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Congress Quickly Acts on President Roosevelt's Request
for New Legislation—Reopening of Banks Spurs
Upturn in Business Activities.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVE1.TS request
■* to congress that he be given au¬
thority to make cuts in the salaries
of government employees up to 15 per
President
Roosevelt
of representatives and tiie senate.
The bill passed the senate by a vote
of 62 to 13. Forty-three Democrats
and nineteen Republicans voted for
the measure; four Democrats and nine
Republicans against it.
The vote in the house was 266 for
the measure and 138 against it. That
result was not achieved without diffi¬
culty. and the difficulty came in the
ranks of the President’s party, and its
passage would not have been possible
without the aid of Republican mem¬
bers of the house. In a party caucus
32 Democratic members bolted the
President’s leadership and voted
against the measure, their opposition
being to that portion of the bill giv¬
ing the President dictatorial powers
in the matter of expenditures for vet¬
erans. At the final roil call. 107 Dem¬
ocrats and 6 S> Republicans voted for
the bill, and 92 Democrats, 41 Repub¬
licans nnd five Farmer-Laborites
against it. Several members who were
opposed to the bill but who did not
wish to be recorded as against an
economy measure, decided not to
vote.
An analysis of the-vote' shows that
08 per cent of the Democrats voting
and 62 per cent of the Republicans
stood by it, but leaders said that the
Democratic percentage for the meas¬
ure would have been much lower had
not a parliamentary maneuver been
invoked to prevent- rebellious mem¬
bers of the party caucus from going
through with their plans.
Still another factor was credited
with part of the favorable vote, and
that was the word passed around the
house cloakrooms that President
Roosevelt planued to denounce the
opposition in a nation-wide radio
broadcast if the bill had failed of ap¬
proval.
It is believed the President will
make a saving of approximately $385,
000,000 in the expenditures for vet¬
eran relief by cutting out all men
whose disability, on which claims for
relief are based, was not the result
of war service. The reduction in the
salaries of government employees is
expected to save approximately an¬
other $150,000,000.
In the senate an effort was made to
delay the passage of the act by pro¬
posing amendments and the senate
chamber resounded to the oratory of
friends of the veteran and of federal
employees, battling, against certain
and overwhelming odds, to win some
amendment to the bill.
\ ' \ V THILE the President has received
Republican aid in securing de¬
sired legislation for his banking, econ¬
omy and beer program, he will prob¬
ably not be able to
depend upon it to the
same extent at least
for his farm program.
That contemplates giv¬
ing the President dic¬
tatorial powers in so
manipulating the price
of farm products to
bring them up to what
is termed a “parity”
price. The contem¬
plated law would au¬
thorize the President,
the
secretary of agriculture, to fix a parity
price of each farm product; that is. a
price at which the producer of the
product would be placed on a parity
with the producer of manufactured
articles. For example, the secretary
of agriculture might declare $1 a
bushel to be the parity price of wheat.
The object then would be to manipu¬
late the price of wheat upward until
the desired parity price should be
reached.
In order to raise the prices of farm
products the secretary of agriculture
under the terms of the bill would in¬
voke various devices. He might em¬
ploy the domestic allotment plan to
influence the prices of one group of
commodities and the government land
leasing plan in the case of another
group.
Secretary Wallace insists that it
would not be a price fixing law for the
reason that no price would be fixed by
fiat. Instead, a price would be declared
to aim at and the measures adopted
would be those judged most likely to
raise the price to the point desired.
The products covered in the con¬
templated law are wheat, corn, cotton,
cattle, sheep, hogs, milk, dairy prod¬
ucts, tobacco and rice.
Along with this the President pro¬
poses the scaling down of farm mort¬
gages and a reduction In the in¬
terest rates through agricultural
cent, anti to make re¬
el u c t i o n s in the
amounts paid to vet¬
erans, that authority
to include practically
an entire revamping
of the government
policy as it applies
to government ex¬
penditures. as It ap¬
plies to veterans of
the World war and
other wars, met with
a quick response on
the part of the house
Secretary
Wallace
credit agencies, all of which are to
be consolidated under the direction
of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
DANES began opening for business
Li on March 13. On that date only
banks connected wilth the Federal Re¬
serve system and located in Federal
Reserve bank cities opened their
doors under licenses from the Treas¬
ury department. Banks in all clear¬
ing house cities that had applied for
and bepn issued licenses either by the
federal treasury or, in the case of
state banks, by state banking depart¬
ments, began opening on Tuesday,
and those in the smaller cities and
towns on Wednesday.
There were no restrictions placed on
the hanks in the way of limiting with¬
drawals. except where the depositor
was attempting to secure sums that
would indicate hoarding, when the per¬
son making the withdrawal was re¬
quired to state his purpose and give
his name and address.
The banks were also required not
to pay out gold or gold certificates,
the embargo the President had placed
on gold being continued, and vast
amounts of the metal were being re¬
turned to the banks. Up to March 13
It was estimated the Federal Reserve
bank in New York had received more
than $ 100 , 000,000 of hoarded gold and
in Chicago more than $23,000,000 had
been returned. The returns through¬
out the nation indicated a larger
amount of gold brought back to the
hanks than the total withdrawal of
the metal since February 1, though,
the government did not give out any
definite statement on the subject.
It was after the President had re¬
peated and emphasized the embargo
he had placed on gold payments that
Governor Blood of Utah signed a hill
passed by the legislature requiring
"the treasurer of the state of Utah
and of each taxing subdivision within
the state to pay all public employees
under their jurisdiction In gold coin.”
Where will Utah get the gold?
The President, in a published state¬
ment and also In a national broad¬
cast, detailed in simple language the
reasons for the national bank holiday
and the plans for opening. He was
careful to emphasize the point that
the time of openjng any bank was
not determined by its relative condi¬
tion, but by the ability of the officials
of the Federal Reserve banks and of
the Treasury department to make the
proper check for the issuing of licenses.
He explained that banks that were not
sound would not be permitted to open
except under government supervision
for the purpose of reorganizing them.
’The reopened banks were supplied
with a liberal allowance of the new
currency based on bank assets, but in
practically no case was any of this
needed as the deposits exceeded the
withdrawals, and in many cases the
new currency was returned to the Fed¬
eral Reserve banks.
I PRESIDENT time out from ROOSEVELT the urging of took
new
legislation to give some consideration
to the filling of important diplomatic
posts. He has sent to
the senate the names
of Robert Worth Bing¬
ham. publisher of
Louisville, Ky„ as am¬
bassador to Great
Britain; Jesse Isador
Straus, president of
R. II. Macy & Co.,
New York department
store, as ambassador
to France, and Jose¬
phus Daniels, war sec¬
retary of the navy,
under whom Mr. Roosevelt served as
assistant secretary, as ambassador to
Mexico.
At least one of these will meet with
some opposition in the senate. Sena¬
tor Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.) an¬
nounced that he would offer evidence
that Mr. Bingham had made speeches
in England which caused him to be
labeled as “apologetic American.”
Advisers of the President, however,
declared that he was fully satisfied
that Mr. Bingham will assert and de¬
fend America’s position on all issues
emphatically and patriotically.
tlTORLD war veterans, the U. S.
VV Supreme court decided, are with¬
out priority over other depositors in
the claims against insolvent banks for
the money received from the United
States. The ruling was handed down
in a case involving a deposit of approx¬
imately $6,000 which Sam Spicer had
in the Hargis Bank and Trust com¬
pany of Breathitt county, Kentucky,
when it became insolvent.
The assets of the bank were not suf¬
ficient to pay all depositors, and it
was contended that money received
from the United States by veterans for
insurance and disability allowances
was money of the United States while
on deposit in banks to the credit of
veterans and was therefore entitled to
priority. The Supreme court decided
otherwise.
JV A TORNADO swept the Tennessee
Kentucky border from the Mis¬
sissippi river to the Cumberland
mountains, killing 30 persons, injuring
more than 200 and did damage esti¬
mated at $ 1 , 000 , 000 .
tmm
Jesse I. Straus
tttTTII a special message of only
VV 73 words—the shortest Presi¬
dential message ever written—the
President secured legislation amend¬
ing the Volstead act and making 3.05
per cent beer legal in the United
States. The President's 72 words
were :
“I recommend to the congress the
passage of legislation for the imme¬
diate modification of the Volstead
act, in order to legalize the manufac¬
ture and sale of beer and other bev¬
erages of such alcoholic content as is
permissible under the Constitution;
and to provide through such manu¬
facture and sale, by substantial taxes,
a proper and much needed revenue
for the government.
T deem action at this time to be
of the highest importance.”
The beer bill provides for an alco¬
holic content of not over 3.05 per cent,
for a tax of $5 a barrel, for a license
fee of $ 1,000 for each brewery, and
the law to be effective 15 days after
it is signed by the President, which
means beer will be on sale shortly
after the first of April.
The bill was passed by a strictly
non-partisan vote. In the house 238
Democrats voted for it, and 58 against;
73 Republicans for and 39 against, and
5 Farmer-Labor for. Twenty members
did not vote, and mere are two va¬
cancies.
Kansas was the only state whose
representatives voted solidly against
the bill, while the representatives of
18 states voted all wet.
The senate amended the house bill
to include wine, to make the alcoholic
content 6 f both 3.05 instead of 3.2 and
to prohibit sale to children under six¬
teen years of age. The vote In the
senate was 43 for the bill and 30
against, also along strictly non-parti¬
san lines.
It is estimated the $5 a barrel tax
on beer will produce about $125,000,
000 additional revenue.
/'NF SPECIAL interest to Roman
Li Catholics is the allocution deliv¬
ered by Pope Pius at the secret con¬
sistory inaugurating the holy year.
Pope Pius
that two others would be elevated
later. The six elevated were: Pietro
Fumasoni-Biondi, former apostolic
delegate at Washington; Archbishop
Villeneauve of Quebec, Angelo Dolcl,
bishop Costa of Florence and Arch¬
bishop Fossati of Turin.
Second only to the “nefarious
propaganda of communists” which, he
said, threatens Christian civilization,
the pontiff deplored proselyting activi¬
ties of Protestant sects in Italy and
Rome. He describes these activities
as being “impudently pursued” and
urged all the faithful to co-operate
against “this menace and defend the
treasured riches of city and nation."
Land DEAN’S for immediate reconstruction
rehabilitation are well under
way in Los Angeles and its suburbs,
where earth tremors caused 115 deaths
and property damage estimated at
$75,000,000. An appeal has been made
to the federal government and the
Reconstruction Finance corporation for
the majority of funds needed for re¬
building. Congress passed a bill, In¬
troduced by Senator William G. Mc
Adoo of Los Angeles, for an emer¬
gency appropriation of $5,000,000 to
relieve immediate distress in the
stricken area.
The earthquake will probably give
to science the first accurate records
of just how the earth shakes during
such a disaster, information which
may be highly valuable in construc
Ing buildings to withstand earthquakes
in the future.
npHE L out the French members cabinet of the is sounding
chamber
of deputies in an attempt to whip up
a majority in ftivor of the
$19,261,432 war debt
installment to the
United States which
was defaulted on De¬
cember 15.
Former Premier
Herriot has been lob¬
bying in the govern¬
ment’s behalf, seek¬
ing pledges to vote
favorably in case Pre¬
mier Daladier should
decide to bring the
matter to a vote. Her¬
riot has been telling
the deputies that it is necessary to
act quickly, as the government would
like to have the payment coincide
with the departure of the new French
ambassador to Washington.
TpHE 4- allow new the administration United States to refuses be to
bound
by any action that is taken, but agrees
to join the League of Nations mem
bers in a discussion of what the world
should do about Japanese military in¬
roads in northern China.
Hugh R. Wilson, minister to Switzer¬
land. has been named to sit at the
council table with the league's special
advisory committee on the undeclared
war in the Far East, with two impor¬
tant reservations; The United States,
a nonmember of the league, will not
vote. It will not agree in advance to
bow to the committee’s decision,
which may call for an economic boy¬
cott or other coercive measures.
€). 1933. Western Newspaper Union.
CLEVELAND COURIER
His holiness issued a
warning that commun¬
ism is attempting to
exploit the world’s
political and economic
disorders and ex¬
pressed a fervent wish
for disarmament and
settlement of war
debts. The pontiff be¬
stowed the Roman
purple on six new
cardinals of the
church and announced
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GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
Construction of new special units
barracks at Fort Bennlng will start
soon. Fort Bennlng and Columbus la¬
bor will be employed so far as is
practicable.
The Georgia house of representa¬
tives, in the closing days of the recent
session of the legislature, defeated the
sales tax bill after a bitter fight by
a vote of 99 to 73.
Discontinuance of two passenger
trains operating between Savannah
and Americas is sought by the Sea¬
board Air Line railroad in petitions
to the Georgia public service commis¬
sion.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned
sine die Saturday, March 18, without
passing the $3 auto tag bill. However.
Governor Eugene Talmadge proclaim¬
ed the same to be in effect, which
action may be later upheld in the state
court.
Opening of forty-six more federal
reserve member banks', coupled with
a spurt in cotton, peanut and turpen¬
tine prices in south Georgia, put all
Georgia on the right mood to give
spring—just around the corner—the
glad hand.
Secretary Frank Norman, of the
West Point Chamber of Commerce,
has been busy assisting farmers from
Harris county in making application
for seed loans from the $90,000,000
fund authorized by congress for crop
production loan*.
Unification of all negro ministerial
groups into one body to include the
A. M. E. and Baptist unions was re¬
ported favorably the other day at the
meeting of the A. M. E. Zion, C. M. E.,
M. E. and the Congregational Minis¬
ters’ Union of Atlanta.
A reduction of 45.8 per cent in the
annual reduction of expenditures of
the city of Waycross from 1926
through 1932 is disclosed in the pub¬
lication of last year’s audit. Expendi¬
tures for 1926 were reported as $376,-
662, compared with $204,232 for 1932.
R. E. Ledford, president of the First
District Press Association and editor
of the Vidalia Advance, announces that
plans and program for the spring
meeting of the newspaper fraternity
of the first district, which is to be
held in Swainshoro March 24, have
Location of families on unused farm
lands in the Columbus section is point¬
ing the way out of the unemployment
crisis for Columbus. One hundred and
sixty-five families composed of 843
people, formerly on the city’s emerg¬
ency relief rolls, have been sent to
the county and domiciled within the
year.
Augusta was selected for the No¬
vember meeting of the Georgia Bap¬
tist convention and plans were made
for the centennial celebration of Mer¬
cer University at the executive com¬
mittee meeting of the convention held
at the First Baptist Church in Au¬
gusta. Dr. J. C. Wilkerson, of Ath¬
ens, presided as chairman.
Entries for the contest to deter¬
mine the best high school papers in
Georgia will close April 15, Prof. John
E. Drewry, head of the Henry W. Gra¬
dy School of Journalism, University
of Georgia, Athens, says. The contest
is in conjunction with the annual
Georgia Scholastic Press Association
to be held May 5 in Athens,
"Veterans of Baldwin and several
surrounding counties, meeting in the
American Legion hall at Milledgeville
recently, indorsed the economy pro¬
gram of President Roosevelt and voted
to send telegrams to Senator George
and Senator Russell asking their sup
port or the measures, it was announced
at the close of the meeting.
Continued operation of the common
schools of the state, some of which al¬
ready have closed and others threat¬
ened with closing, was assured when
Governor Eugene Talmadge obtained
a sum of two million dollars for the
schools from the three members of the
Atlanta Clearing House Association,
the First National bank, the Citizens
and Southern National bank and the
Fulton National bank.
Flames wrecked the stage of the
Albany high school auditorium and
water ruined about everything that
escaped the fire, but a Bible in the
midst of the conflagration was neither
scorched nor drenched. Firemen sur¬
veying the destruction found it on a
table still standing in the debris. A
few feet away was a charred hole in
the stage floor through which a costly
piano plunged to the basement.
A warehouse of the Poulan cotton
mills at Poulan, in which 500 bales
of cotton were stored was practically
destroyed by fire one night recently.
Damage was estimated at $20,000;
cause of the fire undetermined. Op¬
erators expected to salvage 105 or
more bales of cotton.
The Central of Georgia railway com¬
pany has asked the interstate com¬
merce commission for permission to
abandon 15 miles of the railroad from
Savannah to Tybee Island. The sec¬
tion operates only during the summer
and is paralleled by a state hi^way.
SENATE VOTES TO
MAKE BEER LEGAL
Era of Strict Prohibition Is
Soon to End.
Washington.—The Cullen beer hill,
third point of President Roosevelt’s
program, f o be effective 15 days after
enactment, passed the house of rep¬
resentatives by the overwhelming vote
of 316 to 97 scarcely-24 hours after the
President’s recommendation had been
submitted.
The house and galleries received the
greatest thrill when Speaker Henry T.
Rainey exercised his privilege as a
member of the house and voted for
the bill to complete the total of 238
Democrats who voted for it. Seventy
three Republicans and the Farmer-La¬
bor delegation of five members also
gave approval. The dry opposition
rallied only 58 Democrats and 39 Re¬
publicans.
By a vote of 43 to 30 the senate
passed the beer bill, assuring legal
beer and perhaps legal wine within
the next three weeks.
Thirty-one Democrats and twelve
Republicans answered the demand of
President Roosevelt for immediate
modification of the Volstead act by
capping the house vote of 316 to 97
with a majority far less overwhelming
in proportions, but none the less defi¬
nite In effect.
Within a few days, it is expected,
the two houses will have agreed upon
senate amendments placed in the bill
and the signature of the President will
have been attached. One of the
amendments cut the alcoholic con¬
tent from 3.2 per cent to 3.05 per cent
by weight.
Two weeks after the bill becomes
1; w legal beer may begin to flow, and
the second victory against prohibition
since the recent passage of the repeal
resolution will have become a reality.
The newly legalized beverages are
to be taxed at the rate of $5 a barrel
and manufacturers will be required
to pay i license fee of $1,000. The
income is expected to amount to ap¬
proximately $150,000,000 a year.
The beer approved by the senate
is to be of 3.05 per cent of alcoholic
content by weight or approximately
3.8 per cent by volume. This was a
change from the bill passed by the
house, which legalized 3.2 beer or 4
per cent by weight.
The senate also added wines and
fruit juices of the same alcoholic con¬
tent to the list of lawful beverages.
The bill provides:
Amendment of the Volstead act to
legalize the manufacture and sale of
malt liquors containing not more than
3.2 per cent of alcohol by weight or
approximately 4 per cent by volume.
Imposition of a federal tax of $5 a
barrel and a license fee charge of
$1,000 on each brewery.
Regulation of the sale of the bev¬
erage by the individual states with
the assumption by the federal govern¬
ment of the responsibility under the
general provisions of the Webb-Ken
yon act and the Reed act now on the
statute books to protect dry states
against shipments from wet states and
to control the importation of the
product.
Transportation of the beer into dry
states is made punishable by a fine of
$1,000 or imprisonment for not more
than six months or both tor the first
offense, and imprisonment for one
year for subsequent offenses.
“ECONOMY MEASURE” PASSED
Bill Confers Extraordinary Powers on
President.
Washington.—The half-hillion-dollar
economy bill was passed by the senate.
As soon as action has been taken in
the house on minor amendments im¬
posed by the senate the measure will
go to ihe White House. By his signa¬
ture President Roosevelt will vest in
himself such power as the Executive
has seldom bad. He will have power
virtually to rebuild the top-heavy
structure of veterans' benefits and cut
its annual billion-dollar maintenance
bill $400,000.1)00.
In addition the President will have
authority to cut down federal salaries,
bringing them into line with the pres¬
ent cost of living, using the 1928 pur¬
chasing power or the dollar as a base.
He will have the right to declare a
maximum salary cut of 15 per cent.
The total salary decrease looked for
is $125,000,000.
Consignment of Gold
for Mexico Returned
Brownsville. Texas.—Upon orders
from the Chase National bank in New
York city, a cargo *f $250,000 in gold,
consigned to Mexico City, was re¬
turned to the Eleventh District Fed¬
eral Reserve bank in Dallas.
The New York bank started the
shipment before President Roosevelt’s
order barring export of gold from the
country became effective, but soon
after the embargo was announced,
the bank ordered the consignment re
turned.
Jap Leaders Hesitate
Tokyo.—Minister of War General
Sadao Araki, Japan’s Nationalist lead¬
er and dominant figure in the cabinet,
said he did not think Japan would ex¬
tend its military operations into North
China.
Moors Defeat French
Rabat, French Morocco.—A dozen
French soldiers were killed and 150
loyal natives killed and wounded in
a battle reported as a new outbreak
of tribesmen.
WOMEN “STARS” ON
FIELD AND TRACK
Olympic Competition Really
Great Spectacle.
No doubt about it, the feminine
side of the Olympic track and field
competition added a touch to this
great International spectacle that was
lacking until the bars were let down
at Amsterdam four years ago. Sev¬
enteen countries sent women athletes
to compete in track and field, swim¬
ming, fencing and gymnastics-at- l,ps .
Angeles, and thousands wondered be- -
fore the games were finished why
these modern Amazons have been
classified as the weaker sex. '
China, Turkey and India still
cloister their womenfolk, but there
was a sprinkling of entrants from
European countries, and Japan mar¬
shaled a formidable array for the
feminine activities. The United
States has lagged in its development
of women’s sports, aside from swim¬
ming. hut the rise of such a super-?
star as Mildred Didrikson, of Dallas^
Texas, promises to make up for lost
time. Miss Didrikson, who prefers to
be called “Babe," qualified to com¬
pete in three track and field events
—the 80-meter hurdles, javelin and
discus throws.
And yet there is a physical side
to the women’s track and field com¬
petition at Los Angeles which
arouses serious doubt as to the wis¬
dom of their participation. Olympic
rules are strict, and no alternates
are allowed. Thus the three girls
chosen in the various events could
not be expected to step aside, even
though the rules of health and com¬
mon sense should dictate their with¬
drawal. Regardless of the physical
side, however, it is quite clear that
women’s athletics have come to
stay, even though some of us would
have it otherwise.—Boston Tran¬
script.
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W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 12-1933
