THIS WKEK IN
WASHINGTON
A Rwnm? of GerarniMiil Hap
penings In th? National Capital
A rash of oratory recently
broke out in the senate led by
Senators Young, Aiken, Eastland,
and Hatch of New Mexico, in de
fense of the farmer and agricul
tural prices and a denial that
government or the farmer was
responsible for the high consum
er price of agricultural products.
Said Senator Aiken: "It is my
belief that at the present time a
well organized campaign to pre
judice American consumers
against American farmers is
being indulged in simply for the
purpose of diverting attention
from the real profiteers in the
food and clothing markets, thei
speculators and commodity gam
blers, and also to prevent farm-|
ers ana working people from
knowing the truth about each
other."
Senator Eastland said: "It
seems to be that a conspiracy is
being engaged in by the great
industrialists in this country to
try to lead the American people
to believe that farm prices and
the government support program
are responsible for the present
high prices in the United States.
The manufacturers had a great
deal to do with abolishing the
OPA (Editor's note: Senator
Eastland voted to abolish OPA),
but now they indict American
agriculture with the statement
that the farmers &e responsible
for the high prices. I think the
facts will show that the cause of
the present high prices in in
dustrial goods is the discontinu
ance of OPA."
Said Senator Young: "The in
dustrialists are trying to put
agriculture in a^>ad light; they
are trying to throw out a smoke
serpen behind which they can
hide; they are also trying to des
troy the soil-conservation pro-|
gram and all other programs
which are needed by the farmers
of America. If farm prices are
driven down I believe a depres
sion would follow shortly."
Senator Aiken: "I have been
satisfied all the time that aa
quickly as that mad leadership
of industry in America had settl
ed with labor, had crushed labor,
they would turn their attention
to American agriculture next."
Senator Morse: 'Having reaped
the harvest at profiteering prices
they (American industry) are
now beginning to become a little
afraid about a tendency on the
part of millions of American con
sumers to engage in a buyers
strike, so now they are beginning
to look at their card in the hole,
so to speak, and see whether
they had not better lower prices
a little and shift responsibility i
for the present, unconscionable (
high cost of living upon the
American farmers."
Senator Hatch: "It is strange ?
we never learn lessons except
through distress and bitter ex
perience. For instance, if the
present campaign to remove the
support from farm prices, to
drive them down, to attempt to
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make the farmers Oof America
responsible for present high
prices should succeed, as eventu
ally when times become normal
it will succeed, and farm prices
go down and down as they have
done before, how long will other
prices remain where they are
and will it not eventually as it
always has before, result in de
pressions and hard times?"
Senator Kilgore of West Vir
ginia: 'The agricultural group in
the senate is suddenly realizing
what a wonderful trimming it
took. Let me say to them that the
wailing wall will be established
anywhere they want it. The
beautiful policy of divide and
conquer has crept into our eco
nomy too far. The agriculturalist
is being taught to hate workers.
I have just returned from the
middle west. I talked with col
lege professors and officials who
told me about the vicious pro
paganda being spread against the
working people. It is being
spread even among the farm
children. The boiler plate in the
weekly newspapers and the edi
torials in the daily press are all
along the same line ? that labor
is responsible for all our troubles.
At the same time, the workers
are being taught that the farmers
ire responsible for our high cost
3f living, All we see played up
is the market price at some
market, for example. $3.15 for
wheat. Find me the farmer who
received $3.15. That was the
gambler's profit."
Green Valley
School News
The teachers and pupils of
Green Valley school are very
erateful to members of the Home
Demonstration Club for the de
lightful party given on the
school grounds last Friday after
noon. Sandwiches, cookies, can
dy and lemonade were served by
Mesdames Wade Clawson, Arlie
Moretz. Howard Gragg and David
Martin.
On Friday night the children of
the school presented a variety
program. The rooms were open
for inspection and some work of
the children was displayed and
the various talents were demon
strated in the program.
Little Miss Ann Cottrell. Ar
ville Miller, Robert Proffitt and
Vaughn Tugman furnished addi
tional musical numbers.
In spite of much sickness and
bad weather, the attendance has
been commendable this year.
However, Lois Norris, of the
third grade, has the distinction
of being the only pupil in the
school with a perfect attendance
record.
California scientists develop
method of making X-ray movies.
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J. W. WILLIAMS
? SUGAR GROVE, N. C.
YOUR TRI-COUNTY
Health Department
By?PR- ROBERT R. KING. JR.
District Health Officer
On Friday, May 23, several
members of the DisWct Health
Department attended a meeting
of the Western North Carolina
Public Health Association at
I^ake Lure, N. C. This association
consists of public health workers
in 29 counties in the mountain
section of North Carolina and is
a part of the North Carolina
Public Health Association, which
serves the entire state but meets
only once a year and is rather
unwieldy because of its large
size. The purpose of the smaller
district association is to improve
public health service in our sect-j
ion of the state as the approach)
to our problems differs from
that in other geographic areas of
the state. It is also true that the
western district will be better
represerted in state wide affairs
if it acts an organizing unit.
For a long time there has beenj
a subconscious feeling in the]
state that the mountain counties
were an undeveloped wilderness
which could add little to the
state revenue and deserved little
state aid. This feeling can best
be overcome by groups such asj
the Western North Carolina Pub
lic Health Association.
Attending the meeting from
this district were: Mrs. Cleo
Reeves of Sparta, Mrs. J. C.
Jackson of Jefferson, Mr. Wade
iE. Eller of Warrensville, Mr.
Jack D. Cobb of Boone and Dr.
Robert R King, Jr. of Boone.
Workers from the 29 other coun
ties in this district were also pre
sent.
During the morning the group
was addressed by Dr. Ernest M.
Branch, .division of oral hygiene,
[state board of health, Raleigh,
|whose address pointed out the
ways in which public health could
most benefit school children.
During the afternoon the mem
bers of the association met in
groups representing the dif
ferent fields of public health
activities. These groups were
health officers, sanitarians,
nurses, health educators, clerksJ
and Epidemiologist. Each of,
these groups discussed problems
common to its field of activity,
and as usual there was a general
give and take of ideas. The next
meeting of this type will be held
in Waynesville in October.
FATHER FINDS DAUGHTER
AFTER 22 YEARS APART
Olean, N. Y. ? A chance tele
phone call reunited a South Caro
lina girl, Miss Lorraine Ellis
Ashley, with her father, Fred W.
Ellis of Olean, after a separation
of 22 years.
The girl's mother died in the
'flu epidemic in 1918. Lorraino,
just one montl#old, was adopt
ed by another family when her
father almost died from the same
disease.
Ellis, now a retired mail car
rier, lost track of his daughter
when sh%and her foster parepts
moved toiiouth Carolina in 1924.
Neither knew the other was alive
until a friend of the daughter,
who worked as a telephone
supervisor in James Island, near
Charleston, put in a call to Olean.
The Olean operator reported a
telephone listed for Ellis, letters ,
were exchanged, and the girl
came here for a reunion.
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