Washington, July 30.—The Wash
ington picture is still one of a group
of tired, steaming and disgruntled
members of Congress toiling away at
a task which they would prefer to
postpone until Winter, but which
they are tackling because the major
ity of them have become convinced
that their own political fortunes and
those of their party are in large
measure dependent upon their do
ing what the smiling gentleman in
the White House has told -them
has to be done.
Like good soldiers, the members of
Congress are making a desperate
effort to put through the president's
"must" program, even though this
involves starting with a blank sheet
of paper to draft, what many con
sider, the most important and far
reaching tax bill since the Hawley-
Smoot Tariff Act of 1928, and to do
that in the shortest time possible.
The ways and Means Committee
of the House of- Representatives,
with whom all tax legislation must
originate, is bending to its task with
all the good will it can muster, un
der the chairmanship of that hard
working wheelhorse. Representative
Robert L. Doughton of North Caro
lina. Collaborating as far as pos
sible with the House committee is
Senator Pat Harrison of Missis
sippi, Chairman of the Senate Pi
nance .Committee, through whose
hands the bill must also pass.
These two gentlemen are among the
most experienced and best balanced
political figures in the two Houses
of Congress. Some few are of the
opinion that had they been left to
their own initiative, neither one
would have dreamed of trying to
draw up a measure of such vital
importance in such a short time.
School of Taxation
The bill that finally results from
these committee deliberations will
probably not conform, in many re
spects, to Mr. Roosevelt's skeleton
outline. Both Senator Harrison
and Chairman Doughton are
shrewd enough politiciaans to» know
just how far it is safe to go, and
that, in their judgment, is not as
far as the president would like to
go.
A regular school of instruction in
the fundamental principles of taxa
tion has been set up in the offices
of the Ways and Means Committee.
The professors are Lovell H.
Parker, Chief of Staff of the Con
gressional Joint Committee on In
ternational Revenue Taxation, and
Herman Oliphant, General Counsel
to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Neither of those gentlemen is a poli-
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the power
contained in a certain deed of trust
executed by W. O. Ray and wife,
Zanie Ray, to the undersigned
trustee, recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Surry County
in Book 109, page 232, default' hav
ing been made in the payment of
the note thereby secured and at the
request of the holder of same, the
undersigned trustee will offer for
sale at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash on Monday, August
26th, 1935, at ten o'clock A. M., in
front of the Post Office, Elkin, N.
C., the following described property,
to-wit:
Lying and being in the town of
Elkin, Surry County, North Caro :
Una and Beginning on a stake in the
Elkin Land Company old line, A.
W. Minnish southwest corner; 30
feet north of Oak Tree and runs
south 83 degrees east 240 feet to a
stake; thence south 2 1 /z degrees west
111.2 feet to a stake; thence south
88 degrees, west 192 feet to a stake;
thence north 131 and 3-100 feet to
a stake; thence north 31 degrees,
east 30 feet to a stake and place of
beginning, containing 11-17 of an
acre, more or less.
This the 22nd day of July, 1935.
M. L. PETTYJOHN,
Trustee.
Earl C. James, Atty. 8-16
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tician. Both of them are masters of'
facts and figures, and Mr. Parker in '
particular is a thorough student of i
the whole subject of taxation. If
their advice is followed, the chances:
are that the tax bill, when it comes
out, will be workable and practical.
Estate taxes, taken out of a dead
man's property before it is dis
tributed among his heirs, will un
questionably be increased. There
is doubt, about the practi
cability of Mr. Roosevelt's proposal
foi 4 inheritance taxes, to be paid by
the heirs, after already-taxed estates
have been distributed. -The techni
cal advisers of Congress are of the
opinion that any such plan would
be extremely difficult to work out
and to administer equitably.
It can be set down as certain
that individual income taxes will
be increased under the new bill.
All incomes down td SIOO,OOO a year
and probably on very much lower
incomes. The more the committee
studies the proposal of increasing
corporation taxes in proportion to
capitalization, the more the feeling
grows that it probably would not be
good politics to impose a tax on
mere bigness.
Whether this Congress will re
main in session until it has enacted
the proposed new tax law is still an
open question. The prevailing de
sire is to get the bill out of com
mittee and have it published, so
that it can be widely discussed while
Congress takes its much-needed va
cation before finally acting upon it.
Perhaps the controlling factor
which will determine whether Con
gress adjourns around the middle
of August or sticks around until
the tax bill is passed, will be the
activity of the advocates of the
bonus payment to veterans, the
Black Thirty-Hour-Week Labor
Law and the Greenback inflation
proposal for the relief of mortgaged
farms. If these muster too much
of a show of strength, Congress
may adjourn in spite of orders from
the White House at least until the
weather gets cooler.
S. S. CONVENTION
TO MEET AUGUST 11
To Convene With Pine
Hill Friends Church;
Is Annual Event
The Surry-. County Sunday School
Convention will be held in Pine Hill
Friends church, on Sunday, August
11, 1935. This is the annual Coun
ty Sunday School convention and is
especially planned for all those in
terested in the Sunday schools of all
denominations. The program as
scheduled for this year, calls for a
three-session convention beginning
at 9:45 a. m. and continuing through
afternoon and night sessions. Be
tween the morning and afternoon
sessions there will be a fellowship
dinner on the grounds, and everyone
is asked to bring a. basket lunch.
The morning and afternoon ses
sions will consist of addresses center
ing around the various phases of the
convention theme "Building a New
Community," as well as special mu
sic, and two study groups. These
study groups are especially designed
to meet the needs of teachers, offi
cers, and all other Sunday school
workers or members. Miss Myrtle A.
McDaniel, director of leadership
training of the State staff will have
charge of the study group on "More
Effective Sunday Schools." Mrs.
Grady Cooper, Dobson, will have
charge of the discussion group on
"Children's Work."
The night session while especially
prepared in the interest of young
people will be of intense value and
interest to everyone. Young people
are preparing to present interesting
parts of the night program.
COUNTY AGENTS
DID FINE WORK
Dean Schaub Says Farm
Agents Were Given
AAA Emergency Job
Writing in the July-August issue
of the official magazinfe of the Pot
ash Institute, Better Crops With
Plant Food, Jeff McDermid reminds
the nation that the county farm
agents were given an emergency job
when the AAA field work was or
ganized and that the agents came
through in a highly acceptable man
ner, says Dean I. O. Schaub, direc
tor of agricultural extension at
State College.
The Dean quotes the magazine as
follows:
"Thoughtful surveys of the Exten
sion Service in these recent years of
farm credit and crop adjustment,
drought hazards and super-organi—
zatinn in a crisis, convince anyone
that the machine ran smoothly. In
a few— days more than 70,000 pro
duction-control committeemen were
hitched into harness and ready to
drive ahead in the greatest single
piece of social engineering that
American farming has witnessed.
County Agents did it.
"There were enough delay*, legal
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fog, and contrary orders to put the
average untrained fellow Into the
filbert class in short order; but
somehow, trained as they were in
patience and endurance, the major
ity of the agents hung on like grim
death and saw it through. They
had to.
"Unless they carried On, the whole
caboodle of contracts would have
gone amiss, the radical rooters
would have taken the reservation
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might have vanished . . . My thesis
is that the whole business, despite
the* grief and gunplay, has been a
good boost for the system. The
service depended primarily on the
welfare of agriculture and it could
not last through a few more years
of poverty and dismay. The team
work between county agents and
specialists and the farmers devel
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CHARGE BRITISH DOMINATION
Washington, July 28.—A charge
that the President and state depart
ment are domirfated by the British
foreign office was coupled today by
Representative Tinkham, Republi
can, Massachusetts, with a demand
for neutrality legislation.
"Both the President and the de
Thursday, August 1, 1935
partment of state, dominated and
controlled by the British foreign of
fice," he said in a statement, "are
opposed to legislation providing for
strict neutrality of the United States
in the next war, a war which is al
ready beginning to loom on the Eu
ropean horizon."
Never put off until tomorrow what
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