The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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Management at The Sun Office, Grand
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jLilVK years of concentrated efforts
A on any one subject will work
wonders toward accomplishing any
task, no matter how Herculean. And
if the people of Grand Saline and sur-
rounding territory will put their
shoulders to the big push ahead, there
is no doubt but that Grand Saline will
emerge a bigger and better town.
No business can succeed if it is
managed in a haphazard manner, and
by like reasoning, no town can get all
that the future holds for it unless the
merchants and citizenship work to-
gether in a planned and systematic
way for the common good.
The mass meeting, which is set for
March 4, and which John W. Surrat
of the Kessler Planning Board will
direct, should bq, attended by every
citizen of« Grand Saline.
YXTHEN car owners go to register
” their cars this year, they will be
given cards, the filling out of which
will aid the State and Federal govern-
ment in conducting a survey. The
sum total of the information collected
in this manner will go far toward as-
sisting the state and nation in work-
ing out a public road system.
NOKOUY'S
BUSINESS
B* JULIAN CAPEUS JK.
Austin.—The bitter and lengthy
battles that are usually fought be-
fore committees of the house of rep-
resentatives over revenue measures
apparently will be fought out on the
floor at this session, and from this
circumstance, the people who hope re-
covery in Texas will be permitted to
go forward without the burden of
tremendous new tax imposts this week
took heart.
The carefully selected committees,
Which are made up largely of rural
legislators who don’t give a lot of
thought to the problems of business
that is struggling to prevent being
bogged down by new tax levies, this
week brought out two tax measures
that are estimated to yield $54,000,-
000 a year. These are the corpora-
tion franchise tax bill of Herman
Jones increasing levies on all cor-
porate business—large and small—
about 700 per cent.
, Fib. lb—Approximately
unfortunate Texans will require
ear# tromn eUte-supported charitable
institutions tMe year, The blind, the
daaf, the dumb, the insane, the aged
and homeless men, women, and child-
ren, and the tuberculosis patients of
the state are now cared for in seven-
teen seperate institutions widely scat-
tered over the state.
To care for this large number of un-
fortunates, the Board of Control re-
cently recommended a budget of |14,-
226,290. It has also recommended a
new insane hospital in West Texas,
centrally located to serve thut section;
facilities for 150 additional patients
at the Abilene State Hospital for
Epileptics; a new building at the Tu-
berculosis Sanatorium; a cottage-type
building at the Gainesville Girls’
Training School; and the expansion
of child welfare division activities to
relieve the strain on orphanages.
State institutions include the Texas
School for the Blind, Austin with J220
students; Texas School for the Deaf,
Austin, 511; State School for Deaf,
Dumb and Blind for Colored youths
Austin, 283, State Home and School,
Corsicana, 879; Austin School, Austin,
1298; Confederate Home, Austin, 109;
and Conferedate Woman’s Home, Aus
tin, 91.
The State Tuberculosis Sanatorium,
San Angelo, 800; Home for Neglected
and Dependent Children, Waco, 379;
State Juvenile Training School, Gates-
vile, 972; Girls’ Training School,
Gainesville, 240; and state hospitals at
Abilene, 1,106; Austin, 2,331; Husk,
2,250; San Antonio, 2,550; Terrell, 2,-
368; and Wichita Falls 2,200.
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<va*mngton.—More ptrnan than
ever before in our country’s history,
Thm Prooidant
and tha Coart
The latest underground here is that
the deal is virtually made now, with
Allred to get an appointment as judge
of the west Texas district, where an
additional place is to be created. This
report, however, says the appoint-
ment, by stipulation of Sen. Tom
Connally will not be available for
Allred until he finishes his term as
governor. The senator is said to be
friendly both to Rail Commissioner
Ernest O. Thompson and Atty. Gen.
McCraw, now leading candidates for
governor in 1938, and he wants to
avoid complicating this race by letting
Allred resign, which would automa-
tically put Lieut. Gov. Walter Woodul
in office, with a very good chance to,
be re-elected governor over both Mc-
Craw and Thompson. Connally na-
turally wants to remove Allred from
the field as a potential candidate a-
gainst himself in 1940 and this pro-
gram would neatly solvtvthe problem.
Allred is said to have been tentatively
offered an appointment on the federal,
court of claims, at $10,000 a year for
an eight-year term, but is said to have
declined, because he wants to live in
Texas, and the district judgeship is a
lifetime tenure.
BOBBITT INOLGURATED
Before a notable gathering of poli-
ticians and friends, Judge Lee Bobbitt
stopped off at Dallas for 10 minutes,
en route to Washington, and was
highway commission on the state
highway commission on the station
, _ The bill, if final- J platform, by Dist. Judge Sarah Hugh-
ly passed in the form approved by the es, Texas’ only woman juusL
committee, would yield about $14,000,- I Friends of Bobbitt forecast a new
a year- era of courtesy and co-operation on
Toe other measure was the bill by j the highway commission, recalling
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Reed of Texarkana, imposing a tax of
10 cents per barrell on crude oil pro-
duction, estimated to bring in $40,-
000,000. Committee hearings were
brief and perfunctory, and recommen-
dations favorable almost without dis-
aention.
Both bills are sure to bring extend-
ed battles on the floor of the house,
and opponents took heart from the
fact that if committees bring out this
kind of legislation as rapidly as in-
dicated, the calendar will become so
crowded that an unprecedented legis-
lative jam will result in the last few
creeks of the session. This will auto-
matically kill a lot of legislation that
probably should be killed and may
result, as one observer expressed it,
In a “great break for the people.”
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MAY VOTE ON PENSIONS
Sentiment for the submission of a
constitutional amendment specifically
permitting the people to pass on
whether the state should pay a pension
of $15 to everybody over 65, regard-
less of need, is growing here. Advo-
cates of the plan point out that it
would settle finaly the constant agita-
tion over thie question, and remove it
from politics. The pension problem
M far has consumed more time than
OUT other issue, and already the poli-
ticians are setting their sails to catch
the pension breeze in the 1938 primary
Ions. Some advocate submission
a sales tax at the same time, thus
another highly powerful and
mt political issue. If the sales
1 la tied in with the pension ques-
“ Texans ought to see a red-hot
for and against the amend-
even if it is an off political
SIMMERING
‘ to Washington this week-
i Allred, ostensibly to plead
pj, Roosevelt for $10,000,-
r money dtar Texas cities
Vkaarib to match fed*.
« revival «f political
T» trip
that he unce headed a delegation Trom
his former home, Laredo, to Austin,
to usK tor some highway improvement.
The commission gruffly told the La-
redo delegation they could have two
minutes to present their case.
“Then we’ll leave now,” retorted
Bobbitt. “If our interest is only worth
two minutes of the commission’s time,
we won't even trouble you, gentle-
men.”
“And I’ll bet that never happens to
another county delegation at Austin,
with Lee Bobbitt presiding over the
commission,” remarked one of Bob-
bit’s friends, as he wus sworn in.
NEWS AND NAMES
The attorney general’s race in 1938
is the subject of much discussion here,
with several candidates already cam-
paigning actively, and half a dozen
others reported ready to announce
later. Lieut. Gov. Walter Woodul is
obviously far out ahead now, having
frankly begun his campaign the day
he took office as lieutenant governor.
General Mann, of Dallas, is an avowed
candidate, too, while Elbert Hooper of
Austin, Franklin Spears of San
Antonio, Roy Hoffheinz of Houston,
Judge Ralph Yarbrough of Austin, and
several others are potential candidates
... Lonnie Stinson, treasurer of Rock-
wall ,the smallest county in Texas for
the past 24 years, will seek election to
the state treasurer’s post next year, ac-
cording to Dick Gaines, genial Rock-
wall publisher and booster, who at-
tend the Press association session here
th* court* of th*
nation, toderal
and state, are In
a jam. They are
being subjected to a greater strain
than ever before and, I think, the
strain is too great for them long to
continue to bear it.
That sentence sounds sensational.
It is meant to be. In the opinion of
rr.cny sound thinkers, men and
women of vision, there has never
been a time when a wave or surge
has attacked the courts or any other
American institution with such fe-
rocity.
One of the reasons the situation is
to be regarded with so much con-
cern is President Roosevelt’s latest
request of congress for a reorgani-
zation of the judiciary system. He
is asking for more judges every-
where which, of itself, seems en-
tirely proper, but the message
astounded observers by proposing
an increase in the membership of
the Supreme court of the United
States to fifteen. That is to say
that if it were enacted into law, Mr.
Roosevelt’s own proposal would
give him authority to select six ad-
ditional justices of the highest trib-
unal. Inasmuch as the present
membership of the court has re-
fused a number of times to hold
New Deal legislation valid under
the Constitution, it takes no stretch
of the imagination at all to figure
out that Mr. Roosevelt’s proposal
would give him authority to select a
sufficient number of new justices
so that the New Deal would hold
the balance of power in the highest
court of the judiciary of the coun-
try.
There may be and probably is
merit in the President’s proposal
that judges should retire at seventy
years of age. It happens that the
present membership of the court in-
cludes six men who are above that
age and a statute compelling re-
tirement at seventy would make six
added vacancies in the court unless
the present court should find that
this law itself is unconstitutional in
one regard. The judges are ap-
pointed for life and they cannot be
removed without cause — which
means they must be impeached by
congress and tried.
The message respecting reorgani-
zation of the judiciary system was
by far the most sensational to come
from Mr. Roosevelt as President.
He pointed out in it that he had
proposed leorganization of the ex-
ecutive branch of the government so
that it might function more effi-
ciently. The next step, he said,
was to reorganize the judiciary so
that it could administer justice |
more speedily. But there are many
minds throughout the country which
find it difficult to believe that the
necessity for speedy justice is the
fundamental reason for the new pro-
posal.
It is too early to tell, of course
how congress will act on the Presi-
dent’s suggestion, but the more as-
tute observers here are quite con-
vinced that such legislation cannol
go through without a bitter debate.
The political implications are many.
If a real struggle develops in the
house or the senate, it is not out-
side the range of a good guess tc
predict that it could split the tre-
Democratic majority
ere doing this because they see the
Supreme court deciding every now
and then that some IB-thought-out
piece of legislation should be tossed
out of the window. A good many of
these congressionsl shouters have
only a slight understanding of th*
babble that they put out on the
floors of the house and senate, but
the fact remains they are a part of
the congress and hence their words
are received with some considera-
tion among those who want to be-
lieve the same way.
On the other hand, there are men
like Senator Borah of Idaho, who
foresee real trouble for all of us if
the powers of the jourts are curbed.
Senator Borah thinks the question
of the freedom of the judiciary is a
paramount issue and lately has
made a powerful appeal that if the
people want to make changes in
their government, the people ought
to do it and not the President and
the congress.
The Idaho senator makes the point
that only through a judiciary un-
fettered by politics, free to operate
as it sees the law, can the people
of the country retain their freedom.
If judicial independence goes, lib-
erty goes. So, it seems to me that
congress, which just now is the
spearhead of the movement to
change the power of the courts,
ought to recognize its own responsi-
bility.
I said earlier that the courts could
not continue long to bear the pres-
ent burden of attack. That burden
which they carry now results large-
ly—and this is especially true of
the Supreme court of the United
States—from the fact that congress
has ceased to be a deliberative
body. It has tossed great chunks
of undigested legislation at the
courts and when the courts have
held these laws unconstitutional, a
bunch of nitwits each time has un-
leashed a great howl. It would seem
then that the proper conclusion is
that the nine old men are not older
nor any less enlightened than the
members of congress or the execu-
tive branches of the government
but that especially congress is fail-
ing to do its job. It is attempting
to read election returns into the
judiciary. It seems to me it ought
to be remembered by members of
congress and officials of the execu-
tive branch of the government that
each and every one of them has
taken an oath as an official of this
government to preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution and in so
doing they must defend the courts
Reises Chickens to Bulid Pantry
“I will get two hundred baby chicks
this week,” says Mrs. Clara Townsend.
Home Food Supply Demonstrator of
Elberta Home Demonstration Club.
“I want to raise these to sell. Later
I want to raiea chickens to eat and
tors out at least 50 pullets. The
money I get from my chickens will
be used to buy materials to build my
without
mendous
asunder in either house. If it did
•hat once, undoubtedly enmities and
'actions would be created that
vould continue through the remain-
der of the President’s new term and
snly the passage of time can dis-
close how far reaching such a thing
night be.
But let us review for a moment
iome of the background of the con-
litions that have preceded the Pres-
dent’s sensational proposal. There
lave been sniping and bushwhack-
ing nt the judiciary for a number of
years and this was thrown into high
ipeed by the President himself
when the Supreme court threw out
he NRA. On that occasion, Mr.
Roosevelt made the well remem-
cered remark that the decision had
aken us back to ‘‘the horse and
cuggy days.”
There followed an uproar by a
yocal minority of radicals and per-
»ons who claimed to be liberal.
They attacked the Supreme court
for throwing out New Deal meas-
ures, ridiculed the justices as ‘‘the
line old men” and proceeded in
general to spread poison tQ all and
mndry about the country’s judicial
jystem. On top of that came Mr.
Roosevelt’s speech to congress last
nonth in which he made a virtual
iemand upon the Supreme court for
‘a more enlightened interpretation
>f the Constitution.” That was an
inprecedented thing but it was not
nearly so sensational as the present
aroblem.
Much of the problem that is swirl-
ing around the court* of th* land re-
_ suits from the po-
LeofrsM sltlon which con-
Critidum greet has chosen
to take. There are
number of representatives
who, awnrajl by tba,
thenttengd sarlier
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In any discussion of congress and
its activities, I find time to do
... a little laughing.
Laughs Are Through the last
Loud Today several weeks, a
period when floods
were raging and people were dying,
when thousands upon thousands
walked the streets without jobs,
when other thousands walked the
streets because a militant labor
leader had called a strike and had
permitted his strikers to violate
laws of the land by seizure of prop-
erty—while all of these things were
happening, our congress was giving
thought to a picayune proposition.
It was discussing a bill providing
for alterations of the Capitol build-
ing, itself.
The tragedy of this particular
thing is that it has a very good
chance of being enacted into law
before the end of this session. It
is proposed to spend four or five
million dollars to extend and re-
construct the central portion of the
Capitol along lines that would make
the three east wings extend the
same distance from the main build-
ing. It would enlarge the central
portion and provide more office
space when, as far as any observ-
ers can see, there is ample space
for all of the offices required now
Dr for the next half century.
I said the tragedy of the thing
was that this proposal stands a fair
chance of passing through congress.
Sponsors of the plan declare it
will improve the appearance of the
central portion of the old building.
It may do that but 1 have found
more architects who disagree than
agree with that thought.
As for the office space argument,
it would appear that somebody in
congress is quite determined simply
■jo spend some more money. It is
to be remembered that only two
years ago. the house of repre-
*entatives built a second office
building at a cost of $9,000,000 for
its members. About the same time,
the senate added a wing to the
senate office building so that each
senator could have three rooms
whereas heretofore the average sen-
ator had only two rooms in his
suite. Committee chairmen always
have had three or more rooms. In
addition, there are several hundred
offices in the Capitol building itself
and a goodly number of senators
and representatives have private of-
fices in the Capitol as well as in
the office building*. So altogethar,
I think there is just ground for say-
ing. aa on* hear* said frequently,
tjMMh* congresses at th* last few
WfiM* much rqaanbte boys wto
members and fear trial*
Miss Blaskwall gave aa
_ datnonstration an foods
aad their effects on th* body. She
stressed th* importance of milk and
leafy vegetr.*!** in our diet, and eke
demonstrated how to serve a well-
balanced meal.
Mrs. Johnnie Abram gave a report
of the Counneil meeting for February.
Mrs. Georgia Copenhaver and Mrs.
Condie Copenhaver received their
birthday showers at this meeting.
Many nice and useful gifts were re-
ceived. Mrs. Fay Chandler and Mrs.
Louise Childs are to be showered at
the next meeting on February 25.—
Reporter.
AnattunL
•Stood thtaternTpanafo.
the ration gained a paw
4A pounds of foe*
other required 12J pounds *f laid.
Th* ration consistad of soitoM
pounds of corn meal, fly* pounds «f i
tankage, five of cottonseed meal, foot .
pounds of shorts sad four ™
eaf meal.
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