The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-04-07

Washington.-The japanese cher
ny blossoms bloomed early this
year around the Tidal Basin, COM
ing into full flower just as Con-
gress voted to appropriate more
than a billion dollars to build the
largest Navy in the world with a
couple of battleships of $4,000 tons,
thousands of tons larger than the
top limit agreed on by England, ia
pan and the United States a few
years ago. Japan broke its treaty
agreement first, by laying the keels
of two giant warships. England
followed suit and now the United
States falls in line. Congress also
added $35,0O0,OO0 to the Army ap-
preparations.
Conservative Coalition in 1910?
More and more talk is heard in
the anteroonls' Of both houses Of
Congress of Cordell Hull as a poss-
ible coalition candidate for the
Presidency in 1910. The belief
grows among experienced political
observers that the 1910 contest must
be along new lineup, not Repub-
icans against Democrats but be-
tween Conservatives and the New
Deal, with the anti-New Deal can
idate as likely to be Republican.
Those who are opposed to the whole
philosophy Of the New Deal include
a great and growing number of
Democratic leaders especially in the
South. Mr.. Hull is from Tennessee.
The eyes of many of those who be-
lieve that real coalition of the
anti-New Deal elements is political
ly feasible are turning from the still
badly disorganized Republican
party toward the Southern Demo-
cracy for leadership, and more and
more resting on Mr.. Hull.
That the Administration is well
aware of the growing disaffection
toward it Of what was once the
solid South" is evidenced by nu-
signs of the times. The
President open espousal of Florida
Senator Claude Peppers candidacy
for denomination at the May 3rd
primaries is one of those signs. Mr..
Pepper is an out-and-out New Deal
er. He faces opposition from two
powerful opponents, neither of them
committed to the New Deal. One is
Congressman Mark Wilcox, the 9TH
er is former Governor Dave Scholz.
The defeat of Senator Pepper by
either of those would be "a slap in
the face for the Administration
which Mr.. Roosevelt wants to avoid
at all hazards.
Bid for Southern Vote
The political strategy behind the
Presidents GAINESVILLE, Georgia
speech is interpreted here as an eff
fort to build up pro-New Deal SEN
timent among the rank and file OF
Georgia and other Southern voters.
Mr.. Roosevelt came out fatty with
the declaration that the workers
of the South are being exploited by
Southern employers and that what
he called the "feudap' system under
which Negroes live and work
should be abolished and southern
wages increased materially.
Along with such efforts to hold
the South in line politically in the
1888 elections and with the 1910
Presidential election in view is the
announcement by the A. A. A. that
half of the $500,000,000 which is to
be distributed to farmers in the
next three months from the Federal
Treasury, under the Soil Control
Act and the new Crop Control law,
will go to the South.
The total amount to be distribut-
ed to farmers under the new law
may be half as much again as the
five hundred millions now available.
The bills which have been in
troduced for new processing taxes
are calculated to raise $212,000, 900.
The purpose of these new process
ing taxes, to provide additional sub
sides for farmers, is not stated in
the bills as introduced. That is sup
posed to make the tax Constitution
al, by keeping it legislative secret
that it is levied upon the whole
people for the benefit of a single
class. That was the ground upon
which the Supreme Court declared
the old A. A. A. Act unconstitutional
No Balanced Budget
It is generally recognized here
that there is no chance of balancing
the budget for the next fiscal year,
no matter how much the new tax
bill may yield. Nor is it likely that
the Government will ever take in as
much as it spends so long as ex-
penditures for relief, farm aid and
other purposes outside of the actual
operating expense of the govern