The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MATHIS NEWS, MATHIS, TEXAS, FRIDAY. JULY 4_ 1941
THE MATHIS jNEWS
GEO. W. COLTRIN, Editor.
Entered as second-class matter at the
Post-office at Mathis, Texas, Jan. 31,
1916.
Subscription Pr’.ee, $1.50 a Year
THE NEW “ERA’
Some eight years ago most
industries in the United States
were put under the stringent
price and wage control of
what was called “the NRA.”
This agency had as chief exec-
utive Gen. Hugh Johnson,
later its foe.
But the U.S- Supreme Court
declared this NRA law uncon-
stitutional, and it was thrown
out of business. Then the pres-
ident put on a campaign to in-
crease the membership on
that high court to 15, added
members, of course, to be ap-
pointed by hiffrself. Congress,
however, then still somewhat
independent, did not thus
stack the court. But death and
retirement have since placed
about six New Deal Justices
on the court, and its complex-
ion is changed.
Now comes the adminstra-
tion with a second move, much
like the old NRA, but more
stringent. The movement is
more drastic than was the NRA
itself an abomination in a dem-
ocratic nation. A reliable news
report from Washington said
last week:
President Roosevelt Thursday
had on his desk the draft bill
empowering the government to
fix prices and wages in all in-
dustry, trade, transp oration
and agriculture, which if he ap
proces it, will be submitted to
congress early in July.
Disclosure of the proposal
was made as federal price con-
trol Admr- Leon Henderson an-
nounced he will freeze prices
of automobile tires and tubes
as of June 17, and that he will
fix prices of new automobiles
before the 1942 models start
rolling off the line on August
1.
The proposed bill is design-
ed to provide “rigid control of
prices and wages” as a final
recourse of the government to
bar inflation growing out of
the armament program. It also
will be applicable to about
“30 per cent of the nations econ
omy,” according to democratic
leaders. Austin Statesman.
Of course, this new NRA pro-
gram is originated in an “em-
ergency,” and so was the old
one; but the same power, the
President, who declared the
present emergency, can extend
that emergency as long as he
wishes. Congress doesn’t seem
to be in it much. It seems to
be a rubber-stamp agency,
largely.
Americans are getting into
something they do not want,
but are . apparently powerless
to prevent. Think what fed-
eral regulation of farm wages
may mean! Think of the
fines and jails that await inde-
pendent Americans who wish
to take care of their own busi-
ness ! That was the old NRA;
and there isn’t now any judic-
ial authority that will void the
new one- Remember that.
THE MARVEL OF OIL
LET LABOR LOOK
Around -
No good citizen harbors any
ill will against labor, organiz-
ed or unorganized. It would
be wonderfully helpful if every
boy and girl had to actually
work for considerable time
with their own hands at some
kind of useful labor. There is
something fine about it.
Just now there is a lot of
“labor trouble” in this coun-
try. No one is to blame for try-
ing to get reasonable pay for
his labor, usually, but there is
somehow a place at which la-
borers who are good men will
be willing to cease demanding
higher pay. This is especially
true of labor in times when pat
riotism demands justice in de-
mands as well as persistance in
work.
Organized labor would do
well to look at labor’s condition
in China and Japan, in France
and Germany, in Sweden and
in England, in Mexico and
Brazil. It should take a good
long look, too, and compare la-
bor conditions anywhere else
with those in this country.
There is a lot in such a look to
make one contented with his
American lot, if he is an Amer-
ican and not an outlaw, to
start with.
A laborer well paid should
reflect that most buyers of his
product are poorer than him-
self, not richer; and that high
wages are reflected in higher
prices for these products. It
just isn’t right for millions of
people making $3.00 a day to
have to pay high prices so that
1,000 workers at $10 00 a day
may get 10 cents a day more.
Labor, regarded as a com-
modity, is rather hard to price.
It is somewhat like the fine
old Caldwell county farmer of
the last generation who said
corn is worth just 50 cents a
bushel; so he always sold corn
for 50 cents a bushel, no mat-
ter how much others got for
theirs or were 'willing to pay.
Plainly, he did not reason cor-
rectly, as many conditions de-
termine reasonable price; but
as stated, a good look at work-
ers elsewhere will do much to
show that American labor is in
an enviable position without
being exorbitant
mands.
THE PATHOS OF IT ALL!
The last months of life for
Andrew Jackson Houston were
pathetic indeed.
The victim of some sort of
abdominal or gastric ailment,
Mr. Houston, at the age of
nearly 87 years, was appointed
by the Governor as short-term
senator, to serve until June 28.
He finally thought himself able
to go to Washington, against
the objections of his daughters,
and was sworn in, the excite-
ment and thrill of the occasion
buoying him for some time.
But age and disease had its
way. Medical examination
showed his physical trouble,
and, no doubt after kindly con-
sultation with his family, an
operation by some of the best
surgeons was performed in the
noted Johns-Hopkins hospital
in Baltimore. The aged man
never recovered from the shock
of the operation, and passed
away that night, early, Thurs-
day of last week.
Thus he lacked two days of
serving until his successor was
elected, and no doubt a week
or two more before he could
have qualified for senator.
Thus life’s sun has set for
this man; it must be conceded
that for him it set in a halo of
publicity and attainment, and
probably at the best possible
time for all concerned-
There is a pathos about it
all that appeals to all thinking
people.
MORE RUBBER
in its de-
UNION LABOR STRUGGLE
Charles Dupree, Eph Weath-
ersby and Hilmer Schmedt will
leave Sunday night for Browns
ville, thence to tlie Panama
Canal Zone. They have been
selected as labor foremen on a
defense project in the Zone.
Mrs. R. A. Beall visited her
sister, Mrs. J. B. Pullin in Re-
fugio last week- While there,
she and Mr. and Mrs. Pullin
visited Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Beall, Jr., and Carl Beall in
San Antonio.
Not long ago, all the rubber
we had came from South
America. Then the East Indies
and other sections opened up
with their ules, or whatever it
is that rubber comes from.
And then we got on rubbex-
tires, tractors have rubber tire
equipment, big guns and tanks
use a lot of rubber, and, in
general rubber has come into
its own.
But the supply is not un-
limited. Millions of young rub-
ber trees have been planted,
for a long- time, and many of
them are producing, but still
they cannot meet the demand.
The Goodyear people in Ohio
have been working for five
years on making eynthetic
rubber, which is simply art-
ificial rubber, produced chem-
ically or otherwise- Reports
are to the effect that this part-
icular plant has succeeded in
making this rubber on a com-
mercial scale, and that it is
proving good in every way.
It is thrilling to think of the
making of synthetic rubber
right here at home. Hitler has
been making it for some time.
The time may be coming when
the world may make its rubber
and no longer depend"- upon j
natural arboreal sources of sup j
plies, with thier attendant la-
bor and transporation prob- j
lems.
EASIEST TIME TO CURE DRAFTS
IS WHEN YOU BUILD!
One of the marvels of the
time is the development of the
oil industry! Not so many years
ago there wasn’t any oil out-
side of Pennsylvania, and uses
for the product were few, kero
sene being about the chief
derivative-
Look at the picture now!
Fuel oil on locomotives, ships,
diesels, and in many other
ways; gasoline in engines of all
sorts, in automobiles, trucks,
stationary power plants, elec-
tric generating plants, and
many other uses; and fine
lubricating oils and greases
without limit, to say nothing
of products of less inportance.
And to think of its being
found so generally and so
plentifully! The history of its
development is sensational,
immense in many ways. Public
revenues from it, one way and
another, are immense. Em-
ployment given by the industry
directly and indirectly, is in
calculably gr6at.
Men, do you want to be com
f ortable through the hot weath-
er? See the new Men’s and
Boy’s hot- weather proof Pants
and Shirts at Lebman’s Store.
Union labor, especially the
CIO brand of it, is under trial.
The ,trial is set by itself and
the testimony is entirely in its
own hands; but the verdict lies
with the public, to be followed
by action by the government.
Aeeigning;to the government
itself all blame that should be
given it, such as political codd-
ling’ and NLRB favoritism,
organized labor is now being
taken at face value according
to its attitudes and actions. It
is idle to state that the CIO is
all right, that any bad actions
it may take are brought on by
a minority of bad leaders. That
is specious indeed. Who put in
those leaders? Who is follow-;
ing those leaders? Who pays
those leaders, whether they
be good or bad.
In the Martin Martin Co.
plane work in Baltimore there
are 17,000 workmen, of these,
3,200 are claimed by the CIO.
Yet this.CIO element is threat-
ening to call a strike upon
what seems to be a trumped up
excuse, the quitting of 27 of
their members. They propose
to close the works and their
program must include violence,
as at the Allis Chalmers plant
recently, and elsevdiere.
The strike of coal miners
and workers over the eastern
section of the country has
brought about a most serious
shortage of coal, without much
foundries and smelters and
many other industries cannot
operate. Mediation is refused
demands are made that are
thought to be intolerable. At
this writing the whole defense
program of the government is
halting and much of it will ac-
tually slow down very soon un-
less coal is obtained. The CIO
is doing this.
It should be remembered
that the government has been
friendly, perhaps too friendly,
to organized labor in general
and the CIO* in particular. It
should be remembered that
from time to time the National
Labor Relations Board, ap-
pointed to conciliate and med-
iate, has been so lenient with
and favorable toward the CIO
as to bring on fierce comment
against itself. And yet it is a-
Fade-proof and shrink-
proof Sledge’s Gabardines at
Lebman’s Store for $1-99 pr.
Geo. W. Coltrin, who has
been in Austin during the reg-
ular session of the state legis-
lature, will return home Fri-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Bomer
spent Sunday in Beeville,
Mrs. P. D. Christian has
moved to Alice where she is
employed.
Carl Allen returned home
from a visit with his mother in
i Tyler.
gainst the interests of this; Mrg Tommy Sutherland has
friendly government and the I one to Ft Worth to attend
public that the CIO is working, j funerai 0f her uncle.
It may be that industry it-1
self is capitalizing upon war; New Marcy Lee Dresses just
conditions and is profiteering j arrived at Lebman’s Stojre. Al-
largely. That would be su- so Sport Shoes of all types,
prising. It has been done before
It is utterly unpatriotic and
selfish and despicable. Yet
that does not excuse the CIO j
for being actively engaged in j
slowing down, to an extent 1
shelving the nation’s defense j
program and its efforts to aid
Britain.
The
with the public that Dies is
right when he asserts that the
CIO is communist controlled,
and that is trumping up excuses
THE GLEANERS S.S. CLASS
MEET AND HONOR MRS. E-
CANNAMORE WITH
SHOWER
The regular business meeting
i of the Gleaners S.S. Class was
conviction ^ is growing. hsW at the home of Mrs. p.
Dehniseh at 8 p.m. ,Tuesday.
Mrs. Jack Barnes was elected
to fill the vacancy of Sec. and
- .... ,. Tres. Caused by the resigna-
for hindering actions. The con-, tion of Mrs> E- Camiamore, a
viction is also growing that
there is more un- Americanism,
the inported vicious variety, in
the United States than most
people think. Since Hitler and
Stalin boast that they have been
and are busy boring from with-
in among us, and since we see
distinctly hostile activities pop-
ping up here and there, and
these growing larger and more
important, it should not be
hard for a thinking person to
put two and two together.
If capital, industry is really
profiteering then it is up to the
government to sit down lieavelv
upon such industries wherever
and whatever they are. If the
extent of profiteering is en-
ough to justify the CIO in
claiming its part, as it says
then the time is here for the
government to commandeer
both industry and capital, on
one hand, and labor on the
other hand, and get things
done. The boys getting $21 a
month. for training for the
services are enough in them-
selves to justify such actions;
and the plight of helpless Brit-
ain fortifies this demand. Away
with treachery in camouflaged
form, be it in labor or industry.
picnic was planned by the_
group to be had at the last of
July.
The meeting adjourned with
prayer by Mrs. C-F. Miller.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. F. Dehniseh and Arthur
Narvell after which gifts were
presented honoring Mrs. E.
Cannamore.
N O T ICE!
I would liks to correspond
with someone in or near
Mathis who needs a piano
and could pay as much as
$1.50 per week. To such a
person I have a beautiful,
small size spinet pjano, la-
test model now stored in
your vicinity, that I will sell
at a great sacrifice in price
rather than haul it back to
San Antonio. For full in-
formation as to where piano
may be seen, write or wire
L. R. Keesee, Credit Man-
ager, San Antonio Music
Co., 318 W. Commerce St.,
San Antonio, Texas.
SOLID
ICE
CLEAN
Delivered Anywhere in City Limits
MEDLEY CLARK, Prop.
Located next to Whitworth Grocery
Mathis, Texas
WATCH THESE THREE PLACES IF
Y0I WOHLD STOP THEM
3**
Poor wall joint between
window frame and wall
causes drafts (see arrows).
Poor fitting window sash
allow cold air to leak in
causing drafts (see
arrows).
m
A single pane of glass
cools warm air quickly.
Cool air drops to floor
causing drafts. „
There is just no excuse for drafts in your
new home, because drafts are definitely curable
if you will watch just three places—and all
three places are around your windows.
First and foremost offender in the making of
drafts in your new home is the window frame.
Now you’ve never bought window frames so
you don’t know anything about them and that
is one reason why so many home builders have
drafty windows, because they were careless
about the window frame that went into their
homes. Now, we aren’t going to go into detail
about window frames. We just want you to
remember that the most important thing
about a window frame is how it joins the wall.
If it makes a permanent leakproof weather-
tight joint with the wall—fine and dandy. If
it doesn’t, you’ll have drafts, no end of drafts.
How can you make sure about a weathertight
joint? Just specify that th8 window frames
used in your new home have wide blind stop
construction. This special construction should
be familiar to your contractor.
Proper Fitting Necessary
Next in importance to window frame is ths
window sash (the part of the window that
moves within the frame). Many home build-
ers buy window frames in one place and sash
in another with the result that the sash and
frame never fit properly in spite of trimming
and cutting on the job. And sash that don’t
fit properly cause drafts, and more drafts. The
modem trend is towards what is known as
complete window units that are delivered with
frame and sash precision fitted to each other
at the factory. Many of these window units
are even complete with weatherstrip. In any
event be sure that the window sash are fitted
properly to the window frame and you’ll elimi-
nate another big source of drafts.
Glass Cools Air
Now here is the third cause of drafts. ^ It’s
warm air being quickly cooled against a single
pane of glass. The cold air then drops to the
floor. This flow of air causes drafts. What’s
the cure? A double pane of glass. Some win-
dows are made so that this double pane of
glass fits on the inside of the window, while
the most common is the ordinary storm win-
dows which are hung on the outside. Whether
your double glass is inside or outside, the re-
sult is the same. The glass that is within the
heated room is kept warmer by the dead air
space between the double panes. Result: Warm
air is not cooled so fast: no cool air—no drafts.
WALLS IN HOME ONLY PART
OF INSULATION PROBLEM
p
Many a home is being built today
that is only half insulated. Yet the
man who is spending his money to
build the house doesn’t know a thing
about it. These people, when they
build, won’t hesitate to spend $150 to
$200 to make their walls weather-
tight. They will buy the best insula-
tion, the best moisture barrier, and
use the best construction methods, but
they overlook completely the fact that
the walls of their homes have from
ten to thirty great big holes in them
that are filled only with windows.
j These holes must be filled with good
! windows—windows that do more than
harmonize with the architecture of the
home. For a window is not only an
architectural feature. It is also a
mechanical feature.
Windows are just as permanent a
part of the wall as insulation. Just as
it is wise to spend those extra dollars
for insulation—so it is wise to spend
a few extra dollars to see that a win-
dow frame makes a permanent weath-
er-tight joint with the wall, that win-
dow sash are precision fitted to the
frame, that an efficient job of weather-
stripping is done, that storm sash or
double glazing is provided, and that
the operating equipment used will give
a lifetime of trouble-free operation.
PUTTY FAILURE OFTEN DUE
TO POOR APPLICATION
When you see the putty cracking
away from your windows i» big
chunks, don’t be too quick abdjsfc '.tann-
ing it on the putty. The chances are
the putt*1 failure is
0
due to the way the
r
putty is put on.
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Like so many other
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things there is a
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jRSwfri right and a wrong
S A S H j The right way
takes a little more
WRONG time and material,
which is the reason you do not find
it on windows that are made to sell
at a price.
In one sketch, we show you the
ordinary way that putty is applied tC
windows. This method is quiek and
cheap, but it is usually temporary be-
cause swelling ©f the wood from the
inside causes the putty to crack off.
In the othar
sketch is shown the
proper way to ap-
ply putty. It Is
known as “bed-
ding.” Notice here
the layer of putty
on all sides of the
glass. It actually
is resting ia a
“bed” of putty.
Wood and glass do not come in on-
tact with each other. Notice abo
the putty groove arhkh anchors
putty.
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Coltrin, George W. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1941, newspaper, July 4, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039141/m1/4/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mathis Public Library.