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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEIIL UTAH a time ever whether Governor Davey would call a EclaJ election. Be 6 elded against It Publicly stated, the-- , reason was that it toaia,"a5Ktne. Ohio taxpayers Just1iaif BAnlllfoir have-tdollars, jrrnhe election wot be IiHtbe ntlr'e state. Trttf having been congressman at large. Also that no single district of Ohio was, ! being deprived of representation. It Just so happened that at the same, time Governor Davey, despite all the' harsh words exchanged between him- self and Relief Administrator Hopkins, received an allotment of $20,000,-00He had come to Washington to. get it, but there was no necessity, apparently, of presenting any arguments Washington. Business Is recovering. for It In fact, he received word he Reports from all over the country could have It before he actually got prove this beyond dispute. However, In to see President Roosevelt By a two disturbing questions are In the curious he also ancoincidence minds of business men, and nobody nounced. Just betore he entered the really knows the answers. Which may executive mansion, that there would be Just as well, for the time being. be no special election. If there were no disagreement about This did not pass unnoticed. Critthe answers, the effect might be very ics bad a great deal to say about It harmful Indeed. especially as the reverberations from These questions are: had not the Rhode Island 1. How much Is government spenddied down. But there was very little ing responsible for the present upturn? comment in Washington, for the simple And Its logical sequel: what will hapreason that few people knew anything pen when government wholesale spen- about it, or the fact that there had dingor what might be called excess to be a lot of fast footwork to prevent budget spending stops? a special election on whether Ohio 2. To what extent will the new tax voters would approve a loan to match policy restrain new ventures? And the $20,000.0(10 Governor Davey was Its logical sequel: If new ventures getting with such ease from the fedare restrained by governmental ac- eral government tion, what' will happen as both govIs that the constitution The ernment excess spending and new ven- of Ohiopoint requires that before the state tures shrink? shall commit the state to No. 1 needs no diagraming. Its government debt exceeding $750,000, It must any ramifications, though widespread, are be approved by a referendum. obvious. No. 2 Is very complicated Indeed. Election Not Wanted New ventures have always been fNeither Governor Davey nor the adinanced. In cases Where considerable ministration in Washington wanted any capital Is required, either by rich such election. They remembered the men, or by a flood of Investors eager enthusiasm with which the Rhode to get rich quick thinking of the voters had rejected loans the ama.Ing profits made by successful federal government was seeking to ventures In the past, and willing to force Rhode Island to make to be risk their stakes on the hope of doing spent with larger contributions from likewise. the federal treasury, which did not So important is this latter classihave to be repaid and they did not fication that many shrewd financial want a repetition. observers have argued that this couwas conSo Governor ntryto coutlnue to progress must cerned,farheas wanted the Davey federal gift of have "sucker money." They point to the astounding list of enterprises, to- $20,000,000, so he wanted the state to borrow Its share. He wanted to pose day successful, which were started by "sucker money." In many of them In the role of having brought home the original Investors lost their all. A the bacon. He was not averse to the folks In Ohio that Washglance at the big buildings, whether showing to come across for him had ington they be office structures or hotels or even if he had threatened to put Harry In whatnot, any large American city Hopkins in Jail, and had to throw In provides copious Illustrations. some minor compliments . for good measure. "Sucker" Takes Chances So far as the New Deal was conThe "sucker" knows the odds against him are heavy. Sometimes he seems cerned, It- did' not want to risk anto be deceived by the glib talk of the other setback. It was willing to overlook Davey's harsh words, or, pay albond salesman or promoter. But down In his heart the most any other price, to avoid Just "sucker" knows he Is taking a big that chance. He does not need that extra So a plan to dodge the plain lanthousand dollars, or Jen thousand dol- guage of the Ohio constitution was delars, he has saved so painstakingly, vised. A corporation was set up to for any pressing family purpose, In handle the expenditures, and this cormost cases. He Is the saving, frugal poration Is to borrow the money Ohio type. But he craves to lift himself to normally would get by a bond issue. a higher standard of living to better Of course the taxpayers will have to (as he sees It) chances for his children. pay Just as much, in Interest and sinkIn short, to be rich. The only way ing fund, as though the state had borthe leverage "sucker" of this type has rowed the money direct, so It would to get rich Is to put some money appear to the unprejudiced outsider into sdftiething which will prove a that at least the spirit of the constibonanza. , tution of the Buckeye state had been New Deal policies run counter to circumvented. this. They : have already closed the But the really Interesting thing door to the highly proabout It; all Is. that the New Dealers spectusto the alluring lacked confidence that the Ohio vot ads aimed at enticing the "sucker." ers would approve the project, even They would protect him from his own though the federal government was gullibility. But the taxnolicy goes paying more than half of Its cost further, ir he does win, the government will take such "a" large percentFight Not Over age of his winnings' that the average The Roosevelt fight Is professional gambling house proprienot over. The Inclusion of what Is tor's percentage seems generous, ingenerally admitted too be the death deed, by comparison. sentence in the utjlily holding comIt must be remembered that the pany bill did not mark the end of average "sucker" has a theory. He the administration's drive against the will back hundred to one shots as freelectric business. quently as he can raise the money, In the very near future another blast figuring that some day he Is going Is coming, which will hit not only the to make a killing. When that killing utilities themselves, but the bankers comes, however, he steps Into; the to New Dealers who, according upper Income tax brackets. skimmed off the cream, Iavlng Just As to those already rich, the higher skimmed milk for the stock and bondthe taxes are the less Incentive there holders, while piling up a capitalistic is, obviously, to take any risk In oron which the customers have pyramid to der make more. The dice are too to "extortionate" rates. pay heavily loaded. The government takes It has been whispered around In a heavy cut of the winnings, but New Deal circles for some months stands no part of the losses. Does the utilities not even permit them with a small now that the next slap at on their alleged costs of be would exception to be deducted from Income distribution. In fact, figures have been for tax purposes! in connection with It Half mentioned ;'The question for both these classes a billion dollars is being wrung from of Investors, If you will, the where does the deadline come in? users of electricity every year, due to what they Dealers New say, Nobody knows the answer to that fictitious elements But It Is known that President Roose- Insist are perfectly cost In distribution. of velt got only part of what he wanted In1 ilence the first blast will be or at heavy taxes on big Incomes, and In his sliding scale tax against bigness. least, Is expected to be the opening esOrdinary business, of course, goes gun of a fight for rate reductions a a billion half at timated for year the best It ahead, doing can, regardless of tax policy. It has no alterna- the country. tive. It Is in connection with new Most f the attack will be on the ventures that the tax policy may prove Interest charges figured as part of the con expense of distribution. Obviously, a important Radicals and servatives alike agree that this policy very large part of the cost of distribpushes toward government ownership. uting electricity, once It has been Roosevelt does not Ouly time will brought to a city line. Is the original cost of laying the conduits, stringing tell the wires through them, erecting the The Ohio Situation transformer stations, etc. To do this What would a special election In work In the first place the electric Ohio stowT borrowed the money. companies There Is no public talk about It, but It is the cost of that money down underneath that question Is the milk of the coconut In something of more Importance, both about to start ,. ;' to administration and "antr circles, Private.. companies 'in the electric than lots of things that are being business did not get their money very openly discussed.' It's not Just a ques- cheaply, from present standards, tion of Democratic and Republican-conserva- tive though they fared better than some or New Deal For there other lines of business. But If the Is even more concern over how Ohio actual money received In the treasury would vote on bond Issues than wheth- of the utilities companies, and the er sfie would elect a Democrat or a actual amount of bond Interest paid Rtpubllcan to the house of represent- on it Is computed, the rate Is much atives In place ot Charles 7. Truax, higher than appears, on the average, who died some weeks back. on the engraved certificates. There was considerable publicity for Copyright WNU rYlo. -- "Northwest Passage" Awaits Trade Housewife's Idea Box ivmmm A NATIONAL CAPITAL 1 Z ( ):-- Carter Field - Hi iVf'V 7 . By WILLIAM C. UTLEY centuries men have FOR frozen, drowned and lost attempts to find a Northwest Passage an all water route through the American continent that 'would permit European ships to reach the Orient without sailing nrounJ In Cape Born. Much of the exploration and settlement of North America has been directly attributable to the search. What Is probably the nearest tiling to a practical Northwest Passage that will ever exist Is the Hudson Bay route, now undergoing development by the Canadian government By this route, ships from European ports would sail through fur Inland Hudson Straits, coming across Hudson bay to tli old, but newljtmproved port of Churchill, far op the "fray on the west side. A Hudson Bay railway, which Joins the Canadian National at Le Pas In Manitoba, lias been built with Its northern terminus In Churchill., This will now allow ships unloading at Churchill to transfer their cargoes to railway cars there, which will carry them across western Canada to Vancouver, where they may be placed aboard ship again and sent to sea on the final lap of Its Journey to Japan, China, India or other Oriental markets. ' Such a route has several distinct advantages over the recognized routes '. e today. If Is claimed. The distance of travel from Churchill to Liverpool is about the same as that from Montreal, Quebec, St. John and Portland, and loss than from New York, yet Churchill Is much farther Into the heart of Canada and North America. To wheat farmers of Manitoba and western Canada it could be made vastly Important, for Its supporters claim that It could lower the price of Canadian wheat four cents a bushel. This, of course, would be of vital Importance to wheat farmers In Minnesota and the Dakotas, for It would make Canadian wheat a much more serious competitor, although If Is possible that some American farmers would also find It cheaper to ship their wheat h though Hudson Bay than through and the Great Lakes as so many of them now do. Needs Oriental Trade. to make It profitable for shiBut to pick up cargoes of companies pping v wheat at Churchill, bound for Liverpool and European ports, their ships must be able to bring pay loads Into Churchill as well as take them out. It would hardly be worth while for vtnany ships to enter Hudson Bay only 'under balance to pick np a cargo for v. i vT f. i ..' t ' w wf I fit ka 11 sV long-endurin- g i Du-lut- the return trip. The answer seems to be for the shipping companies to develop the Oriental trade, so that ships can bring European manufactured goods to be transferred to rail for Vancouver and the Orient, and pick up wheat at Churehli for the 'retnrn trip. That tills, dVj1oprnenT"Vril eventually come about, Jfmot at all unprobable, for the CnnaltfTgoveraniBnt has spent more than $57,000,000 In developing the Hudson Bay route In the past few years and It Is doubtful that such an outlay of capital will be satisfied with the handful of 6hlps which have cleared Churchill harbor since the completion of the Hudson Bay railway five years ago. The history of this development Is fascinating because It Is heroic. Although he was really not the first adventurer to poke the nos of his fhip Into Hudson straits, It Is Hendrlk Hudson to whom goes the honor of actually discovering the bay which now bears his name. He found It In 1010 and wintered In the part of It known as James bay. With a few sick sall-- . ors he was cast adrift In an open boat and that was the last ever heard of Jilra real occupation of the site s of the present Churchill occurred nine i years later and was Incidental to the search of Jens Mnnck, a Danish noble' man, tot the Northwest Passage. Then weigjtwq snips in nis company, out durJuftJ.i.wJnter he was forced to spend at Churchill, all but Munrk and y Tlua-JJrs- t two sailors' perished. When the Ice cleared In 1C20 the. same year the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock the three of them sailed back to Europe, leaving at Churchill as evidence of their visit a brass cannon, stamped with the Danish royal mark. In 1931, more than COO years later, a cairn, x built of beach stones, was erected to Munck's honor In Battery park, Churchill. Two Frenchmen, Radlsson and Gro-- , Bcllllers, spent the years from 1058 , , to 1G02 in the country about Churchill and returned home with talcs of tho- wealth In furs that existed there. Fall-ingt- y Interest their countrymen, they itold their stories to Prince Rupert 0. 4v i 11 : i7 yv A Paint Hint - Do you find K difficult properly t mix paint which has Just Leeo opened? The next time you are golnf to nse a can of paint, turn the closed can upside down a couple of days before you Intend to use It You will find that you have no dlfficolty to mixing the paint THE HOUSEWIFi:. 6 Public Ledger, Inc. WNU Serrlce. Week' Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postua Company In another part of this They will send a full week's sup. ply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for It Adv. pa-pe-r. Potatoes at Will Hawaii produces new potatoes In January while those grown in Main are old and rusty. Since there neither 6ummer nor winter all that Hawaii has to do Is to figure hoir long It takes them to grow and plant accordingly. 1 Is-al- Shown here is a graphic of life at the new port of Churchill. 1. A ship at one of the wharves in winter. 2. Native Eskimos fishing along the flat, barren coast. 3. The new 2,500,000-bushe- l grain elevator. 4. An Eskimo dog-teaprincipal mode of travel, with the exception of the new Hudson Bay railway. cross-sectio- n of Great Britain, and under his direcHarbor possibilities were much bettion, the Hudson Bay company was ter at Churchill. Port Nelson could formed. Most of the subsequent ex- be entered only at high tide, and then ploration was the result of this com- would not admit ships of more than pany's successful efforts to build up 20 feet draft, while at Churchill prothe fur trade. vision for could be made at any tide. The cost of completing the work History of Exploration. at Churchill was estimated to be less Capt James Young, under the aus- than at Port Nelson, and the engiHudson of the company, Bay pices neers estimated that It could be acestablished a post at Churchill In 1089, In three years less time. complished but it burned down shortly afterward. A two Hudson permanent wharf was built, moorIn the following decades, suffered the Installed, the channel deep Jroni buoys ing developments Bay wars between England and France, but ened and the harbor otherwise Imin 1717 another post was built, at proved. With the completion of the Churchill. Over a period of years fol- railway, great freight sheds were conlowing, the stronghold, Fort Prince of structed and cattle pens set up. Wales was constructed, and the ruins Today the one outstanding landmark of the fort are still a Churchill landof Churchill from any approach is the mark. giant grain elevator. It Is a toweping An Irishman, Sir Arthur Dobbs, white skyscraper that seems oddly out sailed from Churchill In 1735 In an- of place along the flat and barren other of the many efforts to find the shore, which Is frozen the year round. Northwest Passage which are linked It holds 2,500,000 bushels, and prowith the poet's history, but after sevvisions have been made for enlarging eral attempts he, too, was disappointed. this capacity to 10,000,000 bushels. On the rock near the port may still be Wheat stored there will "keep" almost seen the names of his two ships, Indefinitely because of the d Furnace and Discovery, carved there low temperatures that produce natural by the sailors. Another name hewn refrigeration. from Churchill rock Is that of Samuel Patrol Ice Areas. Hearne who, operating from Churchill Another 17G9 to Imposing building Is the as a base in the years from power house, with its three generators 1772, uncovered much of the vast mineral wealth of the Hudson Bay country. capable of carrying a load of 3,000 Further development of the terri- kilowatts. .It takes power to operate car unloaders at the tory under the leadership of Mafhew the four grain each capable of emptying Cocking and Lord Selkirk followed, but elevator, the next really Important historical eight cars, a total of 10,000 bushels, character In Churchill annals was an- every hour. After the grain has been other seeker for the elusive Northwest elevated It can be delivered to the r conwharf by a four-bel- t Passage. He was Sir John Franklin, who spent the better part of throe veyor system which runs in a gallery. The shipping gallery In Its 1,402 feet of decades exploring the Arctic and Hudhis third expedition, which length, provides berths at the wharf son Bay. under the left Churchill In the ships Erebus for three ships at one time .. .boat Twenty-thre- e and Terror In 1S45, he found it to his gallery spouts. r sorrow. The log of the Terror re- spouts nftke It possible to deliver-fou0 the of Into rate at streams ships vealed that's Northwest Passage had bushels an hour for each stream. been found foexlst at last, but FrankAll of the port facilities are comlin and all of his crew perished In the Arctic cold. plete for present use. The next step With the growth of population In in the development of tgie Hudson Western Canada and the Increasing im- Bay route Is the Improvement of naviportance of the territory's agriculture, gation In the bay Itself ami In Hudson need began to be felt for larger ma& . strait. The waters are patjolled by a kets. The best market, of course. waSH tuglhe Ocean Europe, but It $as hard of access be- Eagle, which makes wbtfting trips cause of the lac'of railroads connecteach year at the time the Ice breaks ing the westerjj farm lands with a up. I. It. must be remembered. that It Is t port. very cold In this part ottB bay terriIn 1908 the department of railways tory; the mean yearly temperature Is and canals began surveying the right about 17 degrees, and the strait and of way for the railway, deciding to ex- bay are navigable without tend It from Le Pas to Port Nelson, only about six weeks of the year. rather than to Churchill, because The Ice In Churchill harbor usually the cost of a fine to Port Nelson breaks up about. theT'offlfjile of June was estimated at $4,000,000 less than and, closes up again during the last one to ChurcWIL While the line was two weeks of October. started from, the south end, activity The Canadian geepjpent operates was begun t$ complete port facilities an the Stanley, to keep the at Tort Nelson, but during the World strait and bay opeij" as long as possible war the project was abandoned and maintains an! aerial scouting paPort Ijlelson Is Abandoned. trol to keep pavigalorsl posted on the It was tot taken up again until Ice conditions with which tb$y are 1928. During the eight years of Inac likely to meet. tivity the line had deteriorated beyond - About the only thrne ths new Northjf use. It was decided: that before be- wst Passage rputeieeds to become an ginning again, another survey should import JkjT factor In world commerce be made of the relative merits of the Is shipping. In .1931 two ships cleared Churchill and Fort Nelson terminals, Churgmii naroor; in lswa, 10 ships; this time by an Impartial engineer. In 193310 ships; In 1934, 15 ships. At The Churchill terminus won .out. thejme of this wrltlng'only two ships It had been thought earlier, on had rfcaTedChurthIll harbor Id the Incomplete data available, that the' line entire summer of 1935. to Churchill was virtually Impossible Should European Interests see fit of construction.' It would have to be to build tip Churchill as a shipping longer than the line to Port Nelson, point for manufactured goods bound and 75 miles of It would be through for the Orient, the shipping should d the frozen muskegs, which" It was multiply many times. The facilities would thaw out during the sum- rail, harbor and return s are mer, thus damaging the roadbed be- there.. 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