SEEN and HEARD around the NATIONAL CAPITAL Carter Field ^ Washington.—Democrats are not boasting about one of their really important accomplishments — re peal of prohibition. Republicans are not attacking the administration for perhaps its most stupid and — proportionately—most expensive flops—the silver buying policy which was to correct so many things, including the power of China to buy more American ex ports. These are two of the phases of this presidential campaign which must be very amusing to any for eigner. Prohibition is almost self-explan atory. One angle, however, which neither the wets — surprised be cause there was no boasting about the keeping of this platform pledge —nor the drys—indignant that it was kept — have appreciated is purely financial It affects another issue in the campaign, and one which the Democrats do not wish to discuss. For repeal of prohibi tion has resulted in pouring half a billion—five hundred million dollars — a year more into the federal treasury as tax revenue. New Dealers do not want to talk about this, for it naturally raises the point what would the deficit be, and how much would the increase in our national debt be, if there had been no repeal? That, however, is a very minor point in comparison with the real reason that not one of the hundred odd speeches at Philadelphia men tioned the carrying out of this par ticular campaign pledge. The real reason is that the drys are militant ly angry, and to boast about the accomplishment would irritate them further. Evidences of this have been growing for some time. Strictly speaking, it is not a proper issue in this campaign. The truth is that the Republicans at their con vention in Chicago four years ago were just as eager to go all the way wet as were the Democrats. It took all the pressure of Hoover through his patronage • controlled delegates to prevent it The high spot in the humor of that situation was the Maryland "free state” del egation, and the supposedly du Pont Delaware delegation voting solidly for the merely moist as against the wet plank. They Don’t Boast But there have been indications for some time that the drys, who have recovered from the almost hypnotic state into which they lapsed after the wet snowball be gan to roll in 1930, have centered their bitterness on the Democrats for forcing repeal, and that some of them may vote Republican this fall for no other reason than to punish Roosevelt and Farley for their drive to obtain ratification of the repeal amendment. This is the real reason the Dem ocrats are not boasting much about the amazing achievement of forcing repeal three short years after the dry-controlled—at the time—senate lobby committee took such glee in demonstrating to its own satisfac tion that every time the wets made a fight they lost more ground. Republican speakers are just as afraid of the silver issue as the Democrats are of repeal. Without exception the Republican leaders think the whole silver buying policy was weird. In fact many Demo cratic leaders agree with them. But to make a political issue of it might excite two groups. First, the en thusiastic silver men, and, second, the inflationists who, while caring nothing about silver per se, looked on the silver policy as a move in their direction. All of this is highly important In several small, but important states, which just might become vital if the election is close. Causes Surprise Critics of the Passamaquoddy ti dal project were surprised at the recent declaration of President Roosevelt to citizens of Eastport, Maine, that Quoddy "will be com pleted.” The surprise is occasioned because President Roosevelt has admitted several times in the last few months that he cannot allot money to the project until congress has authorized it. The point is that no one familiar with the situation on capitol hill be lieves that the President, even if he should be re-elected by an over whelming majority, will be able to obtain a favo^dle appropriation for Quoddy. Or for the Florida ship canaL It is as near a certainty as any thing can be in politics that the Democratic majority in the next house will be sharply whittled down, even if there should be some thing approaching the landslide for Roosevelt which James A. Farley predicts, though which no one else expects. Confidential figures of some very shrewd experts among the Demo crats in the house are that the New Deal lead in the next house will not exceed fifty, as against the present two hundred. Republicans naturally put this figure even low er, though the fact is few of them think the G. O. P- will carry the house unless Governor Alf M. Lan don is elected. In which case they think he would pull through a favorable house majority. A conservative, non-partisan guess is that the next house will not have a Democratic majority of more than twenty-five. Which, in view of the fact that the present house, with a Democratic majority in excess of 200, stubbornly refused to make any appropriation for car rying on Quoddy or the Florida ship canal, and later on failed even to approve a new study of the two projects, is causing wonder here as to how Mr, Roosevelt expects to carry out the promise he made to the folks in Maine. Something Else But, as though this were not enough difficulty in the path of the project, there is another. It is al most certain that the congress which will convene in January will be nothing like so tractable as either the present or the last con gress. From a political standpoint the answer to this is simple — and inevitable. Presumably, of course, if Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected he will never again be a candidate. So there will never be another elec tion in which senators and mem bers of the house will hope to ride through to victory on Roosevelt’s coat tails. They will not have the same keen interest, for the sake of party loy alty and selfish interest, to give him unquestioning support on any thing he may ask. Many of them may even get the idea that the nominee for the Presidency by the Democratic party in 1940 will hold very different views on a great many questions. A glance back over Democratic nominees—Cleve land, Bryan, Parker, Wilson, Cox, Davis, and Smith — would indicate at least the possibility. Then, too, the patronage has been pretty largely distributed. White House pressure with this steam be hind it will be much weaker than during the last four years. Against all of which there is not one single element of greater persuasive power to contribute to Roosevelt’s control of the next congress. Hits Wholesalers Wholesalers, who, fighting com petition of the chains and mail or der houses, helped push through the Robinson - Patman anti-price dis crimination bill, find they may be wiped out by its operations. Little book stores, never interest ed much except against cut price sales by department stores, face loss of many customers who bought more than one copy, intending the books for presents. All sales for future delivery seem to be up in the air, with the pros pect of plenty of trouble for any manufacturer attempting to carry on normal sales at the same time. These are a few highlights of trouble involved in the new meas ure, jammed through in the last few days of congress, without most of the people who would be affected having more than a remote idea of what it would do to them. Wholesalers will be hit two ways. The law is very specific that the same discount must be given dif ferent buyers who obtain the same quantity. It is also drastic in for bidding too heavy discounts — dis counts larger than the actual sav ing to the manufacturer resulting from the sire and handling of the order. Emphasis during debate on the bill was put on this last phase. But it is the first phase which now rises to plague the wholesaler. For instance, a chain grocery system can buy in quantities great er than any wholesaler. Before this law it was argued that the chain forced the manufacturer to sell to it at a greater discount than the volume justified. But — the chain will surely get under the present law as much discount as the big wholesalers — and perhaps more. So that the chain still has a big advantage over the little independ ent, who must, of course, pay the wholesaler a profit and the extra cost for handling. Plan Co-operatives Whereupon movements are on all over the country now on the part of the independents to form co operatives, do their buying through them, thus obtaining the same dis count as the wholesaler is able to get. eliminating his profit, and — here is the trouble — eliminating the wholesaler! Thus the class which had more to do with forcing the legislation than anybody seems slated to get it in the neck. The little book store is one of the queerest victims, though most of their owners do not know it yet. A customer who buys ten or fifteen copies of a novel he likes, to give away as Christmas presents, for instance, can force any publisher to give him the same discount as he gives any bookstore for that number of copies! Whereas the little bookstore often sends in a re peat order for just one copy, and has been getting full discount on it. Which makes the cut price sales of some department stores look like very mild competition indeed, for this practice, if it grows, will strip the little dealers of the cream of their business—the big purchasers during the holiday trade. And, of course, this is not only Christmas sale stuff. It would ap ply any time in the year, and thus would affect purchasers who have a lot of friends sailing for Europe, for example. C bell Syndicate.— WNU Serrlc*. Eastern High, an Example of Denver’s Fine School Buildings. Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, O. C.-WNU Service. WHEN you enter Denver, Colorado, you come to the urban hub of nearly one flfth of the United States. A state capital, a great western city, a gateway to the mountains— all these Denver is and more. Spokes of influence extend from it into the entire Rocky Mountain area, and into large regions of the adjoining plains • ittes as well, making it the financial, commer cial, and industrial center of a vast area. No other city in the United States with a quarter-million popu lation is so far removed—500 miles or more —from all other big cities. Naturally, the people of this great region turn to Denver, whether they are out for business or pleasure, for a commercial fight or a recreational frolic. It’s a habit of long standing. The miners started it when they came every so often to the rough little town that was Denver in the sixties to spend some of their gold for sup plies and the rest in more or less riotous living. Later, when great riches were made in gold and silver and cattle, the fortunate ones moved to Den ver and built the mansions and hotels and business blocks that started the solid structure of the city. Globe-trotters, adventurers, and capitalists flocked to Denver in the seventies and eighties. Many "younger sons" of the British no bility and several Britons with well - known titles made the city their headquarters for extensive cattle operations, and gave glitter ing parties at the old Windsor hotel and the American house that have not faded from Denver’s memory. Before its irrigation empire was even dreamed of and while its mineral kingdom was still unde veloped, Denver’s location was of little value; but young Denver, de spite surveys, clung stubbornly to the belief that in some way the transcontinental railway, when it came, could be pushed through the mountains west of the city. When, instead, the lines of steel were ex tended through Cheyenne, a hun dred miles to the north, Denverites put aside their disappointment and quickly raised the capital to build a connecting line to the new high way. With this rail contact with the eastern settlements established and with the steady growth of mining in the mountains, Denver drew to herself in a few years direct lines of railroad from the east. Now these highways of steel radiate north and south and east from Denver like the ribs of a fan. A result of this railway conver gence of Denver has been to make the city one of the country’s lead ing livestock markets. Never Lost Dream While the transcontinental rail ways went their busy wayr north and south of Denver, the city never lost its dream >f a line straight west through the mountains. Greatest and most tireless ci the dreamers was David H. Moffat, who visioned a six-mile tunnel through the Continental Divide un der James Peak. He not only dreamed, but worked, anc' spent his fortune on the project. He did not live to see his plan realized, but on July 7, 1927, the Moffat tun nel was holed through. Now a standard-gauge railway operates double tracks through it into Mid dle Park, opening up a new moun tain realm to Denver. You sense Denver's most aston ishing physical achievement only when you let your imagination j wander back seventy years. It is hard to believe that barely three score and ten years ago this great city, with its hundreds of miles of streets, lined now with fine, tower 1 ing shade trees, was raw prairie. Not a tree was in sight; only a I level plain covered with sparse grass, dry and brown through most | of the year. As the outJander drives about Denver he is struck by the beauti ful lawns. There are no excep tions. Whether he views the grass plot of a humble cottage or the ark of a near-palace, the lawns .re perfect. The pr.ee of the beautiful lawns .» i-.-ra moisture. At certain hours each day in the summer a virtual barrage of water L laid down over the 1,600 acres of lawns in the city’s parks. So frequent are these drenchings that in sum mer the watering hose is not re moved night or day from the hy drants. Driving through the parks in late afternoon, you see orderly piles of hose, as regularly spaced as the trees of an orchard, each like a coiled serpent on sentry duty, guarding its allotted plot. The public hose is of a distinctive color combination that prevents its being stolen. Use Water Lavishly Knowing that this is a dry coun try and that water is precious, you ask one of the officials of the water board about the heavy use of water in the city and run into a surpris ing paradox. “It is very important that we use water lavishly today," he tells you, “in order that our grandchildren shall have enough for their vital needs. Visiting water - works ex perts think we are crazy when we make that statement, but it is literally true. “This is an irrigation country. Municipalities, as well as indivi duals, must follow the laws worked out under irrigation conditions in getting their water supplies. Once you get hold of a flow of wa ter, if you don’t use it you forfeit it to some one who will. We are looking forward to a city of half a million or more by 1950. That’s why we want to keep every drop of Denver’s annual water supply busy and to increase the supply in all possible ways.” One way in which Denver plans to increase its water supply con stitutes and engineering romance. When the Moffat tunnel was dug, an eight-foot-square pilot tunnel was carried through the Con tinental Divide beside the large railway bore. Denver leased this small tunnel, and plans to bring through the towering mountain range hundreds of millions of gal lons of water that now flow into the Pacific ocean. In education Denver’s fame is great. Educators from the two hemispheres have beaten a path to this far-away city at the base of the Rockies to study its scheme of teachers’ salaries, its indefatiga ble efforts to keep the subject-mat ter which it teaches abreast of all worthwhile developments, and even its school architecture. The “Denver Plan” for teachers’ salaries has been adopted by many municipalities. A Practical School Another famous part of the Den ver educational system that draws educators from afar is its Oppor tunity school. From 6:30 o’clock in the morning until 10 at night this practical school is open alike to young people and old. In it elderly men and women, denied the education they wished in youth, receive high school instruction; men displaced in one occupation may learn another; and young men and women may be trained in practical arts, from barbering to bricklay ing, and from cooking to etching. Most of Colorado’s institutions of higher education arc naturally con centrated in and near Denver. In the city it the University of Den ver, founded, when the community was little more than a village, by Colorado’s territorial governor, John Evans, the same John Evans who previously had founded North western university, Illinois. Thirty miles to the northwest, at Boulder, is the University of Colo rado. So attractive are the moun tains that cast their shadows on the campus and beckon for week end rambles that the University of Colorado is as busy in summer as in winter. Fifteen miles west of Denver, at Golden, is the Colorado school of mines. Growing up in the edge of an important mining region, the institution is one of the outstand ing mining schools of the country. In it in 1926 was established the tirst course in geophysics in Ameri can colleges. 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