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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14

I SApuAAy So d cCKV~ ice organization to look after the interests of the 566 1t of S20 rural power co-ops which get their elec- tricity from REsA financed systems. NEECA is, in short, & lobby to pro- test REA customers. AS the 506 members co-ops serve o73,2O7 cus- toners and as the dues are 10 cents per member per year, NREAC oper- ates Its lobby on budget of about 67,O0 a year.
 BUSY-MAN TATE
 Organizers of this coop power lobby in Washington were Clyde T. Ellis and Steve c. Tate. Ellis Is an ex-congressman from Arkansas who tried to father an Arkansas Valley Authority similar to IVA and ap- parently got licked for reelection Ito Congress in 1942 becaus> of his cheap-power progreSsiveneSS. Tate is fabulous. He belongs to the Tate marble clan, operating Quarries at ITate, Ga. He runs an 1l-unlt farm of 10000 acres; an auto distributor agency at Jasper. Ga, Is distributor of TeXaco products in seven coun- ties; controls an insurance agency; has half interest in general store; is president of an REA co-op in Jasper, serving 1900 families; presi- dent of the Georgia Rur Il Power COG op of Atlanta, capitalized ..s $780, 900, serving 60,000 farmer custom CTS in 35 co-ops; chairman of the Georgia Highway Commission: an eX-state senator, He also hunts and fishes.
 The question naturally arises as to why the approximately million rural families receiving REA power from a paternalistic government ale so need protection from 8 trade aS- sociation lobby such as the Ellis Tate National Rural Electric Co- operative Association. The answer now seems to be principally twofold:
 First, REA, as government agency. can't go before Congress and lobby in its own interests. So the organization of customers of the government does the job. It has lob- bed for lower interest ratec and for longer terms on government loanN and secured some concessions.
 Second, relatively small rural CO., ops do need someone to fight their battles against big power companies which would like to gobble them up after they become paying proposi. tions or keep them from entering into competition with private power. POLITICS CHARGED
 Other charges thrown against the outfit are little hard to prove, but may come out in the current Senate investigation. It is charged that the organization was formed for politic- al purposes, to influence the votes of the million rural power customer families--four million votes or more. Ellis was a New Dealer, Tate @ southern Democrat, Avery o. Moore, their Washington manager, a Re- publican. It will probably be diffi- cult to give the outfit a politica! curse.
 NRECA is holding Its second an- nual convention in Chicago March 20-2l. Delegates have lots to talk about.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14

lads need no second urging to utilize the newly installed Sleep Nook" in Pennsylvania Station dur ing wait-overs, or when the G. I. coins in their jeans do not jingle loud enough to attract the ear of 8 hotel room-clerk.
 Morpheus, the fashioner or former, is supposed to be so named because of the shapes he calls up before the sleeper. But anyone who has watched a sleeping soldier or sailor coiled up on a waiting-room bench will contend that the contour of the sleeper himself is respon- sible for the name, and that's no dream shape. Waking involves a de- kinking process that makes one think the nap is hard-earned.
 In the Sleep Nook" the service man can stretch out fully. Steamer chairs that once adorned the deck of luxury liners now are decked with uniforms, and luxury is the feeling as the men leave call with the rs- ceptionist, and recline under the blankets. All that is now needed is for @ steward to call out "Bouillon, sir?" and civilian travellers will seek a recruiting station at their next stop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
YOUTH AND RELIGION
Hartford Courant)

The appointment of seven priests to work with the Juvenile Courts of the State, just announced by the Most Reverend Maurice P. McAu- life. Bishop of Hartford, may be re- garded as a heartening symptom by all those genuinely interested in an intelligent approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency. According
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

BIGGER THAN WE THINK
 As stood in the subway the other day, I loo!:ed at the few dozen peo- pie standing or sitting about me. There was q soldier home on fur tough, a Negro maid returning home after work, Q crowd of high school boys and girls jostling each other and wise cracking. There was man
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
Mechanical War

The Nazis' introduction of radio-con- trolled rockets, pilotless airplanes and remote-control tanks encourages us in the hope that the next war may be fought entirely by robots, attacking, counter attacking, strafing and dogfighting at the front, while the necessary humans pull the strings in bombproof safety behind the lines
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14

real issue of the inves tigation - the organization and activities of the National Rur- al Electric Co-op- erative ASSocia- ton.
 NRECA is @ non = govern n- m e n tal outfit founded in March 1922 under a pretty b r o Q d charter of incor- porAtion. but now functioning prin- cipally as @ serV.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14

W hose features wore the stamp of care, whose bent shoulders a n d tired eyes seemed to indicate that he had long held a position which
 had now grown
 7eariSome. There was @ bright-eyed mother with a
 :hild on each side of her; an elderly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
Current Comment

Even if our losses were greater in the fight which the eenmy car- ried from the Marshalls to Truk. they have been repulsed ano therefore we have won.
 Vice Admiral Chosel AgasSa
 Wara.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
FRAGRANCE TO DREAM"

Christian Science Monitor)
 Relax, Soldier" is the inviting greeting extended to the travel weary servicemen by the Travellers Aid Society of New York. And the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
Selected Poem
WINTER MORNING

(Ethel Hope Hodson in the New York Time9 The waning moon is blurred by clouds Above a gray black tree,
 The wan, pale daylight comes in late AS If reluctantly:
 While just beyond giant pine With branches reaching high, A woodfire's smoke curls slowly up To touch the misty sky
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14

March IA The other the White House called WIPES
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon rises at 11:S4 p. m. (war time) Sun rises at 7:05 a. rn., sets at 7:58 p. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after |sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON

WIPE Wilson's Friends See Political Meaning Lunch With President; Soy FDR Seeking Conservative COP Running Mote Sized Him Up;
 Jesse Jones And Ade Will Coon Stick Together Even At Bridge; Sen Nye Bocker 0 Rich Mems Bills Claims They Plot Gust Him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
NRECA Under Investigation
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democratl Washington
 COrresnOndenk

Presidential AdmintStrative As sistant Jonathan Daniels now hav- ing told the Senate Committee on Agriculture how he was assigned to try to bring order out Of the Rural Identification Administration af- fairs, interest in this case can again center on what Is apparently the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28

EDITORS NOTE: The fOliOlcing edit.
Oriais are presented os interesting opin-
ions poiced by editors eiselchere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
by
Peter
Edison

WICHITA, Kan.EEVery U. 5. city
of any importance has become a
little Washington, and Wichita Is
no exception. 1t has "one OF eacE
of all the Washington alphabetical
agencies, and the citizens have
come to know them familiarly by
the correct initials, to give them
deserved credit begrudgingly, or to
damn them just as roundly as any
one in Washington.
U. S. Employment Service is
praised by the industrialists for
helping to recruit war plant labor
that raised Wichita's population
from 100000 in 1899 to 100000 in
1914
In the words Of eX-GoV. Henry
j. Allen. the town has changed
from a bucolic center to a place
with night clubs and labor racket
GERS all around He admits they're
a little bit backward on the labor
racketeering but assumes that by
the next world war, Wichita on
that score will be as far along as
any place elses
Wichita was much interested on
the Montgomery Ward case as
Chicago or Washington because the
city had been through a similar
experience of it's own, and the
plight of Sewell Avery struck home
ONLY 1900 UNION MEMBERS
Boeing Airplane Co., tie city's
largest employer, had a national
Labor Relations Board election to
select a bargaining agent in July
1913, with $1,000 out of 25,000 en-
ployes eligible to vote. A. F.. of l..
won the election, and in October
Boeing signed a years contract
with a War Labor Board imposed
maintenance OF membership pro-
vision.
Today, the company's check-off
records show that that only 1000 Of
their $4,000 eligible employees are
members of the union. Those Of the
400G who want to resign from the
union can't, because of the main
tenance of membership clause. Be
tween now and the expiration Of
the contract, the company faces the
decision of whether to ride along
with its contract or to petition
for a new election on the grounds
that union dues does not represent
a majority Of itc employes-the
same issue as in the Montgomery
Ward case
Boeing operates a Defense Plant
Corporation government owned
factory at Wichita, and the con-
tract calls for maximum utilization
CT facilities. That was taken to
mean a three-shift. War ManpoWer
Commission 48-hour week, but after
the draft had taken 5000 Boeing
employees and the labor supply had
been thinned out so that it was
difficult to man full shifts, VINO
authorized alternate So and CO.
hour weeks on a l0-hour shift basis
the result was that production went
up. The company got a third more
man-hOurs from the same number
of people, and the take-home pay
of the employees was increased an
average of 35 per cent a week.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
Melon Growers,
0PA Confer
On Price Level

Imperial Valley growers still are
working to get the OPA to raise
the proposed ceiling price on water
melons and have a representative
in Washington, d. c. comforting
with OPA officials.
Chet Moore, secretary of the WeS-
tern Fruit Growers Protective AS
sociation, is in Washington and
was to have a conference with OPA
officials Friday, he telegraphed
County Agricultural Commissioner
B. A. Harrigan in Ell Centre. He
asked Harrigan for additional pro-
duction cost data to present at
the conference.
1t was announced short time
ago that the OPA was contemplate
ing a ceiling price of $3.50 ton to-
July 4 ana $26 a ton thereafter. 1t
costs $40 a ton to produce and
load watermelons in Imperial VAL
ley, Harrigan said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28

In special ceremonies sponsored
by the El Centro Rotary club, 48
Imperial Boy Scouts received awards
and advaneements at court OF
honor held in the high school
auditorium Friday night.
More than 500 citizens and par
entS attended the court and heard
Major Jack c. Scott OF the Marine
corps describe his aerial experiences
in the Pacific theater. Col r. M.
Haynes, also of the marine base,
presented star awards to two boys
Of Troop 70, Scott awarded Den
Grief cords to four boys.
Warren Currier, Imperial Yuma
Council president, made tender
foot badge award TO Dick Bailey of
Troop 76. EllWcod GrieSt, new coun-
Gil executive was introduced.
The program Ws under the dir
ection of Bill FoSS, advancement
chairman for the district, with Earle
G.. Davis, president of the Rotary
club presenting the general awards.
H. Shields Charleton, clubbing
commissioner, presented Mrs. Cor
della Webster, Pack l72 with den
mc.her's pin. Corn Reed, district
camping chairman, made presenta-
ton of camporee certificates.
The high school girls glee club
directed by George Burt gave sew
eral selections.
Awards were as follows.
Troop 10, El Centro Rotary club,
Robert Eyer, ScoutmaSter:
Clarence Munson first class Scout:
Merit Badges in Pioneering weather,
Personal, Health, Stamp Collecting,
Zoology, Cooking, Athletics, Elect
ricity, First Aid, Public Health,
Woodwork, Finger Printing, Car
pentry; Paul Dunlap, Service Star
20 hours civic service, 1907 duty
pin; badges in poultry keeping, con-
servation, farm layout and build
ing arrangement, rocks and min
erals, pigeon raising, civics, person.
al health, music, pathfinding. public
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
45 Boy Scouts
Given Awards

health; John Paul Eyer, first class
Scout, l-year service star; badges
in civics, l.andicraft; Ralph Os-
borne, so hours civic service, badges
in stamp collecting, rocks and min
erals; Keith Brinnon, badge IN
handicraft.
Troop 72, Negro University club
Rev. Howard w. Potts, ScoutmaSter
Arthur Prince, badges in reading
carpentry. Homer Broome, badges
in public health and first aid to
animals. Both boys also received
star scout badges from Col. Haynes
Troop 10, El Centro Fire Depart
ment, Clyde Lott, scOutmaSter: Re-
cruit bars to Stanley Drye, Jack Leh-
otsky and Chuck Salmen; Service
star to Marvin Haun, and Dexter
BabcCck; Larry Atkins, second class
scout, 20 hours service; John Dur
niger, recruit bar, badges in safety
and firemanShip.
Troop "a, State Street Christian
church, Leo Brinnon, ScoutmaSter
Second Glass scouts with 20 hours
service-Tommy Tyler, Bobby Bled-
soc, Walter Freeman; with 10 hours
Bill Hawkins; second claSs-Rob-
ert Daugherty, Burke Bessher; Re-
cruit and service bars-Dickin Din
John Estrada, Bill Lawson and
Wayne Lyons; tervice barS-Don-
aid Luallin, Eddie Wong, r. L.
II;co1 opI piohorJ
Troop 76, Methodist church.
George H. Connor, scoutmaster: Re-
cruit bars to Tommy Beynon, Dick
Bailey, Robin Lydecker; Alan Hunt
Second class, 2 recruit bars, SER
vice star, 10 hours service bar. duty
pin; Pete Shenas-First class, re-
cruit bar, badge in safety; Charles
Doffing-Service star duty pin;
Quimby Turner recruit bars, duty
pin, badge in safety.
Troop 85, American Legion, In
perial Hans Larsen, Scoutmaster
Recruit bars to Eugene Buchanan
and Donald Larsen; Duane Allen
first class, recruit star, so hours
service, badge in pigeon raising
Sherlock McCollum Jr., second class
Boyd Wilson, service stars; Buddy
Duggins-second class, recruit bar;
Robert McCall-first class and re-
cruit bar: Chancie ChratWood-
second class, recruit bar, 2 service
stars, 10 hours service
Special awards made by Major
Scott included den chief cords tC
these boys: John Paul Eyer, No
70; Tommy Tyler, Bobby Bledsoe
Donald Luallin and Richard Keat-
ing, Troop No. IA.
Camporee certificates were pres
ented the following patrols; Troop
70, Eagle; Troop II, Silver Fox;
Troop 72, Eagle, Panther; Troop 73
Flying Eagle and Pine Tree; TrooE
a. Bat and Eagle; Troop 76, Bat
and Rattlesnake; Troop 85, Cobra
Eagle, Flaming Arrow and Lion.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
THE PRICE OF
POLITICAL WAR

Here are two casualty lists.
The war and navy departments have
released the latest statement, listing a
total of 206,277.
They are divided as follows:
Dead-47, COS.
Wounded-77,S ,S6S.
Missing-44,52
PriSOne1S-36,3 ,352.
And this is the other casualty list-75,
600 workers in vital war industry stand
ing idle as a fury Of strikes sweep the
country.
Roughly, they are divided as follows:
Lumber and logging-35,0 900.
Airplane plants or affiliated plane
plants-25,0 600.
Food production or ,0OO
Miscellaneous, including steep factor
les, chemical works, foundrieS and the
like-10,000.
There stands the record. What have
you to say, you administration leaders?
What from you, you all-powerful WLB
and NLWB? And you, Mr.. Murray?
Mr.. Green, how say you? Shall we ask
the same of Secretary of Labor Perkins?
Would you, Miss Perkins, still say strikes
are negligible? Can you apply your fine
percentage alibi to this record?
Under simple markers on battle scar
red grounds rest 47,605 of the nations
finest youth; somewhere in concentra-
tion camps are 36,352 more of this youth
and, perhaps most tragical of all are
the 44,522 listed as missing, to keep the
figure mounting while in hospitals scat
tered over the world are 77,868 fighting
q second battle.
All these. the 206,277, raised their
right hands and took pledge which they
have kept That oath or pledge meant
what it said and the men who took it and
carried it out knew what it meant and
gladly they took it and went out to
battle.
The other casualty list, too, took a
pledge. And while these $4,000 casual
ties are away from their fighting fronts,
violating that pledge, they are enjoying
all the pleasures of home.
WHAT PRICE POLITICAL WAR!
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
WLB OPENS HEARINGS

The Kansas City regional War
Labor Board has just conducted an
interesting experiment in Wichita,
in an effort to popularize itself
and familiarize everyone with its
problems and methods. The l2-man
tripartite board came to town for
three days. On the first day, it
met with employers and gave them
a chance to file their bellyaches
and have them talked over. In the
evening. it met to hear the beefs
Of the labor organization leaders.
on the second and third days the
board held public hearings on Wich-
ita cases before it, inviting the
people in to see how it worked in
its goldfish bowl, and how and
why it made the decisions as it did.
office of Price Administration
is, of course, the most cusSed Of
the government war agencies, but
the feeling that OPA programs and
the need for rationing were not
understood, frequently heard from
other parts of the country was
not found in Wichita. The city
had Its troubles at first with prof
essor-type administrators, but busi-
ness men have now taken over -.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
Bay City Resident
Held on Car Theft

Marvyn Baker, 30-year-old San
Franciscan was heldin the Imperial
county jail at Ell Centre Friday on
charge of stealing an automo-
bile in FL Centro.
He was arrested in San Diego.
The car was recovered. The officers
said that Baker had been living
at a good hotel and associating with
ether hotel dwellers and business
people in Ell Centre since his ar
rival in Imperial Valley two days
before he disappeared with a car
he was permitted to drive because
he said he might buy it.
The investigation and the search
for Baker started in Ell Centro when
lhe car dealer told officers that he
believed Baker took the car as he
had not come back to buy it at the
time he said he would. Baker and
the car were found at an expensive
resort near San Diego, Sheriff
Ware said
Sheriff Ware said that Baker had
escaped from PaSo RobleS officers
a short time ago. He is said to have
used a long list Of names. Among
them were William Riordan, Mer-
vyn w. Riordan, William Hunt, Jack
Crowley, Jack Barry, George Mon
tague, Jack Howard, Jack Boyle, and
George Pope.
When booked at the county Jail
Baker said his home address was
2l3O Golden Gate avenue, San Fran
cisco He had $187 in cash. two bill
folds, a suitcase, a ring, and a
watch. 1t was reported by officers
that Baker had been posing as a
disabled veteran of the present war,
sometimes saying he had held the
rank of major
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
BiDDLE PROPERLY
CASTIGATED

Men in high and responsible positions
have been recalled or ousted for less
than the glaring blunder of Attorney
General Francis Biddle in his opinion
and subsequent actions in the seizure OF
the Ward company store in Chicago. He
has been tried before the bar of senate
subcommittee made up of his partisans,
and found wanting. 1t does not happen
often that a high government official,
much less a member of the Presidents
cabinet comes in for the outspoken crit
icism and accusations such as those level
ed at Biddle by special Investigating
group of senators.
In addition to the blunt charge of
Ignorance" Biddle is accused of mis-
statement of facts and of misleading the
President in his advice to the executive
of the powers the chief executive holds
and which he exercised in the Ward case.
Likewise the National Labor Relations
Board came in for a scoring at the hands
of the committee in which that board is
charged with "dilatory tactics" used for
the benefit of one faction in the store
dispute. Nor did another cabinet men,
ber, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones
escape the committees criticism for
calling in the army when it was mot the
last resort"
But Biddle must take the greater share
of blame for that scandal. He dropped
everything and rushed to Chicago to take
charge in person Of an affair that belong
ed wholly to the courts and to the United
States marshal Biddle may wiggle and
twist and try to get from under but his
statements in court when arguing an in
junction in that case will haunt him the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
THAT POLITICAL SKELETON
(San Diego Union)


The item appeared in only few scat
tered newspapers around the country,
but there doubtless is a fervent hope IN
the heart of Senator Alben Barkley OF
Kentucky, that the editors in his state
missed it altogether. 1t was brief, SIM
pie little story but it packed enough po-
tential dynamite to blast the hopes OF any
candidate west of the Hudson river.
The item in question told how Senator
Rarkley had broken his regular glasses
shortly before he was scheduled 10 reao
a prepared dinner speech. The Senator
is not one to be denied an opportunity
to make q speech by a little thing Ike ms
inability to see So, what did he do? he
simply hauled out monocle, popped IL
in place with a skill that caused some
reporters to marvel, and went ahead ana
had his say.
Shades of Daniel Boone If the story
ever got around the hills and up IN the
feudin' country, the Hatfields ana the
McCovs would declare a truce, shoulder
their squirrel rifles, traipse into the VOL
ing booths in November and relegate Al
ben to political oblivion for all time 10
come, even if they had to draft Yankee
to take his place. What could Aineh
have been thinking of? monocle' III
decd
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
Roosters Must
Be Gagged,
Or Out They Go

If complaints on growing roosters
continue to reach the office of the
citys sanitation officer, action will
be taken to eliminate any poultry
flocks found in the city Grant A.
Bristol, officer, announces.
The city has winked at the keep
ing of poultry during wartime to
enable city families to supplement
their food supply, but the city will
be forced to revoke the ordinance
that prohibits poultry raising if
roosters continue to bother resid-
entS.
Too, Mr. Bristol commented, in
stead of families raising a few
chickens, from the complaints it
appears several citizens have taken
advantage of the relaxed enforce
ment to go into the poultry busi-
ness on a wholesale basis 1t is
from those flocks that the majority
of the complaints have been report
ed, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-28
Bonds Increased
For Accused Pair

Bail for Andres Obese Sanchez
and Leon S. Silvas, residents of
the Heber area charged with in
juring railroad property. was rails
ed $500 each to $4,000 each in I'M
perial county superior court Friday.
They were scheduled to plead to
the charge in superior court June
5.
They were arrested by federal Of
ficers and charged with attempting
to wreck a train between El Centre
and Calexico early this spring. Fed
eral authorities released them,
however, declaring that one of them
was suffering from a vivid imagi-
nation"
An official of the Southern Paci-
fic railroad later signed a COM
plant in Imperial county charging
the two MeXicans with damaging
railroad property.