The Rocky Mount Herald
iUME 3, NO. 13
Roosevelts Greet
f. During ief Stop Here
■SI/ "It's Good To Get Back To North
' Carolina," Chief Executive Tells
W People.
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* STOPS HERE LATE SUNDAY
"It's good to get back to North
Carolina," were 'the words which
greeted approximately 2,000 persons
of Rocky Mount and vicinity who
assembled at the South Rocky Mount
4 station of the Atlantic Coast Line to
* see and hear President and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt who were on
their way to Florida for a short va
cation.
The president's train stopped at
% the local station at 6:40 P. M. Sun
day. At approximately 6:45 the pres-'
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt came oat
on the observation platform of the
train and were greeted by the en
thusiastic cheers of the thousands
I - • who lined the tracks to see the na
tion's leader and his wife. The tram
L* - left the station five minutes later.
Secret service men made sure that
all was in readiness for the presi
dent's appearance. These details re
quired five minutes before the guar
dians of the chief executive's safe
l ty were assured that it was all right
for Mr. Roosevelt* to come out on
the platform.
The president and his wife smil
ingly greeted the crowd. Mr. Roose
velt exchanged pleasantries with
* those close to the observation plat
form. Mrs. Roosevelt did not speak.
Sends His Greetings
"There were a lot of people at
the Rocky Mount station, but as tho
train could not stop there, I was
unable to talk with them," the pres
ident said. "Please carry my re
gards back to all those good people."
This was greeted by cheers.
The president was given a small
token by the Boy Scouts of the city.
He thanked them and said, "I am a
Boy Scout myself."
0 Mrs. Nell G. Battle, of this city,
r mother of Turner Battle, assistant
secretary of labor, mounted the
train and presented Mr. and Mrs.
Roosevelt with a bouquet of flow
ers. -
One of the less bashful members
of the crowd asked the chief exe
cutive, "Are you going to do a lot
of fishing!" The president smiled,
and replied, "I plan to do a lot
more sleeping fishing.
. Mr. Roosevelt appeared in unu
sually good health in spite of the
rigorous demands of his position. He
was dressed in the characteristic
gray, double-breasted suit. He ap
peared without a hat.
Mrs. Roosevelt was dressed in
black and also looked to be in fine
spirits. \
" The- president and his wife have
* passed through the city on several
* occasions, but on the previous trips,
the train arrived here during the
night while the president was sleep
ing.
Mr. Roosevelt was scheduled to
leave for the south several days
ago, but the recent flood problems
delayed his vacation for he remain
ed in Washington long enough to
sign the $3,000,000 bill which allot
ted funds to the WPA for flood
relief.
There were-eight cars in the pres
• "" idential special which carripd the
usual retinue of staff members and
newspapermen.
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Lone Confederate
>iirviv2s In Nash
George Washington Joyner's Death
At 91, Leaves Only John Wesley
Bone
Nashville, March 22. —With the in
terment here today of George Wash
ington Joyher, 91, Nash County
saw it's thinning ranks of Civil War
veterans cut to a single surviving
man, John Wesley Bone of Sandy
Cross.
3 Joyner, venerable Nash resident
and veteran of the War Between
the States, died here yesterday af
ternoon following a paralytic stroke.
Before his death, he and Bone were
Nash county's two remaining he
roes of the Civil War.
Mr. Joyner was born in Nash Co
unty, August 28, 1844, the son of
Tommy and Amie Land Joyner.
1 I His early life was spent in tho vi
cinity of Nashville. He enlisted at
the outbreak of the Civil War. He
■** saw service in one battle, the bat
* tie of Channingville, in which he
was wounded. For a year he was im
prisoned nWPoint Lookout.
Last August, on Joyner's ninety
first birthday anniversary, he and
Bone met for the last time at a
birthday celebration givefr in their
honor by friends and»relatives.
Funeral services were conducted
* from the Nashville Baptist church
this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock with
tho pastor, Rev. P. B. Upchurch,
officiating. Interment was in the old
Joyner burial ground.
Mr. Joyner is survived by five
children, Mrs. J. b. Tyson of Nash
ville, Mrs. Senora Dean of Spring
Hope, M. H. Joyner and Mrs. J. R.
Batchelor of Nashville; forty-threo
grand children; seventy-one great
grand children, and two great-great
grand Children.
'Tis said that absence conquers
love;
1 > But oh believe it not I
-V« I've tried, alas! its power to prove.
TM But thou art not forgot,
—Federick W. Thomas.
Dedication Is
Held By Church
Special Exercises Mark Payment Of
Debt On Building At Rocky Mt.
Members of Arlington Street Bap
tist church dedicated their building
Sunday. M. A. Huggins, secretary
of the Baptist State Convention,
spoke at the morning service while
Dr. J. W. Kincheloe, pastor of tho
First Baptist church, spoke at night.
The Rev. O. N. Marshall, who
succeeded Rev. R. N. Childress as
pastor of the church in February,
1935, and T. A. Avera, prominent
lay leader of the city, determined
several months ago to put on a
campaign to reduce the heavy in
debtedness which had hung over tho
church since it was built. The First
church membership of this city, to
gether with other interested citi
zens, aided in the campaign and on
February 29, 1936, the indebtedness
on the church was paid in full.
Mr. Marshall came to Rocky Mount
a year ago to become pastor of the
Arlington Street church. He was
reared near Castalia in Nash County.
He went to rural school in Nash
County and to Wakefield high
school, taking his college work at
Wake Forest. He was licensed to
preach by his home church at Cas
talia, and was ordained to the full
work of the ministry on March 16,
1905. •
From Wake Forest, Mr. Marshall
went to Henderson Baptist church
for four years. While there he waa
married to Miss Grace Brown Har
ris. After serving several pastorates
in North Carolina, he went out of
the State for nearly a decade of
work, serving pastorates in Virgin
ia and Maryland.
J. O. Harrell Is
Buried In Tarboro
Tarboro.—Funeral servcies fo{ J.
O. Harrell of this city' w«*e con
ducted ffom his home on ..Howard
Avenue at three . o'clock. .Saturday
afternoon with Rev. W. T. Merritt
in charge. Burial followed in Green
wood cemetery. He was 74 years old.
Surviving are his widow and ten
children: Mrs. G. R. Harrison of
Hopewell, Va.; Mrs. J. H. Whitley
of Roanoke Rapids; W. N. Harreli
of Newport News, Va.; Mjs. G. W.
Gurganus of Rocky Mount; MJS. D|
E. Everette of Conetoe, and Mrs.
P. W. Carter, N. W. Harrell, E. Har
rell, B. T. Harrell and J. C. Harrell,
all of Tarboro.
37 Anniversary
Planters Bank
On March 27th the Planters Na
tional Bank and Trust Company
ends its thirty-seventh year of
continuous banking service to this
community. When this bank was or
ganized, with a capital of $25,000.00
there were only 2,934 people in
Rocky Mount. Today its total re
sources are over $-5,000,000.00;
The first officers of the Planters
were J; C. Biaswell, President; J.
W. Sherrod, Vice-president; W. P.
Hamilton, Cashier; Bunn and Sher
rod, Attorneys; and the following
were members of the original Board
of Directors: M. C. Biaswell, H. B.
Bryan, M. R. Biaswell, George S.
Edwards, J. R. Sorsby, J. M. Sher
rod, W. L. Petty and J. C. Bras
well.
When the bank was organized in
1899, it was a State bank. In 19-
14, when the Federal Deserve. Sys
tem started operations, the Plan
ters became a National Bank an 1
a member of the Federal Reserve
System. Trust powers were given to
the Planters National Bank and in
1929 the name was changed to The
Planters National Bank and Tru3t
Company. With the establishment of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration in 1935, the Planters, be
ing a National Bank, automatically
became a member.
The present officers of the Plan
ters National Bank and Trust Com
pany are: J. C. Braswell, President;
M. R. Braswell, Vice-president; Mil
lard F. Jones Vice-president, Cash
ier and Trust Officer; Robert D.
Gerham, Vice-president; Wiley W.
Meares, Assistant Cashier and As
sistant Trust Officer; A. H. Wood
lief, Assistant Cashier; R. R. Bras
well, Assitant Trust Officer; C. W.
Parker, Auditor; Jasper L. Cumings,
Manager Public Relations Depart
ment. The following are members
of the present Board of Directors:
George S. Edwards, M. R. Braswell.
J. C. Braswell, H. B. Marriott, M.
D. Munn, J. P. Bunn, S. Robbins,
Robert -D. Gorham, Millard F. Jones,
James W. Hines, W. C. Woodard,
W. B. Lea, W. 8. Wilkinson, R. R.
Braswell and T. J. Pearsall.
J. C. Braswell has been the pres
ident since the organization of the
bank in 1899, which is an unusual
record for any bank or banker.
Roosevelt allots $200,000 to
Florida canal project.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936
Fire Chiefs And
Officials Convene
Representatives Of Nearly Twenty
Eastern Towns Meet in Kocky Mt.
. Fire chiefs and city officials, may
ors principally from nearly 20 eas
terly North Carolina cities ami
towns came to Rocky Mount Monday
to discuss the North Carolina fire
college and drill school and the
state firemen's tjonvention.
A full program of speakers, in
cluding Sherwood Brockwell of
Raleigh, chairman of the North Car
olina fire college and drill school
committee, Dr. W. 8. Long, chief
of the Graham fire department and
president of the state firemen's as
sociation; W. E. Holland, cheif of
the Raleigh department and vice
president of the firemen's association
and others was ' provided.
Besides the talks, a barbecue din
ner, with the Rocky Mount volun
teer /department acting as host to
the nre chiefs, assistant fire chief*,
mayors and city officials at
tending, was on the program. That
was followed by a tour of the now
municipal water plant and the pow
er plant, with Public Works Di
rector Lyon in charge.
Cities having a fire chief or city
official at the meeting included En
field, Spring Hope, Robersonville,
Tarboro, Wilson, Wilmington, Ra
leigh, Graham, Mount Olive, Golds
boro, Selma, Roanoke Rapidß, Farm
ville,. Weldon, Kinston, Wake Forest
Ayden and Greenville as well as
Rocky Mount.
Anti-Roosevelt
Sources Traced
OrganlzaUona Found To Be Getting
Money From Same Large Con
tributors
Washington, March 21.—Senate
Lobby investigators today reported
the receipt of evidence that sever
al anti-New Deal organizations have
drawn their principal financial sup
port from a virtually identical list
of large contributors..
This was learned, investigators
said, in the course of an extensive
and continuing examination of the
;financial sources of twenty or twen
tv-five organizations, among them
:the American Liberty League, the
'Southern Committee to Uphold the
Constitution, the Sentinels of the
Republic and the Crusaders.
TJie Southern Committee to Up
hold the Constitution sponsored the
recent grass roots convention of an
ti-New Deal Democrats, beaded by
Governor Talmadge of Georgia. The
; telegrams of one of its leaders,,
John H. Kirby of Houston, Tex.,
.have been subpoenaed by the com
mittee.
J. A. Arnold, manager of the
American Taxpayers League, this
week underwent a sharp cross-ex
amination by the lobby committee
on his relationship with Kirby, a
former associate. He denied any re
cent cooperation. Chairman Black
(D.-Ala.), intimated, however, that
the committee knew would, seek to
bring out facts about Kirby's ac
tivities later.
Meanwhile, House leaders planned
to put through Black's joint reso
lution to equip the committee with
SIO,OOO for a special counsel to fight
the injunction suit brought by Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, challenging
the legality of the committee's me
thods of subpoenaing telegrams.
They expected to obtain adoption
at the first cnovenient date, inti
mating they felt there was no im
mediate necessity for speed since
the measure requires President
Roosevelt's signature and thus prob
ably cannot become effective until
lie returns from his present Florida
fishing trip.
In advance- of certain house appro
val, Col, C'rampton Harris, Birming
ham, Ala., attorney, and a former
law partner of Black, was busy pre
paring the committee's defense. He
expected to file a reply t the
Hearst suit early next week.
Black, who would not discuss oth
er phases of the investigation, did
confirm the faot that the commit
tee is looking into the southern
committee to uphold the constitution
and asserted that recent published
reports that the committee was in
vestigating this or that group or in
dividual game from sources outside
the committee.
"The committee," he said, has
stood by a policy of- not giving pub
licity to the names of those sum
moned or whose papers or corrj
spondeiK'e or books are summoned
until the witnesses are placed on
the stand. Of course where the par
ties summoned wish it be made pub
lic, they are at liberty to make their
own announcements."
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What A Town
The police had photographed the
convict in six positions and sent
the pictures throughout the country,
asking the authorities to appra
hend him. Promptly came the reply
from the marshal of Hicksville Cor
ners, which read as follows:
"Received the pictures of crimi
nals. Have captured five of thom
and am on the trail of the sixth."
—Toronto Globe.
Dubb—Why did you keep ' ap
plauding that soprano t Her voice
was terrible.
Mrs. Dubb—l know it was, but
her gown was so beautiful I wanted
to get another look at it.
Japanese Girl Slays Giant "Snake"
T-'" Japan reocnUy enjoyed the rsunH-llikl
festival In Osaka, In the course of which a girl priest cut eight knots of
a huge coll of stra# in tbe re-enactment of the slaying of a great snake
with eight heads. Uhls ceremony took place at the shrine ot Susanoono
Mikoto, who is reputed to have killed the monster in the dawn of Jap
anese history.
Sales Tax Issue
From the talk! generally throughout the State, it looks
like the sales ta|c is going to have right much weight in
the coming campaign. There is a great body of people who
are constitutionally opposed to the gross sales tax, for it
leaves out of the equation the ability to pay.
There are others in the State, who believe that the Gov
ernment should be supported very largely by per capita
taxation and th«y are highly in favor of the gross sales
tax. There are some who contend that the sales tax will
not be one of the main issues, but we fear that those who
maintain this, are not conversant with the general feeling.
It played, an. important part in the New Jersey election.
It was very potent in the Kentucky election and it is a
very live issue in West Virginia. There is no question that
a gross sales tax is unpopular in our State, and it is hoped
that some other means of taxation may be found to take
the place of this taxation. We believe that the State of
North Carolina must find some way to relieve the dinner
table from this burden.
" JKfIST COOPERATE NOW
The farmers are beginning to get busy, preparing land
for early planting. While we have had many times as much
rain and. snow, as we usually have, which has delayed work
on the farm, yet the last few days have brought about a
great change and work is going on very rapidly.
The farmer realizes the importance of cooperation more
than ever before and it is expected that every farmer in
this belt will cooperate with the soil conservation act as
soon as the bill shall pass, and it is earnestly hoped that
if it becomes necessary to make this act effective, for the
legislature to be called into extra session, that the Governor
will do so immediately.
District Meeting
Juniors At Bailey
Members of the 23rd district of
the Junior Order will assemble in
the gymnasium in Bailey on Friday
night, March 27th, for a District
Class Initiation. A barbecue sup
per will be served at 6:30.
Chas. F. Tankerly, Jr., of Hen
derson, E. V. Harris, Field Secre
tary, of Tarboro, together with
other state and district officers,
will attend this meeting which
promises to be the largest initiation
this district has ever had.
Jake ♦Wiustead, District Deputy,
states that he is expecting more
than fifty candidates and an attend
ance of more than 400 Juniors. He
states that the program which Ims
been arranged promises to be the
most interesting yet.
This district, which is composed
of Nash, Wilson and Edgecombe
counties, ranked fourth in member
ship increase last year. There are
28 districts in the state.
At a similar meeting in Rocky
Mount last year, in celebration of
George Washington' 3 Birthday, more
than 500 members were present and
over 40 candidates were initiated.
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Rites Are Held
For Wm. Andrews
William M. Andrews, 44, who died
Sunday night in a Hampton, Va.,
government hospital, was buried in
Red Oak cemetery. Rev. John P.
Bross, pastor of the South Rocky
Mount Methodist church, conducted
services from the home, No. 309
Cregg street.
Mr. Andrews leaves his wife, Mrs.
Bessie Andrews, here; a sister, Mrs.
J. A, Coley, also of Rocky Mount;
and a brother, Henry Andrews, of
Leggets.
Pallbearers included Kelly M. Da
vis, Frank Strange, L. H. Howell, N.
E. Bell, J. I. Nichols and N. O. Ri
ner, and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Post No. 2057, had charge of
the services.
Our hours in Love have wings:
in absence, crutches.
■—-Colley Cibber
Fountain Speaks
At Clinton Hon.
Former Lieutenant-Governor R. T.
Fountain, candidate for United
States Senate, addressed the vot
ers of Sampson County in the
interest of his candidacy on Mon
day morning at Clinton. He ad
dressed the voters of Pender County
at Burgaw at the noon recess of
court Mnoday. On this trip, he vis
ited Wilmington, Columbus County,
Bladen County, Cumberland, Harn
ett and Johnston Counties.
Former Resident
Is Buried Here
Private Service Held Here For Wil
liam T. Ward—Died Saturday
At Burgaw
Funeral services for William T.
Ward, 73, a former resident of this
city and widely known throughout
the state, were held in Rocky Mount
Dr. J. W. Kincheloe, pastor of the
First Baptist church, presided at the
services which were private.
Mr. Ward died at the homo of
his brother, A. D. Ward in Bur
gaw Saturday afternoon. Ho had
been ill for only a short time. His
body was shipped here to take its
place in the Pineview cemetery be
side his wife, the late Mts. Harriet.
Ward who died twelve years ago.
Mrs, Ward was the late Harriett
Eleanor Smithwick of Martin co
unty.
Mr. Ward was a native of Gates-
County. He came to Rocky Mount
with his family and lived on Grace
street for a number of years. His
brother Hallett S. Ward of Wash
ington, N. C., is a United States
congressman.
The following children survive:
Mrs. Thomas Jarvis of Belhaven, Dr.
Edwin S. Ward of western Carolina.
Mrs. George T. Vinson of Newark
N. J., and Mrs. Albert H. Belisie
of Worchester, Mass., and a step
son, Dr. N. B. Mariner of Belhav
en. Four brothers, Eugene Ward of
Wallace, A. D. Ward of Burgaw,
and Hallett S. Ward of Washington,
N. C.; and one sister, Mrs'. Kate
Taylor of Ocean View, Va., also sur
vive.
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
LUMPKIN TO MANAGE
MCDONALD CAMPAIGN
Winston-Salem, March 23.—Dr.
Ralph W. McDonald, candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor, announced here today that
W. L. Lumpkin, veteran legislator
and co-leader of the anti-sales tax
group and of the school forces in
the 1935 General Assembly, will man
age the McDonald campaign.
"Knowing Bill Lumpkin as a
staunch Democrat, a true follower of
Jefferson, and a champion of the
rights of the masses of people, I
naturally turned to him as the out
standing man in the State to head
our campaign. With Lumpkin a#
leader of our forces we can and will
give the State government back to
the people of North Carolina," said
McDonald in making the announce
ment.
Reached in Louisburg for a state
ment, Lumpkin said:
"The people of North Carolina
are entitled to, and they demand,
a man for Governor who will coop
erate with and support Roosevelt
and his policies.
"North Carolina needs a man to
fill this office who will lead th-j
fight to abolish the sales tax, with
out putting the tax back on land.
The Governor should be a leader
with the courage to see that all un
taxed wealth pays its just share of
the cost of government.
"This State needs a man who, af
ter he has been elected Governor,
will continue to stand for the same
things he stood for as a candidate
Ralph McDonald's record shows that
he has always fulfilled his cam
paign pledges to the people.
"We need a man whose interest
in our public schools is genuine
and constructive.
"We need a man who is thorough
ly familiar with the tax problems
of North Carolina and who knows
the facts of taxation.
"Our Governor should be a man
sympathetic to the needs of the
farmer, the average business man,
and the working man. Oommon jus
tice to the aged and infirm demands
that we have a Governor who will
favor old age pensions and social
security.
"We need a Governor who is tied
to no special interest, a man who is
free from entanglements with, and
influence of, political groups which
have sought to select and domi
nate state officialdom.
"I am accepting the management
of the campaign of Dr. Ralph Mc-
Donald for Governor of North Caro
lina because I know, from my close
and intimate association with him
in the 1935 Legislature, that he has
the qualifications and stands for the
policies which our State needs.
"I call on the Democrats of this
State to join hands with him and
nominate a progressive Governor
for North Carolina."
Edgecombe Farmers
Can Get Loans
Tarboro, March 21.—Applications
for emergency erop loans are be
ing received at the Merchants Asso
ciation office here by Mrs. Mary God
frey secretary, for J. E. Wilson,
field supervisor of the emergency
crop and feed loan section of thy
Farm Credit Administration.
All Edgecombe fdrmers eligible
for loans and desiring them are ask
ed to enter their applications as
soon as possible.
Loans will be made only to fann
ers who cannot obtain credit from
any other source and loans will '>•;
limited to actual and immediate
cash needs for growing tho 1936
crop. They may in no instances ex
ceed S2OO to one farmer.
CORN IS MONARCH
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Corn, grown in every county in
North Carolina, covers a greater
acreage than all the cotton, tobacco
and small grains produced in tho
state, Dr. G. K. Middleton, in charge
of some research work for the
North Carolina experiment station,
said Saturday.
Corn is grown on 01 per cent of
the farms, and although it is not the
principal money crop, Middleton
said, it forms an important part of
the farm program.
"The average yield per acre is on
ly 20 bushels, whereas the average
farmer should produce two or three
times that amount," Middleton stat
ed.
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LABOR HITS JUDICIARY
NEXT YEAR'S RELIEF
POLITICAL PICTURE
CONGRESS FACES RELIEF
PWA STATISTICS
A LOBBYIST ENTERTAINS
REORGANIZATION NEEDED
SOME INQUIRIES FRUITFUL
THE SEAWAY PROJECT
By Hugo Sims, Special Wuhiagta*
Correspondent
The American Federation of La
bor, in ita current monthly survey,
takes a passing lick at the Supremo
Court by contending that the Unit-*
ed States has failed to put its pro
ducing mechanism to work "chiefly
because we were not permitted by
the judiciary to work out our at
tempt to discover how this should
be done." Asserting that with the
technical progress made since 19-
29 we could create a national stand
ard of living at least 6 per cent
higher than that reached in 1920,
the labor organization points out
that "we deny work to over two
million, maintain nearly five mil
lion of them in poverty at govern
ment expense, and do nothing for
the rest."
The Federation reports the
fact" that industry is failing to
solve the problem of unemployment
and deplores the death of the NBA,
which, it says, increased production
and workers' baying power at about
the same rate through increased
wages and shortened hours. By con
trast is the 14 per cent inerease of
production in 1935 and the 3 per
cent increase in workers' buying
power. In 1924, says the Federation,
under the NRA, these two elements
rose 4 per cent each.
The President asked Congress to
provide a billion and a half dol
lars for relief purposes during tho
fiscal year which begins next Ju
ly. Just before leaving the capi
tal for his fishing criuse in south
ern waters the Chief Executive out
lined the situation in a special mes
sage, stressing the fact that addi
tional funds might be necessary for
next year unless private enterprise
absorbs some of the unemployed.
Pointedly he observed that the ul
timate cost of relief, to the gov
ernment, would depend upon what
business does to employ workers.
The new funds would be used en
tirely in the Works Progress Ad
ministration, according to the Pres
ident, wh ethus gave critics of the
WPA a fairly plain reply. With one
billion of funds already appropriat
ed to be spent in the coming fiscal
year and with $600,000,000 in the
budget for public works and the
CCC the sum available for spend
ing is impressive, aggregating $3,-
1001,000,000 as compared with tho
estimate of $3,500,000,000 in the
current fiscal year.
The political picutre has been
fairly quiet—that is, nothing real
ly startling has happened. Tho
grist of the mill has been about
along the line expected, except per
haps indications that opposition iO
Roosevelt in the Democratic con
vention will be less than it seemed
and the Liberty Leaguers are hear
ing that they are not near as ef
fective in aligning public sentiment
as they had hoped to be. The Re
publican nomination battle moves
into the pre-priinary stage with
some evidence that/Senator Boraii
and Governor Laudon might stage
a real battle.
Witli the relief question square
ly before Congress, one may ex
pect sharp discussion before tin
matter i finally disposed of Crit
ics. including members of both
parties, will charge "polities'' and
attempt to prove the case. The Ad
ministration will again be accuse!
of using relief expenditures as a
"slush" fund. There will be consid
erable criticism but in the end the
relief fund authorization requested
by tho President will lie granted.
The charge of "politics" is denied
by Harry Hopkins and his admin
istrators. Moreover, the opinion is
gradually getting around that tho
expenditure of huge relief funds
may be more of a political liabil
ity than an asset. In almost every
community there are persons on re
lief projects bitterly denouncing
what they consider unjust treatment
and taking about what they call
"unfavoritism" to others.
While the writer of this column
'is no astute politician, and readily
admits the possibility of political
benefit through relief expenditures,
he is not so sure that the Admin
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