In streams. A national, comprehensive country. policy, with sound planning, is needed splte all the constant reiteration for the whole picture, but meanwhile lie New Dealers now and the lack of labor policy defeats employof a few jears ago, and the ment alms on big government projects. cals before that, about the "Inter Ooorrlnht. WNU IKK ton. (Copyright, . WSfsrr) t " . - ATSL FINNEY OF THE FORCE OFFICER HELP 1 Experts AMH VEfVf UPSET E uW-- : I VJEVE mw robbed! - Poor HOM- B- repre-titaiive- s, n lile f Pro-islve- s Doddst Any luck yesteryou were fishing ? I was sway when six bill called." PS BRoKEnI OPEN AND Q'S ! SI A one-thir- 8&r m?rr i7 a mm Vez HAVE sepvimts e, "Hello, day when "Great collectors 1 CAMfc f THIS NOW 1 MUCH- 3-D- er S if 9 Two 0 to BOTH WAU SOR-- IT LOOKS TME BODY iM TniiS LoiKE A IMSOIPE. HOUSE KUOWS vjhereJ oFF tonight JbB Tm BURCslAL KrJEW JlST WHH?Ei v f "The Smiths are happily married, all right" "What makes you think so?" "He talks back Just enough to keep their arguments Interesting." AND FREE AIR To wwprp r,.n a uv. - 7 j , v " .wpr .u,., Kw THE FEATHERHEADS r, ii. YOU BETTER. WLP OKI T, 1 " . THE STRAP VX -- 1 J- Shem What are the folks kicking about, fathert Noah Some of them want to know if there Is a garage with the ark. - if A That Wat the Amwer Gaining r, l ij 1 ii" a Lap . HOLD ! OM-- fB jgfa "What do you think of my auntan, aunty?" asked the girl In the bathrelaing suit, of her tive. "I think," replied her aunt, "you should have been tanned by a stick Instead of the sun." Rapid Going "How's business?" "Better," answered Mr. Dustla Stax. "Shipments are so good that the only Initials we need to concentrate on are f. 0. b. LrbULSdJLfU oops W& . mamjq:aI. wASfjoiMeToTuRM-i- si IT WAS ITHOU&HT GOIIsIQ- - STRAlQrHT Wi V) .1 soRR.r ViZsE'OvJU STATE , 1 . hrf VA ?Ui OKl LET 7A""LiLPKjrif ,T JSmpfea v. MY LAP.' fgf. rim ? -- m |