Glacier County chief. [volume], May 13, 1938, Image 4

About Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940

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Tbe Glacier County Chlel
Entered u and Ciaab matter
July 15, 1931 at the potttOfßoe at
Browning, Mont, under the act of
March 3, 1879.
aofaecrtptlon (2.00 year In advance
JACK DUNCAN
Editor and Publisher
A weekly newspaper published every
Friday at Browning, Glacier County,
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove
I was skimming the news the
ether day and I see where out there
on the Coast, they had an election
and those web feet there, they voted
against going into pardnerswith the
Gov., in the power business.
So it looks like it is not just
in Tennessee that the Govt, has its
hands full. And if the folks out
there in Oregon do not want the
power I guess it is another dead
horse.
You take an ordinary person aad
let him get into a jam, and the law
will grab him till be straightens
things out; and if the Gov. gets it
self into a jack-pot, and runs into
debt —head over heels —it should be
the same.
And the geezers we elect to office,
if they bad to make up the lobs on
stuff they promote, but which does
no*, pan out, we could breathe easier.
And if these persons do not have the
cash to make up the deficit, they
could work it out, at so much per
day.
Some kinds of business, they may
not be so grand and rosy right now,
but boy, the deficit business, it is
booming.
Yours with the low down.
JOE SEKRA
The Price of “Theoretical" Regulation
Railway workers, as a class, are
among the highest Daid of all work
ers, and labor costs constitute an
extremely high percentage of total
railway operating expense. During
the years when wages —along with
with the cost of practically every
thing else have steadily declined.
The fact that last year about 50 per
cent of all Class I railroads Operated
at a loss is grim evidence as to the
stats of railway financial affairs to
day.
Now the railroads have been re
fused a rate increase that was ab
solutely necessary to try to meet the
higher wages, higher taxes and
higher material prices that have Oc
cured since 1932. They asked for
15 per cent, and were given only a
third of that. On top of it all, their
freight loadings have been dropping
steadily this year , and the market
record at railway securities provides
additional grim evidence of the in
dustry’s difficulties.
How is it possible tor the rail
road, or any other industry, to con
tinue to pay top wageg and top
prices for everything it must buy —
when it is denied the right to
charge prices for its service enough
to pay for the expense of carrying
on that service, to say nothing of
a profit on investment?
The railroads are going to buy
less —which means that a thousand
industries will sell less, and will
employ fewer workers. They are go
ing to have to cut costs wherever
possible. They may be forced to re
duce their own employment, as
well as wages.
A depression-making policy? Cer
tainly— but it is the price we must
pay for "theoretical” regulation
that is swiftly driving this great in
dustry into bankruptcy.
Tax Oppressed People Denied Relief
A wave of public demand ie roll
ing up for tax revision. Especially
strong is the demand for repeal or
at least complete modification of
thoee two "job-killing” taxes —the
undistributed profits tax and the
capital gains tax.
This tax correction is overwhelm
ingly approved by the nation's bu
siness leaders, economists, public
ists and newspapers. The opponents
of tbie relief are those who are ap
parently oblivious of the influence
of unsound, punitive taxation on
industrial development and employ
ment. They stubbornly seek the re
tention of these taxes which have
been go largely responsible for the
present slump in business.
■very person in this country has
a stake in this fight. Every person
will bs affected by its outcome. Our
public servants who are courageous
enough to fight for tax reform, an
doing so in the interest of jobs,
■ending and stimulating basins si.
They deserve the whole-hearted
t bonks of o tax-oppressed psopls.
Par lets—Bstt-sssllsg ■tslepss
10s a posfcaci. Okkfilsa
Haw Mach Dm Power Cost
The polltioal "high cost of elec
tricity” myth ie shattered by cold
etatistiee. The power industry’! re
cord iu reducing costs to the public
lr> the face of rising costs for every
thing it must buy, is certainly not
excelled, in the annals of industry.
In December, 1913, the average
homeowner used 264 kilowatt hours
of current each year, and paid
$22.97 for it. In 1923, he used 368
kilowatt hours, at a coat of $26.50.
In 1933, he used 595 kilowatt hours,
for $32.56. And in 1937, he paid
134.81 for 793 kilowatt hours. In
other words, in that year, he paid
an electric bill that was about 50
per cent greater than his 1913 bill —
and got in return over 200 per
cent more electricity.
Putting it another way, the 1937
cost of living, based on U. S. Bu
reau of Labor Statistics figures, was
nearly 50 per cent greater than in
1913. Yet the cost of residential
electric service was almost 50 per
cent less!
To make still another compar
son, the total paid by the American
people for all their home electric
service is little more than they paid
the Federal government in taxes on
liquor alone! And the taxes paid on
both liquor and tobacco amount to
about $400,000,000 a year more
than we pay for all home electric
service, on the basis of 1937 totals.
These are facts —you can verify
them for yourself. They make the
best possible answer to the old
politically inspired fallacy of "high
priced power.” Nothing we buy
gives more for the money than elec
tricity—one of the smallest items in
living costs. No industry has done
more to better its service and cheap
en its selling price. The record of
the power industry is a record of un
broken progress in the public inter
est.
In the face of such a record the
politicians who are promoting so
cialistic doctrines in the United
States are using hundreds of mil
lions of tux funds to build govern
ment owned, tax-exempt power
plants to ermpete with or destroy
highly-taxed private electric com
panies—for what? You try to an
swer.
Sports dim Ara Dividod
Over Fishiag Season Dates
Helena, May 11 —Sportsmen of
western Montana will carry their
fight for restriction of fishing rights
before the com ing legislature, ac
cording to advices received by the
State Game and Fish Commission.
Scores of letters from sportsmen
poured into the state offices of the
commission here before the meet
ing which decided the year's dates.
The sentiment was so evenly divid
ed that the commission did not
feel able to make a decision and
the rules went unchanged.
According to Jack Carney, de
puty state warden, Western MjU -
tana sportsmen plan to make an
active fight for shorter seasons and
smaller bag limits before the legis
lature. In Western Montana wht-rs
streams are nearby and fishing is
plentiful, the anglers want the re
strictions clamped on. In Eastern
Montana where anglers have to
travel long distances to reach the
trout streams, sentiment opposes
•■ch curtailment, Carney says.
Indications of plenty of water
this year promise more feed and
protection for the fish and catches
ns doubt will generally be smaller,
Carney predicts.
VOTE ON SALOONS
Montana voters will pus upon
the legal saloon question at the
S antral state elections, Novem
sr Bth, Secretary of State Sam
W. Mitchell announced tbia weak.
Governor Roy E. Ayres will iaaua
the official proclamation salting
forth that the people of Montana
have referred the saloon license
law to the voters for Anal adjud
ication. The referendum has bun
in the courts a year and a half,
being recently upheld by the
state supreme court.
Glacier County
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