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Show I LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH MPOUNDINGlrfRILLION SEEN and HEAR around the WASHINGTON Texas seems to be more importance even enjoying indethan its area or its pendence would seem to warrant in this fight over President Roosevelt's proposo! to enlarge the Supreme court. The question every one has been asking since the President sprang his surprise message is was Vice President Garner in advance? The answer seems to be no. The reason the folks are asking the question is significant of Washington's reaction to the proposal. They seem to think that this proposal is very puzzling in view of the extraordinary cleverness which has characterised other Roosevelt congressional maneuvers. Take the case of Maury Maverick, the much publicized Texas cowboy congressman. He rushed in and introduced the President's bill This without consulting anybody. was little short of gall and wormwood to Hatton W. Sumners, also of Texas, but who happens to be chairman of the house judiciary committee. So that now it's the Maverick bill which goes to Sumner's committee for consideration! Of course there was no such rush for the spotlight without regard for the seniority of statesmen on the senate side. The bill there was solemnly introduced by Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona, chairman of the judiciary committee. one-tim- e con-eulte- d Legislature Opposes But the Texas angle in the upper house was not confined to Cactus Jack Garner. The two Texas Benators figured in as amusing a bit of timing as has occurred for tome time. Senator Morris Shep-parwho has been getting nominated and elected to the senate without opposition enough to really worry him since 1912, rushed out a statement approving the Presi- d, dent's proposal. A few hours later word came from Austin that both houses of the Texas legislature had gone on rec- ord heavily against the enlargement of the Supreme court. Within a few more hours Tom Connally, the other United States senator from Texas, made a statement deploring the President's ideas about the high court, and promising to oppose any such legislation! There is still another Texas angle. In the President's message sending the bill to congress he said: "With the opening of the Twentieth century, and the great increase in population and commerce, and the growth of a more complex type of litigation, similar proposals were introduced in the congress. To meet the situation, in l'.H3, 1914, 1915 and 1916, the Attorneys General then in office recommended to the congress that when a district or a circuit judge failed to retire at the age of seventy, an additional judge be appointed in order that the affairs of the court might be disand adequately promptly charged." The first of these attorneys general, President Roosevelt disclosed, was Thomas Watt Gregory of Texas, close friend of Colonel E. M. House, and recommended by him to Wood row Wilson! The second was James Clark McRcynolds, now the Supreme court justice whom the New Dealers would rather see retire than any one else on the bench. And incidentally he is more than seventy. Making Comparisons Comparisons of the Roosevelt proposal to enlarge the Supreme court to the Woodrow Wilson League of Nations fight are the order of the day, especially on the part of writers hoping this struggle will take on the importance of the former. Actually the comparison is the more interesting because of differences. At the outset, however, it might be recalled that the outcome of the League of Nations battle is being spectacularly distorted in most of the comparisons. Had it not been for the stubbornness of President Wilson who refused to permit the crossing of a "t" or the dotting of an "i," Wilson would have won that fight. He would have won it despite the ranging of every racial group in America against him, won it despite the masterly direction of the Republican senators by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and won it despite the fact that the 1918 election had shown the country was turning against him. Most commentators seem to have Overlooked the fact that the Versailles treaty would have been ratified by the senate, and that the United States would have joined the League of Nations, if Wilson had rot sent a command to all his loyal followers to vote against ratification as long as the Lodge reservations were included. Whereas Lord Robert Cecil long afterwords admitted that the Lodge reservations would not have made the slightest difference! That is the tilmost unanimous opinion of all students of League of Nations history today. For instance, the "heart of FOR the covenant," President Wilson insisted was Article X. This was the article requiring the member nations of the league to use force to impose its decisions. Kea-n- nv.-n- . Never Invoked Its power has never been invoked by the league. In fact, no member nation has ever proposed that it be Not even against Japan invoked. :ii the famous Manchurian case. Not even against Italy in the Ethiopian case. The nearest approach to it was "sanctions" against Italy, and every one knows that the sanctions were made a joke by the very naBritain and tions, particularly fiance, which proposed them. Of course commentators really familiar with the League of Nations fight are really wondering if President Roosevelt will prove as stubborn as President Wilson did. It may be that he will, but no one with whom the writer has talked thinks so. On the contrary, they point out that Mr. Roosevelt is always asking for more than he expects to get. There is another vital difference. In the league fight the sentiment against American entry grew very slowly. Developments of any significance did not begin until months after the senate debate was in full flare. Whereas, there was a whole crop of developments within a week after the Roosevelt Supreme court proposal. No legislatures rushed into the breach in the early months of the league fight. In fact, the group that has been known since as the and of which Senator William E. Borah and Hiram W. Johnson were outstanding members, did not form until the fight had been under way for months. In fact, it was not clear even to New York editors that any senator really hoped to defeat ratification of the treaty until something like three months after the fight start- ed! So that up to date the present Ps'nt, in tempo, compared with the League of Nations battle is like a horse race compared with a chess game. It is little wonder that such liberals as Senator George W. Nor-ri- s who have talked with Dr. Arthur E. Morgan are against him and with David E. Lilienthal in the TVA controversy. The point is that Dr. Morgan does believe in far more liberal treatment of the privately owned utilities than the group approves. in Seek Public Ownership ef. .r. The mimeographed handout, dealing with the incredible Volume of water which the PWA apparently has gathered together here and there about the country, v. as delivered to editors early m January, but was not to be released for pub- lication until February Events of the weeks leading up to the publication date leave the observer a little uncertain as to whether the PWA, with its customary genius, was able to reach into the future and draw a few neat analogies, or is merely trying to scare the pants off us. Ducking for Pennsylvania. At any rate, in view of what has been happening in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, the PWA's little article is at once lucid and om1. get the ' i" , t: '( d iv e - e r liter ( f ; er. water stiffly. erosion are ir.tegrai parts of t:.e ture " Fssentials of Kxistence. :.. I f The soil merit, and rural electrifW-anotministrations, in a joint report,n- p.aced a discussion to tie lo'A'-'- 51 fer Impoundment. he w.Il be smaller ',. ,! at Boulder dam, :age capacity e u st al- ;,(.'.. which is u'".-'Jaige as the l.,ke will be 15. J Fort I't max. mum clear ,rd a shore line i P.: t One Cold Spot i 1 i ; 5 . - P" Keep your body free of accumulated waste, take Dr. Pierce's t Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Adv. Pleas-an- Vt v Essence of Genius Genius does its best. The essence of genius is not to shirk. - MY "''Wli MOP . ..iv..-- .: 'Ww.r- ' tv " A y HOUSE KEEP WITHOUT THEM, ..M .AS.. g 9. PWA funds have not been solely responsible for all of these accomAn allotment of plishments. to TVA, for instance, set up that organization and started Norris and Wheeler dams, but it required other funds to complete them. Likewise, PWA allotted $33,000,000 to the mammoth Boulder dam which was already under way. The reservoir behind the dam, known as Lake Mead, has a storage capacity of 30,500,000 acre feet. The PWA allotment enabled the bureau of reclamation, Department of the Interior to complete the dam proper. The entire Boulder dam project is estimated to cost $120,230,003. PWA has also made an init;al allotment of $15,000,000 to the Grand Coulee dam, located on the Columbia river in Washington: a project estimated to cost in the neighbor$51,-000,0- :: srvlt y COULDN'T work-creatin- jhy S W. Va. $203,-805,03- 0. . - ON O'CEDAR POLISH, TOO. I non-feder- cannot live, and the soil could not produce food, clothing, and shelter . . . Broadly speaking, air and sunshine are beyond the influence of Man, but the benefits of land and water can be affected by the manner in which he uses them." With the great need, particularly in western sections where lack of water and drouths had paralizing effects on the national economy, PWA undertook direct action to conserve water until the total of this v. v BEAUTIFULLY, AND I INSIST has allotted $195,63(5,700 in federal grants, and $11,108,990 in grants, making a total of There have been 12 nonfederal loans totaling $22.1 15,700. conThis has made struction estimated to cost $595,005,-77- treatment of inland waters by declaring: "Air, sunlight, soil and water are the four factors absolutely essential Without . for Man's existence water, Man, animals and plants MY CLEAN AND POLISHED I Tjgart river dam at Grafton, KEEPS FLOORS ill I ''iff I rr'if d 4 v -- 'N4, 2 Jiff is i .. : ' W Copyright. The coldest spot on .:.e earth a .;ru::r.O! s within the '.: not the North polo, n r even tv. South poK?, which is colder "sti tes. refill !g the assistadminis-plac- e .e public v. ik-The temperature dre: lower for five parts of Siberia and oti.er resin-human of the world than it d: ,e? at either for "ater easors: Mil iloJ coi.tiol, navigapole. .on. ar.d power. PWA At Verkhoyansk, Siberia, a temperature of 90 degrees below ier has been recorded, while the low. est temperatures at the North pole are believed to be about 65 below zero. Temperatures of 7J and 77 below zero have been re. corded on the Anarctic ice barrier V I but no winter figures are avail, able for the high plateau around the South pole. i . "The greatest water impoundment program in the world's history is being carried out in the United States through the Federal Public All the waWorks administration. ter held at one time in dams and reservoirs completed or under construction with PWA assistance "Cover the state of Pennsylvania with two feet of water, with enough left over over for a few good sized lakes. "Or: "Supply New York city for 62 years with sufficient water for its requirements for washing, drinking and industrial use. "Or: "Reduce the world's ocean level a quarter of an inch. "Or: "Flood the state of Delaware with a 44 foot stage, 14 feet deeper than the recent Johnstown flood. "Or: "Float 1,078,431 vessels the size of the British ship Queen Mary." PWA Really Has Story. The recent spectacles of city folks and farmers arriving and departing from second story windows via rowboats even takes some of the steam out of the PWA article's intended piece de resistance the fact that, because a new dam has created a large "lake, there is now a yacht club flourishing in the heart of the desert. Of course all of this is just good, clean fun. The PWA really had quite a story to tell, and because mt-ae- j. - l Representative John E. Rankin believes to state the most extreme A view expressed from the Lilienthal group that the fight should go fcs on practically without quarter until all the electric business in the country is under public ownership. He would pay for the privately owned wwk.mw""'; utility systems, but on the basis of second-hanclothes "Not worth as much as new clothes." He would ali Bs low nothing for franchises in fixing .'V the price to be paid in taking th? utilities over, nor for any "profit" element in figuring return on investment. And he would give little consideration to the "men who have been robbing us for twenty years." Consider in contrast with this the views expressed by Dr. Morgan in his talks with some of the senators. lie has said that rates should be fixed for the private utilities which would allow a reasonable return on investment. The rate should bo determined by two fac,r , tor? one, the actual price of money at the moment, the other, a certain element of risk. On occasion he has mentioned eight per cent as a not unreasonable figure. This seems very high to his 1V 1 1' - t . opponents, especially as the Wash, s V ' 4 ,,S t s ington Post, owned by Eugene x , r who could be Meyer, certainly not said to be hostile to private investment, recently attacked the setup in Washington, saying that the re'' v v turn of six and a half per cent allowed the Potomac Electric Co., was too high! Incidentally, the rate of this calculation is the lowest for ."More than a hundred privately owned boats, one of them any city of comparable size in carrying 40 the United States, as far as house- passengers, cruise on' Lake Mead, created in the middle of the desert holders are concerned, which seems above Boulder dam. to make the idea that water power is so much cheaper than steam the taxpayers shell out I forget how phase of the agency's program reached stupendous proportions. a little silly, as Washington is many hundreds of millions of dolserved entirely by steam power. lars to make it all possible, it is a Until June of 1933, the Assuan story worth reading. dam and reservoir in the Nile of Another Factor The United States now has comwas the of its kind in Egypt But Dr. Morgan has another fac- pleted or under way PWA projects the world. It largest held about 1.32 triltor that is still more annoying to which will impound about 22 trillion lion gallons of water fresh out of the government ownership crowd. (22,000,000,000,000) gallons of water the mountains. Figured into acre He believes that the rates should be for irrigation, power, navigation, feet, which means spreading the waxed on a capital which should al- flood control, domestic, and induster into a sheet one foot thick, low a certain percentage of what trial purposes. All of these many capacity was 4,049,200 acre the Norris Lilienthal-Rankigroup projects have been either started, feet. call water. Dr Morgan believes continued, or completed with public Then came Boulder dam in the that every great electric system works administration federal or Colorado river. It was developed had some element of human .ability nonfederal allotments. to store 30,500,000 acre feet more behind it which should not go unreWater use and control was recogthan seven times as much as the warded. In some cases this ele- nized as a field for PWA ef- Assuan's. Norris dam in the Clinch ment contributed a great deal, in fort at the major inception of the agency. river near Knoxville, Tenn., which others less. of Great areas the country have was started with PWA funds But he believes that in some inand been stances the human genius that en- water handicapped by inadequate constructed by the Tennessee Valsupply. ley authority, followed. This was visioned the thing and brought it The Mississippi valley committee to have a capacity of 3,592,132 acre Into being might be valued as highof the national resources commitfeet, and in addition to Boulder ly as fifteen per cent additional to the actual dollars and cents value tee, described the situation in this dam, it was an outstanding chalway: lenge America offered to Egyptian of the electric system. "Land, water, and people go to-- supremacy until work started on e Bell Syndicate. WNU Service v- 's n ',. .,,' inous: would t- t there U.'-- . - The :h as tay real .unci ,:.d oti.er i.ee. I not lirijici I rerrvunU But tnen The mjry tvful hr..i. jai. rtana. dvrkne.53 ' . lA-.L- t.t nijHt. Of in the Missouri nv- d.m Peck svvcr some weeks there lay on the desks nent editors throughout the land an immortal uk s the nation This hvinc breathing contribution to V:.C brackets of prose was the work of tho.se pro ric gr.t.t members of the PWA "press section in tion. If not whimsy. of Cffflf ULqiK I htXt to lie By WILLIAM C. UTLEY CORRESPONDENT Washington THE. Means to Have That It What Tells Public Works Administration Colorful Comparisons. Much Water "Under Uek and Key" by NATIONAL CAPITAL By Carter Field FAMOUS GALLONS Waste Brings Want Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. Spurgeon. For Hali a Centur- yhave baea presciiiio0 in cases oi pulponair alleclions such as pneumonia, bad chest cold;;, coughs and congesting. becon DENVER MUD has n Physicians DENVER MUD medical household many-purpos- e necessity for emergency treatment oi bums, scalds and all ia!Ia-Ti- l rebel. conditions arid their Get a package TODAY froai your Druggbt. Practical Siie, 23c Family Size, 50c hood of $175,000,000. Honesty Is Best Judgment Everything to Gain. Mere honesty in a man doesn't It is possible only to estimate the insure that he has good judgment amount of water impounded by nonin all things. federal projects, but should they all taken into consideration, tot.nl water impoundments by PWA would run far in excess of 22 trillion gallons of water. Scientists, engineers, industrialOF ists and sportsmen declare the If you want to really GET tRID ex pec don GAS terrible and bloating, United States has everything to gain to do it by Just doctoring vcurV,i) by its tremendous water impoundach with haish. irriUtinq is Bon't BrmmB Gas Bloamtg ments. Spoilsmen '"J, set forth the GAS "aas tablets." Most " fl, itnmirh and unncr intestinein ia due to old poisonous matter loaded are constipated bowels that bacteria. with ,.and. If your constipation is of lorn Ing, enormous quantities of ina"0,u d'S" bacteria accumulate. Then ycur s no ad. creased opportunities for boating, swimming and fishing which may take place in the lakes throughout the nation. It will bo possible to float yachts on the waters of Grand Coulee, Bon- neville, Boulder dam's Lake Mead, Fort Peck, or any of the larger "lakes." There are already more than a hundred pri- vately owned boats on Lake Mead "iic ui which carries more than 40 passengers. Persons in that and area had never seen a lake until man maae Lake Mead. Engineers point out that such' dams as Fort Peck, Tygart dam near Grafton, West Virginia, the 14 reservoirs of the Muskingum district in Ohio, will aid in controlling floods and all insuring the year around for navigation potential river ports which have been hitherto land- l large-size- tion is upset. GAS often and lungs, making life miserable. head You can't eat or sleep. Ycur com aches. Your back aches. Ycur plexion is sallow and pimply. hy breath is foul. You are a mcc croi uu person. wretched, unhaopv , n SYSTEM IS POISONED. Thousands of sufferers have fauna Adlerika the quick, scientific rid their systems of harmful Rac'"nt Adlerika rids you of aas and foul poisons out of BOTH "rp', lower bowels. Give your REAL cleansino with Adlerika. rid of GAS. Adlerika d rf.idnS is not habit forming. At all Druggists. pre.-.se- man-mad- e d non-feder- ' tJ IN UTAH Ma"- - locked. May Help Wells. Scientists approve huge water impoundment because it will be ex tremely beneficial toward checking the rapid decline of America's underground water supply. The recently retired Major William Bowie chief of the division of geodesy' coast and geodetic survey, who also estimated the change in the ocean level cited Fort Peck as an exWhen the 19,412,000 ample acre feet of water is held there, the natural seepage into the may go far toward restoringground well supplies. 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