Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-04-07
published Every Thursday Morning
In the Interest 1T Coulee City and
the Neixhboring Vicinity.
DISPELLMG TILE FOG
Bv Charles Nicholson


ected less to his normal business than
te telling the country what Terrible
thing the New Deal b and how Presi
dent Roosevelt is not only striving
Tor dietatorial powers but also is des.'
troying the business Of the country.
According to its corporate report,
recently made, the Ganuett Company,
Inc, made net profit in 1897 Of
$1,123,085. This was after surtax
and amounted to something like $780,
600 more than the net proceeds Of
tho year before. ! am glad to leara
that the Gannett newspapers are do
ing so well. They are pretty good
newspapers, even though they are un.
able to find anything in President
Roosevelt IS policies or processes that
is not subversive, dangerous and pc.
tentially disastrous. Mr.. Gannett' =
figures, however, do not jibe very
well with the steady output Of propo-
ganda of the National Committee to
Uphold Constitutional Government, Of
which he is president. as well as being
president of the Gannett Newspapers.
That Wicked Senate
Just now MI. Gannett is terribly
exercised because the Senate Commit.
tee investigating lobbying in connec-
ton with the Government ReorGaniGK
ton bill has subpoenaed DR.. Edward
A. Burnley, secretary Of the Gannett
committee, to produce its books and
records at the hearing. According to
Mr.. GanRett, this committee is 1T
work "to destroy ono of the most Wit
al liberties Of the American people
the sanctity Of their homes, the FREQ
dom of thought, and the privacy Of
their papers"
Before this blast, DR.. Runlley had
testified that the committee had rails.
ed something over 100000 and had
expended $4,000 in its campaign
Nobody except the Gannett Assoe1a
tien knows all the ramifisations,
course, and it may be that DR.. Rum
ley is technically correct. but some
body spent many times $4,000 along
the very lines that the National Com
mittee to Uphold Constitutional Gov
ernment is following. The mails hav
been choked with this material.
Indeed, the huge expenditures
the Liberty League last year woM
not appear to have been great deal
if any, more than has been expended
by its successors in the same endea
vor Mr.. Gannett has said that mono
of his contributions, so far as he knew
came from the Liberty League. How
ever, president Frederick H. Btinoh
field, president Of the American Bar
and few others who up
peared on the Liberty League station
cry, are equally conspicuous on the
membership list of the outfit which
now refuses to let tho Senate investi
gators have look at its books.
At the time this letter was writ
ten, there has been no determine
ton, or at least no announcement, Of
prosecution Of DR.. Burnley for his
disregard Of the Senate subpoena. Mr..
Gannett insists that the Senate Com
mittee is only "prompted by aesare
10 smear and iAtimidate not only our
committee but all who are opposed to
ganization BILL" ;;
There would not appear to be any
particular smearing involved in ask.
ing an organization lobbying against
measure pending in Congress to pro
duce the written record of its aotivi
ties, 80 perhaps what Mr.. Gannett had
in mind as smear was the cross-ex.
animation Of DR.. Rumeiy dealing with
his conviction and sentence and short
Jail service On trading with-the-ene-
my charge twenty years ago. That had
some relation to the purchase of
New York newspaper, allegedly on be
half Of Germany.
The Reorganization bill is aimed 4
the correction of lot of faults that
have developed in the processes of The
executive departments. Every recent
president, regardless of party, has
made an effort to get rid Of the ov.
er=lapping and duplication, to reas.
sign activities incongruous Of one do.
partment to another whore they log
ically belong, and generally to mod,
ernize the whole set-up. The enemies
of the measure-and the enemies Of
the president-insist that the plan
he offered extend his powers unduly
Well, the president is the man en-
trusted with running the executive
end if the government. whatever
powers the bill contains, as this in
written, can be changed by any con-
praaa Thara will ha ~ aloc&foo . &C.,