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from practical experience what it is
to meet agpay roll or make an in
vestment pay. One of his largest
accomplishments was the construc-
ton of the Dayton co. flood con-
troll system.
There are two mystics in the
Roosevelt Administration" said a
friend of his-not a member of the
IVA organization. 'One is the
Secretary of Agriculture, the other
Arthur Morgan, but Morgan is
a strange contradiction. He is a
practical mystic"
His practical bent was we'll il
Illustrated by his tilt with the cement
industry which submitted bids on
six and one half million barrels for
the dams. DR.. Morgan believed the
bids were too high and, moreover,
not competitive. He calmly pre-
pared to manufacture his own ce-
ment, showed the cement industry
how IVA could do it and save
money. The cement barons COM
planned bitterly, but gave him a
decent price.
y n y
A RMY engineers, who surveyed
"A the Norris damsite, thought
IVA would have to build a special
railroad to bring supplies into the
job. Instead DR.. Morgan built a
highway, which will provide a short
cut into Knoxville after the dam is
finished. The railroad would have
been useless. He saved from two to
three hundred thousand dollars.
Sand and gravel we're his chief
material problem. He explored the
surrounding hills and discovered a
huge deposit of suitable stone in
a mountain Immediately overlooking
the damsite at Norris. Stone crush
ers were installed and IVA is now
making better sand and gravel than
it could buy at enormous savings.
An extremely modest man, DR.
Morgan has the faith to move noun
tains. In fact, he is doing just that
at Norris-pulverizing a mountain
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cial dictatorial powers, We. to sue
coed it must have the cooperation
of the 100000 residents of the
Tennessee Valley. 1t is getting this
only through skilled persuasion and
example.
The IVA is spending $4,000, 200
a month of which 1900. 900 meets
a pay roll of 13,445 persons. AT
idea of the extent of the project
may be gained from the fact that
IVA ears have covered 1000, 00O
miles in the last eight months at a
cost of 466 cents a mile.
1t is one New Deal experiment
which, although it is a test tube.
is expected to show profits. This
the experts point out, is logical
since the IVA should make money
if it is to point the way to private
enterprise to do the same thing
under the changed economic order
it seeks to bring about.
BY far the greatest slice Of Twas
S4S, 600. 900 a year is going to the
construction of the gigantic Norris
Wheeler and Pickwick dams or the
Tennessee River. Another dam is
being discussed for Paducah, KY.
and still others are proposed.
They are necessary to bring the
vast forces of the river under con-
troll and turn them from their pres
ent destruction to useful purposes
The dams will eliminate millions Of
dollars Of average expenditure in the
lower Mississippi Valley for leveeS
and j~etties.
They will flood out the shoals ano
make navigation possible, thus
bringing transportation TO 2 tre-
mendous area lacking railroad IA
cilities although rich in natural re-
sources which now can not be
tapped.
The principle railroads in the
Tennessee Valley run north ano
south. The river through most Of
its course runs east and west. fur.
nishing a natural and cheap Quite
for the mineral resources in the
east and the agricultural product:
in the south and west. Eighty pei
cent of the products of the Valley
are non-periShable and thus readily
adaptable 10 water transportation
Flood control and transportation
do not require high dams. The di.
rectors of the IVA saw. however
that by raising the dams they coulC
deyslop cheap power instead of let
tirlg the rivers energies go to waste
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it begins to look as though IVA
had played the power interests for
suckers by quietly allowing them to
act as a smoke screen.
Director Lilienthal is willing to
be judged by the enemies he has
made-and they are numerous. The
mention of his name usually sends
a private utility operator into the
emotional stratosphere. Dave"
Lilienthal likes that.
One hears nothing in the IVA
about currency initiation, control Of
Wall Street and all of the other
temporary ncstrums on the politi-
clans medicine shelf. An investi-
gator feels that these IVA people
consider such matters of only transit
tory Importance. They are wrestling
with the vast, underlying forces of
nature itself and attempting. as did
the American pioneers, to bend them
to the advantage Of mankind.
I asked Director Lilienthal about
that. His answer was quick:
"Greenbackism and all such
things are merely from the vocal
cords. The IVA is something that
you can actually see and feel and
understand, if you take the trouble"
So the Tennessee Valley Authori-
ty is hammering out a new econ
omic and social pattern for Ameri-
ca. There is a timelessness about
the point Of view Of those directing
its destinies. They are planting for
ests from which the great-grand-
children Of the present generation
will profit. They are Investigating
the weather records Of a thousand
years ago through the study Of logs
dug from ancient Indian mounds.
WET there are no "isms" in the
/ IVA philosophy. Not once did
I hear in two weeks the words So
cialism, Communism OF Fascism
mentioned without contempt.
I'VE can work out our troubles in
this country without that European
boloney." a steel worker on Wheeler
Dam told me, and his remark was
typical.
At the same time there is no pa
tience with the tory type Of mind
which wants TO keep things as they
are or have been-the status quo.
Status quo" said an engineering
assistant, who was covered with
mud from the chest down as he
Waded out of a ditch.
Status quo? He'll! It doesn't
exist and never has. People kid
themselves. Everything is always
changing whether We like it Or not.
Us engineers know that. Go tell
that damn river over there please
to observe the status quo so We
won't have a food. Status quol
Nertsl"
He strobe of to attend 10 a levee
which was to keep the rising
Clinch River out Of a $50. 900 tree
nursery the iva had started. Lack
of sleep had made him irritable. He
had been fighting the river for IS
hours. But his remark, too, was
typical Of IVA.
TOMORROW: iva and the ma
teriaIs with which 1t works.
(CopyxlRnt. 1895. oy TIE indianapolis
TueSka
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The goal is to discover how
the Republic may arrive at a
permanent economy of abund-
ance. The Twas approach
to this objective is through a
reimbursement of agriculture
and industry, bringing them
into companionship. Enlight-
ened and liberal capitalism is
the underlying philosophy. Labor
must get more. says IVA, capital
must take less If particular type
of economy is to survive.
Little is generally known about
the real purpose of IVA although
there has been no secrecy on the
part Of its management. There are
three reasons for this.
First. the project is so vast that
TO comprehend it one must give it
DAYS Of study covering hundreds Of
miles on the ground. Such an in
veStigation costs time and money
which few have been willing to
spend.
Second, the wartime Muscle
Shoals power and munitions plant
was made an integral part of IVA.
For years this government enter
prise he'd been before the public
as a public power project. Because
of this people believe that the IVA
o merely a combination yardStick
and bull-whip 10 use on privately
operated utilities.
Third, the IVA has made no ef-
fort 10 sell itself TO the country. Its
directors prefer to wait until their
experiment has demonstrated more
results. although, as this series of
articles will show. such results are
already taking very tangible form.
Unlike some of the other New
Deal agencies. the IVA has no high
powered press agents. II has an
I efficient information service which
swings into operation only when it
receives a request for its services.
.
ENEMIES Of the IVA are fond
L Of comparing the project with
the collectivized farms of Commu-
nistic Russia or the cooperative
state Of Fascist Italy.
IVA executives point out that the
only similarity among the three Is
that all involve bro~ad-gauge, re-
gional planning. Stain and Musso-
ltni both rely on force and coercion
for success. The IVA has no spe-
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On sthe personal side the chair
man varies between aloofness aro
approachability. If he is working
on a problem he is simply unaware
of ANYTHING else. He is a Quaker
who disapproves of little individual
peccadilloes, has none himself, Liquor
is a delicate subject among those
of his subordinates who have wet
tendencies. If one smokes in his
presence the interview is likely to
be short, but this is said to be due
to a sinus infection which is 1rrl-
tated by tobacco.
TIE lives with his wife and four
II children in one Of the better
class Workmen's homes at Norris
Dam, committing by automoblle the
so miles daily to and from his Knox
Vile office. DR.. Morgan's salary is
$4,000 a year, like that of the other
two directors. This is top in the
IVA. Labor receives from 45 cents
to S1.10 an hour-from two to four
times the prevailing wage IN the
areas private industry.
DR.. Harcourt A. Morgan, 81, who
is no relation of the chairman, is
the second director. He was presi-
| dent of the University of Tennessee
and for 40 years has been preaching
the necessity for conserving our
natural resources and bringing ag-
riculture and industry into a coop
erative instead of hostile relation
ship. He has some very definite
theories about the causes of depres-
sion. Let him explain them:
We are still fundamentally an
agricultural people" he said. "Oul
roots are literally in the soil. Think
of a tree with a splendid root sys-
TEN, sturdy trunk from which grow;
a we'll balanced top. The roots anc
trunk are agriculture, the branches
industry.
What has happened in recent
years? Industry has taken the
| right of way. The roots and trunk
have shrunk while the branches
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have grown. Now the whole tree
may blow down. To keep the vari-
Gus branches from breaking off we
have been propping them with
sticks-NRA, RFC and all that.
These props are extremely impor-
tant, but they r temporary.
"We must make up our minds to
develop that root system and that
trunk so that the branches may re-
ceive natural support. That is what
is. meant by the companionship OF
agriculture and industry"
Although DR.. Morgan is in his
sixties he constantly speaks Of what
IVA is going to mean so years or
a century from now. He believes
devoutly that capitalism is emin-
emily worth saving, that it can be
saved. but only by long-distance,
unselfsh planning.
He is truly socially minded. He
will be dead before the TWAS ulti-
mate possibilities are realized, but
one gathers that if he yer thinks
about that at all he doesn't give a
whoop. He is too %preoccupied
with bringing those million acres
back into production, developing soil
foods and bringing about a sensible
distribution of employment.
One can not help contrasting
Harcourt Morgan with other sue
cessful men in middle life. He is
no armchair executive. He is con-
stantly dashing about the Valley by
car and plane addressing farmers,
supervising his conservation enter
prises. Where many another man
might be thinking about accumu-
lating an estate for his heirs DR..
Morgan, with youthful enthusiasm
assumes more and more outside re-
sponsibility.
TT is difficult to realize that he is
L past so. His philosophical ap-
proach to life is that of a ~crusading
y~oungster leavened with the practi-
cal experience Of maturity. His
career, his estate and his monument
is the Tennessee Valley.
David Eli Lilienthal at 36 is the
/ youngster of the directorate. Lawyer
and former Wisconsin public serv-
ice commissioner, his special respon-
sibility is power. His experience
has taught him all the tricks Of the
power game. He knows how to get
right down on the floor and gouge
eyes with the power interests and,
on the other hand, ne can go into
the rarifed atmosphere Of a Fed
eral court and oyerWhelm these
same interests with legalistic dis
cussion.
Since the IVA has been viewed
largely as a power project Director
Lilienthal has been a focal point Of
attack. He understands fully that
IVA is not primarily power, but one
hazards a guess that he was willing
to have 1t SO regarded until the plan
as a whole could be organized and
well launched.
He and the other directors were
aware that the general idea Of re-
constructing a whole national econ
omy would meet with plenty Of OPP
position from intrenched privilege
so let the power companies make a
noise for a while. In other words
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BY TALCOTT POWELL
Editor of The Times
TenneS.

THE Tennessee Valley Authority is the test tube Of the
New Deal.
It's huge proving ground embraces the whole watershed
of the Tennessee ~River-4Oy00O square miles wherein live
2OOO,O 900 people. Parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia are included.
Here for nearly two years a vast social experiment has
been taking shape. The Roosevelt Administration has there
placed the present economic order under a microscope, is
taking it apart and by the scientific method attempting to
rebuild it.
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Upper, Left to Right-Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the board of
the Tennessee Valley Authority; David E. LiienthaI, director of IVA;
Harcourt A. Morgan, another director of IVA; Norris Dam as 1t will
appear when completed, and Wheeler Dam al it will appear when the
job is done.
Center, Insert-Thns is a view of Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals.
which will be part of the IVA enterprise.
Lower and Background-This map, showing the area of the iva
and giving the physical operations of the section, outline to The Times
reader the territory covered by MIR, Powell in his tour.
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TOMORROW: iva and the ma
terials with which it works.
9CcDyxight. 1895. oy TIE Indianapolis
Imeskas
, 1935-07-10
Nd NJ W W u ~ W NJ
The II:
Sports NJ:
Spade ~ f:

Back In the Good Old Days


Judge Bascom Cox OF the Cam
eron County Court at Law could.
II called upon. enforce hts judy
ments with his maulies the
judge was heavyweight boxing
champion at Stanford University.
and he lost but one bout during his
brief career as a collegiate nostril
nudger.. incidentally, he says, the
correct name for the university Is
Leland Stanford Jr. University and
the junior refers to the nan and
not to the univerSity's academic
ranking. but Judge Cox says he
finally met his waterloo In the per-
son OF one Mr.. Skinner "A repre-
sentative OF the University Of
California. Mr.. Skinner complete
ly sustained q general demurrer 70
Judge Cox efforts and the referee
STOPPED the bout. Lieutenant OF
Police John Il. Armstrong halls
from st. Paul and believe 1t or not
his favorite sports are hobsledding
and ski jumping. it's been vars
and vars since he tried a bobsled.
but he'd like TO give 1t a whirl
once more. Allen, the Fort Brown
snortstop, plays in q long sweat
shirt which hangs almost to his
knees. he looks for all the world
like Skippy, Percy CroSby's famous
comic strip youngster. as he bounds
around the diamond. and don't
think he can not play that short
STOP. George Hanna and Dewey
Goats are getting up a picked team
from the Brownsville Playground
Bal league to take on the ALL
Stars in a contest on the 36th
diamond Monday night. 800. The
Stars were eliminated lis by Nc
Allen in the Valley-wide tourna-
ment at Edinburg Tuesday night
....Jack Eidman, the tall auditor,
used to be a hotShot football and
track performer ut Bay City and
at Austin hiNh. his football days
were cut short when he cracked q
knee playing tackle with the Uni
versity Of Texas freshmen. -. Sid
Eidman. now q handball fiend.
used TO captain the Bay City high
school baseball team. and maybe
you think Officer s. B. McCreary
doesn't like that ball park assign
ment. hes a real fam.
, 1935-07-10
KIWIS, YANKS r
In 4TH TILT.
Civic Clubbers Can Take
Pennant With Win
Wednesday

The Kiwanis and Fort Brown
Yankees tangle or tho Thirty
Sixth diamond wednesday nlght
In the fourth game OF their 5-tilt
series for championship OF the
Brownsville Playground BAH Lea
que.
The Kiwanls who hold two VIC
tories can cinch the pennant with
N victory Wednesday. III the
Yankees win, the series win ha
knotted at two games each with
the fifth and deciding fray coming
up Friday night.
The Kiwanis took the first fray
10, the Yankees won the second
Ga and then the civic clubberH.
minus their star hurler, Frank CritE.
pulled a big surprise TO take the
third 1912. The Kiwis trailed Ito
In the fourth inning and then
snapped out or II behind Duck
Swans hurting To take the third
fray.
Critz Is back from Corpus Christi
and An slated to hurl the Wednes-
day game. This fact gives the civic
clubbers mn edge due % fact that
sgt. Szpeinski. the Yankee hurler.
worked Tuesday night In Edinburg
for the Brownsville All-5tars after
pitching for the Yanks here Mon
day night.
Wednesday win be his third game
on consecutive days.
Interest IN the series Is nc n keen
pitch with cars completely encir-
cling the playing field
, 1935-07-10

DURHAM. N. c.. July 10%R-
The field OF 400 batters was whitfield
to three during the last week as
oscar Eckhardt OF the Pacific Coast
league Missions took a firmer grip
on the batting leadership Of the
minor leagues.
Eckhardt lost a few percentage
points, but so did his rivals. and
the big Mission slugger came out
with an increased margin. George
Terrell Of Richmond. In the Pied
mont league, stands a good second
with an average OF .407 to trail the
AIS OF Eckhardt. Ralph Eodgin. a
rookie with Fieldale Of the Bi-SState
league. was the other 400 clubber.
being two points over the line.
Following are the leaders tab
ulated from latest available aver
ages by the National Association
Press Bureau:
Fckhardt. Mission. Pacific Coast
AIS: Terrell, Richmond, Piedmont
.4c7; Hodgin. F1eldale, Bi-State
.402: Laabs. Fort Wayne, Three-I
-2e6: Maroon. Albany. Georgia-Flo-
rida 1894: Dunn, Alexandria. Evan
geline $3.50: Puccinelli. Baltimore,
international 1888: White, Fayette-
, 1935-07-10
SETS
new RECORD
West Coast Performer IL
Star Of New York
Track Meet

NEW YORK, July 10. Rt-A new
star has appeared In the track firm
ement, and his name Is Bright.
Norman Bright Of Bellingham,
Wash, who wears the colors Of the
San Francisco Olympic club, raced
to n new American two-mile record
Tuesday night on the rain soaked
track OF New York University ut
Ohio Field.
Bright, who said he never before
had run the two-mile event In COM
petition, amused timers before the
race when he asked that hts time
be yelled to him as he passed each
quarter-mile marker.
They had expected that the vet
eran Joe McC1uskey Of the New york
A. G. would rcmp In first with plenty
to spare.
Bright allowed McCluskey TO make
the pace until the last lap, when he
breezed by the leader like a dash
man and bres.ed the tape 80 yards
In frcnt in the new American time
Of 9 minutes i3.2 seconds. more than
two second faster than the former
mark OF 0.15.4.
Eulace Peacock. the latest negro
speed sensation. turned In his third
victory over Jesse Owens Of Ohio
State in the century dash, but Owens
evened matters for the meet by TAX
ing the broad lump. Peacock. fast on
the getaway. was nearly overhauled
at the tape, winning by q scant foot
In 81.
Owens gathered himself from p
slippery tskeoff. however. to leap
q feet Q inches IN the broad jump.
The best Peacock could do was e
feet 6% inches.
, 1935-07-10
BUGS REGAIN
LEAGUE LEAD
Galveston Beats Fort Worth
81 Az Indians Are
Idle


The Galveston BUGS were back
II the lead In the Texas lead Wed
resday. They stole a march Tues
day night on the Oklahoma City
Indians, who were forced TO take a
rest nc Beaumont because OF wet
ground. and jumped from third to
first place by tanning the Fort
| Worth Panthers. 3 to 2. The In
dams were left In second and Hous-
ton In third place.
Max Butcher chalked I'D his six
tenth victory OF the season IN de-
feating Fort Worth. He didn't allow
a clean hit until the eighth and
gave only three altogether. The
Cats first run was scored ON two
errors and q walk and the second
was made on two singles and a wild
pitch. Lee GriSsom. Fort Worth left
bander. was touched for Is hits.
but he was so tight In the pinches
that he left IA men stranded on
bases.
Dallas defeated Houston. 8 TO I.
Al Baker, curve ball artist. gave
the Steers their victory. While he
was holding Houston 10 six scat
tered hits. his mates rot next 20
Bill Beckman for 10 safe one and
took advantage Of four Buff mis-
cues.
IL took a young relief pitcher.
Edward Pyle. recently OF the West
Dixie league. 70 give San Antonio
an even break in a twin bin with
Tulsa. Although outhit. the oilers
overcame a five-run lead 10 cop the
opener. z TO 8. Pyle pitched the
Missions TO an 9 20 3 victory I'm the
fIve-inning a~fterpiece.
, 1935-07-10
McAHen Beats Locals
11-6 in Valley Meet

Thursday night with San Juan tan
Cling with Edinburg In o semi-final
contest. The -Juanitcs- gained the
second round by eliminating Alamo
lis. and Edinburg opened up with
an liza victory over Mercedes.
Friday night McAllen plays the
winner OF the Mission Donna game
and the title fray win be plaged the
following Monday.
Tuesday night FOX for McAllen
and Sgt. Szpeinsk1 CT Brownsville
twirled on nearly even terms. but
McAlien's errors did not hurt ms
badly as did those BY the Browns
vile aggregation.
Nick Yoder OF McAllen and Sam
Lesser OF Brownsville were the big
hitters for the night. each con-
Meeting safely three times. Nick's
hits included q triple and two sin
giles; al Of Lesscris blows were SIN
Ties.
Bill Ycder. who once had n tryUut
with the Chicago Whitesox, Brown.
Jeanes and Powell also starred with
the stick. each getting a brace OF
safe basekncckS.
, 1935-07-10

Tuesdays Results
No games scheduled.
Games Wednesday
Boston at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
New York at Pittsburgh.
Good Milk IS the perfect food.
Give your family Grtshams Pas
tel ! zed Milk.-Adv.
, 1935-07-10

so hftOJackson and N. Yoder. 70
hits-Dfxrn. Ramsey and Powell.
Double plays-N. Yoder to q. Sell
ers to Ramsey. Stolen baseS-d. Sell
crs and Szpeinski. Pitching Rec
ords-SZpeinski allowed 10 hits.
struck out nine and walked three I'm
nint innings; Fox allowed eight nits-
struck out four and walked three an
nine innings. Umpires-Eagan.
Chandler. Handley and Piper. Scor-
er-Steve Mcintosh Attendance
$500.