The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-06-29
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WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON-Although the
interiors of the Capitol and the
White House are unconditional,
as are also the sumptuous offices
of Senators and Representatives,
the temperature of outdoor
Washington has been running
weHrabeve 80 degrees by the Of
flee Weather Bureau thermom-
eter. and over 100 at street level,
for several weeks And there. fell
low-citizens, you have one of the
real reasons, if not the most
forceful, for the sudden squirt of
1aw-making activity on Capitol
Hill.
The boys want to 60 home, and
the President wants them to 60
home. However, they have been
loafing on the job so long that it
doesn't seem likely that they can
get through before the middle Of
July with the things that have
to be done, and there's a good
chance that i will be some time
in August before they get away.
There is ground to expect a
long-drawn-out battle in the Sc
nate on a vitality important piace
of legislation, the revision of the
neutrality laws.
The House of Representatives
is practically sold" on the Ad-
ministration's neutrality propos-
ais, drafted by Secretary Hull. In
the Senate, however, there is a
block of at least twenty Senators
who have united to fight the Hull
proposals to the bitter end, and it
may turn out to be the battle of
the session, dragging the pro-
ceedings along toward Septem-
Der.
Chinese Problem Analysed
On Capitol Hill much less at
tention is given to possible en-
tanglement in European war
than to the situation in China.
The fear of doing something
which might help Japan is pow
erful motive for the opposition to
any program which would per-
NIT that nation to buy war sup
plies to be used against the Chi
neSe.
The Hull plan, it's opponents
declare, would do just that,
since Japan has its own ships in
which to transport munitions and
has an effective blockade of Chi
nese ports, so that even if war
supplies were bought by, China
and the Chinese engaged ships of
other nations to transport them,
they could not be delivered.
That argument is stCutly chal-
lenged by most international ex-
perts, and by those who believe
that any discrimination between
nations at war would tend to
drag the United States into the
conflict.
Official Washington is looking
forward with great interest to
the return of Joseph G. Grew, for
many years the United States
Ambassador to Japan and before
that in our diplomatic service in
China. Mr.. Grew knows more
about the inside of the Japan
China situation than any other
American, is regarded as a sound,
Well-balanced and forceful per-
son, and his advice as to mat
tiers in the Far East will be very
helpful.
AS to the chance of the United
States becoming involved in hos
tilitieS with Japan, recent Incl
dents in China are taken here as
indicating that Japan will go the
limit in its effort to retain friend
ly relations with this country.
New Pump Printing System
With the w. P. A. revised in
various ways to make its opera
tons more efficient and less po-
litical, the President is preparing
to send to Congress a recommen.
dalton for a new pump-primine
system of stimulating recovery
which would not increase the ma
tional debt.
The plan would be to set up ;
number of new Government Eau
thorities" or lending agencies
authorized to raise money by tn
sale of their own bonds, witt
which to finance self-liquidatin
projects of public works.
AS an example, one Of tn
plans calls for a toll authority,
to build bridges and roads o
which tolls would be collected t
recover the cost.
Out of all the talk of setting u
Government system of lons
term loans to small" busine:
nothing tangible has arrived.