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WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER
(From Congressman B. Frank
Whclchil)
Visitors—Mr. Joe L. Cash, Can
ton, Ga., Mr. Kelsey D. Cash, Wash
ington, D. C., Mr. Keri Bryant,
Gillsville, Ga., Miss Edna Graves,
Toccoa, Ga., and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Graves, Gainesville, Ga.
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Two More Bills—The Judiciary
Committee sent two major bills to
the Senate recently. One was the
McCarran substitute for the Admin
istration’s court reform bill. A bill
sponsored by Senator Borah of Ida
ho, designed to end so-called “rack
eteering” in receivership and bank
ruptcy cases in lower courts, was the
other bill.
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Wage And Hour Bill- The wage
and hour bill has been passed by the
Senate. There is some doubt wheth
er the measure will be so favorably
met in the House. It is likely that
it will face a bitter fight, especially
from Southern representatives.
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Naming Of A Justice —On June
Ist, Justice Van Devanter retired
from his position in the Supreme
Court. So far the President has not
named anew justice. Many believe
he will wait until after Congress re
cesses, even though he is being
pressed to make the appointment at
the present time.
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Drops In WPA—In the last three
months, WPA rolls have dropped
more than 400,000. Support from
the Treasury to the WPA was about
20 per cent lower in July of this
year than a year ago. It is believed,
because of the small number of
complaints, that, the people who
have been dropped have found work.
Three months ago the number of
workers on WPA projects was more
than 2,100,000 now it is 1,650,000.
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Tax Loopholes—A bill to plug the
loopholes in tax laws, that may save
the government $100,000,000 next
year alone, is expected to be ready
this week. Pressure taxes on vari
ous corporate devices used to reduce
tax payments, is to be used as the
basis of the bill according to Chair
man Doughton, of N. C. who is
chairman of the joint committee on
tax avoidance.
lift
Adjournment Congress is still
looking forward with pleasure to the
day when they can go home. Al
though many believe the adjourn
ment w'ill take place around August
15th, others are saying it will be in
October.
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Gold —Advisers on gold policy are
worried over the loss of gold now
that the flow of the metal has re
versed temporarily. A short time
ago they were worried over the in
flow of the gold, now over the short
age.
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New Assistants—The House voted
260-88 to give the President six new
assistants at SIO,OOO a year each.
This is the first step in the far
reaching executive organization plan.
The measure awaits Senate action,
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Gas And Oil Production—Final
action was taken by the House re
cently on a resolution to obtain
Congressional approval to continue
an interstate compact to conserve oil
and gas in five southwestern petro
leum-producing states.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Anew Ten Commandments for
tourists to contribute to. the joys of
carefree motoring this summer has
been devised.
Five “Don’ts” are:
1. Don’t keep spare tire unusued,
but alternate it with tires on the
wheels.
2. Don’t wait until tires are worn
paper-thin before getting new ones.
3. Don’t scrape curbs when park
ing.
4. Don’t skid to a stop just to
show how well the brakes work.
5. Don’t allow nails or tacks to re
main in tires, even if they do not
produce a flat at once.
Five “Do’s” are:
1. Check air pressure regularly in
all tires.
2. Remove stones, glass and other
articles embedded in the tire tread.
3. Have wheels checked regularly
to be sure they are in alignment.
4. Remove tires from rims every
six months and reverse, so that the
side formerly nearest the center of
the car is on the outside.
5. Have tires inspected regularly,
whether they appear to be worn or
not.
SCREENING HOMES
Urging the necessity of screens
for all Georgia farm homes, Miss
Willie Vie Dowdy, home improve
ment specialist for the Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service, de
clares that family health needs
should place screens among the first
items on the list of home improve
ments.
She called attention to the sur
prisingly large number of farm
homes still without wire screens.
She said a survey of rural house
needs, made several years ago by
the United States Department of
Agriculture and the state agrU’til
! turn I colleges, showed that at least
two million farm homes were with
out screens.
Declaring that some kind of
screening can be installed for very
little cost, the specialist said petting
tacked over the window frames is
possibly the cheapest temporary so
lution of this need.
“Adjustable half screens are com
paratively cheap,” Miss Dowdy stat
ed, “and if a man in the family
who can make frames to fit the low
er sashes and tack screen wire on
them, the cost would be further re
duced. Ideal screens are full length
for all windows, so that either sash
may be opened, making ventilation
better.”
She also stressed the importance
of screen doors, which can be bought
in stock sizes and trimmed to fit,
are relatively cheap.
In humid regions, especially near
the seacoast, bronze wire is cheapest
in the long run, Miss Dowdy said,
while in dry climates, black or
painted screen wire will last well
and give satisfaction. In moderate
ly moist climates, she declared the
best grade of galvanized wire is pre
ferable.
In urging the necessity for
screens, the specialist called atten
tion to the diseases spread by flies,
which, in turn, are encouraged by
the lack of screens. She said that
screens having a mesh of 16 strands
to the inch are satisfactory for ex
cluding flies and the smaller mos
quitos.
THE PUBLIC AND THE THIRD
TERM
If the editors of Fortune Maga
zine have taken the public pulse cor
rectly, the good people of the United
States are rapidly losing their tra
ditional opposition to a third term
for American presidents.
Fortune’s quarterly survey, which
last fall achieved the distinction
(rare among surveys) of telling
which way the election was going to
go, undertook recently to find out
how people felt about the following
question:
“If there should be agitation for
President Roosevelt to run for a
third term, what would be your at
titude?”
Eleven per cent of the people
questioned said they would oppose
the plan because they just don’t like
Mr. Roosevelt. Twenty-six per cent
would oppose it on principle, al
though they like Mr. Roosevelt.
Slightly more than 10 per cent
would oppose it for a combination of
both reasons.
On the other hand, 22 per cent
would be in favor of a third term.
Twenty-six per cent would be for it
if Mr. Roosevelt’s second term turn
ed out successfully. And 8 per cent
didn’t know just where they’d stand.
When you examine these findings,
you may learn some interesting
things about the public’s regard for
Mr. Roosevelt; but the really inter
esting thing is that for the over
whelming majority the question of
a third term is a matter of person
ality- rather than of principle.
If Fortune’s survey represents the
nation as a whole, only a small seg
ment of the populace—something
like one-third of the total number—
is opposed to the idea of a third term
as such. The remainder would be
for it or against it, depending on
who was seeking it.
So it looks as if the unwritten law
laid down by Washington, indorsed
by Jefferson, subscribed to by a
long succession of great presidents,
and enforced by the general publ.c
on the misguided Grant, had lost
most of its appeal. The people seem
to be ready to throw it overboard if
they are asked in the right way.—
Bruce Catton.
Farmer Killed By Lightning Bolt
Gainesville, Ga.—E. F. Grant, 55,
native and life-long resident of Hall
county, was found dead at his farm
nine miles west of here Thursday
afternoon, victim of lightning.
Searchers found his body in a field
about three hours after he left his
home to attend to a farm duty.
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
ONE WAY TO AVOID A WAR
(By Bruce Cation)
The first job of the United States
government is to see that Americans
in the war zones around Peiping,
China, or in Spain, for all that, are
gjven the best possible chance to get
out of there to places of safety if
thev want to go.
The second is to make it clear to
them that if they do not want to
take advantage of such a chance for
safety, they remain in the danger
zones at their own risk.
That is 1937 talk. Back in 1900,
we went all mooney about the idea
that an American must be safe any
where in the world, and that the
last ounce of American force would
be exerted to make him so. That
sounds dandy in a Kipling poem,
but today we feel different. Even
august Britain, which has done con
siderable sounding off about the
safety of a British citizen wearing
his dress suit in the jungle, has
backed down from this stiff-necked
dictum on several recent occasions.
Today, the question is asked with
reverse English. Has an American
citizen, given a chance to get out,
the right to stay in a situation of
danger where injury or death to him
may bring down a horrible war on
the heads of millions of people back
home who had no interest in him or
in the enterprises which led him in
to the danger zones?
Today we are beginning to feel
that 1 only Americans actually on
public business for the government
have a right to expect its protection
and that private individuals selling
oil or salvation in dangerous quar
ters are strictly on their own.
Any one of the 1300 Americans
in Peiping and Tientsin who refuses
to co-operate in safety measures
taken for Americans; who stubborn
ly insists on remaining when it is
no longer safe, may be killed and
thus precipitate a crisis.
But today we at home are likely
to ask questions before our temper
ature rises in a hot demand for a
war of revenge for some such “in
cident.” We want to know what
the victim was doing there? For
whom? Was any American public
interest affected? Did the victim
co-operate in efforts to remove him
from danger? Would going to war
about it do any good anyway, in the
long run?
Specific problems arising out of
ticklish situations like those at Piep
ing must be solved as they come
along. Most of us don’t understand
the details, anyway.
But the government ought to be
guided by this principle regarding
any pending foreign war, a principle
which 99 44-100th per cent of all
Americans echo today in the classic
words of Mr. Sam Goldwyn!
“Gentlemen, include us out!”
EX-WORKING GIRLS ARE
HAPPIEST IN MARRIAGE
Ithaca, N. Y.—Girls who quit jobs
to get married have the best chance
for marital success, a Cornell Uni
versity study group i-cported Mon
day.
“The poorest bet of all,” the de
partment of rural social organization
said, “is the girl w r ho, after finish
ing school, stays at home with no re
sponsibility either in the home, on a
job, or in the community.”
Exceptions, the department add-
ed, are the women who, before mar
riage, are “very active in communi
ty affairs or who are responsible
housekeepers in their own homes.”
Facts for the study came from
526 couples married from two to six
years.
Dr. L. S. Cottrell, Jr., a member
of the department, pointed these
and other facts learned from the
studies:
A couple with similar social and
cultural backgrounds are likely to
have marital happiness.
Husbands with a record of regu
lar employment are one and a half
times more likely to have a well
adjusted marriage.
Husbands and wives who were af
filiated with a religious group be
fore marriage have better chances
for success than those who belong
to no church.
Children of happily married par
ents are likely to have happy mar
riages.
Talking To Himself
Wife (to husband in the kitchen)
—My dear, what are you opening
that can with?
Husband—Why, with a can open
er. What did you think I was doing
it with?
Wife—Well, I thought from your
remarks that you were opening it
with-a prayer.
Cotton Mill Taxes
help provide
feett&i Sdutoh
Georgia’s cotton mills are not only the state’s largest
industry —they are also the state’s largest taxpayer.
Through state, county and municipal taxes, they
contribute many, many thousands of dollars to the
support of the common schools of Georgia, which
have shown such wonderful improvement in this
generation.
Providing employment to over sixty thousand
Georgians —furnishing a ready, nearby market for
all the cotton Georgia produces —taking an active
part in the social and economic progress of the
state, Georgia’s cotton mills are a vital factor in
the prosperity of the New Georgia.
I# Let's keep the
WM COTTON-MILLS
in Georgia!
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937.