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by Drew Pearson and Robert S, MARK IIK70N ROUND MOISTIRiO llace, Then Ickes Won In Fight Over Irrigating Project Will Increase Citrus Acreage, Defy ent Program; Rose Long and Hattie Caraway hie Team Of Lady Senators; Chemists In Italy, Iking Wool Substitute From Cows’ Milk. ton — Henry Wallace !<l Ickes, though the ends, have been locked irous behind-the-scenes the all-important ques ducing farm acreage, seeks to reduce it. s seeks to increase it reclamation project, in question is the involving the irriga ),000 acres of Arizona ch will increase by 27 lie total irrigated land e. ect began with a dream lureau of Reclamation, to use the power from jim to lift water 400 cord for irrigation— tie arid deserts of Ari m like a garden. Re engineers envisaged a >r, with settlers home irgin acres no plow ii^ned. XXX Surst Dream well until the Secre \griculture heard of Immediately he mov ture it. ,The bounti of- Arizona’s virgin laimed, would blossom vhen he was trying to e yields of countless X throughout the land. <» citrus glowers add Implaint to Wallace’s. In the Yuma-Gila proj of dangerous com-! Wallace pointed out ief .crops to be grown faAi lands were win les and citrus fruits, ild be practically ini retire that much land ge now devoted to Increased firoduc ! smash their entire 1 v XXX louse Intervention won the first round ^Mast December. Just reclamation engineers e point of opening nt to the White House ded the President to osal then went beiore engineers appointed to evens Motor Co. for ries and tabes. tfc. - Sturdivant eral Home Service Day or Night |sed Embulmers Irta, n. c. elephone 22 referee the battle. Their report, just submitted, was favorable. Wallace withdrew his objections. So did the White House. Bids on the project ware formally opened last week. Note: Wallace’s advisers say their only consolation is that three years must elapse before the Yuma-Gila project is com pleted. By this time, the United States will have to increase ‘ its consumption of orangey juice enough to absorb the product of the new homesteaders. Mn. Roosevelt’s Press . One-timers at Mrs. Roosevelt’s press conferences step lightly over the threshold of the White House front door, remove their galoshes and proceed gingerly into the Green Room to await the gong. Regular correspondents march in, galoshes and all, and what is more, get away with it. XXX Rom And Hattie Hattie Caraway has found a friend. For fom- years the lady Senator from Arkansas has wandered about the corridors of .the Capi tol( a black-growned, lonely fig ure. Slipping in and out of the Senate chamber almost unnoticed, speaking only when spoken to, she made Senating a serious and solemn business. But now she has Rose Long as a companion. Instead of sitting down to lunch alone, instead of reflecting alone on a pending Senate bill, instead of mingling alone among male legislators, she has the company of the Junior Senator from Louisiana. Senator Long’s assigned desk is between Senators Holt and Cha vez. But she has taken advan tage of Senator Bankhead’s ab sence to slip into his seat' be side Mrs. Caraway. * - These two-dark-gowned figures have become inseparable. They do not appear on the floor for the first roll-call at twelve, but come over from their offices to the Capitol at about 12:30, lunch in the private dining room for Sena tors only. Usually they eat alone. Some times they are joined by Sena tor Long’s daughter Rose and Senator Overton’s daughter Kath erine. Then they go on to the floor. XXX Mutual Partnership It is a partnership of mutual advantage. Hattie has found a friend, and Rose has found a guide. Mrs. Long’s first job was get ting acquainted. She. had ninety tiiree names to learn. Out of the ninety-six Senators the only ones she knew were Mrs. Cara way, Senator Overton, and her stlf. Now, when a Senator rise's to speak, she nudges Hattie, ana. Hattie, knowing what the nudge means, whispers, “That’s Senator jMeen Miles . Pills years. ■ what am I ) stop in Never hem use. iVebb, alif. You’re The Loser WHEN you allow Headache, Neuralgia, Muscular, Rheumatic, Sciatic or Periodic ■ Pains to keep you from work or pleasure. You can’t go places and do things when you are suffering—and the work or good times won’t wait for you. Why allow Pain to rob you of Health, Friends. ' Happiness, Money? DR. MTT.ES ANTI-PAIN PILLS have been used for the relief of pain for more than forty years. They taste good, act quickly, do not upset the stomach, nor cause constipation, leave no dull, depressed feeling. Thousands have used them for twenty, thirty, forty yean, and still find that nothing else relieves pain so promptly and effectively. Why don’t you try them? Once you know how pleasant they are to take, how quickly and effectively they relieve, you won’t want to go back to disagreeable, slow acting medi cines. id anything that was so good to stop pain as Dr Mile 1 have told many about them and 1 find they are al Sirs. Martha Lacy. Davenport, Iowa winy find quick relief, wny wan rorty minutes ior fn Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills will relieve you in ten to Sms? 1 *•" tk gtfD-XiB.xss'fi. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills for years. I keep them on I can certainly recommend them for pain. Miss Audra Seybold. Mil W. 2nd St.. Dayton. Ohio •Pain Pills have been a wonderful help to me. I iree years and always keep them on Mrs. E. Pierce. Lapwai, Idaho Id quite a lot of Dr. Miles Anti-Pain ZpOiSlVar inny. Pa. DR. M I LBL l-MIN PIUS Couzens,’’ or “That'i Senator Neely." The Senate ladies have not yet got to the point of first-naming. “I wouldn’t think of calling her ‘Rose’," says Hattie, “any more than I would call any other Senator by his first name—of course I do call Senator Robin son ‘Joe’.” She also explains that she is no mentor. “Mrs. Long has a mind of her own, and don’t you forget it. I wouldn’t presume to advise heir. But of course I’m glad to answer any questions." xxx No Society Their friendship does not ex tend to social activities, partly because neither of them goes out at night. Both Hattie and Rose like a game of bridge now and then, but they haven’t much time for frivolity. *■ Wnen Mrs. Caraway gets home, there is the house to take care of. She has a colored maid, but does all her own marketing. And when Mrs. Long gets home, she has her housekeeping apartment at the Broadmoor Hotel to man age, not to mention lending a hand to Palmer Long, eighth frader, with his home-work. When asked by a Senate col it ague when she was going to make a speech from the floor, Mis. Long smiled and said, “Oh, sometime soon.’* Jf she does, it will be no rough and tumble debate, but a ; carefully prepared statement that will receive the critical scrutiny of Secretary Earle Christenberry, and probably the friendly counsel of partner Hattie Caraway, be fore it is delivered. Insider The only civilian who got in side the Fly Club during the President’s recent visit to Cam bridge was a seventeen-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, a typical Ring Lardner “natural," named Thomas McCarthy. He went in to look for a Mr. O'Brien a re porter, and said he didn't see, hear or smell anything unusual while inside the club. Didn’t find Mr. O’Brien, either. XXX Henry Wallace hasn’t heard about it yet, but one of his lab oratory technicians has produced wool from a cow. Two floors above Henry’s of fice in the Agriculture Building is the laboratory of Earle 0. Whittier, of the Bureau of Dairy Industry. Whittier heard about some strange experiments the Italians have carried on, and he tried one himself. Starting his experiment with a quart of cow’s milk, he finished with a handful of fibrous strands that would pass for wool. The first part of the experi ment was nothing new. He re duced the milk to casein, a dry powder, commercially produced in alt dairy states. But the last part was.jdecidedly new. By a process .jwhich he doesn’t care to describe in de tail, he “spun" the casein out into strands that look and feel like dental floss. Whittier did it “just for fun.” But the Italians are grimly ser ious. Threatened with embargoes, they were driven to find a sub stitute for wooL An army en g:r.eer named Antonio Ferretti, working in a Milan plant, discov ered that a wool substitute could be produced by “spinning” case in. Next need is for more milk to skim, to make more casein. Italy finds herself needing about 450, OQO more cows to make wool from. And U. S. Congressmen from dairy states are wondering! if they cannot supply Italy’s Flood Control * Although the problem of flood &ntrol in the Mississippi Valley $ia made real progress recently, pn'e important phase has been dasppletely neglected both by Washington and the states. ’Jt is considered control of these wafer problems which cut across state lines.' . The Mississippi Valley Com mittee holds that present laWs ate utterly inadequate to deal with this, and- new ones should bd enacted. Yet the stateB, de spite considerable ballyhoo two yeais ago, have done nothing. Nor has the Administration. Cow Wool heeds—-either in cows or in case XXX Mmrrjr-Go-Round The word “Senate" comes frdm the Latin word “senatus.” mean ing "an old man.” "Senile” de rives from the same root. . . . Weary readers in the Congres sional Library—largest in the world—find that the average time required to have a book delivered to the reading room is thirty a mutes. . .. Among the twenty three tons of worthless jfrugs dumped oat in a Dallas, IJxas, sheif-rleaning was a bottle mark ed "Recommended for all the chief ailments known to the hu man system.” The Pure Pood and Drug Administration ordered a 10-ton tractor driven over all the bottles. . . In the control Our Army of "Dependents” By RAYMOND PITCAIRN National Chairman ~Sentinelt of the Republic As millions of Americans strug gle with their latest tax forms, they are beginning to realize that there is a large group of “depend ents” for whose upkeep they are allowed no exemptions whatever. It is the growing army of politi cal job-holders—every member of which is dependent for his pay check on the earnings of the aver age American citizen and taxpayer. But the burden doesn’t rest on the income taxpayer alone. With other costs of government, it falls on every worker, every housewife, who either earns or spends—if not directly then in taxes hidden some where in the price of nearly every thing he or she may buy. And the costs continue to mount. That’s why we hear protests to Congress against taxes on “the American breakfast table and the forgotten man’s shirt.” That’s why a noted political ob server could recently declare that the American people are spending more for government than they are for food, clothing and rent com bined. That's why statisticians can make the startling announcement that the annual total of federal, state and local government expenditures in America averages $517 per family. Throughout the nation, it is now apparent, the taxpayers themselves are coming to a grim realization of what these things mean to them. And, what is more significant, they are making their protests heard. It’s a good sign —if we don't weaken. Mt. Zion Piney Creek P. 0., Mar. 9.— Mrs. Lee Black visited relatives at Grant, Va., last Sunday. She was accompanied by her son, R. E. Black, of Sparta. Miss Eula Parsons visited at j Piney Creek hist Monday. Carey Blevins, of Topia, was i a recent visitor in the home of j T. EJTugh. Logene Pugh entered school again this morning, having recovered from an attack of pneumonia. i Mrs. John s. Wyatt is ill. , Gayle Wyatt has recovered from pneumonia. Mrs. J. P. Shepherd visited ] Mrs. T. E. Pugh, Mrs. George F. Smith and her mother, Mrs. Mary . Cox, recently. I Mr. and Mrs. Jim Parsons made i a business trip to Piney Creek ruesday. Dent Pugh visited friends at Piney Creek last week. Sarah Blevins, of Sparta, Alvis Blevins, of Maryland, and Robert Blevins, of Topia, were visitors at T. E. Pugh’s home last Mon day. Miss Madge Jones has a posi tioon in a beauty parlor in John son City, Tenn. Ruby Douglas, of Ashe, visited Mrs. Myrtie Perry recently. Mrs. Oscar Perry and daughter and Elinor Hoppers, of Scott ville, and Mrs. Firiel Perry, of near New Hope, spent Sunday at the homes of Bob and Hiram Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Fitzger ald announce the birth of a son recently. W. G. Williams spent the week end with relatives at Twin Oaks. Mr. and Mrs. George McMil lan, of Crumpler, and Mrs. S. E. Smith and son, Thomas, were din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Weaver Sunday. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Williams. Rev. R. L. Berry, of Sparta, preached an interesting sermon at Rocky Ridge Sunday. Mrs. Rebecca Smith will cele brate her 88th birthday anniver sary today (March 9) Mrs. Myrtie Perry visited Mrs. Ben Williams recently. Mrs. G. A. Roup and son, Mar vin, visited Nellie and Virgie Wil liams Sunday. Virgie Williams and Thelma Williams visited Logene Pugh re cently. Frank Perry, S. E. Smith and H. Clay Smith and son. Howard, were shopping in Sparta Satur day. W. F. Pugh, of this commun ity, and J. Roy Cox, of Furches, purchased the Nathan Wil liams farm recently. J. Roy Cox will move onto the place soon. Linville Blevins and son, Al vis, of Landenburg, Pa., are vis iting relatives and friends in this community. Emmett Evans, of Stratford, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. Clay Smith. Miss Ethel Pugh spent last | Thursday with Mrs. George F. Smith. room of TVA’s Norris Dam there will be a reception hall for the accommodation of visitors. . . Flowers most popular at the White House for daytime use are pink and white carnations and pink roses. At dinners there is a preference for red roses, gar denias, snapdragons, maidenhair, talisman roses, stevia and adian tum baldii ferns. Pennsylvania Man Is Found Owner Of Oldest Chevrolet Purchased 1913 Model When Problem Of Going To His Wiork Confronted Him. Gets New Car Detroit. Mich., M,ar. 7.—Hiram H. Dohner, 70, of Quentin, Leba non county, Pa., was found to be the owner of the oldest Chev rolet licensed and in daily use in the United States in a contest conducted by Chevrolet Motor Company recently. Dr. Dohner will be presented with the one millionth car built in 1935, a 1936 model. Mr. Dohner owns and drives Chevrolet No. 470, a 1913 Royal Mail roadster, which he purchas ed from a Chevrolet dealer in Lebanon, Pa. He has already re ceived official notification from Chevrolet officials, and will short ly drive his present 22-year old car to Detroit, where he will in spect Chevrolet factories and take delivery of his new 1936 model. Mr. Dohner is a carpenter in Quentin, a hamlet in the valley oi the busquehanna, with a popu lation of nearly 500 people. He has been a carpenter all his life but like the versatile .and in genious people who live in small towns, he can do many things. Hfe can take care of an automo bile in a way that would prove surprising to the modern motor car owner. The fact that his present car has served him and served him well for 22 years, piling up a total of more than a quarter million miles, proves the value of motor car care. In recent conversations with Chevrolet officials, who apprised him of his good fortune in win ning a new car as a reward for his care of his old one, some pertinent facts about America and some tangible things about the results of t'ne machine age were brought out. Chief among these are. some elusive shadings concerning that phrase in the Constitution of the United States which re*»ds—“the pursuit of hap piness.” Hack in 1014 Mr. Dohner, who was born and raised in the little town ir. which he now lives, nee.d ed work and he sought work in the larger towns surrounding hii home. One of his jobs at thal time was on the new faotorj of the chocolate company whief gives Hershey, Pa., its name There was a man who drove i horse and carriage over to Leba non, five miles away, a fid then Mr. -Dohner took the train to Hershey. One day the man stop ped his stage line and Mr. Doh ner was in a quandary about transportation. He talked it over with his wife, Mary, and they bought the Chevrolet. That solved his problem. He was still able to live in Quentin and drive to his work with per sonal transportation, the product of the rising mass production of the machine age, which brought the price of the automobile with in reach of nearly everyone. Hiram Dohner continues to drive the same automobile that he bought in 1914 and it is in excellent condition. He is still a carpenter and he makes a com fortable living. llut it doesn’t cost much for living in Quentin. Hiram has a two-and-a-half story frame house on a lot that is about a half acre and he has a chicken house and a dozen or so fruit trees and a garden patch. And his wife has her flower bushes and racks for blooming vines. The house is painted a light grey with a darker gtrey trim. Each window has a shutter but none of them sag. The place is as neat and trim as only can come from one who “looks aftej'” things. The Dohners have lived there for twelve years. They lived in a house just a few yards away for twenty-two years. Yes, the Dohners are pretty well on in years as they are measured Biblically or by modem standards. Hiram is 70. Mary is 73. She has the loveliest white hair and easy smile that one could find in a month’s search. Her grey eyes are still filled with life and laughter. She has a huge stove in the commodious kitchen that could ' cook a meal for a small hotel of guests. It is as shiny and polished and well kept as Hiram’s automobile. There are foot wipers on the porches by the outside doors made of burlap that was at one time a sack. The inside of the house is warm, even in winter. Both of these people take care of things. They laugh and smile easily at each other. Mary makes hulf-fun of something that has 11 been said about the old car that I still runs. They take care of things. They are happy. And the car has helped' im measurably. “Nothing the world could have, given me for $775 would have brought half the happiness as my car,” said Hi. He has a slight accent. It is the Pennsylvania “Dutch” country. “It makes me independent of transportation. We have never been in an accident. “It was always easy for-me to get service. I expected that from Chevrolet and was never let down. It was a company that I depended on. “If I have something good, | I’m going to stick to it. That’s what I thought of this machine." Mrs. Dohner was asked if she [ever drove the car. She looked | a bit astonished, j “No and I won’t,” she replied, j “Pm afraid to do that. I’d soon | er sit inside and look. That’s better.” I Did they ever make any long touring trips? | “We drove over to Gettysburg I twice,” she smiled, “and once [over to Crystal Cave but no long [trips.” \ How about ti.re mileage? Hiram turned around from unbuckling the hood. “Those front tires have been cn for eight years. The rear ones pretty near six.’* He said tires last longer since the roads are good and that he wanted the state highway depart ments to continue their fine work of building roads. To manufacturers of motor cars, Hiram sends this message— “keep making automobiles that are low in cost so that poor as well as rich may have them,” he said emphatically, “That’s right— that’s American.” Yell On Father—Whats all the yelling about? Child—M-Mama said if I cried and cried a great big elephant with red eyes and a blue nose would come in and scare me. And he ain’t come yet! 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