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VOL. LVIII. T GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY APRIL 7, 1932. NO. 9.
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Speaker Garner in Dramatic Speech Quells House Sales
Tax Rebels?Substitute for Defeated Sales
4 Tax Is Quickly Passed.
SPEAKER JOHN N. GARNER
quelled the house of representn
tie* tax rebels and assured the nil
tlon of tax legislation that would bal
ance the national
budget. The members
of both parties who
had successfully op
posed the sales tax
provisions of the bill
drafted by the ways
and means committee
promised to be good
and support the new
bill introduced by the
committee and as a
substitute for the
sales tax that had
been defeated.
It all came about
Speaker
Garner
when the speaker took the floor and
delivered a speech that was a com
bination of tempered argument, im
passioned pies, and camp-meeting ex
hortation. As he whirled into his
peroration, an exalted house member
ship answered Ills appeal for those
resolved to lead a new life to arise.
En masse the congressmen surged to
their fqpt and took the pledge to pass
a tax measure that will balance the
bodget.
Then the house settled down to
business. The ways and means com
". mittee introduced its list of new taxes
to take the place of the defeated sales
tax, and the rarfuus items were ap
proved so rapidly that Acting Chair
man Crisp had to stop the offering of
Items in order to give the engrossing
dorks time to draw the various amend
ments. The new levies as provided for
in the house bill covers taxes on the
following articles with the estimated
revenue:
INCOME TAXES
REVENUE
Individual (inctrases car
ried in bill) ....$ 112,000,000
Increase in normal rate 3.000,000
? Increase In surtaxes
(wartime rates) 17,000,000
Lowering surtax exemp
tion from $10,000 to -
' $6,000 7,000,000
Corporate tax (12 to 13
as carried in bill) .. 21.000,000
, , Corporate tax (13 to
' 13H per -cent) 5,000,000
? L'oiporate tax (15 per
: cent on consolidated
and affiliated returns) 18,000,000
_ Corporate exemptions
' (lowered $2,000 to $1,
? 000) 6,000,000
Net loss deduction dls- .
V allowed 1031-1033 (pre
venting carryover of
losses) 20,000,000
Administrative changes 300,000,000
Olft tax 20,000,000 j
Estate tax 20,000,000
Dividends (Sec. 115-B:
removing tax exempt
corporate stock) 9,000,000
Dividends (Sec. 115-D:
removing tax exempt
corporate stock) 2,000,000
Lubricating oil (4 cents I
a gallon) 35,000,000 |
Imported petroleum (1
cent a gallon) 25.000,000
Malt, vort, grape con
centrates. etc 46,000,000 i
Imported coal 3.500,000 j
Telephone and tele- 1
graph messages 33,000,000 ]
Capital stock and bonds I
Issues of (10 cents per <
(100) ' 13,000.000 1
Admissions over 45 cents I
(1 cent for each 10
cents or fraction) .... 40,000.000
Safety deposit boxes (10
per cent of rent) .... 1,000,000
POSTAGE RATES
Increase from 2 to 3
cents in first-class
postage 135,000,000
EXCISE TAXES
Cosmetics (10 per cent) 25.000,000
Kurt (10 per cent) 20,000,000
Jewelry (10 per cent).. 15,000,000
Beverages (restoration of
1021 rates) 11.000,000
Matches (4 cents per
1.000) 11.000.000
Radios, phonographs (5
per cent) 11,000,000
Automobiles (3 per
cent): trucks (2 per
cent): accessories (1
per cent) 57.000.000
Sporting goods and
cameras (10 per cent) 4.000.000
Chewing gtim (5 per
rant) 3.000.000
Candy (5 per cent) .... 12.0OS.000
Mechanical refrigerators
(5 per ceDt) 4.500,000
Tachta. motorboata. etc.
(10 par cent above $15
ta **lue) 600,000 ]
MISCELLANEOUS
Sale of stocks (H per
cent, but not less than
4 cents a share) 75,000,000
Bonds, transfers of (1-28
of 1 per cent) 13,000,000
Conveyances (restoration
of war-time rates) ... 10,000,000
Sales of produce on ex
changes (5 cents per
$100) ^ 6,000,000
Pipe line (15 per cent
of carrying charges) 15,000,000
Airplnne (5 per cent on
manufacturer's price) 2,000,000
Total 984,500,000
Amount of savings ex
pected on appropria
tions 243,000,000
Amount of expected sav
ings in postal service 30,000,000
Grand total $1,257,500,000
Anticipated deficit 1933 $1,241,000,000
Surplus (with pro
posed new savings) $ 16,500,000
The house bill provides for the pay
ment of the levied excise ^nd sales
taxes by the manufacturer direct to
the government, with the method of
collecting the taxes about the same
as undet the general manufacturers'
sales tax which was rejected. That
does not mean, however, that the tax
will not be passed along in the form
of an increased price for the mer
chandise, and there is nothing in the
bill that would prevent the mnnufnc
urer from directly including the tax
item in his Invoice to the Jobber or
retailer and so on down the line until
it reaches the consumer.
The fact that the bouse has passed
a revenue bill does not mean that
this bill is to be the law of the land.
It is almost certain that (he senale,
will not agree. The senate commit
tee Is very likely to substitute for the
new provisions of the house bill the
manufacturers' sales tax that was
rejected by the house, and pass the
revenue bill In that form. Should it
do so it will mean another fight in
the honse, then a long conference
consideration, and there is no pros
pect for an early adjournment of con
gress. Experienced members of both
houses are now predicting that there
will not be an agreement over a rev
enue bill earlier than September.
THE Hoover budget will be slashed
a quarter of a billion dollars If
the house accepts the recommenda
tions already made and to be made
by Its appropriations and economy
committees. Chairman Joseph W.
Byrns (Dem? Tenn.) of the house
appropriations committee asserted.
Just prior to announcing his resig
nation, on a plea of overwork, from
the chairmanship of the special econ
omy committee. Mr. Byrns said that
body will submit recommendations
calling for consolidations and econo
mies totalling at least $75,000,000 and
possibly a sum two or three times that
figure.
Chairman Byrns said that hearings
thus far conducted by the various
committees handling governmental
supply bills disclosed that at least
$150,000,000 could be shaved off the
budget figures submitted by President
Hoover without In any way Impairing
the efficiency of the government. The
committees plan to slash an additional
530.000,000 from national defense ap
propriations. Mr. Byrns said.
PRESIDENT HOOVER announced
formally at the regular press con
ference that he Is "absolutely opposed
to the enactment by congress of addi
tional soldiers' bonus legislation, r.nd
ndlcated that he would veto ooeb-a
1)111 If passed. The President's state
ment follows:
"Informal polls of the house of
representatives have created appre
hension In the country that a further
bonus bill of $2,000,000,000 or Lhere
ibouts for World war veterans will be
passed.
"I wish to state again that I am
ibsolutely opposed to any such legis
lation.
"I made this position clear at the
meeting of the American Legion In
Detroit last September 21. and the
Legion has consistently supported that
position. I do not believe any such
egislation can become law.
"Such action would undo every
?ffort that Is being made to reduce
fovernment expenditures and bal
ince the budget.
"The first duty of every citizen of
the United States Is to build up and
instaln the credit of the Cnlted States
covemment.
"Sucb^tn action would Irretrievably
undermine It"
TS^OHMAN DAVIS, one o( the Amer
L' cnn delegates to the Geneva urins
conference, arrived In Washington
and went Into a series of conferences
with State depart
ment executives. Al
though officials de
clined to make public
the nature of the dis
cussions It w a a
learned that Mr.
Davis outlined the ole
gtacles which have
been encountered in
the move to work out
a general arms limi
tation* treaty and re
Norman ported ,0 ,lie depart"
Davja nient on the plan of
action for the future
outlined by himself and his associates.
As matters now stand, many pressing
European problems must be settled
before there is the remotest chance
for the negotiation of a treaty which
carries reductions in land forces.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
Arthur M. Hyde called his depart
ment the "prize boob in th ?? history
of finance," because of its policy of
making virtually unsecured loans to
farmers in the face of rapidly mount
ing'crop surpluses.
"Under present conditions," Secre
tary Hyde said "my department Js
now lending more money on thinner
security and sustaining more losses
than any organization ever has done
before in the history of the world.
Loans now being made by my depart
ment to small farmers who otherwise
could not finance themselves could not
by the furthest stretch of the imagina
tion be called good business."
The Hyde statement was directed at
the farm loan policy under which the
Agriculture department makes loans
to small farmers for economic rea
sons. He asserted that the govern
ment should not go into the business
of making loans to farmers except In
cases of drought, or floods or calam
ities growing out of natural causes.
The current type of loans are unjusti
fiable, he sr.id.
WASHINGTON crime Is again
brought Into the limelight as po
lice attempt to locate extortionists
who have threatened harm to the chil
dren of three prorai
nent \\ asmngton rami
lies.
Mrs. Betty Manna
Davidson, grand
daughter of Mark
HanDa, demanded po
lice protection follow
ing receipt of a tele
phone call threaten
ing Injury to her
daughter Daisy, bIx
years old, unless
$2,000 was paid.
This threat fol
lowed shortly upon
Alice
Longworth
the disclosure thLt threatening letters
had been received by Mrs. Alice Long
worth, widow of the former speaker,
and Sir Wilmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent for a London newspa
per. The letters threatened harm to
Paulina Longworth, seven years old
and probably the best known child,
next to the Lindbergh baby. In the
United States, and. to Wilmott Lewi*.
Jr., five years old.
A RECOMMENDATION against de
velopment of the navigation and
irrigation phases of the $772,000,060
Columbia river development project st
this time was included in a report
submitted to the secretary of war for
transmission to congress by MsJ. Gen.
Lytle Brown, chief of engineers.
While recommending that the sum
of $16,000,000 should be expended by
the government for the construction
of locks and other aids to navigation
in the Columbia river when private
or state Interests are ready to develop
water power. Major Genertl Brown
took the position thnt the time was
not ripe for the spending of sny con
siderable amount of federal money on
this huge project.
THE Missouri Democratic state con
vention at St. I^ouls instructed its
.V# delegates to the national conven
tion to vote for former United States
Senator James A. Heed as long as he
has a chance to secure the nomination
for President. Missouri's delegation
will br.ve !N? vote*. Gov. Franklin I).
| Roosevelt is the second choice of the
Instructed delegation.
Governor Roosevelt Is the choice
I of the Iowa Democratic Convention.
The 26 delegates were instructed to
"use all honorable means" to bring
about his nomination for the presi
dency.
A TREATY between the United
States and Canada for the con
structlon of the St. tawrence water
way tnay be ready for signature soon.
William D. Herridge. Canadian min
ister. ia now ready to negotiate. It
only remains to secure the consent
of the respective governments. Then
the treaty will be written.
<C till. w?M?rs >iew?paptr Ualos.)
Is There Something in Your Eye?
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' I 'HIS giant eye magnet which Dr. L. K. Mackey and Miss Flora Olsen are
J- demonstrating In u Minneapolis hospital, with Miss .Marie Shole, a nurse,
playing patient, is the largest of Its kind in the world and was made for the
removal of steel from the interior of the eye. It was the gift of Dr. C. N.
Spratt, eye specialist, and Is so powerful that it can drag an ordinary flat
Iron across the floor or cause u watch to fly out of its owner's pocket. The
magnet weighs mere than 800 pounds and has a ten horsepower pull. The
core, which is made from a wrought iron shaft used in one of the old flour
mills in Minneapolis 75 years ago, Is wound with one and one-half miles of
copper wire and uses 220 volts generated by a ten horsepower motor.
Bedtime $tor\j &
[ j^ThonvfonW Burgess 1
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THE King Is great! The King Is
strong! The King, good sir, may
do no wrong!
The King of the birds Is Old King
Eagle,- as ever; one knows. He Is
king because his father was king be
fore him, and his father's father, and
so on 'way back to the long ago time
when the world was young. To him
all the other feathered folk yield and
pay homage because by virtue of his
great strength and courage he Is
their lord and master. Now, Old
King Eagle Is for the most part a
wise and Just rnler. He does his pwn
hunting. He demands no tribute, save
in one thing.
Of course, you know what tribute
Is. Tribute is a gift from the weak
to the strong, a gift not offered will
ingly by the giver, but demanded by
the one to whom It Is given. Kings
are very npt to demand tribute from
those over whom they rule. But Old
King Eagle demands no tribute from
his subjects save one, and that one
Is one of his largest and strongest
subjects. Can you guess who It is?
It is Plunger the Fish Hawk. Yes, sir,
Plunger the Fish Hawk has to pay
tribute to Old King Eagle. He doesn't
do It willingly, but he does it just the
same. He does It because King Eagle
is big enough and strong enough to
force him to. And the reason that
King Eagle demands tribute from
Plunger Is that King Eagle has learned
to like the taste of fish, but has not
learned how to catch fish for himself.
Therefore he must depend on Pome
one else to catch them for him, and
that some one is Plunger.
On this particular morning that
Plunger had had to be so patient In
order to catch a fat fish to take home
to Mrs. Plunger, sitting on the eggs
in their nest In the Green Forest, it
had come Into the head of Old King
Eagle that lie was hungry for fish.
The more he thought about It the hun
grier he grew. Sitting on the stump
of a tree on the edge of a cliff of the
Big Mountain he could see the Big
River like n silver ribbon in the dis
tance?that Is, It would have looked
like a silver ribbon to you or to me
had we been In hla place. Bat ao
wonderful and keen are the eyes of
King Eagle that he could see the Big
River clearly. Be could aee more.
He could see a speck sailing back and
forth over the Big River, and he knew
that that speck das Plunger the Fish
Hawk.
Old King Eagle chuckled. "My
fisherman la fishing for me, but he
doesn't know It," said be. Then be
spread his wonderful great wings and
sailed out and up, like the royal mas
ter of the air that be Is. Up, up he
(lew until he was but a speck In the
sky to anyone watching from below.
Straight toward the Big River he flew,
and there In majestic, great circles
he sailed round and round three times
as far above Plunger as Plunger was
above the Big River. Plunger, his
eyes fixed on the water below, knew
nothing of King Eagle above iilm. So
Plunger flew patiently back and forth
and round and round over the Big
River, watching for fish, and cloud
high above him King Eagle swung In
great circles watching Plunger.
He laughed aloud, did Old King
Eagle, when at last Plunger shot
down Into the water with a great
splash and presently flapped upward
heavily with a big fat fisb In his
claws and then headed straight to
ward the Green Forest In his turn
King Eagle shot downward. The
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"Tribute! Give Me Tribute!" Cried
Old King Eagle Fiercely.
rustle of bis great wings wm heard
by Plunger, who looked up with both
fear and anger In his eyes.
"Tribute! Give me tribute!" cried
Old King Eagle fiercely.
"I won't! It Is ray fish, for 1 caught
It!" screamed Plunger.
"Tribute! Tribute!" demanded Old
King Eagle more fiercely than before.
Still Plunger clung to the fish for
which he bad waited so long and pa
tiently.
"1 won't!" he screamed again, and
this time there was an answering
scream, it was Mrs. Plunger. She
had heard him and now was coming
swiftly to aid him. So Plunger clung
more tightly than ever to the big fish
and beat his way toward the Green
Forest, hoping that something would
happen to cheat Old King Eagle of
that splendid prize.
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"Longer skirts were to bs expect
ed," says perspicacious Pearl. "Some
body Is always trying to get the good#
on the girls."
<?. 1922. Bell Byndtcat*.)?WNP Service.
| Not Much Meat Needed ][ N"
A CUPFUL or two of any kind of
** well-cooked meat may make ?
most tasty dish. It Is the flavor
fonnd In the extractive* which gives
meat Its attractive appeal. A very
little will answer as well as a large
quantity. If the dish Is made np of
other nourishing food*
For a supper dish to serve with
Lyonnalse or creamed potatoes, or
with potato salad, thinly sliced frank
furters, heated very hot In a frying
pan, make a most tasty dish.
Spanish Chicken.
Make a sauce of a tablespoonful of
butter, two of flour, and two cupful*
of water to which beef extract or
bouillon cubes have been added. Add
one cupful of cooked chicken cut fine,
one small onion minced, one pimlento
cut fine and two tablespoonfuls of
cooked peas. Serve very hot on toast.
Beef Fricadelles.
Take two cupfuls of minced beef,
season with salt and pepper, thyme,
sage, lemon juice and grated onion.
Add a half cupful of cooked rice or
dry bread crumbs, one well-beaten
egg. with a little water or broth to
moisten. Form Into flat rakes and
fry In hot fat
French Beef Hash.
Prepare one part of meat finely
chopped and two parts cooked pota
toes. adding the white of an egg beat
en light. Place well seasoned In a
baking dish and bake until brown.
(?. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.)
f KITTY McKAYTI
By Nina Wilcox Putnam
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ine giri rriend says you can't cheat
I at checkers on account of you have
j to play on the square.
<?. 1 >22. Bell Syndicate.)?WW Servlca.
{what are youj
: planting? ;
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f By DOUGLAS MALLOCH ?
WHAT will yon plant In your gar
den plot?
Pansiea, or tulips, or weeds, or what?
"Weed?" you say. "Why, certainly
not!
"Who plants mullein who might have
rose?
In my garden do you suppose
I'd plant thistles, and things like
those?"
Yet there's a garden all year long
Where we're scattering right or
wrong.
Seeds to weaken or make us strong.
There's a plot of another kind.
There's a garden we call the mind.
In that garden what shall we find?
What Is the book yon choose to read?
What .do you sow w hen you sow the
seed
Of thoughts to follow, the rose or
weed?
What Is the picture you choose to see?
Crime, or filth, or Immodesty?
; What, In your heart will the har
vest be?
gome day the tempter will come to yon.
i Then as you think you will likely do.
I What of your garden, and what of
yon?
I <C. lilt Domsln Matlock.)?WHO Sed*
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I PAPA KNCWS-I
>:?^g *joivwm
"Pop, tvhnt Is civilization?"
"Home of the liled bath room and
armored car."
(0. I>12. Hell Syndicate.)?WNU Senlce.
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j r? lit ST transcontinental transport plane to be equipped with longwave radio
tj r for the entertainment of Its patrons Is shown in the air abOTe Los Angeles
: nt the completion of Its flight from New York ovef^American Airways. Head
-j phones, which may be worn when the passenger desires, are connected with
2n receiving set tuned for regulation broadcasts, but at the will of the pilot
they may al#o be tuned In on the short-wave receiver with which he keeps In
comunication with his headquarter*. Passengers tried a fox trot.