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Show Its approval to a bill appropn,, lng more than a halMillion fot I the Navy, the largest sum ev9, J set aside for that purpose time of ipeace. Whon the bill f which may be regard,! a9 ' f routine matter, has bcpn I posed of, the Presidont will f In a position to deliver a pro. f mised message dealing J special appropriations for Ea tlonal defense, it may be poaj; ble to lick the United Statos 'J the home grounds, but it loof I as though there were going t( bft some obstacles in the of getting here to do it, ai. in the way of doing it aftf f arrival. , , i . . tlgatlon of the automobile business. busi-ness. Investigations, by the way, always have been popular, but what has been profited by them sometimes Is hard for the public pub-lic to determine. The United States has 28 million motor vehicles ve-hicles or more than two-third of the autos of the world, and In one month gets 'rid of 32 million barrels of gas, and so It happens that although some of the money spent on cars and their maintenance might better go to warrant Inspection. Perhaps Per-haps what the country really needs U a non-bendable fender, but probably that will be ' outside out-side the scope of the Commission's Commis-sion's Investigations. A House committee has given J tlcally of Importance but practically practi-cally of less moment than many other matters with which the Senate might profitably take up valuable time. According to trustworthy returns, but nine persons per-sons were lynched In 1936( Georgia standing at the head with six, Arkansas having two and Florida one. Thus it seems that territorially reviewed, no national problem Is Involved, and that the states might well be left to work out their own salvation. sal-vation. During the period under consideration more than nine persons starved to death, but the anti-lynching filibuster goes on in the Senate. There may be some truth in the contentions of those who maintain that politics chiefly is involved. The anti-lynching bill Is an index to the fact that, like it or not, there Is & growing con-viction con-viction In some quarters at least, that there should be a Washington finger in every pie, the latest manifestation of which is the suggestion of Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania that Congress be asked to nationalize the anthracite anthra-cite coal industry, the conditions condi-tions of which are said to cause active administrative concern. Federal ownership of mines Is proposed coupled with control of production, regulation of marketing mar-keting and private operation under un-der a leasing plan. Upon the whole, it seems as though the old order were changing slowly, though to what extent none can tell at this time the states as such falling gradually Into the background back-ground and becoming subject to a central federal control respecting respect-ing matters that .formerly were regarded as purely local, but the pendulum never stands still and many now living may see it at the opposite end of its stroke. It is to be recalled that Europe once was at war for thirty years and that in general history of civilization, the period is covered cover-ed in a half-dozen lines. What is going on or proposed today in the United States may be considered con-sidered of no more importance three hundred years hence. The famed Tennessee Valley Authority Is coming In for a skinning, It being charged that large corporations are reaping a benefit through it by obtaining cheap powe and that by entering enter-ing Into long-term contracts, the organization has lost Its potency as a means for determining fair future prices for current, all of which, If correct takes considerable consid-erable kick out of the word "authority" in the official title. If House Resolution No.. 568 becomes law, the Federal Trade Commission will get fifty thousand thous-and dollars to pay for an inves- CURRENT COMMENT The Senate continues to pause and consider respecting the anti-lyuchlng anti-lyuchlng bill, a measure theore- |