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The Alamance gleaner \ QL. LXI. GRAHAM, IN, C., THURSDAY JUNE 27, 1935. NO. 21. News Keview of Current Events the World Over President Offers Higher Tax and Wealth Reduction Pro gram?Social Security and Wagner-Connery Labor Bills Passed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ? Weitern Newspaper Union. SPURRED on by the White House, the house, after a hot debate, passed the Wagner-Connery labor dls nntes bill by acclamation, and Presl dent William Green of the American Federa tion of Labor hailed It as a "magna charta of labor." As Is well known, the federation Is the chief beneficiary of the measure, and Green and other labor union leaders had worked unceasingly for Its passage. Opponents of this bill. Including constl Sen. Wagner tional authorities in both parties, hare asserted repeatedly that it is uncon stitutional, and it is most probable that it will be carried to the Supreme court for an early test As passed by the house, the Wagner Connery bill provides: 1. For the setting up of a permanent labor relations board of three mem bers, appointed by the President as an independent agency. The board, or Its agencies or agents. Is authorized to supervise elections, conduct hearings, and Issue cease and desist orders for "unfair labor practices," which are en forceable by the courts. 2. That representatives selected by a majority of a unit of employees for the purpose of collective bargaining shall have the exclusive tight to nego tiate with the employer. The board may determine the appropriate unit for collective bargaining, whether by plant or craft, etc. 3. That it Is an unfair labor prac tice for employers to restrain, coerce, or interfere with employees In their organization for collective bargaining. 4. That It Is an unfair labor prac tice for employers to "dominate" or contribute financially to any labor or ganization. 5. That It is an unfair labor prac tice to encourage or discourage mem bership In any labor organization for the purpose of making closed shop agreements. 6. A fine of $5,000 or a year in prison for anyone interfering with agents of the board, such as refusing to permit access to books and records. Even Huey Long cheered when Pres ident Roosevelt's unexpected mes sage on redistribution of wealth and Increase of taxation for the rich was read to congress. The Chief Executive offered a program that he hopes will pay part of the vast expenses of the New Deal and at the same time break up some huge fortunes and check the growth of big corporations. He doesn't expect congress to do the entire Job at this session, and the administration leaders at once set about stopping the radicals who wanted Immediate enact ment The President's taxation plan Is frankly aimed against the wealthy, especially the men with million-dollar Incomes. Of these there were 46 in 1933. The following legislation he recom mended for enactment during the pres ent session In order to obtain ample revenue without hampering enterprise and to distribute tax burdens equi tably : 1- High Inheritance and gift taxes on "all very large amounts received by any one legatee or beneficiary." Seg regation of this revenue for reduction of the national debt. 2. Tax levies to restrict "very great individual net incomes." 3- Substitution of a graduated cor poration tax ranging from 10% to 16% Per cent for the existing 13% per cent rate. tor consideration at the next ses sion of congress the President pro posed : 1. Elimination "of unnecessary hold ing companies in all lines of business," by discriminatory taxation. 2. Discouragement of "unwieldy and unnecessary corporate surpluses." 3. An amendment of the Constitu tion to abolish tax exempt securities by authorizing the federal government to tax subsequently issued state and local obligations and state and local governments to tax federal securities. V\7"ITH only six senators voting In * * the negative, the senate passed the tremendously important social se curity bill that already had gone through the house. During the Ove days of debate a number of members, t>emocrats and Republicans like, had argued earnestly that this measure never would stand up In the Supreme court, but when their names were called nearly every one of them voted for It The only consistent ones were Moore of New Jersey, Democrat and Hastings of Delaware. Hale of Maine Metcalf of Rhode Island, Austin of Ver mont and Townsend of Delaware, Re publicans. This social security meas ure will affect about 30,000,000 bene ficiaries In the Immediate future and by 1900, It is estimated, will cost the federal government more than $3,000, 000,000 a year. These are its main features: 1. An appropriation of $98,491,000 for the fiscal year 1936, including $49, 750,000 for grants in aid to states for old age assistance. In addition there are authorized annual appropriations for the old age reserve fund, graduat ed from $255,000,000 In 1937 to $2,180, 000,000 in 1980. 2. Income tax on employees and ex cise tax on employers, for old age benefits, beginning in each case at 1 per cent of the pay roll in 1937 and reaching the maximum of 3 per cent in 1949. In addition there is a pay roll tax on employers for unemployment insurance, beginning at 1 per cent in 1936, increasing to 2 per cent in 1937, and to 3 per cent, the maximum, In 1938. 3. Grants in aid to states on a match ing basis for assistance to persons six ty-five or older, the government's con tribution not to exceed $15 per month. 4. Old age benefits after January 1, 1942, ranging from $10 to $85 per month, depending upon the total amount of wages earned after Decem ber 1, 1936, and before reaching sixty five years of age. 5. A 90 per cent credit to employers for taxes paid into state unemploy ment insurance funds, the other 10 per cent to be apportioned among the states for administration of their un employment Insurance laws. 6. Grants in aid to states for aid to dependent children, the federal gov ernment putting up $1 to the state's $2. An appropriation of $24,750,000 Is authorized for the fiscal year 1936. 7. Grants in aid to states oa an equal matching basis for maternal and child health services. An annual ap propriation of $3,S00,000 is authorized. 8. Grants in aid to states on an equal matching basis for the care of crippled children. An annual appro priation of $2,850,000 is authorized. 9. An annual appropriation of $1, 500,000 through the children's bureau for aiding state public welfare agen cies in the care of homeless or neglect ed children. 10. An annual appropriation of $1, 938,000 to be apportioned among the states for vocational rehabilitation. 11. An annual appropriation of $8, 000,000 to be apportioned among the states for public health services. 12. Grants in aid to states on an equal matching basis for assistance to the blind. An annual appropriation of $3,000,000 is authorized. 13. A social security board of three members in the Department of Labor, to be appointed by the President, each member receiving $10,000 a year. EWING Y. MITCHELL, whom Pres ident Roosevelt ousted from the position of assistant secretary of com merce because he could not work in harmony with secre tary Roper, retaliated with public charges that "special inter ests" dominate the Commerce department. He cited especially a government contract with the United States lines for the perma nent lay-up of the steamship Leviathan, asserting that it was against the public in E. Y. Mitchell terest and that "those interested In j the company, including P. A. S. Frank lin, John M. Franklin, Vincent Astor and Kermit Roosevelt" stood to bene fit by it He also severely criticized the bureau of air commerce and the steamship inspection service. No one In the administration seemed disturbed by Mr. Mitchell's outbreak, but the senate committee on commerce at once summoned him to explain and expand his charges. Mr. Mitchell turned out to be an excitable gentle man, prone to jump to conclusions and to voice his opinions rather than facts. He talked a lot about Inefficiency, "sinks of corruption." "favoritism and graft" and such things, but be didn't tell the committee much that It didn't already know. He asserted the United States lines, a subsidiary of the Inter national Mercantile marine, had re ceived a "gift" of $1,721,000 through the retirement of the Leviathan. SENATOR JAMES COUZENS of Michigan has given to the federal government $550,000 to finance a 1,000-acre residence colony for part time Industrial workers In the Detroit area. A tract has been purchased nine miles south and west of Pontiac. The project will be controlled by a non profit corporation. POOR old NRA, now Just a thing of skin and bones, has. a new set of managers. President Roosevelt issued an executive order extending the emaci ated affair until April 1 next. In accordance with the resolution adopted by congress, and then announced that James L. O'Neill, vice president of the Guarantee Trust com pany of New Tork, would serve as admin istrator. Assisting the banker In the effort to persuade the public, business men and la G. L. Berry uor to abide voluntarily by the codes no longer enforceable, and In the as sembling of statistics, are Leon C. Marshall, director of the division of review; Prentiss L. Coonley, director of the division of business co-opera tion, and George L. Berry, assistant to the administrator, representing la bor. Mr. Berry, who has been serving as a code administrator, is president of the International Pressmen's union. O'Neill, Marshall and Coonley were made directly responsible to the Pres ident. An advisory council of six members was named to help them. On this council are Charles Edison and Howell Cheney for Industry; William Green, president of the American Fed eration of Labor, and Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers, for labor, and Emily Newell Blair and Walton H. Hamilton for consumers. AFTER three bloody riots In Oma ha's street car strike, In which one man was killed and nearly two hundred were Injured, Goy. R. L. Cochran of Nebraska took charge of the situation. State troops were called out to preserve the public peace and the governor, meeting with representatives of the traction com pany, the central labor union and the strikers, ordered that the dispute be arbitrated Immediately. President Roosevelt succeeded In averting the threatened strike of bi tuminous coal miners. Both the oper ators and the United Mine Workers agreed to a trace until June 30, be fore which time It Is hoped a new wage scale can be formulated and accepted. GREAT BRITAIN'S realistic govern ment finds the best patb toward general peace In Europe Is conciliation of Germany, so It has yielded to Hit ler's naval demands and concluded a bilateral pact with the relch, disre garding entirely the desires and fears of France. The agreement acknowl edges Germany's right to build a fleet up to 35 per cent of the tonnage of the British empire, and, what Is more Important, permits Germany 45 per cent, and In certain circumstances, parity with the empire in subma rine tonnage. Submarines were forbid den to Germany by the treaty of Ver sailles. ^ SECRETARY OF WAR DERN ex onerated MaJ. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois of blame for the army air-mall fiasco and merely directed that he be reprimanded for mak ing "inexact, unfair and misleading" state ments to the house military affairs com mittee. This didn't suit certain members of the committee who Insist the general should be removed from his command of the army air corps. Representatives Wil liam H. Rogers of New Gen. Foulois liampsnire ana Lister urn 01 Aiauatna said they would carry the matter to the floor of the house and there re view the evidence the committee took. In holding that Foulois should re ceive more drastic punishment than a reprimand, Representative Rogers made public a letter from Secretary Dern to the committee. The letter followed an official War department statement clearing Foulois, whose friends insisted be was being made a scapegoat for the administration air mail blunder. PRESIDENT CARDENAS of Mexico appeared to have come victorious out of a crisis that was precipitated by Plutarco Ellas Calles, who was op posing Cardenas' economic policies. The young president forced his entire cabinet to resign and formed another that would support him wholehearted- j iy The Mexican City Catholics, who are pretty much suppressed, took advan tage of the presence in the capital of thousands of Rotarlans attending their international convention, and held a monster parade with speeches calling for religious liberty. Where the President Does His Dirt Farming DRESIDENT Roosevelt Is In a way a real dirt farmer. He Bpent bis chlld i hood, as did his father and his grandfather, on the 1,000 acre farm at Hyde Park, N. Y, and still maintains It, obtaining therefrom all the green stuff and dairy p&ducts that his family uses and selling the considerable surplus. This recently taken photograph shows a part of the truck farm. The superintendent of the Hyde Park farm Is William Plog, who has been In the employ of the Roosevelts for many years. Bedtime Story for Children* By THORNTON W. BURGESS ? f * BUSTER BEAR IS HUNGRY DUSTER BEAR was hungry. There wasn't any doubt about that Dan ny Meadow Mouse, watching from bis hiding place under a little pile ot brown leaves In the Green Forest, didn't have to be told that He had only to watch Buster raking over the leaves on the ground, sniffing among them as he did so, to kDow that Bus ter was hungry. What he was hunting for Danny didn't know, but he did know that If a hungry Bear should And a fat Meadow Mouse, well. In about two winks that Bear would be a little less hungry. Knowing that didn't make Danny feel any more comfortable. No, siree. It didn't "Oh, dear! Oh, dear me! What ever did I leave the Green Meadows for?" Danny asked himself over and over as one little chill chased anotber little chill all over him. "If I ever get back there I'll never, never, go so far away from home again. I never will, I never will," he repeated over and over to himself. All the time he sat perfectly stllL He wouldn't have breathed If he could have helped it, but of course he had to do that And all the time he kept his bright little eyes fixed on the great black form of Buster Bear as Buster wandered this way and that way In the moonlight sifting down through the tree tops. Perhaps he would have felt a wee bit easier bad he known what It was Buster was looking for among the brown leaves. Buster was hunting for beechnuts, of which he Is very fond. But Danny didn't know this. You see, Danny knew very little about Bus ter Bear. "He's looking for Mice. That's what he's looking for. He must have found out from Billy Mink or some one that I am over here, and he's looking for me," thought Danny, and the little chills chased each other all over him faster than ever. You see, be was so frightened that he didn't stop to really think. Sometimes Buster would go off to one side until Danny couldn't see him among the trees, and he would begin to hope. But If he couldn't see Buster he could hear Buster's great claws rak ing and raking over the leaves, and It seemed to him the most awful sound he ever had heard. Then Buster would I PAPA rNCWS-l f 1 "Pop, what it a reign?" "Scenic railway.* e Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service. come back In his direction and the lit tle chllla would make Danny shake bo that his teeth chattered. Danny Mead ow Mouse was frightened. Yes, Indeed, Danny Meadow Mouse was very much frightened. At last. Buster Bear, having raked over all the leaves all about, looked straight at the little pile under which Danny was hiding and Danny felt sure that Buster was looking right at him. Then Buster began to walk straight toward that little pile of leaves and Danny Meadow Mouse. C T. W. Burf eu.?WNU S?rvlce. I . I "I still contend that the queerest thing a magician ever pulled out of a hat," says pertinent Polly, "is his head." I QUESTION BOX By ED WYNN... The Ptrftct Fool Dear Mr. Wynn: My father gave me a new gun for my birthday. I want to use It right away as my vacation starts next week. 1 am thinking of going to the woods In Pennsylvania. Is the hunting good there? Sincerely. IKE N. SnOOT. Answer: It sure Is. In fact. It Is better than the finding, but not as good as the voting. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am the father of a girl nineteen years of age. I do not permit her to stay out at night, but allow her to have her boy friends at borne. There Is one boy who?comes to see her every night For two months my gas bills have been very large, but this month the bill Is very small. The same boy comes to see my daughter, so how do you account for the difference In bills? Sincerely, SIM ITLLTON. Answer: Tbere're engaged now. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am a boy eighteen years of age and my ambition la to be a detective. I am supposed to be rather homely, and my father says In order for me to be a detective I will have to have my face lifted and use all kinds of beauty crear-" Can you me what he means by giving me such foolish advice? Yours truly. O. WATTAFACB. Answer: Your father simply means that to be a detective you must be a "good looker." Dear Mr. Wynn: This afternoon, as I was looking out my back window, I saw an old hen of mine eating a lot of tacks. What did she do that for and what aball I do about It? Yours truly, CHICK N. FEEDE. Answer: Don't do anything about It; just watch her, maybe she Is going to lay a carpet C Associated Newspaper*. WNU Service. The Kitchen Table By ANNE CAMPBELL I I SUE sits with heavy heart, and watchful eyes? An angel banished from her Paradise. The sale proceeds . . . Her treas ures one by one. Are purchased for a song by kindly neighbors. She sees the couch go, where her old est son Lay till released from earth's purpose ful labors. There la a chair, a chest of drawers. . . . Unable To buy, she longs most for the kitchen table. For It was at the kitchen table she Was blessed most by her home's tran quility; Here she has bent, and rolled the flaky crust For pies, and stirred up cakes and cookies . . . Here Many a hasty luncheon has been thrust Down eager throats . , . Speech. Intimate and dear, Took place around this table made of pine. So homely was Its use?but half di vine! For finer treasure cannot stir her thought As this does ... All the furni ture she bought Long, long ago Is carried from the door. She does not grieve for It . . . Hi dreams remain Aronnd a kitchen table, where once more The children gather, doing sums again . . . And she, engrossed In happy memory. Smiles at her husband o'er a cup of tea. C Weat.ni Ntvqwpcr Dnlaa. ttotKe&P^BooK SPRING DISHES WITH the delicious rhubarb, fresh from the garden, one has the best of spring tonics. Cut It Into half Inch lengths without peeling and put to bake In a baking dish with sugar to sweeten. Remove from the oven when tender and serve either hot or cold. Rhubarb Betty. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and add two cupfuls of bread crumbs, mix with one cupful of sugar, one fourth teaspoonful eacti of cinnamon and nutmeg, the grated rind of an orange and one cupful of fresh grated coconut or one package of coconut. Place the mixture In layers with three cupfuls of rhubarb, using tbe Juice of the orange sprinkled over the fruit Cover with buttered crumbs and bake 45 minutes closely covered. Uncover and brown. Serve plain or with a hard sauce or a foamy egg sauce. Rhubarb Vanity. Wash and cut tbe rhubarb without peeling Into half-inch pieces, place In a baking dish, adding one cupful of sugar to a pound of rhubarb. Cook covered, over low heat until the Juices (low, then uncover and cook until thick. Ey adding the sugar after the rhubarb is nearly done It will save constant watching. Cool and fold In two well beaten egg whites and three-fourths of Bridesmaid in Hood Masjrj Rouff puts a pointed hood on the cape of this bridesmaid's dress of white mousseline de sole printed with a floral pattern of pink and green. She places self flowers under the chin and on the back of the skirt The dress has a ruffle edged decollete. a cupful of freshly shredded coconut. Chill before serving with a thin cus tard, using the yolks of the eggs and one cupful of milk and sugar to sweeten. C Wntfru N?*ipip?r Union. He Has Made a Real Pig of Himself SPALDING BRADBURY, largest ptg In the recent Royal Agricultnral show at Sydney, Australia, evidently has spent his life in effort to Increase his slxe. He Is seven feet long a veritable porclso Camera.
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