Thursday, March 28, 1940
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Washington, March 28—Movie
goers who saw the film "Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington" may
have got the impression that
sessions of Congress are apt to
be dramatic and exciting affairs.
As a matter of fact both the Sen
ate and the House of Represent
atives usually put on a pretty
dull show. Only once in a blue
moon is there anything of emo
tional or dramatic interest in the
debates in either House.
Senators and Members as a
rule keep their tempers under
pretty close control when they
are out on the floor where the
visitors in the galleries can see
and hear them. After they ad
journ, what they say to each
other is something else again.
There came near to being an
exhibition of fireworks when the
Senate began to discuss the
amendments offered by Senator
Carl Hatch of New Mexico to his
bill to keep Federal office hold
ers out of politics, which became
a law last year. Mr. Hatch pro
posed to extend the law to keep
all State employees whose sal
aries are paid in whole or in part
out of Federal funds, from taking
part in any way or contributing
to Federal election campaigns.
This proposal was aimed pro
marily at State Highway Depart
ments, which administer high
way funds provided in part by
the Federal Government. In
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many states, perhaps in most, the
Highway Department has become
a powerful arm of the dominant
political machine.
Naturally, many Senators of
both parties didn't like Mr.
Hatch's new proposal. There was
more sputtering and violent lang
uage heard on the Sepate floor
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than at any previous time this
session. Anu when Senators
! gathered in the cloak room af
terwards the things that some of
them said to some of the others
were almost unprintable.
The Democratic floor leader,
Senator Barkley of Kentucky,
who had backed up Senator
Hatch, became so angry, when
his party followers abused him,
that he threatened to resign his
position as the party's leader, but
nobody called that bluff.
The Senate finally passed the
new amendments intended to
make politics pure, and tacked
on another provision that no
body may legally contribute more
than $5,000 to any party cam
paign funds. If such a law could
be enforced it would hit the re
sources of both parties about
equally.
Dramatic Occurrence
The most dramatic occurrence
in Washington lately occurred in
the committee room of the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee.
Lester P. Barlow, a well-known
inventor, many of whose devices
are used by the Army and Navy,
explained to the Committee sit
ting behind closed doors the
workings of a new bomb filled
with a combination of liquid oxy
gen and carbon.
, Everybody in the room was
sworn to secrecy but according to
Senator Nye, who said he had
never seen a Senate Committee so
thoroughly impressed, Inventor
Barlow convinced the Senators
that his new miiltary weapon is
the most devastating explosive
ever devised.
The detonation of a single
bomb dropped from an airplane
would destroy all life and all
buildings over a radius of many
miles. The committee was so im
pressed that before it adjourned
an oath of absolute secrecy was
administered not only to the
Senators but to the committee
clerks in attendance, and the
stenographers' notes of the in
ventor's statements were direct
ed to be burned, to prevent a
possible leak. i
In another Senate committee
room a dramatic episode occurred
when a Negro Communist, Ben
jamin J. Davis, Jr., who is a
graduate of Harvard Law School
and an assistant editor of the
Communist newspaper, The Daily
Worker, delivered a fifteen min
ute tirade against the opponents
of the anti-lynching bill. He
abused Vice-President Garner and
members of the Committee by
name and narrowly escaped being
thrown out of the Committee
room physically. He was actual
ly ordered out, with the comment
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Franklin Daniel Boone Hard
ing, Yadkinville attorney, was
named Bth District Republican
candidate for Congress at a
meeting of Republicans held at
Lexington. Mr. Harding paid
his filing fee of SIOO and is
preparing to enter the fight.
Mr. Harding is a son of the
late Dr. T. R. Harding and
Mrs. Harding. He is a grad
uate of Yadkinville high school
and the University of North
Carolina, A. B. 1925, and at
tended the University law
school, and has practiced law
in Yadkinville since 1929. He
was once principal of Yadkin
ville high school. He is past
master of Yadkin Masonic
Lodge and a member of the
Civitan Club; served three
terms as Mayor of Yadkinville
and is now prosecuting attor
ney of the Yadkin county crim
inal court. He is married and
has one daughter, 3 years old;
is a member of the Methodist
church and teacher of the
adult Sunday school class.
by Senator Van Nuys, author of
the bill, that he had done his
cause more harm than good.
Most Interesting Topic
Outside of Presidential politics
and plans for distributing more
money where it will do the most
good in the Presidential cam
paign, the most interesting topic
which members of both Houses
are concerned with is the pro
posal to amend the National La
bor Relations Act to give em
ployers as good a break as em
ployees now get.
The issue is pretty sharply
drawn between the Conservative
Democrats, cooperating with the
Republicans, and the New Deal
ers in Congress over the recom
mendations for radical changes
in the Labor Relations laws and
the methods of their administra
tion.
This is the one measure now
pending before Congress in which
the full power of the Administra
tion is being exerted. Mr. Roose
velt's aides and followers do not
want the law changed. The out
come is still uncertain.
Economy Forgotten
Congress will shortly begin to
give serious attention to new
plans for helping the farmers.
There is every indication that all
the economy talk'will be forgot
ten and that a great many more
millions than the original budget
provided will be appropriated for
one form or another of Farm Re
lief.
Secretary Wallace's new scheme
of raising four hundred and
eighty millions by a complicated
processing tax probably will not
be the answer which Congress is
seeking. There is a good chance
of the passage of a law to enable
tenant farmers to buy their
farm with money lent to them by
the Government on long-term,
low-interest mortgages.
STATE ROAD
Mrs. Eugene Wilkerson, who
was Miss Opal Buxton before her
marriage Friday, was honored
when Mrs. W. O. Key entertained
at a miscellaneous shower at iher
lovely home on Tuesday evening.
Games and contests were play
ed, with prizes going to Mrs. Doyle
Key and Miss Hazel Carter.
Little Miss Helen Brookshire
and Master Frank Key acted as
bride and groom, bringing in the
presents in an improvised Easter
carriage. Refreshments were
served to Mesdames J. E. Mostel
ler, Sam Parks, Paul Phillips,
Melvin Mauldin, Bill Walters, Bob
Walters, Alice Hicks, W. H.
Combs, T. A. Gentry, W. M. Dick
erson, John Brookshire, James
Irvin, Emma Walters, Doyle Key,
Misses Hazel Carter, Lucille Maul
din, Helen Dickerson and Dorothy
Penfield.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Brannock
and children, Ruth and Kent, of
Independence, Va., visited Mrs.
Brannock's father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Combs, Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hanes
and daughter, Anne, and
Pauline Dickerson, of Kings
Mountain, visited Mr. and Mrs.
McKinley Dickerson for Easter
'holidays. They were accompan
i led home by Miss Helen Dickerson
for an indefinite visit.
Mrs. Thurmond Douglass and
Mrs. Leslie Reinhardt, members
of the North Elkin school faculty,
were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Clete Jenkins and family
, Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gentry
!and little daughter, Joycelyn, of
Lynchburg, Va., and Mr. and
Mrs. Noah Ray and children, Al
len and Betty, of Salisbury, were
Easter guests of Mr. and Mrs. T.
A. Gentry.
Miss Mary Prances Combs of
Elkin high school, and Miss Peg
gy Walters of North Elkin school,
have been chosen to represent
their grades in the county spell
ing contest to be held at Dobson
Tuesday.
Mrs. Jane Martin of State
Road, route, was the week-end
guest of her son, Mr. G. P. Mar
jtin and family.
Misses Cleta Jenkins, Juanita
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Carter and Joy Darnell, students
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FARM EQUIPMENT
Earnings of farm equipment
companies declined sharply In
1939 compared with those of the
two preceding years, as a reflec
tion of (lower farm buying power.
HOUSING
The low-rent Federal housing
program will be expanded to
fanning sections on an experi
mental basis, President Roosevelt
has announced.