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Washington, December 9—Be tween the time when Congress broke up in a row last summer, practically shaking Its fists at the White House, and the convening of the special session on Novem ber 15r two things happened which have knocked all the plans awry. Neither was anticipated. First, the members who have been back home conferring with their constituents did not have their ears knocked down for being sassy to the President, as it had been predicted by Administration spokesmen would happen. And, second, a sudden slump oodurred in business and industry, of such proportions as to send shudders of apprehension of its possible political results over every Sena tor and Representative who has to stand for re-election next Fall. RUNAWAY CONGRESS The direct result of these two things is that the Congress is in a more independent mood than it has been at any time in the past five years, and is showing signs of going ahead under its own steam and charting its own course. How far and in what direction it will get in this short special session is still unpredictable, but it looks as if it will adjourn for the Christ mas holidays with a good deal of the program which the President called it to consider still unenact ed. First on the President's pro gram was the Farm Control MIL But when Congress met there wasn't any farm control bill ready for it to consider, and the Saute took np its own No. 1 item ' ♦ A ~«w :'m\- mn *1 /I 1. f - i, 1 he New Gasoline Lawi - An announcement by theV „ ! 7 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey I / ■ P*' I t -?i Jr 4 A j; On December 1, 1937, the new North Carolina minimum ;v© quality gasoline law goes into effect to protect motorists * £ • "JD 4 :M' sk $■ of the state. { f Esso and Essolene have always clearly exceeded even i • • the strict requirements now established by law. The • Standard Oil Company of New Jersey wants its many y « customers to know that it spares neither effort nor ex pense to give them more for their money than they get in any other petroleum products. To meet the needs of to •• " # : ~ • « morrow with still higher standards of quality, the Com pany is devoting all available resources and experience. # # ~V- * t S: • ' • , , f: * - *>.. ♦ STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERS*EYj the Anti- Lynching bill, settin* off a filibuster which wasted a goodly part of the five-weeks ses sion. The debate did, however, give many Senators a chance to express themselves on the subject nearest to the hearts of their con stituents, the new business de pression and what to do about it, SENATE MARKS TIME Since the Senate cannot init iate tax legislation under the Constitution, all it can do is to talk until the House sends it a tax bill to consider. But the talk in the Senate, supplemented by expressions by members of the House of Representatives on and off the record, disclosed a sur prisingly unanimity of opinion in favor of taking immediate steps to unshackle business and indus try from the fetters of restrictive taxation, particularly the undis tributed profits tax and the cap ital gains tax. What made the situation more surprising was the agreement by the President that it was time to do something to encourage pri vate capital to start the wheels of industry spinning at a faster rate and to invest in building new houses, factories and stores in order to stimuate production of building materials and put work ers in the building and allied in dustries back to work. For once, it seemed, the President, the Con gress and the business world were in harmony. NO TAX CHANGE NOW That the special session will re peal or amend the taxes on in dustry which are generally con ceded to have hamstrung; busi ness enterprise, seems doubtful. But if out of the debates and the public declarations come as surances which the business world accepts that it is going to get relief In the near future, a good start will have been made toward recovery from this latest depression. The reason for probable delay in tax revision until the regular session is the desire of the House Committee on Ways and Means not to do a piecemeal Job but to present a complete scheme of tax revision in one comprehensive bill. To repeal any existing tax without providing for equal or greater revenue from other sourc es would throw the Federal bud get still further out of balance. One of the essentials to the res toration of business confidence is reliable assurances of honest ef forts to balance the budget. Con gress seems even more bent on that than does the Executive, and does not want to do anything which will reopen the fears that the budget will never be balanced. Therefor the actual revision of the tax system must wait until the regular session, by which time the House Committee hopes to be able to present a partical and completely new tax bill. HAIL NEW HOUSING PLAN The wholehearted acceptance by the Administration of the de mand for revision of the Federal Housing Administration Act to provide better cooperation be tween Government and capital in promoting a nation-wide housing drive meets with hearty approval on Capitol Hill. It will cost the Government nothing but small supervisory expenses, to author ize the formation of National mortgage banks with authority to rediscount mortgage loans under a Federal pooling system of guar anteeing lenders against loss. With matters of such immed iate importance uppermost in their minds, Senators and mem bers of Congress are not so great ly concerned., about., the.. Presi dent's legislative program formu lated last Summer. The four ma jor items in that program are legislation, Government Reorgan ization and Regional Power Plan ning. The last two are hardly likely to be reached at all at this session. The other two are facing serious and perhaps bitter oppo sition, and certainly will not be Y'UP TRIB 1 -NE pi-KIN NORTH TNA in which they are presented. FARM LOBBY DIVIDED While Congress believes, gen erally speaking, that the farmers of the country want crop control if it Is accompanied by benefit payments, there is no general agreement on how it should be formulated or administered, or how to pay for it without addi tional burdens on the Treasury. Tile Farm Lobby in Congress is still powerful, but it is also sec tional and the sections are far apart in their Ideas of what is needed by farmers. Any general crop control bill which w ill please cne farm group will dlsolease an other. Members from the cotton and tobacco states want, one thing, those from wheat, corn, livestock and potato sections want something else for their constituents. The only thing they all want is to be re-elected. QUICK ICE CUBES ARE BOON TO "EXCLUSIVE" An example of how fortune sometimes smiles upon movie producers when they happen to be caught in a difficult situation is graphically illustrated in one of the scenes of Paramount's new picture "Exclusive," to be seen at the Lyric Theatre here Decem ber 10, a highly dramatic story of newspaper life. Although cqn tainlng plenty of thrills, the pic ture is well blessed with a num ber of comedy scenes, one of which takes Charlie Ruggles and Fred Mac Murray to the kitchen for a supply of ice cubes. In order not to "fake" the pic ture and leave too much to the Imagination, it was desirable that the audience see the men obtain the cubes in order to carry out the comedy theme. This present ed an unforeseen problem, how ever, since ice cubes normally are difficult to release from freezing trays, especially if frozen hard as desirable ice cubes should be, and an embarrassing delay would be bad "continuity" from a motion picture standpoint. Whether the script writers over looked this fact, or just had an "Intuition" they have not reveal ed, but the fact remains that just about the time the producers were ready for rehearsal of this scene, the only kind of metal ice tray that would pop out Ice cubes instantly was announced to the world by its manufacturer, which had no previous knowledge of the nfovie problem. The unique device that saved the day, or at least saved the comedy of the scene, is known as the instant ctibe release, devel oped by Frlgidaire Division of General Motors. The firm has since made it available to the general public by including it in all the 1937 models which carry the name plate "Frlgidaire." These may be seen here at the showroom of Harris Electric Co. HOEY DOES NOT PLAN "CHRISTMAS CLEMENCY" Raleigh, Nov. 27—No paroles will be issued next month as purely "Christmas clemency," Governor Hoey said today. However, the chief executive added, several "worthy" cases now under consideration may re sult in clemency action benween now and Christmas. Some former governors have issued paroles during December as "Christmas clemency," and op some occasions more than 100 prisoners have been released on the eve of the holiday. Wife: "Do you realize that twenty five years ago today we were engaged?" Absent - minded Professor: "Twenty-five years! You should have reminded me before. It's certainly time we got married." - • » YOU'LL WANT TO LOOK YOUR BEST THIS CHRISTMAS And you'll find our new and modern shoppe the right answer. Modern equipment, skilled operators. Permanents $2.50 to $8.50 School Girl Ringlets $1.50 CALL 31 FOR APPOINTMENT ELITE BEAUTY SHOPPE Elkin, N. C. 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