The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-08-23
STRAIGHT FROM
WASHINGTON
By STEPHEN M. YOUNG
Congressman-at-Large

two bills. The senate version would
eliminate all unnecessary holding com
panies within seven years. The house
version would regulate these holding
companies. This controversy is in con-
ference. Whether the conferees will
agree is problematical.
The lobby investigation demonstrat-
ed that one holding company official,
H. G. Hopson, dominant figure in the
Associated Gas & Electric System,
received $2,80O,000 in addition to his
salary of $4,000. 1t does look tough
to see several million dollars going to
an official and then see that same
company foregoing paying dividends
or reducing dividends payable to
widows and orphans who are stock
holders. To see this same company
spend great deal more of the stock
holders money for propaganda and
then when its officers wall about the
widows and orphans" who are being
defrauded by enactment of the death
sentence" is too much to swallow.
NGYV
| A western congressman, returning
from his district, reported that many
of his constituents had been practic-
ally wiped out because of the drouth
and dust storms. He stated that an
old man of his neighborhood drove his
herd of fifty bony cows to the AAA
! station. He was selling this small
herd of his surviving cows for a mea-
ger price; in fact, had to sell them or
most of the remaining cattle would
have died. The AAA official asked,
Guess you are pretty sick of the way
things are going, aren't you? The old
man replied, "Oh, things amt SO bad,
! we are all right as long as Roosevelt
is in there fighting for US"
/ VGV v
/ When will congress adjourn? Any
guess is a bad guess. Mine is August
II or 90
| Following adjournment the writer
will get away from the sizzling Wash
ington heat, returning to Gods
country" and remaining until January.
Congressman should be compelled 20
return to their home district following
each adjournment of congress. They
should not be permitted to remain in
the nations capital except when pub
lie business keeps them there in at
tendance of sessions of congress or
committee meetings. 1t is important
that representatives of the people
keep in close contact with their con
stituents. There are too many self
seeking bureaucrats in Washington.
Nation wide sentiment cannot prop
erly be gagged in such an environment.
Meeting with constituents and listen
ing to their opinions and obtaining
their views and advice benefits con
gressmen. Also it will result in a more
responsive government and better
laws.
VGV v
A number of congressman have al
, ready adjourned regardless. Among
them are "Old Tige" Gassaway, OF
Oklahoma. He wears boots, tells the
best stories ever heard in smoker
and will be the next governor OF
Oklahoma Also John McGroarty, OF
California. He is poet laureate of Cal
ifornia, and fine and lovable old gen
! tleman. He offered the original Town
send plan bill to provide 5000 pei
month old age pensions, and then or
April first introduced the greatly re
vised and amended Townsend plar
bill, HR-7154, which provides pen
!, sions in only fraction of that sum
estimated at from $28 to $34 pei
month, with the maximum claim oil
$50 per month made by Congressmen
Mott and McGroarty. No congress.
man, not even McGroarty, voted fol
the 5000 per month plan which he anc
. DR.. Townsend abandoned for the pend
ing more moderate plan. Notwith
standing this, many worthy elderly
people are being deceived by refer,
ence to 5000 per month.
VGV Y
The social security act will be ap
proved by President Roosevelt with
in day or SO. This provides for the
most liberal old age pensions in any
law of any nation anywhere on earth
Furthermore, it provides for unem
ployment insurance. 1t is the mos
arreaching legislation ever enacted
by an American congress.
NO WAGES FOR MATTRESSES