Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, February 17, 1933, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWHEELER COUNTY EAGLE (1 50 a Year, in Advance OFFICIAL ORGAN WHEELER CO. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J. H. GROSS, Proprietor Entered at the Post Office at Alamo, Georgia, as second class mail matter, May 16th, 1913, under Act of Congress. GEORGIA NEWS Happenings Over, the State A movement seeking completion of paving of route nine from Roswell through Dahlonega to Walnut, will be launched very soon at a meeting called In Dahlonega. The Colquitt county board of com missioners recently adopted a reso missloners recently adoopted a reso lution reducing the 192 tax digest valuations 12 per cent. Marvin G. Pound, of Sparta, district governor of the Lions Club of Geor gia, has announced June 12-13 as the dates for the state convention, which will be held In Waycross. The Georgia Bankers’ Association, through its agricultural committee, has given Its unqualified indorsement to the plan for using government owned cotton to control 1933 produc tion. The commission in charge of the hydro-electric plant operated at Cor dele by the county has announced payment before the amount was due of a $25,000 bond retirement payment and $30,000 in interest. Cecil L. Kirven. Macon, district man ager of the Southern Bel! Telephone Company was recently elected presi dent of the Macon chamber of com merce, succeeding Don C. Bryan. Abit Nix, of Athens, was the principal speaker of the meeting. The Savannah Federation of Labor has been officially advised that the state convention of the Georgia Fed eration of Labor will be held in Sa vannah some time in April. The exact date Is to be determined, but it will be about the middle of the month. Patriotic Georgians are expected to "gobble u.p" a large share of the 50,- 000,000 Oglethorpe bicentennial stamps which will lie placed on sale in the near future, and Georgia firms are being requested to place their or ders when the stamps first go on sale Action of the national house remains on the bill of Senator Walter F. George, Democrat, Georgia, to au thorize the navy department to give the building and equipment of the naval radio station to the city of Sa vannah. The senate has passed the measure. Spanish-American war Veterans, members of W. C. Davis camp at Americus, have just installed new of ficers who will serve during the en suing year as follows: T. I A Durham, commander H. A. Nicholson, senior vice commander; F. T. Ashley, junior vice commander; IL C. Stanfield, quartermaster. The report o' the activities of the state highway police patrol in Texas for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1932. shows what an efficient motor cycle equipped state patrol can do in a wide territory to control traffic and the operation of automobiles, according to Jack Strouss, secretary of the Atlanta Motor Club. Georgia’s prison system was char acterized as a “disgrace” and some other method of handling the penal problem should be undertaken at once, Representative Orville A. Park, of Macon, asserted in an address re cently before the joint session of the Georgia Press Institute and the Em ory University Institute of Citizen ship. 11. Lane Young, Atlanta, chairman of the agricultural committee of the American Bankers' Association, and G. A. Cobb, also of Atlanta, editor of the Progresssive Farmer and RuraJ ist, recently telegraphed Chairman McNary, of the senate agriculture committee, warmly indorsing the Smith amendment to the domestic al lotment farm relief bill. The Fulton county commissioners, at a special meeting recently, allo cated a total of $104,550 of th. coun ty 1933 charity budget of $278,000 to tire Community Chest and three other charitable agencies. Grady hospital special relief committee and other ap propriations were not made, as the agencies were not represented at a special meeting called for apportion ing tlie money. The interstate commerce commis sion has authorized the abandonment of the Savannah and Statesboro rail way. The road, which is 35 miles mng. run from Cuyler to Statesboro, The road has been in receivership since May 1, 1931, and has shown leavy deficits since 1927, with the exception of 1931. when there was a | net railway operating income of SB,- 153 due to transportation of an un asual amount of road paving material EXPERIENCE SPEAKS Jeweler —What name do you want engraved on this ring? Young Man—From Tom to Gwen dolln. Jeweler —Take my advice and sim ply have “From Tom.”—Pearson’s. 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Praised for more than 50 years by grateful ■ users the country over. Sold by Bill druggists. ^.Doan's Pills A Diuretic Wbjig'y/ for the Kidneys * St. Joseph's i^the original, genuine,pure, cellophane wrapped ASPIRIN • It's always FRESH, always fully effective because it’s wrapped in moisture-proof cellophane. 0333^ 10c ★ ASK FOR IT BY NAME ★ St. Jo seph s GENUINE ; PURE ASPIRIN The 6Ok site of St. Joseph'* Aspirin has been reduced in price to SOc. This size contains more chan 8 times as many tablets as the 10c site. The 2sc site contains three times as many tablets as 10c site. It's economy to buy the larger sixes. WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO. GEORGIA National Topics Interpreted / by William Brackart" Washington.—The second session of the Seventy-Second congress, now pass- ing Into history as the last "lame duck" sessions is crowning itself A DO-NOTHING CONGRESS with a new-found glory. Short ses sions of congress, in advance of a change in administration, are never expected to accomplish much, but the current edition is by all odds the win ner when the race is run towards the zero. Indeed, those of us who are re quired—not privileged—by our duties to sit in the press galleries of the senate and the house day after day have indulged In a little game of at tempting to locate some legislation which might have been killed but was allowed to pass. It “just ain’t.” And to make the thing more ridicu lous, senate and house committees were excitedly holding hearings on this bill or that right up to the finish line, taking testimony (on account of which there Is always a tremendous stenographic bill in addition to the printing charges of thousands of dol lars) and inviting witnesses from here, there and everywhere. There was not a chance for those bills to he enacted into law and the bulk of the commit tee members admitted the fact pri vately. But for the sake of the "rec ord.” they joined with others of thelE particular committee and went right ahead on their grand errand of futility. The proponents of the hearings jus tify their course with the statement that they now have the data upon which to fashion legislation later. They argue that the bulk of the leg islation had something or other to do with tne whole program of lifting the country out of the mire of the de pression, and a survey shows this to be true In al) respects. It could be said, therefore, that the orgy of hear ings in the short session was in:,p repa ration for greater things, except .that the records reveal new hearings al ways have been held, regardless of what has transpired before, when the same legislation Is Introduced In a new session of congress. Whenever a congress ends, all bills on the house and senate calendars of business die. So the expiration of the second session Is also the expiration of the Seventy-Second congress, and every bill that was before either house or In the hands of any committee of either house became null and void. ... No one seems to know why there was so much activity among the com mittees of the senate and house In the session. It was apparent at the start, and became more so as Decem ber and January passed and February rolled In, that It would be a do-noth ing session. Senators recognized the situation. From the Republican side came threats and jibes and jests that the Democrats were blocking anything and everything. From the Democratic side of the senate chamber came the same tune with just a slight variation in the chorus. It was to the effect that the Republicans had control, which they did if one counted as Re publicans thosq who hnd deserted the Republican candidate In the 1932 elec tlot) for the support of Mr. Roosevelt. And so It was. In the house, there was a clear Democratic majority. But something else was wrong in that body. The plans of the leadership did not always carry, and if they did. the legislation was passed only to run Into the log jam in the senate. Some of the house Democrats even went so far as to say their majority would not have held to pass some of the legislation put through except for the knowledge that the bills would get snowbound in the senate. A Washington correspondent for one of the great London dailies cabled his newspaper that "the American con gress seems to bo going in all direc tions at the same time.” I quote him because there has-been no more fitting description of the situation come to my attention. • • • After all. It seems to me the cir cumstance ought not he so surprising that the short session has done nothing. 1 have inquired among a WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN very great number of senators and representatives, from leaders down to the newest and latest additions to the membership. Their answers to my question concerning the lack of ac complishment varied so widely that I concluded they must reflect minutely the feeling throughout the country. Every one. or nearly every one, has had worries through the last three years and those worries have been ac centuated in the last year. The own ers of these worries, whether they are important worries or just individual worries, looked around' for some one to solve their problems. Suddenly, they thought: “Why. there is our con gressman.” or Senator So-and-So. Uis mail from home has increased as the troubles have grown. Xot that he can do anything about most of the cases, vet he Is one point upon which the spotlight focuses. Consequently, it Is made to appear that senators and representatives hear so, much about the sad state of af fairs, the. suffering, the foreclosures, tie closed banks, the bankrupt corpo- rations, the low price of wheat, of cotton, of cattle and hogs and dairy products, that they are actually “going in all directions at the same time.” I do not know whether that excuses them for their failure to get things done, but assuredly It is one of the factors in the situation which has been overlooked to a considerable extent. • » « But as President Hoover passes from the picture of national control. it is worth while to look back for a moment. Wash ington observers HOOVER’S TOUGH JOB of all shades of opinion are coming around to the conclusion that what ever may have been his faults, he has had one of the toughest jobs on his hands that ever was faced by a Presi dent. Especially was this true during the last two years of his administra tion. During that time, he had a con gress made up of a Democratic house and a senate in which there never was a majority on either side on any question; I mean, a majority that could be counted in advance, and he was forced, therefore, to do a lot of trading. That Mr. Hoover was able to get his reconstruction program as far under way as he did was due absolutely to the condition of the country and not through any control which he was able to exert. As a matter of fact, the congress for the last ten years has been an “unbroken colt.” The senate during all of that time has been so close as regards the party division that a group of so-called progressives have constantly wielded the balance of pow er. Being Independent, those 10 or 12 men on the Republican side and a few less on the Democratic side skated back and forth as their ideas dictated. The result was a terrific casualty of well-laid plans. While the senate was in this con dition, the house was having its trou bles and would have had more ex cept for the extraordinary personal ity of the late Nicholas Longworth. So It becomes rather obvious that whatever Mr. Hoover may have lacked in political ability or acumen; what ever were his shortcomings in state craft, or however many mistakes he made by refusing concessions, the fact still remains that he held the job as President in a period when few men would have succeeded. For, coupled with all of these factors, there was and is no measure within the power of the federal government to satisfy all of the diverse elements of these times. The depression has made ex perience of bygone years as useless as the proverbial fifth wheel of the farm wagon. • « « In view of these facts, therefore, It ought to be a cheering prospect for Mr. Roosevelt to see not just a working major ity lint a big NICE PROSPECT FOR ROOSEVELT majority of his own party Tn the com gressionaT membership when they get toget her. The American government always has been a party government. It thus hag had to have a Satisfactory ma jority of each house of congress of the same pantj as the President In ordpr to work well. Mr. Roosevelt's first two years In the White House are assured of such a working con trol if all who. are labelled as Demo crats turn out to be Democrats. On the face of things, it appears that Mr. Roosevelt ought -to he able to get whatever he wants from the extra .session and the succeeding ses sions. It is a situation ideal for ac tion. There will he so few Republicans that observers here fail to see how they can start any trouble, even with the aid of progressives. * , • There have been suggestions floating around to the effect that quite a nnm- her of "trial balloons" have been sent up SENDS UP TRIAL BALLOONS in the congres sional atmosphere by Mr. Roosevelt. While there is no method of confir mation available, there has been one. condition existing during the last three months that seems to confirm the opin ion that the incoming President was testing out sentiment. The condition is this: Mr. Roosevelt has kept hands off insofar as telling leaders of his party in congress what he wanted to have done tn the short session. He eould have made his own path way easier to travel after becoming President had he confided some of his views to the Democratic leaders of the house and senate. With reference to the suggestions of "trial balloons,” however, it is pos sible Mr. Roosevelt did tell a few of his friends some of his ideas. It has been observed here, for example, that possibly his suggestions were respon sible for the consistently busy commit tees. By introducing various and sun dry pieces of legislation and holding hearings on them in committees, it would be possible obviously to gain a perspective of the public attitude. In deed. such a period of experimenta tion would provide the new President with a most definite outline of what he could expect in the way of a recep tion for his plans when they are for mally offered to his own congress. ©, 1933. Western Newspaper Union. CAT’S BRIEF GLORY Cinderella, an alley cat, was found by fifteen-year-old Daletta McElwee in Pasadena, Calif, The girl gave the cat meals, brushed its hair sleek and entered it in the society cat show. 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