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The Mineola Monitor, Mineola, Texas, Thursday, October 13, 1938.
The War Is On NX/hat
Othe
The war is 011—a war that may eventually
make the going tough for the "professional
politician" and the office-holder who un-
reservedly promises "free money" in the
form of ridiculous doles and pension funds.
It's the war being waged against taxes.
Taxes of all sorts—hidden taxes, ad
valorem taxes, poll taxes, chain store taxes,
and all sorts of property taxes that put
money into city, county, state and federal
treasuries, are being made the objects of
these tax drives. With increased participa-
tion of the government in social security
and public building programs—and with
even larger increases in view—the burden
promises to become almost unbearable for
the consumer and taxpayer.
But the taxpayer is not likely to take
it lying down. Tax economy groups such
as the National Consumers Tax Commis-
sion, the Chamber of Commerce, and many
other economy groups, are encouraging the
support- of the consumer.® in a fight against
reckless government spending.
Ais war is yet in its infancy, but it is
srtheless being waged, and it promises
sweep aside the politicians who use gov-
y eminent money for political gain . . . and
perhaps go a long way in restoring the econ-
omic sanity of the country.
More Than One
Way to a Wreck
During the month of August alone 901
traffic accidents were reported to the De-
partment of Public Safety.
The Department's figures show that 151
were caused by drivers who did not have
the right-of-way; 115 by drivers who were
driving too near the center or on the wrong
side of the highway; 104 were caused by
drivers or pedestrians who were intoxicated;
51 were caused by driving too fast for con-
ditions; 49 by drivers who were fatigued
or fell asleep; 48 by pedestrians or bicy-
clists who ran into the path of moving
vehicles; 36 by improper passing; 35 by dis-
regard of traffic 1 uvs, and 16 by livestock
on the road. There were dozens of other
causes listed, but these included the larg-
est number of accidents.
All of these conditions are prevalent
here, especially the reckless and fast driv-
ing, disregard for traffic laws on downtown
(streets and in school zones; and cattle on
|#lhe highways. Probably most qf these con-
l ditions could be eliminated by stricter en-
forcement of traffic ordinances, but in the
end the individual's safety is up to him-
self.
Guard Against
Fire Hazards
The drouth of the past few months has
created serious fire hazards, as a glance
at the fire department statistics will show.
Fire Department records show that
forty-six alarms have been answered this
year, with twenty-five of this number com-
ing since September 1. Four alarms were
sounded in one day this week.
Every time the fire department makes
a run, it costs the city money, and when
the city pays, the taxpayer pays. For their
own economy, as well as safety, city of-
ficials have urged particular care in guard-
ing against fire hazards.
Being asked what is the greatest occa-
in the American calendar, many will say,
Pay Day!
®I)f HJintnla fRmttior
Published Every Thursday, in
Mineola, Wood County, Texas.
By the Wood County Publishing Co., Inc.
One Year (In Wood County) $1.00
One Year (Other than Wood County) $1.50
rs Say
Entered at the post office, Mineola, Texas,
as Second Class Mail Matter, Under the Act
of Congress, March 3, 1879.
PRESS
Member, North and East Texas Press As^'n.
JUST HUMANS -by Gene Carr
Any erroneous reflection upon the char-
acter, standing or reputation of any person,
firm, or corporation which may appear in
le columns of this newspaper will be gladly
>rrected upon being brought to the atten-
tion of the publishers.
IT MAKES SENSE
We wish that every farmer
and every business man in Tex-
as could have heard the talk
given at the Chamber of Com-
merce membership luncheon by
Victor H. Schoffelma5rer, agri-
cultural editor of the Dallas
News.
The essence of Mr. Shoffel-
mayer's suggestions for utiliz-
ing our farm surpluses—which
are not really surpluses at all
—is to find new uses for prod-
ucts such as cotton, grains,
woods and grasses.
We speak of surplues when
products pile up because of a
lack of a money market for
them. It has been pointed out
that there would be no sur-
plus if all the people were eat-
ing what they should be eat-
ing and if they had as many
clothes as they need.
We have an embarrassing
amount of cottcn in ware-
houses, grain in elevators, and
other products which do not
now command a ready mar-
ket.
Mr. Shoffelmayer has been
saying for years that research
will find new uses for the things
which are now used only to
feed man and beast and to
make fabrics.
The federal government is
just now planning to establish
laboratories wiiere scientists
will develop new uses for cot-
ton, scrub woods, soy beans,
sweet potatoes and the like.
In the real in which research
could have done the most for
our general welfare, we have
done the least. The results of
laboratory research are abund-
antly evident ?n the metals,
the plastics, the rayons, chem-
icals and textiles. What has
been done in developing new
products in these fields can be
done for farm products.
When we have learned to
use and to distribute to the
people the vast produce of our
soil we will have solved the sur-
plus problem more effectively
than we can ever solve it by
employing the doctrine of pros-
perity through scarcity.—Fort
Worth Press.
* *
The progress being made by
Dr. Townsend's successors does
not speak well for the econo-
mic sanity of the American
people. Wild pension schemes
now sweeping across the coun-
try and finding support from
large groups of irresponsible
people would, if enacted, wreck
the nation's financial structure.
The claim . that people who
work can pay $30 every Thurs-
day to every person past 50—
or $200 a month to everyone
past 60—is too fantastic for
consideration.
But since so many persons
take stock in these Utopian
dreams, it is essential that their
economic fallacy be exposed.
The Townsend plan would di-
vert to idle old folks 40 per cent
of the entire national income.
The newer California scrip plan
would require five times the
present amount of business to
make it work. Consumers and
wage earners would have to
carry the burden of these crack-
pot schemes.
In the end, we would have
stage money instead of real
money, and everyone would lose
except perhaps a few hoard-
ers and speculators. We would
have dizzy inflation like that
of postwar Germany, in which
a single meal or a cheap hat
would cost thousands of dol-
lars. The money received by
the aged would not buy as
much as is obtainable with the
present smaller pensions.
The social security act has
made a creditable beginning
at old age pensions and unem-
ployment insurance. The law
will need revision from time to
time, but neither it nor the
related laws can be liberalized
to Townsendite lines without
courting economic disaster. It
is impossible to make a whole
nation rich by mere legislation.
Today, as in all earlier eras,
wealth comes from the exploit-
ation of natural resources.
Legislation can, to some de-
gree, remedy inequities in dis-
tribution; but it cannot create
new wealth.—The Dallas News.
"You Go to Sleep In There !"
"I Wantcha T' Finish th' Story of th' Arabian Nighties!"
Fen Years Ago
The First National Bank's
statement of condition for Oc-
tober, 1928, showed deposits
amounting to $280,692.84. Loans
and discounts amounted to
$192,199.79. Total resources-
liabilities—were $419,095.12.
W. C. DuBose, Mineola's col-
orful ex-mayor, crashed the
gate at the Texas State Fair
and also at the Vanderbilt-Tex-
as University football game in
Dallas just to show some frinds
that he could do it. Mr. DuBose
had his own tickets but wanted
to prove his gate-crashing
ability. He marched through
both gates ahead of the Van-
derbilt band, posing as its lead-
er.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Rholes
jr. announced the birth of an
8-pound son, Alfred.
George C. Reeves had charge
of arranging Wood County's
exhibit at the State Fair in
Dallas.
Melton Ham, pioneer Wood
County resident died at Eagle
Lake. He was buried in the
Sand Springs Cemetery.
Mineola's annual Armistice
Day celebration for 1928 was
changed from Saturday, Nov.
10, to Monday, Nov. 12.
Mrs. B. B. Hart was surpris-
ed with a birthday party hon-
oring her seventy-fifth birth-
day. The party was given by
her daughter, Mis. T. H. Peter-
son.
The United States Army diri-
gible RS-1 passed over Min-
eola enroute to Scott Field,
111. It had been in San An-
tonio for the American Legion
national convention.
Miss Mabel Reicht of Haines-
ville and Georgo C. Reeves of
Mineola attended an all-Texas
banquet given by the exhibit-
ors of the State Fair of Texas
at Dallas.
Duncan Maynor of Tyler, but
former resident of Mineola,
spoke here in behalf of the
Democratic Party's nominee for
president, A1 Smith. His speech
was made in answer to a talk
by Frank Norris at Quitman.
Clipped
Quips—
What the Czech Republic
needed was old-age secuiity.
Dallas News.
Personally we are not going
to California until they guar-
antee us $30 every Thursday
and Saturday, the cheap skates.
—Dallas News.
**
Half a loaf may be better
than no loaf at all, but there
are guys who prefer to loaf
all the time.—Pittsburg Gaz-
ette.
**
The young generation ought
to enjoy happiness now be-
cause the older crowd is pre-
paring the way for a lot of
youths after they grow up.—
Pittsburg Gazette.
•**
No one may accuse European
diplomats of illiberality, or lack
of a sive-and-take spirit. They
are always ready to give away
somebody else's land, and Hit-
ler is ready to take it.—Fort
Worth Star-Telegram.
**
John Boyd Thatcher says that
there is nothing in the Demo-
cratic party's record in New
York for which to apologize.
We gather Tammany must have
burned its books.—Dallas News.
**
Social Research Survey says
the number of old folks by
1980 will be double the gov-
ernment estimate. Maybe pay-
ing old age pensions will pre-
maturely age some of us.—
Dallas News.
**
Somebody in New York has
unearthed a rare old "back-
ward gun." There's something
the world needs more of—guns
that are a little backward.—
Longview News.
Shamrock Building for Eire.
Eire's time-honored shamrock
provides the inspiration for the
airy and graceful pavilion which
the Irish Free State is erecting
at the New York World's Fair
1939. The main entrance is
at the end of the stem, which
encloses a hall 80 feet long.
Three rounded bays form the
leaves of the plant. May 17
of next year has been set aside
as Eire Day at the Fair.
Everyday
Religion
What Brings Peace?
From ccncert stage to the
halls of a theological seminary
is the strange story of a young
baritone who has enrolled in
the Dallas Theological Semin-
ary, says the Dallas Morning
News.
Wiiliam Burcaw, the baritone,
began his singing at the age
of nine. Develop'ng a fine voice
he took the roll of Valentine
in Faust with the Philadelphia
Civic Opera Company. For three
years he felt he ought to be a
preacher, and often spent the
time between concerts reading
his mother's old Bible. One
morning calamity hit the show
—a theatre was struck by light-
ning and the company disband-
ed. Mr. Burcaw went home
and attended church the first
time in fifteen years. Last Feb-
ruary he renewed his Bible
studies. Last month he came
to Dallas, not knowing whether
or not he would be accepted at
the seminary.
"I knew the Lord wanted
me here," he explained. "I've
given my voice to the Lord,
and I'd rather be singing Gos-
pel song."
The story is very similar to
that of a Chicago bank vice-
president who only a few weeks
ago resigned his big-moneyed
position and began preaching.
"Sure, his associates scoffed at
him, at even the suggestion
that he, one of the leading
financiers of that great mid-
western city would drop his
ditinguished position for work
that would be hard and that
offered little pay.
The banker saw another side
of the story and it offered far
more to him than the side
viewed by his associates, he
told the Aasocisted Press. Since
his youth, he had felt that he
ought to preach. His success
in the banking profession did
not bring happiness. "Preach,"
the call kept coming to him;
and now, this middle-aged, dis-
tinguished individual is preach-
ing the Gospel, a satisfied man.
I am made to wonder if the
seeking and following of God's
will would not make happy all
dissatisfied lives, and if a uni-
versal turning to Christianity
would not be a solution to the
problems of this troubled world.
Our City
by RHC
When installing tie non-
tamperable fuses which are be-
ing made compulsory in many
cities, be sure to start with
the right size, 15 amperes for
the ordinary household circuit.
Afterward, the adapter with
which these fustats are used
will prevent anyone from creat-
ing a fire hazard through using
the wrong size by mistake or
carelessness.
Main Street
Lemons that have become old
and hard can be "rejuvenated"
by placing them in boiling wattr
and letting stand a few min-
utes.
To keep bananas used in
your desserts or salads from
turning dark, dip each piece
into lemon or pineapple juice
immediately after cutting.
Drive
Carefully
AND SAVE A LIFE
Automobile accidents in
Mineola and immediate
vicinity in 1938 have
claimed victims as follows:
KILLED _ 7
INJURED 71
DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY—
JTou or a member of your
family may be next!
PUBLICITY-MINDED
Redio programs, slogan con-
tests, winning football teams,
successful celebrations, news-
paper publicity, personal cor-
respondence, all of these things
have contributed to the public-
izing of our city and are still
contributing.
Publicity means a lot to a
town, in fact it means as
much or more to an ambitious
town than advertising does to
a store with merchandise to
sell. The more publicity we
can get for Mineola the more
it will grow, and the more we
who ive here now will bene-
fit.
At present the Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce is planning
to erect some outdoor signs
on the main highways leading
out of town. Another plan will
urge the use of the club's water
slogan on business stationery.
These are good means of adver-
tising, but if the town is prop-
erly publicized, it will take
more than the efforts of just
the members of this club.
Mineola people should make
it a point to become publicity-
minded.
Savings for Trips to Fair.
Several hundred banking in-
stitutions operating in thirty-
eight states have estaWiched
New TorK World's Fair 1939
savings clubs to enable indiv-
iduals and families to finance
without hardship a trip to the
exposition next year. Many
banks plan to inaugurate this
fall these World's Fair clubs
which are to run for 25 weeks.
Weekly deposits in already es-
tablished clubs range from 50
cents to $10.
AUTOMOBILE THIEVES made a pass through
the county last Saturday, and when they
departed two Ford cars departed with them.
In both instances ignition keys were left
in the cars.
■a *
CITY MARSHAL Will Ray ironically offers
a suggestion to all motorists Be sure to
leave the key in the switch and the door
open when you park your car downtown,
he said. And it might facilitate matters for
the professional auto lifters if a small sign
were placed on the car in a prominent place
reading, "This car ?s ready for you to drive
off."
**
*
AND AS another week rolls around with no
rain, City officials and the Mineola Fire De-
partment ask—even urge—that particular
care be taken in guarding against fire haz-
ards. As dry as it is now a grass fire can
get out of control very easily.
' **
MINEOLA IS due to get seme good radio
publicity on Nov. 9 at 10:14 a. m. over sta-
tion KRLD and the Columbia network when
the Wrigley Company pays tribute to Mineola
and its retail stores. Information for the in-
formation script concerning Mineola was
furnished the company this week by The
Monitor.
**
WEDNESDAY WAS Thrift Day in Mineola
—and it was like another Saturday. Busi-
ness got off to a slow start Wednesday morn-
ing but picked up rapidly in the early after-
noon. We'd like to give more details on
Thrift Day happenings here, but Federal
postal laws prohibit the dissemination of
information about drawings . . in fact,
printing even this much may get us in
"dutch." And Uncle Sam wants five G's
and five years at his Leavenworth estate
for violation of this particular law. Now,
if anyone wants to take the rap for us, we'd
be glad to give all the details.
**
WAYS AND means of transporting about
twenty members of the Yellow Jacket foot-
ball team to Mt. Pleasant ate being sought
by Coaches Snow and Robnctt Coach Snow
has pointed out that the school bus isn't
large enough to accommodate his entire
squad, and transportation is needed for
about fifteen or twenty players. If you
will have an extra seat telephone Coach
Snow at the high school or notify The
Monitor.
IF YOU would like to go into a money-
making business In Mineola contact either
the Pontiac Motor Company. McKinney
Street, Dallas, or the Willys Company of
Texas, 701 N. Pearl Street, Dallas. Both
companies, ready to come out with 1939
models that are expected to be popular in
the low price field, are searching for a deal-
er in Mineola.
**
SOMEWHAT SHOCKING is the notice in
last week's Pittsburg Gazette that seven
thousand people attended the A1 G. Barnes
and Sells-Floto Circus when it played in the
reputedly reserved and religious little city
of Pittsburg on SUNDAY. We'll bet those
5,000 who so recklessly abandoned conscience
and convention and went to the matinee
performance mustered up a mighty pious
front that night at church.
**
MINEOLA PEOPLE probably will be called
ed upon soon to present the State Highway
Department with a suitable right-of-way
leading out of town on the west. The new
road must straighten out present curves,
and according to highway men the most
desirable survey would continue West on
Broad Street through the Watts property
and parallel with the railroad tracks, and
running back into the present highway just
east of the golf course. Property owners
along this route should be making some
sort of concerted effort to see that this
property is' made available for the road at
a reasonable price in the near future, else
the town may lose by having the import-
ant Highway 80 rerouted.
** *—•
RELIGION is something men will wrangle
for, write .for, fight for, and die for, but
few can get around to living for it.
**
The people are urged to go back to the
sou. They frequently do, when they run
their automobiles into the ditch and rub
their noses in the dirt.
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