Washington, January 19. —The
new Congress started off under a
full head of steam by enacting a
resolution plugging a hole in the
neutrality act of last year. There
was nothing in the old law to pre
vent any American from selling
war supplies to either party in a
civil war such as is now going on
in Spain. The State Department
had been compelled to grant li
censes for the export of several
million dollars worth of second
hand airplanes and engines which
had been sold, to the Spanish reb
els by a Brooklyn dealer who had
bought them at a United States
army auction.
These munitions had already
been loadeed on a ship when Con
gress convened. The effort of the
new Congress was to rush the new
law through in time to prevent
the ship from sailing. Congress
was not quick enough. However, it
is now the law that hereafter no
American may supply arms to
anybody taking part in a civil
war anywhere in the world.
There is a distinct feeling in
Washington that the State De
partment is worried about the
European war outlook. Signs are
numerous that a large scale in
ternational conflict is brewing in
Spain. This country may not be
come involved, though there is
always that danger, but just in
case, the President has ordered
work to be begun, immediately on
the construction of the two big
gest battleships that we have ever
built. They will cost about SIOO,-
000,000 and will take about three
years to build.
The Constitution
While there is talk heard on
every side about a constitutional
amendment giving Congress au
thority to legislate on labor rela
tions, there is not an immediate
liklihood that such a resolution
will be adopted this year. Con
gress was considerably impressed
by the President's reminder that
the Constitution already has suf
ficient breadth to permit govern
ment to meet twentieth century
social and economic problems in
a progressive way, and that all
that is needed is, "enlightened in
terpretation."
That is,, in what some of
the members of the Supreme
Court have also said in the past
four years. The latest Supreme
Court decisions have given much
satisfaction to the more liberal
minded.
The Court's reaffirmation of
the right of peaceable assembly
resulting in setting free a man
who had been arrested two years
ago in Oregon. Dick deJonge at-
Turner Drug Company
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tended a meeting of the Com
munist Party. There was no evi
dence that anything treasonable
was said or done at that meeting,
but on the thaory that any Com
munist meeting must be criminal
the Oregon police arrested de-
Jonge—and the Supreme Court of
the United States in an unani
mous opinion has set him free.
Child Labor Amendment
In another decision the Su
, preme Court ruled that when any
state adopts a law forbidding the
importtation of prison-made
goods, it becomes a . federal of
fense to ship such goods into that
state. This decision has been held
by some commentators to make
it unnecessary to continue the ef
fort to ratify the pending of con
stitutional amendment forbidding
the interstate shipment of goods
produced by the laboi of children.
Nevertheless, President Roose
velt has issued a strong appeal to
the legislatures of all of the states
which have not ratified the child
labor amendment, urging them to
act upon it speedily.
Twenty-four states have al
ready ratified the amendment but
twelve more must do so before it
becomes a part of the federal con
stitution. Former President Hoo
ver has joined in the appeal, de
claring that President Roosevelt
is entirely right.
The amendment was first sub
mitted to the states in President
Coolidge's administration, after
the Supreme Court had ruled that
Congress had no power to pro
hibit the shipment of products of
child-laboi in interstate com
merce.
Congress Centers Attention
One of the first big jobs which
Congress is trying to get out of
the way is the continuation and
extension of some of the emergen
cy legislation which expires by a
limitation in the course of the
next few weeks.
Three bills are under way, one
extending until June 30, 1939, the
lending authority of the R. P. C.
and some of the other federal
lending agencies; a second extend
ing to the same date the Presi
dent's discretionary power to de
value the dollar and continuing
the two billion dollar currency
stabilization fund; the third con
tinues for the same period the
authority of the Federal Reserve
bank system to issue currency
notes against government securi
ties.
One of the other laws which ex
pires on June 30 this year unless
Congress reenacts it is the three
cent postage law. All the indica
tions are, however, that this will
be reenacted.
The Motor Strike
The labor situation is giving
Administration and Congressional
leaders a great deal of concern.
While every practical politician
wants to go on record on every
possible occasion as being a friend
of labor, none of them wants to be
forced into taking sides as be
tween the two major factions into
which organized labor is now
split.
The effort of John Lewis' C. I.
O. to force General Motors to rec
ognize his union as the sole bar
gaining agency with its employ
ees is in conflict with the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, which
has a strong and very active lob
by always at work on Capitol Hill.
The understanding here is that
Mr. Lewis did not intend to start
the General Motors strike until
Spring, but the local leaders got
out of hand and went ahead with
their sit-down strikes before all
the plans of strategy had been
perfected.
It is also the understanding
here that it was never the inten
tion of the C. I. O. to cripple the
whole automobile industry. The
strike was aimed at General Mo
tors alone.
Act Is Explained
To Kiwanis Club
(Continued from front page)
dustry or business job, are earn-
I ing benefits which will come to
them later on In the form of
monthly payments from the
United States government.
The amount of the monthly
payments will depend on the to
j tal amount of wages or salary the
| worker receives from his indus
trial or business Job from January
1. 1937, to his 65th birthday.
The monthly payments can go
as high as SBS a month; they
cannbt be less than $lO. A work
er who earns on an average of S3O
a week, or $1,560 a year, for 30
years after 1936 and before he is
65, will receive a check from the
government for $50.75 a month
the rest of his life after age 65.
If he dies before he has received
any monthly payments, his estate
will receive 3 and one-half cents
on every dollar of these wages or
$1,638. All Social Security bene
fits of this nature are based upon
the worker's wage or salary and
the number of years he works be- J
fore becoming 65 years old.
The law provides that employ
ers and workers pay a tax on the
workers' wages up to wages of
$3,000 a year from, any one em
ployer. This tax is collected by the
government from the employers.
For three years, beginning Jan-
THB ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
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e 1 a Josepn
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living in a email rented room, who
startled police with a complaint
that $250,000 worth of his dia
monds had been stolen from un
der bis mattress. Investigation
disclosed the diamonds in a safety
deposit box.
uary 1, 1937, the workers under
the law pay one cent per dollar of
wages. In 1940 the rate is in
creased to 11-2 cents per dollar;
in 1943 to two cents, and in 1949
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READY-TO-WEAR--ALL REDUCED FOR QUICK CLEARANCE!
TET Trri FFF TNDVI THIS STARTLING, MONEY-SAVING EVENT ENDS
DUI tIUKK I I SATURDAY!
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DRASTIC REDUCTIONS week, hurry to our store today. Prices positively go back Buy Before Saturday
to original figures Saturday. Now is your chance to buy And Save Oil These ValliCS
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One Group J»O AO ! Were $3.98, Now $2.98
Were $6.95, Now 3>0.T0 WINTER HATS REDUCED! Men's Fur Felt Hats
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: WI» JUW Utva Each Saturday _ _ fr « 1 7 Were $1.49, Now $1.98
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and thwoalter the rate is three
cents per dollar. This w{ll be
taken out of the workers' pay.
The employer also pays a tax
equal to all the taxes his employ
ees pay.
Other points of the security
program were also explained by
Mr. Shirley.
The speaker was introduced by
Kiwanian Garland Johnson.
During the meeting the club
gave a vote of thanks to Capt. A.
M. Smith for the excellent job he
did in raising the town's quota of
$3,000 to go to the erection of a
$45,000 addition to Hugh Chat
ham Memorial hospital here.
Fletcher Harris was welcomed
into the club as a new member.
Walter Combs was present as the
guest of Kiwanian E. S. Spain
hour, and Glenn Lewis, formerly
of High Point, and now connected
with the local J. C. Penney Co.
store, was the guest of Kiwanian
A. L. Griffeth.
In Germany it is estimated that
insects destroy one out of every
five apples, one out of every ten
grains of wheat and one of every
thirteen potatoes.
Plan# Under Way
For Annual Ball
(Continued from front page)
has urged that everyone make
plans to attend the ball. If it 1s
impossible for some to attend, he
urges that they buy tickets and
give them to those who otherwise
might not be able to attend.
Two orchestras will be on hand
for the event here, one to furnish
music for round dancers and the
other, a string band, to play for
the square dancers. The main din
ing room of Hotel Elkin will be
cleared for round dancing and the
Kiwanis room will be used for
square dancing. The dance will
last until 1 a. m.
Committees appointed are as
follows:
Entertainment committee :
George Royall, chairman; C. C.
Poindexter, Mrs. Franklin Folger,
Mrs. Hugh Parks, Mrs. Thomas
Roth; decorating committee: Mrs.
C. O. Ashby, chairman; Mrs. R.
C. Freeman, Mrs. J. O. Bivins;
orchestra committee: Paul Gwyn,
chairman; J. O. Bivins: ticket
[committee: W. M, Allen, chair
man, Lesbia Oraham, Jo Barker,
Jerry Barker, Mary Sale; floor
committee: Dixie Graham, chair
man; C. S. Foster, J. L. Dar
nell, W. J. Snow; advertising com
mittee: H. P. Laffoon, chairman;
Alan Browning, Jr.
Foley M. Norman will again
serve as treasurer of the ball.
Pigafetta, a member of
the first round-the-world expe
dition, traded the king of spades
from a deck of cards for six fowl
with natives near Cape St. Aug
ustine.
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