The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1933, Page 5

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933. POLITICAL WORK CONTINUES ON IN ALL ACTIVITIES GENERAL ASPECT OF SITUA- TION SHOWS PARTY AFFIL- IATIONS ARE CONSIDERED IN ALL EVENTS By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) W. INGTON, D, C.. May 12. FREE SOUP ROOSEVELT HAS | PASTOR'S VICTORY | GREAT SWAYIN INCONGRESSRACE, CONGRESS MEET | HENRY =. STUBBS, OF CALI. PRACTICAL PLANNING ouT: _ FORNIA, STEPS FROM PUL-| OF PROGRAM GAVE CHIEF] | PIT INTO ‘CONGRESSIONAL! EXECUTIVE FIRM STANDING] SEAT.IN LAST ELECTION IN VARIOUS ACTIVITIES \ By HERBERT PLUMMER, (hy Atnociated Prexny WASHINGTON, May 12.—The democratie landslide of last No-! | { { 1 1 i } By BYRON PRICE | (Chief Of Bureat, The Associated) Press, Washington) | It now seems assured that| THE KEY WEST CITIZEN TETROOSEVELT DO IP 1S NOW | SENATE IDEA SMITH FARM BILL COMMENT! TYPICAL; FACT ILLUSTRAT- ED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS IN CONGRESS By HERBERT PLUMMER (By Axsocinted Presnd H WASHINGTON, May 12.—Per-' haps no better illustration of what —In times like these it is easy to vember swept into congress for the president Roosevelt will have his, might be termed the present “‘leg-, forget that political party organi- zations continue to exist, and must. go ahéad with their planning re- gardiess of the tuwhult around them. Six months, roughly, has elapsed since the November ‘election. That is about one-third of the interim of preparation for the next elec- tion. A year hente, the party committees will be emersed deep- ly inthe preliminaries of the na- tion-wide congressional campaign of 1934, The present is an opportune time, therefore, to glimpse the general aspects of the situation, ven though many of the elements involved still are somewhat mebu- Tous. 5 ‘Roosevelt, That’s All’ On the democratic side, the whole trend of party reorganiza- tion is easily described, To para- phrase an expression much sed during the last previous demoerat- ie regime, the situation is “Roose- velt, that’s all.” Patronage furnishes the bolts with wh political machinery is held ether, and today all the important patronage is bestowed on eee bin supported Mr. Roose- . ¥elt at the Chicago convention or whose loyalty is otherwise fully proved. Many old-line organizations “which did not work for his nomi- nation, ineluding Tammany Hall, are either out in the cold or 0 near the door that they feel an uncomfortable draft. This is the usual protedute. The only unusual element is that the Roosevelt managers are fit. ting into this solid Roosevelt pha- Janx as many as they can of the repubtiean surgents, There is a very obvious effort to Tetain and inerease the hold Mr. Roosevelt had on this group in | “1 threw ‘a prayef book and a journment. “new deal” administration a Wide own Way entirely with the special! ly assorted group of men, among session of congress, right up to’ Be was 2 minister of the gos- the last whack of the gavel. pel— Henry E. Stubbs. of California,! pet Hk wa! stepped from his pulpit in the the other direction. Th both se! i ‘Christian “church at Santa Maria,,ate.and house there was growing .t—; agriculture committee, hadj of the most constructive pieces of among) thrust upon him the task of see- legislation to pass the house thi. joined his wife @nd son th An atito-/¥est¥essness, particularly pave oe oe one sae the few thembers, who once or) e motor to ington to pal { ake his Seat in the seventy-thids twice Appeared almost ve ongress as the only active minis-; hand. The democratic teattership ; ter representative in that body. pi much worried. Stubbs, called “Pat” by his! Toward the end of April the friends, had been preaching for presidential fortimes turned. Mr. more than 25 years. When the! Roosevelt’s word again was law. state was redistrieted, enough was It developed that he was destined | chiséled from, two ¢ther ‘eohgres.| not only to shape by his leadership | siofal distPiét to fetm* the néW,every single action of the session,: tenth. but even to set the date of its ad-| out hat ite the political ring.” aays| The chane Pepresented a re-! the Reverend Stubbs, “and emerg-imarkable recovery of prestige for ed a victorious democrat in @ nor-the president. It lifted him into tally republican territory.” ‘fa position of legislative power re-| ' Ready-Made Appeal ‘}warded by many as even greater This tall dark-haired preacher, than that he énjoyed during the! ,elaims that he won, his election al-' first few days of his administra- ‘host single-handedly and with a'tion, when he put the emergency; very slender purse. Before he bank bill through under whip and| évér thought of running for pub-| spur. lie office, he had laid the founda-} This did not come about by ac-/ tion for an appeal to the voters, cident. A great deal of practical) Alongside his church in Santa! planning and careful. patient ex- Maria he built an improvised soup|ecution lay behind it. | kitchen, He and his wife fed more At The Pie Counter thah 6,000 hungry men at their} In the matter of patronage, for; ‘establishment. - $ i As evidence,of just-how slim his Mief bills always have had tough | that the tesk was harder than us-) ‘seeing that the bill islative state of mina” found ‘than the be with aan situation j which Senator Ellison D. Smith of law. ; South Carolina, found himself. con-, the initial sum of $2,000,000,000 A month ago signs pointed in; fronted for the last few weeks in to refinance mortgages on tomes, the senate. Smith, as chairman of the sen-! ing that President Roosevelt’s farm bill was piloted safely, through the senate. } It has no easy task. Farm re- sledding in the senate. Mr. Roose-} velt’s was so drastic in nature) ual. Smith himself was dubious, about the whole thing. He likened) the bill to.a sandwich in which the upper part was good, the lower part good, but the interior awful. Yet he undertook the task of was passed without alteration. And the rea- sons he gave, in most respects are} typieal of: those given by all the! gentlemen “on the hill” charged with similar tasks in this special session. No Wrenches “J, for one,” he said, “am not going to throw any monkey wren- ches in the machinery. IT am not goingé to set my opinion up against the president. I would ;not be guilty of mental prostitu+;}the payment of taxes, assessments] {of homes of less than $15,000 val- | Cengressional leaders, that it will Political Gossip In Nation’s Capit [gm tor» cement 20% BUSY BEE BAKERY Jevece eve TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS HOME LOAN BILL cooD . ebesesad ebb baudasacies. - ; ; 0 MEASURE IS | Linco BUsworth, the famous! Judge Fenton W. Booth of Mi-| FFERS SPECIALS explorer, planning a 3,000 mile! 2°is, Chief Justice of the Federal round-trip non-stop flight over the Court of Claims, born at Marshall) Anaretic, born in Ghicago, 53 Ill., 64 years ago. | years ago. i WILCOX’S BELIEF Busy Bee Bakery will Robert D. Kohn of New York, Prof. Thomas Scott Fiske, of;noted American’ architect, torn} *™ a Columbia, ‘noted mathematician, ; there, 63 years azo. leach Betty Crocker Milk Ch born in New York, 68 yéars ago. | | Cake ordered during the MEASURE PASSES HOUSE BY OVERWHELMING VOTE; IS ‘CONSIDERED VERY IMPOR. TANT LEGISLATION ; Dr, Walter C. nrurray, president , ©”4- Dr. Warren Du Pre Smith, emi-! of the University of Saskatche-| nent University of Oregon geolo- wan, Canada, born 67 years ago. t LOW PRICES NOW What will the same articles cost one month hence 77? Look Over The Following List And See If There Is Anything You Need? $1 00 Garden. Hose, 25’ length with couplings, t| Dixie Galvanized Shingles, for length cash only, per box Extra Heavy Cement Buckets, 14 qt., regular 80c, special each Rubbish Burners, $1,00:to .........:.. $2.95 86” Galvanized Screen, Cheap Paint, per yard $35.00 per gallon pie is given with each eak I i (Special to the Citizen) | WASHINGTON, May 12.—Pass-} ed by an overwhelming vote in ie | House -of Representatives last} week the Federal Home Loan Bill} ‘was one step closer to becoming This measure, setting aside was charanterized by Representa-| tive J. M. Wileox Florida, as one’ session.“ He added that the _ bill will do much to relieve the dire distress of thousands of home own= ers throughout the United States. Not only that, but in his opinion it will be instrumental in saving many’homes from foreclosure. | The Florida member, who’ cast his vote in favor of the bill, point-| ed out that one of the important features of the act is that it iq meant primarily for the owners Roofing Paper, as low as per roll Cold Water Paint, Sherwin Wil- liams, special lot, colors; cream, straw, russet, pink, 5. pound. package, at per package uation. Thus the bill provides re- lief for*a class of citizens who have perhaps been harder hit than any other group in the country with the possible exception of the farmer. So far réaching is the scope of the measure, according to Ni . S N . N \ 8 N . N S 1x4 No, 3 Flooring, peri M. vc 1x6 No. 8 Flooring, per eM. (ck affect prattically every hamlet in the United States. Congressman Wilcox pointed out, however, that the terms of the bill: will permit only the refinancing of existing mortgages, and will not permit new loans in such amounts as are necessary for 86” Bronze Screen, per yard Wall Board, Per My: c5o.40 Special lot Garden Hose, while they last each .. Screen . Doors, and other like charges. “Under the $15.00. $18.00 instance, it came to be pretty well; understood—without the ad- purse Was, during the campaign, ‘at one time he started on an automo- bite journey to Bakerstield. Arter driving for hours, he slept in hisimight expect nothing from the piv; ear rather than pay the cost of a hotel room. 4 He is a native of Texas, and, in- eidentally, Stubbs, McClintic, a member of the house froin Oklo- homa, and Senator Bratton of New Mexico Were born and reared with- in 15 miles of one another. State-Sized Counties ministration actually saying so— that those who stood in the way of the White House program ‘counter. Then a report got around-— somehow—that the president was prepared to do aS he often had done as governor of New York and appeal to the people directly over the heads of congressmen. After the malcontents had thoucht these two things over for, jtion for any man, but I will step| ‘aside and let him try his plan, and 'God knows I wish it all success.” ! Senator Fess, that regular of old | regular republicans, was not on *the floor»when Smith made his ‘statement. He was back home in Yellow Springs, Ohio. But in a day or So later, in discussing another question, he echoed ; Smith’s remarks. “Anything Roosevelt wants,” said Fess, “will be passed by con- gress. This-is the first time since terms of this measure, the Federal Government will issue bonds which! will be exchanged for existing mortgages and will advance in cash: the amounts necessary to pay up past due taxes to State, County and Municipal governments, In this way the home owner will se- cure a.reduction in interest rates and a postponement of the matur- ity date of his mortgage and at the same time he will catch up his Black Roof Paint, gallons in bulk, 5 Black Roof Paint, ~~ § gallon cans ... SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & | His distri¢t comprises five coun- 4 The ‘Ina’ nad ‘Outs’ ties, One of these ‘counties is larger : blican headqnatters ¢arri on ‘ashington under Nonaploee | of the Hoover wing of the; party, bnt with an intense place, is atvietly at work planning to oust the Hooverités and take Over. Still anether group who doesn’t care muéh for the old guard, doesn’t want Hoover again and yet doesn’t like to go the of bolting, is. reserving judgment, So there are at least three sub- divisions of the party, not count- ing the bolters whom nobody seems to be trying to won back from the} Roorevelt camp. j The recent announcement that! prominent Hoover men were’ Taunching © nation-wide organiza~' ~ tion has put the other factions on guard and revived their fighting spirit. Within the next few months a grand melee for party controd feems inevitable. | As the Lines Form Washington hears no talk of a third party—for the first time im years. Neither is there a gen- eral belié?, such ns there was be. fore the inst campaign, that the sociali#t or some other minor par- ty soon will rive into real promi. nence. It is pretty well accepted that im 1934 and 1936 the voters will be divided sharply into two classes those who are for Mr, Roosevelt and those who are against him: “that those who are for him will have no trouble of getting togeth- er; and that those against hin: will! have t6 get together somehow, de- apite their present quarrels. i REDUCED FARES | OVER RAILROAD | In today’s isste of The Citizen appears an announcement from’ the Florida East Coast Railway Compahy pettaniing to reduced round-trip rates to various points in the country. j The new rate for the excursion period will become effective May 27. than the four eastern states of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Con- necticut and Delaware. The district stretches from the Sierras tq the Pacifie ocean. An enormous borax mine and the famous naval petroleum _ re- serves are located thee. He hasn't had much to say oh the floor of the house as yet, but has served notice that he is. out to obtain an embargo on the impor- tation of foreign produced oil and to advance the state-wide water program in California which pro- vides for a $160,000,000 irrigation project through the assistance of a federal loan. Seeseee Secetoce Today’s Anniversaries Peeosessdr cocatusessosese 1803—William Howe, a Massa- ehusetts inventor Who designed a new form of bridge structure, born in Spencer, Mass, Died in Spring-! transferred to the field of foreign’ field, Mass., Sept. 19, 1852. 1820 — Florence Nightingale, English nurse of Crimea, probably the greatest nurse in history, who, had to break through red tape,! defy the auhorities, to inaugurate, a new era both in the nursing weal wounded soldiers and ih the rights and might of women, born, Aug. 14, 1910. i) i 1824—Edward P. Allis, Mitwan-| kee pioneer manufacturer, who de. veloped one of the largest machin-} ery plants in the world, born at Carenovia, N. Y. Died in Milwau- kee, April 1, 1889. 1828——Dante Gabriel English artist-poet, born. April 9, 1882. Died; 1829— George W. Childs, Phila. delphia publisher, philanthropist and eminent citizen, born in Balti-' more. Died in Philadelphia, Feb.! 3, 1894, i i 1850—Henry Cabot Lodge, not- ed Massachusetts U.S. Senator and author, born in Boston. Diea! at Cambridge, Nov. 9, 1924. | i 1851—Frank Crane, popular, preacher-journalist, born at Ur! bana, Mi. Died in France Nov. 5, [1928 ieatit a while they felt differently. Most of them began looking for a good opportunity to get aboard band wagon again. The administration inflation bill) —as either luck or adroit manage-! ment would have it—came alone just in time to provide that op- portunity. Nearly all the insur- rectionaries were _ inflationists, ‘and they tumbled éver one another scampering back fnto ¢amp. The Bonus Test The degree to which the Roose- velt leadership was restored ean be measured by the one example of the bonus. Few doubted that large majorities in both senate and wanted the bonus, but the movement for its enactment Was ended with great suddenness by a hint from the White House, spoken privately and without public com-! mitment. Mr. Roosevelt thus has passed through the first test of his leater- ship. His trial by fire now is affairs, upon which he is entering with such high expectations. Rinrwerm-—One Eerema Remedy enough for anv eage. All droggists are authorized to refumd — your money if it fatia—Advt. hottle is @uaranteed the! intperta. | ithe world war that one political party has had absolute control and ‘anything its leaders ask as a rem-. ledy, the party in control will give.” Stringing Along And so it goes. At any other time there would] ibe open revolt on Capitol Hill, not jonly among the republican oppo- sition, but in the democratic ranks as well. 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