Show I 1 roosevelt roosevel t has kept pledges lobby criticism refuted blacks committee stirs up lobbyists hobbyists by EARL GODWIN I 1 wonder by washington W what h 11 t peculiar perversion of intellect there thera comes this criticism of roosevelt that abe he has violated every campaign pledge fee be ever made it comes persistently from the ranks of tile power trust lobbyists hobbyists who at the same time now also complain because Roosevel ts crowd Is paying strict attention to carrying out one of the strongest pre election pledges this was the pledge to give control of the natural power resources of the country to the people roosevelt within the last few days once again pledged nil all his strength tor for the development of the st lawrence waterway w which aich Is a plan to bring ocean going vessels straight into mid continent making the groat great lakes and the whole bils mississippi system a continuous seaport also to utilize power resources along the way for the public weal tills this st laurence water way Is one item of the four grent great power plans pledged by roosevelt in the sli summer miner of ills his 1932 camp campagni agri one Is the vast tennessee valley development now going gain ahead full steam ti another nother Is the columbia river development planned and on its way the third was the completion of tile the boulder dam and the fourth was the st lawrence waterway this latter plan Is complicated by the necessity of operation cooperation co with canada and being a treaty matter our senate must concur so far eastern seaboard cities and the power lobby have prevented the senate from ratifying that treaty 0 a a BLACK STINGS LOBBYISTS the power lobby and the liberty league are in the limelight again because of the prodding of senator 13 blacks lacks lobby investigation committee of the senate black comes from alabama lie he Is a natural born prosecutor as the crooks of his county found him to be when he held that job that Is why the liberty leaguers the munitions trust attorneys and officials of various power holding companies jeer at him as a small town lawyer whenever he manages to get the red hot end of the poker too close for comfort just now lobbyists hobbyists of these interests are having a war dance clante over the fact that senator black managed to read practically all of the telegrams that many corporations and their lawyers dispatched blitter and yon throughout the country during the time when the power trust was fighting the death sentence the legislation putting an end to watered utility holding companies senator clack black accomplished this by getting the federal communications commission to examine the telegrams telegram and report to film the communications commission claims to have the right to do this but the corporations set up a wall claiming that the senate lobby committee has no right to bring these telegrams tele grami into the open these telegrams were largely the directions ions of the lobby for thwarting the effort to take the cronk crookedness edness out of the utility business by the time the lawyers have thoroughly argued that question we may be in midsummer at the moment let we me observe that as powerful as the united states senate Is it has iti natch match in the power lobby you would scarcely believe it but the electric power organization of this flits country Is 13 so no in washington that it can cramp the operations of nearly tiny senatorial committee it Is reported that it c can in and has been able to limit the operations and the funds of tile investigating committee it was wag the power lobby through its nationwide organization which once blocked a senatorial inquisition luto into power propaganda by having the matter referred to the conservative anil and apparently half asleep federal trade cominIs commission sion however through one of those blessings which occur to a nation tion in other words dire need the federal era trade commission awoke to the full responsibility of the InquI inquiry and the result was the exposure of the greatest propaganda machine ever known in this country there ca came me to light the tale of how flow the power trust propaganda ganda against government control contra nod against cheap publicly owned electricity had been spread through colleges through gli textbooks text books through thion gli lecture cou courses through churches and even among public school pupils the wholesale poison ing operation by the power lobby as exposed la in that lint investigation will not soon oon be forgotten to in washington 0 a GOOD COMES OF THEM the admittedly fine federal reserve act ct and all its amendments are the result of an investigation atlon into the wall street of the morgan days by a committee of tile the house bouse of depre which was lampooned bit beily right now as a late example country has declared itself neutral a the result of am M investigation into the munitions bus business by a satiate investigation committee headed by senator gerald nye abe johnson Ju linson act prohibiting ihla 1118 country from lending lei war money to fore lyt Inkin tries which have defaulted in their war debt payments to us la Is the result of a senate investigation into wartime financial racketeering the teapot dome scandals investigation by congress eaves great areas area of 0 oil land for the government tremendous amounts of defaulted income taxes and corporation taxes have been reco recovered vered from questionable corporations and wall street operators through these same inquiries by congress and always during the wor work ic of the committee there have been tremendous attacks from the conservative city press in which two things always appear one Is the ridicule of the members of the committee especially those elected from a rural constituency second the claim that the tb constitutional rights of the people are threatened by these probing activities of congress actually these investigations are the only powerful thing congress has to restrain those tremendous groups which in themselves constitute a superpower per power above the government and as I 1 have said previously the most powerful and most dangerous to popular government at the moment Is the power trust roosevelt pledged his administration to put a muzzle on that glant giant so it Is odd to hear bear the giants lawyers and politicians claim that the new deal has forgotten pledges a 4 0 CASE OF breckenridge I 1 think I 1 see some connection between tn een these corporations corporation 3 and the activities tivi tivit ties les of a man who ought to know better col henry breckenridge who was assistant secretary of war in the jillson cabinet when franklin Frnnk lla roosevelt elt was assistant secretary of the navy is now attempting to run as a candidate fur for for the Ilesi presidency dency on the democratic ticket vi breckenridge was a promising youth in kentucky when he stumped that state for woodrow wilson and belied to carry it breckenridge was a great progressive democrat at that time but after he had tasted washington life and went over to new york to become a wall street lawyer he fell off hla his progressive horse with a complete fracture fracture of his entire political system he Is now a complete munitions trust fixture the thing that may have started breckenridge running for the nomination against roosevelt Is the tact fact that colonel lindbergh employed colonel 1 breckenridge as an attorney some of the democrats here recall that he was in the newspaper headlines tor for weeks at a time and they think that he was bitten by the publicity hug bug I 1 am sorry henry breckenridge Is d doing 0 this thing 0 0 RETURN TO FOLD breckenridge Is a symbol of the sort port of thing that former gov alfred E r smith hoped for when he threatened to take a walk should the democratic convention endorse the roosevelt administration incidentally new dealers here are saying it Is natural for al to promise to walk after tile tha disastrous experience he had bad when lie ile tried running seriously though there Is no rush of leaders tu to get out of the roosevelt Roos revelt column in fact it Is all the other way here in the east where there was reasonable expectancy pec tancy of some democratic defections there Is a marked effort to come back into the party the strongest and most consistent antl roosevelt democrat in the senate Is probably Bl Illard tydings of maryland senator eydin s has hammered the new deal on practically every issue and yet when it came to make a choice he stood up at a great meeting in baltimore and declared himself in tile the roosevelt column ile he would not go to the democratic nominating convention in philadelphia and vote against roosevelt uis ills outward and spoken excuse was that while he criticized the new deal he feels sure that any republican would be much worse but the real reason was that the political lenders leaders of the new deal took the fight right to him as it will be taken to everyone else it if there Is going gain to be any wall walking ln away from roosevelt let it be done now when confronted with tile the alternatives the antl anti roosevelt democratic leaders refuse to capitulate in favor of the liberty league the same attitude that senator tydings had could be observed in a so somewhat me slighter degree la in senator harry byrd ot of virginia RAILROADS IN BAD FIX few people realize the bad financial ox fix of the railroads some of the tha best ones are mating making money but the entire railroad business has suffered six bad years six years ago the railroad income was around seven billion dollars lost last year it was around four billions the roads have cut expenses but as a whole the railroad industry lacks a billion dollars of mal maling making ing a profit this administration Is trying to col carry out a plan through which many competing lines would be merged and ninny marty economies effected some pro progress ress has been made but the plan stops dead still when it comes to savins saving money by discharging too many railroad employees neither the tha president nor the railroad labor unious will stand tor for that now comes the interstate commission with an edict reducing passenger tares fares from an average of 38 30 cents per mile to an average of 2 cents per mile effective june 1 this Is done on the theory tint the reduced fares will cut into bus and auto braf fic be to restore enough passengers to railroad coaches to make up some of that needed billion some welcome the idea others will protest it admittedly the interstate corn com mere 0 commission order Is an expert ment 0 western |