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iivis , J . -r'-*— miS* Ai* w m iikatii ■ * • " . ' f ; The Barnwell Pi tel. Barnwell S* C* Thursday, May 1«, 1935 m. / News Review of Current . « ■r Events the World Over Senate Committee Defies President and Richberg on NRA Extension—Roosevelt Lists “Must” Bills and Business Opposes Them. By EDWARD W. PICKARD e. Wettern Newipaper Union. B: ; D ISREGARDING the wishes of Pres ident Roosevelt, the finance com mittee of the senate adopted and re- k ported for passage a simple resolution " continuing the nation al recovery act untif April 1, 1936, and at the same time making these provisions: L No price fixing shall be permitted dr sanctioned |n codes, except In those re lating to mineral or ■ Donald Richbers natural rerources which now have price fixing provisions. 2. No trade en gaged in Intrastate commerce shall be eligible for a code. 3. The President is given specified time in which to review present codes to carry out the conditions laid down In the first two exceptions to the reso lution. Both President Roosevelt and Don ald Richberg, head of the NRA, had urged the passage of a new two y*ar NRA bill which would set up a striker dictatorship over business and indus try. The senate finance committee, however, would not consent to this and instead passed the resolution, which was drawn up by Senator Clark of Missouri and approved by Chairman Pat Harrison. Twelve senators first called at the White House and the President seemed willing to accept the continuing resolution until Mr. Rich- berg came in and protested urgently; whereupon Mr. Roosevelt turned it down. The committee then took the action noted by u vote of 16 to 3, de fying both the President and Rich berg. Senator Harrison said he had no doubt the senate would adopt the res olution with little debate. ber of Commerce were gathering In Washington for their twenty-third an nual convention, and naturally their speakers endorsed It and attacked much of the proposed legislation men tioned as unwarranted intrusion of the government into business. Before it adjourned .the chamber adopted resolutions condemning aboli tion of utility holding companies, op posing the banking bill, asking for re laxation and extension of the NRA instead of the administration bill, and postponing “for further study” the question of social security. Henry I. Harriman, who has been president of the organization for three years, retired from that office In favor of Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y. F OI VI REIGN MINISTER PIERRE LA VAL' of France and Ambassador" Potemkin of Russia finally fixed up the mutual assistance pact Between th£ two countries in a way acceptable to both and it was signed In Paris. M. Laval then prepared to leave for Moscow, planning to stop in Warsaw en route It would seem that Laval had hls\ way with the treaty, for It subordi nates military action of the two powers to the procedure of the League of Na tions, to provisions of the Locarno pact and also to the Franco-Polish alli ance. All of that probably would keep France out of war even If Russia were attacked. In Paris it was taken for granted that a secret military conven tion, supplementing the pact, would soon be signed, fixing the methods of mutual assistance. e OETTING a new transcontinental rec- ^ord for transport ships, a TWA test plane flew from Burbank, Calif.v to New York in 11 hours and 5 minutes! What Is more Important, for all but about one hundred miles it was con trolled by a robot pilot D. W. Tom llnson, the pilot, was accompanied by Harold Snead, an expert on radio beam flying, and Peter Redpath, navigation engineer. Tomlinson had the controls for only three brief intervals—over the San Bernardino range, at Durango, Colo., where a snowstorm was encoun tered, and at the landing at Floyd Ben nett field. The plane reached Its great est cruising speed of 262 miles an hour over the Allegheny mountains. mm President Roosevelt I_I IGH optimism marked the “fireside chat” which President Roosevelt delivered over the radio to the people of America, which people, he said, are, as a whole, “feeling a lot better—i 16! raoi cheerful than for many, many years." He asserted we are already on the unmis takable march toward recovery, and told how be means to promote the return to normal conditions with his works relief program. He promised to put to work three and a half million persons now on the relief rolls, and to press for en actment of legislation he considers pec- essary for carrying on the New Only once did Mr. Roosevelt to such critics of his administration as Senator Long, Father Coughlin and x Governor Talmadge. He said: "The overwhelming majority of peo ple in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they . hear and what they read. They know that the process of the consTfucG^I TftP building of America cannot be done In a day or a year, but that it is being done in spite of a few who* sef-k to con fuse them and to profit by their con fusion.” These six "fundamental principles,” said the President, must guide the work relief program: Projects must be useful, most of the money must go for labor, "a considerable proportion of the costs” must be returned to the treasury, only those projects which can employ ^persons on relief will be ap proved, and projects will be approved in a given area in proportion to the unemployed in that area. — ^ LJOW the New Dealers propose to * redistribute wealth by double tax ation of large estates is revealed by Secretary of the Treasury Morgen than in a letter to Senator Pat Harrlsoiv chalr- man of the senate fl nance committee. Mr Morgenthau outlines a plan of Imposing In herltance taxes and also retaining the ex isting estate taxes, as serting this is in line with "our fundamental objectives.” That this would result in the dissolution ot large . properties, the secre tary recognizes, for lie says: “To prevent the necessity of hasty liquidation of large properties In order to pay the tax. It might be provided that Inheritance taxes be payable in ^ Versailles the buildine a convenient number of installments.” 7 t J eaty l of - V^a'lles, building a-v.„ K„ M. Of submarines. Is stirrin'g up a lot of angry talk in Great Britain, France and Italy. The English are especially disturbed, for they remember only too vividly how near the Germans came to starving them during the war by the destruction of shipping by the un dersea boats. Anglo-German conversa tions on naval restriction were to have been held in London the second National Topics Interpreted - - ^ 7 by William Bruckart National Press Building Washington, D, C. Secretary Morgenthau 'T'EXANS are going to have the op- * portunlty of deciding whether their state shall remain dry or fall into line with most other states and rep^ffi the prohibition law. The legislature has voted to submit the question to popular action. Under the resolution adopted the vote would be held next August 24. Regulation would be left to the legis lature and at the general election in 1936, a vote would be taken on a man datory state monopoly over sales of hard liquor.. Local option would be preserved under both straight repeal and the monopoly, under the straight repeal plan, which also would bar the return of the open saloon. Washington.—In the last two weeks the National Capital has been under the tent of a three- _ Thr—-Rmg ring circua, if ever ~ Cirrug one existed. At the * Capitol - building, there has been utter confusion as Dem ocrats fought among themselves and Republicans and Independents sat on the sidelines and said “ale 'em.” At the other end of Pennsylvania avenue, business activity has been amazing. The President was beginning to start to commence to spend five billion dol lars. In between has been the largest hangover of Easter visitors the Capi tal city has known In recent years. Mr. Roosevelt, having complete con trol of the largest sum of money ever turned over to one man, has been run ning hlft brain at lightning speed to make good on Ws-promise that actual spending will begin in two months. He has announced that some sixty agents of the government will participate in the spending function but roosting on top of the various spending groups are to be three newly created boards, each responsible to his direction and each enjoined to bear down In order that Capital news had a good laugh the other day at tha at- A muse* tempt of the Demo- the Prcaa era tic national con gressional committee to satisfy all sections of the country in an announcement made by tbe com mittee respecting Its organization. I can^oncelve of no better way to tell the story than to quote opening para graphs from four statements Issued simultaneously the committee on the subject mentioned. The paragraphs which follow are taken from state ments which were delivery! to my of fice In one envelope: _ .. els, usually may be relieved by a dose or two of purely vegetable Thedford’s Black-Draught. “We have used Black-Draught in our family for twenty years because „ we have not found anything that Virginia. Representative Abe Murdock could take its place,” wnt« ftr. A. of Beaver, Utah, has been selected as Gray, of Cusseta, Ala. It has proved entirely satisfactory. Thousands of others regard Black- Draught as their “family laxative. 1 * THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT 1—“The West will play an Impor tant part in the direction of the cam paign of the Democratic national coiF'’* gressional committee, now being or ganized by Chairman P. H. Drewry of a vice chairman of this committee, and, under plans proposed, will have gen eral supervision over the campaign in the West.” 2—"In the organization on for the coming campaign of the Democratic na- tional congressional committee the G The plan as outlined by Mr. Morgen thuu is to impose graduated inberitauce taxes on estates, with rates following those of tbe present income tax rates, which approximate 60 per cent on in comes of a million dollars or more. The present estate taxes bawe a max imum of 60 per cent over ten million dollars. Thus, there, would first be a tax of 60 per cent upon the estate or gift, and then another tax of 60 per cent to be paid by those inheriting or re ceiving It This would amouut to s combined rate of 85 per cent on an estate of. one hundred million dollars. If all this money were handed out to the poorer people, even Huey Long might be satisfied. L EGISLATION which the President said, in his radio talk, should be enacted by congress Immediately In cluded the old age and unemployment Insurance bill, the NRA extension bill, tbe public utility bolding company bill, the transportation control bill, and tbe banking bill. Here -he. comes into conflict again with the views of business leaders of the country. The National Association of Manufacturers has just Issued its economic analysis of conditions, which says recovery is “within our grasp” an<| that the nation is closer to break ing the back of tbe depression than at any time for years, but asks that, in order to stimulate business, tbe ad ministration and congress temporarily shelve as “disturbing” such legislation as unemployment Insurance, tbe omni- tons banking bill, *the utility holding company bill, the 30-hour work week, the Wagner labor disputes bill, the Guf fey bituminous coal measure and pro posed changes In railroad laws. Of Ued-up capital, the analysis said UrilJ . *: “Surveys Indicate that close to |20,- 000,000,000 in expenditures, which would give employment to 4,000,000 men for two years, is pent np in the field of factory expansion, renovation and rehabilitation alone. “The release of tbla Cow of private capital by removing political uncer tainties would dwarf the blifiou propria ted by congress for relief and make unnecessary the expenditure of macb of the taxpayers' money.” This document wss given out as the •f tha United States Cham- S ECRETARY ICKES’ Depar the Interior has now been elevated to the level of the State, Treasury and Agriculture departments, for congress has granted one of Harold’s wishes and given him an undersecre tary, whose salary is to be $10,000 a year. This was a senate amendment to the Interior department appropriation bill, and was accepted by the house, 243 to 92, only after considerable pres sure had been applied by the" adminis tration. Many of the house Democrats have asserted that Mr. Ickes snubbed them, hfit? 1 They'tvonM hove Ing better than to^administer a rebuke to him by defeating the amendment, but the party leaders drove them into line. dearest was that t}€rman 5 , a,rea(1 y had,under construction a number of 2."»0-ton sub marines and planned a large fleet of them.' Spokesmen for,the Gefman gov ernment denied that any were being built yet, but at tlie same time ad mitted that submarines were being PWA funds, and it is not unlikely that suits will be brought to stop some of them. Mr. Ickes said congress would be asked to authorize specifically the construction of the Parker dam. F EDERAL Judges Woodward, Wll- kerson and Llndiey of Chicago are not going to be impeached, for the house subcommittee investigating equity and bankruptcy receiverships and practices reported the evidence taken did not warrant such action. The report said that In several In stances "conduct prejudicial to the dignity of the federal judiciary” was disclosed, but that substantial Improve ments had been made both in the rules of the court and In the law ap plicable to the administrator of re ceiverships and bankruptcy litigation. week In May, and these may now be called off or at least postpoi^ed. The French are less vexei because they think the development may force a showdown on the whole status of the German navy and Hitler’s demand for at least 35 per cent of the British ton nage and approximate parity with that of France. Naval experts In Paris said the disclosure might “well prove of Inestimable benefit for . mili tary France In awakening naval Brl- tain to the dangers of Hitler’s arma ments policy.” Information obtained by the powers ! tion of transplanting many farmers the public works and relief funds In his charge may flow freely. I. hear general commendation of the President for selecting Frank C. Walk er of Montana and New York to head up the spending operations. Mr. Walk er, a lawyer, Is experienced In a big business way and Is accepted every where as a man with capacity to do the Job. The fly that Is floating around and threatens to' get Into the ointment, however, Is the existence of two schools of thought In the administra tion. Tills condition may undo the good work which Mr. Walker Is regarded as capable of doing. The hve-bniion-dollar spending ma chine will be guided first by the Presl- dent, second by Mr. President Walker and third by Will Guide the various agencies ^ now In existence. They are supposed to- present plans and Mr. Walker will be expected to analyze and determine their values. Prof. Rexford Guy Tugwell, under secretary of agriculture, will have something- Rke-fli«e hundred million dollars to spend In remaking the rural districts of the nation In a Job vari ously described as “rural resettlement” and other similar short titles. This program contemplates expansion and Intensification of work now being done by the Agricultural Adjustment admin istration and the Federal Emergency Relief administration. Including attacks on the problem of dust storms" and other types of soil erosion. Although Professor Tugwell ' has no plans complete, he is working In the direc- from poor land where living fa hard, to more fertile fields. Under his Juris diction also will be reforestation and a general examination of land uses. A second agency that is new In the current set-up provides for develop ment of rural electrification. The third “considered” in connection with plans new spending movement is directed at for rebuilding the navy. dangerous railroad grade crossings. The funds that will be set aside for iyiNG listened , to Senator /J-qnfi.. jUSiesc latlKT Uww.huwevur, will of Louisiana and other orators who do not like the administration and its New Deal and also have little love for the G. O. P., the National Farmers’ Hol iday association, In session at Des Moines. Iowa, decided that a ifl A RIZONA’S victory over the govern ment In the Parker dam case ruled on by the Supfdme court alarmed the New Dealers for the safety of some of their other big projects of the same nature. The court decided that Secretary Ickes, as public works ad ministrator, was without authority to dam navigable rivers unless specifically ordered by congress and that the law creating the PWA had not listed any such specific projects as the Parker dam. The same applies to many huge reclamation projects that have received lief wlffioul debts,” "production credit party should be formed. Milo Reno, national president of the asso ciation, had a * lively encounter with a groups of alleged Communists Milo Rsno during a business ses sion. They, sought adoption ->f 4 reso lution calling for legislation for “re- without strings,” and immediate re peal of the AAA. Reno denounced them as Wall Street racketeers and henchmen of-Soviet . Russia. “You can’t talk. You can’t argue. Don’t try to get the floor. I’m running this meeting,” Reno said. “Sit down and shut up. Get out before we get really mad.” R C HAIRMAN JOHN J. M’SWAIN of tbe house military affairs commit tee sent to the President a letter of apology for disclosure of defense plans outlined in execeutlve sessions of the committee, and assumed full responsi bility for “the unfortunate Incident.” McSwain was rebuked by letter from the President for the publication In a house document of possible defense plans against Canada and British and tench islands In the Atlantic and the Caribbeaff'Ri the event of war. Brig. Gena. F. M. Andrew* and Charlea E. Kllbourne had outlined the program before a secret meeting of the com mittee. - . EPUBLICANS of nine mldweatern states who met at Excelsior Springs, Mo., decided that the "grass roots" conference , of leaders of the party should be held in Springfield, 111., tbe date to be fixed later, though It probably will be early in June. The purpose of this gathering will be the rejuvenation of the party and the launching of a campaign to reatore popular government. P OLICE of Havana apparently are well on the way to solution of the mystery of tbe fire which destroyed the Ward liner Morro Castle and other recent marine disasters. They have ar rested three men, all natives of Cata lan province In Spain, and aay that they found on their persoqs letters of Instruction concerning the destruction of the steamship Magallanes of the Spanish line, which was" 1 soon due in Havana. The document*, according to the authorities, ordered the accused to “take necessary action to precipitate a disaster similar to that of the Morro Castle.” . The police say the 'prisoners are well-known anarchists. only about one-fourth as much as Pro fessor Tugwell will spend-In his orgy. Other scheduled programs for ex penditure Include: / Assistance to clerical and profes sional workers—the white collar folks. Loans and grants to states, cities and counties new housing con struction In cities and rural districts and general reconditioning and remod eling of homes already existing. Extension and expansion of the Civilian Conservation corps to a max imum of six hundred thousand work ers. Further public building construction but in a less extensive manner than previously was attempted. Although the President assured con gress that be himself would administer ' the flve-billlon-ddllar Ickes m ■ ■ fBBfi, and succeeded Target ln Quieting criticism _ to. some extent by ihe ttatement, official announcement of the allotment board shows the name of Secretary Ickes as chairman. Many caustic darts were fired at Mr. Ickes during the two months while the pub lic works bill was held up in congress, because memh^i's did not like the Ickes policy as publloworks administrator. Of course, as the^SW-up now stands Mr. Walker will determine the char acter of spending and Mr. Ickes and his allotment board will determine how much money each may have. That would seem to eliminate the causes of trouble experienced heretofore by the members of congress and the Ickes organization. Nevertheless, critics of the secretary have begun to suspect something. Mr. Roosevelt has said in White House press conferences several times lately that be would permit no delay In getting the spending machinery In motion. He assured the country In his radio speech the other night that his policy was to he speed and assistance where the money will do the most good. Tbe President certainly hat made clear that he la anxious to get things going. South will play a very important part Not only is Congressman P. H. Drew ry of Virginia chairman of this com mittee, but he has selected other south ern congressmen to aid him. Repre sentative Virgil Chapman of the Sixth Kentucky district has been chosen as chairman of the very important execu tive committee. His is what is histo rically known as the Henry Clay dis trict. and has been a political battle ground of the nation for considerably more than one hundred years.” 3—“Unless all signs fail, the Middle West will be an Important battle ground In the congressional elections of next year. Representative P. H. Drewry of Virginia has recognized this when, as chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee, he aided In the selection of Congressman Eugene B. Crowe of the Ninth Indiana district, as first vice chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee. Representative Crowe will have general supervision over Demo cratic campaign activities of congres sional candidates throughout the cen- tral part of the country, ttis JnristHe- tlon will extend from the Ohio to the Great Lakes. Practically every nation al election for the-last one-half cen tury or more has been won or lost In the states comprising this district.” —"In the reorganization of the Democratic national congressional committee Chairman P. H- Drewry of Virginia has sought to give additional prominence to members from the East. Representative William J. Granfteld of Massachusetts has been selected as one of the vice chairmen and will have general supervision over campaign ac tivities throughout the North and East. Associated with him will be Rep resentative William N. Rogers of New Hampshire, who has been named a member of the executive committee. Congressman i Rogers represents the district which boasts of Danief Web ster, the great orator of one hundred years ago.” Of course, it was intended that the statements slTdiita W m&WhufW! to correspondents from the various sec tions of the country so that western newspapers would have been told how important their section was and east ern newspapers would have had infoif'- mation to the effect that the eastern section was all important. It was not an unusual procedure but It happened that’ the statements were distributed together and that afforded the butt of the Joke. • • • Senator Bankhead (Dem., Ala.), of cotton production control fame, has ' another Idea for leg- Banhhead» isiatlon. This time Idea the senator is seek- , ' ing to make It pos sible, he says, for every tenant farmer to become a land owner. He has leg islation pending In congress to carry out his program and It appears now that It may go through. “ft If proposed to create a&thcr gov- MID-LIFE The besetting Infirmity of people to middle age la the notion that they have probably experienced moat of what life has to offer and that when they-pass, as It were, the crest of the hill, the rest of life la either a repetition of what has gone before or Is In the nature of -a decline. I am {juite sure that is the mind of a good “many men between forty-five and fifty. It Is a very deadening state of mind. Surely one's faith In life ought to include the belief— which is a very well-founded belief— that as a matter of fact life get# richer and fuller pa it goes on; that as we burden ourselves with In creased responsibilities and sacrifice a great deal of our liberty, Instead of Impoverishing life, we enrich it— Canon W. T. Elliott. 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It Is true the measure wonld open the way for ownership and wonld maka tbe terms of ownership about as easy as la possible when one borrows an other’s money. Those facts, however, do not remove the conditions which a good many observers hold are bad. { For Instance, It la difficult to see how the tenant can nlake.a living and sufficient profit to pay off the debt to the government If he has been nnable to accomplish that same purpose with money borrowed commercially. It la being said freely that such legislation will serve only the purpose of reliev ing present owners of land -which they do not want- by its transfer through the government to others who may not be able to pay for it In oth er words, it Is another bill to pot BOILS Quicklij Heah'd r CARBOIL eases throbbing pain;allays^ inflammation; reduces swelling; les sens tension; quickly heals. Easily applied. Inexpensive. Results guaran teed. Also use for festers, risings, cuts, buns, and bites. 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