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Friday, August 27, 1937
Quits With Few Accomplishments
Congress quit last Saturday evening at 0:55 o'clock,
undone the Inch expected nt it liv the people.
As a whole, the Congress accomplished very little
during the nearly eight months it wa- in session, and
the fellow who works the year around is of the opin
ion that many of the Representatives, and Senators,
too, have not earned their nay, certainly when accom
plishments are considered.
The old antagonists maintain that the ('resident's
court plan jammed the brakes on and made impossi
ble the handling of other legislative matters. These
old antagonists had no other legislative plans to offer,
and about the only thing that has been interrupted by
the court squabble was those annual vacations of sev
eral months' duration. If some of those senators, in
ciuding our own Mr. Bailey, who fought the court toll
to the last ditch, had had some plan of their own to
offer and that plan had been blocked by the court bill
argument, then, and not until then, could the admin
istration be charged with gumming up the works.
To the layman it appears that some all-wise Sena
tors have gummed up the works by lighting plans pro
posed for the advancement of recovery and for the
welfare of the masses.
The court plan advanced by the President to get
around the wrecking of the AAA was bitterly attacked.
Those who attacked the court bill then turn around
and favor pegging cotton prices at 12 cents a jround
apparently torgelting that such a practice will prove
futile unless sup|x?rled by some control plan for pro
duction
Whatever interruption follows in the New Deal re
covery program will be chargeable to those senators
?ho have blocked the administration plans and offered
none of their own.
Admit Need for Farm Legislation
Quitting their posts last Saturday, a majority of
Representatives and Senators is said to have admitted
the need for some type of farm legislation and agreed
to give agriculture first consideration at the next ses
sion of Congress, either at a s|>ecial or the regular
lession in January. This recognition and the agree
ment to consider farm legislation are to to accepted
is the most encouraging news to come out of Wash
ington in months. It shows that some of the slow
thinking members of Congress are at last waking up
to actual facts.
?Probably the old Agiicutturat Adjustment Admin
istration had its fault, but that system was far totter
than the old plan of glutting the markets year after
year and inviting the economic downfall of the every
one of us. - From now until the next session of the
National Congress convenes, some of those who have
bitterly assailed the New Deal will find it advisable
to give the existing conditions much study and for
mulate plans to remedy those conditions. If they can
do it, and do it effectively without challenging that
great old historic document, the Const if ut ion, so much
the better But they must do something, for they
cannot expect .to keep tearing down all the while un
less they offer something better themselves.
Strange Maneuvers
Nevis and Observer
To an outsider Tammany's recent moves -including
its late blessing upon Jimmy Walker?are bewildering,
but to the observer of Gotham's political situation,
their meaning is simple enough. Tammany Hall, en
raged by the scant attention paid to it by the Roose
velt administration, means to recover its old power by
an active war on the New Deal. It means to win back
its cootrol over local jobs, its connection with city
contracts, and its influence in national politics. Its
nominal leader is Sullivan, but it is not denied that its
actual one is Al Smith.
It is freely charged that its choice (or mayor, Sena
tor Ccpeland, it the candidate of the New York wing
of the Liberty League, led by Al Smith, William Ran
dolph Hearst, the reactionary Republicans, and all the
gentlemen who teamed up against Franklin D. Roose
velt last year." Senator Copeland left little doubt
about that when he turned upon the President's nomi
nation of Hugo Black for the Supreme Court.
Caa Tammany upset the New Deal' It still has
mm power, but its hold has been sadly shaken by the
fact jhat its districts have been depleted of voters by
* wivmls to Brooklyn and the
suburbs. And it no longer ban al thr aid pod tbnp
to hand out to the boys.
Washington administratioa it toidtnt that pouerful
influences are being organised to dona the New Deal
in New York They believe that the note an the cowt
issue in Congress means the headm is locked and an
his way out. The Liberty 1
the 1 "resident last year was <
working by indirection. For help in their attempt to
nullify the New Deal they are depending on Tammany
and certain Southern members of
Congress Win the
tram stand hitched and will it whoa and haw as di
luted.- That remans to be seen
While Congress Labors
tlkm Trihmmr
Here are two news items appearing m the paper,
last week that ma> or may not be significant depend
ing on how one wants to regard them:
"Gastonla Representative Butwinkir returned
here from War ngum sumr time ago. closed his
office there and .pened his home here. Congress
man Bulwinklr i- thinking oi returning to Wash
ington soon, the a-ngth of his stay in Washington,
after bis return there, will depend upon the a
mount of important business scheduled for con
sideration before adjournment, be indicated.
"Washington Senator Bailey left here last
Saturday night to join his family at Morebead
City. . Senators and close friends were informed
by him before he left that be would probably nut
be back this session. Senator Bailey has suffered
considerably from headaches since bis lice-hour
sjjeeth against I'rrsident Rooseveh's court plan."
Everyone is prit.leged to write bis own ticket, but
we reckon that it is not out of place to observe that
when the boys arr (arousing around al home they are
not representing- and goodness knows if ever three
was a time when the country needs tfar benefits of the
collective wisdom of Congress it is now. When the
man who tends the Lathe in a factory decides to knock
off for a spell, his wage usually is knocked off with
him. but Messrs Bailey and Bulwinklr will nut br so
handita[>prd. their pay will gr one while they frdi and
reflect on how they have saved the country.
Some representatives in Congress hold to the theory
that having wanted their [^i-r* anaagh to fight for
them, it is not seemly to leave Washington on account
of the hrat, but maybe Senator Bailey and Congress
man Bulwinklr just plain don't give a hang
Farm Returning in Favor
Harry Jjnnry, Fori Carlmg, Cmmmda. in CnU iboro
Ml
A potent influemr in this "Back to the Farm" trav
el. working fur a better distribution of population, is
the growing prattwe of locating industries in small
towns and villages In literaffy hundreds ?f towns ot_
less than 4,000 pofrulatiun in Canada, and particularly
in Ontario and tjurbec Provinces, there is a total
dearth of industries except such as rely diiectly on
agriculture. This -ituation has tended to narrow the
view and contract the sympathies of both the farmrt
and the industrialist. The wider diffusion of indus
tries will be of great advantage to all. And what is
said of Canada also applies to North Carolina.
To the farmer it means improved living conditions,
more varied contacts, better markets, and increased
cultural upportumt.es. To the factor man who form
etly worked and lived in congested quarters in some
city it means reduced living costs, a more commodious
home, a garden fur vegetables and Bowers, and most
likely opportunity tor some outside diversion and in
come. such as poultry-raising Above all. it takes him
and his family away from tkr dirt and noise of the city
and brings them into closer contact with nature and
country life
Improved farm . dditkms and the scattering of fac
tories can do much to rejuvenate decadent villages and
make them once n> re the important factor in national
lite they were in our early history. If they grasp their
n|nHglunltie>, they iibt only will develop for dm farm
er improved trade 'acilitirs, but wil provide suitable
< tunnels for innunx-rabir social activities now greatly
needed. Educational advantages can be brought oo
a par with those in jwogressive cities and the instincts
for beauty can be given for expression.
Lindsay Warren and FDR
Korkv If.nrrf Etrnrng TrUgrnm
1 hi President |vomi>ed Lindsay Warren be would
come: that > why he came to Mantro That's abu
why 1 am here With these simplr words. Postmas
ter General James A. Farley gave a questioner in
Rocky Mount some idea of thr siar of North Cany
.iiu's First Distmt Congressman among leaders in
W ashingtun.
With the pressure of dutirs incidmt to the closing
sessions of Congrr? and other duties arising out of the
far East situation, nut many occasions could bring the
I resident away from Washington at this timr. Of
course, the celebrathiei and its historic associations at*
worthy of a President s call, but lie linking of these
with a personal appreciation for the grant service of a
great Congressman is a tribute that I mdisy Warren's
friends in North Caruhsm and in Washmglon can both
understand and a}prove How masqr members of Con
gress, we re-qxet fully ash. could take the Chief E&ecw
tive away from his desk at this that?
Substituting Sentiment tor Duty
Tie Arlington Snm .
Too often we substitute
will neglect his souther for a
i r s Day send her a big
his prosperity nil neglect In
causes, and when he is no kg
moan the fact that he
us habitually give our pity In
In nobody.
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