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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEIII. UTAH FIRST OF TUGWELKTOWNS' IS BORN SEEN and HEAR around the Built Families Start Moving Into 885 Houses of .Model Community hv Resettlement Administration at Greenbelt, Md. NATIONAL CAPITAL . By Carter Field FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPOND method of breaking up "trusts" and "conspiracies in restraint of trade" will be changed if the Department of Justice is able to' persuade congress to revise the laws at the coming Fession. Details have not been worked out, but the idea is that if practices, whether in conwith the old construction of formity conspiracy or not, produce identical prices, or are to eliminate weak competitors, or to concentrate control of the market in any given line in e few hands, those practices shall constitute a violation of the law. The whole point is to be that the practices shall be judged not on their own merit, lack of morals, or whatnot, but on the results that flow from them. The best interpretation of the administration's attitude is revealed in the prosecution now going on, at Madison, Wis., against oil companies, oil executives, and publications which printed news about price intentions. It is contended by the government that mere publication, in certain journals, of price changes, served actually as notice to all in the oil business to make their prices just that. But the difficulties of proving a violation of the present statutes in this practice is just what the government would like to overcome in future actions. Hence the desire for new laws which will make the result a crime, regardless of the apparent innocence of the actions which led to that result. What is really burning the government up is identic bids on government supplies. Officials mention 17 bids for bars at Denver, 14 of which were precisely $1,144.16 each; 12 bids for such bars at Los Angeles, with 11 of them precisely $194,051.89; every one of 10 bids at Fort Peck for such bars exactly $253,633.80. Then in February, 1936, there were 16 bids of just $3,483.50 for a steel sheet order, followed in June by 15 bids for the same order at the same figure. Washington. The whole Lawyer i i, 1 s II! U '! Hi I 1 peaches Sugar, cinnamon I egg yolk tablespoonfulj cream j ? Peach Pie. 1 1 cupful egg 'i 4 tablespoonful 2 fluur cr'! tat! teaspoor.!ol tor baku.g podw CUpiul tjfi, Make a cookie dough type g crust from last six ingrediecti as follows: Mix dry ingredient Work in butter, and add the shrHt ly beaten esg and milk. M;x then pat and roll out on board t pastry canvas. Fit into nitie-pie plat3. Peel the pea. i.es, move stones ana s.ice :n evej slices. Arrange in circu'ar fasj. ion over the dough. Spn- kle W;j suar and cinnamon mixe i. Eeat the egg yolk, add three table, spoonfuls cream and drip over ani around the peaches. Bake in hot oven for about 30 minutes or untj crust is browned and peaches an soft. st st Midterm Conventions ! , oat 1 The point is that a Republican running for the house of representatives next year, say in Massachusetts, can run on any platform he pleases. He can tell the folks :n his district, for instance, that he wants all restrictions on to, ton planting stopptd. ' ti at cotton vvi.1 be cheap, ai.d t.'.ere will pier.ty of work for the local textile in.'!!.-- , thereby enabling them to c:-.- ' t'.'.' with those of other nat'ons. He can promise a fight to the death to bar all textile imports, espeeial'v from Japan. He can promise to l;j..t every appropriation fur water power, irrigation ani reekirnni.on projects out West, which ke:p to keep up taxes but bring no !o: al benefit to all th.s he his district. Ami in do will not be handicapped by any national party platform, or any party leader's promises or Out in the West, where water resource appropriations are wanted, the Republican nominee can promise to work like everything for big appropriations for this type of work. He can promise anything he believes will help his candidacy, regardless of the attitude on the same question of any or all other Republican candidates. lead-tin- g j Open for Here's the Point red-head- The plan of Herbert C. Hoover and of Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, of the Republican national committee, to hold a midterm Republican national convention, is calculated by gOOC t The prize case, officials complain, was on steel pipe, where the navy found 59 bids by 59 companies, each one of which was exactly $16,001.83. These are just a few of the cases of identic bids which have gotten the Department of Justice lawyers cases which seem almost miraculous unless one assumes, which is what the government lawyers want the public to assume, that there actually was collusion among the bidders conspiracy in restraint of trade. This is the result the government wants to make illegal, without compelling the government to prove that in achieving that result some practices at variance with the laws were employed. Not for one minute do the government attorneys concede that for the corporations doing this bidding to agree on such an absurd proceeding in advance would convict them of incredible stupidity. They would never admit that such matching to the penny could be a coincidence due to the combination of freight rates, wages and supplies. But it's pretty hard to prove that there is really "conspiracy" in the meaning of the present law language. That is why the government is so avid, first in prosecuting this present oil case, and second on amending the law to get at theXesults instead of the steps to the results. Tbte oil case, they think, will convince the country and congress that the law needs amending. anti-tru- the IVcek ET us have our peach dess ui ouuiiuau.c w iiiic mere generous amount of this fruit tt the market. NT sented by Democrats, do not want a midterm convention. Are Irked anti-tru- E ofj j Republican senators and representatives who happen to be in Washing ton to insure the election of three or four more Democratic senators and from 30 to 100 more Democratic next year than representatives would otherwise have any chance. It is proverbial, these opponents cf a midterm convention point out, that the party not in power makes a stronger showing in the midterm election. In fact, there ore very few instances where there was not a swingback two years after a landslide, frequently strong enough to lose control of the house for the party in power. President Roose- veil's enormous popularity prevent- ed this natural swingback in 1934, pdinting a prophetic finger at what was tb happen in 1936. The Democrats, gained the house in 1910, after President Taft's enormous victory in 1908. The Republicans captured both house and senate in 1918, foreshadowing the overwhelming Republican victory of ISO) But aside from these big swings, it is the normal law of politics that the "outs" do very well when they have no national ticket running to handicap the local candidates. The answer is very simple, and explains why so many Republican senators and representatives, and so many Republicans who plan to run In districts and states now repre butter . i .... o '"HI iflfrtlt i 3 fcc- - ra - By Sen. David I. Walsh is fond Neutrality Law The present neutrality law, on which so many political leaders and pacifists pinned their hopes for keeping the United States out of war, is virtually in the scrap basket. It was repealed, so to speak, by edict. Not a formal edict, but a presidential speech, which not only disclosed clearly the attitude of the administration, but which also received overwhelming approval from the country. There were a few criticisms, notably that of Representative Hamilton Fish, New York's widely known windmill tilter, but they were just the exceptions that proved the rule. Incidentally Mr. Fish was one of the few commentators who pointed out just what the new policy laid down by President Roosevelt means, for there is no doubt whatever that it puts the country squarely on the road to entanglements, which the neutrality law sought to avoid, and might very easily lead to war. The President's plan is nothing less, in tact, than economic war, started with a view to making physical aggression unprofitable. The President approves "sanctions" but would rely on economic pressure rather than go as far as Article X of the League of Nations covenant. Article X provided for contribution of by all the member nations of the league to constitute an international army which would police the world, crush the aggressor in any war and virtually impose judicial settlement of all international disputes. President Wilson thought Article X the "heart of the covenant." He bitterly resisted any reservation with respect to it. Opponents on the man-pow- treaty, looking for issues on which to arouse the country, made much of the fact that enforcement of Article X would mean American boys again fighting in foreign wars, with which, they insisted, we had no concern. Never Invoked Article X has never been invoked by the league. No one has really ever tried to invoke it. Which, some think, proves that Wilson was right about this being the heart of the covenant. They say that failure to invoke Article X against Japan five or six years ago, and Italy last year, showed the hopelessness of the league as an agency for maintaining world peace. But now President Roosevelt is willing to go just as far, and then on beyond, anything the league h:is actually done or contemplated doing. "Isolation" and "quarantine" for aggressor nations are proposed by the President as the British appear to be moving toward a boycott of all Japanese goods. Support from the country has assumed such magn. tude that the President will find it difficult to take a backward step, should this later seem desirable. This means less exports to Japan, and sharply curtailed purchases from Japan despite the old motto that "Trade will find a way so long as there is a Is successful in the long run only when the law is unpopular, ns was the case with prohibition. Roosevelt's plan pleases most of the country because it enables the and angry pacifists to cat their cake and hav it. No war, but punish the wicked eCtUSindicUe. WNU Service, e anti-fasci- V if" ltV.iW?.'' va tw-i- . r tne tirsi ol Tugwtil's ijeetibeit, i"uu., as i,cea lroia the air. t have a Iti7 WIT IMM r IT7 FV real share in the community of Prof. Rcxi'ord Cuy life, the opportunity to enjoy lake ONE sports and f.'ee range of several principtil Uto- thousand beautiful acres of town pias is now open for business, land. The houses are white with enand some say it's good and some say it's bad. At any rate, semble grouping and harmonizing the first families have moved architecture. The drive and walks are flanked with trees, most of them into Greenbelt, Md., "model still young. There are as few traffic town" of the resettlement ad- hazards as possible, with every imministration formerly headed aginable precaution for safety havby Tugwell, and perhaps we ing been taken. All highways aie shall one day see just how ef- crossed by means of underpasses, so that the children who attend the slum-les- s fective the two schools will not find it necescommunity can be. sary to watch out for automobiles. A year ago this time Greenbelt Queer at first do Greenbelt's 1 the target of much criticism concerning high costs, waste and venture of the federal government into "collectivism," "communism," and other horrible social and economic isms which, during the heated days of the last presidential campaign, were grouped under one general head "Tugwellism." Friends of the project usually had defenses for these charges; what you believe is probably greatly influenced by the trend of your politics. The important thing today is that the experiment is definitely under way, and is soon to be followed by counterparts in other sections of the nation. Greenbelt, with its 835 housing units, rests on a crescent-shapeplateau, 12 miles outside Washington, D. C. Standing sentinel over the town is a belt of green trees from which it gets its name. Mirroring it is an artificial lake of some 23 acres. Here 835 families, to give the project the greatest chance of success, will find homes at rents varying from $13 to $41 a month. Their local government will be run by an city manager, under the f.rst city manager charter to be granted by the s!ate of Maryland. All the community's business will be directed and conducted by a Rochdale which was sponsored by the late Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant. Settlers who buy shares in the distribution corporation" will receive rebates at all tiie stores in the community. Inhabitants Carefully Selected. It is not easy for a family to be admitted to life in Greenbelt. The resettlement administration has taken every precaution in selecting the tenants and, purportedly, political "pull" doesn't mean a thing. First, all perrons with incomes of $1,000 to $2,100, who were interested, were asked to register with RA, giving name, residence, income and other information; hundreds were dropped immediately on the basis of this preliminary data. Those whose applications survived were asked tor more detailed ir format ion about themselves, and this was checked by ofl'.cials. The candidates were then visited in their homes, their character and credit ratings investigated and their references verified. The final selections were made on the basis of a summary of all these findings. If Greenbelt is to succeed, the durability of its buildings must be matched by the integrity and sincerity of its inhabitants. These tenants will he living in the most completely planned community in America. Where they may have lived in city slums, with poor environment for their rhildren, they are now set down in the rolling green hills of Maryland, where fresh air is plentiful, where there is a good school, where their budgets will allow them to live ns velf ns their much wealthier city neighbors. Grcenbelt's citizens can go to and from work in the city, if they like, At home in the evening by bus. after the day's labors they can put-- r wass d hand-picke- d n "con-sur-.- nro-ti-- m a garr!"--- . tC'c rt me be tb a high by his own merit and not one who climbs up by the injury and disaster of another. Cicero. position No matter how many ultra-moder- lout I she A Three Days' Cough Is Your Danger Signal t' bny will houses appear to the uninitiated, for the front doors are at the back, if that is not taxing the reader's logic. In other words, they face on the open space at the rear, rather than on the street. They are durable and attractive, but not ornate. Kitchens Are Sensibly Modern. Foundations are of concrete and roofs of tinted slate. Eroad casement windows assure plenty of sunlight, and plenty of air. In this climate the summers are likely to be bet, but ceilings of poured concrete, reinforced with steel rods, keep the rooms cool. Brass-cappe- d door sills combine with copper weather sheathing to banish drafts. Foundations and walls have been built to last a hundred years, but they have not been foolishly planned to outlast the Coliseum in Rome. Closets are cf knotty pine, and oak is used on stairways only where they are most likely to be trod upon. Kitchens are modern, comract, economical but rot faddish. There are metal cunbonrds with deep shelves and smooth, g doors. Sinks are of enamel and bathroom walls are covered with All inexpensive waterproof paint. fixtures are sturdy and in good The oili- c.--vh - and if the community it does rot like this system, it may adopt a new one. There arc- in churches in t free k.rui is avail ib'o for them if community groun.s (ler.ji e to Gre-n-bei- build them, f in cnbelters are plenty of opportunity to contribute their tharc toward the beautifying of the town. Anyone may secure the head gardener's nrJvice at any time free of c harge. Trees or bushes ' r may )P obtained hnm'-cnp,,- .,, Creomul-Eio- n. 's e er wall of classroom us of transparent glass, stretching almost the entire h :ght of V e nxun. Conditions such as these are about all a teacher could ask for. All commercial operations are conducted ly the ccnsnrr-Ts- ' corporation. Two er ce- -t of the gross rever.ee will be turned Over to the federal government as rn.t; e.nv rcmaining piohts will he retmnel to the cii:.'o;ners as divld ids. Operat ed on th s p'an will be a genera! merchandise store, a drug s'ore, a food and meat marke t, a motion picture thra'.er. a barber shop, a beauty parlor and a garage and service stat-mVh-- n g.-.e- germ-lade- tliree-quart- , ind'vidur.l lockers. you cannot afford to take a chanoe free from the town nursery to which with any remedy less potent than the when were transplanted they Creomulsion, which goes right to land was cleared. the seat of the trouble and aids nature to soothe and heal the inflamed This Is "Tuswelltown." mucous membranes and to loosen Greenbelt epitomizes Professor n phlegm. and expel the Even if other remedies have failed, Tugwell's philosophy. He said its don't be discouraged, try aim was: Your druggist is authorized to "To obtain a large tract of land refund your money if you are not and thus avoid the complications orthoroughly satisfied with the benedinarily due to diverse ownerships; fits obtained from the very first in this tract to create a community, bottle. Creomulsion Is one word not two, and it has no hyphen in It protected by an encircling green Ask for it plainly, see that the nam belt; the community to be designed on the bottle is Creomulsion, and primarily for families of modest inyouH get the genuine product and and comes, and arranged managed the relief you want (Adv.) so as to encourage a family and community life which will be better Of Greater Value than they now enjoy, but which will Good instruction is better thaa not involve subjecting them to coercive or theoretical and untested riches. William Penn. discipline. "The dwellings and the land upon HOW LONG CAN A which they are located are to be held in one ownership, preferably a public agency to which the federal R WIFE government will transfer title, and which agency will rent or lease the dwellings but will not sell them; a HOLD HER HUSBAND? municipal government to be set up, in character with such governments now existing or possible in that rehave to work at marriage YOU make a success of it. Men to be estabgion; may bo selfish, unsympathetic, lished, in relation to the local and but that's the way they're made state governments, so that there and you might as well realize it. When your back aches and your may be provided those public servnerves scroarn, don't take it out ices of educational and other charon your husband. Ho can't possibly acter which the community will reknow how you fccL quire; and, finally, to accomplish Fcr throe gonerationsone woman has told another how to go "smilthese purposes in such a way that ing through" with Lydia E. the community may be a taxpaying Vegetable Compound. It in the exthat participant region, helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening tho discomforts from travagant outlays from the individtho functional disorders which ual family income will not be neceswomen must endure in the three sary, and that the rents will be suitordeals of lifo: 1. Turning from able to families of modest income. girlhood to womanhood. 2. Preparing for motherhood. 3. Ap"To develop a land-us- e plan for proaching "middle ago." the entire tract; to devise a system Don't Ix a wife, of rural economy with take LYDIA E. PINKIIAM'9 land-usthe VEGETABLE COMPOUND and plan for the rural porGo "Smiling Through," tions of the tract surrounding the suburban community; and to integrate both the physical plans and the economics of the rural area and the suburban community." Whether or not the model town can be regarded as the answer to the housing program, even if Greenbelt succeeds as a happy, prospering community, depends on how you look at it. It has been pointed out by opponents that the project cost far too much and that PLENTY OF DATES NOW... DENTON'S there were too many delays, allegFACIAL MAGNESIA MADE HER edly attributable to "government efficiency," in its construction. SKIN FRESH, YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL What Sponsors Contend. Romance hasn't a chance when big ugly Only 835 families may be housed Men love the son pores spoil in Greenbelt, opponents point ojt, smoothness oi a fresh young yet the cost is $14,227,000, or more Facial Magnesia does miraclei than $16,000 a house. The governfor unsightly skin. Ugly pores disappear ment's estimated net return on the skin becomes firm and smooth. investment, they say, is less tlum Watch your complexion take on new beauty ' of per cent. Even if interest Even the tirsi lew with Denton's Facial were waived, it would take 237 years Magnesia make atreatment! remarkable difference Vtrita see Denton the Magic Mirror you can actually to repay the cost. the texture of your akin become smoother An W Wrinkles Against this the sponsors reply day Imperfection! are washed clean if Ponton gradually disappear. Before you know that it is unfair to the conl has brought you entirely new akin lovennaamong the houses alone, for it inOFFER EXTRAORDINARY cludes the business buildings, landSaves You Money Ton and can try Denton'e Facial Magnesia on W scaping many other things. Preloc liberal offer we have ever nuds-- a" sumably their answer would have most 2 a few weeks only. We will tend you a full been the same if the cost had been bottle (retail price $1) pint a regular sued boi of famous Milnesia Walera (known throughout regarded $16,000 per family. th country as the original Milk of Mag" A'ro there is the argument that tablets). pU (he Denton Magio Mirror ishow you what your skla specialist sees) . all W the "made work," transient relief only SI Don't remarkable oilsi. out labor and such, skyrocketed the Write today miss on this cost. Tiiey contend that t housing is spreading and that repayments under the Wagner act will he more generous than those ai Greenbelt. They attempt to show SELECT costs of slum conditions are inPRODUCTS. Inc. direct but that they are even 40? 23rd St . greater than the cont to the government longlslaiidCity.N.V. of Enclosed find ' fubsidiing model communities that (cash or stamp") homes are in the lo lor whloh send me your run cheaper than flimsier dwelling pedal lntroducto'7 combination. built for sale; and the Greenbe't accountants write oft a third of the total cost ns excess labor costs mo-- c Nm. directly chargeable to work'rchV J Streat Addre&. ...... than to he Cici,pt rp .... S.'(L City Western Newp.-,prUnion. rir.k-ham- taste. Greenbelt's business and community center at the hcnrl of the res dential cresccrt, includes a mercantile budding, a municipal gaa town inn. a resrage, a taurant and a school. The latter is perhans the most remarkable building. Gray concrete pilasters flank its sides like inverted flying buttresses. There is a ch'seled frieze of cubist characters. Interiors are the ultimate in scientific design. The buttresses support the walls of a spacious gymnasium. Light brown walls and great expanses of while plaster helo to diffuse the plentiful sunlight which enters corridors ar.d school rooms through windows and glass brick pane's built into the wails. Students keen their belongin visions may be realized. THREE-QUARTE- easy-dustin- ings medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial Irritation, you can pet relief now with Creoirulsioa Serious trouble may be brewing and of telling a story of when he was chairman of the Democratic senatorial committee in an oir year election. He tells of how he changed his line of speeches every time he crossed a state line, making speeches in each case in line with the campaign being made by the local Democratic senatorial candidate. profit." Lawbreaking i ill & JAIL ,;r "my I bed His Own Merit For he seems to me to greatest man, who rises to . i tab'espocr.fulj milk low-co- GET RID OF BIG UGLY PORES st skin-textur- e. compleon-Denton'- s 1 pro-rat- e DENTON'S low-co-- Facial Magnesia t - well-bui- lt 4 |