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.;v * ■ 'I* .‘J * ITT,* 4** '■ .r\ 'j. u-. rAGB BIGHT THB CUNTON CHRONICLE. CUNTOW. 8. C. \ mURjSDAT. DECEMBER 2. 1987 Hill Debating Crop Measure Anti'Lynching Bill ■r .■» ^ 'MM By FRANK'KENT In The lUltimore (.Md.) 5>un 'latter is Farm Bill Battled In Both Hous es With Clash of Views Inti- mating; Rough Passage. Washington, Nov. 29. -^The crop control struggle began in “'Congress today, producing conflicting atate- m^ts that pending bills would “de- Btroy wealth” and would rescue the [the attention of the fanner from evil effects of industrial | exclusion of all else, tariffs. - i Plunging into the fight in the hou.se, Representative Sauthoff (Progress ive) of Wi<«consin, declared the house bill not only would wipe out wealth by re<lijcing farm output but would cost up to $50,000,000 to administer, j Sauthoff aaid the bill would .set up! machinery to take 30,000,000 a6res out of production, but w_odld ^be offset by trade agreements “which let in pro ducts from 30,000,000 (foreign) acres.” On the other hand. Chairman .Jones of Texa-s, of the house agriculture committee, as.sert(*d that the farmer that WITH THE report of the senate committtee, the new proposal for crop control confu.sedly takes the place of the so-called anti-lynching bill, which for a solid week has held direction of ‘Bashful Bobby^ Friday Night “Bashful Bobby,” a three act com edy, will be prejiei^ted in the Florida Street school jiuditorium Friday night, Dec. ' 3,. by a group of Cliii,ton high school students. The proceeds to go for the benefit of The Sentinel, the high sc)i6<»l newspaper. The play is Mr. Barrett senate to the However, the only temporarily relegated to the rear, not by any“lneahs “3Ts- posed of. Soon ot'Tate this session it will return for final action. There is slight doubt that in the end it will pass because behind it is the covert but none the le.ss solid weight of the administration. This, coupled with Republican support is to enact the bill over the desperate opposition of the .Southern Democrats. .\t lea.st, so it is generally believed, KRO.M THE political standpoint, this measure is probably the most pregnant of any which will be con- was the “first forgotten man , ^“hsidered this session. Despite the he was ignor»*tl when i)rot(‘cti\e'taiiff | professions of its cham- walls wen* erwte«l. He sai<l th«‘ ‘ i pjpns, everybcsly knows that the driv- normal granary”- bill, with, its <,f the fight for it is gen- visions for benefit payments, h»ans . great negro vote in the and control-s over corn, wheat, cotton<|ebatable states north of the tobacco and rice, merely smoothed i u,,,. stretching in(*qualities pro(iuce(i by taiiffs. '"from Connecticut to .Michigan. This Hepres«-ntative Amlresen (Repuhli-jj^ Republicans as it is of can > of .Minnesota, said the principa i j),.pi(^.,.yts and it%is fime the truth oppcKsition was to compulsory f‘'a-^w,‘re told about it. .No one defentls tures permitting two-thirds of t e^jj^ decent man, in politics or 'out, condones It. But this bill does not make lynching any more a crime and Mi.ss Miller. A brief summary of the play fol lows ^ • A group of young high school graduaiteis, chaperoned >by an old maid .school teacher, spend th/ end at the homeof^Mrs/^ Matilda Matthews. The acR^ is fast and the laughs frequent when Harry, a -stu dent of Hypnotism, starts demon- . strating his powers on the various J: J characters in the play. To climax the action “Bashful Bobby” Downing is forced to make love to his .sweet heart, Helen Norwood. You’ll be wondering how the whole episode i.s going to turn out. An evening of entertainment is guaranteed to all. The students participating in the play are: Robert Downing, “Bashful!Bobby," Robert Tompkinson. Jim Bradley, Bob’s best friend, Rozelle Foster. Harry Colliiv, another of Bob’s friends, Joe McMillan. Jerry,Rpebuck, Bob’s rival, Eugene Sloan. Helen Norwood, object of Bob’« affections, Oatherine Bryson. Joan Sanford, Helenas best friend^ Virginia Dillard. Anne Hawkins, another of Helen’s friends, Virginia Sadler. Mrs Matilda Matthews, Helen’s aunt, Evelyn Henry. Miss Odessa Hen worthy, chaperone, Ruth .Monts. Madame Du Pont, professional hypnotist, Betty Spratt; Judson, the butler, Billy Dicus. Loui.se, the maid. Grace Martin. NEW FORDS NOW ON-DISPLAY HERE An Australian finds the United States a “wonder” spot. And he did not add, “wonder what next” spot. Vice-President Gamer, reports say, is getting perturbed about the lack of national economy., If he could just pa.ss the idea on to congress. The 1938 Fords, powered by 85 or 60 horsepower engines, are on dis play in the sales rooms of the Hol lingsworth Motor company of this city, Ford dealers. The two powers are offered this year as two distinct lines, differing in appearance a.s well as price. The standard car is de.signed to meet the exacting requirements of the motor car owner wliose means make necessary maximum economy The new de luxe line is offered for owners desiring additionel' style and appointments. i The standard line colnes in coupe, tudor and fordor types. The de luxe line includes eight, body types, with maximum comfort. Both have the same improved V-8 chassis, but are styled differently. The de luxe line is considerably larg er in appearance. Bodies of both lines are all-metal, with safety glass in windshields, doors and windows. The 1938 models are said to be greatly improved over the 1937 models. 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CALDWELL Call 38 subscrip- 1.. farnuTs pnalucing a crop to clamp <lown controls. Amlrcscn complaimti about “regimentation” an«l failure to limit laige benefit payments. .*M'nate lea<lers. explaining the pro vision.-' of their owri '.tT-page c<»nlroll proiMtsal, said its cost would he h<*ld, within the .'jiolMl.tKHl.tKKI limit asked hy the preshlent. .''eiiator Bankhead (Dennwrat) of Alabama, crediteil with writing the c<»ttoi) .sections, ('xplained th«*m ahd re'pon<h“ti to *(|Hestions about consti tutionality ■■ Senat<»r .Smith, of .S<tuth Carolina, chairman of th»> senati* agriculture committee, broke in at one point to say the granary hill with its acreage contr»d features was “not what I wante<l.” But he addeil, “It i.s what the majority of farmer.s demanded,” and so he would siippoi t it. Even before house debate started, a group uf-lOO members, led hy Rep- re.s<‘ntative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, made plans to draw up a “par ity price” bill s«l*stitutc it fof the one franieii by the committee. 'This gniuj) was to nuH't later this week To shape a camjiaign for fixed jirices. t . (Juttv *'ssmen agreed that any pro- -grani of this type probably would omt far more than $r)(H),l)tK),0(Mt to which the White Hou.se wanted the expendi ture limiltHl unless additional taxes were provided. An alternative farm pniposal was happy offered iiv the senate hy .Senator Ix'e, Demewrat. of Oklahoma, who intro- <iuce<l a domestic allotment hill. He .said it wouhl assure farmers “parity j price.s” for that part of their crops) consumetl in the United States. than it is now an<l» will not diminish the number of lynehings. What it doe is “giv«‘”The federal government power to investigate the con.luct of county officials in the prosecution of lynehings and if deemed inad**- (|uat<* to impose prison penalties ami fines not only u[K»n individuals, hut upon the local government unit. WHOLIiY ASIDE from the question of lynching, it is easy to see how intensely offensive a |)rojM)sal of this sort is to .Southern DeTTUK’iat-s or, in fact, to DennxTals of any section who still believe in the sov- jereignty of the sitates and «q>i>ose the imposition upon them of the fcsleral authority.” Clearly, if the federal government can go into the states to examine their, conduct of criminal proceedings, it can go into them to examine their conduct of ek*ctions, which unquestionably would hr the TTTxt stFp. ^southern Dem«P crats .see in this propo.sal another force hill and the thing that stirs their indignation to white heat is that it should he a Democratic adminis tration, not a Republican . one, to supply the votes, hy which the bill will go through—if it does. Wage And Hour Bloc Threatens Northern ('onKre.s.smen Plan To Make Hattie On (Wton (’on- trol Act. W'ashington, Nov. 30. — Certain northern congre.ssmen were tleterm- inwl tonight to bltK‘k_a_cotton control bill unless southerners help the nuivcr AtTlJALLY,, Mr. Rtwsevelt and his political strategists are in an un position ahiAit this pro|>osal. l>ast year they very successfully played lM>th ends against the muldle. By a skillful and carefully planned campaign, aided hy relief money and' fetli'ral 'patnmage, they siK'ceeded ! in taking away from the Republican party its liasic asset to wit, .some two million negro votes in a dozen big debatable ,stat«>s. At the same time they hehl in line the solid .South, where the negro does not vo4e and which is solidly DenuK'ratic large ly because of racial prejudice. Among the New Deal politicians this was rcgardetl as a very smart piive of ]»tditics, imleed. And so it sinmied, though at the time there was consid erable smoldering resentment among Southern Democraits who knew what was being done. "meat f(*r wag»‘-hour legislation. Aske»i exactly what form the north erners’ efforts would take, Hepre- eemtative <iavagun (D-.N.Y.) sai<l: “You’ll see, all right. The Iniys from the cotton .xtat^'S are going to get it." Some of the fiercest' criticism of the bill to |>ermit a federal agency to e-rtablish minimum wage and maximum hoar standanis has come from southerners, who cull if a threat to the rising industries of the South. Members from below the .Mason-Dixon line have heliHs! Indtle the legisla tion up in house rules committee, I'hairman Norton (D-N.Jv) of the told house labor committe men a ^^efcrTn ilu^btcRr”^ to salx>tage the farm news- ready NOW, HOWI'VER, the price has got to he paid. The anti-lynching hill must have administration sup port to pass. Should it fail, the Republicans in the next campaign will he given exactly the argument they netsl to- rwapturc the negro vote.^ They will charge—^ind justly —that the administration took their votes and then “sold them out." The negro newspapers all over the country which supporttnl Mr. Roosevelt in look to him now to pass this hill. They unquestionably wijl^blame him if it fails. I’uliticians like Mr. Farley and Senator Guffey who had iso much to do with endearing Mr. Roosevelt to the negroe.s, are intense- ly anxious to hold them. -Better than anyone else they know how much their victory was due to that vote. bill unless I members from agmniltural sections' holpeil complete, -a petition w hich j would permit a vote on the labor bill ON THE OTHER HAND, if the bill about mid-DecemlHT. ' | is forced through, it will widen and As she simke, the petition lacked~|-,ieo|>en the Democratic split. How- they had received telephone calls from representatives of labor’s non-parti san league inquiring whether they had aigned the petition. 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