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: - u oii-.wl j.: THE OMAHA HHIHE Published Every-Sat>rday at 2 ■& 8-2(1 Grant St. <Swnm*7-N^br8*l«» *■-" «—x f ^ ^-^Phooy-WEbaten- 1517 — 1 ^nU'jed ja^Syb<jnd|ci/s^;Matter f/* at the Post Office at (Tinaha. AcTTof 'Congress" oTWreh'’fr, ~m9r 'terms'of subscription hv3t£&]fc Race prejudice must go. The Fatherhood of .God and the Brotherhood of Man must prevail. These are- the onljt principles whi] will stand the acid test of good. - ■ ... - _«... .a.—'ti . . All News Copy of Chrnrches and add Organi zations must be in our office not later than 6:S0 p. m. Monday for curren issue. Ali Adver tising Copy or Paid Articles not later than Wednesday noon, proceeding date of issae, ,to insure publication. EDITORIALS ,.-■ • . ; A VOTE AGAINST DECENCY The defeat of the Hatch amendment to the “lending-spending” bill is one of the most?disgraceful episode in the history-pf congressional acction in this country-v.. The amendment provides that, re lief officials who attempted to use re lief funds to sway the votes of relief beneficiaries should be discharged. It marked a praiseworthy effort to do a Way with one o'f the most notorious abuses of relieF admin istratloTT. ** Dll’ the grounds oiLgood govednmen, fair ness and bpnpsty- it should have been passed by a unanimous vpte. „ Instead, it was beaten in spite of the.Met that-some senators who have been- strongest for greater relief speeding,sileh,as Senators. N|orris and ;LiuFollette,jsupported it. And in credible as~iL-seems, alia senator, in spealUng ngainst the amendment, said frankly that if It were appoved it would endanger fhe eharfees of certair senators being reelected this November. In otlier words, these senators &p-J parently felt that only the corrurt use of public money could save their jobs. The Hatch amendment, to sum up would have put measure of lost deceny^ into the handling of relief funds. The Senate voted -it down. What a Com mentary that is on presentday govern ment and the moral character of pub lic servants. -O-„ |S THIS GOOD BUSINESS? When Mr. Ickes returns from his honeymoon vacation he will find a li beral allotment of $114,569,298 at his disposal to be applied to the construc tion of 277 powerjwojects throughout the country. Of course that amount in-1 vested in such public projects is insig nificant compared to the volume of wealth ,,Uxa4 ‘has created the privately, owndLjid&U&LUTM. tliat is. pot the question involved. If the federal gov ernmeht^an finance from Public funds competition for legitimate investment, the eflpot^must be to very markedly curtail avaiible money fdr the creation of priiba&ly owned power plants in the futureT** »V v . . There ab#millions of people, inthe U n i t <vt“States-who are owners of-stock in utiljt.Vr corporations. They invested their fupcisjpng ago and they depend' u,pc<n the l^turn ’therefrom. Th’bre are other who have “Savings, which affe VxWTruld like tb emplojLgHin fu|ljk.3iu«/hey are fearful to use them to pfomotp.public utilities which ’may find themselves- in “competition with tho^p financed by the government. particularly does it make the proposed investor timid when he realizes that the return to the government upon its loans is meager compared with the in terest pyiVate ‘concerns pay to those who invest with them. The ratgs fop po\yer are governed by the seyir.al states in the Union. Thpse i/Htes^nro so fixed as to insure thei investors'a fair return upon money amj! with the govcrnmont as a compeH to, not omy those who have funds in vested but those who vtjopkl likprtp in vest are fearful of the fnturb,. And it is not aS ^ the goVCrnrhent had a sur plus of revenuer The, nationar debt to day is $3(7,459 OOP. The''allotment to Mr. Ickes, to be sure, is “onpri1 $144,000,(XMb but the source of that through borrowing, and the borrowing will gild thatJOiudi.ima&lQjb&public -debt. Its allotment makes Hie * government In effect-a-competitor with Private busi ness owned "by millions of American -eitizensf And because-of- that cempeti TTonthedebtTgrows, investment money _ continues inactive and the depression recain^rT|e j^akefsfield Californian* I ' )/J,TO<SfrNT%\l/rNnUSf,RY I w Legislation which unjustly discrim ' mates afcamsramTTRreaTen? a*~T>TG3i£ ' business or industry with ultimate de struction, simply knocks the pegs of prosterity from beneath the entire economic structue. The chain food stores (for example purchase $2,024,000,000 worth of goods annually from American manufactur ers and producers. In additioh, they pay $334,000,000 annually in wTages to 218,000 employes; $85 000,000 annually in rents to more than 45,000 local pro perty owners; $37,000,000 annualy for freight, trucking and other transpor tation services;, $52,000,000 annualy lor repairs suppies and other up-keep expenses; $25,000,00 annually for ad vertising—practically all of it locally; j more than $13,000,000 annually for jtate and local-taxes exclusive of the real estate taxes paid in the form of rent, and federal income taxes. Thus, the total sum expended by the food chains annually in 'the United States amounts to more than $2570,000,000! - Proponents of chain killing legis lation seek to justify .their position rlargely ground that, because of Asize and efficiency, *the chains are a dangerous - jmondply. As a matter of fact, the chi in stores do a minor per centage of total retail business, and are far behind-independents in both num ber and volUjme. Moreover, the chains have no exclusive paterft on efficiency. Many independents operate in much , the same farmer as the chains—so - much so that far sighted independents predict thatjthe politicians will soon, be attacking them arlsoi. Hence they are opposed f to the present attack on ■ I-chain sloriaJThey fear thejlangers of radical taxation and regulation more than they fear chain store competition-. --Those who would destroy the chains would simply destroy an essen tial industry not a monopoly. • I. —- ' . • ' -■ 1 “Tjie catastrophic developments of recent years, the startling everts of the past weeks, offer a-trngic de monstraton of ho'w quickly the conta gious scourge of treaty breaking and armed violence spreads from one re ■ gion to another.”—Cordell Hull. JOB KIBLER : - : The Number ^! job l/ijleb! “ * • ' That is the way-the^ Business men's Ta^tAdvisory Committee char acterizes Jthe j'Fe>ttfrrnt“,cPax on ■ Capital Gains. The reason for hat is clear. iJobs depend on investment. And tH^jCaflitp^, "■gains levy, because it prevents putting savings to work’ by exacting excess ive tax Penalties from those who are fortunate though to make a profit on a business or investment venture, re gards and stops investment—the source of all jobs and all productive wealth. This organization also points out ■ a'fact that is startling and is not wide ly known! According to U. S. Treas ury data for the year 1935, the capital k^gains levy is a “soak the little-'fellow tax." In that typical year, aggregate capital gains were much larger in th(5 lbjyer income than in the higher in- * /tome brackets. And the hatio of-cap i dal loijs (for Which little credit is given yyf'nraking ftre-retupwo) to-capital gains ■f^as highest in the lower income bravk 'ets. ft’s the “little man” who gets stuck hardest! Businessmen aren t the ionly ones j who are fighting the capital gains mea j ure. An arm v of distinguished econo ; mists are fighting it. Publcists bv the I score are describing its dangers. Thus, Mark Sullivan recently wrote: ‘:If A I merica is to be kept a going concern, the capital gains tax must be repealed or greatly modified.’’ That is the strong statement—but no stronger than the subject justifies. What sane man will ■ take a chance on financing a new en deavor, whether it be a grocery store w a steel mill—knowing that if he Joses . .his investment, he must brar-the entire los/—but that if he makes a Profit, a large part of it will be taken' from him by this-(ax? , AiTfhe -.evidence caif“tT(T STTTTnned upon o^e sentence: , We must change the capital gains tax if we are to en l ;l - f- i n vrn courage recovery an<1 process in this "ccfilntry. .. j ■ ———-A - w RUIN B\. REGELATm* Hajl the ®p|T 1 hwately and with malice aforethought, iouglit-to- conceive-* regulatory- policy- j for the railroads that would ruin them swiftly and surely, it cduld hardly have done better than it has done! In other Avords, largely because | of a transportation Policy that was supposed to guaantee the iines a fair return in their investment,, land to pro tect the interests of shippers, workers— and investors alike, the entire railroad indusry is today on the verge of bank ruptcy with a substantial part-of that industry already in the hands of re ceivers. - *• A.,had siluatian? Yes, and it seems certain .that it jyiJl become worse .un less swift ahd decisive remedial action is taken. The Association of American Railroads says that nearly 5Q per cent of the roads operated in the last year, a condition that is bound to lead to ,more failures, more receiverships. And the RFC estimates that 27 moe Class 1 roads may be forced jntlo receiver ship before the dawn of 1939. The decision of the idC, which gave the railroads bift little more than a third of the 15 per cent increase re quested, was a bombshell to the hopes of,investors, to the hundreds of in dustries which were dependent on the rain Is for all or pat of their sales, and to the cause of reemployment in in dustry in general. This great problem, which in some touches the life and means of liveli- » hpod of every American, can only be solved by an awakened, aggretrsm* jnib* lic consciousness thait will demand a fair d#l for the railroads. • • .. " ▼ f ■ H. C. OF L. V That old demon the high cost of living, is again in ^he headlines. The tremendous slump in business has made it a very real problem to millions of families. In the light of that fact, it would seem that this is a very poc/r time for the proposal of legislation to destroy merchandising methods whose cardinal principle of operation is to give buy er more and better goods for less mon ey. And yet laws are being proposed, aimed at bigness and efficiencf^whwfeC would levy so excessive a tax.against mere size that increased prfpffc¥l§teoJl lution, or both, would be forced* WTatfi ever the politicians say, measures like these hit straight at the yoor—^tThTWP"" who have the greatest stake in econo-' mic^l merchandising. The great need rtod&y is„a lower,cQs£A)f Ijvi^g^-^ot, a higher.— -—— - -n AN ECONOMIC NIGHTMARE The current government plan to transmit power from (Bonneville Dam, on the Oregon-Washington border into Southeastern Idaho forlthe purpose of developing that state’s great phosphate beds, looks like an eoonom'icnigbtmare. .VwThe only basis for estimating the cmb of such a transmissie&i Uiise, acc ofdtpg to an article in 4he New Xorg Hehild Tribune is the cost of the line ,#hich now brings power from the fed eratf'project at Boulder* Darcy to, t/os Anodes. This line, wfith sulistAtinn fa cilitlefe .necessary for moving power ever lorlg distances, cost about $97,500 a mile. On that basis, the cost Of a similar line from Bonneville to Southeastern Idaho would 'cost $55,000,000—which would he close to $400 Per kilowatt for the 150000 kilowatts that such a line, according to engineering, surveys, c<fuld deliver. * " Investigation has proven that stepm plants* cojrild be built near the j phosphate beds'Tpi? $1,. or less per kil owatt yust 25 per cent of the killowatt i cost of the line m}m Bonnesville. And if water is desired a report of the De- j partment of the Interior states that j here are'^85 kriown Undeveloped power ' sites in-the Snakp River, basin (close bv the phosphate deocsitsl "it1, a pf*-* tcntial production of 3,000.000 J^orsf j . -/Tr*. ~ Ytt otb1^ words, if-—the—p^Iith-ian s.... adtualy tried, they would be hard Put • tq discover a more expensive source .../ for the poysr tu develop* the phosphates" "than* distant Bonneville dam. Th/ 5e|j| fact that the pjo'Jecft^ jh»Dg serj<fu^ considered,ymd app|r-l enjn artffihaj, ancehf leinfr ad<§t Vd^shows'th^Vaste of'WxpkydPs miw ejy and the disr esfei 'for effiiciency J and private eriferprise that' character7 izes politics in business, \ ~ _I_A___* ) fs' T **“r * } . f „-\ f */ tbi^k Politicians an^snliA JbAsts Oc j world over af<* crush one o fthe most basic urges of mankind: the urp^|rf the indiudii^l to labor for profijp*W .Oomef CfBre reason they think Bint ortpe tlmSlJftt motive is destroyec^i}|e way td ufopiS will be clear.^33J^XTi$rsisten^y 'affitje tcr heed the lessons pf- history \ytdch have proved beyond the shadow p? a [doubt that without ai fair chance, [profit the human animal ceases to put forth efforts. Without"'profit progress gives way ti a lethargic day to day ex-' istence, and personal liberty soon .goes , by the board, social theories.notwith^ standing. y*-*- , * When ar^iodi-vidual buys a bond or a share of^toek he does it for pro-! tit, and to help assfire financial kudo-! pendence. -The greater the risk, the greater the possible profit unles»'fche i two go hand in hand the individual will bury hi^ savings in an unproductive hole in the«gim*d^ - r C] ^ ^ When a rnftn works Hi Hour* a day and JbuyiiaJjhe midnight oil over some new frrvemion or |.labors tf?jej|s$ly ^iear after year to $uTl(T up a tmsipess, again he does it for keetthtt* a*id profit: : the .the 'fruits ol his imk will bring cppifort and* happinas4,fnot only^fc? hfrnself,- b(it To his/amily. «n3 bs ix*r"' 3 • ** Today we have & depjeggjpn. We hear -loudseries of" * “fcapifal' strike.”* The politicians howi heemtte tiebvy'in* ' lustry is ominously,gp^et, They, hp,wl because unemployment is increasing.' They howl and curse Wall Street' for bringing alh this abputq i)p..-a what[ 1 Wall Street fiad nothing to do with the present 'depression. Punitive taxation government competition with private, business and an orgy of experimental regulation,'an jl lagfelttfca ar* larg.-lv responsible for tjha present, troubles. In short, the prolix motive is dangerously near, extinction and tre country can (*JV0y UP normal reen.wiry-uiTtk if*t> brought hack to life.S^ndyrrtvT'fhmmT Tpefidiil./Jhp country mtu.bankiuiP:U>’ *i 1141 til w ay to 01 inp.^thrW tb'rf/j * _i_A_ (*11>ENTS4 ; | Stop' the appaling loss of life on highways. Stop the loss of life from Accidental causes in home and indus-'] try. That is the program of the West ern Safety Conference, to be held^ip / Los Angeles, September 12tof6. Reprgj j. sented at the iconferenge will; be ‘‘the eleven western states' arid’ Britan ^o^‘ iumbia, Alaska, Hawaii and Umwr California, ■ . : Uniform , logislaitidn will be ptor jected fo^ihe entire territory. - Safety experts connected with every branch of the industry, along with automobile as-_ sociatiorij^Stote- traffic service (ifubfc dpcl. sirjpldr privdtd8'^rid public gropps w'U take pan.-:The 'pur pose of ^bt^OJiferenae i$ td bring glep-j or the . <Tajr ,^0^ every versop in the Western states^ud contiguos territory will.be governed by uniform, safely regulations. *. ... Other sections of the country* would do well to hold similar regional conferences. One of the greatest bar riers to the advancement of safety, especially in the. highway field, is the diversityg)f laws, regulations and ao Djianjps Jncli as stop signs and warn ii^sfcnap. What is* Iggal ip.-one state may oe illegal in the njfexk''" One town nexfc’ttrou^'feh miles atfay may use the overhead controls, or one town may have several styles of controls.. The motorist doesn’t know what to expect. Equity important, such conferen > as these make impossible for ex perts \n many branches of safety workA i'rom far scattered pWw to corpfe f-Q gather for. a meeting^ of minds; pre eSnt opinions, and thi“aS m^Troblems. -This is an important-^BSse of the or tranized safety work we neecTso greaT )y today. Radio Appeal ‘ umgr " *■** made by Bishop R. R- Wright, Jr„ o'er the Columbia system from Cleveland, on the “Wings Over Jordan” program, June 12. Giving a dear, concise, ami brilliant hist orical and factual outfW of the vast land that is South Africa, the R'shop painted a sympathetic picture of the 7.000,000 natives and 2,000,000 whites. “As yet,” he said, “the nativevs enjoy lun little of the civilization »of &9li y^rica.. They do not live inside the*e*'j£ng ri if ice nt ciy<*» .except by\|4)eci»l 4>X.imi*si<m, blit.Jfttjp in..location*" from <>r*»~ tiLjli dozen- u^ifs* from the city proper. Vhey',.ipve been jifttinwally dirfranchkecir-have no compulsory education, amt" are nt the bot tefiit ecpiuanic seelb. They pro-eVplit where the Amer ican yras just after the Emancipa tion of the slaves—poor, illiterate am! unskilled with only a few ed ucated laborers.” Wo of ihc Unit ml Jitates, sur roundede by the most ^(J^ncpd education i nthe world, engrossed in our pro{vesjs for equaL righis, hie apt to f(rget might bd wuch worse fp**iif add that we are only a fractional part of the darker peoples so blessed by the nearness of, our* partici pation i nth march or progress. Wo Sometimes' asm mim S.ers because ^hey <lo well in their jobs of teaching thfi ree of heurt and give. But if we gave ► more • GT Wetter caused^ re might cjp^venjteij.er.'We have "lo(fry fitrriri'yontl* Vtku colored . copfes Jin. ^thcr lan^s.hjive, but as Itanksllickersom says in ‘‘King MV.ntiy," -we are-jstiy^jiflandoring money, semmeinly unable to riiscri njinale betVKPli UTSurBtsoj! produc tive use and individual dissipa tion. 3 SS $ 3 It is encouraging, to sec that he organizsrt h n, representing pco le in the lower incom brackets, ba5 fctVen jlisHop Wright fifty dollars ($50)—two scholarships or the South African It is Uug. IniU-d Government Employes of Washington, hepded by licbr Brown, which On therSjm chty ^0f~ gwing the Biship’s., bn(«,dvaj^ a isoil the money at it.s public meeting. This same organization mmoadmteiy subscribed.'the *nm ■•f 40-aml menl it to GiV'ola/nl to help rebuild the great St. 3aAcs •hufeh whiehyas bornej recenfly. ‘"Always, there are seme thinker* to be found. Half Year As the first half of 13?W elorea, there arte a number of -thing* which might be mentioned do noting progress. JThiVfQifuitWer A,iH© have ,jUfct*celtW«te'4 4nth-an«*v©aaai'it-xta.4ite~itu> Xhg Af ro-America,n is perhaps the best exponent of improving fhe prici ng art in Ne^rti' JoiWriBfiam. tes fiiihe or <* h© firsast examples. of advertis we have4- TiolcM fA vh$ * NejJtt* ^ Press. If Tt eli®fl>le,CH|itf 1W“ T>o graphical* JlBAiluitt* et. The Nahicqal N«gr0 -teuwrarice At ociatiorv has just' moved ap f»«i i Ik1 st attended meeting in its * far*, <>?J^isToiyr.afid' Oft!?' '>rft r moved *W ^PVV/t0?’22?wH.^ bon.dof) Hn 'pWroMroff1 Milrmg J I i-iiirfX) imj'wss'* * h© Inforb<rromrh_ Ua^i'L^WP' fc i Company (privately >gjj 1 1 /ayy-nf* New -Vn»h..himiiiHiitfHtU#!d Uo- Vtntfoy* i. fhe g«ado ;o# porte i*t«**‘ gUte^'^fcii’T— rs.tors. • Astlrth*. j ing Pftnt'hiip notice the new mass movorrfent 1 among NoE'Tnmn.»<» gain ^iVlili^fd ^ nomic rights. More Birthday llerwn* . j 'Duriuntr the month of June th iro were tha folow intr bis tb <lays.4(3ivi»tfPossible Negro-, iie i roesf- Mrs. .JlljPtulelle ffoupfi ddt, Chicago ITOloP^r i -1 V*>% W^ive of St. Ixiuis. birthday JinfeM; fett land linyes, tenurv^atiye ai vur ryville, Ga., 61 on. <tun£^; 'l.iout. fW-4<h**wie»y Jd— ltuoncr'aoL! the New York National Guard, native of Jersel City, N. J., 44 on Juno 5; Editor C. A. Franklin of the J&ansns City Call, native of Derei - ion, Texas, 58 on June 7; Dr- J. a iavn‘"$r' retirin'*- president of University, native of ' f-mrW^yb 17 tn June 9: Dr. ayk^.nted Now York nhvsirian, nat>w> of Hfonma. La., - .Inna ft; nv^Thni t,ut.j jj;i w kins Brown, educator. .native of (Continued. to_ P\°x 8)