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...Notes and Comment," which leads off The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. Last week's column, best & saddest of them all, was devoted to Manhattan's most popular mythical character, the top-hatted dandy (portrayed, in the full pride of youth, by Artist Rea Irvin) who on the first cover of The New Yorker, and every year on its anniversary issue in mid-February stares through his monocle at a butterfly...
...Greatest REA triumph was the ramshackle old cow barn with its dirt floor. To protect the 70 cows from flies there were electrically-charged copper screens. When a fly tried to get through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they...
...GARDNER REA...
Chief aim of REA is to organize farmers in co-operative associations to build power lines on money borrowed for 25 years from the Government. But States, Territories and even "persons and corporations" can borrow money for that purpose. Power plants, as the bill's backers explained, would be built only where necessary, since in most cases power would simply be bought from existing utilities. Individual farmers would be given five-year loans to wire their houses and install electric equipment. Of the $40,000,000 a year ($50,000,000 of RFC money the first year), half will...
...Since REA provides for no yardstick competition and many a utility company should profit by the sale of additional electricity in districts where it does not now care to risk its own money on transmission lines, power companies raised little objection to the Norris bill. Only serious kick last week came from New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., who feared that by lending 100% of the cost of such projects the U. S. would risk a lot more money than it would ever get back. Said this onetime Senator scathingly: "I predict that...