Show processing tax gets the bla blame me wrongly t made goat for rising 0 prices social security act power trust threats by EARL GODWIN T WOULD not be surprising to IT me if some bright slogan writer produced the hie idea that what tills this country needs Is a good five cent ham sandwich that might state the case for the city fellow who right now believes the triple A and the processing tax are raising the cost of living out of sight aud and that ruination stares us all in the face tom marshall hoosier IIo osier vice president swept the confusion of the postwar arlod period away with his declaration that the count rys greatest need was a nickel cigar which meant a sort of return to normal in ing conditions and I 1 hare an idea that the city dweller has an idea that sometime again we will haie hae he cent ham sandwiches and fifteen dollar all mool suits of clothes with these idle dreams in the public mine mind the smart politician who wants to defeat the new deal is letting it be understood that it if roosevelt can be defeated all these things will come true A file cent ham sandwich therefore would be a symbol of a re reduced cost of living in the cities and would be welcomed by the city fellow who inho care how badly broke the farmer is as long as uie the city man can live cheaply food prices are going up and although processing taxes are a factor they are not the entire reason cut but the processing tax gets the blame this propaganda in the cities against the process processing ln tax and the triple A and the whole new deal farm program will be a factor in the next election the ordinary city man and woman understand that adequate farm income Is necessary to keep city industries running at full tilt OIL it Is impossible for the average man to have a national viewpoint anyhow and it Is high time that our geniuses devise a way of explaining the thing to the country at large it should not be a partisan matter it should be well understood and out of politics but it wont be for a long iong long time a 0 0 HIGH PRICE OF HOGS just now the price of hogs is sky high ham and pork cost real money aryl and the butcher Is telling the city housewife that it Is all on account of the slaughter of the little pigs two years ago this gives the republican politicians an issue close to the clid tago cago stockyards stock yards one would think that the killing oft off of those small pigs was a brutal act of cruelty that it would have been humane to let them live through the drouth summer to be killed later at chicago or kansas city organizations are beginning to shed tears over those pigs at the behest ot of politicians tic ians whereas it if they turned their attention to the cruelties cruel ties of the fur trade they might accomplish something all this Is being stirred up into the bitter dose the 0 0 P wants to administer the ne new deal next election time of course the slaughter of those OW pigs and the plowing under of acres of cotton were not acts of insanity but were emergency measures to combat the destruction of ithe jazz age economics the present hog shortage Is 13 due not to that 1933 1033 slaughter but primarily to the drouth last year which reduced the corn crop by nearly a billion bushels the slaughtered pigs saved us some corn also they were turned into meat for relief families and fertilizer for farms even after these pigs were removed from the scene the commercial blau slaughter gh of hogs in 1034 1934 was something like CS which Is only a trifle less than either of the two years before it was quite equal to the number slaughtered in 1925 Z when we had too much pork and had bad to export a great deal of it and we had so much lard we exported a third of it so a glance at the record does not bear out the claim that secretary wallace was crazy when he be killed the pigs nor that his action then was responsible for inordinately high prices now at any rate when the small pigs were killed farmers were getting the starvation price of per hundred weight tor for bogs today they are getting 12 a a POWER TRUST THREATS philip gadsden chief power lobby here says that it if roosevelt makes a campaign issue of the death sentence on the overfed over fed utility holding companies he will hurl burl ten million power company stockholders into the breach with antl anti new deal votes and intimates that power expects to dominate the election power thus assumes the natural role of 0 big business in politics I 1 have no doubt that it would be easier for the power interests to defeat roosevelt than it will bo be tor for roosevelt to put over the truth ot of the ugly story of the power interests for many years the utility interests particulars the electric light companies nies have been selling stock to tile the public some of 0 it Is good stock some of it Is worthless but by and large most of it Is going to pay for a long time to come the idea of selling this stock to the public was waa I 1 I 1 to prepare for tills this very light and to marshal tills this army of voters which lobbyist gadsden parades as a threat the power companies have apparently made most of these stockholders believe that roosevelt wants to take their stock away from them which Is not so in spreading this falsity and solidifying this stockholder army the power propagandists have not separated the lie sheep from the goats gnats privately when you talk to these lobby ests and press agents here they will tell you that there are arc two or throe three of these great bl dig crooked holding companies that are disgraces to the business but they never say so publicly they declare too that the power companies which have been guilty of political and financial immoralities are now thoroughly seared scared and will be good from now on but they never say that in public either what they are doing then Is to go to bat for the bad bos of the power industry and it the they y tire are completely successful the power PoliVe politicians lans will not only have cleaned up the power companies that want to be good but they will have perpetuated the rotten polities politics and crooked fili finance mice of the two or three over overstuffed stuffed watered and danger dangerous ous holding companies which the government has hern been after for a doyan years WHISPER whispering ING CAMPAIGN gerore we leave power politics let me say that th alie e democratic leaders here assume that the whispering campaign n against the presidents health and mentality started among the utility holding haldin company propagandists A congressional investigation from which facts will be chosen carefully for earn cam laign purposes caught E B P cramer advertising man writing a letter to the electric pond bond share co a holding company in that letter cra ani mer sug suggested a whispering campaign using that very term ile he said it should create popular suspicion that the new dealers and especially the new dealer in chief are either incompetent or insane in certain circles the big crime Is getting caught mr cramer lost his job the larger lobbyists hobbyists remain on the job the electric bond and share co denies starting a whispering campaign pal n but the democratic leaders here point out that the whispering which has now been exposed got under way shortly after the cramer letter these whispers plus other power propaganda are nothing to laugh oft off SOCIAL SECURITY ACT it if the social security act had been in effect for the past 20 years there would have been little distress in this depression there would be today almost no poor people dependent on county poorhouses poor houses or public charity of 0 that sort in fact you could travel through most of the counties and it if there happened to be any county farms and poorhouses poor houses bouses they would be devoted to some purpose other than the housing of folks when roosevelt Koo sevelt signed the bill there was an exultant feeling in his heart to roosevelt Koo evelt this social security act Is the cornerstone of a new social order in which the peaks and valleys valley S booms and depressions are leveled in which there are more cushions spread for the inevitable sharp hard luck which occurs in most lives at intervals it Is a part of 0 that comprehensive social order he explained in his message to the opening of this congress a social order guran guaranteeing teeing work tor for every employable insurance against the jobless days and an income in old age it Is a plan accepted by intelligent leaders the world over accepted here by all political faiths there Is no partisan dispute over this old age pension plan it Is americas tardy recognition of the fact that the time has come tor for the nation to plan tor for its periods of 0 unemployment and its areas of poverty the other older nations have attended to this thing long ago and have worked out in intricate detail plans whereby the government acts as a sort of insurance agent for every worker from the lowest scale to the higher plan of work thirty one ode states have old age pension and unemployment plans funds or whatnot and it Is to boost these arrangements and to induce the other states to come along with the national system that the social security act was drawn no state gets any benefit from this old age pension and jobless insurance fund started out at unless it provides its own state system with a standard approved by the government As I 1 told you previously this act Is now mainly beneficial to industrial workers the domestic servants and farm laborers have bare not yet been beell provided for by uncle sam no fault ot of the old mans merely because no one has been able to agree on a plan that would bo be acceptable to the farm and home workers in industry everyone willi a pay roll of eight or more persons will pay a tax to the social security board and each employee will contribute his bit each pay day the government holds on to these funds until the time comes when they are needed when the worker loses his job or Is too old to work any more A lifetime of such contributions assures an old age pension of fair size for immediate old age the national government will contribute now 15 monthly to each indigent aged person where the state contributes at least 15 the state can contribute more than lhnn that but must not drop below 15 a lionte at tho the start the government Is going to contribute to old age pensions for persons over seventy but within five dye years pensions will start at the age of sixty five tho the states will declare who Is eligible 0 |