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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH QUOTES" COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Rational Press Building Washington, D. C. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Washington. Roosevelts John N. Garner Henry Claiy i By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IEN Congressman Joseph W. Byrns of the Sixth Tennessee district was elected speaker of the United States house of representatives at the open congress. lng of the Seventy-fourtIt was another case of history re peatlng Itself." For it was Just 100 years ago that another Tennessean was being elevated to that position and he was destined to have the unique distinction of being the only speaker of the house, the highest ofliclul In the legislative branch of our government, to become Presl dent of the United States, the highest officer In the executive branch. That man was James K. Polk, who became Speaker in 18115 and who, ten years later, was elected President the first dark horse candl date. Polk was not the first Tennessean to become siieaker, however. Ills Immediate pretie cessor, John Bell, who presided over one session of the house In the Twenty-thircongress (18114 85) was also a citizen of that commonwealth So the election of Joseph Byrns makes the third representative from the Volunteer stnte who has wielded the gavel over his congressional col leagues. Although James K. Polk was the only speaker who ever became President, at least five others have aspired to thnt high office. Three of the 'five came as near to It as winning the nomlna tlon of their parties, only to be defeated In the election. Outstanding among these was Henry Clay 'whose record of repeated bids for the Presl 'dency and being denied It was matched only by William Jennings Bryan. Clay tried for It and lost in 1S24, 1S32 and again In 1844. next speaker to aspire to the Presidency who was the candl STheof Bell of Tennessee, Union the Constitutional party In 1SG0 'L In the election which sent Abraham Lincoln to the White House and to his Immortality. Blaine ol The next was James G. Blaine, Maine," whose record as a perpetual candidate closely approached that of Henry Clay. He tried In 1876, 1SS0 and 1SS4 and lost all three times although winning the nomination once. One of the most picturesque figures who ever held the speaker's chair was Joseph Gurney Can non of Illinois, the redoubtable Uncle Joe" who ruled the house from 1903 to 1911 when the re volt of the Insurgents ended his reign. In 1908 Cannon received 48 votes for the Presidential nomination at the Republican national conven tlon In Chicago but got no nearer to the White House than that Uncle Joe's" successor was Champ Clark of .Missouri who probably came as near to winning the Presidency as any speaker who ever Just missed it At the Democratic national convention In Baltimore In 1912 he led the field for 29 ballots and had a clear majority on eight But the s rule prevented bis nominaDemocratic tion on any of the eight Then the vote swung to Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey aDd he was nominated. If on any of those eight ballots Clark s of the votes, could have mustered he would have been President But If speakers of the bouse have not fared so well In aspiring to the Presidency, they have been somewhat more successful In reaching the second highest executive office. Two of them have been vice presidents. Schuyler Colfax ol service as speaker, was Indiana, after a Grants running mate In 18(19 and, as vice presl dent presided over the United States Benate from il&68 to 1873. The next speaker to vacate the 'rostrum of one house of the national legislature to mount to the other was John Nance Garner f Texas, elected speaker by the Seventy-seconcongress in 1932, only to move over to the senate h d j f two-third- two-third- six-ye- i d chamber a year later after the Roosevelt land slide bad made the Texan vice president To a Pennsylvanian, Frederick A. C. Muhlen berg, goes the honor of having been the first speaker of the house of representatives under the new government established by the adoption ol the Constitution on September 17, 1787. and Its ratification the next year. He took office on April 1, 17S9, and served two years, when he was succeeded by Connecticut's lone contribution to the history of the speakership. This was Jona than Trumbull, the friend of Washington In the Revolution who gave him the nickname which is one of the symbolical nnntes for the United Brother Jonnthnn. States After Trumbull, Muhlenberg served another r term and was succeeded by Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey who served two terms Dayton's chief clnim to fame Is that In 1807 he was arrested for complicity In Aaron Burr's trea sonable conspiracy but he was released on ball and never tried on the chnrge. Theodore Sedge-wicwas Massachusetts' first speaker, a veteran of the Revolution, who later studied theology and the law and made the latter his profession. He was the first speaker to serve In the new capital of Washington, presiding over the house when It first convened there on November 17, 1800. A few weeks later he was succeeded by North Carolina's first speaker, Nathaniel Macon, who held the chair from 1S01 to 1807. After Macon came another Bay Stater Joseph Bradley Varnum, a Revolutionary war veteran, then was succeeded by the who was Mill Boy of the Slashes, Henry Clay of Kentucky. Clay was first elected speaker In 1811. In 1813, resigned from con be was gress In 1814 and was succeeded as speaker by Langdon Cheves of South Carolina, who presided over the Thirteenth congress. But the next con gress found Clay again In the house and again In 1817 and again In speaker. He was 1819, but resigned once more In 1820. John W. Taylor of New York (the first from that state) was the next speaker and after him Philip P. Barbour of Virginia (also first from his state). In 1S24 Clay was back In the house again and again elected speaker, this time serv ing his last term In that office. For now began his repeated attempts to become President Fall ing the first time, he was made secretary of state In the cabinet of John Quincy Adams, which caused the adherents of Andrew Jackson whom Adams had defeated to renew their anguished The Implies cries of Bargain and corruption tlon was that Clay's portfolio in the Adams cabl net was his price for throwing bis Influence to the Massachusetts man when the election of 1824 was decided Id the house of representatives. Un able to use the speakership as a springboard to the Presidency, Clay was again elected to the senate. In which be remained most of the time until his death In 1852, having In the meantime made two more unsuccessful attempts to get to the White House. After the Kentuckian's last term as speaker John W. Taylor of New York served another term. He was succeeded by Andrew Stevenson another Virginian, who after two terms retired and later became minister to England. John Bell was the first speaker from Tennessee He served oDly one year when he was succeeded by James K. Polk, the future President Bell later was secretary of war In the cabinets of Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler and in I860 the unsuccessful Presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union party with the famed Edward Everett as his running mate. The Twenty-sixtcongress elected another Virginian as speaker Robert M. T. Hunter, who bad bad a long career In congress and who, on two occasions, had declined the office of secre tary of state. He was elected to the senate In 1847 and continued there nntil his state seceded two-yea- h from the Union In 186L In 1SG5 he was one of the Confederate peace commissioners who met with President Lincoln and his party at Hampton Roads in an abortive effort to end the Civil war. After Hunter came another Kentuckian, John White, then another Virginian, John W. Jones, and after him Indianas first speaker, John W. Davis. The next siieaker was Robert C. Wimhrop of Massachusetts who, the year after his elettlon, was the chief orator at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington monument on July 4, 1848. Thirty-seveyears later congress adopted a Joint resolution Inviting the former speaker to perform a similar service when the monument was dedicated. Wlnthrop was then seventy-siyears old and after preparing his speech bees me a victim of pneumonia and was unuble to attend the ceremonies. In 1S49 Georgias first speaker, Howell Cobb, was elected. He later became governor of Ills state, served again In congress, then became secretary of the treasury under President Buchanan. During the War Between the States Cobb was a major general In the Confederate army. He was succeeded on the rostrum by Lino Boyd of Kentucky, who after two terms, was followed by Nathaniel P. Banks of Massachusetts, whose career rather closely paralleled that of Cobb of Georgia. He, too, served many years In congress, was governor of his state and a major general In the War of 18(11 05, although his service was In the Union army. Following Banks as speaker came James L. Orr of South Carolina. William Pennington of New Jersey, Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania and Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, one of the two speakers who became vice president. Then came Theodore M. Pomeroy the speaker for a day of New York, who was elected after the resigns tlon of Schuyler Colfax and presided during the closing hours of one session of congress. James G. Blaine, the Plumed Knight'' and the unsuccessful Presidential candidate, ruled the house from 1S6U to 1875 when he was succeeded by another Hoosler, M. C. Kerr, who was fol lowed by Samuel J. Randall, a politician who was something of an anomaly a high tariff Democrat from Pennsylvania" and who served three consecutive terms. The next speaker was another Civil war general and Ohio's hrst speaker J. Warren Keifer. He was succeeded by John G. Carlisle of Kentucky, one of the ablest men who ever sat in the speakers chulr, who held the office for three terms and later became secretary of the treasury under Cleveland. When Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine took the siieaker's chair In 1889 a new era in congressional procedure began. Reed changed the rules so drastically that the Democrats dubbed him Czar Reed and he ruled like a czar from 1889 to 1891 and again from 1895 to 1899. In between Reed's two terms as speaker wa3 another Georglun, Chales F. Crisp, who served four years. After Reed's second term the next speaker was David B. Henderson of Iowa and he was followed by the renowned Uncle Joe" Cannon of Illinois about whom a whole host of legendary tales clustered during his four consecutive terms. Champ Clark of Missouri also served four consecutive terms and was followed by Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts who had three terms, as did his successor, Nicholas man who of Ohio, probably the ever sat In the speaker's chair. After Longworth8 death In 1931 Cactus Jack Garner of Texas was elevated to the speakership as the result of the Democratic congressional victories In the middle of the Hoover administration and when he became vice president in 1982 the gavel went to Henry T. Rainey of Illinois whose death last summer paved the way for the a? cession of the new speaker, Joseph W. Byres. Long-wort- h best-like- A Sr Western tfewepeper Union Out of President budg- et Is developing a Budget Starts very real versy which runs to the heart of the New Deal. True, this controversy like nearly all of the others will not result in changing the President's plans, hut It seems to me to be a mutter which Justifies consideration even though the Roosevelt will in the end must prevail. Ini lulled In the budget was provision for an appropriation of four billion dollars and. as stated by the President, to he supplied in one stun, subject to allocation by the Executive principally for giving work to those unemployed on the relief rolls. Beyond thnt, there was no exposition of Its Intended use nor hug there been any detailed statement of the plan. As a result, there Is a considerable body of opinion in the halls of congress which Is saying In effect that Mr. Roosevelt ought to define his work relief program, lie has not done go, and the best Information I can obtain Is that no explanation may be expected in the near future; he Intends to proceed as he has In the past hy developing a program piecemeal and using the funds as the occasion requires. In the eritieal days of 1933 when Mr. Roosevelt took office. I believe It was generally conceded that the emergency was so serious as to warrant de egation by congress of almost any power even remotely desired bv the President. He used that power during 1933 and 1934. N'nw. many members of the house and senate believe that the time has arrived fur congress to become more Inquisitive about the expenditure of taxpayers' money and to avoid following In blind trust however the President may direct. While it Is probable thnt congress will not be told how the President Intends to nse the money and while It Is also probable that the requested appropriation of four billion dollars will he rubber stamped, the fact remains thnt at no time during the New Deal has there been such a buzz of dis content In the Presidents own list . Senator Byrnes, ef the South Carolina Democrat who hns been looked upon consistently as Sir. Roosevelt's spokesman on financial affairs In the senate, hns Informed that body that It Is Impossible to he more specific at this time on the work relief program. Senator Byrnes will go no further. He has given no Interviews respecting his own thoughts on the matter and apparently hns elected to wait at hat until the president tosses him the bnll. Nevertheless, there are some senators who think they detect just a trace of concern In the attitude of this administration spokesman and they are wondering how long he will continue to repress his own energies. which their government controls Is losing Its worth. These men will be criticized for that course, naturally enough, by blind followers of Inflation plans. From all of the signs now visible and from the undercurrent of mumbling thnt I hear, it certainly Is made to appear that Mr. Roosevelt Is confronted with a necessity for some definite outline of his plans and an assurance that he will adhere to those plans. Without such, the situation assuredly Is that he will not have the confidence of the It seems Ilbusiness structure. logical even to suppose thnt he caa of business In gain the expanding Its activities, thereby workers, unless he takes a different tack than his pronounceAt least, ments thus far Indicate. such Is the conclusion of a vast number of thinking people. By L. C. PROBERT Vice President Chesapeake and Ohio Lines. IS reasonable to calculate ITthat government ownership would cost every man, woman and child in the United States a minimum of 20 cents a day in taxes. Railroads now pay In taxes, local, state and national, almost $1,000,000 a day in the high peak of prosperity they paid more. The tax bill of the railroads for 1934 would pay all the expenses of the United States government from 17S9 to 1SI4. covering the administrations of Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison. The sum is about the annual interest on tlie present public debt From it millions go to local communities for maintenance of public schools. Forty five per cent of all taxes paid by railroads goes to pay for free public education. Then, $43,000, OK) annually I heard a visitor to Washington goes to build and maintain highsay the other day that he would ways for some of the wildcat comlike to ride petitors to run over and destroy. planes, hut the A remaining $125,0)0,000 goes for confounded things general public purposes," which Flying Includes a contribution to the exfly most of their schedules at night. pense of making waterways out of The Individual is a man of great streams which nature made too wealth and his time Is of great thick to navigate and too thin to value. He Inlsted he was sincere cultivate. In his statement that he would When the railroads stop paying much rather save time hy flying If these taxes, as they will If the govthe planes were on daylight schedernment owns them, the taxpayers ule. will begin. Not a single community cuThe statement aroused my In the United States can escape the new tax burden. There will, of riosity to tlie extent that I conducted some Inquiry Into the situation. course, be an operating deficit A I found the night schedules of the deficit of as little as $350 000,000 a air lines to be due to the fact year would be a pleasant surprise, that they are fixed hy the Post Of- and thats another million dollars a fice department If a line desires day. A total additional tax burden to carry mail It has to subject Itof 20 cents a day for everybody for self to the dictates of Big Jim the pleasure of owning the railFarley, the postmaster general. Ills roads would be a minimum prospect office can and does say to an air (The New Outlook). line that It will fly a ship leaving New York at 9 p. m. or else It does A RECOVERY FORECAST not get the mail contract. The reBy EDWARD A. FILENE Merchant and Economist sult is that the plane leaves New York at 9 p. m. or It leaves ChiBUSINESS is pledgingPresicago or Washington or any other with the city on a time stated by the Post dent, and there is undoubtedly Office department. a more widespread understanding Many persons feel that such a that prosperity, both for consumer policy is taking undue advantage goods industries and durable goods of private Industry. It Is true thnt Industries, depends basically upon the Post Office department Is paythe buying power of the masses. ing for carrying the mails at a There Is no telling, however, how rate probably well above the rate It far this promised will receives In postage on that mail. go, and we cannot expect rapid imIt is, therefore, a subsidy. But this provement until business generally government has for years mainacts upon this new understanding. tained a policy of subsidizing new Congress will arrange for nationindustries and that course Is wide unemployment insurance, thorfor the success attnined oughly sound business measures, by the development of the transand millions of Americans will beportation systems of this country. gin to spend money which they have The Presidents special commisnot dared to siiend before, satisfysion named to study the airplane ing their long accustomed wants problems of this country and to and Immediately stimulating busimake recommendations heard much ness, and providing more employtestimony and received much data ment and more buying power. On showing that the airplane Industry the other hand, congress may more In the United States had placed than undo all this good work by this country in the nnmher one flirting with unsound radical legislaIn the air among nations. tion, particularly currency inflation. Presentation of the budget was position expected In ninny quarters to disdeterIs The administration BUILDING CHARACTER close tlie means Critics Ch'de hy which the pres- - mined to control oil production. If By H. G. CAMPBELL It cannot do so New York Educator President blent hoped to get The Oil by Executive or-OUR goemployment youth tody so weak der and the SuCase It ing again In private industry. that he will fall easily into of Court preme showed nothing tangible In this dithe United States has decreed It crime delinquency if school is rection. Consequently, critics of the not nicely ndjusted to his tastes? In that manner administration who have had oppor- cannot do so If he is, our job Is to make him there will be laws predicated upon In the house and to tunity speak commerce clause of strong, not cater to his weakness by the Interstate adto chide the have senate begun the Constitution which will permit putting him on a diet of educational ministration on Its third experimilk toast the executive branch of the government In three years. RepresentaPerseverance was, and still Is, I ment on hand to its valve the keep tive Snell of New York, Republican hope, the motto thnt hangs In every of oil wells. leader In the house, has called classroom. It must not be taken down Roosevelt President apparently tention to the situation something In was not much concerned over the and replaced by defeatism. In this manner: The President tried the capabilities of chilInmeasuring decision court which Supreme In he a out tried one out 1933; plan dren let us not Jump at conclusions second plan In 1934. ami now he Is validated 'that part of the recovery or make quick decisions. I,et us auChief the Executive act. giving trying a third experiment. The first not mistake laziness or willfulness two were found to be all wet, and thority to allow or prohibit Inter- for lack of ability. state movement of oil as It decided the Republicans. It seems, are conBy ail means let us seek out Invinced that the current effort has best. The President appeared to dividual Interests and measure Intwo strikes on It before It gets feel. In responding to questions by dividual abilities, hut at the same renews the that correspondents, are started. They predicting failure us not lose sight of the time let anwas buff He suctemporary. only for It In every way except the fact that life things disthroughout a determinatime that nounced at cess that Is assured In getting rkl tasteful and things difficult must be tion to control oil production In of money which the treasury is borand faced manfully. Their conversations all cne way or another to avoid what faced, rowing. have tlie same theme song, namely he describes as a criminal waste BETTER TIMES AHEAD ttiat the country Is seeing activity, of a great natural resource. By HENRY I. HARRIMAN but they are not predicting how The oil case, the Supreme court U. S. Chamber of Commerce. long this action can continue until decided, bad its origin In regulais much ground fot the nation goes broke. tions and executive orders Issued in present Whether tlie business leaders who under what the administration bemet at White Sulphur Springs, W. lieved to be authority accorded by business conditions. With less unemployed than Rt the Va., s month ago were right or the recovery act Those regulations beginning of 1934, with farm Inwrong In proposing the use of a and orders prescribed quotas aldole Instead of the more expensive lowed to be shlpiied from each of come $1,000,000,000 more than In work relief plan, or whether they the several producing states. The 1933 and $1,500,000,000 more than were correct In any of the other recmotivating spirit was a desire to In 1922, signs are hopeful. ommendations they made, the truth avoid accumulation of a vast surIs the administration has rejected MORE BUILDING NEEDED plus of crude oil with the consewithout comment every single one quent depressing of prices nntil By JESSE H. JONES R. F. C. Chairman. of the recommendations made by crude oil was worth little or noth that group. Mr. Roosevelt made no lng. But, like many other prohibis needed to revive mention In his budget message or itory laws and rules of conduct. and what is alIn his annual message to congress Individuals resent being told they certain to come during the most of plans for balancing the budget, could not do a certain thing and im next 12 months, is a great amount and this fact at Inst hns sunk In. mediately began to devise ways by of building. on Is fear additional the result The which it could be done a charac There Is a great backwater of part of many business leaders who teristlc that was developed to Its that have been can see in the future only Inflation fullest during the bootleg days of building projectsthe Inst few held up during years and economic chaos for the country. national prohibition. The oil that The dam has about reached the Privately, I have heard many exto was moved surreptitiously came breaking point, and the backwatei pressions Indicating thnt men of be known as "hot oil," and the conwill be released In 1935. It cannoi Into their are money wealth putting troversy over the validity of the be held back any longer. that tangible property something regulations and executive order conThere IS plenty of capital avail will not dry np and blow away. sequently was called the "hot oil able for It, and the fear of using That Is always the refuge of Indi- case. It for that purpose la disappearing viduals who fear that ths currency A, Westers Newepeper Cote. one-ha- lf alr-Nig- GETS MORE LISTENERS The whispering man commands more attention than the one who talks out loud. Weeks Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postum Company In another part of this paper. They will send a full weeks supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it Adv. 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