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THE DAILY ADVANCE, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 7, 1935.
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headed by a man who is a native
of Dare, and of a Congressman
who spends much of such summer
vacation as he has on Dare's
beaches, it may be that he has
been able to start something of
more tremendous and far reaching
import to North Carolina than is
Boulder Dam to the territory that
it serves.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935.
The National Whirligig
THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
By RAY TUCKER and JAMES McMULLIN
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1927' US.- Canadian
In case potato control legisla
tion tails at this session of Con
gress, Albemarle potato growers
would do well to consider seeking
other crops for their potato acre
age. o
Yet There Is Hope
Old residents tell us that back
in the days when the Norfolk
Southern was being extended
southward from Elizabeth City,
after having had its terminus here
for a number of years, there were
any number who were saying it
was a sad day for Elizabeth City.
Some folks were even looking
for an opportunity to dispose of
their property here. Elizabeth City
was in way of becoming just a
stop on the Norfolk Southern,
they thought. '
But the old town survived that
blow and had thereafter its best
decade of growth and expansion.
And The Daily Advance imag
ines that despite this menace or
that of this generation goods will
continue to be bought and sold in
Elizabeth City and the town will
continue to grow for a number of
decades yet to come.
o
Saluting Frank Stick
Occasionally the man styled
visionary comes into his own.
So, it would seem, does Frank
Stick, as the federal government
prepares to spend a million dollars
to stay the ravages of erosion on
the Carolina coastal beaches, and
preserve these barrier banks for
the protection of the tidewater
section behind them.
For years Mr. Stick has not on
ly dreamed of seeing this work of
stabilization and rehabilitation un
dertaken. He has worked to that
end with a patience and faith and
an enthusiasm that the practical
man of affairs might well wish he
could emulate.
Today The Daily Advance sa
lutes him and expresses the wish
that he may live to see his long
cherished dreams of the banks
country all come true.
There died in Arizona the other
day a man named Anson Hubert
Smith, who had spent 53 years as
editor of a small town newspaper
in the far southwest. Many years
ago he saw the tremendous possi
bilities of harnessing the waters
cf the Colorado river and began
to agitate for it. He talked it in
season and out of season until he
saw his idea take hold of other
men's minds and finally take act
ual shape in one of the great en
gineeiing undertakings of this age.
But Smith had a newspaper.
Stick hasn't had that. But with
the cooperation of a governor who
had cherishi-d a similar dream and
had appointed Stick on a commis
sion to work for his ideas, and
with the help of a department of
conservation and development
WASHINGTON
By Ray Tucker
DIGNITY: Poker faced George
Huddleston holds a full house in
the scrap over the "death sen
tence," although administration
ites say he deals from the bottom
of the deck.
Messis. Byrns and Rayburn are
still trying "to play up to the in
iquities" of holding companies as
revealed in the Black investiga
tion. But the Alabama member
pits the dignity and prestige of
the House against the unwanted
presence of Outsider "Bennie" Co
hen at conference sessions. The
House has been snubbed too often
by the Senate not to respond to
that appeal. He also gave his col
leagues the abilbi that they were
turning thumbs down on "Black
Derby Bennie," and not on FDR.
You can imagine how that imper
tinent issue will help at election
time.
The New Dealers' showed igno
rance of Congressional psychol
ogy. They promoted the Black
ferreting in the hope it would shift
votes in the House. But members
feel they cannot afford to back
down for fear it will be accepted
as admission of a guilty con
science. VOLUME: Although Attorney
General Cumimngs expresses sat
isfaction with the modified ban on
gold suits, the government's legal
defender is simply making the
best of a bad bargain. Competent
legal authorities maintain that
the six-month's leeway accorded
prospective litigants in the Sen
ate bill will permit the filing of
enough test suits ot embarrass the
Department of Justice for years.
President Roosevelt has placed
the gold suit ban on his "must"
list, but the inside story is that
Mr. Cummings was its chief ad
vocate. Treasury officials have
carefully avoided any definite
commitment to this effort to deny
citizens a day in court. They sim
ply state that it would not injure
the government's credit.
The Senate committee's vote of
11 to 7 for the revamped bill does
not reflect sentiment against ad
ministration proposals to close the
courts to aggrieved litigants. The
seven in the minority registered
opposition to any attempt to safe
guard the gold devaluation act.
WOES : President Roosevelt is
not pressing his constitutional
amendment vesting new power in
the central government, but his
aides still speak feelingly of the
results of the Supreme Court's
blockade. A private survey re
veals that the New Deal's major
troubles date from May 27.
Four legislative bulwarks of the
New Deal were progressing nicely
on Capitol Hill until that day. The
Public Utility, the Social Security,
the Omnibus Banking and the
AAA bills had passed the House
in jig-time. They were on their
way to speedy enactment when
the the court sounded off. Then
doubts arose, these measures were
subjected to scrutiny for consti
tutional defects and revamped
where necessary. Now, more than
two months later, they are still in
conference and controversy
thanks to the Supreme Court.
The Guffey Coal bill is not even
out of committee. The NRA, of
course, has washed up.
The legislative stalemate tells
only hp.lf the story. Processers
have begun a bombardment of the
AAA through suits to recover
taxes. The Republicans have dared
to assume the offensive. Conser
vative Democrats have become
unruly. And new tests of the
New Deal's constitutionality start
toward the Supreme Court each
day.
AVIATION: The War Depart
ment has quietly taken steps to
insure that there shall be no repe
tition of the fatalities which' befell
its flier when they were called on
to carry the air mail over moun
tains and through snowstorms.
On private calendar days House
and Senate have passed a bill au
thorizing the department to inves
tigate strategic areas for perma
nent Air Corps stations. Although
carefully worded, the plan is to
train aviators in cold weather and
fog in Alaska and the Atlantic
Northwest; in the mountainous
regions of the Rocky Mountains;
over long water jumps in the Car-
nbbean.
Nobody mentioned the air mail
fiasco during consideration of the
measure. They didn't have to. It
was passed without a dissenting
voice or debate in both Houses.
With its provision for establish
ment of training fields and depots
on the continent and foreign pos
sessions the measure marks be
lated recognition of the import
ance of aerial defense and offense
in the next war.
SIZE: An undercover dispute
between steel manufacturers and
New Deal economists illustrates
how far apart Big Business and
the administration stand over the
soak-the-rich tax bill. Both use
the same figures to boster con
trary viewpoints.
In the July issue of "Steel
Facts," the house organ of the
Iron and Steel Institute, there ap
pears p. statement of the 1934
earnings of 154 steel companies.
It shows that the smaller the cor
poration, the larger its earnings.
Forty-eight companies with less
than a $1,000,000 investment av
eraged earnings of 6.94 per cent.
Six corporations with investments
of more than $100,000,000 had
losses averaging 0.09 per cent.
Tho manufacturers contend the
rtport refutes presidential argu-
z-.ei.i3 icai oigness means exces
sive profits. The New Dealers en
thuse over it as evidence that a
breakup of industry through taxa
tion will help rather than hurt in
dividual corporations.
'
PROOF: J. F. T. O'Connor has
b-en "resigned" or "transferred"
so often that he has become su
perstitious. So the Comptroller of
the Currency has placed an adver
tisement on his desk to warn all
comers that he stands in "right
with the bigwigs.
It is a full face photograph of
James Aloysius Farley, Postmast
er General, National Democratic
Chairman and Chairman of the
New York State Democratic Com
mittee. In Jim's famous green ink
there is written a delicate and re
strained eulogy of "Jeftie":
"To J. F. T. O'Connor a fine
friend, a capable official, and
splendid American." That ought
to make the job safe for awhile.
NOTES: The Senate lobby-committee
may take a jaunt into Ten
nessee and other southern states,'
where pay dirt is reported . . .
Some tourists criticize the new U.
S. Supreme Court building interior
"too gaudy," they say . . . Sev
eral big industrial plants have
laid in supplies of tear and naus
eating gas . . . Roosevelt is incu-
Stones m 1
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GODS,.
HpO symbolize the speed wit
A which mail is carried, man
nations have adopted that rascal
ly messenger of the gods, Hermes
for some of their stamps. Greec
particularly has drawn upon th!
fleet son of Zeus and Mala foe it
stamps one of which is show;
.here, for he came of Greek my
thology. The Romans knew hin
as- Mercury.
Besides acting as herald to tlu
gods, however, Hermes was prom
iiient as giver of increase to herd
and as guardian of boundar!.
and of roads and their commfve
He was god of science and iuvei.
tlon, of cunning, trickery nnri
theft, of luck and riches, youth
and athletics, and he even be
came conductor of the dead to
Hades.
On many of the stamps he Is
represented with his wingea cap
carrying a cadu-
ceus, a wand or
staff of his office
as a herald Two
wings top the
MthM 8taff anf two
jtfetaliiiSH j serpents are
MH I pnllori nUl I.
(Copyright. 19.15-, NEA Service, Inc.)
NKXT: What country' stumps
picture the "eighth wonder of the
.world"? f 7
bating speeches to be delivered on
hU western trip.
NEW YORK
SCARE: Labor's ilriv for'
stricter federal supervision of in
dustry hasn't yet borne fruit but
conservatives are decidedly ner
vous about it. Well-posted New
Yorkers predict that a bill for this
purpose will be one of the major
issues at the next session of Con
gress. The groundwork is being
carefully laid for legislation which
would control business not mere
ly regulate it. Expert legal talent
is working on the problem of how
to make it constitutional.
Meanwhile there will be a few
preliminary gestures. FDR is not
supporting the licensing bill
backed by the Federation of Labor
or the textile bill he can hardly
afford any more irons in the fire
but neither is he opposing them.
Insiders understand he wants to
see how far they will get in Con
gress under their own steam.
The Connery licensing bill has
no chance for final enactment this
year. But it's quite possible that
this measure will be passed by the
House before adjournment. That
would scare industry plenty and
make it more amenable to subse
quent concessions which is pre
cisely the idea,
TREND : The textile bill hasn't
had nearly the public attention it
rates. In some respects it is the
most drastic proposal for govern
ment supervision of private enter
prise ever offered.
The measure is sponsored by the
United Textile Workers a very
strong union. It would establish
sweeping federal control of textile
mill output and would clamp rig
orous restrictions on excess pro
duction. Of course it includes liberal la
bor provisions more detailed than
usual. Man hours and work load
would be subject to strict limita
tions. The bill will get nowhere
at presents-but it represents a
significant legislative trend and
will undoubtedly be revived later
with probably a better chance for
passage.
CONTENTED: Farmers who
have been getting AAA benefits
need not be uneasy about legal ac
tions to avoid payment of process
ing taxes or for recovery of those
already paid them. They will get
their dough regardless. New York
sources say the only question the
administration is bothering about
it how not whether.
A proposal was made some
weeks ago to pay these benefits
out of work relief appropriations.
Or the Treasury's general fund
might be drawn upon for the pur
pose. But either of these alterna
tives would cramp administration
spending plans in other directions
and informed New Yorkers und
erstand that New Deal advisers
are racking their brains for some
other solution.
One scheme that ia being con
sidered would be a break for the
silverites. It would consist of buy
ing the metal more rapidly in ord
er to cash in on the seignorage.
The bookkeeping profit from such
operations could be used to keep
the farmers contented and thus
strengthen FDR's chances for a
repeat victory in 1936.
SAFE: A vital point has been
overlooked in most discussions of
whether the Supreme Court will
dump AAA in the ashcan this fall.
The cases to come before the
Court in 1935 all originated before
the new AAA amendments were
enacted. That means there will be
nothing final about the forthcom
ing decisions no matter how they
turn out. If the New Dealers are
defeated they can simply say the
rules have been changed so
what ?
Conclusive Court tests of the
new powers about to be conferred
on the Secretary of Agriculture
will be almost impossible before
eighteen months. That will be aft
er the '36 election so AAA is
safe until the voters have a
chance to confirm or reject New
Deal policies.
SPEEDED: One of the best fea
tures of the present mercantile
situation is the absence of large
inventories. Stores and fabrica
tions are not handicapped by sur
plus stocks. Department of Com
merce figures based on 1923-25
figures as normal show that
manufactured goods inventories
are now about 102 per cent of
normal as against 12i per cent a
year ago.
Foodstocks were hf per cent of
normal in the middle of 5934
now they are 75 per cent. Iron and
steel have dropped from 105 per
cent to substantially normal
textiles from 160 per cent to only
120 per cent. Leather and non
ferrous metal inventories are vir
tually unchanged and rubber
stocks have risen slightly.
The general aecline in inventor
ies should speed up recovery con
siderably as consumer demand in
creases. BROAD: The Business Advisory
and Planning Council is laying
nw tlv-S'- days hut it's still in ex
istence. After all the threats to
dissolve it and leave the New Deal
flat unless FDR paid more atten
tion to its advice only a few mem
bers have uropped out. Those who
remain still feel tney will have a
j chance to function usefully as the
j i nly right wing group to which
i the Piesident pays any attention
j even though he hasn't exactly em
braced their advice in recent
months.
The Council in general is taking
a recess until October 1 but a
special committee on taxation is
busy preparing a report for the
President's guidance. It's a safe
(Continued on page 5)
OUR BOARDING HOUSE
19th Century Writer
HORIZONTAL
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