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PACE SIX THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY, SEPT. II, ! Enactment of Bonus Bill At Next Session Predicted Passage of Farm Mort gage Relief Bill Is also Seen Likely (Special to The Preas-Maconian) WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.-Presi-dent Roosevelt's promise of a "breathing spell" for business, with its immediate encouraging effect all over the country, is being sub jected to more careful scrutiny by politicians of all parties and va rieties than any other recent docu ment from the President's pen. Replying jto ai letter of inquiry from Roy W. Howard, head of a great newspaper chain, the Presi dent said, in substance, that the Administration was through with its effort at reform, and intended to concentrate its energies on re covery. Naturally, the supporters of the Administartion hail this as a statesmanlike utterance, while its opponents look upon it as a well timed piece of political strategy. Regardless of how one views the Presidential declaration, it certain ly has stimulated discussion of fu ture political events, especially of the campaign of 1936. There is no doubt that the Ad ministration forces are trying to consolidate their position, particu larly in the matter of Federal fi nances. Very earnest attention is being given to the plans looking toward balancing the budget with in a reasonable time, and the grad ual tapering off of relief expendi tures. Now that Congress itself has had a brief "breathing spell," sober consideration of issues that must be met at the next session indicate that bringing Federal in come and expenditures into balance is going to be quite a job. Democrats and Republicans alike, Senators and Representatives, are in substantial agreement that the bonus bill will Ee enacted at the next session. It probably will not be the Patman bill, which provides for an issue of unsecured green back currency with which to pay off the veterans' claims, but more like the Vinson bill, calling for a bond issue of above $2,000,000,000, thereby adding that sum to the Federal expenditures. Farm Mortgage Outlook Many members of both Houses and of both major parties believe that the next session will see the passage of the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage relief bill. This measure carries an appropriation of $3,000, 000,000, to be lent to distressed farmers to take up real estate and chattel mortgages. Borrowers under this plan would have 48 years in which to repay the loans, which would bear only per cent interest. Since the amount proposed to be appropriat ed would take up only about one fourth of such mortgages, the feeling is expressed that once the plan were in operation the demand from the remaining three-fourths of the farmers would be irresistible and the Government would be com mitted to a far greater debt than it has yet incurred. But regardless of this Congres sional outlook, the general -feeling in Washington is that the Presi dent meant it When he said that he had no further social reforms to advocate. The "breathing spell" will give an opportunity to see how the reform measures already en acted work out in practice. G. O. P. Stirring Signs increase that the "Young Republicans" will play a big part. Just what the strength of the Young Republican movement is in the party councils may be disclosed in the last week of this month. Chairman Fletcher of the Republi can National Committee, has called a meeting of the party Executive Committee in Washington on Sep tember 25, the first time it has met since June, 1934. Two rising Young Republican leaders are expected to make them selves heard on this occasion. One is Harrison Spangler, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who is Chairman of the permanent committee appointed at the "Grass Roots" Convention last Spring. The other is John Hamilton, counsel to the Republi can National Committee, who is working very closely with Mr. Spangler in the efforts to bring new blood into the party organization and to formulate policies which will appeal to the younger voters. Mr. PRESIDENTIAL POLL LAUNCHED (Continued from Page One) fering to our subscribers, giving them the chance to vote in this nation-wide poll. It affords three choices of the possible three lead ing tickets in the 1936 field. It is your provilege to vote as you choose and with no strings attach ed. You are not asked to sign your name and thus in any man ner politically commit yourself. Your honest conclusion and choice, fairly given, is all that is suggest ed. Your Chance To Vote Why not clip the ballot and vote it now! Then mail it to this news paper. Your ballot will then be sent to New York where a central office staff will tabulate the votes and give us state and national re turns each week. Publishers Autocaster News Ser vice of New York, which serves The Press-Maconian and all other newspapers cooperating in conduct ing this poll, has agreed to per form the duties of a national head quarters on this poll. The editor of that newspaper service has as sured us that most accurate tabu lation will be given the vote and that only actual votes from parti cipating newspapers will be count ed. Here is a chance for every read er of this newspaper to vote his preoonvention Presidential choice for 1936. Clip, vote and mail the ballot to us today. As soon as the first early returns have been re ceived we will be in position to in form you when the final nation wide results may be expected. Vote early and we can all know how the Presidential winds are blowing! Muse's Corner PARADOX Mountains Dressed in young green leaves, Trimmed with deep green of pines, Freshened with rain, Caressed by sun Majesty. Heaven Richly but warmly and softly Blue, Casually flecked With smears of white clouds. Heaven and mountains meet In gentle contrast In strange sameness. Man rushing Furiously, Futilely, Achieving little; Rain flowing in muddy little puddles Absorbing city dirt; Sun mercilessly exposing Filth and squalor and shame; Man Shaming and destroying nature. And yet man Can look at mountain and sky and find God. Mary Anne Heyward. Fit Stock Show Planned at Asheville ASHEVILLE, N. C, Sept. 18. Invitations have been extended to a large number of prominent buy er $ of fat cattle and hogs to at tend the Western North Carolina Fat Stock Show to be held in Asneville on October 9. Buyers in all ' parts of the southeastern sec tion of the country have been in vited to attend the show and many of these have already signified their intention of being present. Plans for the show are being rapidly perfected by the commit tee) in charge of the event. Great enthusiasm and interest in the shojw has been expressed by pros pective exhibitors. It is expected that several hundred entries of fat cattle and hogs will be exhibited. Spangler is being talked about as the, probable successor to Mr. Fletcher as Chairman of the Re publican National Committee when it has its annual meeting in De cember. , , , daH !Bk aS Ha H LaB H wf'Fy? Isb&s&wM LB BATON ROUGE, La Above is one of the latest pictures of U. 8. Senator Huey P. Long and family. It was taken in New York shortly before the Louisiana dictator was shot and seriously wounded in the corridor of the Louisiana State Capitol by a disgruntled political enemy, Dr. Carl A. Weiss, Jr., who in torn was mowed down by machine guns in the hands of Senator Long's body guards. In the photo are: Senator and Mrs. Long; daughter Bote and son, Palmer Reed Long. Mother of Two at 14 Jones, 14, With her two children, Baby Barbara, . 2 weeks, and Teddy Vernon, 1 year old. Her husband, a young truck driver, met Jeanetie at a local school playground and' they eloped to Indiana to be married. Jeaaette was born in Kentucky but moved here when aha was 4 TODAY DISTRIBUTION . . . weak spot I read in a California paper the other day that several tons of lemons had been dumped into the Pacific Ocean in order to keep the price of lemons up. I have known of similar inci dents on the Atlantic Coast whole cargoes of bananas and carloads of other foods dumped into the bay. It seems to me that the greatest weakness in our social-economic structure is our system of distribu tion. There is no such thing as over-production so long as any body's wants remain unsatisfied. I would like to see statesmen and economists giving more thought to the problem of getting the things people want into the hands of those who want them, than to making artificial attempts to increase the profits of producers. ENGLAND .... mjot o slow I was greatly struck by a state ment published recently by Harry Selfridge, the former Chicago mer chant who moved to London and now operates the largest store in the world. Mr. Selftidge said that the improvement in the system of distribution of commodities in Eng land has resulted in adding to the payrolls of British retailers rflore RsnoraSiiBBHv'SSuoSovH la people than had been thrown out of employment by the industrial depression. We are inclined to think that we are a good deal smarter in all business affairs than the English. While it is true that it took a Yankee merchant to show them the way, the quickness with which the British merchants seized upon the basic idea of low prices and quick turnover through stimulative advertising suggests that John Bull isn't as slow on the uptake as many of us in America have imag ined. Mr. Selfridge's theory that the time to advertise most is not when business is good but when it is bad seems to me an entirely sound one. BACKYARDS . . . fertile I get- very tired of hearing peo ple say there are no more oppor tunities left for the adventurous and enterprising youth of America. There are more and bigger oppor tunities than our fathers and grand fathers ever had. A young friend of mine, David Gross, has just written a book en titled "Gold in Our Backyard." I wish every ambitious boy and girl in America could read it. He points out literally hundreds of different fields in which opportunity awaits the enterprising and resourceful. The prizes that we are hunting for are not always on the other side of the mountain range, but very close to home. STORIES . . . from wheelchair I know a lady who has been a cripple from childhood, unable to move about except in a wheel chair. She had never traveled more than a few miles from her home in a small Southern town. Years ago I heard her bemoaning her in ability to get around and see the world. If she could only do that, she thought, she could write sto ries. A friend suggested to her that people were people and very much alike in their emotions and re actions anywhere in the world. Why didn't she try writing Stories about the people and scenes with which she was familiar ? My friend adopted the sugges tion and began to write simple lit tle fiction stories based upon inci dents in the daily life of the peo ple she knew. It took her a long time to master, the technique of writing, but now, at sixty past, she is still earning $10,000 a year with her pen. She found gold in her own back yard I WAGES ..... then and now Among some old papers which one of my New England neighbors found recently in an old trunk in the barn loft were some interesting records showing the wages paid a hundred and eleven years ago to rural workers on the highways. Here are the figures: For a man per day to the last day of July, 83 cents; from the last 'day of July to the last day of September, 67 cents; from the last day of Septem ber to the dose of the year, SO cents; for a team and four cattle and a cart to the last day of September, 75 cents; from the last day of Septem ber to the dose of the year, 56 cents; for a plough, 25 cents per day throughthe year. Those rates oer day, were pretty rinse to the rates now paid per hour. Of course, thev don't mean much unless they could be com pared with the cost of commodities at the same time, but they are in teresting as indicating how the scale of the ordinary man's earn ings has gone up since 1824. 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