Show NA NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed R vi by CARTER FIELD Tim Tic Taft brothers Sen Senator ator fa l 1 S-lo S glas cs The Tim lagging hipping elec electric InC industry il is is beginning to show life life Electric ric power shortage is i. i is hamper hampering ham ing in J a pails pail's HW war activities tiC WASHINGTON Robert A. A A Tart Taft U U. S S. senator f from tram Ohio should read rad that old od nursery rhyme that starts For want cf at a n nail a shoe choc was lost for want of ot o n shoo shoe a n horse 08 lost etc winding up with the kingdom being lost because a 0 certain thin tain rider could not ant get pet to turn the tide cf ot battle ba tUC In n the case of Mr Taft it may be proper glasses To get gel the answer one crne on has only to go Co to his native town of at Cincinnati and ask osk the first 10 30 0 people one encounters about aboul the O Taft Tart brothers The answers or nt nl least eight of them will be that I Brother Charley Chancy is a swell guy a n genial person with n a smile who will cross the street to say soy Hello to ton ton toa n a friend or ship slap on nn acquaintance on the back The same eight or more marc will report that Brother Robert Is Isa Isa Isa a more self centered person and seldom if ever known to slap slop a abaci bock back From close friends of 01 the senator one mc learns that Dob would be le very glad to be a back lapper lapper- not just to advance his own presidential presidential aspirations but because he lie feels that way Hut the thc trouble they confess conless is that he has hns very poor sight The reason he doesn't wave to people he knows across the street is that he could not possibly realize he knows them lie Ie just cant can't see them Which teems to those of us liS LI who have been listening to this defense dense to be a n sharp criticism of Mr Tafts Taft's glasses Certainly there thele Is nothing the matter with them for rending The most casual perusal of any speech or statement Mr Taft makes will show that Illat he has hos put a lot Jot of study into inlo it that he must have read volumes In his research on the subject before giving vent tnt to any uny public utterance Maybe the ITC Senator N New l Pair of Glasses Gla H It savors just a n little 11 of or a fiction story in one of at the magazines n a afew few years back blick about a 0 beautiful girl rl with particularly beautiful eyes i and o n soulful expression who for some ome re reason n son was not popular A smart doctor was attracted arid and finally found out the trouble The Ther eyes r es were soulful because they Uley were cre not looking at nt anything an They couldn't She didn't mean menn to be high high-hatting young oung men she bad hd od met mIl mIln n 11 few days er rr nights before She I simply I didn't recognize them So I Ithe the doctor forced her to wear glasses They were married and lived ld happily ever e after Well it might be that If II Senator Tuft Taft had some amazingly good gond glasses which would make him as able to recognize people as liS his brother he would get set a n lot further along the steep and difficult until path that leads to the tile White House Clr Certainly if tt he had been using such glasses for the last two or three years tars he would even now rio be a n bit further up that thit t road roach And its it's still not too late It t is generally agreed in Washington I that of the two men mm ahead ahad of him in the race for the G G. G 0 O. P P. nomination last spring one Thomas E. E Dewey has lost ground tremendously and the other Sen Arthur II H. of Michigan has gambled his all on this Euro Eulo European pan war issue Obviously there is not as much talk tolk about Mr 1 Dewey as there was Whether this is due to the over o overshadowing overshadowing shadowing operations by Attorney General Frank Murphy or whether the war situation has made his youth seem seem more of a handicap it is dif dit difficult di to say Whereas Mr Vanden berg has not helped himself for the 1840 1040 nomination by opposing the arms embargo repeal whatever er may ma be the situation with regard to public sentiment in 1944 Lapping Electric Industry l try At Last ast Is Showing S Aw W Life iff That big electric power plant to tobe tobe tobe be built at Philadelphia and the big play the utilities arc are trying tring to get for it involve some very inter Inter- interesting Interesting interesting esting angles In a statement issued by the utility executives in Wash Wash- Washington ington stress is laid on the details details- that it will have ha an nn ultimate ca Ca- capacity Capacity of half halt a million kilowatts kilowatts- that it will cost 4 that that it comes on the heels of new generating generatIng ing capacity at Philadelphia in 1938 93 which cost Also that the new plant will take care of homes of average usage And that it Jt would run radio receiving receiving ing lag sets or light watt lamp bulbs Impressive I si c Well its it's all nil true tue t ue but a more in interesting In statement would also be betrue betrue betrue true true but is not included Which is that this plant would have been bren built in the normal course of events that similar proportionate additions to plant would be added to most of ci the privately owned electric SS systems systems in the United States and that actually the electric industry has f been lagging behind in additions and betterments The Philadelphia story Is the di direct dl di- direct result of a n finding by the re recently re- re sabotaged war resources board that the weak spot of the war preparations situation so far farns faras ns as power for tur war industries Is con eem- concerned I corned was Philadelphia This has not been given any publicity but nil all the utility men knew what wha t the resources experts thought feared resulting publicity and scrambled to 10 meet It The rhe utilities are also putting conS con sl I an on Is-on tJ j t- t this big new plant is to be run by steam There Them is a reason renson for that also The plant would have been bren designed to burn coal even if no other reason than efficiency were being considered because the pres pres- present present ent tnt expert opinion of the Industry is that power can con be ue produced more cheaply from coal cool than from water power Public lublic Sold on Falling If ns lIS n a Natural Force Hut But the utilities realize the public is not convinced of that t. t The e av average a v. v rage crage citizen has been thoroughly sold on the notion that falling fallin wa wa- water ter is n D natural force torce the utilization tion of which certainly must cost costless less Jess than to dig dl coal conI flom deep down clown In the earth then haul It ii to a n plant and then burn It to produce steam It Jt doesn't seem sm natural that current could be produced more ecu ecu- co that way than by just pulling putting a turbine under falling wa water ter But when all alt the costs of If n a hydro h dro plant ere arc added in the Nor Nol na dam In the TVA lVA system alone cost east the accounting sharks say suy coal coul is the cheaper meth method ad od hut this tills comes at a peculiarly apt time for fur propaganda purposes ost's The famous Loup and river projects in George Glorge Norris Norris' state stale of Ne Nt Nebraska braska broska lire are making a n sorry lorry showing ho made mode worse at nt present by the fact that t there has been such a n drouth that they arc obliged to buy steam steam- produced power Power Shortage SI 1 Hampers 1 flu in Japans Japan's a War Activities l' l The Tennessee Valley authority Is not the only hydroelectric power pow de dc development In the world which is having trouble There has hUB been a 11 abad abad bad drouth in Japan Joplin according to 10 reports to the department of 01 com corn merce Japan never has had hucl an adequate coal coni supply and like Italy has hils been spending millions trying to develop llop enough water power to cut clown coal conI importations lions and acid thus protect Its foreign buying power or rather permit the use U l' l of its foreign buying for more mOle vital vita things things tar for in instance stance scrap Iron The present drouth is said sold to 10 l he be bethe hethe c the worst in Japans Japan's history but whether this is an nn exaggeration or not it is certainly the worst drouth since inco Nippon's hydroelectric devel ll developments reached their present mug mag Not only has the power supply to 10 non urgent Industries been blen I 13 y reduced but the Ih country's heavy y Industries anti and even its Ils munitions plants have had to curtail Ion Uon schedules The power hom t. t age ge has hns become so acute that steel steel- null mill operations in the Important Kobe district were suspended cd tem during du the tue early carly url part t of cit September due to 10 the sudden cessa cessation tion of current The Japan Electric Power POW Gen Gen- and Transmission company which was recently organized to control the Japanese J electric II power Industry has already received rd warn warn- authorities logs Ings from froni the tile military of cit if the grave C situation prevailing pre in iii inthe the he heavy henvy industries as mis u a result of 01 the power shortage According to the Japanese press 1 a n feeling Is developing in Industrial circles that bureaucratic manage flamingo management ment is to blame for the present predicament but this view does not nol appear to be bl warranted Couple lou pie of Stories Stoics Dragged In b Ira Illustration n by ITay of Just what the bureaucrats arc are supposed to have ha failed to do is not mode made clear clrar in the Ole absence so soar far ar of any satisfactory rain making machinery It reminds sonic some ob ob- servers of the time Will Rogers Rog was defending the then prince of or Wales now the tile duke duk of Windsor I keep hearing that the prince of Wales just cant can't stay on a n horse I Will wise cracked when annoyed rd at criticisms of the prince Ive r bern ben looking locking at nt pictures of his falling ofT off and I 1 notice that every c time the horse hour is down too I wish some of I these fellows would explain to me how a rider is going to stay up when his horse is down But flut instead of lf wanting to shoot the weather man the thC Japanese pol 1101 politicians feel that somebody ought to tl resign r That seems to be a nor nor- normal normal mal Japanese proceeding Wash Washington ington chuckled years ago ngo over O a 1 astory astory story stor told by br the late hate Richard V. V of the New Nc York Times When riding on In a train carrying car members of the royal rl al family en route to Tokyo Toko Dick pulled a 8 cord by mistake and the train came to toa toa toa a grinding stop slop There was ns a long delay after which the train crawled to the next station Then the mili mill military military tary took charge A day later an no anold anold old friend in the foreign office told Dick the cabinet would have hae to re resign 1 re- re resign j sign because of this tIlls incident I But Dut Duth why h asked aked Well it never neer happened before so we have hn to resign replied the official Dick was afraid to reveal rr that he was the cause caLIse of C this cabinet up upset upset set but got out Olt of the country as ns fast as he could Checking on his return to Washington however howe he found the cabinet had hod really quit qui Dell S NV |