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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell S. C„ Thursday, April 9, 1936 National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Proas Bunding Washington, D. C. ‘' WasbiogtoD.—The President’* lat- esf message to congress, asking more than a billion and a Thander half in new money Over Relief t0 spend on relief as he sees fit has caused political thunder to rumble ‘•""agatn, It has brought out In the open much of the undercurrent of gossip that has been going on about political racketeering with federal funds and. it has brought Into sharp relief, just ahead of the spring cam paigning, the fact that the federal government has used something like $8,000,000,000 under, the guise of re lief fince President Roosevelt took of fice. Naturally, the situation Is Immersed In politics. All of the charges that were flung at Mr. Roosevelt during previous sessions of congress when he had requested that he be given, as he was given, blank checks on the treas ury, have been revived. In addition, new accusations and disclosures of petty graft and political machinations have been dug up and flaunted in the face of the New Deal leaders. More and more of these are dbming to the surface and there is no longer any question that throughout the relief or ganization there is politics. This Is true notwithstanding the strongly worded statement by Mr. Roosevelt that politics was not to figure In the administration of relief In any way. All of this leads up to the conclu sion that whenever the federal govern ment horns In on administrative af fairs of states, counties or municipal ities, the organization becomes so ex tensive that It Is Impossible for those • at the top In Washington to know what goes on. It Is but another way of saying that the federal government ought to confine Itself to federal af fairs, matters of national scope in stead of attempting to supersede the local governments in any function. • • • Since we are heading Into a cam paign In which Mr. Roosevelt Is seek ing re-election, his Charge opposition Is making Waste much of two phases of tlfe spending and relief situations. They are stressing the waste that they charge has per meated every phase of the relief ef fort In the last three years as well as the waste that has taken place in the countless alphabetical agencies that Mr. Roosevelt has built up in the fed eral government. The relief machinery, Roosevelt op ponents claim, has been converted Into a gigantic political machine, the chief object of which Is to re-elect Mr. . Roosevelt. They claim as well that there has been created a bureaucracy that makes us, as individuals, responsi ble to a thousand little dictators who act as prosecution, Judge and Jury over our every coming and going. All of these are harsh accusations but there Is enough evidence available now to make It appear that there is. at least, home truth upon which such charges can he based. Of course, politicians will magnify all phases of every subject which they discuss. The opposition will make the crimes look heinous and the adminis tration spokesmen will make every thing look pure. Neither one is justi fied in going quite to the extent of the indicated trend. It seems to me that voters ought not be fully convinced by either side but thftt they ought to examine the picture from .the local viewpoint where the evidence is first hand and where the people who did a good Job or who were guilty of fraud or corruption are known to the voters. Then, If In November the election re sults for the whole country show a preponderance one way or another, the voters will have established their will as being either In favor of or definite ly opposed to masiagement of such things from Washington, « • v* • There are fi.071 counties In the Unit ed States. In nearly every one of them, there are a More Republican and a Politics Democratic county chairman. In many of the counties the Democratic coun ty chairmen are trying to use the WPA and its relief setup for political advan tage. In. an equal number of coun ties Republican county chairmen are watching for and reporting Irregular ities. There can be no doubt, there fore, that the charges about relief be ing used politically will Increase in * number as the campaign progresses If there is ground for the charges. So. It Is made to appear that the local voters will have a complete picture of condi tions upon which to base their judg ment Two recent Instances where impor tant Individuals have called attention tq,. alleged corruption and political maneuvering under guidance of relief leaders serve to. support the conten tion I have Just advanced that the local communities will have complete facts before them. I refer to the charges by Senator Holt, Democrat, of West Virginia, that the whole relief organization In his state Is honey combed with politics and the bitter at tack by Governor Plnchot. Pennsyl vania Republican, upon what he called the manhandling of relief admlnlstra- , tion in the sta*e in which he formerly was the chief executive. Relief Ad- mlPlstrator Hopkins, with the aid of pollticlads, has denied these charges la toto. Senator Holt called the Hop- kin’s denial a whitewash of his own appointees and Mr. Plnchot turned Idose a fresh fire. This sort of thing probably will de velop In every state In the Union. f * I referred to the Presidential mes sage asking an additional billion and a half for relief. And Asks This would not have New Taxes created quite so much of a storm had it not followed closely on the heels of the White House request for new taxes. The combination of taxes and an additional appropriation to be used as previous blank checks have been used by Mr. Roosevelt has enabled those who are opposed to the President and those who, while they may support him for re-election, are not In accord with some of his policies, to make pub lic statements of their positions to a better advantage than was possible before. If they had been able only to oppose relief, administration support ers could have accused them of being opposed to the relief of destitute. To put taxes and a blank check together simply offers additional ammunition and a good many members of congress will use It before the new relief ap propriation is “voted. I think there Is no doubt that Mr. Roosevelt will get the money but there will be a great deal of accusing'and denying, respectively, before the vote Is taken. That will be necessary In order to “make a record” upon which senators and representatives can seek re-election.' When Mr. Roosevelt was voted $4,- 880,000,000 a year ago, his opponents threw up their hands and said that “you can’t beat $4,880,000,000 for re- election.” Now, one hears observahons frequently expressed that while "you can’t beat $4,880,000,000 for re-elec tion,’’ it is entirely possible tba. $4,- 880,000,(XX) plus almost that much nt^re may beat Itself. In other word* I have attempted here to present w coo prehensive analysis of the pros tud cons in order to show that since poli tics has crept In, has permeated the relief setup, the AAA organization and other New Deal agencies. It is entire ly possible for a reaction to develop whereby the vast sum of money would be the cause of defeat rrfWier than the cause of re-election for Mr. Roosevelt I am making no election prediction That would be utterly foolish. What I have sought to do. however, plainly and simply, Is to show how local com munities are going to rule the roost to a greater extent In the 1930 election than usually is the case. • • • Much Is being made of the PresI dent's proposal to tax the surpluses .of corporations. I Split on have hitherto report Tax Plan ed to you something of the nature of the tax proposals but there have been de velopments that bring the subject again to the fore. One of these, per haps the most interesting one, is dif ferences that have arisen between men who are supposed to be the Pres ident's closest advisers. Professor Raymond Moley, now a magazine ed Itor, lately criticized the tax plan most vigorously In his publication. At the same time, attention was directed here to the recorded attitude of Prof. Rex ford Guy Tugwell. Professor Tugwell published a book called "The Indus trial Decline" not so long agot and in that volume he advocated the control of capita] by the “driving of corporate surpluses Into the open Investment market” by taxation. These two views simply cannot be reconciled and yet they came from two Individuals who have been very close to Mr. Roosevelt In an advisory way ever since Mr. Roosevelt entered the White House. Professor Moley takes the position, editorially, that If, during the depres sion, American Industry had been stripped of all surpluses, few of even the greatest corporations could have survived.. He. regards surpluses as life Insurance policies for corporations and holds the conviction that unless a corporation Is permitted to retain funds as it sees fit. It cannot protect Itself when our economic structure goes into a tailspln such as that through which we have been passing. The difference In viewpoint of these two men shows a sad state of confu sion among the “economic planners of the more abundant life,” and demon strates. among other things, that Pro fessor Tugwell still has very great influence with the' President. While we have not heard mahy of Professor Tugwell’s speeches lately, and It Is probably true, as publicly stated by the opposition, that Professor Tugwell has been muzzled for the period of the campaign, there are many things be ing done under Presidential orders that have their origin In the Tugwell brain. He Is proceeding merrily on his way with the Resettlement Administration program, of which he Is head, and has 14,000 employees on Ms pay roll. All of which seems to Indicate that while Professor Tugwell will not make any more speeches calling upon farmei's and laborers to ally themselves against "our common enemy,’’ he Is still a very effective member of tfce New Deal administration. • WMtMfe N*wap*»er Ualea. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI icHooi Lesson By REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D- Member of Faculty. Moody Blbl* Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for April 12 JESUS TRIUMPHS OVER DEATH y* LESSON TEXT—Luke 24:1-35. GOLDEN TEXT—Because I live, shall live also.—John 14:19. PRIMARY TOPIC—The Glad Surprise. JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus the Conqueror. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—Jesus Is Alive. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—-Our Living Lord. The supreme test of Christianity Is the fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It matters little what Jesus said and did while fillve If his body remained In the grave. If he did not come - forth In triumph from the tomb, then all his claims are false. On the other hand. If he did arlqe, all his claims are true. Fortunately, there Is no better authenticated fact In all history than that of the resurrec tion of the body of Jesus Christ. I. Th# Empty Sepulchrs (vv. 1-3). 1. The coming of the women (v. 1). As an expression of affectionate re gard for the Master, they came with spices for his body. This was a beau tiful expression of sentiment but showed .their lack of faith. If they had believed his words, they would have known that his body could not be found In the sepulchre. 2. What they found (vv. 2, 3). When they came to the sepulchre, they found’ the stone had been removed. How the stone was to be removed greatly perplexed them on their way, but on their arrival they discovered that their difficulty had already been met. They fdilod the stone rolled away, but they found not the body of Jesus. For them to have found his body in the sepulchre would have been the world’s greatest tragedy. The empty tomb spoke most eloquently of the deity and power of the Son of God (Rom. 1:4). II. The Message of the Men in Shin ing Garments (vv. 4-8). 1. “Why seek ye the living among the .dead?" (v. 5). This question has been reverberating through the cen turies since it was uttered by the an gels. 2. “He is not here, but is risen.” Jesus had made all these matters quite plain. He had told them that the Lord must be betrayed and crucified and that on the third day he would arise again. If they had given heed to his words, they would have been relieved of their perplexities. ill. The Women Witnessing to the Eleven (vv. 9-11). Their thrilling testimony concerning the empty tomb and the words of the angels appeared to the disciples as Idle tales and they refused to believe: “ IV. Peter investigating (v. 12). While the testimony of the women seemed as idle tales. I’eter was not of the temperament to dismiss the matter from Ids mind. Therefore, he ran to the sepulchre. Upon close investiga tion lie found the linen clothes lying in such a way au to prove the reality of the resurrection. V. The Convinced Disciples (vv. 13- 33.) 1. The walk of two discouraged dis ciples (vv. 13-15). Kmmaus was seven and a half miles northwest of Jerusa lem. Just why the disciples were walk ing this way we may not surely know. The topic of conversation as they walked miles northwest of Jerusalem. Just why the disciples were walking this way we may nht surely know. The topic of conversation as they walked was the tragedy of the cross and the resurrection rumors. If they had be lieved what Jesus «aid about his com ing forth from the grave, they would have expected to hear such reports. 2. The unrecognized companion (vv. 1G-24). a. Who he was (v. 1G). While they reasoned together on the wonderful events of the past few days, Jesus joined them on the journey. b. His question (v. 17). Perceiving their sadness and perplexity, he sought to help them by calling forth,a stajte ment of their grief. This question sur prised them and caused them to jump at the conclusion that he was a stran ger in Jerusalem, for the condemnation and crucifixion of the great Prophet of Nazareth were so recent and no torious that no one who had lived in Jerusalem could be ignorant of them 3. The Scriptures opened (vv. 25-34) a. His rebuke (vv. 23-30). He re buked them not for their unbelief of the strange stories that they had heard, but for ignorance and' lack of confi dence in the Old Testament. b. Jesus recognized (v. 31). While sitting at meat with the disciples their eyes were opened as they saw him bless the bread and distribute to them. 4. The effect upon the disciples (v^j-j^cater. 32-35). They were so filled with Joy over this revelation of the Saviour that they hastened back Jerusalem to tell the other disciples of his insurrec tion. One of America’s Seven Wonders. South Carolina Feature. All Americans are familiar with Niagara Falls, the* Grand Canyon and most of the other Seven Won ders described by Baedeker. One of the most beautiful of these Won ders, however, is known to compara tively few of our millions of citi zens. This is the famous Magnolia and Middleton Gardens near Charles ton and Summerville, South Caro lina. Up the winding Ashley River, these two fairy gardens, both In ternationally famous, have been the mecca for flower lovers for over 225 years. With their hundreds of acres, andscaped and planted by scores of slaves working through two decades, they present A veritable dreamland. Delicate wistarias come to the ground from 75 to 100 feet high, n addition, dogwood, laurel, bay, spirea. syringa, and jessamine abound, with cherry, holly and cedar trees. Most lovely of all, however, are the azaleas which in the village of Summerville and in the nearby Magnolia and Middleton Gardens form a colorful spectacle, culminat ing in “Azalea Week” usually the latter part of March, which brings thousands of spectators by special trains or in private parties. Near Summerville are also the Cypress Gardens where ohte is poled by guides through an impenetrable water forest of giant cypress trees. These gardens are at their very best from February through April. In Summerville, surrounding the famous Pine Forest Inn, once more open to the public, also are gardens of Azaleas and Wisteria covering many acres. It was to Pine Forest Inn that Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft came during their administrations when they visited the beautifuk gardens. Tibet, Land of Mystery and Terror for Natives Sinister tales of sorcery reach us from the East, where every thought, every action Is governed by centuries of Ingrained supersti tion. But none equals the sheer horror of the mystic rites prac ticed by those primitive people who live on the high, snow-bound table land of Tibet, says a writer in An swers Magazine. In the land of the Lamas a cruel, austere religion exercises the most terrorizing Influence over Its devotees. Fear of ghosts and de mons hannt every devout mind. Some go mad or die of terror dur ing frightful ceremonies. Like many uncivilized peoples, the Tibetans live at the mercy of their own vivid and uncontrollable Imaginations. Grotesque and fear some hallucinations — monstrous shapes and phantoms — confront the credulous, half-crazed Tibetans at every turn. Their terrors assume reality In their own minds, till, hypnotized by their fears, they are unable to distinguish fact from fancy. 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