| Show U Inside Stuffed Stuff StuffS S jl f r By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON May 21 The 21 The f 5 wd around the relief relict barrel herer hero here r as IBS been moping since the news got nit Ut t that the tidal ower lower project was among the first 5 n a President Roosevelt's new list S They cannot understand un- un ed wd Around how it ilief lie Barrel happened to get getS getup S ow Vow Moping Moping- up there S 5 it i It is hardly a aS S cret that Mr Roosevelt's own eject purveyor Harold Ickes n flee ee e turned the the project down as When it was ally suggested the Ickes P W V A AS S wd declined to go int into it on the that it would cost too much mucho aT r o oney ey in comparison with returns S pc ted Also they contended that e c project is so 50 isolated that there 1 no nD nearby market forso so much S Jt S Furthermore It violates some of ot ote e fundamental principles of at relief relict ejects adopted by the new WalS Wal- Wal S Hopkins control board S that t county of Maine Maino n. n late n late 1 indicates there are 1158 g. g na on relief ellef whereas the pr j. j anticipates employment of seven sevenS S e eight thousand persons Hence S 1 1 It not Dot ot exactly located where the employed are ate Similarly it will 18 months to complete F b. b ignores the general rule to all 1 1 relief relfe jobs being com com- t one year k t the m have ave apparently ked ia is I the fact that Mr veils veil's elt old summer home Is IsI I neap it the e Bay of at Fundy In b p has camp cottage l long ng S over over the on Pwe Pm Three j tt 5 1 t oj 1 vV r Inside Stuff Stu Continued irons from Pate Pare One bay jay area where the thc new dam will harness the ocean tides Insiders say it resident President was the president Favor a himself who over over- Project ruled Mr Ickes' Ickes old objections and ordered the project to proc ed Apparently the president takes a amore amore amore more forward looking attitude than his ils strict allotment chief He has long ong been personally interested in inthe inthe the he idea While the tho dam is expected to generate an amount of power equal to all an that Maine now consumes consumes con con- it is quite likely that new indu industries will come Into the area when cheaper electrical fuel is pro pro- vided Also some economic objections have lave been evaded by charging charling off third one of the proposed cost to national dc defense ense and one one- third to relief Thus two-thirds two of the hc cost will wili not be figured into the rate base for power sales Equally influential in the decision is the ancient dream of oC men men for tor eventually making the ocean work for them by harnessing its tides The experimental tal phase was considered considered considered con con- to be of great Importance in overbalancing objections The engin engineer er behind the scheme is Dexter Dexter Dexter Dex Dex- ter Cooper brother of or Hugh Cooper noted American engineer who pioneered pioneered pioneered pio pio- pio- pio In soviet Russia A Republican Republican Republican lican congressman who worked with the White House in promoting the project is Brewster of ot Maine a man who fought the And as a final inspirational consideration consideration con con- do not overlook what the Republicans have so often said As Maine goes so goes the nation The best laugh of ot the month was that of or the labor groups when the senate suddenly passed the Wagner Vagner labor board bill As most insiders knew that bill was not supposed to be passed At least not so soon All Al manufacturing ing lobbyists knew it occupied a place on the sen son V Wagner er Bill ate c calendar lendar be be- Str Strategy te y hind bind the N R A AGoes AGoes AGoes Goes A Awry wry bill This w was sat satis satisfactory I s factory to tc them The N R A bill was supposed to take up three weeks of the senates senates senate's sen son ates ate's time By then th the banking bill would be bo ready for consideration tion as well as the holding company compan bill bIU and the social security legislation legisla legisla- tion This would have delayed the Wagner Vagner bill indefinitely But the senate dizzily passed the theN theN theN N R A bill bIU in three minutes Instead of ot weeks It had bad nothing to do except ex cx- to consider the Wagner Vagner bill bUI And once it was considered it could not be stopp stopped d. d While there Is much under cover opposition to it only 12 senators dared to stand against such a politically advisable piece of legislation on the final roll call Thus the opposition was caught flatfooted After Arter that the senate enate took a three three- day vacation possibly to prevent any mo more c serious serious' similar mistakes l takes As kJ result resul of the s senates senate's action actton prospects prospects' of the Wagner Valner bill arc are reversed The underlying situation in the h b bouse use Is the same as in the senate If It the bill gets to toa 0 vote It will go through whooping Furthermore Fur Fur- it occupies such a preferred preferred pre pre- status as a result of premature prema prema ture tune senatorial action that the tho opposition opposition op op- position probably cannot keep it it from train a vote Mr Roosevelt will sign it At least two labor leaders arc are privately quoting the president as ns having said he would The bill will vili afford union labor Its greatest opportunity for union union- Close Cloda observers have wondered why tho the Republicans ns put up no greater show of ot resistance against the latest new Republicans m moves in Avoid Futile the senate the tho T Battle Battlo V A strengthening strengthen strengthen- ing amendments N R ft A and the Wagner bill They talked a little but made no real fight right P the Republican leaders will tell you they saw no reason to waste their breath They knew w that nothing their slim minority could say or do would make any dlf difference e eD e. e I The Th fine art art of fb business app appears ar t to have been developed amazingly I I ji 0 1 k Jt Z f Iii i by a certain southern shirt factory 3 a small one In the first place It t borrowed mone money from a governmental governmental govern govern- mental agency to build a plant or addition Then it borrowed government government govern govern- ment mont girls from a nearby vocational voca voca- lonal school conducted by the interior in in- tenor department As apprentices these girls were not to receive the code wage for tor the tho first six weeks so the factory staggered its voca voca- lonal apprentices in week six shifts I Thus It produced shirts for cheap apprentice wages Thus in a way the government furnished the chisels chis chis- els es for tor chiseling That is is it did until the government recently found out about it Copyright 1035 1033 for tor The Telegram |
