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The Alamance Gleaner 1 ? VoL LXV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939 No. 271 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Hatch Bill, Lend-Spend Defeat Doom 3rd Term Possibilities; Congress Permanently 'Rebel' (EDITOR'S NOTE?When opinion* are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Westers Newspaper Union. GLOATING, JUBILANT REPUBLICANS (SEE CONGRESS) Michigan's Ma pes, Massachusetts' Martin, Michigan's Wolcott. CONGRESS: Rout In one day the senate ground out 229 bills. The house turned out 244 in six hours. One of these provided $2,$00 for an oil portrait of ex President Hoover, a Republican who fell into disrepute when Franklin Roosevelt came to power. In a way this was symbolic, for it was Re publicanism's day to howl and Franklin Roosevelt's hour of gloom. Passed by the senate, his emaci ated lend-spend bill had limped from the hostile house banking Com mittee, finally readying the floor where a motion was m*de to con sider it. Growled the rules com mittee's Carl R- Mapes (Rep. Mich.): "I can see no justification for this legislation." Chimed in the banking committee's fellow Michi gander, Jesse Wolcott: "This bill's purpose ... is to circumvent the national debt limit." While the rules committee's Chairman Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois pleaded des perately, Republican Minority Lead er Joseph Martin of Massachusetts smiled contentedly. The motion lost, 193 to 166, and Joe Martin's Republican-Democratic coalition had won. Next day came two more defeats. Adolph Sabath reported his unman ageable rules committee could not reach an agreement on the bill to increase federal housing subsidies by $800,000,000. (Later, when the ' administration forced h house vote, the President was again rebuffed 190 to 170.) A few hours later the house slashed Mr. Roosevelt's third and final deficiency biH from $tl5, 691,168 to a paltry $53,190,059. Later, in the senate, this bill hit a filibuster snag when efforts were made to at tach a rider restoring WPA wage cuts. Heaped atop hi* earlier neutrality defeat and the house-voted labor board investigation, the President's lending, housing and deficiency set backs spelled but one thing to ob servers: Congress is permanently anti-White House, and the historic 1834-39 era of pump priming is over. Calm in defeat, Mr. Roosevelt donned a seer's robes to tell report en an economic slump can be ex pected now that lending-epending legislation is dead. Next two days the stock market rose. (Meansckile a survey indicated thot even minus pump-priming, government agencies hove km tl/UOfiOOJHt evil mole for loam like those outlined, com pared with tlfiiOftOOflOO schieh the lend, spend hill scould hev spreed over three jeers. Aveilmhle: Reconstruction Finance corporations tl JtOJIOOfiOO; Export-Im port bank's 144flOOflOO; Rural Electrifica tion administration's UtJOHOfiOO ? Farm Security administration's H99fitOfiOOJ The President signed the Hatch bill to remove all but top-bracket fed eral officials (i. e., senate-confirmed appointees) from political work, litis, too, was a setback, for the President thereby slashed the throat of his huge nationwide organization which might help re-elect him in 1940. But sign be must, for obvious reasons, and with his signature . went a message urging thorough going (and thoroughly practical) amendments next year to clarify the measure and extend Its Sway to state and local employees. But the week's biggest result was this: Franklin Roosevelt's congress went permanently obstreperous. And even though he might win a third term, the President knew he 4oUld do nothing against such opposition. This called for thought . . . Also m congress: f. Apparently killed lor tyia session, contrdVersial amendments to the wage-hour act, which would elimi nate 2.000,000 processors of agricul tural products. The White House objects. C Also deadlocked, amendments to liberalize and extend benefits at so cial security, pigeonholed after sen ate-house conferees failed to reach a compromise. Summer Sessions By custom, each pre-election year brings its quota of congres sional investigations. While most weary senators and representatives were heading back home, a larger than-usual group of seekers-after the-truth remained in Washington for post-graduate work. Among them: (1) a house committee to study the national labor relations board; (2) a house committee to study proposed changes in the tax structure; (3) Rep. Martin Dies far famed committee on un-American activities; (4) Sen. Joseph O'Ma honey's monopoly committee; (5) a house merchant marine committee investigating Alaskan Ashing condi tions. Up for last-minute consid eration were many others, including a new appropriation for the LaFol lette civil liberties committee, a committee to investigate the status of aliens, another to survey the con dition of American Indians. MEXICO: Guffey and Oil Simultaneously in late July ap peared two articles, one a newspa per story by Marquis Childs, the second a Saturday Evening Post ac count by Ruth Sheldon. Subject of both: Mexico's expropriation of British-American oil lands. One heavily veiled allegation of both: That Pennsylvania's oil-operating Sen. Joseph Guffey, a Pittsburgh politician named Walter A. Jones and W. R. Davis, an American pro moter, have had a hand in handling the expropriated oil. Unimportant in themselves, the articles had important repercus sions. In the senate West Virginia's Matthew M. Neely and New Hamp shire's H. Styles Bridges both arose to ask an inquiry. Answered Joe Guffey: "I want to assure my col leagues . . . that I have nothing JOE GUFFEY "I hove nothing to concemL' to conceal." At the lime time he blaeted Writers Child* and Sheldon. Whatever the cauee, Mexican oil suddenly became so hot that Am bassador Francisco Castello Najera rushed back from conferences with his boas. President Lazaro Car denas, with new proposals for Don ald R. Richberg, counsel for oil com panies. Minus official announce ment, proposals were Said to pro vide a 51-49 division of stock be tween Mexico and oil companies, respectively, U. S. technicians be ing rehired at their previous sal aries. Damage* would be paid. News Quiz Answer all these questions and your score is 100; four, 80; three, 60; two or one, don't tell anyone! GERMANY^ _>J /hungary/ 1. Map points to Croatia, part of Yugoslavia. It made news be cause: (a) a volcano erupted there, (b) the province threat ened to secede, (e) quintuplets were born there. I. Pan-American airways have applied for a new airline from the U. S. to: (a) New Zealand, (b) Moscow, (e) Upper Silesia. 3. Riots occurred the other day in Bombay because: (a) Mahat ma Gandhi lost his sheet, <b) a C. I. O. union was formed, (e) prohibition took effect. 4. James Lawrence Fly, for mer TVA solicitor, was appoint ed: (a) member of the federal communications commission, (b) ambassador to Argentina, (e) one of President Roosevelt's six "as sistant presidents." 5. True or False: The U. S. is building additional cribs to hold surplus corn taken as collateral for loans to farmers. (Answers at bottom of columnJ BRITAIN: Fancy's Flight If we could halt the war of word* . . if some action could be taken which would tend to restore the confidence of people of peaceful intentions of all states of Europe ... if only that could be done . . . then I still feel I know of no question that could not and should not be solved by peaceful discussion" Periodically, idealistic Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain goes on such flights of fancy. This one . - *" ? WINSTON CHUKCHILL He tmelleJ eppeaeement cgein. came when he was trying to make commons adjourned. It sounded to commons as if its prime minister were going hunting with his umbrella again, bound for more appeasement. Up rose Aery Winston Churchill, whom Adolf Hit ler's propaganda bureau has brand ed a "war monger." Said he: "Germany is massing troops at the Polish frontier and preparing for a speedy advance . . . We trust the prime minister's faith, but there might be differences of judgment..." Next day commons adjourned. GERMANY: Bond It sue Last to arch 7 the German govern ment filed registration statement (or a proposed $73,000,000 issue of bonds in this country, to meet interest pay ments due American, investors. About $35,000,000 in bonds were to be issued at once, the remainder during the next four years. Always mysterious, Germany's economic status was immediately probed by the securities and exchange com mission as provided under the se curities act. When the Reich re fused to supplement its statement and thus eliminate "deficiencies of data," SEC moved for a hearing. ? i News Qui* Answers I. (B) t> nrnet Croatia BnatoM kjmknlnt ruM MM n?*. I, (A) la mttmI. ru-UiiTlcia tuU u nubttal a (oar-day aerriea eorartaf M** 1* ?? Jaalaad J. (C) la tanaet Haailiyi MB tara ata H?wa atata Ml MM. a. (A) la nmd. Fly aacnaM r rata t aonta A Traa. BMa war. imal aa 1MB rrlta iar aa.aaa.aB ln> III Brackart'* Washington Digeit Lewis' Violent Blast at Garner W recks Influence as Labor Leader Resentment Spreads Quickly and Things Begin to Happen; Reaction in House Labor Committee Is Immediate; Strengthens Political Position of Vice President. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldf., WilMn|ton, D. C. WASHINGTON.?There have been so many instances in history where one act or one expression, or one omission, has changed the course of events that it is necessary here to make mention only that such things happen. Everyone has seen them. In only a few instances, however, have those on the scene been able to make a guess as to the far reaching consequences. On the oth er hand, a number can be recalled which obviously were going to raise cain from the start. It is one of the lattdr type about which I write now. When John L. Lewis burst forth with angry violence and referred to Vice President Garner as "a la bor-baiting, poklr-playing, whiskey drinking, old man," he wrote "finis" for his long career as a labor lead er. Even with his ability to shake his bushy hair and wrinkle his bee tled eyebrows and evolve the most biting of all language into a descrip tion of his enemies, even with this capacity and a million or so work ers paying him dues, John Lewis is through as a political influence in behalf of organized labor. It is not meant here that Lewis will not continue to shout and tear his hair and accuse everyone of be ing unfair to organized labor; he still has his vicious tongue, and he is still president of the Congress of In dustrial Organizations. As long as he has that title he can go places and make speeches and drive home threats and yell "bloody murder," and, of course, he will get newspa pers to print his statements. What I am saying is, however, that Lewis has created such resentment around the capitol building as seldom has been seen, and instead of having weasel congressmen obey his dic tates, their greetings to him here after are likely to be of the thumb to-nose variety. Reaction Comet Quickly In House Labor Committee As an illustration at how these things react, mention may be made that immediately after the Lewis eruption of political lava, the house labor committee decided to go for ward with legislation amending the federal wages and hours law ? amendments to which Lewis was violently opposed. True, there was no member of the committee had the guts to give Lewis f call-down in the hearing, but they did vote to send the legislation to the floor for debate and, in effect, tell Lewis to take his marbles and go home. It was the second time that Lewis has pulled stupid boners, actions so dumb that they seem inexplainable when they come from a man who has bad the build-up given Lewis as a labor leader and politician. It will be recalled how, a year ago, Lewis walked into the office of Speaker Bankhead of the house, and an nounced what the house must do about some labor legislation. Mr. Bankhead, a thoroughly level-head ed Democrat from the deep South, fixed things right up for the labor leader?to make sure that Lewis would lose out One would think that Lewis would have learned his lesson from the dictatorial arro gance be displayed on that occa sion, but he came back for more. Perhaps, the circumstances of the Lewis statement should be related to five a clear picture of the con sequences that seem certain to flow from his personal attack on Mr. Gamer. The house committee in vited Lewis to appear as a wit ness to give the C. I. O. views on the amendments that were pro posed. Lewis spent a few minutes in discussing the text of the amend menu IIJU Uicu uuiutiicu iuw ? mrm - pun tirade about the Democratic party. He anerted that the party, after having accepted labor'* gifts? CIO. having aupported President Roosevelt with money and men in both presidential campaigns?had now turned out as a traitor. He argued that he never had looked for help from most of the Republi cans but had believed the Demo crats. would stick by him and his dues-paying workers. But through the last year or more, however, Lewis found someone in the Democratic party who was "searching for the heart of labor" and that individual, he shouted in red-faced anger, is "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man, named Gamer." The vice president was the "genesis" of a great campaign against labor, so Lewis declared. Newt Travels Rapidly and Then Things Begin to Happen Well, I have witnessed fast travel ing of news around the halls of the Capitol many times, but I never have known word to get from office to office and to the far corners of every building any faster than the Lewis statement. And things be gan to happen. Before the afternoon was over, the Texas delegation had met and had taken a resolution condemning Lew is and expressing the "deep resent ment and indignation" at his "bitter, personal attack" upon the vice pres ident. There was talk around the house and senate later about s prop osition to bar Lewis from any fur ther appearance before congression al committee hearings but that fad ed away. Nevertheless, my guess at this stage is that if and when Lewis does appear before any con gressional committee again, he will be subjected to a grilling that will tan him to a deep brown. Now, thus far, this column has dealt only with Lewis. There is more. Wherever politicians gathered around Washington during the week following the intemperate action by Lewis, one could not fail to hear conjecture as to its effect upon the movement to make the vice presi dent the Democratic presidential nominee next year. The feeling was almost unanimous that "Cactus Jack" could have had no better break, politically. Factions of Democratic Party Split Farther Asunder The influence of the Lewie state ment does not stop there, however, for there is a definite cleavage in the ranks of the majority party al ready. It is to be remembered in this connection that the backbone of the Democratic party has been the "solid South." The South, gen erally speaking, has clung to con servative ways and modes of living and has maintained traditions which have served its people well. That viewpoint Is quite contrary to the New Deal and to the President's advisors of this month. Nor have the President's advisors enjoyed the knowledge that a lot of Mr. Garner's friends have been pushing him very hard for the party nomination in 1940. Naturally, these folks around the White House are the leaders in the plan to have President Roose velt seek a precedent-breaking third term. They do not like to see a man become too popular or who might offer real resistance to a Roosevelt nomination. From these facts, it becomes more or leas obvious that the Lewis at tack on Mr. Garner constitutes something of a bombshell in splitting the two factions ot the Democratic party further asunder. With the Lewis record of support of every thing new dealish, it can not fail to convince voters of the brand of Gar ner democracy. There is still a further phase or sphere of influence to be mentioned. Mr. Gamer has long been known as a conservative Democrat and he has long been powerful in the councils ot his party. To enter upon an assump tion, then, that he may be the Demo cratic nominee next year, where does that leave the Republicans? Re publican leadership has been steer ing to the right, to the conservative side, as far as they have shown their hand. The question to be asked after that statement is, where does that leave the New Dealers? Lowio Dom Mora Harm to Labor Than Any Othar Man Om could follow these questions on down Into the state political situ ations and a merry time would be had by all. I have no guess as to which way the thing will come out. Probably Mr. Garner will not be the Democratic nominee at all. But these conjectures I have been mak ing have been throwa more as proof of the assertion that Lewis demon strated his lads of political ability than for any other reason. And in making that statement, I still enter tain a belief that Lewis has done more harm to organized labor's cause than any other one man in America. Speaking, of Sports Jimmy Dykes, Miracle Man, Revamps Sox By ROBERT McSHANE ONE of baseball'* present minor miracles is the way in which the White Sox have managed to keep well up in the first division of the American league pennant race. The Yankees, of course, are right at home In top position. First place is automatically theirs by virtue of OlMaggio, Dickey, Gordon, Botfe and Selkirk?not to mention the strongest pitching staff in either league. Number two position is held down, logically enough, by the Red Sox. They reached that status through the aid of Foxx, Cronin, Grove, Wil liams and a few more of like caliber. But it's not In the book for the Chicago White Sox to be in their present position. With the exception of Luke Appling, there are no big names in the Sox iine-np. And, in cidentally, Appling isn't having his best year by any means. There are additional reasons why the Sox should relinquish their first division spot. The services of Mon ty Stratton, their best hurler, were lost to them through a hunting acci dent. They have been minus the services of their regular second baseman most of the season, and Hank Steinbacher, rookie hitting JIMMY DYKES ' ? sensation of last year, is batting less than .200. Their catching staff is as green as it is ambitious. Regardless of logic, the Box re fused to be downed. And there's one outstanding reason for their present position in the American league scheme of things?that's the trading genius behind their snceess?Man ager James J. Dykes. Four men are largely responsible for the surprising showing of the White Sox. They are Gerald Walk er, Eric McNair, Joe Kuhel and Mike Tresh. Each of the four was added to the roster through the trad ing enterprise of Manager Dykes. The Chicago swapping king got Walker and Tresh, along with Mar vin Owen, from Detroit in a deal for Dixie Walker, Tony Piet and Vernon Kennedy. Walker has driv en in enough runs this season to take third place in the league, be hind Ted Williams of Boston and Hank Green berg of Detroit McNair From Boston Detroit, on the other hand, retains none of the original three men they drew in the six-man swap. Eric McNair came to the Sox from Boston in return for Bote Ber ber. McNair's hitting ability has been more than welcome by the Sox. Since Joining the Red Sox, Berger has worked only as a sub stitute. Dykes picked ap Fake I in a trade which sent Zeke It?is to Waab lKS^bat hM his stridT thteTmr! waired eat ef the American league! The Sox bare more than their share of supposedly nondescript, shop-worn players. Mike Kreerich, center fielder, was turned down by the Cube; the Red Sox couldn't use Pitcher Johnny Marcum; the Ath letics rejected Rip RadcliS, rasaiis outfielder; George Rensa, second string catcher, was first tried by Detroit, and many others were found wanting by other dubs. Bat these Msp were baseball art ists hare Managed to win ball games, and In winning hare had mere fan than say ether team In either league. They seem to get a tremendous kick eat ef playing beB ?and act as though the pay cheek Is a secondary preposition. No ether team has the hnstle and the spirit ad the Sex. What they lack la me chanical staying ability is ssada up (as to the eM coBege try. Sport Shorts (") NE of the longest baaeball v games on record was played at Eagle Pass, Texas, July 4, 1128. Two local teams started playing a* ' 10 a. m. and played until 7 p. m., when the game was called at the jj end of the sixth inning with the score 129 to 119. One of the short- ? stops made 24 errors in one inning . . . Ted Lyons, veteran Chicago White Sox pitcher, sayB the four toughest hitters he ever faced are A1 Simmons, Charley Gehringer, Jimmy Foxx and Bill Dickey ... Joe DiMaggio, who i. aflf laii recently wrote ? piece for Collier's magazine, says "Mel Harder is the tough est pitcher for him to hit. A friend com piled his average against Harder?it was only .210 at the time of writing . . . Largest known price paid for a horse is $300,000 given for the famous French thor * ?? oughbred, Nearco . . . Only T1 players have made a total c< 1,000 or more hits during their careers, according to a survey of the 64 sea sons during which batting statistics have been kept . . . Baseballs coat big league clubs a dollar each, and an average of 29 are used each day . . . The Washington Senators' home games will net be broadcast * next season, according to Owner Clark Griffith ... The late-J. Louis Comiskey, who owned the Chicago White Sox, hit safely in IS consecu tive games while in high school. .. Tube Thompson of Augusta, who led Little Nineteen pitchers for three years while playing for Illinois Nor mal, is under contract to the White Sox. Lightweight Golf f JOHN Q. GOLFER can't expect bia J caddy to become very enthusias tic about an invention which will, if it becomes popular, probably relieve him of his job. The new gadget is a gollng I*, and its inventors expect it to sepiaee the reevsnttesul and cumbersome sat ef elebs and the beSry hap. The kit is so designed that it raqrim only one shaft to which is snsrhed the head eesded far each shot an the coarse. The ootdt weifha soaso four pounds as compared to Id pounds for the bay. A Chicago golf fro experimented with the kit and found it psettkaL The club beads are all arranged in slots and a zipper compartment "pro vides space for balls. The club I heads all screw onto the stogie shaft, and the experimenting pro found that the heads provide a firm-hit ting surface. When the club bead meets the ball the impact servbs to tighten the head since the golfer ia hitting against the groove of the screw. The length ef the shaft is apt ad jastable. bat a naipifpHng faster makes the putter property shut and the distance eiabe salts My bag. The basal leagth eoatrali the eetire elnb leagth. The bosel en the pntt er Is practteaMy mm rrlstmt, thai tar the three ireu sad woeds is rTtrsaes iy loag. That the kit wfll ever attain a high degree of popularity is doqbtfuL Most golfsra will prefer tha coovan tional set of dubs. For tha tzauai or, however, if means fceaJaia from a bulky bit ft luggage. For tha. golfer who prefers to play without a caddy the afw act altmtnatae a heavy, unwieldy bag. Luckman Signs CID LUCKMAN, Columbia univer 13 city's triple-threat ball back, has Anally decided to play jsoflisShsial - football with the Chicago Hears* With the sigaiag ef Laekaaa, the Bear* have twe of the throe aat staadinc passers ef this year** eel lege ersdaatlag clan. Bitty Pof terseo had already sigasd with that OTOfassfTasas ChrtetUa, krlsags George Halaa signed a great play Ier In Luckman. Hi* passing recced ia one of the beak Last year ha i threw 133 peseee. completing 98 tor ' nine touchdown* and MS yard*. Ha completed 10 oat of 17 forward flipe *; against Yale for 16B yards. In S3 time* carrying the ball be gainad 438 yards, averaging 4 8 yards each attempt. I **>??* to six feat tah aad . weighs 1M pmad*. He possesses att ^?Thto' haSflrt earrytog as wtol as peastag the haH. * The Ivy leagtM led dldnt leap at the chance to torn pro. He wfined J to take madi greater pride in hie J training than in hie atb- % letic ability. It took quits a hh of persuasion to get him back in mole skins, and sighs of relief were die- I tinctly audible when he affixed his .4 signature to a two-year contract.
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