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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM, UTAH - vj i Hie Rogues 9 Gallery I Stymied by a Truck Your task at the moment is to keep year car on the hlghwiy, avoid the soft shoulder and not get killed, so yon have little time to be looking at the tracker's sneer. By FRANK CONDON THERE is no sneer in the as insulting and supercilious as the sneer of the modern truck driver, as he sits up there in his little pilot house, tooling his levia-than of the road and watch-ing you struggle by in your sedan. Now it must be a matter of record that truck drivers are good citizens, perhaps loving fathers, kindly husbands and all in all, a desirable class of men to have in the community, and yet I am continually having such painful experiences with them that I am prejudiced beyond saying. During the last few months, I have been driving copiously over our beautiful California highways and my rela-tions with the truckers have been more intimate than ever. On the larger and more repellent trucks, they travel two by two, like airplane pilots or love birds, and the man at the wheel always wears a stony expression, mingled with scorn. He holds to the steering gear and his face is a mask. The other one the one not driving Is the one who sneers. He sits on the right hand side and can sneer steadily for seventy miles. It is the custom on the larger trucks to have two pilots, so that one can drive and the other sleep or sneer. After a few hours, the rirtvAr .vphanff.l nlanAii find 4Vinn fenders, headlights and bumpers. In my humble opinion, these oil tankers have no business or right on the public roads. They plug along aimlessly and I don't believe they're really going anywhere. They merely pretend to be hauling oil and gasoline between Los Angeles and El Paso. All day long, you meet them, toiling over the hills, with thirty thousand gallons of gas for El Paso. All day long, you meet them, coming the other way with thirty thousand gallons of gas for Los Angeles. Why don't the ones that are in El Paso just stay there, and if the ones in Los An-geles would never move a wheel, everything would be square and each town wou.J have all the gaso-line U required. No Sense to It. There exists a state law sup-posed to regulate these monarchs of the road, buf it doesn't The law states that when more than one truck and trailer are crawling along, thus making a caravan, the second truck shall remain at least three hundred feet distant from the one ahead. In theory giving the hap-less passenger car a faint chance to duck in and out Do they do it? Do they remain respectfully three hundred feet away? Thirty Inches would be nearer the mark. The second driver worms up as close as he can and stays there and if you come upon seven or eight of these double trucks you may as well haul up under a shady tree. he becomes the sneerer or sleeper as the case may be. Try to Pass a Track. My definite complaint against all truck drivers is that they proceed at too slow a pace and secondly, they refuse to get over. It accom-plishes nothing to blow your horn, the truck man cannot hear you nyhow and doesn't want to hear you. If your horn reaches his ears by accident, he merely pretends he didn't hear any horn and his feel-ing is that you and your nasty little sedan have no business on the state highway, annoying an honest truck-er. To my notion, the worst offenders are the lads who tool alone slowlv The other day I came upon a doz-e- u truck drivers in their kindlier moments, and it seemed a good time to get acquainted and see if they were like other men. Well, sir, they were. In the con-versation that ensued, I learned many an interesting item and fi-nally, said: "Well, why would any-bod-y want to be a truck driver, when he could easily be something else?" Answer came from the man on the next seat He weighed over two hundred, wore a blue shirt open at the neck and a battered cap. He said: "I'll tell you why, mister. Trucking is better than hav-in- s a white collar inh vrhvt vjau on their oil tankers. I certainly hate and detest oil tankers and am always hoping they will catch fire and burn up, but they never do. California oil tankers are the worst of all, because following an old tra-dition, California must have the largest of everything and its oil tankers are simply prodigious. Each one usually has fourteen to eighteen wheels, enormous rubber doughnuts, about as large as a To-ledo cistern and when one of these babies Is going your way, the road is filled and it would take Lind-bergh and a compass to get by. Furthermore, it is never one of them, worse luck it's two. The sec-ond mammoth is attached to the first by an iron bar and is playfully called a trailer. Each tanker holds about sixteen thousand gallons of gasoline, or perhaps it is sixteen million and at night they are gaily caparisoned with red, pink, blue, green and purple lamps and look like a repulsive Christmas tree. I average thirty-eigh- t dollars a week and so do these guys and we get home Sundays." Where else can I do that?" "Yes," said the next man, "and last week, I pulled down fifty-on- e bucks." "Your pay changes weekly?" "Sure but usually, it's around forty bucks. When we start out we just keep on going till we get there, day and night one guy drives and the other sleeps, and extra pay for the extra hours. That's better than being a clerk, ain't it or pump-ing gas in a filling station?" After this, it is my intention to be more tolerant and charitable and not to swear at the boys when a CQuple of oil hogs loom up ahead In the fog. I'll never forget the black and blizzardy night I slid off the pavement into a ditch, the con-crete having suddenly turned into a skating rink, and found five large trucks buried hopelessly against the muddv banlr. Tt tvaa Hnlmu When you come up behind a couple of these tankers on an or-dinary hilly or curving highway, you might as well remain calm and not blow your horn or curse or do anything. The driver up in front is making an honest ten miles per hour and that is what you are go-ing to do. He is perched up so far ahead of you that ordinary commu-nication is impossible and that is why we need these two-wa- y radio telephone sets on all cars, for then you could call up the truckman and have the following conversation: "Pardon me. Jack, but would nobody could move a wheel and the blizzard was like buck-sho- t "Pretty bad nighf I said genial-ly. "Yeah." "You men have plenty of trouble, haven't you?" . "Yeah." "But" I said hopefully, "if you boys would all push on the side of my car, maybe I can wiggle it back on the road and start down hill." "Yeah," said the yeah man, "and who's gonna shove us out on the road?" T TnAJnJ -- 1 At mind letting me go past? I am down here right behind your left hand faucet and all ready to go by." The man would reply pleasantly and either let you go by or deny your request and if the latter, you could take a neat revenge by smashing into the back end of his trailer and knocking oil all your yieaueu cioijuenuy, xney au came over and shoved like heroes and in fifteen minutes, we wormed out and I was creeping off down the road, leaving them to spend the night in the ditch. God bless 'em. And that is why, when I swear at a crawling oil tanker on the highway, I am not nearly as mad at the truck driver as I appear to be. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. SEElUndHEARDL around tne y NATIONAL CAPITALy-- A By Carter Field Vflfvy FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington. Texas seems to be nlovln moro importance even I 5isted was Article X. This was the I article requiring the member na- - than its area or its one-tim- e inde-pendence would seem to warn nt in this fight over President Roosevelt's proposal to enlarge the Supreme court The question every one has been asking since the President sprang his surprise message is was Vice President Garner con-sulted in advance? The answer seems to be no. The reason the folks are asking the question is significant of Wash-ington's reaction to the proposal. They seem to think that this pro-posal is very puzzling in view of the extraordinary cleverness which has characterized other Roosevelt congressional maneuvers. Take the case of Maury Maver-ick, the much publicized Texas cow-boy congressman. He rushed In and introduced the President's bill without consulting anybody. This was little short of gall and worm-wood to Hatton W. Sumners, also of Texas, but who happens to be chair-man of the house judiciary commit-tee. So that now it's the Maverick bill tlons of the league xo use wce w iir-po- its decisions. Never Invoked Its power has never been Invoked by the league. In fact, no member nation has ever proposed that it b invoked. Not even against Japan In 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 na-tions, particularly Britain and France, which proposed them. Of course commentators really familiar with the League of Nations fight are really wonderng if Presi-dent Roosevelt will prove as stub-born as President Wilson did. It may be that he will, but no one wUh whom the writer has talked thinks so. On the contrary, they point out that Mr. Roosevelt is al-ways asking for more than be ex-pects to get There is another vital difference. In the league fight the sentiment 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 sol-emnly introduced by Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona, chairman of the judiciary committee. Legislature Opposes But the Texas angle in the up-per house was not confined to Cac-tus Jack Garner. The two Texas senators figured in as amusing a bl. of timing as has occurred for some time. Senator Morris Shep-par- d, who has been getting nom-inated and elected to the senate without opposition enough to really worry him since 1912, rushed out a statement approving the Presi-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 state-ment deploring the President's ideas about the high court, and promising to oppose any such legis-lation! There is still another Texas angle. In the President's message sending the bill to congress he said: "With the opening of the Twen-tieth century, and the great In-crease in population and commerce, and the erowth of a more rnmnlp againsi American entry grew verj slowly. Developments of any sig-nificance did not begin until months after the senate debate was in full flare. Whereas, there was a whole crop of developments within a week-afte- r 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 Sena-tor William E. Borah and Hi-ram W. Johnson were outstanding members, did not form until the fight had been under way for months. In fact it was not cleareven 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 fight, 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 lib-erals as Senator George W. Nor-ri- s who have talked with Dr. Ar-thur 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 private-ly owned utilities than the in group approves. Seek Public Ownership type of litigation, similar proposals were introduced in the congress. To meet the situation, in 1913, 1914, 1915 and 1916, the Attorneys Gen-eral 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 promptly and adequately dis-charged." The first of these attorneys gen-eral, President Roosevelt disclosed, was Thomas Watt Gregory of Tex- -' as, close friend of Colonel E. M. House, and recommended by him to Woodrow Wilson! The second was James Clark McReynolds. now th Representative John E. Rankin believes to state the most extreme view expressed from the Lilienthal group that the fight should go on practically without quarter until all the electric business a the coun-try is under public ownership. He would pay for the privately owned utility systems, but on the basis of second-han- d clothes "Not worth as much as new clothes." He would al-low nothing for franchises in fixing the price to be paid in taking the utilities over, nor for any "profit" element in figuring return on in-vestment And he would give little consideration to the "men who have been robbing us for twenty years." Consider in contrast with this th Supreme court justice whom the New Dealers would ra'.her see re-tire than any one else on the bench. And incidentally he is more than seventy. Making Comparisons Comparisons of the Roosevelt pro-posal to enlarge the Supreme court to the Woodrow Wilson League of Nations fight are the order of the day, especially on the part of writ-ers hoping this struggle will take on the importance of the former. Actually the comparison is the more interesting because of differ-ences. 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 stub-bornness of President Wilson who refused to permit the crossing of a "t" or the dotting of an "i," Wilson would have won views expressed by Dr. Morgan in his talks with some of the senators. He has said that rates should be fb:ed for the private utilities which would allow a reasonable return on investment The rate should be determined by two fac-tors 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 opponents, especially as the Wash-ington Post, owned by Eugene Meyer, who could certainly not be said to be hostile to private invest' ment recently attacked the setup In Washington, saying that the re-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 any city of comparable size in the United States, as far as house-holders are concerned, which seems to make the idea that water now. that fight. He would have won it despite the ranging of every ra-cial group in America against him, won it despite the masterly direc-tion 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 Ver-sailles treaty would have been fied by the senate, and that the United States would have joined the League of Nations, if Wilson had not sent a command to all his loyal er is so much cheaper than steam a little silly, as . Washington is served entirely by steam power.' Another Factor But Dr. Morgan has another fac-tor that is still more annoying to the government ownership crowd. He believes that the rates should be fixed on a capital which should al-low a certain percentage of what the Norris Lilienthal-Ranki- n group call water. Dr. Morgan believes that every great electric system had some element of human ability behind it which should not po unm. louowers to vote againsi ratification as Jang as the Lodge reservations were included. Whereas Lord .Robert Cecil long afterwards admitted that the Lodge reservations would not have made th; slightest difference! That is the almost unanimous opinion of all stu-dents of League of Nations history today. For instance, the "heart of the covenant," President Wilson in-- warded. In some cases this ele-ment contributed a great deal. In others less. . But he believes that in some In-stances the human genius that en-visioned the thing and brought It into being might be valued as high-ly as fifteen per cent edditional to th actual dollars and cents value of the electric system. C BelJ Syndicate. WNU Service. 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SteagaU of Alabama Intro-duced simultaneously In the senate and house the ad-ministration bill set-ting up a program for the construction of homes for "fami-lies of low Income." Under the measure the government may lend to state or local housing authorities $1,000,000,000, from July 1, 1937, to July f nil 4U.- -. M sm urged that prompt action be taken to provide for the sale of electric power from the $91,000,000 Bonne-ville project on the Columbia river in Oregon; and he Intimated this might be taken as the forerunner of a national power policy. The rec-ommendations were in accord with a report from the committee on na-tional power policy and also with the position Mr. Roosevelt took in the controversy with Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, TVA chairman, who fa-vored with existing power companies and consideration for their investment. Here is what the President pro-posed: 1. That not less than 50 per cent of the power generated at Bonne-ville be reserved for sale to public authorities, such as states, districts, counties, municipalities and other ns and to as-sociations of citizens. 2. That the government construct 1, !Vti.t WC UIUIJCV Sen. Wagner for Ma purpose to be raised by bond issues and the loans to be supervised by a new department the United States Hous-ing authority. To supplement the loans congress Is asked to appropri-ate $50,000,000 to be paid in out-right grants. The loans are to bear interest at not less than the going federal rate end are to be payable over such a period, not to exceed 60 years, as the authority may de-termine. Competition with private industry is guarded against according to the authors, "by insuring that housing projects shall be at all times avail-able only to families who are in the low income groups." The four year program calls for the construction of 375,000 family dwelling units at an average cost of $4,000 a unit Wagner and SteagaU . insisted that the bill called for "de-centralization." "All the direction, planning, and management in connection with publicly assisted housing projects are to be vested in local authorities, springing from the Initiative of the people in the communities con-cerned," they stated. "The federal government will merely extend its financial aid through the medium of these agencies. The only exception to the strictly decentralized admin-istration is that the federal govern-ment may set up a few demonstra-- ; tive projects in order that local areas without adequate instrumen-talities of their own may benefit by an experience in low rent housing." O AVING virtually countenanced the n strike In the case of the General Motors controversy, the administration found itself em-barrassed by that favorite ma-neuver of John Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization. Out in Monica, Calif., about 200 a J. V. a . us own transmission lines, sub-statio- ns and other facilities for trans-porting power so as to make the government project Independent of existing utility companies. 3. That the federal government control the re-sa- le rates to consum-ers through regulation by the fed-eral power commission. 4. That the power be sold at rates low enough to promote the widest use of electrical energy, par-ticularly to domestic and rural consumers. These rates, the Presi-dent insisted, should be fixed with relation to only that part of the to-tal $51,000,000 Bonneville investment that the government saw fit to charge to power generation. 5. That the federal agency ad-ministering the project, be author-ized to acquire by eminent domain if need be, land, franchises, exist-ing transmission lines. Vjft FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND, the elderly Californian who de-vised the old age ' pension plan bearing his name, was found guilty of contempt of the H1" "5!?HiL'"-i house of representa-fffi&- k tives because he re- - I N1. 1 fused t0 testUy be" f0re a nouse com. lyJ-P- rnittee that was vestiSating his , scheme last spring fvV ; Tj and "took a walk" flif1! out he commit-- I "''', tee room. The diet rendered by a "frfiVf f mnnil Jury "I the District Dr. Townsend 01 court made the doctor li-able to a sentence of one to twelve years in jail or a fine of from $100 to $1,000, or both. Judge Peyton Gordon deferred sentence until he could pass on a motion for a new trial. Townsend seemed rather to wel-come the verdict saying he had expected it "Lord bless you, I'll be all the more active," he said when asked what effect a convic-tion would have on his movement "I think it will be the general opin-ion that I have been the victim of an injustice. Our organization will be spurred on to greater ef-forts." empwyees oi we uougias Air-craft corporation went on strike and "sat down" in the big plant, com--' pletely stopping work on $24,000,000 worth of airplanes the company is building for the government The men defied a trespass warning and an order to evacuate the plant sent them by the police, and Mr. Doug-las refused to negotiate with the union until the strikers got out of the buildings. The situation was complicated by a quarrel over worker representation between the Automobile Workers' union, a C L O. group, and the Machinists' union, allied with the A. F. of L. Finally the strikers were indicted for conspiring to violate two old California laws against forcible en-try and trespassing, and when 300 armed deputies appeared at the plant they surrendered and were taken to Los Angeles for arraign-ment Another big government Job' was halted for a time by a n strike of employees of the Electric Boat company at Groton, Conn., which is building submarines for the navy. There, however, the local and state police soon evicted the trespassers and arrested them, and the rest of the employees, a large majority, resumed work. Speaking "not as an officer of the p. 'ministration," Secretary of Com-merce Daniel C. Roper said that ' any n strike "that under-takes to take over private proper-ty is a very serious and fundamen-tal thing and in my opinion will not be long endured by the courts." There was almost an epidemic of strikes throughout the country, many of them of the n vari-ety. Some were settled in short rFOLLOWING the example set by the five operating railway broth-erhoodsengineers, firemen, con-ductors, trainmen and switchmen the sixteen brother-hoods, with a membership of 800,-00- 0. have voted to demand wage in-creases averaging 30 cents an hour. This action was taken at a meeting In Chicago of the general chair-men of the brotherhoods. Besides the pay increase, the men ask the guarantee of full time employment for all regularly assigned workers and two-third- s time for "standby" employees. The brotherhoods embrace the clerks, telegraphers, carmen, shop laborers, machinists, blacksmiths, dispatchers, boiler-maker- s, drop forgers, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, freight handlers, express and station em-ployees, maintenance of way men, signal men and sleeping car con-ductors. order but others are still on at this writing. Among these was the strike at the Fansteel Metallurgical cor-poration in North Chicago, where the disgruntled workers refused to leave the plant Gov. Henry Hor-ner was striving earnestly to bring about a settlement John L. Lewis' threat, during the General Motors strike, that "Ford and Chrysler are next" is being carried out. The United Automobile Workers union sent to Walter P. Chrysler demands that the U. A. W. be recognized by his corporation as the sole collective bargaining D LANS for the complete blockade 1 of Spain by the other European powers, In order to starve out the civil war, met with difficulties ow-ing to the bringing up of points in-volving the national honor of France and Russia. The French made certain objections to the land patrol and the Russians to the sea patrol. The Spanish loyalists were mak--I ing a desperate effort to capture Oviedo, where the insurgent garri-son was attacked by dynamite throwing Basques. The defenders, numbering about 12.000 agency. r PEN warfare by the govern-- s ment on private power inter-ests will be started soon if the rec- - ommendations of President Roose- - velt to congressional leaders are I acted upon favorably. In letters ' , t0 Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead, the President hard pressed and it seemed im-possible that relief forces could reach the city in time to save them. In the Madrid seetor. too, the rebels were getting the worst of it. for the government forces were about ready to make a mass arsault on Pinzarron hill from which the Franco artillery has been shelling the Madrid-Valenci- a road. J Essence of Gti Genius does its M stnee of genius is not s I Waste Brings K Hundreds would 4 known want if they bj known waste. Spurgwj Honesty Is Best h Mere honesty in a f insure that he has good in all things. |