THURSDAY, MAY 16, IMS THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN PAGE SEVEN Reelection of Roosevelt Next Year Seems Certain (Special To The Press-Maconian) WASHINGTON, May IS. -The great game of politics, which is al ways going on behind the scenes in Washington, is being played more and more in the open now, as the lines begin to form for the election battle of 1936. There is a great deal more frankness on the part of the players, more open ad mission that they are concerned with their own reelection as much as they are with solving the per plexing problems of the nation in the most effective way. This is especially notable in the Senate, onerthird of whose mem bers come up fof re-election next year, and another third in 1938. It is not yet so iqarked among mem bers of the House of Representa tives, all at whose terms expire next year; but in the lower house, also, many members who have been counted as loyal supporters of the Administration are beginning to echo the remark of one eminent Senator, who expressed a growing feeling when he said: "Roosevelt is going to need us next year quite as much as we need him. We don't have to cling so tight to his coat-tails as in the past." Every fellow for himself The reason for this state of af fairs is that Senators and Repre sentatives are hearing from back home, and the message they get is that there is a growing coolness among the people toward some of the New Deal measures. How ex tensive and how serious this is, none of them is quite sure. There are a good many Congress districts and several states in which a switch of only a few thousand votes from one side to the other would make a decided difference in the political complexion of the next Congress. There is not much doubt in Wash ington, so far that President Roos evelt will be re-elected. All the odds are in his favor. But it would be entirely possible for the Presi dent to be re-elected by the pow er of the electoral votes of the larger states, even though he car ried each of them by a narrow margin, arid still leave a large batch of Congressmen and Senators of his own party out on a limb. That is what is worrying the boys on Capitol Hill. They want to save their own skins, and so they are showing their independence by balking at such parts of the Presi dent's program as they think might not set well with the folks back home. It is not quite fair to regard this as a cowardly and selfish attitude. Some of them have never relished taking orders from the White House, having in dependent ideas of their own and feeling that it is their function, rather than that of the Executive, to draft and enact legislation. They went along with the Presi dent, not only for the sake of par ty harmony but because there didn't seem to be any other way to get started toward the goal of eco nomic recovery. As long as there was a practically unanimous senti ment throughout the nation, that was the sound and politic thing for them to do. Now, however, they feel that public sentiment is not so one-sided. The Chamber's Objection The attitude of some members of the President's own party in oppo sition to some parts of his pro gram was strengthened by the rep resentations made by the delegates to the annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit ed States. This organization is composed of nrartieallv all of the chambers of commerce and boards of trade in the United States. It is, there fore, a representative cross-section of the average business men- of the nation. Therefore, when its convention adopted resolutions ask ing for the postponement of the Social Security plan, the ending of NRA, opposing the President's plan for regulation of public utilities and suppression of holding com panies, against the plan for Federal control of bank credit, the pro posed strengthening of AaA and the Wagner industrial relations bill, the Chamber's utterances were taken seriously. Administration supporters pub licly tried to "laugh them off." The President himself expressed dis belief that business men generally felt the way the convention did; but there is no denying that this first important organized expres sion of disagreement with the New Deal has had a serious effect, al though naturally it does not rep resent unanimity on the part of business interests. Another Meeting Almost at the same time that the Chamber of Commerce was meet ing, there was another meeting of even greater significance being held in the White House. This was be tween the President and a group of Democratic Senators, who served notice on the Executive that they would not go along with him on all of the legislation which , he has ear-marked as "must." Those who profess to know what took place at this meeting report that the atti tude of these recalcitrant Senators was very definite. Therefore, because of all that has just been set down, what may fair ly be expected between now and the adjournment of Congress is a few compromise measures, which will not suit anybody, much, and the shelving of several items which the Administration earnestly wants. Congress is definitely much less interested in social reforms than is the White House. It is definitely much more inflation-minded than the President. Mr. Roosevelt is bent upon checking the movement toward currency inflation, but to avert it he will have to accept the verdict of Congress on some of his reform plans. It's anybody's guess, this week, when Congress will adjourn. BASS ATE WATER SNAKE XENlA, O. (UP).-While fish ing in a stream near here, Robert Baker, Cedarvffle, landed a 13 inch bass, inside of which he found a nine-inch water snake. Usually, fishermen say, it is the other way around the water snakes swallow ing smaller fish. it's Rufus Don't you-all know wrong ter believe in ghosts? Goofus Ah don't believe in 'em. Ah wouldn't trust a ghost as far as Ah v could see him. How You Doin ? "Aren't you ashamed of yourself begging?" "Madam I am not begging I am a professional coin collector." Philadelphia Bulletin. LEGAL ADVERTISING NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness se cured by a certain deed of trust executed to the First National Company of Durham, Inc., and the Union Trust Company of Maryland, Trustees, on the first day of July, 1928, by Frank T. Smith and wife, Virginia Smith, on the lands here in described, said Deed of Trust being recorded in Book 32, page 30, in the office of. the Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, the undersigned will, hav ing been so requested by the hold er of said indebtedness, offer for sale at public auction, to the high est bidder, for cash, subject to all unpaid taxes and street assessments, at the Courthouse door in Macon County, North Carolina, at twelve o'clock noon on Monday, June 17th, 1935, the lands described in said LEGAL ADVERTISING Deed of Trust, to-wit: In the Town of Franklin, begin ning at an iron rod on the North East side of Harrison Avenue, and the South West corner of the A. R. Higdon lot, 578 feet measured along the Easterly line of Harrison Avenue from North side of Church Street; runs thence North 66J4 East 264 feet to a stake corner of A. R. Higdon lot ; then South 22y2 East 108 feet to a stake in old line; then with old line North 86 West 28 feet to a stake, an old corner ; then North 5 feet to a stake, an old corner ; thence North 86 West 221 feet to a stake on LEGAL ADVERTISING Harrison Avenue; then with Harri son Avenue North 39 West 78 feet to the beginning. The Union Trust Company of Maryland having resigned as Trus tee, as in said Deed of Trust pro vided, the sale is being advertised and conducted by the undersigned Trustee. This thirteenth day of May, 1935. W. G. BRAMHAM, and T. L. BLAND, Receivers, First National Company of Durham, In corporated, Trustee. M 16 5tc RDS J13 Roy F. Cunningham GROCERIES And FEEDS UNCLE MACK COFFEE, lb.. ...17c POLLY RICH FLOUR Superlative 24 lb. bag $1.10 Patent .48 lb. bag $2.15 MICHIGAN BEANS, lb. 5c MOTHERS OATS, 3 lb. box 25c Health Club Baking Powder, 32 oz. can 21c SNUFF Square 4 oz. can.... 20c Garrett 3 oz. pkg ...19c Bruton's 3 oz. pkg ...18c 5 STRAND HOME-MADE BROOMS 50c A $200,000,000.00 MARKET MANUFACTURING PLANTS Are Needed In the CAROLINA S To Supply the Demand for This Tremendous Volume of Trade Carolinians Send $200,000,000 Outside Their States Every Year for Products That Might Just As Easily Be Manufactured at Home Some Classes of Manufacturing That Offer Opportunity: WEARING APPAREL FOOD PROCESSING I- mmi f. . . r The Carolina produce only a small fraction of the The yam cantor of the country u in the Carolina processed food consumed in the States. Besides but comparatively few garment plants have been this home market of huge proportions, the nation established in the State. The field is almost wide is demanding more of the States' high iodine open for dress making. It is estimated, for content fruits and vegetables. It is estimated that instance, that the Carolines use the nroducts of SO be two States import the following amounts of large shirt plants but only a fraction of that number Butter . ......! j s,so,80 has been established. The States also consume Chese .... 6,500,000 the output of more than 200 medium sized dress- Canned fruit and wtofctes"ZZZI lJooJoeJ making plants and only a handful operate here. Sea foods 15.000.oos Raw Materials la Abundance Are Available For These Industries. It Will Pay to Investigate. 7k CAROLINAS Iae Carolina, Inc. Box SO, Charlotte, N. C ' Without obligation, pleaae tend concerning Carolina, lac aad copy Opportunity Bulletin. INC. information m Carolina Cite TIm newspaper of North aad Sooth Carolina ! have donated the poet for thia aad a aerie of advertisement which will appear for the ' purpose of bringing facte about the Carolina j before their people, that they may bo hotter I informed a to the resource, history and industrial importance of the Carolina, and that they may know how they can assist n the broad movement to advertise to the world the advantages of this favored section.

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