The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 2

2 LETTER EXPRESSES ROOSEVELTS VIEW ON BONUS PAYMENT President Sees Immediate Cash Against Best Interests of Veterans ‘Washington, Dec. 31.—(7)—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in a letter on ‘bonus issue, said Monday that “those who advocate the payment of these certificates at this time for the pur- pose of stimulating business certainly cannot have given the interest of the veterans much thought.” The president's letter, dated Dec. 27, was addressed to Commander Gar- land R. Farmer of the American Le- gion post at Henderson, Texas. It replied to a letter from Farmer, ask- ing for information on the cash bonus issue. “I appreciate your letter of recent date,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “and it is particularly interesting in that it confirms an impression that I have had for some time; that is, that the bonus question is not well understood even among the veterans themselves.” The president enclosed in his let- ter a special memorandum prepared for him describing the issuance of the bonus certificates and its insurance features. Borrow More Than Worth “The amount which is printed on the face of every adjusted service certificate,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “is not the amount of the basic or ori- ginal bonus ($1,400,000,000) voted by congress but is an amount plus 25 per cent added for deferred payment. which with interest at 4 per cent com- pounded annually period will produce the face or ma- turity value.” The president said another feature was that out of 3,500,000 certificates outstanding 3,038,500 veterans have borrowed $1,690,000,000, or “more than the present worth of their bonus cer- tificates.’ “I feel sure that many of the ve- terans have not given the question sufficient study to realize the vast sums required to meet the demands suggested,” the president continu “Your statement advising me that those who favor the immediate pay- ment of the bonus feel that a good reason for doing so is because the government has spent millions of @ollars on the recovery program and that much of these funds will not be repaid, while by the payment of the bonus the government will be dis- charging an obligation and by so dis- charging this obligation the money spent by the veterans will do much in a practical way of stimulating re- covery, is interesting.” Approximately 120,000 children were immunized against diphtheria in New York City during the first six months of 1934. An inhabitant of Mars, or any other of the planets in our solar sys- tem, would see the constellation of stars exactly as we see them from the IF FIRE should destroy your property, how much would you lose? Or would your insurance really make good your loss? Would your claims be handled promptly and satisfactor- ily? These questions about your insurance are so vital and can only be answered cor- rectly by an agent who thoroughly knows the de- tails of the insurance busi- ness. MURPHY “The Man Who Knows (jovE kekeeeee te THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY By Frederic J. Haskin Washington, D. C., Dec, 31.—The Happy Valley, that Utopia described in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, has long stood for perfection in the loc: tion and organization of a commun- ity, but it also has been regarded as a literary figment. The Tennesse Val- ley Authority not only is making the fictional idea of the Eighteenth Cen- tury essayist come alive, it has wired its Happy Valley for sound, for pow- er, and for light. Bince the time of George Washing- ton the 80-mile cascade of the Ten- nessee river, and the tumbling streams of the wide basin it drains, have at- tracted the attention of engineers, and the federal government on several oc- jeasions has undertaken to realize its potentialities for power and improved navigation. During the World War, |the great cataract of Muscle Shoals |was partially harnessed through the lerection of Wilson dam, capable of developing 300,000 horsepower at high \water. Facilities for the mechanical fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, use- ful in the manufacture of fertilizers to stimulate creation and also of ex- plosives to destroy, were provided. But the Muscle Shoals development 4y Frederic J.Haskin ‘A Condensed Chapter from the Authors New Book THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. Today & wkekekeaeknk is a vast enterprise, created by po- litical action, yet its first move, on {setting up business, is to hang out the sign “No politicians need apply.” The president nominated as direc- tors, Arthur E. Morgan, Harcourt A. Morgan, and David E. Lillenthal, and designated the first named as chair- man, to serve nine years, The others serve six and three years, but, upon reappointment, each would be named for nine years. The terms are thus staggered so that at no time would the authority be without two experi- senced directors. Although the TVA has offices at the national capital, its head offices are on the scene of the project—in the Tennessee valley, Knoxville, Ten- nessee, was chosen as the capital city of the authority, although other of- fices are at Chattanooga and at Wil- son Dam, Alabama. When the remaking of a world is undertaken, a huge and complicated machine must be set up. When the rected, the machine must have many parts. The merest glance at some of the positions created lends an open- ing conception of the amplitude of the task. In addition to the engineers over a 20-year; was but a spot in a wilderness. It was |concerned directly with the construc- {not until the administration of Pres- | tion of the dams and flood gates, there lident Franklin Roosevelt that the idea jis a chemical engineering division. jof carrying the development to logical | There are a mechanical engineer and |lengths was given form. Every dream ‘staff, an agricultural engineer, elec- the valley was consolidated into one jjands, a chief of planting, a geolog- vast illusion, and then that illusion |ist, a town-planning chief, and a was crystallized into reality by act/housing chief. There are officials in |which had ever been dreamed about ‘trical engineer, a forester, @ chief of |g of congress and an initial purse of $50,000,000. On May 18, 1933, President Roose- velt approved the Tennessee Valley Authority act, and there began a chapter in American government un- paralleled by anything that had gone before. A vast natural basin to which seven states are tributary was taken in charge as a sculptor grasps his clay, and the work of making a new world began. Not only did this or- ganization set about changing phy- sical topography by creating huge lakes where no lakes had been before, altering watercourses, moving moun- tains, changing the very nature of the soil, razing forests and planting new ones, but it set about the re- making of an entire civilization. If @ new contour could be given the land, a new sense of life could be giv- en the people inhabiting it. The story of the Tennessee valley. and the Ten- nessee Valley Authority is a story of Creation, a Twentieth Century Book of Genesis. Organization Is Unique The directing head of the Tennes- see Valley Authority is a board of directors, three in number, and the enabling act departed from all pre- vious political legislation in that it provided a method of selection of these individuals as Utopian as the scheme itself, Given ability and prob- ity, the only bar to appointment by the president to one of these high positions is political influence. After the first staggered terms expire, ap> pointments run for nine years, thus overlapping two presidential admin- istrations. The bar to political power as a lever to obtain official connec- tion with the TVA extends right down the line to the lowliest employe. An ‘office boy, desiring a job with the organization, would be disqualified automatically, were he recommended by a United States senator, or, in- deed, by the president himself, pro- vided that recommendation were based on political grounds. Were nothing else concerning the TVA re- volutionary, this alone would mark the undertaking as unique. And it is not merely a policy; it is specific- ally stated in the law. Here, then, ee We wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year.— Carl’s Grocery. CITATION HEARING PETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE, STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, County of Burleigh. ss. IN COUNTY COURT, Before Hon. 1. C. Davies, Judge. In the Matter of the Estate of Magdalena Knoll, Deceased. Anton A. Knoll, Petitioner, vs. George Knoll, Mike Knoll, Nick Knoll, Magdalena Both, Barbara ks, ’an incompetent person, Frank Gress, Barbara Pfau, Ef: fie Mastel, Magdalena Mitchell, John Gress, Thomas Gress, Rose Gress, a minor, Anton Gress, a minor, J. L. Kelley, the special Suardian of sald Rose Gress, a minor, J. L, Kelley, the special Buardian of said Anton Gress, a minor, George W. Hedrix, the spe- cial guardian of said’ Barbara ks, an incompetent person, the of Mary Gress, deceas all other persons ” interested the estate of Magdalena Kno deceased, and Anton A. Knoll, Administrator of the estate of Anton Knoll, deceased, Respondents, AK THE STATE OF NORTH TO THE ABOVE RESPONDE} You and each of you are hereby ed and required to appear before the county court of the county of Bur. leigh, in said state, at the office of the county judge of said county, at the court house in the city of Bis- marck, in said county and state, on the 11th day of January, A. D. 193 at the hour of ten o'clock in thi Noon of that day, to show cause, any you have, why the petition of An. ton A. Knoll, as the administrator of the estate of Magdalena Knoll, de- ceased, on file in said court, praying that license be to him granted to sell at private sale the undivided one halt of the south east quarter of section one (1) in’ township one hundred thirty six (136) north of range eighty two (82) west of the fifth principal meridian in Morton county, North Dakota, and the undivided one half of the north east quarter of sald section one (1), less 1.85 acres therefrom that was conveyed to Morton county, North Dakota, by deed, dated June 5, 1905, which said deed was filed in the office of the register of deeds of said Morton county in book 52 of Deeds on page 206, belonging to said estate, should not be granted. The residence of sald Magdalena Knoll, deceased, the owner of said estate, was, at the time of her death, the city of Bismarck, in Burleigh county, North Dakota. Let service be made of this citation "Dated this 24th aay of D is 1 lay of ecember, A.D. 1934. By the Court: LC. Davi: in 11, charge of education, of health, of training, there is even a branch of archeology. A'legal staff is required, Personnel officers, commissary men, and business administrators. Valley Is Synthetically Sovereign The TVA does more than build dams and control flood waters. Al- though not endowed with any sover- eign political powers, still its position is so dominant in the valley that it exercises substantial governance over the inhabitants of the domain. The states in which the great basin of the valley lies have ceded none of their Political rights. They could not, of course, do so. Nor has the valley in any sense become federal territory. Yet so completely does the TVA com- prehend the life and activities of the valley that it is almost supreme. In that it brings new conceptions of life and manners, new customs, @ new standard of welfare, miraculous new mechanical inventions, and, above all, full measure of employment, at the highest wages ever known in the re- gion, for. thousands of the people, it has become synthetically sovereign. It has established an economic and social hegemony over the portions of the seven states affected which needs no further powers to make it effec- tive. The TVA has created for itself @ mandate over the valley. The Electric Home and Farm Au- thority (EHPA) is the business agency of the TVA in the distribution of power. Established by executive ord- er in January, 1934, with a $1,000,000 capital and a $10,000,000 credit with the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion, this’ body undertakes extension of power facilities by financing pros- Pective consumers in the purchase of electrical appliances. have been made with manufacturers of these appliances for delivery to current users. The-EHFA stands back of the purchaser as a sort of guaran- tee finance company and recoups it- self through the collection of the price of the appliances on a long- term installment system. Inasmuch as the more power consumed, the low- er the rate to each consumer can be reduced, it is in the interest of all that the EHFA functions. Its officers ate the same as those of the TVA. Headquarters are at Chattanooga. When Dr. Johnson wrote his Ras- selas he was attempting to picture a ‘community ideal in every way. Dr. Johnson had never heard of electric- ity in the sense of controlled power, nor were his social conceptons up to date. But it was his intent to create his Happy Valley as a sort of center of the universe, esthetically if not practically. So it is a curiously Poetic stroke that so many years afterward, in a newer world and un- der a different social structure, the first fruits of the vast TVA ment should have gone to which John Allen pointed to as the center of the universe. (Copyrght 1934) U. S. Supreme Court Ends Difficult Year Washington, Dec. 31.—()—Before proceeding into the new year with its promise of vital rulings on the New Deal, the United States supreme court could look back Monday on an old year filled with decisions on every- thing from moratoria to marital matters. Although 1934 on federal emergency legislation, the court did pass on several state emergency acts and overturned only one. That was the Arkansas law de- signed to protect life insurance beneficiaries against attachment of such money for judgment. The court held it invalid because of certain omissions. It upheld the Minnesota mortgage moratorium law, New York's emer- gency enforcement of s milk control law and ® Maryland act to grant emergency relief to holders of mort- gages on property in Baltimore. Senator Huey Long, Democrat and Louisiana “Kingfish” was ordered to stand trial in @ $500,000 libel suit General the mails a speech he made floor of the senate. DR. R. S. ENGE Chiropractor Graduate Drugless Physician ANT -NAZS-PLEAD FOR LEAGUE 10 END TERRORS IN SAAR Serious Outbreaks in B Over Week-end Prompt Ap- peal for Martial Law Saarbruecken, Saar Basin Territory, Dec. 31—(7)—Anti-Nazis asked the League of Nations governing commis: ‘sion Monday to institute semi-mar- tial law in order to suppress “terror- ‘were generally overpowered. Serious outbreaks took place at Malstatt, a Ssarbruecken suburb, pected on New Year’s eve, when cafes and restaurants will be permitted to remain open until after it. A petition asking that troops of the international army sent here by Gen- eva maintain order said “the secrecy of the plebiscite vote has been as- sured but freedom of speech in the campaigns has not.” The request was forwarded to the land as well as its people is to be di-| gove: ‘flying ary squad,” which the petition says largely responsible for the series of week-end clashes. More than 50 shots were fired in disorder. Arctic Deaths Face MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1984 OF 1934 12—Headlines Unroll Wealth of ‘New Names in the ‘This is the twelfth and last in & series. * New York, Dec. 31—(#)—The head- lines of 1934 unrolled a profusion new names. “Names make news” is @ journal- istic adage but 1934 reversed it. News —big news—pushed scores of names) onto the front pages and kept a gen- erous handful of them there until they were as familiar as the name of the family physician. From the march of the Cardinals to the world’s baseball championship, the midwestern crime wave, the de- yelopments in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping and murder case, the “tem- pest in a teapot” investigation of the “brain trust,” and a dozen other news events, new names emerged slowly or burst like rockets on Page 1 of the dailies, No longer was identification necessary. Within no time at all the head writers were unfurling such ban- ners as “Hauptmann Held for Mur- der”—“Dizzy Dean Downs Detroit”— “Dillinger Dies In Federal Trap”—or “Wirt Willing To Testify.” Arrest of Hauptmann Outstanding, of course, was Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the alien car- Penter, around whose Bronx home the 2%-year-old investigation of the kidnaping and murder of Charles A. News’ Roosevelt at its Kerensky,” set ‘Washington politi Pot to boiling over an investigation that filled the front pages for weeks until the house committee finally issued a report that | barge. Dr. Wirt . Youngsters in News Had the Dionne quintuplets never been born, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe prob- ably would have ended his life a sin- cere, intelligent country doctor re- markably like a character from recent fiction. His fight for the lives of the Dionne babies since he received that before dawn “hurry call” at his home in Callander, Ont., May 28, has drawn almost as much attention from sci- ence as from the public. In that wooded north country now is a tiny. hospital that bears his name and houses only five patients—the Dionne quintuplets, Headlines come early in life to some; two youngsters this year have drawn more than many famous fig- ures ever receive. There is Gloria Vanderbilt, 10 years old, who went into Central Park one day to feed the pigeons and precipitated charges by her mother in a habeas the “charges of were un- founded.’ Proceeding agai! ‘Whitney that her “spirited away.” n corpus inst Mrs. Harry Payne! daughter had been jobs. Lindbergh, Jr., suddenly settled with | court battle over custody of the child the fury of a tornado. Only in his/are being made by Mrs, Vanderbilt. home town in Germany apparently! The other youngster is none other ad Hauptmann’s name appeared in|than a darling of the movies, five- public print until a New York filling|year-old Shirley Temple, who was station operator became suspicious of |drafted into the cast of “Stand Up @ gold note with which Hauptmann/and Cheer” and elevated to paid for some gasoline. stardom because audiences did just that when Out into 1935 the name of Haupt-/jthe film was shown. Two Soviet Families : there was no ruling in|’ “brain trust.” These charges, con- cerning an “economic revolution with | . LUDENIZE j 5 g Z a ese rt YOUR THROAT " LUDENIZE”— the complete throat medionting process which occurs the moment you place a Luden’s Menthol Cough Drop in your mouth...eleven medi- cinal ingredients melting inte a soothing lctien which quickly moistens the throat, stops irritation and relieves coughing. LUDEN’S MENTHOL COUGH DROPS 5c —they all keep Saying.. THEY'RE MILDER —and hear them say .. 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