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J , * r • :«M: cAsiw «ri ivuiis c^ mxmun. sroaoi^nioN KAnt: state I • tea State 4M0f«Ta 4l4S]9MTaaf tetemi «t tea »aat atfoa ait Naalfe Witev- ||te»a. N. aa motoi chaa teattar sMar Act f)rt Mute A im>. ^ V- IHXJKSDAY, MAY 80,1085 i-1 ‘^Hour's Busittest?** The commoneet question when two men meet is: “How’s business?” The maswer may be anything from “Rot- : - Sen!” to “Swell!” It is our observation that about«.haIf of those of whom the qnestion is asked answer to the effect that “things are moving along.” Much depends upon what sort of hosiness the man is talking about. A Sreat deal more depends upon what part of the country he does business in, apparently. We have just seen a survey of busi ness conditions in the whole United States, based upon one of the numer ous reliable indicators of business ac tivity. We all know that the difference between good bu.siness and bad busi ness is largely a matter of how fast money passes from hand to hand. The best index of that is the monthly re ports from the banks of the number and volume of checks cleared. Leaving out New York City, where ' tiiese check exchanges may represent not so much buying and selling of mer chandise as speculations in seaurities, these April figures show, on the whole, an improvement in business compared with a year ago. In twenty-three states —New York, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, •>^Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Texas. Oklahoma, Kansas, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyom ing, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Cal- ^ofornia and Arizona—^business is defi nitely better than at ^he same time last year, by this Index. In nine states— New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Dela ware, Virginia, Kentucky, North Caro lina, Georgia- Missouri and Nebraska, it is just about the same as a year ago. In the other sixteen states—Maine,. Ver mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mis.sissippi, Louis iana, A abama, Illinois, Utah, Nevada and Ore on, business is not as active as at this time in 1934. Summed up, here is the answer. In twenty-three states, business is better. In nine states about the same. In six teen states not as active. On an average better. ^ Filled A Great Need National Recovery Act as a law of authority. Is gone, wiped away in a unanimous decision of the supreme court of the land and a his tory making experiment is concluded. The NRA filled a great need as an emergency measure and there is still a great need for many of its essential features. It is freely predicted that out of the scrapping of the act will 3ome something of a permanent nature that can fill the need to a great extent and still be urider the provisions of the con- rtitution. Thf» National Recovery Act came in to being at a time when industry was dem'oralized. Purchasing power was . down because of unemployment and sweat shop wages. Cuthroat competi tion was going on at full speed in prac tically all lines of business. The act resulted in a considerable spread of employment, elimination of sweat shop wages and long hours of work, and eliminated many forms of unfair competition in various phases of business. Morale of industry in general was lifted to a point where an employer could pay living wages with the knowl edge that his competitor would not have an advantage because of the fact . * that he was paying his employes a piti- fal sum for the work they turned out. Regardless of what legislation may . laicceed the NRA- business will adhere to many of the policies that have been -€S»forced by codes. Competitive busi- ^ nesses, it is presumed, have learned a great lesson through the workings of ^ the NRA, which did not work miracles hut did help tqjstabilize many tottering "businesses in many lines of industry. A breaking down of the minimum wage structure and a return to cut throat competition would” be very^ dis astrous at this time but the initiative and foresight of industry heads in this country are considered above Mch pro- 9 As we are ne&ng4he hil|_jwk in the year 1935 thP^^natiditel poUti^i pot begins to boil with ^.tignifieance that has* never before been so apparent. We hear people vtho have hseh Re- ^ pabUcaiVL all their lives expressing com plete satisfaction with the R(m8evelt admmistration and on the other hand we hear dissatistied^pemocrats. I^arty lines as they have b^n in the past will hot be so evident in the general election in 1986. fif S'fW.t'.s - . ^ What is to come out of the political pot next year presents an enigma. One foregone conclusion is thht the ..presi dent will be renominated to head the Democratic party. The Republican par ty and who will compose that body presents the puzzle. By that we mean how many Republicans will stay by their party regardless of policies and how many Democrats who are un equivocally opposed to New Deal poli cies will line up with the Republicans? The Republican party’s rumblings grow louder as evidence of awakening but how will its policies be shaped and how will its many national factions stack up and ccHoperate toward its goal, which of course, will be to occupy the white house and run the national govern ment? The liberal and conservative elements of the party are apparently as far apart on policies as the Roosevelt Democrats and those Democrats oppos ed to New Deal policies. Regardless of the Democratic plat form next year it will be a vote for or against Roosevelt and his administra tion. That seems to be clearly foreseen at this stage. All of the talk is of interest, and it is .significant because it indicates clear ly that, whatever else we may have done, the people of America have not surrendered their political indepen dence. Nothing, as we see it, would be worse for the future of America than to have any party leadership so firm ly seated in power that nothing could dislodge it. That, of course, is the am bition of the leaders of every party. It has seldom been realized, probably never will be. For any element which remains in authority too long inevitably gets to the state of mind where the maintenance of the party, rather than the best interests of the nation, controls its activities. That has happened more than once in our history. A heaRhy opposition is needed at all times. That can only come about when the mass of the people take a genuine interest in politics. Before there can be any such opposition set up for 1936, however, there must be an agreement upon principles on which to base the opposition. It seems to us that it is fool ish to talk about candidates before there is a clear definition of fhe differ ences between the Ins and the Outs. (iiiiter)—^Tie ^ . burst of speeiTln ifn 4iiiek sneeestNon, ti>»- Clark resolktlan^to extend NBA until —^wbleh amouttte tb eblmxtformini that, inetitutlon out Wot ektstanea ■ the.:^ antend- Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN Maonii for Ahto ehaii^ tite, tbe>«e^Mipal''ABa-~balns belief thal ' the Supreme Court will nullity more than one of the meaaiirev now In proceih of paealng. The Wa^er Labor blir ments to tbe _jngpneMee jralleylia on^ of thoee. Whoaa eonetttu- Authorltr a2* ?%aich broaten teat orsanisaUo$%- poarere, . anff the Wlagner Dlapnfiia btil. Such apeed to In »l^p cobtrast' hllf, which b all aet tor Senater to tim two rnoptha that it took the Senate to paaa the Worke Iteliet Aet Obeegreiw ieeklbg the reaaon for thla. change of find It where reaaona for ' imy- thlng that happens In Washfng- ton are usually found, in poli'- tlCB.- ■ *1? ■■ The strongest political inf 1 n- ence on the Senate today is that of the tour billion dohars which the President haa begun to allot lor Work Relief projects among the states. Where this huge .tern was merely a lot of figures on paper a short time ago, now It Is real cash actually being disburs ed. That is much more Impres sive to the Senatorial mind. Pri vately some of the Democratic Senators talk bitterly against the President; but when it comes to voting, few are unable to re strain the urge to bite the hand that feeds them. NRA and Wagner Bill They voted against him on the NRA extension, to be sure; but it begins to look as if the Pres ident himself had discovered that NRA Is a dead Issue and that his “pressure” lor a revised and strengthened law was never as strong as was represented. And the Senators who voted for the Clark resolution pracgically killing NRA went in a body, al most, for the Wagner Labor Dis putes bill. It was pointed out in this correspondence some weeks ago that the choice probably would be between continuing NRA with its labor clause which hasn’t worked to the satisfaction of organized labor, and the Wbgner bill, which is an out- and-out Labor measure. Some of the Senators who vot ed for the Wagner bill did so because they believed in it; more of them, it is gossiped here, tionuli^ b ssriously^^HMtioneif even hy ^hoM who voted -for it; BO, sbo, is ^ Sootel.; Security enactment % The amendnente to.the Agri- eultnrul Adminiatratlon Aet will undergo a good deal of ehangp tiefore this measure gets through. As drafted, tee bill would make all distributer* of agrtcnltnral products ptaeUcalljr public ntUl- tiee and subject to CoTerlunentj regntatlon. ' Washington has .been quite stlyred up ever the question of who paid the expenses of the several thousand^ farmers, who came to Washington to demand continuance‘and ^ strengthening of AAA.’^It can be stated defi nitely that their expenses were not paid dnt of Federal .fuhds, though the movement may rave been encouraged. Al Smith Coalition? Looking ahead to next year’s Presidential elections, as every body here Is doing with one eye, whatever he seems to be look ing at with the other, the.,^08t interesting development is'' the talk of a conservative coalition of Republicans and anti-Adm'inis- tratlon Democrats, under the leadership of A1 Smith. Your cor respondent passes the gossip a- long "for what it is worth. It is not as absurd as it may seem to many at first glance. There is little hope *that the Republican party alone and und er that name can challenge Mr. Roosevelt with -any great hope next year, especially since the La Follette crowd of Northwest- I ern Progressives seem ready to come into the Roosevelt tent. I Perhaps a Coplition or Fusion I Party might get somewhere— provided anybody could get them to coalesce in the first place and that they - would stay fused up to election day. ' ^ mi Your Old Bktterj) D(»'t bay a Cair or TruA’notfl yoo^IuiTC iRYestijipUed the Ch^ and Flynooth* Cars or IntematuHial Tmdt. Motor Snviee WILEY BROOKS Phone 335 PAUL BILLINGS North WQkeeboro, N. C. Quarterly Conference The third- quarterly conference for the Morarian Falls charge will be held In Moriah’s church next Sunday, June'2, at 3:00 o’ clock. Rev.'A. 6. Gibbs, the presiding eider, will preach. The officials of the charge are urged to be present, and the public is cordially invited. Youna Democrat* Of State To Meet at Raleigh In Juno Raleigh, May 27.—The 1»35 convention of the Young Demo cratic clubs of North Carolina will be held here June 28 and 29, it was announced today. The Raleigh club will hold a meet ing Wiedriesday to lay plans for entertaining the state ..organiza tion. :1 Spartanburg, S. C., May 27.— Within an hour after the United States Supreme court’s decision that all codes under the NRA were unconstitutional, the print cloth group of cotton manufac turers, meeting here this after noon, announced its determina tion to continue that industry’s present NRA program “until further notice.’’ OUR DAY OP WOR.SHIP Lesson for June 2nd. Psalm 100. Golden Text; John 4:24. , We are all well aware of the marked change in the observance of Sunday. We have swung far away from the strict habits of our fore fathers. In some ways our modern Sunday is an improvement. For example, we do not frown on the play of children as did the Puritans. “Children,” declared Increase Mather, “must not be allowed to play on the Sabbath.’’ This prohibition we rightly consider absurd. Neither do we tolerate today the long serv ices of the past in unheated churches. Nor do we harbor that marked dislike for fine music which was so characteristic of ouy colonial period. And we are happily removed from the yoke of those harsh "Blue I>aws’’ the fanatal- cal rigor of which was such that a Boston husband was once set- In the stocks for two hours for kissing his wife on Sunday, aftey an absence from home of three years! On the other hand there is no doubt that the pendulum has swung too far in the direc tion of a Sunday that is essentially a secular holidhy. “A free Sunday for free Americans” is the slogan of the hour, and this is interpret ed in such a fashion that the highest valnes of the day are lost. Certain standards can be upheld. First of all, the Lord’s Day should be observed as a day of rest. Disraeli said that the Sabbath Is the corner-stone of civilization. Secondly, Sunday sbonld he a time for the cultivation of the personal life. "Know thy self,’’ said Socrates. It is a good practice to get away from the crowd on the Lord’s Day. ~ In the third place, Sunday shquid be a day of the home. We call God “Father.” and sure ly His Day osght to he a family day. . Finally, the Lofd^ Day qhonld be devoted to public worship, ’^lle we love God always, Sunday te a special occasion .when we draw voted for it because they want- PRINT CLOTH MAKERS ed to go on record as “friends WILL STAND BY CODE of Labor,” believing that the Su preme Court will set it aside as unconstitutional. The Bonus Situation Itoe President’s *veto of the Patman Bonus bill does not end th^onus matter, by any means. The accepted interpretation here is that the President’s feal ob jection is not to prepayment of the veterans’ Bonus, but to the inflationary “greenback curren cy” provision of the Patman mea sure. Rlther the Vinson bill or the Harrison “compromise” mear- sure will pop up, and one or the other may he passed, and will! not be vetoed. ■ ' | While the President's' position j is against inflation, he is strong-' ly Insistent now upon the Eccles. banking bill, which has the po-. lltical value c' promising infla-j tion to the inflationists and con- , trol of inflation to the anti-in flationists. There is a better out-| look for the ultimate passage of ^ this measure than seemed appar-; ent a weeks ago. It will put' complete control of all of the major functions of banking in the hands of the Government. Protests against It have come mostly from bankers and big business men. There is a strong feeling here that Father Coughlin’s radio ap peals for centralized banking control have had a strong In-1 fluence upon Congress, though, the Eccles bill is not Father Coughlin’s plan. The “radio priest” with a fol lowing of nobody knows how many million voters, looms up now as one of the most potent plitical forces;of the time. Explain Clilrngji of Tactics Another reason for the recent speed shown by the Senate is the apparent decision of the Re publican minority to use no more obstructive tactics, a decision in On the FARM N Reins- SturdiTant Inc. THE FUNERAL HOME LICENSED EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE North Wilkesboro, N. C. Phones 85 - 228-M O MATTER how mao^ hundred* of miles you live from die big town, you can enjoy aU the advamtaga of modern dty refrigeration if you have Supetfex, the Oil j Burning Refrigerator, in your kitchen. Superfex works anywhert It work* without outside conoecdons, without gas or electridty, without a motor to get out of order, ’"without drains or pipes. . 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