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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH NATIONAL AFFAIRS Revitwed by CARTER FIELD Senators who beat "purge" may find patronage cut off . . . Move to refuse vote to reliefer! takes beating in New Jersey . . . Supreme court decision is needed to clarify hourg regulation wages-an- d law . . . Ruling in N. R. A. case is recalled. -- WASHINGTON . With few excep- tions, the United States senators involved in the purge realize that their troubles with the White House were not ended by their triumphs at the polls. Most of them are not perturbed about the elections they must now face. Of all on the list Sen. Guy M. Gillette, of Iowa, is probably in the most danger. Former Sen. Lester J. Dickinson, who has the Republican nomination against him, is an able campaigner, and was defeated in 1936 only by the overwhelming character of the Roosevelt landslide. He ran way ahead of his ticket. Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, in Indiana, is also in a little danger from his Republican opponent. But nearly all the rest of the Democrats who dared to differ with I Mir. 4 the resident are in ylt ; ! , very little fear of their Republican op ponents. What they have to worry about is what is going to happen to their organiza Senator tions at home when Van Nuys the White House is doing its utmost to build up "loyal" and "liberal" organizations in their own states. The course the White House will follow is already clear, Normally, the senators of a state, if their party is in the majority, are very potent in their state organizations, because they can distribute so many important federal jobs. But although President Roosevelt has had very poor luck in trying to persuade the voters in Democratic primaries and conventions to reject men who opposed him, there is no way for the voters to force Mr. Roosevelt to assign patronage to the men the voters approved. And no one thinks he will do it. tif v l Proffer of Juicy Jobs Tempting Peace Offering Plenty of men in Mr. Roosevelt's place would call the war off and try to make friends of the men he has been fighting. He could do it easily. Most of them would be very glad to make peace, bitter as they have been and as most of them still are. Mr. Roosevelt has plenty of personal charm, however, and in addition no senator is going to fight too hard against a proffer of friendship accompanied by tenders of a whole crop of juicy jobs for the senator's political lieutenants. This may even happen in a few cases. Most observers believe that the President will go more than halfway to meet Sen. Bennett C. Clark of Missouri, for instance. He invited Senator Gillette to lunch the moment the victorious insurgent got back from his primary. But there are some senators on that original purge list of nine with whom the President simply does not want to be friends. He wanted to "mow them down" in the primaries. Having failed there, he will try to mow them down by cutting off their po litical powers. All of which foreshadows a lot of interesting fights in the senate be tween the President and those who do not like him, or rather those he does not like. There will be fights over confirmations, when he seeks to name political enemies of sitting senators to important jobs in their friends that a man or woman ok relief should not be permitted to vote until he or she has removed that particular burden from the backs of the taxpayers. Hopkins' Argument Does A'of Please Sew Dealers The best argument for the side of the New Jersey women has been Dresented. of course, bv Harrv L. Hopkins himself. His statement that "naturally" 90 per cent of the WPA workers are for Roosevelt did not sit particularly well even with New Dealers. It is one thing for Democratic leaders to point out that the Hoover administration did nothing and about how terrible the unemployment became, and how much better the Roosevelt administration is doing. That is fine, and if people, believing that, want to vote on the New Deal side in primaries and elections this year, or two years hence, no one can object. But it is quite another thing to boast that 90 per cent of the WPA workers will support Roosevelt's candidates in primaries and elections, because the present administration is feeding them. And it becomes even worse when Hopkins' words conjure up a picture of rival candidates bidding for the relief vote by promising more and more. There are many more people including politicians, quiet as they may keep about it who are shocked by this idea. More than that, they are genuinely frightened as to what it may do to this country if such practices are continued. Which is made more pointed by the fact that nobody even pretends to see the end. This fear is entirely distinct from that which concerns more and more relief, hence more and more taxation, and eventually a financial blowup ending in destruction of present values. It is true that it is closely related, and one may lead to the other. But there are officials in Washington who have defended big relief appropriations, contending that this was the only way to pull the country out of its economic tailspin, who are genuinely disturbed over the idea of a permanent "relief vote" to which every politician hoping to get anywhere would have to cater. Need Supreme Court Ruling Law To Clarify Wage-Hou- r to There will have be some Su preme court decisions before the senne of trip wacps nnrl hours tppii. lation law i fullv understood. The trouble revolves around the ques- tion: What is interstate commerce? Administrator Elmer F. Andrews frankly admits that he does not know where to draw the dividing line. Neither does anyone else. There is plenty of opinion as to where the dividing line should be drawn, but the opinions do not agree, not even among New Nation Turns Against Crowded Cities, Buildins Its Future in the Small Town i glggl HOTELS HOTEL i n Industrial and Social Concept Will Feature New i . PLAKfXJMt a 8 41 d Lih rUS' BLB Whu la tESO (if NtVADA HOTEL GOLDE.-- ,n , u7L" I popnl.r hot,, A CLAY PRODUCTS FACE BRICK SEWER pTpeTti WALL COPING POTS Hfl ALL CLAY PRODl'CTS t'TAH HUB CLAY CO. ; - JOSEPH W. LaBLNE Main Street the same street that once echoed to a surging, bonanza spirit of pioneering America, has again come into its own. Once more the carniis heard on Saturval tom-tobut a few where night, day years ago there was gloomy By N PHOTO-KRAF- Extn Print Wrap coin and PHOTO-KRAF- o, INTERSTATE v V- - A . . . . 05 1.7 To 2.6 1 2 .5 2.5 7 . . 2.0 . .05 .9 . . 4.1 .3 1.8 1.3 .4 1.7 Hedging Against Adversity. This magic change of American thought is an amazing thing, yet it is logical. The bright lights of a city are glamorous just so long, then their artificiality becomes apparent. Like a siren, the metropolis will lure men, only to cast them aside in a few years. To safeguard their future, an enormous number of city business and professional men have bought "retreats" in distant small town or farm areas where they will move should hard luck dog their trail. They have realized, as the entire nation is realizing, that permanent security lies very close to the soil. Populous centers are characteris tically shoddy and only a small minority can hope to escape this environment by living in the better residential districts. Speaking of Chicago again, that city's building managers recently heard a picturesque description of their community by Walter H. Blucher, executive director of the American Society of Planning Engineers. "Here," he said, waving his hand to encompass the area, "is a city with a gorgeously beautiful lake front a beautiful front door but a filthy back yard. The lake front is like a pauper's shroud all front and no back." Consider a comparpoint-by-poi- nt ison: Whether urban or rural, family life is built around the home. In any one of a dozen large cities that home will be a crowded apartment where youngsters grow up confined within four walls. In the small town, that same family would have its own private home for less money, equipped with every modern com- - ... ... ... .2 Liquor Traffic Miscellaneous .1 No Ins. Interest . . .09 .3 Overinsurance Racial Extraction . . .05 Reckless, Intox. Driving .1 1.0 Reputation Business Reputation Family . .5 . 1.2 Reputation Moral 1.0 Reputation Personal .1 .03 .1 .1 .1 .4 .5 .3 .6 .4 2.9 I18( Bo. 11th E. Hj. 630 Salt Laka Otj. Utih Total Unfavorable . . 14.2 12.5 5 OFFICE EQUIPMENT plan of living. pany's investigations of policy applicants for the first six months of percentage of unfavorable factors found among city and small town risks. Note that in almost every case, the unfavorable percentage is greater for urban residents. Not shown is the Northwestern National's final finding, which revealed that 3.8 per cent of city applicants must be refused insurance, against 3.1 per cent rural applicants. The other figures: Feature City Rural Liquor Cure 01 ..... 0 The typical small town or farm home like this offers a happy trast to crowded city apartments, providing the basis for America's new ing conditions in the small towns. By the time depression arrived, it was clear most factories could operate just as successfully in the small towns, meanwhile permitting the working man to enjoy a better life. In short, the smaller community is no longer isolated. BRICK CO. tsuuains na rirt nncn Hollow Building Fir Clay Tile Vitrified Sewer Pipe Drain Tile Roof A Mantels con- 1938, showing 3 DRjjg BUILDING MATERIAL nere are results of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Aviation Decl. for Ins. . . Duties . . Environment Exposure to Disease Family History . . Finances . . Habits Past Habits Present . Hazardous Sports . . . Health Past Health Present . T carefuIK Eoi 749 SCHRAMM-JOHNSO- N LIFE INSURANCE EVIDENCE .1 .1 jj film Salt Lake Citf, L'ttk the golden lure of metropolitan life began sapping their strength. Having found once more their place in the sun, they are surely pointing the way to a new and better scheme of things. This revolution for such it is has been growing since 1929. It is a violent reaction to the cityward movement that gripped our nation after the World war, when every ambitious small town and farm youth became obsessed with an urge to seek his future in the city. By the time depression arrived, centers like Chicago and New York had become too large, unwieldy. It took but a slight upset to send them tumbling, to throw thousands of people out of work. A Basic Movement. Under such circumstances, when a country lad finds himself walking barren sidewalks with an empty stomach, fundamental things like food and shelter become mighty important. Back home, close to the soil, food and shelter come easy and a man needn't walk the streets friendless. From this new basic appreciation of mankind's prime necessities has grown today's movement. But it's bigger than that; the thirst for small town security has gripped all America, starting a mass flight from the city that will eventually result in decentralization of both population and industry. The metropolis scored the first touchdown in this battle of city versus small town. Industry sought out populous centers because labor was cheap and most of its products were consumed there. Moreover, these were the nerve centers of communication. But this was false economics, in part. Industry soon discovered that cities also brought labor trouble and high taxes. And eventually man's ingenuity developed faster transportation, better roads and better liv- - .1 T ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Developed wiffc 8 Quality Prints - & silence. New business is springing up in 1938's small town. New faces are seen, sallow faces, perhaps, for they come from the city, chased away by uncertainty and grasping for a new chance where life is sweeter in the small town. Here is being built a new foundation more secure than the one which crumbled two, decades ago. Gone is the desire to become a big city. Gone, too, is the pessimism that seized these towns when Age - PHOTOGRAPHY m There is one very clear point. which is that most of the left wingers believe the line should be drawn very liberally, considering every business as being in interstate commerce and therefore subject to the law restrictions of the wage-hou- r which in the remotest degree affects interstate commerce. But most of these same New Deal ers admit without hesitation that they do not think the Supreme court, even with the recent changes, would go as far as they do in this direction. Eventual decision of the wage-hour administration will probably be further to the left than the general concept, which is to say that the decision will include more business enterprises than the ordinary business man would figure were engaged in interstate commerce. If the words "affect interstate commerce" are used, naturally there is a broader base for inclusion. But there is a serious difference of legal opinion as to whether the federal government has the right to regulate anything which merely "affects" interstate commerce without actually taking part in it. Decision That Threw Out N.R.A. Is Recalled For example, a rug manufacturer might establish a factory in Allen- town, fa., and restates. strict his sales enThis will not do the senators in tirely to the Keybut nei question very much good, stone state. He ther will it do Mr. Roosevelt any would not be enis such there time For every good. gaged in interstate a fight there will be plenty of pub commerce, but he licity. certainly would be Move to Refuse Vote to affecting it, to preReliefers Takes Beating cisely the extent to which his sales diswomen who New The Jersey placed sales from wanted to refuse the ballot to all persons on relief took a terrible E.FAndrews sources out of the state. Presumablv beating from President Roosevelt and from liberals generally. Pub for every rug he sold one less rug licly very few folks came to their would be shipped into Pennsylvania, support. There was a notable ab unless he took the business away sence of political candidates among from factories already within the those publicly supporting their con state. But the Supreme court decided, tention. But we have not seen the last of in the famous Schecter "sick chickthis issue. It will probably never en" case, that the transaction inget anywhere so far as actually volved there was not interstate combarring those on relief rolls from merce, that the federal government the registration lists is concerned, did net have a right to regulate it, but it may get somewhere by Indi- and on that ground threw the whole rectly affecting candidacies and is- NRA out the window. sues. Important here is the fact that Despite the lack of public sup- this decision of the Supreme court port, there are a great many peo- was unanimous. Two very advanced ple in and out of public life who liberals, Justices Brandeis and think the New Jersey women have agreed with the opinion. Una case. No politician wants to say less several of the present members so, because so long as the reliefers of the court, including notably Jusand the tice Brandeis, have changed their stay on the polling lists extreme probability is they will minds right about face, the wage-hono politician administration may run up stay there indefinitely wants to go out of his way to aliensome tough sledding if it against ate their votes. But it is surprising seeks to go as far as the left wingers how many senators and representa- would like. tives will admit privately to their 0 Bell Syndicate WNU Strvtc Car-doz- ilk NEW AND USED Juki and chain, k typewriters, adding mch'i. aafei, 9. L. DESK EX.. 363 8. Stale. 8h U convenience available in the apartment. Every state supervision over its schools, whether metropolitan or rural. Under these basic regulations, Farmer Brown's child gets instruction equally competent to that enjoyed by Broker Jones' youngster in the nearby city. Comparison of Stores. His stores offer merchandise comparable to that of city firms, making him less dependent on metropolitan areas. When he must occasionally visit the urban center on business or entertainment, smooth roads make the trip quick and safe. Living costs are lower, though it has been argued that rural salaries are also smaller. Not until last year did a government survey reveal the difference is not so great as often presumed. The United States bureau of home economics discovered that half the white families in a typical American village manage on less than $1,100 a year. During the same the families in New year, York lived on less than $1,814, and of New York's total population had incomes under $1,000. In Beaver Dam, Wis., considered a typical town, federal investigators found the average income of 453 families was $1,309, considerably above the city average. Moreover, only 10 per cent of Beaver Dam's families had more than one wage earner, whereas in metropolitan centers about 30 to 40 per cent of the families depend on two or more "breadwinners." 'Culture of Cities.' Probably the most outstanding examination of has been made by Louis Mumford, a psychologist whose "Culture of Cities" created a stir last spring. Mr. Mumford says the world's greatest cities are definitely on the downward path. Far from being good and wonderful in proportion to their size, he says, they are crushing rather than serving the millions within their grasp. Among his claims: That medieval towns were more livable than any man has built since. That the machine age brought industrial towns in which even upper classes lived in slum-lik- e congestion, with houses lacking proper light and ventilation. That the metropolis offers "a ghost-likexistence." That the downward cycle of city evolution, if unchecked, leads to overexpansion of industry, questionable speculation and positive depression, followed by grafting and crime that ends in a barbarianism and an exodus from the city. Don't like it? Then be thankful you live in a small town! Look at education. now maintains strict one-ha- lf the ne pies ATHLETIC GOODS GREAT WESTERN ATHLETIC GOT. Uniterm!. Bata, GloTei, Baseball, fjtfti ITu Vollyballs, Athletic shoes, etc. IDAHO SCHOOL SUPPLY CO. Salt bm ICE CREAM FREEZERS ICE CREAM COB SODA FOUNTAINS TEK FREEZERS and Ice Cream cabino. Bar Fixtures, Stoola, Carbonaiors, ftsj Tables Also reconditioned equipmenMai CO. Manufactma 55 Post Office Place Salt Liki 0 MOTORCYCLES BARLEY Write for Used Motorcycles HOUSE OF HOPPER. 140 E. Bdy rri eaUfen Silt 14 TRUSSES Instruments. Hospital Satnk Surgical Trusses. Manufacturers of Abdominal Sa porters. Elastic Stockings. 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