tog-Tired Congress Wants To Quit But FDR Insists On
*ax Bill First; He Doesn't Care To Run For Election
light On Top Of Boost In Taxes; Suit Against Anna
oosevelt Is For Money Raised For Her Ex-Husband;
'rivate Companies See No Profit In Federal Built Rural
'ower Lines.
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
Washington—What the boys
:ally are talking about on Capi
.1 Hill.these blistering days is
Jt the headline issues of lobby
ig, taxation, holding company eli
ination, or- the central bank bill.
The big topic of conversation
: “When do we quit?” But a
kradoxical situation exists on
is moot question.
Everybody is agreed on the
isirability of a prompt adjourn
ent. Congress, left to its own
iVices, would shut up shop and
t for home in a rush. The
Members are dog-tired. The ses
>n has been the most exhaust
|g in many years.
Dr. George Galver, House phy
:ian, is treating more than
irty members for heart trouble.
The President is no less eager
get Congress off his hands.
i seven months of hectic and
rbulent deliberations have been
i pleasure junket for him. But
saving squarely athwart this un
imity is a potent dissenting fac
r—the 1936 presidential cam
ign.
Urgently desirous as the Presi
nt is to get rid of Congress,
is more anxious to get his tax
ogram disposed of at this ses
>n. The reason for this is
secretly hostile to
imocrats,
'her taxes, see in delay a chance
NOTICE OF SALE
)RTH CAROLINA,
XEGHANY COUNTY
THE SUPERIOR COURT
IFORE THE CLERK
, Administrator
F. Carter, de
ilbur G. Carter,
c, L a. of J.
ceased.
nple:
Mr. Roosevelt has no intention,
he can possibly help it, of run
ng for re-election right on top
a tax boost certain to raise
e temperature of a great many
ople.
Obviously it is better tactics
do the tax-upping job now and
ire the country a year in which
forget about it. Staging an
action campaign right after a
it wallop is like pouring salt on
fresh wound.
This, of course, is exactly what
i Republicans want. It would
all to their advantage to have
5 tax-kiting issue a fresh mem
y in next year’s political joust
'. This was what whs behind
i move by Senator Dan Hast
es, chairman of the Joint Re
blican Congressional Campaign
mmittee, to lay over consider
>on of the tax bill until the fall.
PROCRASTINATION
To many weary Democratic
imbers, in whose minds there is
permost only one thought—
tting home—Hastings’ idea of
three or four months recess is
jwerfully appealing. Other
to whittle down. They also are
strongly behind Hastings.
Latest procrastination scheme is
to let the House pass a tax bill,
then Congress would recess until
November, at which time the Sen
ate would act. The Senate, it is
argued, would use the interim to
study the House bill.
All of which is pure alibi talk.
If Congress quits without enact
ing a tax it is a 100 to 1 bet
that tax legislation will be drag
ged into the next session. The
President knows this full well,
and he is standing pat for a bill
this session.
The issue is by no means set
tled. As Washington tempera
ture and Congressional tempers
shoot skyward, pressure for ad
journment keeps step. It is not
"unlikely that the fight may break
into the open.
The odds, however, are with the
President. The boys, sticky with
heat and complaining of fatigue,
probably will have to stick it out.
MORTGAGED
Behind the foreclosure suit
brought against Mrs. Anna Roose
velt Boettiger, daughter of the
President, is a hitherto untold
story.
Anna Roosevelt’s first husband,
Curtis Dali, desired to become a
member of a New York broker
age firm, and to this end was re
quired to put up a certain amount
of money.
In order to raise the fund, a
mortgage was placed on the prop
erty occupied by the then Mr.
aid Mrs. Dali near Ossining," N.
Y. The mortgage was for $65,
000.
The bank insisted that Mrs.
Dali be jointnly responsible with
her husband. Subsequently Dali
was not able to make payments
on the note.
Although few outside the
Roosevelt family know it, this
was the reason for Anna Roose:
velt’s efforts to raise money by
radio broadcasting and magazine
writing. For a time she helped
materially to keep up payments
on the note.
Finally the payments ceased.
This was about the time she went
to Reno to divorce Dali. A total
of $7,000 had been paid off.
The Westchester Title and
Trust Company, which held the
mortgage, now has filed a fore
closure suit in the New York
Supreme Court.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Washington experts expect a
whole flock of special sessions of
State legislatures next fall and
winter.
Reason for this unwonted ac
tivity is to enable the States to
take advantage of the Federal
subsidies for old-age pensions and
unemployment insurance authoriz
ed in the Social Security Act.
Under this law, States whose
old-age pension systems meet cer
tain requirements will be paid a
monthly $15-per-person subsidy by
the Treasury. Thirty-five States
have old-age pension acts, but
less than half come up to Federal
standards.
In the unemployment insurance
sphere, changes in State laws will
be necessary in all but six states
—Washington, New York, Utah,
California, Wisconsin and New
Hampshire. These changes are
to enable employers to make full
use of the Federal statute that
grants them a 90 per cent pay
roll tax exemption if they set up
unemployment insurance funds.
A majority of the States also
will have to adopt laws to make
operative for their citizens the
blind-aid, mothers’ pensions and
maternity-infancy features of the
Social Security Act.
K.INGF1SH ECONOMY
Huey Long has been trimming
his budget. Mail has been drop
ping off, and the Kingflsh wants
to save money.
The other day his force of 22
clerks was cut to 16.
Another economy has been ef
fected in his newspaper, "The
American Progress.’’ Hereafter
it will be published monthly in
stead of approximately bi-weekly.
Subscription rates have been cut
proportionately—from $1.00 year
ly to 60 cents.
MOUNTAINS OF PAPER
There will be no lack of “arch
ives” when the new $12,000,000
Archives Building on lower Penn
sylvania Avenue opens for busi
ness next month.
Inr fact, Archivist R. D. W.
Conner already is worrying
whether the vast granite and lime
stone structure will house the bil
lions of government documents
awaiting storage. So staggering
is the number of these documents
that they are no longer counted.
Instead they are measured for
the amount of space they occupy.
The new Archives Building—
the first of its kind in the his
tory of the Federal government—
will have 2,600,000 cubic feet of
storage space. But in 1930, when
the last survey was made, 2,641,
678 cubic feet of government
documents were gathering dust in
Washington. Since then, Conner
says, the annual increment has
been not less than "260,000 cubic
feet, and more likely a great deal
more.
Two big problems face Conner
and the staff of experts he has
assembled:
1. Weeding out “dead” docu
ments, expected to run into the
millions.
2. Classifying, filing and cata
loguing those documents worth
preserving.
Both are tremendous undertak
ings. The latter is particularly
tough, because there never has
been tc systematic preservation of
documents.
At present government records
and files are scattered in more
than 150 places in the Capital,
[■liiefly cellars, attics, boiler
rooms, vacant theatres, and even
in the White House garage. In
many instances the files are all
mixed up.
The documents, when finally
sorted, will be stored in a, vast
system of steel “stacks” protect
ed by elaborate anti-theft, anti
deterioration and anti-fire me
chanisms. The stacks and ac
companying equipment cost $6,
000.000, as much as the rest of
the new building.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Ihe Rural Electrification Ad
ministration is getting the merry
ha-ha from private companies on
ils idea of stringing wires through
out sparsely-settled farm areas.
Originally, REA figured on se
curing the cooperation of private
companies by letting them take
over the lines—at a price—after
installation by the Government.
But private operators, having
skimmed the cream off the rural
electricity market, see no profit
in the milk.
They say there is no money in
most rural areas. The farmer
will not make the dials click fast
enough on his meter. A few light
bulbs suspended from the ceil
ing won’t build up a pay load.
Even with an iron, a toaster, an
electric fan, and a cream sepa
rator, the load is low.
Before the farmer can be a
good customer he must put in an
electric stove, a hot water heater
and electric machinery for the
barn and the field. The farmer
may find the money for the poles
and wires, private operators argue,
but not for the appliances.
REA’s Administrator Morris L.
Cooke thinks otherwise. “It’s
sheer nonsense,” he says, “to say
the farmer can’t afford electric
service.”
Though still seeking coopera
tion, Cooke is preparing an attack
on two fronts:
1. He will push the sale of ap
pliances on installment buying by
“an intensified educational pro
gram.”
2. His competition, he thinks,
will force private companies to
reduce rates in rural areas.
The companies, however, re
main skeptical.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Prohibition chieftains are map
ping plans for a revival of the
dry crusade. A national rally of
Prohibition forces has been called
in Washington for November.
One of the chief proposals to be
laid before it is a plan to' go
before the two major party presi
dential conventions next June and
demand platform plans to curb
liquor advertising. . ’. . Republi
can members of the House Ways
and Means Committee complain
bitterly that their Democratic
colleagues never notify them
when the subcommittees of the
body hold meetings. . . Congres
sional Republican leaders give
Arch Coleman, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General in the Hoover
Cabinet, responsibility for the re
port that the former President is
planning an early announcement
taking himself out of the ,1935
race. They say they hope the
report is true, but they are
doubtful. , . . Dr. Hugh Magill,
leading utility lobbyist against
the President’s Holding Company
Bill, was once a militant anti
power crusader. Backed by Sec
retary Ickes and other leading
Republican Independents, Magill
opposed the senatorial candidacy
of Frank Smith, whom the Sen
ate refused to seat after a sen
sational investigation disclosing
that one of his big campaign
contributors was Samuel Insull.
. . . The vast labyrinth of stor
age stacks of the new Archives
Building are divided into 130
“zones,” each consisting of 21
tiers of stacks. Directly in charge
of the stacks will be twelve sec
tion chiefs who will supervise ten
“zones” each.
(Copyright, 193J5, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Finally
The editor of the country news
paper went home to dinner smil
ing radiantly.
“You must have had some good
fortune this morning,” greeted
his wife.
“Indeed I did,” announced the
editor. “Jim Smith, who hasn’t
paid his subscription for ten years,
came in and stopped his paper.”
—Unidentified.
CHILD'
'AND THE SCHOOL
X % Dr. ALLEN G. IRELAND
Dhtttsr, Hysitml amd Health Education
9 tar Department 0/ PnUit Interaction
Summer Heat
Too many cautions cannot Be
printed against sunburn. No mat
ter boar much is said or written,
no natter what one’s past ezperi
ence may nave Deen,
the majority of
people show unrea
sonable haste in ac
quiring a sunburn.
“Pm going to be
tanned like an Indi
an,” they say, for
getting that the In
dian's red-brown skin is natural.
Children are in danger, because
they don’t know there is any dan
ger. In the summer, they have all
day for play. The release from
sohool is tempting, with so many
things to do. If parents aren’t
mindful and watching, the first
day or two in the summer sun may
bring a serious burn. Then a week
of suffering, often confined to bed.
And it isn’t always as simple as
that. Burn from the sun is no dif
ferent from any burn. It isn't con
fined to a sore skin. Poisons, or
body toxins, are formed. The child
may be feverish and nauseated. In
attempting to throw off the poisons,
the kidneys may be injured. Some
times severe prostration results.
In all cases of sunburn, it is ad
visable to place a child in a physi
cian’s care. Wise treatment will
prevent the complications. But the
greatest wisdom is shown at the
beginning. Take the sunburn grad
ually, a little each day. Give the
skin a chance to tan painlessly.
One Feather »
“I shall have to put you fellows
in the same room,” said the host.
“That’s all right,” the guests
replied.
“Well, I think,” said the host,
“you’ll have a comfortable night.
It’s a feather bed.”
At 2 o’clock in the morning
one of the guests awoke his
companion.
“Change places with me, Dick,”
he groaned. “It’s my turn to
lie, on the feather.”—Grit.
Twin Oaks
Sparta P. 0., July 22.—Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Wiles, Welch,
W. Va., after spending a few
days with relatives and friends
here, returned home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Petty
visited Mrs- Petty’s mother, Mrs.
Alice Sanders, Sunday.
Eugene Fender, Boone, and
Max Hannah, of Bagdad, Asia,
stopped here Sunday enroute to
visit Mr. Fender’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Fender, White
head. Mr. Hannah is a native of
Asia and has just graduated from
a four-year college course at
Boone. When he entered school
there, it is reported that he could
not speak a word of English.
Ray Funderburk and family, of
Wilmington, who came to the
mountains last week to spend a
month on account of Mr. Funder
burk’s health, left Saturday morn
ing to take Mr. Funderburk to
a hospital in Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Gambill
visited friends here Monday night.
Little Pine
Ennice P. 0-, July 23.—A
large crowd attended the com
munion meeting at Pleasant Home
Sunday.
Edd Carico entertained a num
ber of his friends Saturday night
with a social gathering.
Misses Mabel Mains and Zelma
Greene spent Saturday night with
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wilson.
Miss Lucille Andrews spent
Saturday night with Miss Bessie
Chappell.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Tompkins
spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wilson.
Leonard Cain visited at I. M.
Cheek’s home Sunday.
Handy Murphy and Homer
Wilson made a business trip
“south” last week.
Miss Zelma Greene spent Fri
day afternoon with Miss Mabel
Maines.
Ray Greene left Saturday for
the CCC camp.
English As She 1* Spoke
Teacher: “John Henry, your
work has fallen down; and if you
are going to pick it up, you’ll
have to step on it."
Wrapping Paper
The little girl was soliciting
funds for her Sunday school, A
gentleman dug into his pocket
and pulled out several coins and
a dollar bill. He asked the little
girl to take what she needed.
“I do not wish to be piggish,”
she said. “I’ll just take this
penny. But, please sir, may I
have the paper to wrap it up
in’”
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF LAND
North Carolina,
Alleghany County.
By virtue of authority confer
red in a certain Deed of Trust,
executed by F. M. Tompkins and
wife, Edna Tompkins, to the
undersigned Trustee, 'dated July
I, 1933, recorded in Book 18,
Page 114, Alleghany County Reg
istry, securing the payment of
$70.00, default being made and
demand for sale having been
made, I will on Monday, August
12, 1935, at 1 o’clock P. M., at
the court house door in Sparta,
County and State aforesaid, offer
for sale to the 'highest bidder for
cash the following described par
cel of lan'd:
In Glade Creek Township, ad
joining the lands of Will Carrock,
J. C. Toliver, James Antney and
others, containing 4 acres, more
or less.
For a more complete descrip
tion of said parcel of land, refer
ence is made to deed of even
date (as deed of trust) from J,
R. Green and others, to F. M.
Tompkins, recorded in Book .
Page., in office of Register
of Deeds for Alleghany county.
This July 11, 1935.
GEORGE CHEEK,
4tc-8AT Trustee
Reins - Sturdivant
Funeral Home
Ambulance Service Day or
Night
Licensed Embalmers
SPARTA, N. C.
Telephone 22
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