Milford chronicle., 1927-07-08
NATIONAL NEWS OF INTEREST
TO EVERYBODY WHO READS

| MI w - OC LIN |
TO EVERYBODY WHO READS
Gossip in Washington, has it that |
for all of the friendly greetings |
which the President is receiving in |
South Dakota, the McNary- -Haugen /
people are still planning a renewal |
of the campaign for that measure at |
the December opening of Congress. !
Quarters have been engaged in !
Washington and a machine is being !
set up. There is even a whisper !
that the fight will be made no mat |
ter what Senator McNary himself !
may elect to do. In connection, of /
course, it will be remembered that |
McNary before leaving for Oregon, |
had lengthy conference with the |
President and intimated at least that |
he was going to spend the summer |
working on the measure, the impli- |
cation being that he intended to |
modify it in some way so as to meet |
the presidential objections.
1t would be curious political |
twist if after the author of the bill |
had decided on certain specific chan |
ges, the machinists who handled the |
thing in Washington should decide |
to flout him and continue on a bill |
for which he was offering a substi- !
tute. The whisper is also current in |
Washington that the big farmers
cooperative organizations have in
timated that they have no desire to |
appear in the McNary- -Haugen pic
ture. They argue that easy credits |
for the farmers have helped to Gre
ate part of the present confusion. |
Their vision apparently is that re-
lief for the farmers can be better !
plowed fields than by flivver eXcur-
sions to the town banks.
The present wastage of oil which
is going on through multiplied COM |
petitive drillings is not only an eco
nOmic crime, but also a crime
against the people of the United
States as a whole. 1t is immaterial
whether the potential oil resources
of the country are equal to the de-
mands for 5, 10 or Is years. Geolo-
gists and experts are in constant
controversy over this point, but all
are agreed that at the best, no mat
ter how large it may be, we have
only a limited supply of oil and that
its final exhaustion is as inevitable
as sunset at the close of a day.
The Federal government, of itself,
through its control of oil leases and
similar sechanics, can of course
curb in part the wasteful pumping
of oil to the surface in excess of
actual demands where it becomes
subject to the loss by evaporation
and destruction by fire and lightn-
ing. But the government has power
to restrain drillers who, despite pre-
sent conditions, are still insistent on
their rights to drill and pump. 1t is
about time that the big men in the
oil business-and no industry can
show men of larger capacity and
vision-to take hold of this problem
and handle it in the interest of the
public.
Their pilgrimages to Washington
are always interesting and are :
worthy of encouragement, provid-
ing they are seeking advice. If they
are entertaining the thought of ask
ing Uncle Sam to use the big stick :
for the purpose of adjusting what :
should be trade problem, their
activities should be at once dis
Too often it happens :
that big business, which, when pros
porous, grows red in the face over :
the prospect of governmental inter-
once the tide shows signs
Of fnrniOo ic hA fi,.ef fO I .
same governmental interference
which it has previously TRADED
against. :
The President has won the friend :
ship of the Black Hills and South :
Dakota. That is the conclusion
reached not only by the Washington :
attached to his party
but by the South Dakotan news :
paper men as well. They absolve :
Mr.. Coolidge of any charge that he
1as been angling for this result.
they go> further and admit that :
While they have had him under their :
glasses since the day of his arrival
hat at no time has he made any :
gesture which could be interpreted :
Us originating from desire to make :
rotes or friends. The confidence in
lis honesty and sincerity, which :
hey now say has become as much
If a commonplace in Dakota as in
he East, is the result of his own ma :
uralness. :
rIrsL of all they say the people :
lave been captivated by his open
demonstrations of enjoyment wheth- :
# he is fishing, riding or walking. :
again whether it is small boy on :
he road agog at his first sight of :
he Chief Executive of the nation, or :
mass gathering awaiting a receipt
on, the cordlallty of his greeting is :
# equal measure. Even his ref :
renee to the similarity of the seen :
ry around the state lodge to that of :
lis home state of Vermont-and =
1ere is striking similarity, which :
Then first said disturbed the gentle :
len anxious to promote some poll :
lcal gain from his visit and which =
orrified them when he repeated it, :
est it should upset the western :
eople, has been accepted by the :
)akotans as fine compliment. =
Congress sitting and Congress ad- :
burned makes for difference of :
D per cent in the business done in :
he Capltal City accOl ding TO the =
who have been compil- :
lg the figures. 1t is not to be =
lought for a minute that this loss =
| revenue suffered by the hotels, =
hops, theatres when Congress is =
ut, represents what Congressman =
pend. The truth is, that the Con- -