The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-11-16

u. >. senator from ONO, should reaC
that old nursery rhyme that starts
For want of a nail q shoe was
lost, for want of a shoe horse
was lost" ETC., winding up with the
kingdom being lost because GER
tain rider could not get through to
turn the tide of battle.
In the case of Mr.. Taft it may be
proper glasses. To get the answer
one has only to 60 to his native
town of Cincinnati and ask the first
10 people one encounters about the
Taft brothers. The answers, or at
least eight of them, will be that
Brother Charley is a swell guy, a
genial person with a smile, who will
cross the street to say Hello" to
a friend, or slap an acquaintance on
the back. The same eight, or more,
will report that Brother Robert is
q more self-centered person, land
seldom if ever known to slap d back.
From close friends of the senator
one learns that Brother Bob would
be very glad to be back slapper-
not just to advance his own presi-
Dental aspir atoms, but because he
feels that way. But the trouble,
they confess, is that he has very
poor sight. The reason he doesn't
wave to people he knows across the
street is that he could not possibly
realize he knows them. He just
can't see them.
Which seems to those of us who
have been listening to this defense
to be sharp criticism of Mr.. Taft's
glasses. Certainly there is nothing
the matter with them for reading.
The most casual perusal of any
speech or statement MIR. Taft makes
will show that he has put lot of
study into it, that he must have
read volumes in his research on the
subject before giving vent to any
public utterance.
Maybe the Senator Needs
Netu Pair OF Glasses
1t savors just a little of fiction
story in one of the magazines a
few years back, about beautiful
girl, with particularly beautiful eyes
and a soulful expression, who for
some reason was not popular. A
smart doctor was attracted, and
finally found out the trouble. The
eyes were soulful because they were
not looking at anything. They
couldn't. She didn't mean to be
high-hatting young men she had met
a few days or nights before. She
simply didn't recognize them! So
the doctor forced her to wear
glasses. They were married, and
lived happily ever afterl
Well, it might be that if Senator
Taft had some amazingly good
glasses, which would make him as
able to recognize people as his
brother, he would get lot further
along the steep and difficult path
that leads to the White House. Ger
tainly if he had been using such
glasses for the last two or three
years he would even now be bit
further up that road.
And it's still not too late. II is
generally agreed in Washington
that, of the two men concededly
ahead of him in the race for the
G. O. P. nomination last spring, one
Thomas E. Dewey, has lost ground
tremendously, and the other, Sen.
Arthur II. Vandenberg of Michigan,
has gambled his all on this Euro
pean war issue.
Obviously there is not as much
talk about MIR. Dewey as there was.
Whether this is due to the "over-
shadoWing' operations by Attorney
General Frank Murphy, or whether
the war situation has made his youth
seem more of handicap, it is diff
ficult to say. Whereas Mr.. Vanden-
berg has not helped himself for the
1910 nomination by opposing the
arms embargo repeal, whatever
may be the situation with regard to
public sentiment in 1914.
Tagging Electric Industry
At Last Is Showing Neg Life
That big electric power plant to
be built at Philadelphia, and the
big play the utilities are trying to
get for it, involve some very inter-
esting angles. In statement issued
by the utility executives in Wash |
ington, stress is laid on the details
that it will have an ultimate ca
pacity Of half a million kilowatts-
that 1t will cost SAB, 1000, 0O0-tlrat it
comes on the heels Of new generat-
ing capacity at Philadelphia in 1898
which cost $1,000, 600. Also that the
new plant will take care Of 1000, 900
homes of average usage. And that
it would run 100000 radio receiv-
ing sets or light 100000 l00-watt
lamp bulbs.
Impressive?
Well, it's all true, but more in
teresting statement would also be
true but is not included. Which is
that this plant would have been
built in the normal course OF events.
that similar proportionate additions
to plant would be added to most Of
the privately owned electric sys-
TENS in the United States and that
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