The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1934 Page: 3 of 8
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tHE WORTHAM JOURNAL
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—The Republicans are
giving some Indications that the; In
t tend to fight for elec-
Queer Qairk tlonof their partisans
in Politic* ,n tbe nelt congress
on the groutid that
the emergency Is over and that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his administration
are continuing on a spending spree
Just to afford deserving Democrats
with pie from the government counter.
The tlpoff as to the direction from
which the attack will come arose the
other day without attracting a great
deal of attention. It came from Rep-
resentative Snell of New York, the Re-
publican leader In the house, who op-
posed one of the newer brain-trust
creations because he declared, un-
equivocally. “the emergency Is over."
After Mr. Snell had made the state-
ment. I inquired of a number of per-
sons, astute In politics, what they
thought of this anomaly. Here Is a
leader of the opposition party declar-
ing that the emergency Is over, and If
that condition exists, the leader of the
opposition, by Inference at least, has
admitted that credit for the Job must
be given the Roosevelt administration.
I find as well that the Democrats can
hardly admit the correctness of the
statement without admitting at the
same time that there should be an end
Immediately to the countless emergen-
cy agencies that the Roosevelt admin-
istration has set up. It seems to me.
therefore, that we are witnessing one
of tbe most ridiculous situations that
has ever, occurred in politics where
peculiar things are the rule. Suc-
cinctly, It amounts to this: each rids
actually Is contending that the other
Is right. 1
Of course, it should he said, much
water will flow under the bridge be-
fore the votes are counted In Novem-
ber; Indeed, many changes will have
come before the congressional cam-
paigns In the various states get stirred
up to a white heat, hut unless the
course of battle now indicated is al-
tered. I predict the campaigners will
have to do some fancy high rope walk
Ing. It surely appears that getting
one’s own legs tangled up in those ar
guments Is about the easiest tiling In
sight.
Curious possibilities are otTered by
the situation. For example, are the
Democrats going to go out on the
bastings and say to their mass meet-
ings In effect that “we have not suc-
L ceeded; we must keep, the AAA and
fad;
same time, are we going to hear
from Republican spellbinders that
"the Democrats have licked the de-
pression and they must now put an
end to their orgy of spending and run-
ning up bills which the taxpayers must
meet"?
Neither side, of course, will say It in
those words. Rut. if the argument
goes ahead as It has started, that w ill
have to he the substance of their tale
to the voters. Therewll! ha ve to he some
very careful, ns well ns very quirk,
thinking before the campaign's end.
One polltlclal observer here suggested
that this may turn out to be a most
confusing campaign because of the
anomaly that Is now presented by .Mr.
Knell's declaration.
• • •
There is considerable discussion
here as to how far-reaching the effect
may he If tile Iie-
Just publicans stress.
Speculation with sufficient vigor.
the contention that
the Democrats are trying to hold on
to the extra Jobs and that they are
continuing to spend taxpayers' money
for repayment of political debts. There
Is always somethin'1/ sinister about
that kind of thing. Whether the
charge is right or wrong, many voters
get suspicious when campaigners per-
sist In talking about raids on the fed-
eral treasury. They always think of
It In terms of theft of money from the
local bank or stores and not In the
terms of political maneuvering, al-
though I confess I can see little dif-
ference. It always has happened that
the political party in power has con-
trolled the flow- of public moneys into
the spots where the funds will do the
most good, politically, and when either
side kicks abont that. It seems to me
It Is exactly like one mule calling an-
other "longear."
I won’t even suggest that I can
guess what the ultimate effect of these
atrange arguments Is going to be.
Anyone who tries to predict the result
at tills time is Just being silly. The
best Judgment 1 can get Is that the re-
sults In the various congressional dls
trlcts are going to vary. The differ-
ence likely will be dependent entire-
ly upon how many mistakes—plain
bonehead statements—the various can-
didates make tn their attempts to fol-
low arguments and analyses laid down
for them by the national political com-
mittees My belief Is that there will
be plenty of them and there ought to
be, therefore, a considerable amount
of surprise when the' votes are
counted.
It Is quite apparent to the Demo-
cratic leaders, and they Bay so. that a
number, of house seats, now held by
Democrats, will be turned over to the
Rep; Glenns next fall. There are
■eats occupied by Democrats who have
BO reason on earth to be In the house
except by virtue of the tremendous
Democratic are more than likely go-
ing to continue to elect Democrats,
but the “political accidents” that elect-
ed many others of the vast majority in
the house are going to send many
home because they come from over-
whelmingly Republican communities.
The Republican leaders are asserting
they will pick up eighty or ninety
seats from the Democrats next No-
vember. There can he no doubt that
they wfll gain sortie, hut eighty or
ninety Is a high figure In anybody *
language.
It seems to me that Representative
Mark. Wilcox of Florida has won a
rather signal honor
‘First Termer’in his first term as
Wins Honor a member of the
house of representa-
tives by obtaining passage of the leg-
islation that has cmne to be linown as
the municipal bankruptcy bill. If is
something like twenty years since a
“freshman” member of the house of
representatives*.has sponsored a piece
of legislation of national scope that
was passed and become a law. Plenty
of new members have Introduced hills,
nationwide In their effect, hut as far
as my research has disclosed, none has
been successful In the last twenty
years.
* Mr. Wilco*, won membership In the
house by defeating Mrs. Ruth Iiryan
Owen, daughter of the famed William
Jennings Iiryan. for the I >emix*nitlc
nomination in his district where the
nomination Is tantamount to an elec-
tion. So he was given a baptism of fire
before he ever reached the house it-
self. Whether It was the political
prestige won by licking an outstand-
ing iHunocratlc woman, or for other
reasons, the fact remains that Mr. Wil-
cox finally forced through a piece of
legislation that constitutes fcomething
entirely new in otir national structure
of laws.
The measure. *ns I said. Is national
In scope and It probably will affect
the financial status of some *J.rsK) com-
munities / w hich the hill calls taxing
districts. This list of taxing districts
Includes municipalities, counties, hor-
4Highs. villages, parishes, townships,
and incorporated taxing districts such
as schools, drainage. Irrigation, levee,
sewer, paving, sanitary, port, or any
other districts*in which Improvement!
have been made In bonds and sold to
pay for them. In order to take ad-
vantage of the provisions of the law.
AUTO IN PLACE
OF CAMEL TRAIN
IN THE DESERT
Little by little the automobile Is
replacing the camel as tbe freight
and passenger carrier of the Near
East and African deserts. The new-
est automobile train put Into aervice
carries 35 passengers and three tons
of freight from Damascus to Bagdad
In 18 hours, as compared to the 10
days or two weeks ordinarily re-
quired by camels. r,
Here is an instance of a modern
form of transportation cdiSfretin/
with one of the oldest forms still in
use. Camel trains have been jonr
neying over the deserts south at the
Mediterranean since the dawn of
history. Egypt and Chaldea once
vxchanged goods across the Arabian
wastes in this way. Later the Per-
sians. then the Romans, and Anally
nomads from Asia controlled the
routes.-
When Europe was plungetl into the
darkness of the Middle ages, tbe en-
lightened Mohammedans supervised
a busy and prosperous traffic tn the
desert lands, as amazed Crusaders
discovered. Long before the Portu-
guese found the water route to India
the camels had busied themselves
carrying supplies of spices and pre
clous goods northward from the
ports of the Red sea hnd the Per-
sian gulf.
Right down to the present time
this dependence upon the came! has
continued. The railroads which were
begun never quite functioned, and
when I.aw-rence mobilized the Arabs
against the Turks during the World
war, it was camels that carried sup-
plies for the army which took Jeru-
salem. — v
So the appearance of the autorao
bile in tlie deserts less than 10 years
ago has meant a change in transpor-
tation methods Which were hoary
with age when the Wise Men made
the pilgrimage to Bethlehem, and for
which no satisfactory substitute hail
been found since. — Detroit Free
Press.
SAHARA ONCE RICH
New evidence that the Sahara
once held a rich Jungle life and was
the home of prehistoric races of men
has been fdund by Professors Gautier
and Reygasse of Algiers university.
In the arid, barren regions of the
Asjer plateau they found rock carv-
ings of jungle animals, axes nnd oth-
er relics of ancient man.—Literary
Digest.
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Owing to experts differing an to
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NEW
fire$lone
to be Insolvent and unable to pay the
Interest or principal of the debt. The
officials of be taxing district may pe-
tition a fee. ral court for the right to
arrange its debt on a new basis, but
the court must he shown that at least
three-fourths In number and amount
of holders of the bonds are willing to
agree to the terms of a compromise.
If they do agri-e. then the court may
issue a decree that will compel the re-
maining bondholders to accept the set-
tlement.
What happens, of course, is that the
taxing district will he aide to replace
the defaulted bonds with a fresh series,
probably at a lower interest rate. The
taxing district gets nut of the predic-
ament of what amounts to bankruptcy,
and tlie bondholders get new securities
which are marketable and have some-
thing like their, face value because the
Interest will he paid. This privilege
is extended for only two years, but It
is the general understanding that the
communities concerned will he able
to accomplish settlements with their
creditors much sooner than that, and
it Is obviously hoped also that im-
proved financial conditions through-
out the nation will make the Job of
rearranging the debts easier than it
was a few years ago.
The bill did not get through con-
gress without a fight. It had plenty
of opposition from members who con-
tended It was a step toward repudia-
tion of debts, a thing always to be ab-
horred. There was argument also that
by granting permission for the munici-
palities and taxing districts to force
such compromise as will result, the
congress was making such securities
less attractive' to Investors.
• • •
One of the obvious results of having
the spotlight turned onto an individual
or a fact or an ls-
Kidding sue Is plenty of eom-
the NR A ment. People talk
about It. Sometimes,
however, the talk develops Jibes and
Jests and ofttimes they are not pleas-
ant for the ardent advocates of a
proposition to swallow. For Instance,
until recently discussion of NRA had
been confined to serious argument,
very ofteD of a healed character.
Irately, however. Jokes and puns about
NRA have been emerging with greatet
frequency and there are now a con-
siderable number of them. Tlie lat-
est. and one of the best that I hav«
heard, runs as follow-s;
N. R. A. me down to sleep.
I pray Thee, Lord, my codes to keep;
If I should bust before I wake,
A. F. of L. my plant will take.
I heard already that the American
Federation of I.abor considers the ref-
erence to It In the doggerel to be close-
ly akin to unfair practice, or what-
ever It Is organized labor says about
those wh» are not Its supporters. Gen-
eral Johnson's reactions are not yet a
matter of record, although I know ha
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