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Focuses on various political developments in the U.S. Criticism of policy of cooperation and moderation toward the administration of the U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, of political candidate Lyndon Johnson by the U.S. Democratic National Committee and its Advisory Council; Criticism of the foreign policy of Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, with reference to communism in China; Prospect of Under-Secretary Douglas Dillon for succeeding Dulles as the Secretary of State; Promise made by Budget Director, Maurice Stans, for a reduction in the budget, citing as special targets farm payments, veterans' benefits and rural electrification.

The article discusses some of the socio-political issues. Paul Martin, Health Minister of Canada, knew that the Salk vaccine would probably be successful. In Canada the government bought the non-profit vaccine; the cost being allocated 50-50 with the provinces, and parents were not exploited. In Washington, on the contrary, the government refused to govern. The Eisenhower policy is, in most respects, diluted New Dealism. There is one great, glaring exception that relates to public power. The fight here involves city workers whose electric bills go up and farmers whose Rural Electrification Administration, said last week, has its very life threatened by a hostile Grand Old Party.

The article reports on government programs aimed at bringing the industrial revolution into the rural areas of the U.S. Rural electrification in its broader aspect is merely an extension into the countryside of an industrial revolution set afoot when the diffusion of electric energy to small towns began to reverse the centralizing economic trends of the steam-driven factory and the railroad.

Presents a letter sent to the Benton Rural Electric Association in Benton City, Washington, which deals with the topic of meter readers.

Comments on the 1938 report of the Rural Electrification Administration in the U.S. Background of the government's sales technique for its electric services; Highlights of the report; Opinion of the author on the government's installment financing scheme for its enterprises.