by DREW PEARSON a
Newcomers Carried Off Hon
Session; Floor Leaders Co
Dismally In House; Marcus
bach, Minton, Guffey Stai
Youth Program Funds For
Washington—The 1935 session
of Congress made history in many
respects. One of its unique char
acteristics was that highest per
sonal honors were carried off by
a group of newcomers.
Titular Democratic f lo o r
leaders—with two exceptions—
proved weak, incompetent and un
fitted for their responsibilities. In
contrast a little band of rookies
displayed high qualities of en
lightened statesmanship, staunch
fighting Ability and outstanding
parliamentary skill.
The general sogginess and medi
ocrity of the Democratic floor
leadership is unparalleled in re
recent congressional records. In
the House, for example, there oc
curred repeatedly the astounding
spectacle of Democratic floor
leaders openly waging war on
legislative policies of the Demo
cratic President.
Not even in his weakest days
did Republican floor leaders
flaunt Hoover in such a manner.
LEADERS?
Heading the list for all-around
inadequacy was:
Speaker Joe Byrns, amiable,
gangling glad-hander, personally
popular with the rank and file
but utterly without the capacity
to lead or dominate.
As a result, there was no co
herence or discipline in the over
whelming Democratic majority.
Committee chairmen ran their
own show in their own way, mak
ing it necessary for the White
House to deal with each one in
dividually instead of the Speaker
holding the reins.
In an effort to camouflage his
lack of control, Byrns held daily
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina,
Alleghany County.
Under and by virtue of an
order and judgment of the Su
perior Court of Alleghany County
made in the special proceedings
entitled, “W, B. Reeves, Admr.,
of D. R. Watson, vs. Jettie Wat
son, et al,” f the undersigned
Commissioner will on SATUR
DAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 1935, at
2 o'clock P. M., at the Court
house in Sparta, N. C., offer for
sale to the highest bidder for
case the following tracts of real
estate, to-wit:
FIRST TRACT, Containing 13
acres, more or less, bounded by
the lands of Lundy Nichols, G. G.
Nichols, Click A Hubard estate
and others, and known as the
D. R. Watson tract.
SECOND TRACT, a one-sixth
undivided interest in a tract of
land known as the Rena Watson
land, hounded by the lands of
Dr. J. L: Dougihton, Jupollo Power
Company, Hardin Bell and others.
THIRD TRACT: Containing 29
acres, adjoining Little River, the
S. A. Crouse land, Jettie Watson
and others, BEGINNING at a
stake the S. A. Crouse corner,
running North 78 H East SS
poles to a white oak by a gate,
Crouse & Lyon corner; South SS
East 18 poles to a stake; South
34 East 13 poles to a stake; South
20 West 10 poles to a stake;
South 43 H West 12 poles to a
stake; South 13 West 14 poles
to Little River; South 31 West
29 poles to a stake; South IS
West 18 poles to a stake; North
71 H West 30 U poles to « sUke;
South 43 West 22 poles to a
•take; North 10 West 78 ft poles
to the beginning. This tract of
land is subject to the dower in
terest of Jettie Wataon.
FOURTH TRACT: Containing
27 acres, adjoining Little River,
Glenn Nichols and others, BE
GINNING on a stake S. A.
Crouse corner, running North 63
East 38 Yu poles to a stake; North
70 East 38 poles to a
•take; North 10 West 13 poles
to a stake; North 41 H Went 24
poles to a small branch; North
48 H West 20 poles to a stake;
North S West 7 poles to a stake;
North 70 H West 12 poles to \a
Stake; North 84 West 14 poles
to a stake; North 51 West 10
poles to a stake; South 43 West
22 poles to a stake; North 10
West 75 H poles to the baginning.
This tract of land is subject to a
homestead interest of the minor
children of Jettie Watson.
This August 7. 1938.
R. F. CROUSE
4tc-29AT Commissioner
nd ROBERT S. ALLEN
or* In Unique Congressional
strolled Senate But Failed
tonio, Maverick, Schwellen
red; Williams Won't, Use
Military Drilling.
press conferences during which
he oracled about pending mat
ters.- Most of the time he either
was wrong or voiced sentiments
directly opposite to those favored
by the President.
The two creditable exceptions
among Democratic chiefs were:
Joe Robinson, majority floor
leader of the Senate, who despite
secret qualms about many New
Deal policies, supported the Presi.
dent loyally and energetically.
The session added greatly to
Joe’s repute and stature. He held
his hair-trigger temper in check.
He never winced at hostile press
comment. He labored untiringly
and patiently to keep his unruly
command in line.
That the Senate, contrary to
pre-session expectations, cooper
ated more or less cordially with
the President is due in very large
measure to the skill and leader
ship of burly Joe Robinson.
Alben Barkley, assistant floor
leader, who up to this session
was considered a run-of-mine
politician, but surprised his col
leagues with the brilliance of his
generalship. Barkley not only put
the ubiquitous Huey Long in his
place, but dared what no other
Senator would do—went out of
his way to provoke the Kingfish,
then slapped him back into his
corner.
In handling delicat® parliamen
tary situations, Barkley proved
himself a fast-thinking, fast-act
ing maneuverer, more than oncp
rescuing the Administration from
9 QPt-hflrk
HOUSE STARS
The most striking personalities
among Congressional newcomers
were in the House, in which a
Texan of old American stock and
a New Yorker of immigrant Ital
ian parentage took the lead. They
were:
Vito Marcantonio, a 33-year
old Republican who holds the seat
once filled by his close friend,
Mayor LaGuardia of New York
“Marc” is a hard-hitting, hard
fighting left-wing liberal, differ
ing from all the other liberals in
Congees in that his basic economic
orientation is industrial and not
agricultural. His courageous
outspokenness was discomfiting to
the leaders of his own party as
well as to the Democrats.
Maury Maverick, Democrat,
grandson of a founder of the
Texan Republic and of a Con
federate general from Virginia.
Maverick came out of the World
War with two distinctions, a
near-court martial for denouncing
the conscription act while defend
ing a Mexican who had dodged
registration (and a decoration for
heroic action under fire. His
great passion is freedom of
speech, press and assembly. He
has been the leader of the House
forces that have fought off num
erous attempts to curb these fun
damental rights.
Edward C. Moran, Jr., Maine
Democrat and overseas war veter
an ; E." C. Eicher, Iowa Democrat;
D. J. Driscoll, Pennsylvania Demo
crat; and Walter Chandler, Ten
nessee Democrat, who while less
colorful than their two younger
colleagues, proved to be Congress
men of high ability and intel
lectual stature.
SENATE ACES
The rookie stars of the Senate
did not appear in the headlines
until mid-season. Their first
front-page performance was tak
ing the measure of Huey Long
in his ill-fated one-man filibuster.
With this as a starter, they have
been hitting on all cylinders ever
since.
Louis B. Schwellenbach is a
bespeckled, quiet-spoken Democrat
from the State of Washington,
whose manner and appearance
belie the iron underneath. It was
Schwellenbach who led the attack
that silenced Huey. It was. his
questioning of Associated Gas and
Electric officials that disclosed it
had spent close to $800,000 in
lobbying against the Holding
Company Bill. He also showed
that H. C. Hopson had drawn out
more than $2,000,000 in personal
profits at a time when A. G. & E.
had not paid dividends for sev
eral years.
Sherman Minton, is heavy set,
dark complexioned, an Indiana
Democrat, whose experience as
State Public Counselor has made
him one of the most effective
members of the Senate lobby com
mittee. An overseas veteran and
Legionnaire, Minton refused to
be stampeded on the bonus issue.
Joseph F. Guffey, veteran boss
of Pennsylvania Democracy, is
personally conservative but vot
ed liberal with the President on
every issue. Joe made Senate
history merely by being elected.
He is the first Pennsylvania
Democrat to enter the Senate in
decades, and followed this up by
introducing a bill to place the
coal industry under Federal con
trol which proved to be one of
the most revolutionary and bitter
ly contested issues of the session.
LOYALTY
Two well-dressed ladies stood
at the foot of the Capitol steps,
Senate wing, and gazed enviously
at the lean, resplendent limousine
of Vice President Jack Gamer.
“Gracious,” said one, “what
a beautiful car for such an ugly
old man!”
The Vice Presidential chauffeur,
overhearing the remark, sat up,
retorted:
“Madame, Mr. Garner’s char
acter is just as beautiful as this
car.” * •
YOUTH PROGRAM
Aubrey Williams, dynamic head
of the National Youth Adminis
tration, is rapidly shaping plans
for spending his $50,000,000 for
the youth of the nation.
“I’m going to use part of the
money,” says Williams, “in buy
ing leadership—leaders to get
the work started; then let the
committee carry on. We’ll let
the communities shape their own
program.
“But there’s one thing that’s
out. There’ll be no regimentation.
No drill. I saw too much of that
in France. I know there’s noth
ing but a lie in this idea of keep
ing peace by preparing for war.
“If that’s what they want,
somebody else will have to run
this show.”
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Supreme Court Justice George
Sutherland is returning from his
24th voyage to Europe. He was
bom in Buckinghamshire, Eng
land. . . No off-color dialogue will
be permitted in the plays present
ed by Relief actors for Relief
audiences under the new PWA
program. . . Rex Tugwell’s Re
settlement Administration is pay
ing $1,S03.50 a month rent for
the use as an office of the fam
ous McLean mansion at 2020
Massachusetts Avenue. Even so,
other RA offices are scattered
through five Government build
ings. . . The District of Columbia
stands third in the number of
motor vehicles proportionate to
the population. First two states
are Nevada and California. . .
When the Supreme Court comes
to rest in its palatial new build
ing in October, it will end 145
years of wandering. Organized
in 1790, it sat first in the Royal
Exchange Building at the foot of
Broad Street in New York. . .
Washington’s National Symphony
Orchestra was led recently by a
guest conductor only 20 years
old, Richard Homer Bales, of
Alexandria, Va. . . Senator Mc
Adoo’s two former law partners
are well fixed in the New Deal.
John Dickinson, now Assistant
Attorney General, draws a salary
of $9,000 and J. F. O’Connor is
Comptroller General of the Cur
rency at $5,000 and a member of
the Federal Reserve Board at
$7,000. . . Jellyfish made it hot
for workers in a Government
building recently. Floating idly
through a broken water filter
from the Potomac, they got lodg
ed in the pipes of an air-condition
ing system, put it out of order.
(Copyright, 1985, by
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
What Will Expected To Find “Over There”
Letter He Wrote To A Deceased Friend
Has Poignant Interest Now
Of all that Will Rogers wrote,
nothing has greater or more poig
nant interest at the time of his
death, than a Tetter which he ad
dressed to a friend, Charles M.
Russell, also a cowboy, noted
for his wit and for his ability
as an artist. Death came to him
as he was about to complete a
book of reminiscenses of the Old
West, illustrated by himself. The
book was published last year by
Doubleday Doran, under the title
“Trails Plowed Under.”
For this book Will wrote, as an
introduction, ,a letter to Russell—
and in it gave something of his
idea of the other world to which
his vacation trip to Alaska took him
most unexpectedly the other day.
It illustrates well both the humor
and the sentiment which charac
terized the man.
“There ain’t much news here
to tell you,’’ Will wrote to his
deceased friend. “You know the
Big Boss Gent sent a hand over
and got you so quick Charley.
But I guess He needed a good
man pretty bad. I hear they been
working short handed over there
pretty much all the time, I guess
its hard for Him to ge.t hold of
good men, they are just getting
scarce everywhere. . .
"... I bet you hand’t been
up there three days until you had
out your old pencil and was a
drawing something funny about
some of their old punchers. . .
I bet you Mark Twain and old
Bill Nye and Whitcomb Riley
and ,a whole bunch of those old
joshers was just a waiting for
you to pop in with all the latest
Mt. Zion
Piney Creek P. O., Aug. 26—
A. J. Pugh, Charleston, W. Va.,
and niece, Miss Ma.ry Carnes,
Clendenen, W. V,a., returned
home last week after spending
some time with relatives and
friends in this community, Laurel
Springs and Linville.
H. G. Black has returned from
the hospital.
J. Roy Cox, Furches, visited
relatives in this community re
cently.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Douglas
and daughter and Mrs. Matt
Woodie, of Maryland, visited in
the community last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Carey Blevins
announce the birth of a daughter
on August 24.
A. J. Pugh and W. F. Pugh
visited their aunt, Mrs. Nan Pugh,
recently.
Georgie, Jessie and Dean Cox
visited their grandmother, Mrs.
Mary Wyatt, recently.
Logene Pugh spent last week
with her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. F. Pugh.
Mr. and Mrs. George Pugh
spent Sunday with relatives at
Topia.
Mrs. Mary Cox, Ge.orgie and
Jessie Cox, Mrs. W. R. Jones,
Mrs. S. E. Smith and son, Thomas,
and Mrs. T. E, Pugh and children,
Logene and Fred, visited the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Pugh recently.
Carl Caudill has removed Mrs.
Mollie Atwood, who is ill, to
his home near Piney Greek.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified u Administra
tor of Cat T. Atwood, deceased,
all persons having claims against
the estate are hereby notified to
file claim against the estate within
one year from the date of this
notice.
Thir. August 20th, 1935.
S. U. ATWOOD, Administrator
of Cat T. Atwood, deceased
4tc-12AT
FLOWERS
For All Occasions
At B & T Drug Co.
SPARTA, N. C.
ones. What kind of a bird is
Washington and Jefferson? I bet
they are regular fellows when
you meet em ain’t they? Most
big men are.
“I would like to see the bunch
that is gathered around you the
first time you tell the one about
putting the limburger cheese in
the old nestors whiskers. Don’t
tell that, Charley, until you get
Lincoln around you, he would
love that. I bet you and him
kinder throw in together when
you get well acquainted, dam it
when I get to thinking about all
them top hands up there if I
could just hold a horse wrangling
job with em, I wouldent mind
following that wagon myself. . .
“You will run onto me old dad
up there .Charley, for he was a
real cowhand and I bet he is
running a wagon, and you will
pop into some well kept ranc!
house over under some cool shad;
trees .and you will be asked t<
have dinner, and it will be th
best one you ever had in you
life, well, when you are a thank
ing the women folks, you jus
tell the sweet looking little ol(
lady that you know her boy bad
on an outfit you used to rep for
and tell the daughters that yoi
know their brother, and if yoi
see a cute little rascal runninf
around there kiss him for me
Well cant write you any mon
i Charley dam papers all wet, it |
r must be raining in this old bunk
> house.
i “Of course we are all just
• hanging on here as long as we
■ can. I don’t know why we hate
; to go, we know its better there.
I Maby its because we haven’t done
: anything that will live after we
, axe gone.
“From your old friend,
“WILL."
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radio batteries, tube* and ser
vice.—adv. ^ tfe.
GLADE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
Glade Valley, N. C.
A Christian School with a Distinguished Record of 25 years
of Devoted Service.
Standard Courses Plus Training in Public 'Speaking, Leader
ship, Music, Glee Club and Sewing. Emphasizing Character
Building.
Small Classes Afford Individual Instruction
“Graduates Making Good”
Rates Reasonable With Self-Help Plan
Write for Catalog. E. B. Eldridge, Supt.
Public Auction Sale
-of-—
Horses, Cattle, Sheep
- and
Household Furniture
at
Home of P. C. Collins
On U. S. Highway No. 21—6 Miles South of Sparta, N. C.
Wednesday, SepL 4 - 10 a. m.
I must, dispose of my entire lot of Horses and Cattle and all of my personal
property including Household and Kitchen Furniture because 1 intend to move
to a different climate on account iof my wife’s health. Everything listed be
low, and many other items too numerous to mention, will be offered at Public
Auction.
HORSES AND MULES
2 Good Brood Mares
one with colt; one with
filly colt.
1 4-year old black Horse,
weight 1300 lbs.
1 Pair of Bay Horses.
1 Pair of Smooth-mouthed
Mules.
14 Mule Colts.
1 2-year old Colt.
1 2-year old Shetland
Pony.
1 5-year old Sorrel Saddle
Horse.
SHEEP
30 Stock Ewes.
25 Ewe Lambs.
35 Smooth Mouth Ewes.
3 Bucks.
Will sell to suit buyer.
CATTLE
15 Cows
fresh and to be fresh.
10 Yearling Steers.
4 2-year old Steers.
15 Yearling Heifers.
16 Beef Cattle.
2 White Face Bulls.
1 Jersey Bull. <
6 Jersey Heifers.
18 Calves
all kinds.
SWINE
1 Good Brood Sow.
2 Good Killing Hogs.
FARM MACHINERY
AND EQUIPMENT
1 New Mowing Machine
and Rake.
1 Good Drill.
1 Lime Spreader.*
good as new.
1 Sheep Shearing
Machine.
1 Pump Spray.
1 Wagon.
3 Sets of Harness.
2 Saddles.
42 Stacks of Hay.
HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Schulz Player Piano.
Living Room Suite.
Dining Room Suite.
Bedroom Suite.
2 Beds.
New Knox Range.
And Other Miscellaneous
Items Too Numerous To
Mention.
Liinch Will Be Served On The Grounds
P. C Collins
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