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Editorials-SWEETWATERREPORTER—Features
PAGE FOUR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS,
THURSDAY, NOV. 30, 1939
Published each afternoon except Saturday,
also Sunday morning and its weekly edition
on Thursday by The Sweetwater Reporter,
Inc. Entered as second class matter at post-
office in Sweetwater, Texas, Feb, 9, 1920.
George Bennitt and Russell Bennitt, Pubs.
THANK GOD
FOR EVERYTHING
The coming of rain to West Texas, should give
us all cause for Thanksgiving. That Almighty God,
in his infinite goodness has seen fit to bless this
area with much needed moisture should put us all
in a humble and grateful mood.
It is a wonderful thing to have one day in the year
set apart in which to audibly and. publicly express our
thanks to God! One eannot help but feel, however, as
the world across the waters is torn with strife and
human beings are set upon one another, like wolves in
a forest, that how much better it would be if this same
spirit was in evidence throughout every day in the
year.
* * *
Among the multitudinous things to be thankful
for today might be listed some things to be thankful
for that we have not, such as:
Bombs bursting in air, fearful eyes pinned on
the sky, spiritless survivors picking among the
ruins of cities for all that is left of loved ones.
Hungry, scrawny little bodies, never getting
used to starvation, never understanding why such
things have to be.
Men in trenches, nauseated with fear, know-
ing they will probably die or come out crippled for
life.
Men at sea waiting for death in the form of
torpedoes, mines, depth bombs, aerial attack. It
doesn't matter how. Death is so much alike in all
all its disguises.
♦ * *
Let's be grateful because we don't need to carry
rations cards when we go to the grocery store and be-
cause we don't need to do without the things we're used
to having at our tables.
We don't need to walk dark streets at night, pick-
ing our way dangerously along in blackness, carrying
gas masks always over our shoulders.
We don't need to leave our factories, offices and
fields to put on uniforms and carry guns and learn
to shoot men we don't hate.
We don't need to stand along the streets and wave
our little flags and cheer as soldiers strug along, when
in cur hearts we know it is all wrong.
We don't need to feel the dreadness and hopeless-
ness that come when fathers and sons and brothers and
husbands exchange their places on earth for little white
crosses.
* * *
We made a mistake once before; we don't want
to make it again. We want to be left to do the
things we were meant to do—to build, not de-
stroy. We want to enjoy all the blessings we know
today and all the others we can earn. We want
our children to be glad they were born into this
world. We want to give them a world that is not
charred and stained with needless blood.
We are thankful for having been given a chance
to rebuild an earth we nearly tore apart 25 years ago.
We're sorry some men again want to destroy it. We
think it's big enough for everyone to live peacefully.
We hope, above all, we can repeat these words
of Thanksgiving a year from now — and every
year thereafter.
GREEK DIVINITY
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured
Greek god.
6 He was in
charge of the
s or posts
of the sky.
12 A moment.
13 Bird house.
14 State of bliss.
15 Sloping ways.
16 Enormous.
17 Cow-headed
goddess.
19 Natural power
20 Mystic
syllable.
22 Hops kiln.
24 Street.
25 Shrubs.
30 To say.
32 Eon.
33 Decree.
35 Fifth month.
36 Toward.
38 Postscript.
39 Greek letter.
40 Type standard
41 Flannel,
43 Doves' home.
45 Myself.
46 Chum.
47 Disfigurement.
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49 Conjunction.
51 Disorganized
flight.
53 Small wild cat
55 Platter.
58 Branch.
59 Indian food
plants.
61 By way of.
62 His punish-
ment for
warring on
Zeus was to
uphold the
63 He symbolizes
a bearer of
VERTICAL
1 Preposition.
2 Footstep.
3 Covers.
4 Ketone.
5 Measure.
6 Drawing
room.
7 Bugle plant.
8 Restricted.
9 Drinks dog
fashion.
10 Musical term.
11 Railway.
16 Any or
book of maps
bears his
name.
18 Marble figure.
21 Human.
23 Midday sleep.
25 Eye tumor.
26 To exist.
27 Unit of work.
28 Sun god.
29 To perch.
31 Beret.
34 Eccentric
wheel.
37 Upon.
38 Italian river.
41 Upright shaft.
42 To accumulate
43 Fragment of
bread.
44 Finish.
46 The cougar.
48 Data.
50 To penetrate.
51 Hurrah.
52 Gold qu'artz.
53 Males.
54 Romanian
coin.
56 Crime.
57 Possesses.
59 Southeast.
60 Senior.
Bruce Catton
■In Washington
BY BBl'CE CATTON
WASHINGTON— (NEA)
—The American Federation
of Labor is not the only
important group that has
tried to call off Assistant
Attorney General Thurman
Arnold's investigation of an-
ti-trust law violations by the
building trades unions.
Some of the heaviest pres-
sure has come from with-
in the New Deal itself.
A considerable portion of
the "liberal wing" in and
close to the government is
very much opposed to the
line Arnold's investigation
has taken, and Arnold and
his assistants have been urg-
ed to call a halt.
This group's objection is
based on the fear that
prosecuting labor unions
under the anti-trust laws
will in the long run tend to
destroy the legislative safe-
guards which have been
built around labor's rights
in the last few years. In
effect, they fear, it will in-
crease the extent to which
individual judges may deter-
mine what acts are and are
not legal for labor unions
—not only in connection
with the anti-trust laws,
but in other fields.
As a matter of fact, the
whole question of whether
the unions may be prosecut-
ed under the anti-trust laws
undoubtedly will have to .be
passed on, in the end, by the
Supreme Court. The law ad-
mittedly is ambiguous.
LAW GRANTS
EXEMPTION TO (LABOR
Section Six of the Clayton
Act says that nothing in the
anti-trust laws shall be
construed to forbid the ex-
istence and operation of la-
boa' organizations, or "to
forbid or restrain individ-
ual members of such or-
ganizations from lawfully
carrying out the legitimate
objects thereof."
The Department of Jus-
tice bases its present build-
ing trades investigation on
the assertion that the re-
straint-of-trade operations it
complains of do not "carry
out the legitimate objects"
of trade unions and that
the members efigagin.j in
them are not "lawfully"
carrying them out in any
case.
The next clause of Sec-
tion Six, however, adds:
"Nor shall such organiz-
ations or the members
thereof be held or consum-
ed to be illegal combinations
in restraint of trade under
the anti-trust laws."
CONFLICT OVER
INTERPRETATION
This, according to the la-
bor group, means that the
anti-trust laws just dou'c
apply to labor unions no
matter what they do or how
they do it.
The department replies
that this final clause doesn't
refer to the acts of the
unions or their members,
and that if it grants full im-
munity the preceding clause
is unnecessary. Since there
is an ambiguity, it is prop-
er to go back of the law and
study its legislative history.
When this section of the
Clayton act was before
congress, the department
continues, its sponsors de-
nied that it was intended
to supply exemption from
all angles of the anti-trust
laws. Furthermore, it is
pointed out, an amendment
which would flatly have
stated that nothing in the
anti-trust laws should apply
to any labor organization
was voted down. Hence it
is argued that the intent
of congress was to provide
a very limited exemption.
LABOR PROTECTED
AGAINST DISSOLUTION
What that exemption
was intended to provide,
the department spokesmen
continue, was simply pro-
tection against outright dis-
solution of a labor union by
court order.
The famous Standard Oil
case, in which a federal
court had ordered Standard'
Oil dissolved under the an-
ti-trust laws, was then, fresh
in the public memory, and
Samuel Gompers was fear-
ful that some court might
some day order a similar *
dissolution of a labor union.
That, the department holds,
was all this section of the
Clayton act was supposed
to prevent.
Obviously, there is a good
deal of debatable ground
here which won't be clear-
ed up until the Supreme
Court has ruled. The fate of
the department's present
campaign, then, as far as it
applies to the building
trade unions, won't be set-
tled until some test case or
other has been taken to
the high court for decision.
Flying With
Williams
CLASSIFIED ADS
Automobiles, Liots, Houses and apartments
all find a way to the classified. Call 678.
Bloody Chapter in Cattle History
Ends as Tick Quarantines Lifted
T. U. Advances in
Science Research
FORT WORTH — (UP) —
Finis was written on one of
the bloodiest chapters in cattle
country history with announce-
ment that tick quarantines had
virtually ended in Texas.
J. H. Rasco, Fort Worth, exe-
cutive head of the livestock
sanitary commission of Texas,
announced upon receipt of pro-
■I
Odessa Wants to
Remove Meters
ODESSA—The c'vy council of
Odessa, bowing to the will of
local business men, agreed in
their Monday meeting to at-
tempt to come to some agree-
ment with the Dual Parking
Meter company of Oklahoma
City as to the price of removing
parking meters from the down-
town business area.
The merchants were willing
to pay the city and meter com-
pany for the removal of the
parking meters, and they set
$587.25 as a "reasonable" sum
to pay for the job.
However, the figure set by
the merchants was far short of
the $3,500 demanded by the
Dual Parking Meter company
through their representative, W.
A. Darter. Darter, speaking be-
fore the council, stated that the
parking meter company had
done all in its power to make
the meters a success in Odessa,
and that the experience being
felt there now was a natural re-
action and one that had been
felt in other cities as well. He
said that the merchants who
opposed the meters in other
towns when they were first in-
stalled often turned into their
strongest boosters.
The merchants, however, ex-
pressed a stronger determina-
tion than ever to secure the
immediate removal of the met-
ers. Many voiced the opinion
that unless the company show-
ed an inclination to make some
sort of fair deal they might end
up with the meters out and no
payment. Some even advocated
that the citizens of Odessa
should ignore the meters and re-
fuse to deposit nickels, since
they felt that the meter com-
pany could not long back an
overwhelming public opinion.
Darter said that the city
would be held responsible if
irate citizens smashed the met-
ers.
5,530 Bales Ginned
i In Tom Green Co.
SAN ANGELO — Tom Green
I county gins had turned out 5,-
530 bales of cotton by Nov. 15, a
drop of 2.151 bales under last
year's ginnings, according to an
announcement by Vic Poteet,
AAA marketing quota special-
ist. Most of the ten gins still
operating will continue well In-
to December, but only about 700
more bales are expected In be
turned out. /
clamation from Gov. W. Lee
O'Daniel that no whole Texas
county will be under both fed-
eral and state quarantine after
Dec. 1.
The original tick quarantine
—designed to prevent spread , of
cattle fever—was placed on 198
Texas counties by federal and
state governments in 1906. lEhe
quarantine included 191,885
square miles. Under the procla-
mation of Dec. 1, the entire
quarantine area will comprise
less than 3,000 square miles.'
Areas To Be Released
State agencies will release
certain areas Dec. 1. Dr. H. L.
Darby, inspector in charge of
the bureau of animal industry,
US DA here said federal quaran-
tine will not be lifted until
about Dec. 15
After state and federal quar-
antine is lifted only parts of
five South Texas counties will
remain on the list. They are
Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb
and Zapata counties. Released
entriely are Angelina, Hardin,
Polk and Shelby counties, and
parts of Cameron, Webb and
Zapata counties.
Outgrowth of Drive
The quarantine in Texas and
other cattle raising states was
an outgrowth of bloody cattle
drive wars between 1866-1895,
the era of the great drives north
to markets. Ranchers above the
Mason and Dixon line frequent-
ly way-laid cattle drives and
pitched war ensued because the
northern ranchers feared their
cattle would become infected
with cattle fever.
The twenty year period is
studded with account of huge
cattle drives that left Texas and
Oklahoma only to be virtually
slaughtered on the hoof in the
bloody range wars.
AUSTIN — (UP) — Texas
University is kept busy deny-
ing that the institution's oil
land makes its the most highly
endowed college but it looks
forward to the day when it will
be accorded pre-eminence in
scientific research.
A ISng step towaVd this goal
was made possible when the
will of W. J. McDonald, Paris,
Tex., banker, left the university
funds to erect the astronomical
observatory which bears his
name. Erected in the clear high
atmosphere of the Davis moun-
tains, it is being devoted espec-
ially to a '-study of the mineral
and chemical content of other
heavenly bodies.
Dr. Otto Struve, director of
the Yerkes observatory for the
University of Chicago is director
also of McDonald observatory
for the University of Texas.
Both universities contribute to
its maintenance.
Next step likely will be the
erection an $800,000 laboratory
capable of carrying on experi-
ments in breaking down atoms.
President Homer Price R; iney
already has been in conferences
on this line of research with
Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence of the
University of California, 1939
Nobel prize winner for research
in physics. Dr. Lawrence may
be added to the university staff.
In February another 1939
prize winrler will become a
member of the University of
Texas faculty. E. L. Degolyer of
Dallas, who received the 1939
award for most valuable addi-
tions to the knowledge of pe-
troleum industry, will begin
teaching a class in the univer-
sity's engineering department.
• So COPW. 1M0 BY NEA SEPVICC. INC. T. M. REG. U S. PAT. OFF.
"J, B. mtule a coupIc of dumb moves in the mnrkel. but
you have to admire him lor his aggressiveness."
By MAJOR AL WILLIAMS
While even Lord Beaver-
brook's newspapers deplore the
invasion of Scapa Flow, one
home of British seapower, by
a nazi sub, as a disgraceful in-
cident, I stiU maintain that tor-
pedoing of the aircraft carrier
"Courageous" as disgraceful in-
cident number one.
Naval experts tell us that the
aircraft carrier is the eyes of
the fleet. In the sinking of the
Courageous, it is evident that
the "eyes" couldn't see for
themselves. These aircraft car-
riers, as I have so often main-
tained, are merely stop-gaps un-
til bombers possess enough
range to skim every last mile
of every ocean.
They are steel flying fields at
sea—nothing more, and utterly
unable to protect themselves
against the sub, the destroyer,
the cruiser, or the bomber. So
wfyy keep them within range of
bombers and such surface craft
as may be ranging the tight
waters of the North Sea? The
North Sea is about 400 miles
wide, and about 600 miles tall.
German bombers have already
demonstrated they can reach
its farthest end. And German
subs, to get anywhere else, must
get through the North Sea.
So why do the British keep
their aircraft carriers in that
danger area? To my way of
tliinkifig, the place for carriers
is beyond the range of the
bombers far from any German
surface ships, and patrolling
the convoy routes of the broad
Atlantic. It's one thing to have
the right kind of war equip-
ment, and it's an entirely dif-
ferent thing to use it properly
and to best advantage.
The principles of naval block-
ade have been developed
through the ages to fit the
performance of warships of
each age. No matter where mu-
nition cargo ships may wander
they must converge sooner or
later, to reach port. That "point
of convergence is the bottle-
neck which has always drawn
the highest pressure from block-
ading force.
No matter how British muni-
tion carriers zig zag across the
Atlantic, they are likely to run
into a submarine. Escorting
warships may and may not be
adequate protection. What is
really needed for their protec-
tion is an escorting aircraft car-
rier.
The narrow, tight North Sea
is daily being criss-crossed by
high-speed fighting and bom-
bardment planes, and it's no
place for super-vulnerable air-
craft carriers.
I write these words in face
of the possibility of being told
that that's just where the Brit-
ish aircraft carriers are rignt
now. If that's true, then we
have learned something our ex-
perts very evidently didn't
know when the war started,
namely, that aircraft carriers
must be used beyond the range
of shore-based bombing planes.
And when I say we learned
something the experts didn't
know before the war started, I
mean the naval experts. Air-
men, including myself, have
maintained that each set of
peacetime naval maneuvers
demonstrated this point con-
clusively.
My general question is: "Why
don't the British give up the
old ways of running a war and
use their airpower properly?"
Only recently the much-vaunt-
ed British sea convoy system
fell down on its job. Twenty-
seven cargo ships were convoy-
ed from Gibraltar. When near
the British Isles, up popped a
school of subs and sank five
right off the bat. It was later
learned that part of the war-
ship escort had turned back.
Where was the British air con-
voy, spotting for sub-sea crawl-
ers? Had it failed to arrive? Had
it turned back also? Or was it
ever arranged for?
I know full well that no cur-
rent set of brains can draw
up airpower's complete strate-
gy. But until all hands use
what they have in the way of
airpower, some terrible errors
in its use will be staged.
o —
San Angelo Schools
Have 4,909 Pupils
SAN ANGELO — According
to an announcement of Superin-
tendent Felix E. Smith, the 11
schools in San Angelo showed a
total increase of 164 pupils dur-
ing November. This brings the
enrollment In city schools up to
4,90!) students.
ON THE AIR WITH
^KXOX
This Afternoon's Program
November 30th
12:00 Transradio News.
12:10 Theatre Time.
12:15 Singing Sam.
12:30 Ranch Boys.
12:45 On With the Dance.
1:00 Traiisradio News.
1:05 Studio Party.
1:45 JRobt. Hood Bowers.
2:00 Sweetwater ■ Big Spring
Football Game.
4:45 Tavern Dance Time.
5:00 Traiisradio News.
5:05 Super-Special Swing.
5:15 Ncal Haggard, Tenor.
5:30 Twilight Hour.
5:45 Sign Off.
Tomorrow's Program
Friday, Dee. 1
6:00 Sunrise Jamboree
" 6:30 Cagle Duet
6:45 I)r. Canfil
7:00 Musical Clock.
7:55 Transradio News.
8:00 Church in the Wildwood.
8:15 On the Mall.
8:30 Devotional
8:45 J. M. Batilcli, Poems
9:00 Blues Chasers
9:30 Concert Hall
10:00 Music Graphs
10:15 Seagle Singers
10:30 Roht. Hood Bowers Band
10:45 Trinity Choir
11:00 Transradio News
11:05 Waltz Time
11:15 Walter Preston, Baritone
11:30 Luncheon Dance Melo-
dies
12:00 Transradio News
12:10 R&R Theatre Time
12:15 Singing Sain
12:30 Pop's Trio
12:45 On With the Dance
1:00 Transradio News
1:05 Lois Miller, Piano Stylist
1:15 Ted Steele
1:30 Ozzie Nelson
1:45 Melody Time
2:00 All Request Hour
3:00 George Havens and Her-
scliell Cook
3:15 Milton Hert, Organist
3:30 Vivian Delia Chiesa
3:45 Melodeers Male Quartet
4:00 Bourdon String Ensemble
4:15 Frank Bant a, Piano
4:30 Judy Ellington
4:45 Tavern Dance Time
5:00 Transradio News
5:05 Super Special Swing
5:30 Twilight Hour
5:43 Sign Off
Electric Power
Use Increases
AUSTIN — Texas homes,
commercial establishments and
industries boosted consumption
of electric power during October
9.1 per cent above the like
month last year. University of
Texas business research statisti-
cians said today.
Commercial consumption in-
creased 7 per cent, industrial
12.1 per cent, residential 8.4 per
cent and "all others" 1.9 per
cent.
Total October consumption
was 218,507,00 kilowatt hours.
Consumption during October
slipped 6.4 per cent from Sep-
tember, with industrial con-
cerns the only group of users
which remained constant. Com-
mercial power dropped 14.8 per
cent, residential 11 per cent and
"all others" 7.6 qer cent.
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BIG SPRING—
(Continued from page 3)
to be in the starting lineup.
Audrey Gill, Sweetwater's stal-
wart offensive and defensive
guard, was favoring his left foot.
He was suffering from an infec-
tion, which had been checked
but which caused him trouble.
Eddie Freeze was limping from
a knee injury which started
giving him trouble as far back
as the Stephenville game.
The rain may give the Steers
an advantage in the kicking de-
partment, providing Big Spring
is able to stop the Mustangs at-
tack and Sweetwater, in turn,
stops the Steers' offense. In a
kicking duel, Lefty Bethell, re-
puted to have an average for the
season of better than 40 yards,
might have the advantage over
Freeze, especially with a wet,
heavy ball.
But it won't be long—it will
be decided one way or another
before sunset tonight and Sweet-
water fans start the return trip
home on the special at 6 p. m.
They expect to arrive back in
Sweetwater at 7:45 p. in., the
championship in the bag!
1. Special Notices
We guarantee our Homogeniz-
ed milk to be more easily di-
gested, assimilated and more
valuable as a food, especially
for babies. It tastes better
too. Home Dairy Co.
Oil Permanents $l-$5. Jte]uve-^
nating facials and packs _$1.
Massage, certified Swedish
method, $1.00. Diet, reducing.
907 Elm, Phone 519.
We make 5 per cent loans on
new automobiles. The Thomp-
son Agency.
WHO will support tne Old Man
YOU
are Going to be? •
I can show you how to create
a $10,000 ESTATE out of cur-
rent income to take care of your
old age. /
JOE H. BOOTHE, Representa-
tive, Southwestern Life Insur-
ance Company.
2 For Rent Rooms
For Rent: Bed room with or
without private bath and gar- ^
age. Mrs. Bertha Wade. 607
W. 3rd street.
3. For Rent Apartments
Apartments. 100 Hickory.
Furnished southside apart-
ment, for couple, in Kelsey
home, 513 Locust St.
2 or 3 room furnished apart-
ments, utilities paid, 110 Bow-#
ie Street.
Apartments at 900 Walnut.
Very desirable 3-room furnish-
ed apt. Close in. Water fur-
nished. 510 East 3rd.
3 room furnished apt. 409 Pine
Street. Dial 2278.
For rent, 4 room furnished apart-
ment .406 East Broadway. One<
bedroom for rent.
FOR RENT: Furnished apart
ments, phone 484.
4. For Rent Houses
For Lease: Small farm, good
house, good wind mill, 50 acres
cultivation, $100. H. T. Mar-
shall at Nolan Furniture Co.
5. For Rent Misc.
Avialable Jan. 1st, building now
occupied by Young's phar-
macy, dial 467, apply 610 E.
Broadway.
7. Help Wanted
Wanted clean soft cotton rags,
no buttons, no strings. Broad-
way Tourist court. Call for
Parker. 9
Wanted a competent stenogra-
pher, who understands filing
and office routine, for part
time work in forenoons from
9 to 12. Address box 100 care
Reporter.
9. Real Estate For Sale
$4000 will buy the substantial
* brick veneer dwelling at No.
609 James Street. The origin-
al cost of this property was
in excess of $8000. Conven-
ient terms may be arranged,
immediate possession can be
given. The Thompson Agency.
Farms, stock farms and city
homes cheap, see me soon.
Geo. L. Shuff, 806 Lubbock.
For Sale: 4 room house, 2 lots,
well improved, H. E. Green-,
haw, 700 Lubbock.
13. For Sale Misc.
Battery fed hens, 9c lb. West-
ern Produce Co. Dial 512.
16. Lost and Found
Strayed: 6 white pigs, reward
for information as to where-
abouts. Phone Henry Nelson,
Central Service. )
SINGIN' SAM
— in songs you
know and lov*
PrttcnUd by
The Coco-Colo
Bottling Co.
MONDAYS
Thru
FRIDAYS
12:15 p. m.
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Gives Directions
To Locate Body
BEAUMONT — (UP) —Wil-
liam Burr, 60, a boilermaker,
gave complete directions how to
find his body.
Police found a note in his 9
hotel room Monday. The note
said, "Will be In the river
near Magnolia cemetery."
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