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Show LEW FREE PRESS. LEH1. UTAH SLUMS MUST LIEADH around the NATIONAL CAPITAL! i9v Carter Field CEEM I FAMOUS WASHIMGTOM WJttUlfilwII. 1 I1UU.I1 ..TTllll....-- . Thet fied. At the moment it is the ardent New Deal advocates who are worried about the choir invisible. Their real concern, of course, is over gentlemen who are very much in the ..... i GO!" says Straus y CORRESPONDf M Bryan was fond of using the Biblical etory of the Hebrew king w ho, when his lieutenants told him he was vastly outnumbered in an approaching battle, was able to fhow the skepi'j e veil tics, when by divine was lifted, a host of ar.ge's ready to fight on hss side. Telling the story does not always prove that the Lord is on your side. time Bryan used the story in a speech was at the San Francisco convention, when he talked about the "angels" as the women vote, in the battle over prohibition. If he had lived a little longer he might have been terribly disappointed, but up to his death, during the Dayton trial, he was perfectly sal s "i than a deliberate r ubhcitv maneuver. Also, it ss very rrur-- simp'er to criticize the Pie:dent on th.-than tu explain hi. i culd st n v.- it if he wanted to do so. What could he yny or d wr 'fh would really convince ar.y or.e that he was r.ot to:nn to run, that he had nsfcde up ins mir.d not to do so? Doubted CooliJge of people never believed Vr Coohdge when lie sa d h? "did not choose to run." Mai.y think to this day he was very much Lots disappointed that the nomination was not forced on him. The sine published diary of Ike Hoover, at the time, Whi'e House head leaves no doubt that Ike thought Mr. Coolidge was not only disappointed but angry about it. But aside from the futility of convincing any one, there is another aspect. The moment the po'itical convinced that leaders became Roosevelt was not going to run, h.s influence would dwindle tremendously. Every Democratic leader would be laying his lines to he close to the new throne, if not to occupy it him.'elf. Mr. Roosevelt, l aving enjoyed such amazing power fur five years, would be very unhappy in his sudden impotency. All this does not explain the amount of talk in Washington of a third term. Its answer lies deeper. It is based on the fact that a very strong group of Democrats, mostly southern, ore working definitely toward controlling the 1010 convention, writing a conservative platform and naming a conservative news Southern conservative senators and representatives, and the allies which have been driven to them because of motives having nothing to do with economic and social ideas. But they know perfectly well that there are a good many Democrats, many of whom have never parted with their party regularity, who are in sympathy with the conservatives, and who are still very potent In their respective states. The importance of all this is that, while these former luminaries are not figuring in the news stories of the day, and have been, perhaps, almost forgotten by the public, they still have their friends. The reasons that made them important a few years ago are candidate. Washington, watching this develstill there. Allied with the conservwith interest, has virtually opment ative group, which is against a thud that this is term for Franklin D. Roosevelt and reached the conclusion , rather than the major New a of the nomination against Dealer to take his place, they may anything involving the Republican party. And one of the strong become very important indeed. is that this group of conCase of Douglas servatives will be so strong by 190 Best known to the public of nil that the only way the New Deal can this group, perhaps, is Lewis VV. stop the hands of the clock from Douglas, who went into the first being turned backward, as it views Roosevelt administration so strong the sitnal ;on, is to nominate Roosethat it was confidently predicted, velt again. The theory here, of when it became known that the course, is that the conservatives health of William II. Wood in was might be able to bat anv ore v'.r, failing, he would be made secre- but could not beat F. D. R. himself. ,;. Housing Authority Chief r lE.--i v i ens Op wasningtoii Ready to FightSqua or rn.rn.mm m m Bv JOSEPH V. La BINE ss of your livin;'. room Maybe, in the snu-i.eBut t l .0 lifii-.n WIT!' Dft'ttV hit..! Amf.fi...n :. i . Si 1 I program he forecasts construction of 3,000,000 to 4.000,000 new houses in the next five years. The Key to Recovery. Though slum clearance and private housing are two separate enterprises, both can help avo'd Hoees- - battle-front- Mr- -. Any one who knows his Arizona "and who thinks Lou Douglas and Mrs. Greenway together could not elect a delegation which would go along with the conservatives had better not make any political bets! Third Term Talk It is astonishing how much more talk there is in Washington of a third term for President Roosevelt than almost anywhere else in the Nearly every hint about idea originates in Washington, whether it be by a magazine article by some Washington newspaper man, a confidential letter or tipping service or whatnot. Visitors from various parts of the country coming to Washington and visiting around among their politically minded friends at once heralds bearing the word back to their homes. Almost invariably they tell their Washington friends that "nobody at home has even thought of such a thing," and profess astonishment that there is so much talk about it here. All this would seem to indicate that somebody, for some reason, is talk. It feeling out the third-terbears all the familiar earmarks of propaganda. In fact there are those mostly folks very much opposed to Roosevelt who think they understand its purpose. Their view is that the more the third-teridea Is talked about the less shocking it seems to be, and hence if the New Deal could keep the subject to the fore, without seeming to be responsible, much of the resistance would be worn down by the time the 1940 convention rolls around. There may he a grain of truth in this, but there is other logic to explain the persistence of this talk, logic which is much easier to accept country. the third-ter- e There are whispers that there will something about tin in the trade agreement now The point here being negotiated. would be to protect American consumers against exorbitant prices, rather than to protect American producers, or open the door to more trade. In fact, it is a type of defensive international trading which so far has not entered into any of the reciprocal trade agreements. The United States produces no tin It is one of a very small group of very important metals which th s country, bountifully blessed as it is in most natural resources, does rot possess. Control of the world's of tin is very tightly held, and Britain is big in the combination. This combinat on, by the way, operates very much like a cross between a European cartel and a Wallace farm program. Thcrfe is an international committee, which rot be fixes the price of tin. but assigns quotas to the producing areas which they may not exceed. So far only it has been eminently successful, unlike most of the world's attemnts to control international production of any essential commodity. This does not mean that the control is firm enough to prevent Perhaps it would be, hut the international committee has made ro attempt to be as rigid as that. For instance, the price of tin per pound last Januarv was between 50 and (19 cents. Bv March it had soared up to nearly 70 cents As this is written, the price is 4? cents. Supply and Demand This proves that the interrnt:onal committee has an eye to supply and demand, not to mention consumer resistance, in dictating the price of tin. During this same period the price of most metals had fluctuated on much the same type of curve, though a little more violently. In January, copper was 12 cents. In March, it reached 17 cents. As this is written it is 10'i cents. That 17 cents price in March d'd not give the American producers much comfort. As a matter of fact, in January, thinking 12 cents was a fine price, they made contracts running over long periods. So actually there was very little copper sold at 17 rents. The price was merely marked up following a spurt in the London market. Inc dentally recent reductions in price have not stimulated sales. On the day the red metal was marked down to 104 cents, for example, only a few hundred tons were sold, and these, ironically enough, not by the company that initiated the cut. But a price for t:n of 55 rents, or even 42 cents, seems pretty high when it is taken into consideration that families of less than medium income probably use more canned goods than do the wealthy. e Bell Syndic!?. WNU Service. ' J; . j war? f - i 1 eive-yea- STftAl'S TIIAN N iece. . s.' J pliysi-lictenorali- e n Run-dow- n s projects was Williamsburg Houses in New York, costing S13.439.0C0, coverin? 12 city blocks and providing homes for 1,622. The government expects to get half its investment back. siuin-ciearant- e regard a large volume of new construction as the keystone to further recovery. The small improvement in building evidenced last spring was hit on the head by rising costs, strikes, an armament boom and growing uncertainty about the future. Drastic action must be taken immediately, for America faces the worst housing shortage in its history. Speaking conservatively, we need 900.000 new dwelling units every year. Actually sion. Economists now we built only 57,000 in 1935, 250,000 in 1936 and about 400,000 this year. Although Mr. Straus' building activity will be confined to helping those who cannot help themselves, it does not mean that business will not profit. The history of slum clearance projects, in which Europe leads America to a shameful degree, is that government building always stimulates private construction. The Wagner - Steagall bill was passed by congress last spring after a stormy three-yea- r legislative trip. Briefly, it creates the United States Housing authority which Mr. Straus heads. It provides half a billion dollars to be loaned state and municipal housing authorities during the next three years, for use solely in creating new dwcllirg units for the tenement population. Between 100,000 and 120.000 units is its three-yea- r goal. In addition to the loans, annual "subsidy" to plan Greatest of I'WA'S est from the slums into decent living quarters, not to place them in "ideal" houses. Homes built under the new Housone-thir- d ing Authority will rent for $5 to $5.50 per room per month, if possible. They will be plain, but they will also be modern and sanitary. Such economical housing will not conflict with private interests, Mr. Straus claims, and with reason. No private builder can erect suitable housing in New York or Chicago to rent at much less than $12 to $14 a room ;icr month. At least, he can't do it at a profit. Straus knows, because he sponsored Hillside, a New York private housing project with 1,416 apartments renting at an average of $11 a room. Although Hillside is ideal, it's not made for people in the lowest income brack- ets. How United States Housing Ranks. America's slum conditions are the worst in the Western world. Nowhere outside the Orient can more squalor be found than in our own TnVo mdoor metropolitan cer'er build apartments in the New midst of yesterday's ruins. sites will be chosen in unblighted areas ad tenants will be lifted away In due from the slums completely. time, if the Housing Authority is successful, all present slum sites will be evacuated. The property will then be open for commercial development. New Homes, New People. Mr. Straus does not believe that slum dwellers will create slum conditions wherever they go. PWA's experience has been good in this respect, proving that underprivileged classes are largely victims of circumstance, ready to reform if given an opportunity. The present dollar ap- propriation is hardly more than a s. drop in the bucket, Mr. Straus To rehouse the needy one- third of our population would require 10,000.000 new dwelling units, compared with 120,000 units possib'e under the present fund. But half a billion dollars will help get the ball rolling and should demonstrate for all time the possibilities in slum clearance work. Aided by the experience of PWA, which did not establish such a bad housing record as many people would believe, the new Housing Authority can start its work without pioneering. Business Man, Idealist. The newest of the New Deal's administrators, Mr. Straus is probably one of the most capable. lbs experience with Hillside and other private housing projects equips h m from the practical mint nf while h gives ''"S"t 4. What is wind? losopher who lived m a tub' t OS b. What is the pr eedun a bank certihes a check? . ni . ,iri w ai was t f ! fed . , 1 tprntorv to hp sdm.'i.j :. Union as a state? 8. What states have women secretaries 01 state" In what year did 9. th J H J "if 6t!t! I financial panic in the bwt uiu j vvvi 10. What proportion of thesi'J f population 01 me L riiiprf has gone to college? Answers . 1.1. James Two 1. 4 I Buchanan Grover Cleveland, but Cleveland was married while he wasmtht' Presidential office. 2. Non sequitur (it does not & low). 9 A i ah ImnloA . . . old as a man at eighty-four4. Air naturally and horizontal' in motion with a certain degre of velocity. . 5. 6. Diogenes. It withdraws the amount tl the check from the drawer's ac count, and holds it for the purpost of paying the check which I guarantees. 7. Arizona. 8. There are two women ta are secretaries of state, the Hon, Goldie Wells of South Dakota and the Hon. Elizabeth F. Gonzales of New Mexico. 9. In 1791, following the boom is bu siness after the close of thi Revolutionary war. 10. Three per cent cf the coi try's adult population has graduated from college, and four per cent more has attended some Path of Virtue The path of virtue no one, it lies is closed to to all; it open admits and invites all, whether men, slaves or they be freed-mekings or exiles; it requires no qualifications of family or property, it is satisfied with 1 mere man. Seneca. free-bor- n half-billio- n ad-mit- 'oeial-mindpde- appropriations will be made to state and local . J s city-wid- " Jlsk Me Jlnoft, U a Genera Q, . I nun. many La. r.e.or cents nas me L'ta: j s i. nai coc-- t:.e si "non sec" stand f. r? Ar.s a .iv. t tin,.. uui-o. aog correspond to re in beine? VU'J British-A- y i tii tii re c merican sun-pl- i, ., that ti.e con.-- e va'ave continued it. iii.: ..ir. L conoinic Factor Paramount. Althaia,:: the social aspect of slum c'eanm'fc has long been stressedeco--inx IV.i'ed Slates, it was an devc'oi mc- -t that led to of t:.e Housing Authori-Javcr.- p This recognition is or.e s'gr. of a di hnquency and att.tude toof slum dwellers niore c0mm.on-ser.5- e P'.V.Vs r !,,, ward the hous.ng problem. 101 mourned bce.'i have projects in New the fewernnient is tacklingjcjis its presYork, Chicago and other rr.etropeli-ta- ent job as a business proposition. in w.p:ng points were suei essful It goes deeper than the current out parts of the bhuh'.ed area, but Recession. Blighted areas affect tenthev failed because the intended both the tenement occupant and the ant's couldn't afford rents of $12 a more fortunate (in some respects) month per room. cities require taxpayer. Trills Are Nice, But large police, fire and hospitalization Another good sign is Nathan appropriations. Moreover, dilapidatStraus' determination to give sensi- ed residential areas spread like a ble housing without the frills that plague, neighboring destroying went with PWA projects. PV.'A property. When these things hapsought ideal living conditions, in- pen the city is apt to get in serious corporating cross ventilation, no financial difficulty. walk-upmore than three or four Look at statistics a moment, from "no room entered both social and economic viewand stories through another." Straus also likes points. Twenty - one per cent of these frills, but he realizes the ne- Cleveland's murders are committed cessity is to remove America's low- in a slum district covering less than 1 per cent of the city's area and housing 2'-- j per cent of the populaIn Harlem, tuberculosis is tion. three times as prevalent as in the reel of New York city. A third city e finds its police protect on costs $1.37 per capita, but in the slums it is $11.50. Similar convincing figures can be produced in any city of the nation. Unlike PWA, Mr. Straus does not slum-clearanc- 2I K 1 tary of the treasury. It's kind of amusing, to look at Then There's Tin with hindsight. Douglas Actually Etood for very few things that Henry Morgenthau, Jr., does not aoprove. The difference is that Douglas was intractable. He simply insisted on his own ideas, as to gold, for instance, and as to budget balancing, being followed or he would not play. Down in his heart Morgenthau has followed very few of the New Deal ideas. But he is never defiant. He is just patient, and keeps on pleading. Stubborn very, but not to the point of making a nuisance of himself. But Douglas has not passed from the scene. He is still potent in Arizona, which elected him as its lone congressman as long as he But consider: wished. Arizona elected to the house when Douglas stepped "upstairs" to be director of the budget Mrs. Isabella S. Green-way- , a close family friend of the Roosevelts. She had voted against Hew Deal measures until it was socially embarrassing for a lady who had been a bridesmaid at the wedding of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. -- 1. cc-i- through a housing boom. Altnougn he's interested in FIIA, the monumental ti.sk facing Straus is to clean out the slums. He is administrator act. for the new Wagner-Steagal- i For the present, all United States housing activities are aimed at the spectre of Recession, a severe dip in business which threatens to wipe out many of the past three years' gains. President Roosevelt seeks to stimulate America's financial pulse with a housing boom through liberalization of existing laws, as outlined in his special message to congress on November 29. Through this .U7T4 ikJ IOC ctn eU. or tta-i- r lur a home or apn ;t Wr.ie c: t P-Rorl-- C . aimer l II West t94 So. ...:..,V,Sr:'; fa f.ib.w numcd Nathan Straus became two Simps Housint? Authority. After less than Straus ha nn th inh d'jiir.i which he's talked freely Nathan housm- made Americans' hang their heads in shame. Our ditions, he explains, are deplorable. Iiousir Mr Straus is not connected with the Federal on loans prua. administration, which has been insuring stimulate busmen to now is and attempting dwellings fnrft a United 1 I How One Woman Lost 20 lbs ol Fat Lost Her Prominent Chi- Hips-Dou- ble n- Sluggishness Gained Physical Vigor A Shapely Figure. If vou're fat first remove the cause! Get on the scales today and see how much you weigh then get a 4M. bottle of Kruschen Salts which will last you 4 weeks. . f Take teaspoonful of Kruscfr en Salts in a glass of hot water in the morning modify your diet and get I little regular gentle exercise-- in weeks get on the scales and note not many pounds of fat have vanished. i Notice also that you have gained yo energy your skin is clearer will feel younger in body Kruschen give any fat person a jovous surprise, But be sure it's Kruschen your health comes first. You can get Kruschen Salts from B any leading druggist anywhere tw America (lasts 4 weeks and cost is but little. If this first bottle doesn't convince you this is the eaH iest, SAFEST and surest way help you lose ugly fat your money gladly returned. one-hal- au- thorities for making up the difference between the "economic rent" on houses built and what the renter can afford to pay. For 1933 this subsidy appropriation totals $2;,000.000. Itow It Works. The government will build no houses or apartment build r.gs. Thirty states have already adopted enabling acts permitting them to set up local hous.ng authorities needed for the new program. These authorities can borrow 90 per cent of the cost of any project, to be repaid within 60 years. In addition to the 10 per cent building expense, authorities must pay at least the difference between the low rent charged and the "econom c rent." The government's rent subsidy will never be more than of the difference. If a tenant cannot afford to pay the "economic rent" on his Apartment, why should the government and local housing authority pay the difference? The answer is that the government has at last officially recognized that many Americans can never afford o rent sanitary living quarters. e one-fift- four-fifth- h s slum-clearanc- e x SALT LAKE'S "" f T .iio...ti- vu.n van shed in Indiananolw (n m.,.., Gardens, which cost PWA SS.1J7.03O. Kent three-rooalrjge apartment includine utilities " 1 . aflS NEWEST HOSTELRY O Our lobby Is ddiglitfuHy air cooled dcrlng the summer montM Radio for Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Batht i J ,VR? for pcr e a plumbing for example. Though him enough nf ., a on the farm, ro nt to 'ueaiin S view- forge ahead despite obsta- it certainly ranks as a vital health factor in crowded city life. Yet 25 ":s career has been pcr cent of American urban homes "g with two years at Prince on have no bathing facilities and are without private, indoor water closets. Approximately 4,003,000 American city families are without the barest "modern improvements " Since 1919 about 3.300.000 dwelling units have been erected in Great Britain through a combination of '; "m public and private effort. Of these 1 mm J'e;ic!d month for con-S'der- one-fift- h ' l..'!00,OC0 have been built with some public ass stance, the remainder by private interests. Although England's bousing program was started under a labor government, it was so tt HOTEL Temple Square Rates Th jl.SO to $3.Q0 llnlrl t .lr.lril.lr. Sqnr frlrn.lly phrrr.Yml will mwmy f in. I hM illn",r; lilalc, a.iprrnirl; rnmfnrlnl'l'. ,n thnroucl.lv mrrrlMr.nii r "?f for. un.l,.rsiaiid wb ttiio I'"""1 HIGHLY RF.COMMENHED ran alio appreciate wlii ll' a of distinction to el Uii beautiful hostelry ERNEST 'C ROSSITER. Ynn d WMten,New!DRpUnlon toP |