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THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by Janies R. Lowell
Ordinarily the Nebraska voter
fails to enthuse much over the
election contest of judges of the
supreme court, with a general at
mosphere of sanctity surrounding
that high body and the “ins’ stay
ing in as a matter of precedent.
This year, however, it appears that
one of the supreme judges run
ning for re-election will be ousted.
Supreme court judges are to be
elected this year from the First,
Third and Fifth (old) districts.
Judge Eberly, Stanton, is without
opposition in the Third. Judge
Bayard H. Paine, Grand Island,
who is serving his first term, is
picked, by prognosticators to stay
on the bench as Fifth district rep
resentative despite spirited oppo
sition from a petition candidate.
The upset, is appears, will be in
the First district where the aging
Judge Rose faces a younger and
more vigorous opponent in the per
son of Frank A. Peterson of Lin
coln.
Judge Rose has served long and
creditably as a member of the
supreme court. His present weak
ness as a candidate lies in his ad
vanced age and the growing frail
ities attached thereto. If re-elect
ed, he would be past 81 years of
age when his term was completed,
and, political observers at the stnte
house say his health and hearing
are none too good right now.
Judge Rose is perhaps the veter
an at the state house in govern
mental office holding, having been
on the public pay roll ever since
coming to Nebraska in 1889. In
cidently, he has never conducted a
private law practice.
The first twelve years in Ne
braska he was assistant state
librarian. From 1901 to 1908 he
was assistant attorney general.
In 1908 he was appointed to the
supreme court, having been chair
man of the republican state central
committee in 1906.
Mr. Peterson, the other supreme
court judgeship candidate in the
First district, is only 55 years of
age and is in the prime of his life.
His experience includes actual
practice before the state and fed
eral courts for oter t^wanty-five
years. He is a former county at
attorney of Lancaster county, for
mer assistant United States attor
ney and former city attorney of
Lincoln.
In the Fifth district contest an
entirely different state of affairs
exists. Judge Paine, the incumb
ent, is much younger than his col
league, Judge Rose, and is just
finishing his first term. He has
had considerable judicial experi
ence, however, including 14 years
as a district judge, along with 12
years of private law practice at
Grand Island.
Judge Paine was unopposed in
the primary, but shortly after the
supreme court decision this summer
on the Tri-county case, holding it
illegal to divert water from one
watershed to another, Mayor F.
A. Anderson of Holdrege got into
the race as a petition candidate
and is making a determined fight.
‘Judge Paine did not sit in on the
Tri-county case as he and Mrs.
Paine own land in the territory in
volved. and the Judge was thus dis
qualified for any part in the decis
ion, but in the Tri-county area
there is considerable resentment
toward the supreme court as a
whole, and, fairly or not, Judge
Paine has this attitude to combat,
especially in Phelps, Kearney and
Adams counties. The consensus is
that he will win, however.
Political soothsayers in both
parties are fairly well agreed that
the Nebraskans in congress next
year are not going to give the ad
ministration (if Roosevelt is re
elected) the_ support it received,
during the {test two years, and
that there is a good chance that
Landon (if elected) would have a
majority of the state’s congress
ional representatives behind him.
The First congressional district
is rated as the most likely of the
five in the state to change its
present status. Judge Ernest B.
Perry, Lincoln, has had consider
able more experience in govern
mental affairs than his contestant,
Cogressman Luckey, democrat, and
the political winds in the First
district are alleged to be shifting
in Perry's favor. Incidentally, the
latter is not making the mistake
of unequivocally condemning every
thing done by the Roosevelt ad
ministration.
The Second district is least like
ly to lose its incumbent in the No
vembe* election. There the prog
nosticators count on continued, dem
ocratic representation despite the
hostility of both the Omaha dailies
to the administration.
Congressman Stefan in the
Third, a republican, is expected
likewise to repeat, altho the sup
porters of John Havekost (D) vow
they will give Stefan a run for his
money. The latter has demon
strated considerable political sag
acity during his first term in Wash
ington bj< playing ball with the ad
ministration, at least enough to
gain his own ends.
At this reckoning, the bourtn
district contest is considered a toss
up with the edge going, perhaps, to
the democratic incumbent, Charles
G. Binderup. The Arthur J.
Denney supporters, however, count
on Binderup’s “leftist” tendencies
to lose him a number of votes.
Apparently the ‘‘battle royal
will be waged in the Fifth. Most
of the citizens in this district ad
mit that Harry B. Coffee of Chad
ron has been an unusually good
representative for a first-termer,
and under ordinary circumstances
he would have no trouble getting a
second term. But even the demo
crats concede that Coffee’s oppon
ent, Cullen N. Wright of Seotts
bluff, furnishes more than ordinary
competition. Few odds are being
given in this contest.
Early September highlights. of
the Nebraska political scene include
the appearance of President Roose
velt in this and adjoining drouth
damaged states, altho the president
avowedly was “not appearing in
political capacity.
Nevertheless Nebraska democ
racy went up a few points as a re
sult of the executives’s visit, just
as republican stock boomed with
Governor Landon’s Nebraska
speaking tour. Benefitting from
Roosevelt’s close proximity were
Governor Cochran and Congress
man Coffee of the Fifth district.
Governor Cochran, who confer
red with the president at Des
Moines and • enroute to the Iowa
capitol from Omaha, reports that
adequate drouth aid from the fed
eral government is certain, and
that suffering of a serious nature
will be warded off. He estimates
that the peak of WPA and resettle
ment aid cases this winter will be
between 28,000 and 30,000 cases.
Speaking at Chadron state park,
Dwight Griswold, republican nom
inee for governor, severely criti
cized Nebraska’s 19S5 legislature
for “their longest and most ex
pensive session in the history of the
state,” and lauded by comparison
the Kansas record of u 45-day ses
sion.
Terry Carpenter, democratic can
didate for United States senator,
assured a North Platte crowd that
he would back he Townsend plan,
if elected. Several days later he
visited New York in an attempt to
induce the democratic national
committee to back him instead of
Senator Norris, but failed.
With three Swansons running
for state office, complications are
beginning to arise. Harry R.
Swanson, democrat and present
secretary of state, is being assailed
by his 23-year-old opponent, Bill
Burkett, who alleges the name of
“Swanson” is responsible for the
state official’s success in political
life. On the other hand, Duane
Swanson, republican candidate for
state railway commissioner, thinks
Swanson a pretty goood name any
way you look at it, and is “going
to do something about it” if his
republican colleague doesn’t cease
his attacks on the grand “old
name.”
Accompanied by an amplifying
trwk, Robert G. Simmons, repub
lican senatorial nominee, will visit
120 towns in seven weeks, begin
ning September 14. His campaign
tour will carry him approximately
25,000 miles.
State bonding officers of the
state and its subdivisions as pro
vided for in an act passed by the
1935 legislature may become an
actuality in the near future as the
result of a district court decision
holding the act constitutional ex
cepting one section giving the gov
ernor the power to remove or sus
pend, constitutional officers of the
state without trial for failure to
obey he provisions of the law.
The state bonding fund act was
the result of a fight between surety
bonding companies and the state
when the bonding companies
doubled their premium rate and
made other demands. The state
law did not permit the state or
counties to pay the rate demanded,
and for about four weeks State
Treasurer Hall could not give his
million dollar bond, and the busi
iress of the state was at a stand
still.
Difficulties, largely techinal, in
the treasurer’s office during the
past decade as to faulty record
keeping and methods of accounting
were responsible for the demand
of the bonding companies for high
er rates, and another of yiose in
tra-treasury mixups is now due to
be aired in court.
Last week the attorney general s
office filed suit for approximately
$149,000 against former State
Treasurer Stebbins, of Gothenburg,
and his bond sureties because of
loss of unsecured state deposits in
failed banks. Stebbins was treas
urer from 1927 to 1931.
The state contends thelaw makes
the state treasurer insurer of the
funds entrusted, to him, while Steb
bins’ defense will lje that the state
guaranty fund law, then still in
effect, permitted the deposit of
funds with out security.
STATE HOUSE SHORTS: Alt
hough the 1935 legislature author
ized counties to levy a special tax
to pay for the keep of their insane
committed to state hospitals, few
counties took advanage of the act
and paymen of those hills is lag
ging. The auditor’s biennial re
port shows $265,639 is still due
from the counties for state care of
the insane.
Constitutionality of the 1935 act
which levied a 2 per cent tax on
gross premiums of fire insurance
companies for firemen’s relief will
be tested, in the supreme court.
The act was ruled invalid by dis
trict court decision this summer.
Incidently, Omaha police are pre
paring to foster a bill in the 1837
legislative session providing funds
from some special source for police
men’s pensions.
While it was with fear and
trembdling that the state fair
botrd decided to allow pari-mutual
betting on horse races at the fair
last year, the pari-mutual legal
ized by the 1935 legislature has
proved a boon to the fair from a
financial standpoint. The 1935 fail
paid out for the first time since
1930 wih a profit of $5,691, due to
the betting, and total receipts of
$122,256. Grandstand attendance
jumped over 350 per cent as a re
sult of the pari-mutual races, and
from appearances they will take
in even more this year.
BAI) BARGAIN TO FARMER
Government checks to farmers
were counted upon by the New
Deal to take the agricultural states
out of the election campaign.
The Roosevelt administration
confidently expected to add a new
“solid west” to the “solid south”
traditionally relied upon by the
democratic party.
The New Deal expectation was
that it could count the electoral
votes in the middle west along
with those in the south, without
going to the trouble of campaign
ing for them.
It thought those votes had. been
bought and paid for.
This illusion has been blasted, a
fact for which the New Deal can
only blame itself, according to Geo.
N. Peek, former foreign trade ad
visor to President Roosevelt.
The nature of the bad bargain
the New Deal has proved to be for
the American farm country is being
forcefully analyzed by Mr. Peek.
He asserts that the New Deal
farm program has reduced the an
nual farm income by three billion
dollars, while substituting therefor
yearly federal benefits of only half
a billion dollars.
Mr. Roosevelt won the support
of George Peek and the farm
country with pledges his adminis
tration has not fulfilled.
Mr. Peek sought the reaization
of his dreams first through the
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration, of which he was the first
head. This hope was dashed upon
the rocks of the Wallace program
of “idle acres and dead pigs.”
He then sought to save American
farmers from ruin by revitalizing
foreign trade, only to give up in
disgust when the Roosevelt admin
istration closed the world market
to American products and opened
the floodgates of foreign compet
ition upon American farm and in
dustrial producers. —Omaha Bee
News.
Born in Pennsylvania
Alf M. Landon, Republican candi
date for president, was born at
West Middlesex, Pa., in a Method
ist parsonage—the home of hi*
mother's parents—on September 9.
1887.
Tax on Pork Chops
When you buy a pound of porl
chops, included in the price is sevei
cents for New Deal taxes.
Poor Bear Bigger
lax Load: Landon
Urges Honest Bookkeeping
in Buffalo Speech; Warns
of Federal Waste.
BUFFALO. N. Y.-Cov. Alf
M. Landon of Kansas charged
the Roosevelt administration
with increasing by 25 per cent
the share of the cost of govern
ment falling mainly on persons
of incomes of $25 a week or less,
in a speech delivered before a
crowd of 25,000 persons here.
He deplored wasteful spending
and deficits, with their increased
burden of hidden taxes, and de
clared. "The time has come when
we must establish a system of sim
ple. honest bookkeeping.”
"We must remember,” he said,
"that every time the government
spends a dollar, that dollar will
have to be paid by our children.”
The Republican Presidential can
didate reiterated his belief in direct
taxes levied on the net incomes of
individuals and corporations as a
means of charging everyone his
fair share of the cost of govern
ment and letting him know what
that share is.
Taxes Hit Low Incomes.
“In the year 1932, 59 cents out
of every dollar collected by our fed
eral government was secured from
direct taxes,” said Gov. Landon.
“The other 41 cents was collected
from indirect and hidden taxes.
“Four years later what do we
find? We find that 51 cents out of
every dollar collected by the fed
eral government came from hidden
taxes. In other words, the share of
the cost of government falling main
ly on those with incomes of $25 a
week or less has increased 25 per
cent during the three years of the
present administration. They are
paying far more than their right
ful share of the cost of govern
ment.”
G. O. P. for Relief.
Gov. Landon likened the New
Deal party’s policy of spending dou
ble its income to the familiar char
acter of the neighbor who buys
more than he can afford, and even
tually “winds up on the rocks.”
“The Republican party believes in
being generous in the spending of
money for relief and emergency
purposes, but it believes that these
funds should be spent without waste
and absurdities,” he said.
Politics Keeps Dakota
Cattle Dry, Says ‘Ding’
Washington, D. C.—How politics
has denied water to Dakota cattle
during the drouth was described by
Jay N. Darling, known affectionately
to millions as “Ding” the cartoon
ist, when he was interviewed on
the William Hard radio hour. Until
recently “Ding” was chief of the
bureau of biological survey of the
department of agriculture.
“The bureau of biological sur
vey,” said Mr. Darling, “made a
careful survey for the New Deal
administration of the water re
JAY N. “DING" DARLING
sources of North Dakota. A pro
gram of impounded water res
ervoirs to hold all the water that
might fall in good years and bad
was completed.
■•But,” continued Mr. Darling,
“the relief money for North Dakota
was handed over to political ad
ministrators for distribution, and
the scientific men who had prepared
the water conservation program
were told that the only way in which
they could secure the authorization
of their projects was to apply to
these politicians. The result has
been that the only water available
in North Dakota in this year of ex
cessive drouth is to be found in the
few ponds — very few — which the
biological survey was able to con
struct out of some stray moneys on
which it managed to lay its hands.”
William Ilard’s Hour.
Chicago.—The radio division sf
the Republican National committee
announced that the program, "News
for Voters” would in the future be
known as “William Hard's Hour”,
(t is beard nightly, from Monday to
Friday, over the NBC coast-to-coast
Blue network at 9:00 P. M., EST,
except on Wednesdays when it U
heard at 8:45 P. M., EST.
Invisible Taxes
•*V.re cannot buy a stitch of
clothing without the govern
ment’s taking in taxes a part
of the money-we pay out. We
cannot buy an ounce of food at
our grocery store without being
taxed to support the govern
ment. We cannot go to a movie,
or to a baseball game, or ride
in an autorsobile without this
• invisible tax arm of government
reaching out and taking a part
of the money we spend.’’—Alf M.
Landon at Buffalo, N. Y., August
23, 1936.
Hidden Taxes
"If the major portion of the gov
ernment’s income is obtained from
indirect and hidden taxes—taxes up
on such things as food, clothing,
gasoline and cigarettes—then the
main burden falls upon those of
small income and the cost of gov
ernment is hidden. In this case, it
is the wage earner, the salaried
worker, the farmer, and the small
business man, who have to pay
most of the bill.”—Alf M. Landon
at Buffalo, N. Y.. August 26, 1936.
Two Extremes
While the Roosevelt administra
tion was spending two dollars for
each dollar of revenue received, and
creating a deficit of more than $14,
000,000,000, Gov. Alf M. Landon was
holding down government expenses
in Kansas and seeing to it that
the state did not spend more than
its revenue.
raid in Cash
To balance the Kansas budget ev
ery state employee from governor
down accepted a pay reduction.
This included school teachers, but
they received their salaries when
due, and in cash. They thoroughly
approve of the Landon system. In
the process no child in Kansas was
deprived of school opportunities.
Cotton Checks
Big cotton planters in the South
received generous helpings of gov
ernment funds for not growing cot
ton. Forty-six received more than
$10,000 each and one was sent a
check for $423,000; 1,131 received
checks of over $2,500 each and then
of the little fellows, 732,075 received
an average of $46.00 each.
iTHE FOREIGN FLOOD
Food Imports 1933-1935
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LIVE HOG
IMPORTS
1933-6,470 lbs.
1935-3,414,317 lbs.
WHEAT
IMPORTS
1933-31,383 bu.
1935—27,438,870 bu.
CORN
IMPORTS
1933-160,288 bu.
1935—43,242,296 bu.
The latest figures from the De
partment of Commerce at Washing
ton show what has happened to the
American food market in two years
of New Deal mismanagement.
While New Deal bureaucrats were
slaughtering hogs, ploughing under
crops and yanking farm lands out
of production, the rest of the world
was busy shipping in food that the
American consumer is buying.
In 1933 we imported only 6,740
pounds of live-weight hogs. IN 1935,
AFTER THE NEW DEAL HOG
SLAUGHTER, WE IMPORTED
3,414,317 POUNDS. This is fine for
the foreign hograiser, but is hard
on domestic producers and consum
ers alike.
The American corn and hog pro
ducing states have been penalized
by fantastic New Deal theories
which have turned the home market
over to foreigners.
Corn, hogs and wheat represent
only part of the loss to the Ameri
can farmer. Hay, butter, beef and
other farm products are pouring in.
The American farmer is demand
ing that this flood be stopped.
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