Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-08 | Page 4 | Bystanders Watching Congress' Economy Plan Move in Circles

Bystanders Watching Congress Economy Plan Move in Circles lh vitwi of tha ivIaUoo Industry itself. it-self. Ths erfue thai provision of air mail compensation to ensure op-arntion op-arntion of praaant aervloea la of th uUnoat Importance; that air tranapor-tatka tranapor-tatka la Indispensable to buainaaa recovery re-covery and axpanaion; and that air mail aarvlcB haa bn "tha heart of air transportation." And heavy atraaa la laid on aviation' importance to natiooal defense. Than atnatora ramambcr how much money thair itatas and individual individ-ual citiaa hava imraatad in airport. Sana Lor Bingham of Connecticut, an aviation enthusiast, reminds tham that IX we put aviation companies out of business thara will ba nobody to uaa tha airport. Othara ask what 110.000.000, any-war, any-war, aa compared with tha import-anoa import-anoa of aviation. And Huey Long and ona or two othara declare that it we're going to hava economy, let' take It out of aomething alae. But whan they gat to "aomething alae" they hava the same run-around all over again. i i By BOD MKT DCTCBKB MIA aervtee Write WASHINGTON, Feb. (-Every phaas of federal economy turns out la ba s controversial Issue. Thai' tha raa osi w aren't having very much economy. The bast way to explain why thl con greas still refuses to effect economy econ-omy at this er that obviously possible point is to describe what happens when someone propose a specific ssving. Each economy proposal. It will be found, meets with such magnificent arguments in opposition that tha proponents pro-ponents are almost certain to be shamed or frightened into defeat or else buried under the adverse vote of those wbo are thus shamed or frightened. Take the case of the subsidy to tha aviation industry aa granted In tha form of payments for Usnsportstion of the sir mail. Tlma waa when svistion waa ona of our foremost up and coming Industries, a sort of symbol of our national prosperity, progress and achievement. There sssuiad no especially good reason why tha government shouldn't subsidise sub-sidise aviation to tha tune of 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 a year. Which It did. between tha commerce and postofltes depart-j mens te ssy nothing of all tha hundreds hun-dreds of swell airport that were built by individual cities on their own hook. BBS But these are other days. And the ! widespread demsnd for economy inspired in-spired Senator McKellar of Tennessee Tennes-see to urge aa smendment to the postoffiee spproprtstion bill providing provid-ing thst no money should ba psid to sny company for carrying air mall in excess of 10 par cent of what It it now receiving. That would have cut the expenditure expendi-ture for domestic sir mail U-sna ports-tion ports-tion from tlf.000,000, as was authorised author-ised In tha bill, to Sf, 500,000, But tha senate killed McKeUsr's resolution snd voted 116,000,000. leas than a third tha cut proposed. Then it killed the whole appropriation, but only because of certain fishy aspect of air mall coo tract which Democrat Demo-crat want to Investigate and perhaps per-haps eliminate before the fiscal year begins July 1. Is tha air mall simply a fad? Senator Sen-ator Carter Glass of Virginia aay it I. Wa hava the beat railway mail service in the world, he points out, snd a man wbo must hsve speed in communication should send a day or night letter by telegraph without Using Us-ing the whole people of the country. Well, what's tha answer? You'd I be ur prised there' so much of it ' a a e Senstor Oddie of Nevada leads off, I explaining thst McKsllsr's smendment smend-ment would seriously cripple the sums su-ms 11 service, whereas the Americsnl people hsve demons trsted thst they! still went more snd better sir msil service. He produces briefs to show !