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MR. DOUGHTON AND THE
1934 REVENUE BILL
Mr. Doughton. Mr. Chairman,
■we will soon be called upon to
Record our votes upon the pending
revenue bill, a bill that has had
perhaps more careful thought and
consideration than any revenue bill
that has been reported to this
House in the last 10 years. The
able subcommittee of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, ap
pointed by me as a result of a reso
lution passed by this House, spent
many months in the consideration
and preparation of this bill. T hen
the full committee, after report o
the subcommittee spent weeks in a
diligent, careful, and thorough
study of all the proposed provisions
of the bill as recommended by the
subcommittee. The subcommittee
and the full committee had the as-!
sistance of the Legislative Counsel
and the Joint Committee on Inter
nal Revenue Taxation, representa
tives of the Treasury Department,
headed by Dr. Magill, one of the
ablest men who has ever appeared
before our committee, and, as a
result, this measure has been pre
sented to the Houe by the Com
mittee on Ways and Means.
The bill, of course, is not per
fect. It is not what would have
been written by any one member
of the committee, but the bill does
represent more nearly the united
judgment of the full committee
than perhaps any revenue bill that
has come before the Congress since
the World War. The bill, Mr.
Chairman, also has the whole
hearted support of the Secretary
of the Treasury and of the admin
istration. We have had about 18
hours of general debate, during
which every provision of the bill
has been thoroughly and fully ex
plained. Moreover, there has been
available to each member of the.
committee the report submitted
with the bill which gives in detail
full explanation of the measure.
The ranking minority member,
the gentleman from Massachusetts
(Mr. Treadway), is a man of de
cided ability and always courteous.
I do not know what kind of a
shooter the gentleman is, but I do
know that he is a square actor. I
nAnflpm-in rnnnPrifPtl in
O M.
the preparation of this bill, anti
through his able leadership the
minority members have joined with
the majority members in the pre
paration of this bill. However, it
is regrettable that the ranking mi
nority member on the committee
could not go all the way with us
in this bill, but will offer an am
endment to recommit, striking out
the provision of the bill extending
for 1 year the 3-cent rate on first
class mail matter. Each and every
member of the Ways and Means
Committee, if the conditions of
the Treasury would permit, I am
sure, would be anxious to discon
tinue the 3-cent rate if it could b
consistently done. In order to
keep the record straight it should
be remembered that the 3-cent
letter postage on first-class mail
matter and the necessity for the
same is a legacy inherited by this
administration from the previous
Republican administration.
In 1932 the representatives of
the Treasury Department, in fact,
the Secretary or the ireasury, Mr
Mellon made it known to the com
mittee that the Budget was out o
balance and that it ‘was neccssar;
to impose additional taxes in orde
to preserve and protect the credi
of the Government. The Secre
tary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon
and the Under Secretary of thi
Treasury, Mr. Mills, appeared be
fore the Committee on Ways ant
Means and urged the imposition o:
a 3-cent rate on first-class mai
matter, or an increase from 2 to :
cents, in order to aid in the bal
ancing of the Budget.
It will be recalled that the Chair
man of the Committee on the Posi
Office and Post Roads,, Me Mead
referred to by the gentleman fron
New York (Mr. Snell) in his abl<
statement yesterday, said that foi
the present there would be a loss of
revenue if present rate was not ex
tended, and that is what we ari
now dealing with. We are dealing
with the present and with an em
ergency and not with a matter of
permanent legislation.
So far as reduction in second
class-mail matter is concerned, if
there is any reduction at all, it is sc
negligible that it is not worthy of
cortsideration. Thei'e may be a
slight increase or there mav be 2
slight decrease.
I Vish to call your attention to a
statement made by Secretary Mel
lon on January 13, 1932, when he
appeared before the Ways and
Means Committee and asked for in
creased revenues in order to balance
the budget and preserve and main
tain the credit of the Government.
I may say in this connection that
at this time the House was Demo
cratic and the Senate was Republi
can, and the Democratic mem
bers of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and a Democratic House
did not hesitate to respond to the
call of a Republican administra
tion and impose this burdensome
and unpopular tax, and I hope our
friends on the minority will now
exhibit similar patriotism and res
pond to the call of a Democratic
administration, when the exigen
cies are even greater than they were
at that time.
Secretary Mellon, in appearing
before the Ways and Means Com
mittee on the date mentioned,
made tms statement:
In recent years the failure of
postal revenues to cover expendi
tures has resulted in increasing
postal deficits which have been
met from the general revenues of
the Federal Government.
Then he goes on to say—
It is recommended that postal
rates be increased to cover such
deficiences by a reasonable margin;
that is, to provide additional reve
nues in the amount of not less than
$150,000,000 on an gnnual basis.
Moreover, Secretary Mellon rec
ommended this increase on first
class mail matter not as an emer
gency matter but as a permanent
policy. The recommendation ol
the Secretary of the Treasury wa
not for a limited period but foi
subsequent years; in other words
he put no limitation on it what
ever.
I have stated that the Secretarj
of the Treasury and the administra
tion are squarely behind thi« bill
They have stated that to lose tliii
amount of revenue now would
mean a loss of about £75.000.00(
a year and would upset the finan
cial program of the administration
and let me call this to the at‘; >
of my friends on this side of th<
House. If this item should be
stricken from the bill and w<
should decline to continue this tax
there will be a deficit that we wil
be called upon by the administra
tion to make up of $71,000,000
If you do not want to be called up
on to levy other taxes that perhap:
will be more burdensome and mon
objectionable and more unpopulu
than this tax, you had better leav<
this tax as it is.
■’ You may be called upon to in
crease the tax on gasoline or yoi
may be called upon, as many Mem
bers on the other side would like, t:
impose a sales tax. If you taki
this item out of the bill, which i‘
reckoned as a part of the aniouni
necessary to finance the Govern
ment during the next fiscal ’’ear
you will certainly be called upor
■ to replace it with additional reve
■ nue, which will have to be rau -c
by the imposition of other taxes.
' Franklin D. Roosevelt, our a
' Commander in Chief, is making :
• superhuman effort to adopt mcas
■ ures and pursue policies that wil
, rescue and redeem this countrj
■ from the economic plight in whicl
■ it was found when he was inc” tec
l into office. No President in <h<
life of our Nation has had so many
l difficult, perplexing, and distract
ing problems with which to deal
and the sublime courage and ex
alted statemanship with which ht
■ has approached and is dealing will
. tnese grave proDicms nas encour*
aged and inspired the whole coun
try. He is our only hope. The
: people have implicit faith and con
■ fidence in him, and if his leader
ship is followed and if he receives
the suport from Congress which
1 he is receiving from the c untry
without regard to party, he will
ultimately lead us out of the wild
erness of economic distress and de
spair. May we not hope, in fact
do we not have a right to expect,
that in his great warfare on bank
ruptcy, poverty, misery, distress,
and destitution at least every sol
dier in his own army will stand up
and support him, regardless of
what might be the temporary po
litical effect or what might seem
most expedient from the viewpoint
of any man’s individual political
fortune.
This day to your tents, you
Democratic hosts of Israel, and if
thprp \chmi1dJ mr whn f-iil iri-1
falter, let it be those who pr_-cei
to serve the hour rather than con
scientiously meet the exigencies of
the hour.—Congressional Record,
Feb. 21, 1934.
THE WAY IT GOES
Did you happen to see the lady
and her husband coming out of a
theater where a "nudist picture’’
wras shown, the husband saying, "I
thought it was pretty good,” and
the wife replying, "I thought it
was horrible?”
—Charleston News & Courier.
OLD MAIDS CONVENTION
In the advertisement run re
cently in the Duplin Herald for
"A Wife Wanted,” more than 5(
applicants have answered the ad,
and these came from all over the
state, and several from other states.
This shows that the Duplin Her
ald’s advertisements get results.
—Duplin Herald.
MUST’VE SAMPLED TOO
MANY OF HIS WARES
turner wiuiams nas Deen on tnc
sick list. Mr. Williams is a travel
ing salesman for—Candy Co.
—Western Carolina Tribune.
MIGHT INVENT PAPER WITH
ONLY ONE SIDE TO IT
There ought to be something in
the newspaper code, just signed by
the President, about country cor
respondents who insist on writing
on both sides of the paper.
—Cleveland Star.
BEG PARDON, NEIGHBOR;
YOU MEAN SUPERMAN
It takes lots of things to con
struct a man and here are a few
of them:
A man never sits down or re
mains seated while a woman stands,
whether she is a lady or not.
Never under any circumstance
does he curse. He does not get
drunk, he does not play cards, he
does not fear anything, man or
beast, he does not brag, he doci
not make smutty remarks about
the weaker sex or allow any other
so-called man to do so in his pres
ence without calling him to ac
count. That is a man or as they
are wont to say in the west, a he
man.”
—Southmont Correspondence, Lex
ington Dispatch.
POCKETS LINED WITH CASH
New Orleans—With $1,700 cask
in his pockets, Sidney Maurin,
40-year-old school bus driver ol
La Place, La., was arrested foi
/ stealing a shirt and a pair of socks,
both valued at $1.16, from a local
department store. Police alsc
found deposit slips for $3,000 in
Reserve, La., bank, when they
searched the man.
Earlier Pictures of Old Testa
ment Stories. Story of interesting
conceptions of Scriptural incidents
paintea Dy oparusn Monks in the
American Weekly, the Magazine
which comes with the Baltimore
Sunday American. Buy your cop;
from your favorite newsdealer o
newsboy.
AS WE have often remarked befor
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IN THIS column, you can never
TELL WHAT is going on in th
MIND OF a'child. "And
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SOMETIMES THAT applies to ;
GOOD MANY wives, for
RIGHT HERE in Sal-.bury last
«• 3i
WEEK, A child asked a questior
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AND HER mother gave her a
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STRANGE REPLY. You knots
ib s» 3b
THEM, SO try i little guessin^
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"MAMA, DID you ever flirt wher
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YOU WERE young?” the child
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ASKED. "I’M afraid I did, dear,’
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SHE CONFESSED. "And were
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YOU EVER punished for it?”
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WAS THE next question. "Yes
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DEAR”, WAS the reply, "I
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MARRIED YOUR father.”
3b 3b 3b
I THANK YOU.
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
(Continued From Page One)
fix. The "Old Guard” is com
pletely discredited. The public
believes that too many men go!
rich because of their political af
filiations, or that too many riel
men had the say in the party’s af
fairs. Any new political lineup
must leave the "Old' Guard” out
completely, in the position that the
Gold Democrats were in# forty
years ago come next Presidentia!
election.
The opposition to the revolution
ary program of the Administration
to be effective, must be built or
new lines that will admit anyone
whether he has previously callec
himself a Democrat, a Republicar
or a Progressive Independent. The
name "Republican” will have to bi
discarded, these folks say.
Those who feel that way, ant
among them are some who are al
ways factors to he reckoned witl
in national nolitics. are Inokinr
away from the two coasts for lead
ership and trying to find a figure
in the Middle West, somewhere be
tween Pittsburgh anel Denver, whe
can be put forward as a symbo
around which to ijlly those whe
dislike the present drift of things
Some of the names suggested anc
seriously discussed are those oi
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin
and his brother, Governor LaFol
lette of the same state; Senatoi
Gerald Nye of North Dakota, anc
Gcnatbr George W. Norris of Ne
braska. To those who objec.t tc
those names as having rather toe
radical a connotation, the names oi
Senator Borah of Idaho and Sena
tor Arthur Capper of Kansas arc
offered.
So far this is mostly talk, bui
out of it may come conclusions a;
to just what sort of leadership the
people who prize the rights of the
individual above the rights of the
Government might be willing tc
accept, and what sort of a pro
gram or statement of policy coulc
be formed that would appeal tc
enough of that sort of people tc
start something moving toward the
formation of a new political party
Relieves Women’s „ Pains
Here is an example of how Cardui
has helped thousands of women:
“I was very thin and pale,”
writes Mrs. F. H. Scott, of Roa
noke, Va. “I suffered from weak
ness and a severe pain in my back.
This pain unnerved me, and I did
not feel like doing my work. I
did not care to go places, and felt
worn, tired, day after day.
“My mother had taken Cardui,
and on seeing my condition she
advised me to try it. I have never
regretted doing so. I took three
bottles and it built me up. I
gained in 'weight, my color was
better and the pain left my back.
I am stronger than I had been in
some time.”
Cardui, the purely vegetable medi
cine which so many women take and
recommend. Is sold by local druggists.
rAllEKSuN ITEMS
Mesdames G. A. Henderson, am
Frank Basinger of Miranda sectioi
visited Mrs. O. R. Moose, Thurs
day the 22nd.
Betty Lou, Frank and Carl
children of Mr. and Mrs. Jame:
Patterson had measles last wek.
Nine, little daughter of Mr. anc
Mrs. J. P. Davis Was right sick the
latter part of last week.
Mrs. G. F. Houck who has beer
kept in for some time with some
thing like flu, is much better.
Mr. H. J. Barnhardt was right
1 sick last week with flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Banks Moose, ol
Mt. Pleasant spent Saturday night
with his brother, O. R. Moose.
The Missionary Society of Grace
E. L. church held a prayer service
; at the home of Mrs. W. W. Yost
on Wednesday* night, the 21st.
The members of the Patterson
Grange began work Monday tc
enlarge the Grange hall and hope tc
have it ready for use Saturday
night.
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Watch Out for Eye Strain
The importance of good vision is
»bvious. Throughout life the eyes
ire among the chief tools of learn
ing. To the child in school, they i
Dlav a larze Dart in
education. It is e
sential, therefor
that parents ana
teachers be ever on
the alert to note
signs of eye strain
and defective vision.
Diagnosis should
be left to the eye specialist, but
anyone living and working with
children should be familiar with
the common signs and symptoms
of trouble so as to prevent further
damage before serious harm re
sults. The most frequent warn
ings are headache and eyeache;
itching, smarting, or watering of
the eyes. Squinting and frowning
are also common. The eyes and lids
may be inflammed, and there may
be puffiness beneath. The child may
complain that the eyes feel tired.
Sensitiveness to light is also no
ticed in many cases.
Teachers and observant parents
will note that the child habitually
holds a book nearer or farther from ■
the face than is normal, and that
words are miscalled or skipped
The child explains that “the letter;
run together.” Not all of thes<
signs appear in a single case, o:
course, but one or more of the abov<
should be regarded as cause for a;
immediate investigation.
- Ia eating related to learning
This question is discussed in Di
Ireland’s next article.
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