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TUKHDAY, JU jY IB, 1047
Damming Up Brazos River...
, Tho tlrm»o« River ha« been "dimn^r*
pmUy rtfulerljr •Inet the flnrt aetUem Mine
Into TeKM, but M.mctlme this month Wfr
•lowrii and power ehovela are exited to
*ef to work at damming up the river, a few
milea north of Waeo. Tht Whitney Dam,
long dlacuaaed, la at laat to get underway.
■, It haa been held up tor yearn, both by war
and diacuaaion. I
Flood control programa, like the one for
the Braxoe Valley, aeem to generate more
diacuaaion than an old-faahioned political
campaign. Few people actually oppoee flood
control, but becaeae huge dams are ao ex
pensive to build, flood control dam# are usu
ally tied in with water-power development
programs in order to partly pay their way.
Arrangements are made to install hydro
electric plants, and then the fight begins.
Is it legal and proper for government
agencies to produce and sell electric power,
sounds ran*
i ft aaama. I
bill, you ought to
Better Sign Up Soon—Or Else!
at these same dama. That
abio, but It Isn't as simple
cause you'll be paying the
know the fncta, '
"A dam built Just for flood < ontroi la very
different from a dam built to make Just elec
tric power.
"A flood-control dare haa I to be empty!
moot of the time, ready to catch and hold!
the flood waters. A power dim has to be
full—for electricity la made by water falling |
to the power-house. The farther It falls, |
the more electricity it makes
“Sometimes a multi purpose dam is pro
posed to do both Jobs at once. It has to be |
much bigger.. It Is really one dam built on
top of another—the lower part kept full to
make electricity, the upper part kept empty
to catch floods.
“Such a dam costs much more to build.
It floods much more land behind it—and that
land has to be bought and conseauently tak-
poeaibly in competition with private com- fc en out of production. And It doesn't always
panics who make electricity by burning oil work out to preveet floods!**
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BRYAN
FOR YOUR CHILD’S DOLL HOUSE
fuel? The battle goes round and round, and
ao far no final answer has come out The
Tennessee Valley Authority seems to have
won its fight; the Missouri Valley fight is
still going on, and the Brazos River fight is
just beginning, as the dam goes up.
The case for not-producing-juice-at-dams
haa been well stated by a group of American
electric light and power companies, in a full-
page advertisement seen in many publkra-
'ttons:
“You have helped buy a good many gov
ernment dams—with your taxes. More are
being »ugg»*Htt*<l - under the name of flood
Control.
“You'll hear propoMla to make electricity
The logic is clear
aa it ia carried. The .
ly do not intend to fight flood control dams,|XT ^ 1
aa such, though the effect of their efforts | IN aLlOIlaJl .L>f0Dl
to prevent combination-da m* sometimes
seems to work out that way. I ®r W,
But a major issue is left absolved. With •l" ndln «
our oil and coal supplies dimmishm*. do — Sj?
owe it to ourselves aa a nation to somehow! during tto Greet Deprvw.on at
tap our water-power, such a* Sweden has i»32^tto U. 8. public hes wi
to inTMtsd in government seenri-
e.
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Plastic, washable, bendable Dolls. All
kinds of doll house accesaorieg' to make
the home complete.
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done ao successfully? Boulder Dam power,]
carried to the shipyards and airplane far
Tto money supply is to stay
big. Ttom in more then twice es
muck money in currency end bank
deposits in circulation now aa in
IBM. Consequently, prices, reacting
to tto volume at dollars, are un
likely to drop anywhere near pre«
war levels. As other factors than
money supply affect pricee, such
national debt rise to astro-1 aa, supply of present scarcity of
JOYCE’S TOY BOUSE
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Many have
extremes this
shipyards and airplane lac-1 i P T* por y° n *
toriM of Lm Angeles, wu m *nonnoue help ^ * J^ r ^ „ mrrM
Even If it takea t tiU retain a financially noond
In winning World War II.
two separate dama, would it help Texas if I government
power were available from the Braxoe? The IlmlHaa factor as te how
large the national debt can to si-
An American Credo...
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“My convictions are not so much concern
ed with what I am against as what I am for;
and that excludes a lot of things automat!-
“Traditionally, democracy haa been an
affirmative doctrine rather than merely a
. negative one.
“I believe—and I so conceive the Consti
tution of the United States to rest upon, .as
does religion—the fundamental proposition
of the integrity of the individual; and that
all government and all private institutions
must be designed to promote and to protect
and to defend the integrity and dignity of
the individual ;r that that ia the essential
meaning of the Constitution on the Bill of
Wton tto UJ.
Treasury tan
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grows out of this (untrsl core «if a belief that
M individual comes first, that all man art
the children of Qud and that tpeir personali
ties are therefore sacred, carries with It a
C at belief In civil liberties |nd their pro-
tiun ami a repugnance ty anyone who
would steal from a human bethg that which
U must precious to him—his good name
either Impugning things to hlfi by Innuendo
or by Inetonallf. And It lal especially an
unhappy circumstance that ocMaionaHy that
is done In the name of demoaraey, Mill
think, can tear nur country MMff and de
stroy It If we carry It furtnef.
M 1 deeply believe In the rtoMcIty of de
mocracy to surmount any tralft that may lie
ahead, provided only that we practice It In
our dally llvee.
“And among the things w* must practice I l h* rect ®f ftvernmeni far tto
is that while we seek ferventlf to ferret out 9 °T n t rn f^ j***
the subversive and anti-democrstic force* in #3 miuo*, >■ gi Dr rtrd to to sddIi
the country, we do not at the same time by 1 £bW to tto «kit *
hysteria, by resort to innuendo and smears, Over tto twe-yvriod, then, taxM
and other unfortunate tactic* bemirch the | will produce revenue sufficient to
very cause that we believe it, and cause a ^ ^ •* »" srwmge of
separation among our peoplj —cause one
group and one individual to hate another. I it wotll(1 ^
based on mere attacks, mere unsubstantia- i puy off tto present Rational debt
ted attacks upon their loyalty. I So for tto future tax ratting and
“I want also to add that part of my con- *•** catting will be a very alow
ur»et ea |ke
saiy will to
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IBM. Tto UM
June IB4? yes-
•lured about |4U billion. Tto SSSt
of nvertiment operation far ito
period ansaats to 94M btl-
Wlth an rapseted deed
goods meeting demand, some cor
rection may to expected in tto
distorted pries structure.
knees activity must be kept
kigh is order to support the gov-
emmest and carry tae extraordi
nary debt Interest rates will he
kept low. This is a delicate prob
lem as if (surest rates are tae
low, tnv»au>rs •asset realise their
earnings and ■pecuUtKnt in
and real estate Is saseuragod. If
Interest rate* are las kigh business
es pane lan la discouraged. Net U
to Ignored also Is
ffWult for tto govern •
its debt. Oawamir
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Rights, as it is essentially the meaning of * viction is based on my training as an Anglo-
American common law lawyer. It is the
very basis and the great heritge of the Eng
lish people to this country, which we have
maintained, that we insist on the strictest
rules of credibility of witnesses and on the
avoidance of hearsay, and that gossip shall
be excluded, in the courts of justice. And
that, too, ia an essential of our democracy.
“Whether by administrative agencies,
acting arbitrarily against business organiza
tions, or whether by investigating agencies
of legislative branches, whenever these prin
ciples—of the protection of an individual
and his good name against besmirchment by
gossip, hearsay and the statmenta of wit
nesses who are not subject to cross-exami
nation—are violated, then, too, we have fail
ed in carrying forward our ideal in respect
to demeeraey.
That I deeply believe."
religion
“Any form of government, therefore, and
any other institutions which make men means
rather than ends, which exalt the state or
any other institutions shove the importance
of men, which place arbitrary power over
men as a fundamental tenet of government,
are contrary to that conception, and, there-
( forfe, I am deeply opposed to them.
‘The communistic philosophy as well ss
the'erenmunistic form of government fall
within this category, for their fundamental
tenet is quite to the contrary. The funda
mental tanet of Communism is that the state
ia an and in itself, and that therefore the
powers which the state exercises over the
individual are without any ethical standards
to limit thefti-
“That I deeply disbelieve. , \
“It U very easily to say that oMe la hot
a Communist. And, of course, If ipy record
requires me tu state that vary affirmatively,
I MM A chap from New York who commutes.
la a great disappointment to me. regularly to Washington reports that on the Wt
vary easy to talk about being against wav down the other day he Bat across the SLaSLuTu
ComnsunfcNMjV la squally Imporlantio be- aisle from Henry Wallace, who doted fltfully Uhm ImSST
Hava those things which provide a aitiefyintf most of the trip—with an open copy of the farm «f bank
are) effective alternative. Damoeraay la that New MapnMIa on hla lap. | —TIDE
satisfying,
“Ito
Amative
a belief
more.;
“One of
itlve alternative.
In the world la that It ia an
llef, rather than belt
Inat something else
the tenet* of democracy
“THKRK I* A TRIBE In Africa which
limit* orators to just what time they can
aland on on# foot. And they rail Africa the
Dark Continent.' "—The Montrose (Pennayt-
venia) —
W« may as well start now in
aetosNag ooraelvn to tto ayitem
of kigh taxes and bigk debt. The
whole approach to l). 8. financial
problems must to reshaped. Gov
ernment financing, in years to
come is to dominate tto U. 8.
economy.
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Many of os, no doubt, have won-
dared a* u> the enigmatic owner
ship of the nations! debt It may
be of interest to note that tto
hanking system commercial banks
and Federal Reserve Banks—to the
No. I owner of govamment securi
ties In February tto banking sys
tem held 37% of the debt at a
ratio of about I (commercial
tonka) to 1 (Federal Reserve
Banka).
With concern over this situation,
tto Treasury is concentrating its
•swiAjsjeeea stoikn* t iwm4 enmuu^WMMn
W* emvw vwwfe«•••«• •!> |iru||r»in
on toak hoUm**. linoe March,
1*49, tto Treasury toa retired
Mlton of 4ebt
received fram
la tto Vtotary Lass
As this was In tto
i upon whisk
4, the retire*
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