Thursday, June 30,1938
WASHINGTON
Washington, June 28—The 75th
Congress broke all records for
peace-time spending. In its two
regular sessions and one short
extra session it appropriated more
than 21 billion dollars. Consid
erably less than half of that
amount will come out of tax rev
enues. The rest will have to be,
or already has been, borrowed.
Political observers with long
memories are recalling here the
famous remark of Thomas B.
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VOTE FOR
RALPH SCOTT FOR SOLICITOR
PRIMARY SATURDAY, JULY 2
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Ralph, one of five children, was born on a very small farm, in
Shoals township, a son of poor ' but honorable parents. Ralph
has himself by his own effort.
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Reed, Speaker of the House in the
1890's. In one two-year period
when the Congress had appro
priated a billion dollars, Tom
Reed replied to a critic of such
legislative extravagance: "The
United States is a billion-dollar
country." It has now become, by
the same scale, a twenty-billion
dollar country. v
The second session of the 75th
Congress spent a third more
money than did the first session.
In 1937 it appropriated $9,456,-
000,000; in 1938 its appropriations
amounted to $12,300,000,000.
Many Major Enactments
Of this huge total slightly more
than 5 billion dollars were for the
general recovery-and-relief pro
gram of the Administration, one
and three-quarter billions for the
Administration's farm program,
almost two billions for national
defense and more than ten bil
lions for the regular department-,
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al operations of the government.
The list of major enactments
by the session just ended includes
the Farm Bill, tax revision, wage
standard legislation, naval ex
pansion, Federal highway aid,
flood control, civil aeronautics
control, housing, tfood and drug
law revision, merchant marine re
form, Reconstruction Finance
Corporation amendments to pro
vide commercial and industrial
credits, and the relief and recov
ery bill.
Bills not" passed included exec
utive reorganization, recommitted
in the House after a bitter fight;
anti-lynching, killed by a Senate
filibuster; railroad financial aid,
jettisoned in the last-hour ad
journment rush; and the Walsh-
Healey government contract bill
amendments, providing a "black
list" of alleged violators of the
National Labor Relations Act,
which was killed by the House
leadership in the adjournment
rush.
This latest session of Congress
differed from moot of its prede
cessors in that comparatively few
of its acts were the result of pres
sure from sources outside the gov
ernment.
The most barefaced attempt at
dictation to Congress by a "pres
sure bloc" failed. That was the
attempt of the C. I. O. leader,
John L. Lewis, to "turn on the
heat" on members of Congress to
compel them to adopt a law black
listing corporations which do not
accede to the rulings of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board.
President Regains Lost Prestige
In the closing days of the ses
sion Lewis obtained from Speaker
Bankhead permission to use the
Speaker's office as a place in
which to interview Members of
Congress. That proceeding, and
the bullying attitude which Mr.
Lewis assumed toward the mem
bers who responded to his sum
mons had precisely the opposite
effect from what he intended. It
created an antagonism toward the
C. I. O. and its leader which in
the opinion of many Congress
men, will be difficult to eradi
cate.
It is regarded as definite that
the influence of that major
branch of the Labor Lobby has
been decidedly weakened. The A.
P. L., rather than the C. T. 0.,
can take credit for the final push
which put over the wages-and
hours act; but the heaviest pres
sure for this, as for most of the
other acts of this Congress, came
from the White House.
Surveying the scene in the light
of all that occurred, it is felt here
that Mr. Roosevelt regained most
of his lost prestige before the ses
sion ended. If the November elec
tions go in such a way that he
can interpret them as a vote of
renewed confidence, there is little
doubt that he will press again in
the next Congress for his Govern
in en t Reorganization program,
and possibly for the reinstatement
in the tax laws of the undistrib
uted profits tax, which was strick
en out over his protest.
.New York Political Outlook
The outlook for the next Con
gress is complicated by the sudden
death of Senator Copeland of View
York. Dr. Copeland, though a
Democrat, was one of the most
vigorously outspoken anti-N e w
Dealers. His passing makes nec
essary the election of two new
Senators from New York, Senator
Wagner's term expiring at the end
of this year. Mr. Wagner is as
ardent a New Dealer as Dr. Cope
land was an opponent of the Pres
ident.
The New Deal plan had been to
run Senator Wagner for Governor
of New York and Governor Leh
man for Senator. Now it is re
garded as probable that this plan
will be abandoned, and that Sen
ator Wagner, who has proved
himself a strong vote-getter in the
past, will be induced to stand for
re-election, and that the New Deal
will back for the nomination in
Senator Copeland's place either
Solicitor-General Robert M. Jack-
son or Relief Administrator Har
ry Hopkins.
There are intimations that
former Governor Alfred E. Smith
or Mayor P. H. LaGuardia may
take the field as a candidate for
thie senate, though Mr. La-
Guardia's ambition is believed to
be the Governor's mansion in
Albany.
At the present time the Repub
lican Party is strong in New York
state, with a clear majority in the
lower house of the state legisla
ture, and 22 out of 51 Senators.
In the other states where Dem
ocratic primaries are still to be
held, the WPA and the President
have been put on warning by a
powerful committee of Senators
that &ny use of WPA funds or any
other direct pressure by the Ad
ministration to influence the
voters will be bitterly resented and
may result in more Democratic
Senators "going off the reserva
tion."
COOL SPRINGS
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Conrad
and children of Winston-Salem,
were with us Sunday evening. Mr.
Conrad gave an interesting ad
dress and Mrs. Conrad and chil
dren furnished two special songs.
They were accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Pettyjohn, and
several other friends.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Everette
Darnell, a fine set of twin boys.
Several of the Cool Springs
family attended the funeral ser
vices held at Swaim's Knobs for
Mr. Bill Casper Sunday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Harris and
sons, Maynard and Carol, and
Mrs. J. W. Newman visited
Qwendolyn Harris Linder and
Mr. Linder. at Salisbury, the
past week-end.
Mr. A. C. Wall, an A-l book
keeper for the warehousemen at
Winston-Salem and South Caro
lina, is proving that he can farm,
too. He took down that brag
field of red clover last week. Hay
crops are fine and tobacco far
better than last year.
Cdme visit with us at our ser
vices this week. Glad to have
you.
Mrs. Mancy Adams and son.
Barney Smith, Mts. Mafe Hol
brooks and daughter. Miss Annie
Bell Holbrooks, all of Elkin, route
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Turner Drug Co.
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1, spent Sunday In Virginia.
Among the places they visited
were Independence, Gold Hil) tod
places in Grayson county.
During their visit Itfrs. Holbrook
visited her sister, Mrs. Bessie
Anderson, whom she had not seen
since childhood when they were
orphaneti ih'df separated.