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Show $1.50 PER YEAR STATE OF OUR COUNTRY AND ITS COMMON PEOPLE tVwkly News Review - Edi;onai ISOME ENLIBHTENING VIEWS California, Home of Pensions, (THE Business Simpler than NRA, the r law which goes into effect October 24 decrees minimum wages of 25 cents per hour, maximum work of 44 hours for Industries deal-to-g In interstate commerce. to u. S. employers seeking the But lawe application to their business, wage-horegulation has become complex through Its simplicity. Since NRA'a greatest weakness wes its iron-clasystem of regulation, the new act repents, places compliance squarely on tha der of Industry. Though Admin!.. trator Elmer F. Andrews will issue opinions guiding employers in determining their status, he hga pointed out that wage-horegulations will offer no pat definition" wage-hou- Another Plan This Year Tries lly Joseph W. La Bine olUic n haven for U. 8. Calitomli, which a beckon reUrinf farmer who mldweatern win-eicipt from Before Depreifloa, many their hrane-S1 Jnied or aold di aft out thia jfow price which wiped California a pin-l- a making prnnue. in whose Utopian climate men ren going hungry. e since Utopian cilmntaa mny Utopian ideas, 1834 found Up--i Sinclair barely mlaainf fuber-- i ntorial etecUon with an elaborate Pov-- ; Miioo plan called EPIC (End Later came Dr. ffty in California). rnnc is E. Townsend whose bid age evolving pension of $200 a month not into eclipse bat year when got better, has since crane m,;P tack with new vigor. Townsendisms chief onetime sup- Sheridan nrter was jowncy, who wrote e book celled ffhy I Believe in the Townsend pro-luc- a : ' . spreading throughout tha U. S. In where two rival groups planned to introduce an initiative petition In November's election, Mf battle was whether $30 ahaQ be paid on Wednesday or Thursday. Ohio, dd pert-enjo-y and went to California on thia in--Z old Not expected were drouth t ur Foreign Since ha became German chancellor in 1833, Adolf Hitler has held an unknown quantity In his flat has scared the world with threats that may only bo bluffs. A master of psychology, he renounced Veraaiilee when France and Britain were worried about Italys invasion of Ethiopia. In 1030 his Ehlneland coup was staged under aim liar circumstances. By last spring, when he marched into the bluff bad been so successful that none arose to challenge him. But two month ago when Helchs-fuehrHitler began bluffing his way into annexation of vakias Sudeten frontierland, Britain and France were ready to bluff in turn. Franco-Britis- h bluff was a promise to defend Czechoslovakia. Germanys return Muff was defiance, delivered at Septembers Nazi congress in Nuremberg. Then, weary of whistling to keep up their courage, Paris and London offered peace via capitulation. Terms: (1) mni d !? ur Down in Sidney Australia, some "fool" peo le believe that milk ia of more value than liquor and have set up milk bare all over the city over which they serve 25,000 gallons a week to men, woman and children who need it. This country could do a lot won j than to adopt such a policy. Colliers Weekly keeps a keen eye on the drift of the times and it has just thrown out the following observation: The same who voted people ro exuberantly against prohibition four years ago are now expressing impatience with the products of repeal. And heres one of many observations in Utah.One little town where exact Iy half of the people are dependent on government work or relief, spend $e00 a month for hard liquor and keep three or four beer ban busy night and day. ON THE Read! Prepare for Municipal Ownership e late Woodrow Wilson took a few minutes out from his silent tomb to look over the situation and talk with the unknown soldier. "Comrade, he said, to think that we spent our blood and might and money to conquer autocracy and make the world safe for democracy! What oceans of blood, whit billions of money, must yet be spent before mankind acheivea what 1 di earned for humanity! Berlins annexation of Sudeten areas 75 per cent German; (2) plebiscite in Sudeten areas from 50 to 75 per cent German; (3) German promise to guarantee Czechoslovakias independence. Fortnight ago, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamber-lai- n delivered these terms at Godes-berdemocracies called it a sellout But to Adolf Hitler even this waa not enough. He wanted more ADMINISTRATOR ANDREWS land, moreover refused to guaranLess bluster Leas coercion tee Czechoslovakia's future. His deadline for Czech agreement: Oc- to the law's provisions, if computatober 1. tion of houn begins when a logger If Der Fuehrer had Muffed too tarts to the scene of operations or far, if Democracies had scored a when he itarta actual work. point and made Germans wonder Special industrial wage standards about, their chancellor's. wisdom, it committees will eventually be eswas no stroke of genius on Neville tablished for most trades, but lack Chamberlains part Upshot of of funds prevents formation of more Godesberg was a vindication of the than three or four committees this SIIEBIDAN DOWNEY British prime minister end swift year. Already requested la a deIke implications are terrific. turning of world sentiment against ficiency appropriation from next But greater upshots winter's congress to expand thia Germany. Ian. But a month ago Sheridan were Czechoslovakia's amazingly work. Owncy won Democratic senatorial fast mobilization, Frances decision Meanwhile, each employer's indemiinatioa on a new plan that gives to fight and London's offer to fol- pendent decision on his compliance slifomiai orthodox financier! a low suit important requirements looms id ease of Jitters, that has To London, where only a week Should a long week ir greater implications than either before he had helped draft the first manufacturer decide Mi business PIC or Townsendism. proposal, went French Premier Ed- was mainly intrastate, therefore not TAs Man: Sheridan ouard Daladler. Still anxious to requiring compliance, hie employowncy attended the University of keep peace, Europe's last two great ee! might later prove otherwise end Wyoming, entered politics at 24 by democracies offered a new agree- collect back wages. inning the county attorneyship at ment Terms: Transfer without But counteracting fills Inconrkmie while his wife worked for plebiscite of areas over 50 per cent venience, employers know that Adomen'a suffrage. Now living In German; (2) exchange of popula- ministrator Andrews tendency to in Francisco's exclusive, suburban tions In other areas; (3) interna- proceed cautiously wfll help avoid ibertoo, Pensioneer Downey gar-irt- d tional guarantee of Czechoslovakia's NRAa Muster end coercion, would enough vote to beat Sen. Wll-i-n independence. probably result in reducing flic act Gibbs McAdoo in the But Adolf Hitler waa still ready to a workable, successful bails. primary it month. to Muff. Facing riling anti-wsenTAs Flan: timent forced to show his hand, he White House from a seed transplanted summoned countrymen to Berlin's If yen will forgivo ms for enybsg 1 year from Austria, vast Sportopalast told them his I he United Stoles kas been n nor rigiul sponsor was one Robert Godesberg terms were final, that so, iteble fortress of silence ojde, whose radio lectures urged Germany1 a bluff has been backed Thus scolded by Beverly Baxter, B every Monday for each Callfor-nove- r all along by real strength. member of the English parliament 50. Later HaL iponaor was Excerpts: 1 can tell you now U. S. radio listeners were still conwd Attorney Lawrence Allen that Z have spent billions for arma- tent to remain aloof from Europe's ho changed payday from Monday ments We have created an uncauldron (Sea FOREIGN Jnunday, boosted payment! from paralleled air force end tank force. boiling Franklin Roosevelt1 a do-). Though e $30. To Thurs-would each, evety I want to declare regarding the Su- mestic policies might find 5850 acgo 30 state warrants deten problem, that my patience to ceptance and refusal by his constitullutd t $i apiece. On the back exhausted . . . The Sudeten Ger- ents, moat citizens were agreed that each warrant would be spaces mane win now toko the liberty de- his treatment of Europes crista waa rS g, ... g, street-lightin- Japan's armies in China are marching and fighting on the necks of the people at home and it has long ago been said that she will be defeated in her own rice fields where the half starved population are giving their souls and bodies to meet the bill of about a million a day for the war lords, one of the crudest tyrannies in history. Sooner or later the same guna that are slaying the Chinese will be turned on the toilers at home, because there is coming a roar of hunger from the submerged toilers who average on their little plots of ground the beggarly sum of S16.20 a year, and often denied the right to eat or sell the rice they produce in order that the army may have food. Congratulations to the aged people who, in their own interf election. But for their work and ests, took part in the influence and votes it is doubtful if any Progressive candidates would have Jbcen succesful. As it was, they secured 5 or more of the representatives, but lost out on the senator. The old parties saw po it that the conservative candidates for senator were nominated. run-of- ' Townsend Club No 1 has its doors open, a fire in the hearth a mulligan Tnthe pot and a welcome for those, who have to far fields and false Gods. Salt Lake city's Club No l.is a strong working organisation, its membership is active strong ip the faith. It meets every Tuesday evening for business, every Friday evening for fun at 255 east on 3rd So. All people interested are invited to attend. Tell us who you are and we will show you what we mean when we Bay you are welcome to our club rooms. By the President, of Townsend Club No. 1 255 east 3rd south, Salt Lake City, Utah. wan-der- ed state stamps to be two-ce- ased in cash. Once each week, Uifomiani would dig out all war-itheir possession, affixing stamp to each. Thus at d each warrant would have years $1.04 In lUmpa, would be traded n ,tata for f $1 la cash. Extra cents would cover costa. I '$30 . every . Thursday not Infringe on the U. S. right o money, pension warrant! evertheleas be valid for and debta (except Bh 1 nied them for 20 years. satisfactory, that his Secretary of But at the very moment Der State Cordell Hull waa doing an adFuehrer spoke, a world moving mirable Job. But ai the Old World veered into swiftly to war knew the eventual whet waa almost certain war. President Roosevelt thought it was timo for the fortress of (Hence to apeak. Alone in hia study from 10 o'clock to midnight, he drafted a message to Relchifuehrer Adolf Hitler end Czech President Eduard Bene, then Jerked sleepy correspondents from their beds. Excerpts: The fobrie of peace on tha continent of Europe, if not throughout the rest of the world, la in Immediate danger . . . The United States haa no political entanglements . . . But in the event of general war (the American people) face the fact that no nation can escape soma measure of consequences . . It is my conviction that all people under the threat of war today bepray that peace may be made On fore rather than after war ,nd pn,Ion tmP). J? kf. Bjuineas need not "nt. but 50 per cent of anaccept state e must be paid with them. HUcst a tumbling Nock to that warranto would "mto cJUorniB, mg oflargely U. B. the state must dig in Uncle Sam's L 1840, to redeem Sf" wWch would be Issued to at tout 500,000 pen-T- o SSS.SJl ?.. a small part of ha comStely edtofi.lLmplB! A w,rr,nt in 1830 would 22 tr-- ta 12,91 Cent g end. BEHCHSFUEHEEB Bw.S,hn1lc,lltrdoe,notwop- - Ion C.J!?00 fl f08 RWlwd are .7, ' BOO pe-wf- next 1.300,000 JoritF ballot Uvea ni R 00 whoae 'ticaHy, Pension. ? 101 And at nlel dmlnlstrator ta nbable'im (p!lTabl 2.r1,,n Utosli5!,ublty wn,ih V figSJJj HRLEB warrants), result of Iceland hi amendment creasing pensions. vlc,0UI circle might PpooeuU trying " 11 California polltl- - WHAT DO THE PEOPLE THINK OF THIS? The Poor Are Condemned by the Power and Light Barons (or taking the Mite That Is Given Them. Who Is Bold Enough To Denounce Those Who Thus Take the Substance of the People and Send It Out to Employ New York Workers While Utah Workers Go Idle? their Pittance by Those in the Following Story. of Who Condnnethe Taking of Millions as Told The Widow and the Orphan are Begrudged WHAT HAS UTAH POWER A LIGHT COMPANY GIVEN CITIZENS watered stock which is equalto of $30,000,000 (1) common stock outstanding. The the of all 130 millions of Americana value total of the to.! end for the sake of humanity everyPower Company has paid $7,200,000 to the holding company where I most earnestly appeal to you Electric Bond and Share as common stock dividends, which not to break off negotiations looking was acquired at no cost to the holding company. This $7,- to a peaceful, fair and constructive 200.000 represents an overcharge exacted from the ratepaySo long u negotiasettlement be ers of Utah. difficulties may tions continue, bonded indebtedness reconciled. Once they are broken (2) An increase in its long-terasfrom $10,000,000 in 1914 to 40,000,000 in 1937, an increase of off, reason la banished and force serts Itself. And force produces no 300 per cent. In addition, Utah Power & Light Company has fniiitirm for the future good of huto meet interest payments on about $12,000,000 of bonds of manity." its subsidiary Utah Light and Traction Company. During Next day, a German spokesman this period over $37,000,000 in bond interest has been paid said the President's message waa to eastern bondholders. sent to the wrong address. Prague on prela the proper address." (3) Present deficiencies in dividend payments $6,000,000. than more stock of ferred Less than Miscellany (4) Deficiencies in depreciation allowances. set aside been has value and In 181$, Private Bert Penning of 1 per cent of its property plant tha famous Lost Battalion" lost his 1931 and 1932 charges for depreIn for depreciation. yearly arm in tha Argonne, became a hero. and ciation were decreased from $700,000 a year to $500,000 Twenty yeari later, day before fin $1,- same two those years Yet, comduring $300,000 respectively. Lost Battalion assembled to to Electric memorate lta feat, Private Penning 050.000 of common stock dividends were paid drowned tryhero again, became a and Share Company. New Bond, of European power would place Germany at disadvantage. Prague, virtually shut off from the world since her mobilization, heard that Huaaia'a lumbering; untested military giant wee poised to scared, bring aid. Thoroughly France called almost every reservist to the colon, had 1,500,000 troops along her Maglnot line, advised Parisians to evacuate. Also scared, Britain called Parliament, inspected ARP (air raid precautions) equipment; finally ordered partial mobilization. With October 1 but a few houn away, Europe , wondered whether her No. 1 bluffer would be ing to rescue a swimmer in York' a Long Island sound. outbluffed by rank amateurs. lineup street-lightin- street-lightin- street-lightin- Fi!iwgr Plants While there are the great municipally owned electric systems, such as the $10,000,000 property at Jacksonville, Fla., serving 37,000 consumers, the $23,000,000 enterprise at Tacoma, Wash., serving 35,000, and the $106,000,000 system at Los Angeles, Calif., serving 246,000 consumers, there are also some 300 plants serving fewer than 500 meters each. Of these miniatures, about 30 actually serve fewer than 100 meters each. The big systems show what can be accompmen inspirlished by the determination of a few ing the many, to place in the hands of the local people the production and sale of the energy that is rapidly taking the place of human muscles. Low rates are not the sole objective; sometimes it is low taxes or city-wiimprovements which without the financial aid of the electric utility would not be ?uilt. Los Anegles charges domestic customers 4.4 cents per kwh for the first 35 kwh, 22 for the next 75, 1.5 for the next 10 and cent per kwh for all controlled water heatg rate is 2.7 cents, and 1.1 cent for ing. The other municipal purposes. The gross profit in 1935-3- 6 was ng de -- What a difference it would make to this old world if the fifty million young men in arms and ready to spring at each others throts were going out to teach humanism, brotherhood, neighborliness, and pure and undefiled religion. If instead of going out to kill and destroy they were going out to build up the waste places, to make deserts blossom, to make the towns and cities more beautifull, to clean up all he slums and let light and truth in where it had not been before. Thus might the new earth be created. ... ITonM No. 1 bluffer be ouAluffed? street-lightin- far-seei- The late German General Ludendorf said upon being asked why Germany lost the first World War: It was not because of the United States, and not even because of England It was because of Christianity.lt was because Germany was a Christian nation, had it not been for her Christianity, which makes nations effeminate, Bhe would have become the mistress of ihe world. Such is the Bpirit of the cruel war lords. ... make mattera worse, from stamp rvem lea demanded by public sentiment. It would be political suicide to sponsor any material increases in taxes. It is politically impracticable to provide better street lighting even though it saves lives and large property losses. The public official, who is generally a realist, understands aright the situation with whch he is confronted ; but he is mistaken in his conclusion that there s no way, politically practicable, by which better street lighting can be provided. There is a way. g A Municipally-owne- d system Generally the municipality will find it profitable to g installation. finance and own the tremendous the improvement Summarizing foregoing, g g service without increase in in cost is attainable; but it is attainable only through a syscomplete redesign and rebuilding of the street-lightitem. MUNICIPAL PLANTS SUCCESSFUL IN COMPETITION Present .'Municipal Electric Power Operation are a Guide to the Establishment of New Plants and the Improvement of city-own- ed ar ... rd ng d far-awa- y STREET LIGHTING: A NEGLECTED CORNER OF MUNICIPAL HOUSEKEEPING By ARTHUR J. SWEET Consulting Engineer, New York Competent analysis of available statistics discloses that adequate urban street lighting throughout the U. S. would, in 1937, have prevented 4,000 traffic fatalities, together with property losses of $200,000,000. This is not an irresponsible claim. It is a conservative understatement of fact, fully substantiated by the record. g Americas entire expenditure for 1937 as great as the property losses due was less than The to inadequate street lighting. It has truly been said, it it whether street for gets lighting adequate public pays in is now or not. As a matter of fact, the public paying property losses very much more than the cost of a better street lighting which would, prevent those losses, to say nothing of the payment in human suffering. But, protests the harassed public official, we cannot afford increased expenditure for street lighting, even though it prevents losses far greater than, the expenditure. Public revenues are already inadequate for the services urgently one-thi- er rri PROBLEMS LIGHT of interstate commerce. Thus, lait week, firms engaged partly in Interstate commerce, partly in intrastate commerce, were at their wifi end. At Chicago, tha National Hardwood Lumber association devoted much of lta convention timo to wondering if sawmill and yard superintendent were subject AND POWER m street-lightin- $7,934,347. Kansas Gty, Kans., population 135,000, with its munisteam plant, using cheap powdecipally owned red-coal, sells electric energy protably to its large industrial plants at 4 mills per kwh, and 100 kwh to its residential users at $2.80 which is the lowest rate of any steam plant in the country. Even at these low rates, this city is just finishing a $3,000,000 enlargement, which is being paid for enre tirely out of the accumulated profits. These modern steam plants, incidentally, are producing electricity at lower and lower costs. high-pressu- re high-pressu- Systems A determined stride takes us from these great municipally operated electric enterprises to the rank and file of municipal plants, of which altogether there are in the of 2,000. Most of the smaller plants, and particularly the more recently established plants, are These, too, are offering low rates, furnishing low-coor free city service, or donating to the General Fund. Those who wish to sutdy their records will find the basic figures n for 512 electric utilities presented in the Burns and McDonnell Engineering Co. (Kansas Gty, Mo.' compilation, Results of Municipal Lighting Plants, showing rates 2,090 neigh-borho- od diesel-operate- d. st well-know- in effect Two thousand municipally owned electric utilities are more than a symptom, and electric power is more than a mere commodity it is a symbol of a less physically arduous future that might well be speeded by lower rates which should encourage vastly increased consumption which in turn would stimulate the invention and production of more kinds of electrical appliances and devices. While all this is true, it cannot be too vigorously stated that, in addition to being a symbol of modern existence, electricity is also a remarkably simple commodity. Nearly all the complexity is in the distribution of electricity, and this only because the conductors must be laid under or over the much-use- d and abused streets of a city. Who is in a better position to solve these problems than the city itself? That is evidenced by the fact the problems are not that any one of dozens of engineering firms is prepared to survey the city, design the system, and guarantee that it will work as promised. On the side of generation, any one of a dozen manufacturers of diesel engines or steam turbogenerators is prepared to build the plant, equip it, and get it running smoothly, guaranteeing that as much power will be produced as the city can sell. But what of the overwhelming number of towns and cities which might own their own plants if they could be young again and free of the dreaded private octopus that has curled its lines through all the streets and out on the highways? Electric rates are high in many of these communities, taxes are high; can anything be done except appeal to the public service commission? The best answer is that under exactly these circumstances, things have been done. Muncipal plant after municipal plant is in competition with a private operating company. 1936-193- 7. over-diffic- |