The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-02
STRAIGHT FROM
WASHINGTON
By STEPHEN M. YOUNG
Congressman-at-

lcaiuciit hooSeVelJ VIII SWING
around the circle" directly after con-
press adjourns. He will probably
visit the San Diego exposition, making
some speeches en- route. If he has
slipped" politically as many claim,
it is not evident in the wholesale re-
quests and demands for public ad-
dresses. He may make his principal
address at Boulder Dam, seizing the
opportunity to discourse on the power
trust and in regard to public utilities.
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The presidents opponents have at
tackled him and the democratic con-
gress in no uncertain terms regarding
the Wheeler-Rayburn public utility
BILL This may be a reissue in the
1886 campaign.
The facts are that more American
homes and farms are being lighted by
electricity than ever before Also, that
practically every public utility stock is
selling at a higher price now than in
1888. One important public utility
stock now selling at $65 per share
was, at that time, selling at SIS. The
Hoover policies had not done much for
this company and its stockholders Not
withstanding that his and other public
utility stocks are selling for much
more than at the time President Roose-
welt took office, heavy stockholders
who, in 1888, came to Washington in
droves asking the new administra-
tion for help, and that the government
go into BUSINESS, now do nothing but
whine, complain and denounce the
president who took office at time
when life insurance companies were
tottering, banks were closed and un-
employment was at its peak.
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An Ohio CCC boy was recently sent
to his home before his term of enroll
ment expired. The report sent to his
mother said "to recuperate from an
attack of acut nostalgia" which means
simply homesckness.
Because the CCC medico indulged
himself in fancy language, Congress-
man Brooks Fletcher, of Marion, was
called on by the indignant mother to
file a claim for damages against the
government. She said her boy never
had trouble with nostalgia until he
left home.
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Speaker Joe Byrns is one of the fin
est characters in public life-also one
Of the most important. He has sole
power to name congressman to con-
ference committees, and to determine,
during sessions of the house, whom he
will recognize to offer resolutions and
make motions. This authority makes
him the number two man in Amer
lean government as far as direct in
fiuence over the course of legislation
is concerned.
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The New Deal is gong in for small
change in big way. President Roose-
velt has approved coming bright lit
tie aluminium coins of one mill value
a tenth Of a cent and copper alloy
half-cent coins. They will be used ex-
tensively to pay fractional sales taxes
and will be boon to the poor
A sales tax is the most atrocious
sort Of atax. 1t always bears down
hardest on the poor. 1t was the direct
cause of the French Revolution Let
US hope that the unjust and burden
some Ohio sales tax will be repealed
within the near future At present
a poor woman purchasing ten cents
worth of soup meat pays 10 per cent
as a tax, while the purchaser spending
a dollar pays 3 per cent. These new
coins will prevent such injustices.