Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-08-27

favorable house majority.
A conservative, non partisan
guess is that the next house will
not have Democratic majority of
more than twenty-five. Which, in
view of the fact that the present
house, with a Democratic majority
in excess of 200, stubbornly refused
to make any appropriation for car
rying on Quoddy or the Florida ship
/ canal, and later on failed even to
approve a new study of the two
projects, is causing wonder here as
to how Mr.. Roosevelt expects to
carry out the promise he made to
the folks in Maine.
Something Else
But, as though this were not
enough difficulty in the path of the
project, there is another. 1t is al
most certain that the congress
which will convene in January will
be nothing like so tractable as
either the present or the last con-
gress. From a political standpoint
the answer to this is simple - and
inevitable. Presumably, of course,
if Mr.. Roosevelt is reelected he will
never again be a candidate. So
there will never be another cleo
ton in which senators and mem
bers of the house will hope to ride
through to victory on Roosevelt's
coat tails.
They will not have the same keen
interest, for the sake of party 10y
atty and selfish interest, to give
him unquestioning support on any
thing he may ask. Many of them
may even get the idea that the
nominee for the Presidency by the
Democratic party in 1910 will hold
very different views on great
many questions. A glance back
over Democratic nominees-Cleve-
land, Bryan, Parker, Wilson, Cox,
Davis, and Smith = would indicate
at least the possibility.
Then, too, the patronage has been
pretty largely distributed. White
House pressure with this steam be-
hind it will be much weaker than
during the last four years. Against
all of which there is not one single
element of greater persuasive
power to contribute to Roosevelt's
control of the next congress.
Hits Wholesalers az,
Wholesalers, who, fighting COM
petition of the chains and mail or
der houses, helped push through the
Robinson Patman anti-price dis
elimination bill, find they may be
wiped out by it's operations.
Little book stores, never interest
ed much except against cut price
sales by department stores, ia e
loss of many customers who bought
more than one copy, intending the
books for presents.
AL sales for future delivery seem
to be up in the air, with the pros
pect of plenty of trouble for any
manufacturer attempting to carry
on normal sales at the same time.
These are a few highlights of
trouble involved in the new meas
ure, jammed through in the last
few days of congress, without most
of the people who would be affected
having more than a remote idea of
what it would do to them.
Wholesalers will be hit two ways.
The law is very specific that the
same discount must be given diff
fe1e1.t buyers who obtain the same
sr also Iy~orfi1 i,
bidding too heavy discounts - dis
counts larger than the actual saw
ing to the manufacturer resulting
from the size and handling of the
order.
Emphasis during debate on the
bill was put on this last phase. But
it is the first phase which now rises
to plague the wholesaler.
For instance, a chain grocery
system can buy in quantities great
er than any wholesaler. Before this
law it was argued that the chain
forced the manufacturer to sell to
it at a greater discount than the
volume justified. But = the chain
will surely get under the present
law as InuCn discount as Lne dig
wholesalers-and perhaps more.
So that the chain still has big
advantage over the little independ-
ent, who must, of course, pay the
wholesaler a profit and the extra
cost for handling.
Plan Co-operatives
Whereupon movements are on all
over the country now on the part
of the Independents to form CO.
operatives, do their buying through
them, thus obtaining the same dis
count as the wholesaler is able to
get, eliminating his profit, and =
here is the trouble eliminating
the wholesaler!
Thus the class which had more
to do with forcing the legislation
than anybody seems slated to get
it in the neck.
The little book store is one of
the queerest victims, though most
of their owners do not know it yet.
A customer who buys ten or fifteen
copies of a novel he likes, to give
away as Christmas presents, for