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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-12

Four New Deal officials will adj
dress them and answer their queS-
tions. Joseph B. Eastman, federal
co-ordinator of transportation,
and Chairman William E. Lee of
the interstate commerce commits
SIGN, will discuss railroads and
buses. Chairman Frank R. Nc
Ninch of the federal power COM
mission will talk about electric
utilities, and Chairman E. o.
Sykes of the communications COM
mission, about telephone and
telegraph utilities.
This years convention Of the
National Association Of Railroad
and Utilities Commissioners is
probably the most important the
organization ever has had. The
commissioners feel they are on
trial before the bar Of the New
Deal and in danger of being rele-
gated to the scrap heap if they
can not produce as acceptable re-
suits, from the point Of view of
the public, as yardStick regula-
ton.
Congress and the courts have
given them new powers; utility
companies are anxious to MAKE
regulation a success to avoid I'M
known ills; and now the state
commissioners want TO know just
what the man in the White House
requires Of them.
TWO years ago when he was
Il campaigning for election,
President Roosevelt charged that
through lack of vigilance in state
capitals and in the national gov
eminent we have allowed many
utility companies to get around
the common laws, to capitalize
themselves without regard to
actual investment made in prop
erty, to pyramid capital through
holding companies and without
restraint of law to sell billions Of
dollars of securities which the pub
lie has been falsely led into be-
Ieving were properly supervised by
the government itself"
He laid down the further prin-
eiple that commissions must play
positive and active part in pro-
lection Of the people against
private greed" a conception in
contrast with that Of commissions
which attempt to maintain a
judicial attitude.
Since Roosevelt has taken office.
the johnson bill, freeing state
commissions from review Of their
decisions by the federal district
courts, has become law. Supreme
court decisions have greatly lib
eralized the basis Of valuing prop
critics for the purpose Of fixing
rates Of return.
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He Can Write a Diploma

~ EVER has been social success with his fellow
alumni of Tulane and is spiritually a State
Being very resourceful he could write himself
a State university diploma and thus become a bona
1de alumnus. and will do so if he thinks of it.
Captain Bif Jones, u. S. A.. who coached at the
United States Military Academy in the days of Red
eagle and Harry Wilson, is at present detailed to
Louisiana State for military duty and holds, in addi
tion the portfolio Of head coach The position with
the combined pay of his rank and his football job,
is one Of the best of its kind in the country but it
has its embarrassments.
Captain Jones has the conventional ethics of the
respectable army officer and football coach and it
grieves him to find that people credit reports of re-
cruting, PROSECUTING and pay in connection with his
team. But whenever Captain Jones places his hand
Solemnly over his heart and that Louisiana
State is officially sanitary Senator Long takes few
nibbes Of beverage, falls to Boosting of his football
team and blabs the particulars. 1t then becomes
question whether Captain Jones knows any more
than is good for his peace of mind or Senator Long
is fctioneer.
The senator tells, for example Of going out after
new players and bringing them in and of planting
them on the pay roll of the state highway depart
ment which is the graft roll of the state government
Nobody ever knows how many people are carried on
the rolls OF the highway department, or how much
they get or what, if anything they do for their pay
Huey himself, recently offered 81 head of his own
money to all-comers among the students of the
State university to pay their way to Nashville and
march and cheer in connection with football game
which became Huey Long political demonstration.
His pay, as United States senator, is only $4,000
year,
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dam at Muscle Shoals, built by
the government during the World
war to make nitrates for explo-
sives. The dam was built to pro-
duce $4,000 kilowatts of power
with room for an additional $780,
900 kilowatts.
But the irregular flow of the
river, with high water part of the
year and low the other, held its
prime, or year-round, power down
to 10000 kilowattS.
There was a way to change
that; and long before the IVA,
army engineers had found it. Up
through eastern Tennessee flows
the Clinch river, one of the big
ger tributaries of the Tennessee.
Eighty miles up the Clinch from
where it empties into the TenneS-
see the army found site for a
high power and storage dam. 1t
was in the foothills of the Cum
berland mountains, twenty-five
miles north of Knoxville.
The site was 800 miles by river
from Wilson dam, but so much
water could be stored behind a
high dam at this point that, by
opening the spillway gates during
the dry seasons, the flow of wa
ter in the Tennessee could be
maintained at a high level the
year around.
TVA was directed in the law
l. that created it to build its
first dam there on the Clinch
river, and it was named Norris
dam to honor the senator from
Nebraska.
U. S. reclamation bureau en-
gineerS headed by John L. Savage,
who designed Boulder dam,
worked with IVA experts and the
result was a new design that
called for a dam 253 feet high,
more than a quarter of mile
long, with two $4,000 kilowatt
generating units in the power
house.
The dam will form lake COW
ering eighty square miles with a
shore line of more than 800 miles,
or approximately the same as
that of Lake Michigan.
The plan called for the town of
Loyston to be covered with 200
feet of water, and for the flooding
of thousands of farm homes,
churches and cemeteries.
Buying all this land and prop
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which IS dong all these innings.
Now the President will see for
himself what this most advanced
of New Deal agencies actually has
been able to do in eighteen
months with the $50, 100000 or so
originally given it and the adj
ditional S48,0O0,0O0 later appro-
priated.
He will see that it has pro-
crossed a long way toward the
goal. And he will see renewed
evidence to support his belief
that cheap electric power is the
key to improving the standard Of
living of the 100000 people in
parts of seven states that make up
the Tennessee valley watershed.
THAT is land rich in mineral
Il resources. Yet those re-
sources scarcely had been touched,
because power and freight rates
were too high. Most of the farm
homes were lighted by kerosene
lamps. The topsoil of the once
productive land was fast washing
into the streams, and fertilizer to
restore its usefulness cost too
much.
Down through the heart of this
potentially-rich valley flows the
yellow Tennessee river. 1t pro-
duced no electric power to light
farm homes or turn the wheel of
mills or factories. 1t was not nav
igable. 1t only carried millions Of
tons of good soil to the sea.
The job of the IVA was to put
this river to work.
Then the IVA came on the
scene, in June of 1893, it found on
its hands one dam in good cond-
tion, army engineers plans for
other dams, and $50,000,0O0.
At the head of the IVA was
and is-the socially-minded en-
gineer, Arthur E. Morgan. An
other of the three directors is
power minded David E. Lilienthal,
who wants to lose no time in deliv-
ering cheap power. The third
director is agriculture minded
A. Morgan.
TOGETHER they mapped out
Il a program that would result
in an inter-connected power sys-
tenn to serve the whole valley,
make the Tennessee river navi-
gable the full so miles of its
length, and curb destructive floods.
AS a starter IVA had Wilson
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You Can't Stop Him

HE senator has promised that if Abe Mickal one
of his star players, makes good for him this
season, he will make him state senator, at least,
and probably Lieutenant Governor. This sounds
fantastic but that is the reason to expect it
to happen. The fact that Mickal comes from
Mississippi and is ineligible for public Office in Louis
lana is unimportant. Huey could call special ses-
sion of the legislature and pass law.
The only reason for the exercise of restraint in
his methods exists in the code which the general
run OF schools observe, pretend to observe, in
football If Huey becomes too candid about the
recruiting and hiring of his players the other schools
which his team would have to lick in order to win the
championship on which he has set his heart might
refuse to play Louisiana State However the ruse Of
masking football men as state employees is new one
and 1t might be hard for another school to snub
Huey's team for professionalism in a time when so
many other people drawing their living from some
branch Of the government. He argues that football
players have rights and that, anyway it were I'M
American and unsporting to regard worthy young
athlete as a pro merely because he goes in for
public service however nominal that service might be-
Huey is the first statesman. with the gall or
originality to take a state university complete
with football team, band cheerleaders, traditions
and all as a political circus. He knows nothing
about football and avoids technical discussions which
would reveal his ignorance but likes to mingle with
the players march in parades and holler and he
sometimes threatens to order Biff Jones off the
bench, chase him up into the stands and run the
team himself. OF course that is not likely to happen
and Huey never says anything of the kind in the
presence Of Captain Jones. 1t is just Hueys way Of
talking and he is great hand at picking his spots
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forces in the Spanish-American
war.
This dam will be only sixty
eight feet high, but nearly a mile
and quarter long. 1t will form
a lake of approximately 100 square
miles; its power plant will be large
enough to house eight $4,000 kilo-
watt generating units, but only
one will be installed at the out
set.
Whereas Norris dam is being
built mainly to meet seasonal vari-
ations in the flow of the river,
Wheeler dam is being built chiefly
to meet daily variations in the
demand for power.
Wheeler also is scheduled for
completion in 1886.
NEXT in line for construction is
L y Pickwick dam, some eighty
miles below Wilson. Pickwick will
be the same type of dam as
Wheeler, only larger.
1t will be ITO feet long-almost
a mile and a half-and 103 feet
high. 1t will have the largest
single lift locks in the world-the
mechanism by which a vessel
will be raised or lowered from the
river level to the lake level or
vice versa. The lock gates will be
seventy-five feet high-Compared
with fifty-four feet, the highest
at Panama.
Pickwick, which will cost about
$32, 100000, will be built without
a power plant, but this may be
added later.
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erty and building new highways,
railroad tracks and bridges to re-
place those covered by the lake
will cost almost as much as the
dam itself. The total cost of the
project now is estimated at $685.
$4,000.
Work on the Norris dam began
little more than year ago. Now
it is more than a third complete
and should be finished early in
1886.
TVA engineers estimate that
l. Norris and Wilson dams to-
gether will produce 100000 kilo-
watts of power the year around.
Norris dam will serve in two other
ways. BY holding back the wa
ter during the rainy season it will
greatly reduce flood waters below
the dam, and by feeding water
into the streams below the dam
during the dry season it will aid
navigation.
Norris dam hardly was under way
when President Roosevelt asked
the IVA to build what was known
in the army engineers survey as
dam No. 3, fifteen and one-half
miles above Wilson dam. Army
engineers were already well along
on building navigation locks there
when the job was turned over to
the IVA.
The IVA named this Wheeler
dam in honor of General Joseph
Wheeler, a Confederate general
and a commander of the U. S.
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GONE of the career diplomats
- are privately worried about
the charge that they are more
partial to the countries in which
they are stationed than to the
United States.
This came to a head not long
ago when Ted Mariner, counselor
of the American embassy in Paris.
was quoted in the French press
as saying he understood France
better than America.
Now there are reports that
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Wilson dam, built first, created
a lake to Wheeler dam, eighteen
miles upstream, making that part
of the stream navigable. Wheeler,
in forming a lake eighty miles
long, will extend deep water to
GuntersVille. Both these dams
will improve navigation upstream.
Norris, however, will have the OPP
poSite effect. 1t will reverse the
usual stream flow by holding back
water in rainy seasons and pour
ing it out in dry.
DOWNTREAM from Wheeler
~ and Wilson will be Pickwick.
And between Wilson and Pickwick
is Colbert Shoals, a bad stretch
which really controls the naviga-
BILE depth of the river.
In dry season only light draft
boats can get past the shoals.
Pickwick dam will do the trick. 1t
will back up water to Wilson dam,
covering the shoals, making max
ing the river navigable from
Guntersville to the mouth, 358
miles.
A dam at Guntersville, which
may follow soon, would back up the
water to Chattanooga, making all
of the Tennessee river navigable
except the stretch from Knoxville
to Chattanooga.
NEXT: Already iva has
brought electricity to thousands
who never had it; cheapened it
to thOusa nds of former users.
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John White, an1iable counselor of
the American embassy in Berlin,
has Nazi syrnpathies.
Not long ago Douglas Miller,
American commercial attache,
drew up a report on Germans
economic condition for the use Of
Richard Washburn Child, then
studying European conditions for
Secretary Hull.
Miller'S picture of Germany's
economic future was dark. The
report went to White. When it
reached Child, parts of it had been
rewritten or eliminated entirely.
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the stimulus of this collective bar
gaining guaranty organized labor
has experienced one of the great
eN revivals in its history.
1t is prepared not only to fight
to the last ditch for the contin-
uance of the statute, but will seek
its extension.
Labor wants the law amended
so that company unionism-the
device used by employers to
counter independent labor organi-
zations-will be legally outlawed.
Senator Bob Wagners labor dis
putes bill, which he offered last
session, would have done this.
The President, however, was not
willing to go that far, so the
measure, despite powerful labor
pressure, was shelved. Instead
was enacted the law under which
the national labor relations board
now functions.
On the other hand. industry is
lust as determined. 1t is grimly
opposed TO any enactment Strlk-
ing at company unions.
More than that, the employers
want Section IA rewritten along
two lines: First, inclusion OF a
provision legalizing company
unions; second, exclusion of the
majority rule Interpretation that
the national labor board has read
into Section IA.
Between these two holly embat-
tied groups stands the President.
Both sides will exert every effort
TO win his backing. It is to
avoid such a distressing tug-of-
war that White House strategistS
already have begun formulation Of
an administration labor program
as a middle-of -the-road plan.
THERE is young lady clerk in
u Secretary Henry Wallace's
Office who knows her New Dealers.
Recently a prominent Wash
ingtonian telephoned that local
baseball fans were getting up
testimonial TO Babe Ruth on his
retirement as an active player. He
wanted TO call on the secretary Of
agriculture TO obtain his signature.
I'm sorry" the young lady re-
piled. but it is impossible. The
secretary is too busy today. He is
dated up every moment OF the
time"
We'll, the President is a busy
man. and he found time" the call
er pleaded.
That is the difference between
the two men," the girl replied, and
hung UP.
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EIEnouh
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

rINEkE are points in the sporting ethics of United
l. States Senator Huey P. Long which do not agree
with the ideals of Harvard or a. A. Stage
Senator Long has assumed control OF the foot
ball team of Louisiana State university as an in
strument of political ballyhoo He recruits and
hires players in pursuit of determination arrived
at several years ago to win a national football
championship for Louisiana State, no matter how
The football expeditions of the state university are
becoming political rallies the order OF the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-12
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP
By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON Nov Estate utility commissioners meeting
w today with questions for the administration the
the regulation has undergone sweeping changes More
prospect still their
the duties
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w. C. T. u. TO CONDUCT
INSTITUTE WEDNESDAY
The Rev. r. L. Kendall Will
Address Members.

The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, Washington chapter,
will hold an all day institute
Wednesday beginning at 10. at the
home of Mrs. Charles E. Macy, SIS
North Sheffield avenue. The Rev
r. L. Kendall, West Washington
Street Methodist Episcopal church
pastor. will be the principal
speaker.
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BY JOHN I. MOUTOUX
Written for NEA Service
lCo,vrsoht IQ3s NEA Service Tnc 4

II knoxville Tenn 12-When President Roosevelt
N he the venerable
his progressive followers beginning to
definite form.
He white elephant Muscle Shoals being
faithful wokho serving those who helped
for him
already higher standard Of living has to
people basin Of the Tennessee river
President, indeed will find
THAT light charges have been reduced by millions OF
dollars and that the end is not yet
fast rising ahead Of schedule to store flood
ters improve navigation cheap electricity.
being made salvage the soil from
silent thief. erosion.
planted.
hoped-or dverscaon of industry has already begun
should lead
planning complete watershed involving
the lives and welfare OF millions
with which the President described the
project when he suggested that
authority
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Questions and Answers

Q-where is the Lick observatory located?
Amount Hamilton, California.
o-who is the Governor Of Arkansas
Al. Marion FutrelL
Q-Name the encouragement Of New York state.
A-John J. Bennett.
Q-Is Canada republc7
A-No. It is a self-governing dominion within
the British empire.
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NentlOn barbecue or cIamOake, Dut
much more exciting and popular.
The varsity band. equipped by
Huey with public money. is Huey
Longs band, the student body is
his cheering section, the team is his
football team, and the university it
self belongs to Huey Long, although
he himself happens to be an alum
nus of Tulane. in New Orleans.
which is the favorite enemy of
Louisiana State.
If Senator Long has any time
for regrets in the enthusiastic rush
of his career. he probably feels
little sorry that he went to Tulane
instead of the state university. be-
cause Tulane is slightly toplofty and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-12
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASHINGTON 12-Imporant legislation
w the already being discussed
administration councils The issue will of the
political industrial problems facing Roosevelt will
of the bttereSt fighting of the
7A-aong entire National
Recovery expire year
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WAR MOTHERS TO HOLD
ARMISTICE CEREMONY
County Chapter Meets Tomorrow in
Columbia Club.

A special Armistice day program
will be given by the American War
Mothers Marion county chapter at
their meeting at 1870 tomorrow at
the Columbia Club. Mrs. E. J.
Strobel, Americanization chair
man, will preside. Mrs. j. F. Hutch
back is chapter president.
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every man into the stature Of a
robot.
America like every other ma
ton involved, was talked and
drummed and written into the war.
The pen was not only mightier than
the sword, but twice as pernicious.
Writers Of the world. unite, you have
nothing to lose but the chains which
bind you TO conniviAg propagandists.
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II Seems nM
BY
Haywood BROUN

ID and women Of America joined together in some
sort OF federation And into this group should come
also. those who read speak words over the radio
Perhaps the requirements for admission might be
vide as Gods mercy and include even those who
only Groom.
1 am thinking OF course. Of an alliance Of the
varied and many individuals who make or break
public opinion. We survive or perish to the drum
beat set By playwrights. noveists, screen authors
newspaper men and broadcasters. II does not lie
nov within the power Of any group to regiment these
divergent forces. and indeed unanimity Of thought
be disaster which could only be produced by die
tatorshp or conflict. The last war, for instance,
c--el-- cir 70
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THE NEW DEAL AT TOP SPEED
Immense Strides Taken Toard Completion of Giant Project

tho of six
visits the
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BENEFIT SOCIETY WILL
OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY

st. Francis De eSales Group 80 Years
Old This Week.
The st. Francis De Sales Benefit
Society will observe its thirtieth an
niversary at Wednesday night at
1892 Avondale place. A musical
presentation and a program by the
police accident prevention bureau
under Sergeant Harry Smith will be
a feature. Albert S. Voight is en-
tertainment chairman.
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cause Tulane is slightly topotty and nice and MAIN
tains superior social attitude toward State.
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Well Poisoning Should Stop

IF the molders Of public opinion
i can bring about war through
concerted effort there is reason 10
Montana labor news., 1934-01-04
CHRISTMAS
r HELD BY CAR
PENTERS'AUXILIARY

The annual Christmas Party for the
children of the members of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of Carpenters Union, No.
222, was held yesterday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Joe Richards, 2143
Colorado st.
Contests, games, recitations and
songs were enjoyed and later a gift
exchange was held.
Mrs. Richards was assisted in en-
pertaining by Mrs. Dave Walsh and
Mrs. VIM. Tweedy. Guests were Mrs.
Chas. McBroom, Mrs. Ernest Wilson,
Mrs. ]. M. Davidson, Mrs. Art Clark,
Lorraine Oliphant, Margaret Clark,
Dorothy Lois Jean, Shirley Ann and
Jimmy Wilson; Pearl, Joe, Isabella,
Johnny Richards; Francis, Jack, Fred
and Marie Walsh, Norman and Roy
Davidson, and Donna Lee Tweedy.
Mrs. Kate Keane, 1925 w. Granite
street, was the lucky winner of the
quilt.
Mrs. Ina Davidson, Rec.-Sec.