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/' News Review of}CuiTent , Events the World Over i- Econpiny in Govcmnient Gets a Boost—Senate Ousts Sergeant at Arms Barry for Traducing It—Roosevelt Invites Governors to Parley^ By EDWARD W. PICKARD __PCONOMY fiven a real bonat bj the aenate when It paaaed the treasiirj-poat oflice bill, for It Irifteriwl In the words of Sennfor Dnvld Heed of Ivnnia. the Keiiafe “lumle a holy show of if self.” Harry did not Into the measure provisions plvlnp the \/\»rk defenders, the wannehi ut these IIAl Iturrj «ter he acthllies uf I S '.xjiliani f . ^•iilllil, Mho wa rfiKni led In Knn«|*e as to'iin: h sernd reore^ j aeiifati^e nf .ir ^•*«is«‘\ell m nl. 4ner to d«*ril with Hie ifoe- eniiiieiifs «»f iialiona tinit owe WMr de!>is !• ft»e L'ldied Statea, l»rotiahly ims hhiwa over for ko<m1. itiiliiit. who WHS « State tie* iwnriieiit n*|in*>MMita- live under \V<MNlrow Wilson. alMi w«a thought hy Some French ofllclals to ba an emissary of I'oL W. C. Bullitt Rdwitrd M. House. He rjsited London Furls {inquired around for the and other nipMals and c-<inrerred with various hl^i irersonases, and our Slate THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1933 I borhood, who h*d never heard of thetis notified and required to make pay- j experience of his contemporaries with the new patron. He jT*bbed Bill with open arms. Out of this doctdr. Bill got a couple of tonsillectomies, 'two ob stetrical services and several bed.side influenza cases, before the doctor I awrakened to the real situation. Every physician that ever touched 'IBill came awray with a water-haul! HOW BILL GETS BY ! At last Bill moves to anotl^r town. Bill lives in my town,—-in yours, 1^“^* invectiva fqr his last place* of too. If the Bills in *his land were or- a\ick town, with the Igranized, they would make a formi- meanest people in it in the world! Sen. Bratton incomlnj: Fn-sideni h most dlctnforinl |mi\v er In reorgMnlzIm: the < structure of the fed era I povcniment. co- ordlruiliiij;, c«ui8«didat InR or rcduclns the ouniher of HKcuri<*8 and eliiuiiiatlii^ over laiipiuc mid du|ilica tion of duties, **ln or der to further rcdtu*«* expenditures and in crease efficiency In governmen t.” Tlie measure w ithholds mithorlly to ahollsh or transfer an executive department In Its entirety, thou;:h Senator Norris urged that this iirivilege also be given -- the *htef i5v«njttve:“=Hl* pwpnial wm* rejected lu'cnuse senators feared It wight lead to the coriihlnlng of the army and navy Info one dei>artmeiit of national defense, as has often been suggested, 'flie hill as iiiiprored by the senate grmiis ilie new Fresident miich greater latitude tlinii was asked by President Hoover for the same pur pose. 'J'lie executive orders will not become effri'ilve until sixty days afler heing Hiiluuitted to congress noloss congress itself proAldeg by law for an earlier efleetIve dale. Be.sid»*s this grant of power to reor ganizo the ferleral estahllshment the fwMiate moved toward further econ oniies hy adopMng an amendment of fereil hy Senator Sum G.^Bratton of .New Me.vlco, one of tlie leading Dcim*- crafs lu^ilie matter of savings. It re quires all department heads to cut llieir eT|,..iiiliiLiie« f.ie.JirfI hy B pi»*. iM‘ing Senator Otis fSlenn of ll’.iiioia ■ Hidl Senator .M M. Logan of Kenmcky Mr. Olenn. being a lame dmk was ••<•1 afraid to sav wliut he thought, ■lid he had a lot of hot thoughts on ilie mat ter. He iMtUiied out tliiii wliai . F.iirry tiad written was but one smiiM , voire ill a cliorus of criticism of the » *•0111116. and continued: ■ “I cannot distinguish very material | ly between at tacking a tssly of this klml, as Ims been done In the preMuil i instance, and the privilege wlih*h Is I exercised nearly every day In commit tee roonu of tlie senate ot tirowheat Ing a witness, licensing liliii. attacking him as lie sits iliere. called In respimse to a summons. . •*] do - not distinguish between the , •tittcks made ufion this txMly and I lie - attacks made in this body day afler : day by dlHliiignlsIied mcniliers of this ' body, ultacking, abusing, condenuiing blackt'ning peoples names and reiaita th'ns. knowing that tiie next niorniiig I upon the front pages of the respiuisl ; tile newspapers ot this country thos** charges, unsiisialned, will be broadcast to file World.” j 'Hie debate was lively and rather ' vitiiperiilive. and was imtuenseiy eo Joyed Ity tlie occupants of the galleries. Une of liesc was henrd to qimte: "The lady doth protest too much, lue thinks.” dable political party. \ Theie are some fifteen doctors in my town. When Bill moved here he most popu lar doctor and retained him as his family physician—as long: as the doc- departnient called on Amlmswidork-l-tpr would do his work without pay, which wa.s over two years. The doctor became too insistent about his pay to suit Bill. I Then, our hero .sought the fo!*mi-. K«lge for Infon lation. Tlie amhiissa dot replied that Rullitt was acting uo his uwu res|Mins'bllity as a writer in terested In foreign affulrs and was rej•resentIng no one In the United Sisitea. Mr. Kdge. It la underst<K»d. rei*4»rie<l that this is only one of many similar Incidetita. Kver since Mr. Booseveft’i ridmimitlon, the embassy has had re fsirfs of a long succeslun of such ."em issaries.” Those of my readers who wre ac- quamted with Bill, know that he can tell you just how the United Senate ought to perform! It will take a long time to educate some folks to the point of getting above the tactics of Bill— the fellow that public opinion alone can remove from our mid.st. ^ FINAL SETTLE.MENT Take notice that on the 28th d,ay able competitor of the leading doctor]of February, 1933, I will render a fi- and recited the two years of “rob-; nai account of my acts and doings as cent, though tills must be dune with out cutting wages—tills being Insisted upon hy Senator Uostlgnn of Colorado. Mr. Bratton estimated that bis plan would result In the saving of about f 140,0(KMKK) Ip the cost of ojxeratlng the goTeriiiiieiit during the next flsca' year. Ollier economy measures at ladled to the hill, It was said, would realize 8(»ine 2U uilHtons of additlotuil savings.. One of these includes tlie en listed personnel of the arnty, .navy and., ninrine corps In the present per cent salary cut alTectIng all othe^ fed eral emidoyees. In the house all kinds of attempts to economize were beaten during con slderafion of supply bills. The rep n*W‘nfatives even declined, hy an over wlielming vole, to reduce Ihdr own salaries to $7..''iOO or opixuients of the proi>o«al arguing that thev c<uild not alTcrd the cut and that hiw- ering the pay would make the house a “rich man's club” and make It Ini posKilile for a poor man to enter con gre.ss. The proponents of live redac tion wore denounced as demagogues. W HII.K the Fresident-Fllect was .*ruisirjg about the Carlbbe;)o try ing to catch fish the umuteur cabinet ! supported builders kept right on working. I,ate goadfr iWjg thllt...Willi Ham 'll. Woodlo of New York would be J«ss« H. Jones VV ITH grave formality the senate and iionse niol togclher*tn the bouse cIuiiiiImt and Matched their offi cial tellers extract from a mahogany chest tlie rei*ort8 of state electors on last full's election. Tlie reading clerk lotnily announced tlie state totals, and when tliese had lieen set doM n on tdg tally sheets and addeej up, the con gross MHs solemnly Informed tiia» FntnkHn I>. |{«K)sevelt and John N: Gwr- iier had ln‘en elected President and Vice 1‘resldetil of (he United States by a vote of 472 against 59 for Hoover and Curtis. secretary of com merce ; Henry Stev ens of North Carolina, former conitgander of the American T^egton. secretary of war. and • Archibald McNeil of | (’onne<-tlcuf or O. Muz ! Gardner of North I Carolina secretary of Jesse I. Straus, .New York r iiienduint. also was j l>ut In the running for the eoniiiierce~ (H>rlfolio. More definite than these . minors mus the reinirt that Jesse II. ’ Jones, eminent Democrat and huainess ' man of Houston. 'I'e.xas. would be made head of the It econ si ruction Fi nance c<*r|Miration. He would succeed A flee Pomerene. M'hose aftpointment as clialrinan hy Presiilenl Ibiover was blocked, Mith nil otlier nominations, in (he senate. Mr. H«w>.se.velt will rely ■ i greatly on the Iteconsfructlon Flnuro'e cor|M»ra(ion and Its vast credit In car rying out his pljins In the “new deal” and would re<-elve strong and nt>le j su|»p<»ri from Mr. Jones Its Its chair i man. V .AfllDUSpInns'for the regeneration of the itei»ut)lican party have lK*en discuKseil. and one already has been startfsl. This is the organization of the National Bepuhlican league. wMth Vice Pri*sident Charles Curtis at, Ita iu‘ad aAd4ieadqi4artvrs In VVaKliington. Three vice chairmen have been named —Senators Kelli Hebert of Bhode la land and Daniel O. Ha.stings of Dela ware and former Itepresentntlve John tj. Tilson t»f Connecticut. The make up of the league appears to be strictly regtilar Bepublicari. The new organization announced by J«*liii A. Campbell of White Plains. N, Y., who win be Its director. Is designed to carry on a vigorous camimign for n comeback md only in the ISKIO Pre«l- dentlal election hut In next year's con gressional races also. It is (irofessed- ly neither for nor against the Interi'Sta. of any one candidate. The senate Bepuhlican organiuith>n seems determined to cj^tUiue in grstd standing in the party riiucus the liisiir Itooserelt last falL Senator Oiarlea L. McNary of „Pregon. the probable new Repubih-an Teat^er"©# thV senaTe^* dwflired Thlit *a' proposal to read out of the party Sen ator* George W. Norrii of Nebraska, llolieii M. I.a Follette of Wlaconkin. Illram Johnia>Q of California, and Bronson I'utting of New Mexico, had “not a cliaD<*e in the world" to suc ceed. Suggestions were heard recently that Secretary of the Treasury Milla Would be umde chairman of the R«- pubiican luitlotiHl committee, but he anid he would not accept the place. “I've had a lot of politics in the lust 25 yenra and I don't intend to step o>jt of here Into the chairmanship of any (Militlcal con unit tee.” Mills said. ■bery” that he had endured. The am- j bilious competitor swallowed the hook, line and sihker! He treated . Bill’s infirmities as long as he could affoid to without remuneration; some 'competitors are that way. ! Then Bill sought the doctor that lived farthc.st away from his neigh- Administrator of the estate of John Griffin Pitts, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 10 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final dis charge from my tru.st as Administra trix. Any person indebted to .said estate ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, nr be forever barred. MRS. IRE-\'E ADAIR PITTS, Jan. 21, 1933.—2-16-4C. Administratrix. The new Octagon Soap Pre mium is a good one. Bring 100 coupons from Octagon pn^ucts and get one. Prath^-Simpson Furniture Co. Clinkers Wanted VVe will exchange coal for all the clinkers to be found after burning our DIXIE GEM coal. You just don’t get any — that’s why. No waste in our coal—it is the right size and needs no break ing up. CLINTON COTTON OIL CO. Phone 62 1' P i.K.NTY of exi>crt H<lvU*e oo-wa.v* of pulling the inilloii uut «tf ttie slough of desiMiml is to l>e offeied soon, Fir.vt the senate tlnance commit lee Invited more than half a hundr>*<l of (he nation's leading men in all lines I ^^'K**^®*^®****! circles upheld this view to present their views on the causes OllEAT BRITAIN'S cabinet in three 8«'K.sion8 gave final approval to the British p<*IIcy for negotiations with Mr. Roosevelt In the debt conference' to be held in Washington. Of course the cabinet's conclusions were not nuide pultlic. but it was nuderst<Nid Ambassjidor Sir Ronald Lindsay wouhl bring back a plan providing for a lump sum itayment of between SLl’.-id,- (XKi.OOO and $'2.000.(K)0.000 as settle ment for (he entire debt of almut $11,- 0(10,000,0(10 which the European na tions owe the United States. This, . the debtor nations think, would be la acrord with toelrjown I^usanne agree ment on German reparations. Representative Rainey of Illinois de I dared: "The United States will not ; acceiit any such slash,” and opinion In i < I S UNATDRH. despite their rules, can find ways Pt wiy some mighty mean of the economic depresshm and the nee<h*d legislative remedies, and those views presiiniahly are now being for mutated. Then President-Elect Roose velt sent to the 'states Invitations to meet him In the White House on March 0 to discuss means of solving national problems Id w hich the governments of the states and the nation ha^e a common vii.nl Interest. In Ills letter .Mr. Roosevelt siiid: “It Is my thouglit that we should discuss for (Mir mutual benefit certain subjects, such as: “(a) Conflicting taxation by federal and state governments; ”(h) Federal aid for unemployment relief; * (c) .Mortgage foreclosures, especial- j things nIhmii one another; but an out- | aider mustn't cast aspersions on their ' Integrity. D n v I d 8 Barry, wlio has been sergt'ant al arms of the senate fttr 14 ^ * ■ years. h:is found this out and iias lust his Job. The seventy-three year old otliehil W’rote an a r J I r I e for .Al Smith's Now OiithMik the o|»enlng paragrapli of whhli was: •■(■ontrury. i»erhai>s. to the popnitir belief, O. 8. Barry there are not man.v crooks In congress—that is. out and i*Ml grafters, or th«»se who are w’illiug to be such; there are not many sen atom or re|> resent at Ives who sell tbeir votes f(»r money and it is pretty wrcJI known who those few are; but IlMre are many demagogues of the ly heeause they think that it will help t|tolr polilU*ul and social fortunes." ' Indignant senators were swift to call Barry to nct'ount. Sitting as a Irlal court, they beard biin admit be WM unable to (wove that there were iNibc takera and grafters In congrefs; ■Ad tbgy rtfuBPd to consider his pleas dHU B^oator Gliss had otid aboui os ■Micb congemlBg the fight agulnat the McFaddea banking MU, and that tn roBfity bit article wa» meant to de (fiid tlw refiutattoo of congress de ■pKfi Iti ln«oC irordifif. By ■ vote ot it IT fbt ftMt# deprived Burry ol i fift tt Hit ground that ht bad Moreover. .Mr. Rooaevelt’s plan of dealing with each nation separately will give the British small opportu nity to put forward a proposal for aiJ of them. \ ly on farm lands, and “(d> Better land use by afforesta tion, elimiiiaiion of marginal agriciil turn I land, flood |*r«‘veniIon. etc.; "(e) Re<*rganlzaliun and ronsnlida- tlon of Im-al government to decrease tax costs.” ‘ It Is believed alt or nearly all of the governors will acfvpt Mr R<M»se velFs Invitation gladly All but G ERM.AXY’S new government un der Chancellor HUJiW* is not to ^ have smooth sailing by any means and i may be ufiset at the coming elections. | 1 The Socialists and Communists were i trying streiuioiisly to lay aside their ' j differences and join In the fight against ■ the Nazis, and it seemed likely they ’ \ would succeed In this. Vice Chancellor Von Papen, armed with a decree signed by PresTdent Von Hindenberg. assumed the premiership of Prussia, dissolved the diet of thai state and ordered new elections on March 5. Premier Braun and the other old Prussian ininistem were summarily ousted. The government also Issued a new 8i*t of severe laws curtailing the right of assembly and of free iqieecli and gagging i^the press. I P REMIER nAI.AniER postponed the d(*wrnfall of his new French grtvernnumt f<*r a time by temimrurily fen ! abandoning the attempt to'balance the of them are n«*mmT;its and mighi lie expected to be In WasliingtMii for liie W ITI I cottsiderable fitHiKHTulic i sup|i<.irt.^.-the government s pr»» grain for aid tu the unemplo,ved whs •freally lironilenfMl ll provhhni. Hinoiig other things, for an miditlonai Kttsi. fiOO.lMO direct relict loans to staiiw. and iq W'asiiiiigtun there whs a liclier that ll had a gutMl chance of puiMige during the |>resent session. The bill as drafted also would libemlixe the law under which the It F. C, makes lonns for selMIquIdatlug consiriH'ilon pMj ects; and It makes pnivlsion for toons to privule oorporulloiia for the devel .jsltineni of romuiiintty faniiliig and •cts are aelMiqii Ida ting. \ budget. The cabinet rejected a pro |mnmI to reduce the pay of employees •t the state, and approved measures whirli would sljghtly Increase (he faxes on gasoline and hunk cbecka .All (old. It .approved fnensures ihF >dgn«*<i to provide .t232.(NHMMSJ. half of wldeli w«Miid be in new taxes and half resulting fniiM ec«>notiiies In civil ez- tM'fiiliiiiri'S. This measure will be op erative until nnotlu>r budget pn»jecl can l*e drafted. R KCEX'I of Dr NT desiths of note were thnsr law-reiice F. Abbott. f(*r lucr iwetcldent and publisher of the *Niit«M<k Mild cl*«se friend ot Tt^eodorr Koosexcll; aiel t'ljMinl AHierl A|»{H>nyi of Hungary, (be iUdesI rinteMiwn of Jitatimia awlHt »dllbvil figure in hla.ewuiilry. A ifXX Ww«i«,a I I rwn 1 • Taking The Cheme Out of Purchase 1 ' if * .• < Advertising benefitfthe man who Iniys as well as the man who sells. It is part of the Gold en Rule of Business and it works both ways. Don’t miss the advertisements in this news paper. Many of them are interesting just be cause of their news and educational value alone. But more than that: Advertisements take the chase out of purchase and make every penny do its full duty. This last statement is one particularly to be remembered when conunon-sense economy is not only a national duty, but an individual necessity." s - \ i