Milford chronicle., 1947-04-18
AN ECONOMIC CHANGE is taking

AN ECONOMIC CHANGE is taking
place in the Pacific Northwest area OF the
limited States, of which comparatively few
peOple are aware Under the gulse OF cor
recting financial abuses in the electric power
industry, a school of POLITICIANS with strong
leanings toward socialism started over de-
cade ago to build government power plants
for the alleged purpose OF furnishing yafo-
sticks wherewith to measure rates OF private
companies The yardstick could be stretched
or shortened to any desired length because
the government plants were granted tax SUD-
sidies and tax exemptions not accorded COM
peting electric companies.
That the plan worked has now been DEM
onstrated The State of Tennessee has a tax
subsidized public power monopoly. Lesser
sections are similarly affected.
And now witness the Pacific Northwest
All the private power companies ana the Ole
municipal plants in Tacoma and Seattle nave
been brought to their knees. For lO years,
due to the governments power development
program at Bonneville and Grand Coulee, IN
dependent power expansion has been practlc-
aly stopped as highly taxed electric compan-
les could hardly hope to compete with tax
exempt government power plants into Whlcn
hundreds of millions of dollars OF taxpayers
funds were being dumped.
So tOdav we have the spectacle of rapid
ly growing Federal power monopoly chang
ing independent electric systems into mere
agencies to distribute public power until sucn
time as the public agencies deem it advisable
to 90 into the distribution business them
selves.
Congress is asked for new millions in ap-
preparations each year by the Federal power
bureaucracy to extend this Specialization pro-
gram, and thereby eliminate America inltla-
tive in the power field. Thus a new chapter
is being written in American history. No
matter how you gild it, it is piecemeal accept
ance of the Russian and German philosophy
of the superiority of the state over the lnd!-
vidual, and that is not the basis on which
either our government or industrial struc-
ture was founded.
WHEN THE FOUNDATIONS of the
United Nations were laid at the Dumbarton
Oaks Conference in Washington nearly three
years ago, the Nations pledged themselves to
maintain international peace and security,
and to cooperate in establishing political, eco
nomc and social conditions favorable to the
attainment of those objectives. The Charter
specifically precudes UN from intervening
in the internal affairs of any Nation. There
were fifty-one nations that signed up as Orl-
ginal members of the United Nations.
The trouble with the United Nations is
that the bargains made in the beginning
have all been violated. Evidently Russia is
the villain that has upset the World peace
apple-cart Even Senator Harry Flood ByrC
has finally given up hopes. He arose in the
Senate the other day and said: eff Russia il
an enemy and persists in being an enemy O
free peoples, it is better to have her OUTSIDE
the family than inside the family
On the same day Attorney-General Clarl
responded to an inquiry from Congressman
Thomas of New Jersey, chairman of tn
House Committee on un-American Activities
The Attorney General said he was 'takin
under immediate advisement" requests frOr
the Government to outlaw the Communis
party of the United States. ]. Edgar HoOve
is an official who has never stubbed his to
since he became head of the Federal Burea
of Investigation long ago. Hoover agree
with other witnesses who have appeared bt
fore committees of Congress that the Con
munist party and it's allies are bad eggs.
The highest and most dependable source
of the Federal Government of the Unite
States have reached the above conclusion
Every reader of this item should conside
these direful warnings.