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Looking greyer, gaunter, grimmer than ever, Utah's 70-year-old Senator Reed Smoot arose behind his paper-cluttered aisle desk last week to perform an important function. Bracing his drooping shoulders as if to bear an invisible load, he announced: "Mr. President, from the Committee on Finance I report back favorably with amendments the bill (H. R. 10236) to provide revenue, equalize taxation and for other purposes...
...this time, a car load of about 20 additional police had arrived, all armed with heavy lathis. Other members of the little group were then attacked and beaten mercilessly. There was no retaliation of any kind from the Congressmen...
...Today the burden is without conscience shifted to the worker, who after giving his labor for miserable financial results, is turned off to starve or beg. Thus, the machine, which might have been used to lift the load of poverty from the backs of all people, has been used selfishly for the benefit...
Like a friendly young giant peering from his tower, aviation has long had an eye upon the rich caravan of men & goods which moves unendingly across the North Atlantic. Though it has occasionally sallied forth offering to carry a share of the load, aviation has thus far failed. But last week new carrying credentials were being written for the young giant when the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee reported favorably the Grosser Airship Bill authorizing the Postmaster General to let transoceanic mail contracts, and the Senate's Committee reported the McNary Bill to promote dirigible airlines...
...abuilding in Germany, each ship will carry 80 passengers, 25,000 lb. of mail and express, will make the eastward passage in two and a half days, the westward in three. To expedite the mails, the Federal Government will pay about $20 a mile for an average load of 10,000 lb., $8 more than it spends at present for shipment on crack liners. Individual passenger fares will be about one and one-half times the de luxe boat rate...