The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. [30], No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1933 Page: 2 of 4
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Proratlon U I failure’. It M
nothing more than a fictitious
term, when applied to the oil in-
dustry and a highly prised plan
originated. Instigated and ma-
nipulated by the major oil com-
panies. for the purpose of
squeezing the independent pro-
PablUed Weekly at Halim,
Mills County, Ttxas.
R 11 Patterson, Editor
Horace C. Frants la one of the
leading trout farmers of Colora-
do. He supplies trout for the
While House.
bacco Wuld
thaa lot per emu
per cent. *
After showing j
crease from ijji ^
making sueh * stud*. And H MU
forth in 1U regwk ttsut tt Hi
found, among other things. that
•the sUte government cannot be
STBS* KII’TION' PRICE
Onr I -in ........A1
Six Men! lii
Three Months — -
ducejs to a slow and draggy
ho, awoke one morning to find
his pet ducks frosen In a pond.
A blow torch freed them.
death _
Thousands of dollars are spent
annually to sell this highly per-
fected. genuinely cherished
thing called proration to the cit-
izens of oil producing commun-
ities. They say there can be no
conservation where there is no
proration, but when this state-
ment is accepted, and proratlon
is applied, it is equivalent to
Patrick Henry's pathetic state-
ment. -Give me liberty or give
me death”,Interpreted in oil lan-
guage to mean give the majors
the liberty to run all the illegal
oil they want to, but deal the
independents a hand of death.
The independent is not the
only man who is suffering. The
merchants ot Tyler. Kilgore.
I ongview Gladewater, and many
other prominently located oil
centers are gradually fading
from 'he ‘-cone, passing out of
tlon in the QagJ
dined during gJ
years to the lows*
1922. Per capita^
reached a new lot j
war period."
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dt MDOdj
AMher
the sick
Notice of church entertain
menN wlo'e- admission is charg-
ed ear i, «>f thanks, resolutions
of respect an.I all matters not
a«ws uni I"1 charged for at
regal ir a• 1 v■ rtising rates.
eles of the execute
type to deecrlhlng the kdmhUe-
tratlve organisation, and legis-
lature*, In exercising the large
freedom thus left to them, In de-
termining how services subse-
quently needed should be ren-
dered.had no plan to guide them.
The result has been a growth
without system, by chance, hap-
hazard, reflecting the Individual
Ideas of different people at dif-
ferent times.” The present Jum-
bled-up monstrosity of disorgan-
ized, uncoordinated, and highly
expensive lnefficency Is the fruit
of this. Is Is not about time that
we stopped this patch-work
method of dealing with the state
governmental structure? Is is
not about time for real reorgan-
ization? It Is for crystallaed pub-
lic sentiment to answer those
questions. For only such public
sentiment can bring action by
the legislature.—Texas Weekly.
Radio, telephones, a library
and a special car for culture and
rest are some oj the features.of
a luxury train running between
Moscow and Tiflls, Russia.
axe# Consume Nearly
One-Thirct ol Averagt
Dollar Spent for G<
A campaign for the return of
overdue books at the Birming-
ham 'la public library recent-
ly brought back a volume miss-
ing since 1917
AMKI1K v s FOREIGN TRADE
Mr-i n •i-mimm’ m American
Indus':y },«.•.....-iced their pro-
test against the widespread
drive which is being launched lo
encourage all citizens of the na-
tion to "buy American" I-ike
most slogans, that phrase is mis-
leading and vet there arc many
who implicitly believe that eco-
nomic nornuli'.y can be restored
by refusing to buy goods from i
Europe
W L Chi v I ill Of Houston, in |
his address before the Galves-
ton Chamber of Commerce, j
pointed out me pertinent frets |
concernin’1 ’he value of the j
goods vine.! Tor , .-hips abroad. |
Roy r' Civ pin •nrrrtnry of I
commerce, adds the weight of j
his autiio’it.- •" movement, j
which it s a ■>> purposi ron-
tradio'|,.u ■ ■ uio.v land- ,
1sts who v ’• pi-'co a wall
around liie United States and
keep the world out.
Foreign trade is of vital im-
portance to Texas and the na-
tion. even though it has declined
In volume of recent years Agri-
culture and industry in this
country both depend to a large
degree on the successful cultiva-
tion of foreign markets. Mr.
Clayton made the point that no
One in Europe will buy goods
from us if we refuse to make re-
ciprocal purchases abroad.
Those who advocate a policy of
exchanging goods within the
boundaries of the United States
alone forget the fact that the
traditional basic products of
American agriculture, notably
wheat and cotton, are without
effective tariff protection. The
cotton farmer of the South, and
especially the cotton farmer of
Texas, depends for his livelihood
upon foreign markets. In 1929
the United Stairs shipped half of
Its cotton abroad; in that same
year Texas shipped 90 per cent
Of i's epin o', <- r-f as
Mr. Chapin situates that 2.-
000.001) workmen in this country
last year depended for their liv-
ing upon Wages received from
manufacturers who export their 1
products abroad This estimate t
did nor include 'he large cleri-
cal forces maintained by the va-
rious <.v,. rtini; concerns of the i
p Twenty-nine cents of every dollar the averts
•pent for gasoline in 1932 went to pay Staten
taxes! These levies reduced approximately by
the gasoline purchasing power of the dollar. M
which the motorist could have bought a fou
went to pay taxes on the first three. A car tn
miles per gallon, went only 75 miles instead
Nine hundred blind men and
women attended a concert in
Berlin recently at wheth blind
musicians played only the work
of blind composers.
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Two robins have made an ap-
pearance near Canaan Valley,
Conn.. Pussy willows are budding
but ice fourteen inches thick
was cut on a local pond.
gglUn Tue*
io«r farmer
IDlrs Woo
j«nt Bund:
ag. V. Robe
IfeKkctt of I
U guest in
mtt, J. N
fad Mrs. T
fenltr spent
Mk, Mrs. I
il J King
L to our ci
Export on t
L,nd Mrs. V
Dcthel W. Eiserman. Branson.
Mo . postmaster, has a zoo filled
with raccoons, fox. wolves, opos-
sums. squrirels and ground hogs,
nil of which he captured with
the aid of his two hound dogs
THEIR INCOMES ARE SACRED
The national house took a dip
toward the senate level when It
refused to cut Its own pay. The
significance of Its failure to take
its medicine along with the rest
of the country lies not so much
in the refusal to accept a cut as
In the practical unanimity of the
action—only two votes against
the slash to $5,000, and a mere
handful against the reduction to
$7,500, which was the base pay
when living expenses were no
higher than they are now. This
Is the same body which would
cheerfully tax all the people for
the doubtful benefit of the few,
as In the parity or domestic al-
lotment bill pass out a billion or
two more of the people’s money
to another group to whom It is
not due and if it follows the band
of its commute of the whole,
break faith with the retired of-
ficers of the United States army
by cutting away their retirement
pay If they have outside Incomes
exceeding $3000 a year. — Bos-
ton Transcript.
Wabash. Ind.,officials feel that
: ir.ee the city hall houses the
fire department, the building Is
proof against flames and have
decided to ask city council to
cancel $11,000 fire insurance,
thereby saving the $210 annual
premium
|j|i Merritt
| IlUi Smi
piwytte
itoBrowi
tad Mrs '
Mb, La., a
fl parents.
fcary
I Irma Ha
It ipent Su
seoustn. M
John L. Thomas of Oklahoma
City has received patent papers
on his 600th Invention, a rotary
type float valve. His first Inven-
tion, soon after his graduation
from the Boston Technology In-
stitute twenty years ago, was a
fruit canning device.
■Mas (ana to«k So from every « I
a, lie la 1928, tie In 19:«) and i9e In UM. I
of tta 1233 (Moline dollar will be tail
gallon. Gaeoune tax r
1932 are -utimEtcd at
At leaat J2COD 1
from road- and furtbi
thin year, combined *
Although tax reduction hu been
promised, government appears de-
termined to make the motorist
the "Forgotten Man." BUtes are
contemplating Increases In gasoline
tax rates this year. Congress ap-lcrc.
pears to be Inclined to continue, if turd
pot to Increase, the lo Federal gaao i prutl
Lions arc so plentiful in the
United States you can’t even
give them away, said Dr. William
M. Mann, director of the Nation-
al Zoo, Washington. More cubs
are raised in captivity than cir-
cuses and zoos need, he pointed
out,.
line tax supposed to expire July 1 by
“clt- « _ . and
The gasoline tax first *u, Im-1
posed by Oregon on February 23,
1929. at lc par gallon to finance
{roads. Cumulative federal state, | Var
bounty, and community gaaollne tax ; pay
I Skipptni
ltd the
*j and
lit Sunday
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to visitoi
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L and Mr
I Springs
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PROGRESS OR DOOM?
Floyd Rommerfelt was pinned
beneath his ten-ton truck, face
down in tnud, when the machine
overturned on the highway near
Coalinga. Cal Realizing he faced
suffocatin'’ be held his breath.
Finally a cr. w from an oil well
near by ev'-t'-'.’ed him.
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With remarkable speed man-
kind has conquered the problem
of production Plant after plant
has become a marvel of virtually
automatic, mechanical efficien-
cy In Ncv.’ Jersey a rayon f r- i
torv nears completion. It can
produce for twenty-four hours
without a single worker, con-
trolled from a Manhattan office
by a touch of a button Engi-
neers have designed a road-
building machine which, with
six workers, will tear up an old
street pavement, prepare the
foundation and lay eight miles
of new paving in one day. Eaeh
sueh amazing advance in pro-
duction energy throws men out
of jobs bv the score, leading nut
a few ’■•'riou' observers to fear
♦tin* t’-e f'.-•wring of the mn-
j -bi. n -ige spells d--om for our
[ vs re-mi t. ceornmic order Ye* the
| • -eud toward mechanization Is
i re', new. TTr> until the present
depression Dot am r acute the
' available evidence suggested
| strongly that scientific and m;-
I chonical gains brought abou', an
eve--higher standard of living
and in thi3 process provided new
lobs for workers displaced. Thus
between 19?9 and 1 r*10. a decade
of raoid mechanization, the per-
centage of our population gain-
fully emp'oyed increased from
39 4 per cent to 29.8 per cent.
Moreover, the 1930 figure of 39.8
per cent compares with only 34,7
per cent in 1880 The figures are
those of the United 8tates cen-
sus. While It Is conceivable that
the trend toward technological
unemployment has been acceitr-
ated In the last, three years, It Is
open to question whether this
problem has not been exagger-
ated by attributing to It unem-
ptoMMnt which will ultimately
A problem for chemistry stu-
dents was evolved at Taft, Cal.,
recently when someone stole the
cap from W L. AHmiller's gaso-
line tank Altminer substituted
a potato for the missing cap.The
tuber shrank, dropped into the
tank and a few days later was
removed petrified into a stony
mass.
Joe Ivey of Montpelier, Ind.,
swung Ills wheel as his automo-
bi'o started to skid. His coat
rlceve caught,opening the throt-
tle. The car crashed through a
window In a doctor’s office and
the doctor set Ivey’s broken
arm.
Gerald Morrlss and Amy How-
ard brought a minister along
when they applied for a mar-
riage license at the Visalia, Cal.,
court house. They were wVd be-
fore the ink was dry on the li-
cense.
Cape Cod, Mass.Jishermen are
finding It difficult to set their
nets without “hauling up bottles
of liquor with the fish. Two
no under draggers were seised by
coast guards recently while head-
ing shoreward with contraband
“fished up” from the sea bottom.
Wary rum runners had discard-
ed tt.
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Patterson, R. H. The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. [30], No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1933, newspaper, February 23, 1933; Mullin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1059854/m1/2/: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.