| Show f NATIONAL AFFAIRS k R LI Reviewed Ly by kJ v J CARTER CARTER FIELD The Tire Taft brothers brothers Sen Senator ator alor lob Dob seems seem to need new neto glasses The Tire lagging electric elec clec industry is beginning to sir show ow new netO life Electric power shortage is hampering hamper hamper- ing big Japans Japan's war tear activities WASHINGTON Robert Robert A. A Taft U. U S. S senator from Ohio should read that old nursery rhyme that tarts starts For want of a nail a shoe was lost Jost for want of a shoe a horse was lost lost etc winding up with the kingdom being lost lot because a certain cere thin tain rider could not get through to turn the tide of ot battle batUe In the case of ot Mr Taft Tatt It U may be proper glasses To get the answer one has only to go to his hi native town of Cincinnati and ask the first 10 people one encounters about the Taft Tart brothers The answers or at least eight of them will be that Brother Drother Charley is a swell guy a genial person with a smile mlle who will cross the street treet to say Hello to toa toa toa a friend or slap Iap an acquaintance on the back The same lime eight or more will report that Brother Drother Robert Is Isa Isa a more self centered person and seldom if ever known to slap a back From close friends friend of ot the senator one learns that Brother Drother Bob Dab would be very glad to be a back not just to advance his own presidential prell aspirations but because he feels that way But Dut the trouble they confess Is that tha t he ha has vel very poor sight Ight The reason he doesn't wave to people he knows knowl across the street treet is that he could not possibly realize he be knows know them He just cant can't see ee them Which seems to those of us who have been listening to this defense to be a sharp criticism of Mr Tafts Taft's glasses Certainly there Is nothing i ithe the matter with them for reading I IThe The most mot casual perusal of any speech or statement Mr Taft makes will show that he has haa put a lot of ot study Into It that he must have read volumes In his research on the subject before giving vent to any public utterance Maybe the Senator Needs Need New Neto Pair of oJ Glasses It savors just jut a little of ot a fiction story in one of the magazines afew a a afew few tew years back baek about a beautiful girl with particularly beautiful eyes eyel and a soulful expression who for tor some lame reason was not popular A smart doctor was attracted and finally found out the trouble The eyes were soulful because they were not looking a at anything They couldn't She didn't mean to be high high high-hatting hatting young men she had met meta a few days day or nights before She simply limply didn't recognize them I- I ISo So the doctor forced her to wear glasses They were married and lived happily ever after Well It might be that If Senator Taft had some lame amazingly good glasses which would make him as aa able to recognize people as 81 his brother he would get Ilet a lot further along the steep and difficult path that leads lead to the White House Certainly Certainly Cere if he had been using such luch glasses for tor the last lut two or three years year ears he would even now be a bit further up that road And If its it's still tiD not too late It Is generally agreed In Washington that of the two men concededly ahead of him in the race for the G G. G O. O P P. P nomination last spring one Thomas Thomaa E E. Dewey ha has haa lost lot ground tremendously and the other Sen Arthur It IL of Michigan has haa llam gambled ed hi his hi all aD on this European European European Euro Euro- war Issue Obviously there Is 11 not as 81 much talk about Mr Dewey as there wa was waa Whether this 1 Is due to the over shadowing operations by Attorney General Frank Murphy or whether the war situation ha has made his hi youth seem eem more of a handicap It is II difficult difficult dif dit to say y Whereas Mr Vanden berg has haa not helped himself for far the 1940 nomination by opposing the arms embargo repeal whatever may be the situation with regard to public sentiment In la 1944 La Lagging ging Electric Industry At Last I Is G Showing New Life LiJe That big bill electric power plant to tobe tobe tobe be built at Philadelphia and the big play the utilities are trying to toIlet get Ilet for It it Involve some lame vel very inter eating esting angles In a statement issued b by the utility executives In Washington Wash ington stress Is U laid on the details details- that it will have an ultimate capacity capacity ca ca- ca of half a million kilowatts kilowatts- that it will cost that that it comes on the heels of ot new generating generate big ing capacity at Philadelphia In 1938 1933 which cost Also Alo that the new plant will take care of ot homes of average usage And that it would nu rue radio receiving reedy ing sets t e light watt watt lamp bulbs Impre Impressive Well if Its It's all true but a more Interesting In In- s statement would also be betrue betrue betrue true but Is II not included Which Is that this plant would have been built in the normal course of events that similar proportionate additions addition to plant would be added to most mot of the privately owned electric r systems E I. I In the United States State and that actually the electric Indu Industry try ha has haa been lagging behind In additions and betterments betterment i rt i The Philadelphia story 1 is II the dl di result of a finding by the recently recently recently re re- sabotaged war resources board that the weak spot of ot the war preparations preparation situation so 10 far faras faras as a. power for war Industries is II concerned concerned con con- was Philadelphia This ha has haa not been given any publicity but all the utility men knew what the resources experts expert thought feared resulting publicity and scrambled to meet It The utilities are also putting considerable considerable con can emphasis on the fact that this big new plant Is to be run by steam There I is II a reason for tor that also The plant would have been designed to bum burn coal even If U no other reason than efficiency were being considered because the present present pres pres- ent expert opinion of the industry Is that power can be produced more cheaply from coal than from tram water waterpower power Public Sold on Falling Jr Water aler as aJ a Natural Force But Dut the utilities realize the public Is not convinced of that The average average av avo av- av citizen has been thoroughly sold laid on the notion that falling failing water water wa wa- ter is Js a na natural tural force the utilization tion of ot which certainly must cost costless costless costless less than to dig coal from deep down in the earth then haul it to a plant and then burn It to produce steam team It doesn't seem natural that current could be produced more economically economically eco ceo that way than by just putting a turbine under falling failing wa Wa- ter But Dut when all the costs of a hydro plant are added in the Norris Nor Nor- ris dam in the TV TVA A system alone cost the accounting sharks say coal coalla is the cheaper meth meth- od But Dut this comes at a peculiarly apt time for propaganda purposes The famous Loup and Platte river projects projects In George Norris Norris' state of Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska are making a sorry showing made worse at present by the fact that there has been such luch a drouth that they are obliged to buy steam steam- produced power Power PolDer Shortage hans Hampers pets Japans Japan's War Activities The Tennessee Valley authority Is II not the only hydroelectric power development development de de- de in the world which is Js having trouble There has been a abad abad abad bad drouth in Japan according to I reports to the department deportment of com I merce Japan never has had an adequate coal supply and like Italy has been spending millions miDion trying to develop enough water power to cut down coal importations and thus protect Its foreign buying power or rather permit the use of its foreign buying power for tor more vital things things for for Instance In I i stance tance scrap crap iron The present drouth is said laid to be bethe bethe bethe the worst in Japans Japan's history but whether this Is II an exaggeration or not It is certainly the worst drouth since Ince Nippon's hydroelectric developments developments devel I reached their present mag Not only has the power supply to non urgent non Industries been drastically ly reduced but the country's heavy I industries l and even its munitions plants have had to curtail production production production tion schedules The fh power Ve shortage shortage short shortage age age has has become so 10 acute that steel steel- mill mm operations In the important Osaka Osaka Kobe Kobe district were suspended tem temporarily during the early part of September due to the sudden cessation cessation cessa cessa- tion of ot current The Japan Electric Power Generation Generation Generation Gen Gen- and Transmission company which was recently organized to control the Japanese electric power Industry has already received warnIngs warnings warnings warn warn- ings from the military authorities of ot the grave situation prevailing Inthe in inthe inthe the heavy Industries as a result of the power shortage According to the Japanese press a feeling Is developing In industrial circles that bureaucratic management management management manage manage- ment is to blame for the present predicament but this view does not appear to be warranted Couple o of oJ f Stories Storie Dragged In by Way War of oJ Illustration Just what the bureaucrats bureaucrat I are supposed to have failed to do Inot Is I not made clear in the absence so 10 far tar of ot any satisfactory rainmaking rain machinery It reminds some lame observers observer ob ob- servers server of the time Will WiD Rogers Rogera was defending the then prince of Wales now the duke of at Windsor I 1 keep hearing that the prince of ot Wales just cant can't stay on a horse horae Will wisecracked wise when annoyed at criticisms criticism of ot the prince Ive been looking a at t pictures of his hi falling failing off and I notice that every time the horse hone is down too I wish some lame of these fellows fellow would explain to me how a rider I Is going to stay tay up when his horse horae is down But Dut Instead of wanting to shoot the weather man the Japanese politicians pol po- feel fee that ought to resign That seems seem to be a normal nor mal mel Japanese proceeding Washington Wash ington chuckled years ago allo over a astory astory story tory told by the late Richard V V. of the New York Times When riding on a train carrying members of ot the royal family en route to Tokyo Dick pulled a cord by mistake and the train came to toa toa toa a grinding stop There was a long delay after which the train crawled to the next station Then the military mill mili tary tart took charge A day later an anold anold anold old friend in the foreign office told Dick the cabinet would have to resign resign re re- sign Ign because of this Incident But Dut why asked Well It never happened before so we have to resign replied the official Dick was afraid to reveal that he was the cause of this cabinet upset up set let but got out of the country as at fast fat as 81 he could Checking on his return to Washington however be he found the cabinet had really quit I luaU Bell Syndicate Service |
