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THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by James R. Lowell
Politics will be the chief busi
ness of the political-minded folks
of Nebraska from now until after
the general election, with the re
publican nominee for president,
Governor Landon of Kansas, offi
cially opening the republican cam
paign in a speech at Grand Island
this Thursday.
The present status of politics in
the state ir. mid-August may best
be summed up in a number of
quotations from the political great
and near neai-great:
Governor Landon, starting his
first eastward campaign swing
from Denver across the state of
Nebraska: "There can be no real
recovery as long as men and
women must lean on relief."
Senator Edward K. Burke, Ne
braska democratic national com
mitteeman, speaking at a demo
cratic rally in Omaha: “The ad
ministration has in large measure
acted along the line of its clear
duty. Measures for relief must
be carried out as long as the need
remains, altho uirwisse adminis
trative methods need to be ironed
out. However, there can be no
permanent recovery in this country
until the federal government shows
a sincere willingness to co-operate
with private industry and enable
it to absorb the millions of unem
ployed.”
Burke, speaking from Omaha in
reference to the democratic sug
gestion that he resign as national
committeeman: “I think that a
national committeeman probably
should go down the line for the
entire party ticket and frankly I
do not w'ant to take one iota of
responsibility for the election of
Carpenter (democratic nominee for
U. S. senator). Perhaps I should
resign from the national committee
position.”
Frank McGrath, clerk of the dis
trict court at Omaha and campaign
manager for Carpenter: “A nation
al committeeman is like a press
agent for a circus, and what would
happen to a press agent who went
around the country telling people
the circus is a great show except
for the main act.”
Dan V. Stephens, of Fremont,
former democratic congressman
and present Norris supporter:
“Burke is of more value to Lan
don's campaign thun any campaign
advocate Landon his in Nebraska,
with due apologies to Sam McKel
vie and Bob Simmons. It is un
fortunate that a man in Burke’s
position should inflict repudiation
upon the man he was chosen to
support with nothing more tangi
ble than hot air. Burke should
resign as national committeeman.”
Terry Carpenter, anent the same
subject: “Ed Burke ought to re
sign as democratic national com
mitteeman and come out for Bob
Simmons and make a real issue out
of it. I think I ought to be nation
al committeeman for Nebraska.”
Former Governor S. R. McKelvie,
speaking at a republican rally in |
Butler county: “What America
needs today is not administration
policies of a guinea farm combined,
with personal aggrandizement but
a return to the age old customs
that always have brought us out
of our periods of depression.”
Miss Harriett Elliott, prominent
educator in South Carolina and
democratic national committee
speaker, addressing a democratic
rally at Lincoln: “The last four
years of government have placed
human factors before profit for the
first time. The adminsitration is
going before the country to stand
on its record of achievement. We
need not be alarmed because we
have made use of national credit
to fight depressions, to feed and
clothe the needy, to aid the farmer
and laborer.”
Robert G. Simmons, republican
candidate for U. S. senator, ad
dressing the Tekamah Fall Festi
val: “I would support a tariff on
farm products j:o protect domestic
markets, and in case such a tariff
should not be fully effective, I
would favor achieving parity by
Promise
EXTRAVAGANCE
“We advocate an immediate and
' drastic reduction of governmental
expenditures by abolisning useless
commissions and offices, consolidat
ing departments and bureaus, and
eliminating extravagenee, to ac
complish a saving of not less than
25r/e in the cost of federal govern
ment."—Democratic platform 1932.
“For three long years I have
been going up and down this
country preaching that govern
ment . . . costs too much. I
shall not stop the preaching .
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acceptance
Speech, July 2, 1932.
“ThatJ (the Hoover spending),
my friends, is the most
reckless and extravagent pace I
have been able to discover in the
statistical jecord of any peace-time
government anywhere, anytime.”—
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pittsburg,
October 19, 1932.
“You nre having the most econ
omical federal administration you
have had for years.”—Postmaster
General Farley, Salt Lake City,
August 1, 1934.
Performance.
EXTRAVAGANCE
In the last full fiscal year (1932)
of President Hoover’s administra
tion the Federal government spent
$5,153,644,895. The New Deal in
creased this rate of spending as fol
lows:
In the year ending June 30, 1934,
by 38%.
In the year ending June 30, 1935,
by 43%.
In the year ending June 30, 1930,
by 72%.
The cost of running the United
States government in recent years:
1927 . $3,372,713,000
1831 . 4,091,597,000
5.153.645.000
1988 5,142,954,000
1934 .. - . 7,105,050,000
7.375.825.000
8.879.798.000
(House hearings on Revenue Act
of 1936, except the 1936 figure
which is from Daily Treasury
Statement—unrevised—of June 30,
1936.)
Government expenditures in 1936
would have been $3,805,233,671 if
there had been a reduction of 25%
in the cost of Federal government
from the 1932 level.
benefit payments. These payments,
however, to be rrfade without bur-,
eaucratic administration, without
political influence and patronage.”
H. R. Tolly, national AAA ad
ministrator, speaking at Kearney:
“This drouth and that of 1934 have
made farmers think and plan more
for the future than they have ever
done before. They are now plan
ning as the administration is plan
ning, for the agricultural conser
vation program of 1937. Crop in
surance would provide social secur
ity for farmers.”
Engineers not embroiled in fac
tional disputes agree that irrigation
in the Tri-county area would be
beneficial to the state as a whole,
but litigation as instituted prom
ises to be endless.
Diversion of one water shed to
another was apparently decided by
the supreme court but various
irrigation districts in the Platte
Valley now are raising another
question in which they claim that
irrigation of Tri-county areas, even
tho they be in the Platte watershed,
will curtail their irrigation activ
ities. There is a probability that
this will have to be settled, altho
scientific measurments show that
the Platte loses enough water dur
ing highwater periods to irrigate a
territory larger than that being
promoted by Tri-county. Impound
ing the water is the chief difficulty.
While legal battles of Tri-county
Hire \gtill smouldering, engineer.1!
have gone ahead with phuses of
the project not hampered by court
| decisions. The huge Keystone dam
I is the salient feature of this devel
opment.
Because a failure of the dam,
which will impound 2,000,000 acre
feet of North Platte river near the
town of Keystone, would imperil
the lives of thousands of persons,
Tri-county officials are making sta
bility the first consideration in its
construction.
The dam will be two miles long
and 162 feet high at the highest
point. There will be a 24-foot
roadway along the top. The reser
voir when filled will cover 25,000
ncres.
Function of the dam will be to
catch flood waters of the North
Platte river that rush down from
the Colorado mountains during the
spring. Tri-county will not be al
lowed to store water in the reser
voir duing the irrigation season,
when all direct flow rights are ap
propriated.
The legal situation in connection
with the Tri-county is complicated
by the claims of the Platte valley
backers who say that the Keystone
and Plum Creek reservoirs will
make the Plr.tte a dry stream from
North Platte to Kearney, and lower
the water table. Tri-county
answers that it already is a dry
stream with lowered water tables,
and that the reservoirs will recre
ate the river into a constantly flow
ing : tream and in time th water
tables will fill up again.
The Platte valleyists reply that
seepage and evaporation will make
this impossible. The courts must
decide eventually which is right.
Straight-run politics during the
past week has as its leading news
the fact that Dwight Griswold, re
publican candidate for governor, i=
opening up his campaign in earnest.
Headquarters are being opened at
Lincoln. Harry Scott, former sec
retary of the state central com
mittee, will be in charge of Gris
wold’s headquarters. Mr. Gris
wold is one of the best bets of the
republican organization where
speeches are concerned, and.'he will
moke an intensive campaign speak
ing tour during the campaign.
Incidently, Mr. Griswold has se
cured a reputation as one of the
state’s finest citizens. He has
everything that it takes tobeagov
ernor, except the reckoning of the
political prognosticators who list
the propspects as follows:
(As for Nebraska): Landon,
first (no use of mentioning second
man); Cochran for governor; Jur
gensen for Lt. Governor; Simmons
for U. S. Senator (Carpenter sec
ond and Norris Third); Dick John
son for attorney general; Bass for
state treasurer; and the rest wide
.open.
| The National Union for Social
Justice will call a state convention
soon and attempt to get 750 per
sons to sign petitions to have Win.
Lemke’s name printed on the pres
idential ballot in Nebraska.
Balked by an opinion of the at
torney general that presidential
electors cannot be nominated by
petition, the socialist party will
attempt to hold another state con
venion in an effort to get on the
Nebraska ballot in November.
Assistant Attorney General Vail,
in a formal opinion said Nebraska
laws do not provide for placing
names of presidential electors on
the ballot by petition nomination.
Party leaders at the instigation
of national, socialistic officials,
undertook the petition plan after a
convention held here last month
failed to produce the necessary 750
signers.
State Capitol News in Review:
Farm fires took a loss of 55 per
cent of the value of the property
\ involved against a loss of only 3.4
per cent in urban fires during the
first half of 1936. However, town
fires accounted for a much larger
share of the state loss than was
discernable in the total figures.
County numbers on NebrrfsWa
motor vehicles would be altered in
all except four of the first twenty
counties if the dssignations were
to be made on the basis of regis
trations found in the 1936 assess
ment returns, a tabulation of valu
ations reveals.
Present county numbers were
set up in 1923 by a ruling of the
motor vehicle division of the state
highway department, based on the
j registrations in the various count
I ies at that time. Several attempts
have been made to change numbers
to conform to later registrations,
but the departments have avoided
such alterations.
Here is the way the counties
would rank now1, in accordance
with population: No. 1, Douglas;
No. 2, Lancaster; No. 3, Gage; No.
| 4, ScottsblufT (instead of Custer);
j No. 5. Hall (instead of Dodge); No.
16, Dodge (instead of Saunders);
No. 7, Buffalo (instead of Madi
son); No. 8, Madison (instead of
Hall); No. 9, Adams (instead of
Buffalo); No. 10, Custer (instead of
Platte); No. 11, Saunders (instead
Otoe); No. 12. Otoe (instead of
Knox); No. 13, Richardson (instead
of Cedar); No. 14, Saline( instead
of Adams); No. 15, Platte( instead
of Lincoln); No. 16, I.irrcoln( in
stead of York); No. 17, Seward;
No. 18, York (instead of Dawson);
No. 19, Dawson (instead of Rich
ardson).
Newcomers in the first twenty
are Scottsbluff (now 21 in rank),
and Saline (now 22). Knox and
Cedar, 12 and 13 under the pres
ent system, would drop to 23 and
25 respectively.
STATE TAXES
Governor Cochran received a
great deal of favorable publicity
last week, due to the fact that the
State Board of Equalization fixed
the new levy for state taxation at
1.76 mills, a considerable reduction
below last year’s level. The Gover
nor then proceeded to take credit
for this reduction, by talking of re
duced expenses and appropriations,
and the fact that it will be the
lowest levy in 15 years, made it
very nice publicity for him.
The facts are that the expenses
and appropriations of the state of
Nebraska are this year the highest
in the history of the state, but the
money is simply not being raised
by a property tax. It all comes
from the taxpeyer, but by far the
largest part of it is in the form
of these “painless” taxes, so that
the taxpayer pays the bill without
knowing anything about it. The
only reason that the state property
tax is lower is because the state
is now raising about a hTillion and
a half dollars per year from liquor
taxes, and that consequently re
duces the taxes against property.
But the major portion of the in
creased tax burden is being car
ried by the people who drive auto
mobiles, through the additional one
cent per gallon tax which Governor
Cochran levied against gasoline.
It is not that there is any issue
between Governor Cochran and my
self over the form of taxation. We
agreed two years ago and we agree
today that the state of Nebraska
should not have a state income
tax, a sales tax, or any new form
of taxation. The record of Ne
braska, under both republican and
democratic governors, has been
good in this regard, and while the
expenses and appropriations of the
state have increased tremendously,
yet the fact thut we have not taken
on any of the new-fangled systems
of taxation, has caused us to make
a very fine record when compared
to other states. So really there
is no major taxation issue between
us—I approve of the levying of
the liquor taxes and I am glad that
the collection of them made it pos
sible to reduce the property tax
levy. I only desire they be re
duced still further.
tfut what about the local tax
problem? That is where the real
tax burden is. What has the Gov
ernor done to remedy that situ
ago and again this year, calls for
action in this regard.
And what about the conduct of
the State Insurance department?
Have the buyers of insurance, pay
ing about fifty million dollars per
year in Nebraska, been receiving
the protection they are entitled to?
What about the squelching of the
investigation of the state bank re
reiverships? What about the Gov
ernor’s refusal to extend an official
welcome to Governor Talmadge
and former President Hoover? Is
that the kind of partisanship that
the people of Nebraska desire?
And then, what about his state
ment over the radio last week
that “there is no hope for the tax
payer in the election of Governor
Landon to the Presidency”?
These and other matters may
become issues in the campaign,
but surely it is unfair for the Gov
ernor and his newspaper support
ers to take credit for reduced ex
penditues by the state because of
a reduction in the property tax
levy, in the face of a statement
by the State Auditor not more
than two weeks ago, that the ex
penses of Nebraska last year were
about $2,300,000 larger than ever
before. And they will be just as
large this year. The money is
being milked from the tax-payer
but not through the property tax.
I can only ask, in the interest of
fairness that this type of political
‘hooey” be stopped this early in
the campaign. Let the 1936 cam
paign be fought honestly and clean
ly and on the real issues. The
form of taxation in Nebraska is
not one of those issues.
DWIGHT GRISWOLD.
HORSE SHOW A
FAIR FEATURE
The horse show has steadily been
gaining in popularity as a feature
of the Nebraska State Fair and
this year promoters of the event
are enthusiastic over the increased
number of entries from over the
state. The horse show is a three
night offering and will be held in
the coliseum Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday nights.
BOB SIMMONS SEZ:
“The drouth is making the Ne
braska farmer a double loser. He
has little to sell, so can gain noth
ing from the increased prices of
farm products. More than that he
has become a consumer—he has
to buy much of his food, and pay
the high prices for it.
“It all brings to the front the
question of the relationship of the
prices received by the farmer and
those which he pays for the things
he buys—the need of parity. The
problem is to keep farm prices and
prices of manufactured goods at
relatively the same level, so that
when the farmer has to pay high
prices for things he btfys, he is re
ceiving high prices for things he
sells.
“When the depression hit, farm
prices were as always, the first to
drop, and they dropped lowest. So
the farmer has suffered doubly all
through the depression by receiving
low prices and having to pay rela
tively much higher ones. Unquest
ionably this double bad break for
the farmer made the depression
more severe and prolonged. _ Since
prices were too high for the farmer
to buy, factories could not manu
facture so much, employees were
thrown out of work. When these
people were out of work, they could,
not buy farm products. Loss of
buying power for his products kept
the farmer’s prices down. There
again is the vicious circle: less
buying power by farmers, less
work for labor; less work for labor,
less market for farm products; less
markets for farm products, contin
ued low farm prices, and so on, and
on and on.
“To solve this question of bring
ing parity to agriculture I suggest
first the need for a protective tariff
for agriculture, to protect the
American market from the pro
ducts of foreign farms and foreign
labor. Then the need to recapture
foreign markets for farm products;
coopeative effort, soil and water
conservation, better methods of
distribution, lower interest rates;
the commercial use of farm pro
ducts. Bifjt whatever plans are
adopted, they must not result in
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i decreased employment for labor as
does the present plan of scarcity.
It simply defeats its own object
ives.
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Johnson preaching.
Fourth quarterly confernece next
Monday evening at 8 o’clock at the
church. Every member present,
please.
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