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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
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Rubbish and Garbage Should Not
Be Burned in Your Furnace;
They Cause Trouble.
T SHOULD like to caution you
* against burning garbage and
rubbish in the heating plant of
your home. Many home-owners
are given to this practice, know-
ing it is a quick and easy way to
dispose of garbage, but not real-
izing fully that it is very harm-
ful to the furnace.
Your furnace was built to burn
coal,,and coal only. Garbage and
rubbish, when burned in it, de-
posit a thick crust of soot on the
burning surfaces, and this soot
absorbs much of the heat that
should go into your rooms. They
also form clinkers which, as you
know, cause no end of trouble for
you in keeping your fire burning
efficiently.
Don’t burn rubbish or garbage
in furnace. They cause heavy soot
to cake on surfaces and waste
heat and also cause clinkers to
form. Keep the ashpit clean.
Remember this: A clean fur-
nace, like a clean automobile en-
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greater comfort.
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Our Presidents
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Andrew Johnson spent seven
years tailoring before he began
to learn the alphabet.
During the years 1797-1801,
we had a President, John
Adams, elected by one party
(Fed.), and a Vice President,
Thomas Jefferson, elected by
another party (Dem.-Rep.).
Andrew Johnson, at the ex-
piration of his term as Presi-
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senate of the United States.
Andrew Jackson introduced
“rotation in office.”
Taylor, Pierce and Grant
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National Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. .‘VaSHINGTON, D. C;
Washington.—Supporters of the
New Deal, as well as its opponents,
are watching a
New new experiment
Experiment by President
Roosevelt with
more than passing interest. They
are watching this experiment be-
cause of various circumstances, in-
cluding obviously its political
phases, for they realize that the
President has stepped out into a
hitherto untrod field, unplowed
ground, in this new experiment.
Chiefly because it is something
entirely new and not because any
one yet can tell what is going to
happen, I want to report this week
on the President’s plan to have his
eldest son, James, his No. 1 sec-
retary, serve as a clearing house
between the Chief Executive and
some eighteen or more government
agencies. Roosevelt, the younger,
has been designated by the Presi-
dent to sit down once each week
with heads of each of the enumerat-
ed agencies and talk over their
problems, iron out those which he
can help solve, co-ordinate the work
between them as far as he is able
to do so, and, most important to the
men with whom he deals, decide
which questions confronting these
units of government may be matters
for the President’s personal consid-
eration.
It is a big order. But Jimmy,
as he is known around here, is a
big man, at least physically, be-
cause he stands something like six
feet, one inch. He is twenty-nine
years old.
The audiences at the White House
with Jimmy have already started
and the agency heads who have
sat through the conferences seem
well pleased. At least, there
has been no criticism yet, no signs
of jealousy or indications of dis-
sent among those who are called
upon to take up their problems
with the young secretary to the
President. In fact, I have heard in
only a few places a revival of the
punning that went out a couple of
years ago when, the “Roosevelt for
King” game was in its heyday, and
Jimmy was laughingly labeled as
the crown prince. Thus, the plan
surely seems to have started off
most auspiciously. But as I said,
what success, what trials and tribu-
lations, await it, no one can say.
* * *
Undoubtedly, President Roosevelt
has started a plan of action that has
much to be said in
Much in its favor. It has,
Its Favor of course, many
possibilities of
trouble, and there surely is argu-
ment against having the White
Iftuse secretariat determine policy
when the President has been elected
to that job. Yet, at this time,
credit must be argued along with
signs and portents of trouble.
First, let us recognize that the of-
fice of President of the United States
is a man-killing job. There is noth-
ing like it anywhere else in the
world. There are not too many men
who can stand up under the load
of work and worry that is contin-
ually on the shoulders of the head
of the nation. There is no way
possible for him to escape it. Vaca-
tions? Sleep? Absence from Wash-
ington? Not a chance. The work
and worry is with him always, ev-
ery minute out of his twenty-four
hour day.
Thus, if there is any way that
ean be devised to lift some of the
burden, it ought to be done. No
way has been found heretofore,
however, and the millstone contin-
ues around the President’s neck.
On the other hand, this is a de-
mocracy. In the' opinion of many
persons, there already is too much
power lodged in the hands of in-
dividuals who were not elected, but
were appointed, to office. The
President has vast power and he
has to unload it somewhere into the
hands of those he appoints. Never-
theless, throughout the federal gov-
ernment scores of men and wom-
en exercise very great authority
over your life and mine who were
personally selected by the Presi-
dent—for whom none of us voted
when we voted for a presidential
nominee. Result: red tape, rules
and regulations, do’s and don’ts ga-
lore, until we hardly know whether
we can eat our food without trans-
gressing or failing to comply with
some federal regulation.
All of that is by way of saying
that by implementing the relation-
ship between the President and men
and women whom he has appoint-
ed to office through the insertion of
an added wheel of authority, there
lie potential changes in all of
these governmental policies. And
there lies the possibility of changes
being made,.for better or for worse,
without the President having knowl-
edge of them.
What of the personal side—the
feelings of the officials who have
to deal with a young man who can
speak, to some extent at least, for
his father, the President? As I said
earlier, thus far none of the con-
ferees have given any indication of
disturbed feelings. They may never
have any thoughts along this line.
Yet, I venture this observation: if
they don’t resent having the Presi-
dent’s son tell them what to do, or
not to do, at some time or other,
the officials concerned will be unlike
most other human beings.
* * *
The Department of Agriculture is
quite pessimistic about the business
. outlook for next
Business year. In a series
Outlook of reports, analyz-
ing general condi-
tions, which the department issued
the other day, it made no effort to
conceal its belief that there is some-
thing wrong in the business situa-
tion far beyond the recent violent
decline in the quotations of the
stock markets.
These reports and 'conclusions
take on considerably more weight
when it is recalled that several
other agencies of the government,
notably Secretary Roper of the De-
partment of Commerce, have
sought vainly to make it appear that
business is “good.” At the same
time, I think attention ought to be
drawn to the fact that Secretary
Wallace of the Department of Agri-
culture is striving to have congress
pass legislation to aid the farmer.
It is just possible that he thinks
his objectives can be achieved more
easily if the congressmen are made
to believe that general business and
agriculture are taking a real tail-
spin. That is the politics of the
situation, but business reports
spread on the pages of newspapers
seem to show that a bad slump lies
ahead.
Recently, I wrote in these columns
how business was as spotted as a
leopard; that some firms were
making more money than ever be-
fore, and how some others were
getting by only because the volume
was large and faced difficulties if
the volume declined. The Agricul-
ture department statements, based
now on facts and figures, show even
a worse picture than I described
several months ago. They indicate
strongly that 1938 is to be consid-
erably lower in the level of business
than 1937, and that spells trouble.
For example, the agriculture
statement predicts that there will
be “a less favorable demand for
farm products” in 1938 than in 1937.
Home domestic demands are down
and appear likely to stay down,
and the export market holds no hope
for an increase. Emphasizing the
dependence of consumption demand
upon general business conditions,
the department statement explained
there was no certainty as to the
length of time the present slump
will continue. It added that “pros-
pects are against a sufficiently ear-
ly and vigorous rise in 1938 to bring
the average of industrial activity
and of consumer incomes up to that
of 1937.”
• * •
But from the standpoint of the
farmer, the picture is made worse
. by the department
Picture statement. It
Made Worse points out how
there has been a
rise in production costs of crops and
livestock and how, staring the farm-
er in the face, are more of these in-
creases, adding:
“Along with the higher wage
rates, farmers apparently will have
to pay somewhat higher prices for
farm machinery, automobiles, build-
ing materials, equipment and sup-
plies. On the other hand, the prices
of feed and seed will be substan-
tially lower next spring than a year
earlier.”
The department did not go into
detail in explaining these increases
in production costs and increases in
prices for things the farmer buys.
It should have given facts and fig-
ures on these for they are basic and
the picture is incomplete without
them. Everyone knows, of course, that
farm labor wants more money for
its work and has been getting more
in the last two or three years. De-
partment of Labor statistics show
this, and they show as well how
much "additional labor is receiving
in its pay checks from industry. The
automobile industry which has been
organized by John L. Lewis and his
C. I. O. labor group has been forced
to pay much higher wages and
naturally those wages have been
added into the cost of the automo-
bile which any one buys.
The automobile industry was only
an illustration. The same is true
all along the line.
The truth of the matter is that fed-
eral taxes which have been con-
ceived by the President’s brain trust
professors and applied without stint
or limit to industry are upsetting the
whole agricultural as well as the
whole business structure of the
country. The load of taxes, together
with a lot of queer-looking and cock-
eyed regulations, have continually
increased the cost of production ol
everything from black-eyed peas tc
locomotives.
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JUSEF STALIN STUDIED FOB
THE PRIESTHOOD
W/ ITH what blindness do we at-
* * tempt to guide our children's
footsteps in life, so often forcing
on them an ambition ot our own'
It might be laughable were it not
so seriously in opposition to the
man's own desires, but Josef Stalin
was forced to attend the Tiflis Greek
Orthodox seminary, because his
mother wanted him to be a priest
Young Stalin, legally named Joset
Vissarionovitch Diygashvili. did not
want to be a priest.
Born in 1879 Josef was educated
in the village school of Gori. Rus-
sia In his young days he was a
fighter who bore many a black eye.
and he was somewhat ot a buily.
although he always displayed intel-
ligence ard character At the sem
inary. he led the other students in
plotting against the authorities, and
local railway workers met in his
room. Eventually, he was dis-
missed in disgrace. At the age of
seventeen, he joined the under-
ground dock workers of Batum in
a riot and, when the terrorist Bol-
sheviks were formed became active
in their movement. While attend-
ing a Bolshevik party conference in
Stockholm, in 1905, he met Lenin
for the first time. \
Josef Stalin was arrested a half
a dozen times, and exiled from Rus-
sia the last time. He changed his
name regularly and returned again
and again With Lenin and Trotsky,
he took over the government of Rus-
sia in October, 1917. After Lenin
died in 1924, Stalin supporters ex-
iled Trotsky and through ruthless
executions made Stalin dictator.
Josef Stalin’s life is hardly the
kind of biography you would ex-
pect from a boy who studied for
the priesthood.
* * *
JOAN CRAWFORD WAS A
TELEPHONE OPERATOR
[OAN CRAWFORD’S life is an
d example of a girl who had tal-
ent, ambition and enthusiasm, but
who might never have risen beyond
an ordinary occupation without the
necessary confidence to keep try-
ing.
Joan Crawford was born about
1907 in San Antonio, Texas, daugh-
ter of a theater manager. Most of
her play hours were spent playing
“show,” and she danced her way
through many struggling years be-
fore a real opportunity came her
way. At fourteen, Joan went to
work as a telephone operator in
Lawton, Okla. Then, she was sent
to a convent in Kansas City, where
she had to earn her way by acting
as a kitchen maid and waiting on
tables. After leaving college, Joan
Crawford found a job in a Kansas
City department store as a stock
girl at $10 per week, working dur-
ing the day and practicing dancing
at night.
Finally a theatrical agent found a
job for Joan in a show which failed
a month later, leaving her stranded
300 miles from home. Courageous-
ly, she found job after job in cab-
arets and night clubs in Chicago,
Detroit, and New York. She was
working in a Shubert show, “In-
nocent Eyes,” when a Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer executive saw her and
signed her for pictures.
Think of the troubles this girl had,
the disappointments and struggles.
Born in the atmosphere of show
business, she was inspired from the
time she could first toddle to find a
place for herself in that glamorous
life. Then, circumstances took a
hand and forced her into occupa-
tions that were far more on the side
of drudgery than glamour. She
plugged lines into a switch-board,
washed dishes, swept floors, car-
ried heavy trays, wrapped pack-
ages. But through it all, she kept
h«r confidence in herself.
_WTsJTT Siarvicp
Irvin S. Cobb
about
Growing Cannon Fodder.
CANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
^ To produce this crop takes
time and planning.
First your veterans must grow
past fighting age because those who
survive the horrors
of one war never
willingly enlist for
another. Meanwhile
be sure the women
have been bearing
children, since chil-
dren are the seed
corn of your future
sowing.
As the newer gen-
eration grows up
dose it on the old
reliable P. P. P.
formula — parades,
pomp, propaganda. Bands and guns
and flag - wavings, murderous
preachments and manufactured pa-
triotism; they all help to fertilize
against the ultimate harvesting.
Befuddle the first-born on dreams
of drunken glory. Teach him the
neighbor over the way is an enemy
who must some day be crushed
without mercy. Make him believe
his country’s destiny demands re-
venge for old hurts, reprisals for old
losses, widened boundaries writ in
blood.
And then, in about 20 years, you
have a nation ripened for ruin, a
race of mothers ready to offer their
sons to the slaughter. It’s a slow
crop, but a sure one, and highly
gratifying to professional sword-rat-
tlers and power-mad dictators, to
profiteers and financial hijackers.
Let’s see, come 1938, it’ll be just
about 20 years since the last time
the world cut its own throat.
• • •
Two-Faced Politicians.
COMEBODY says the type of poli-
^ tician who swaps worthless
promises before election for the
public’s confidence—and its votes—
reminds him of Janus. Janus was
a god with two faces, and the an-
cients finally got so they couldn’t
trust either one of them. But it took
them a long time to catch on.
Might I be pardoned for thinking
of a homelier simile? I’m thinking
of the pack-rat of this western coun-
try. The thrifty pack-rat slips with
stealthy tread into your camp whilst
you slumber and carries off some-
thing of value. But he doesn’t steal
it—nothing like that. He merely ex-
changes with you, you being asleep
at the time. He leaves a dry twig
behind and totes off a side of meat.
He confiscates one of your boots,
but, in return, confers on you a
couple of dead cactus stalks. His
intentions may be honest, but there
is no record showing where a pack-
rat ever got the worst of a trade.
I figure he’s part Scotch.
And the profits resulting from*his
professional dealings certainly may
be likened to the career of many a
chronic officeholder now flourishing
in our midst.
• * •
This Man Dewey.
TI7HEN the Republicans get out
VV the hound-dawgs to run down
their 1940 nominee, they might
search in the tall timbers of Man-
hattan island.
There’s a young fellow there, the
name being Dewey, and he being
kin to the great admiral whose
deeds crackled at Manila one May
day morning like the lightnings on
Mount Sinai. He comes of old
Yankee stock. He hails from a de-
batable state, Michigan; lives in a
pivotal state, New York. Still in
his mid-thirties, he smashed the
foulest, securest nests of labor rack-
eteers and vice racketeers in Amer-
ica.
He married a sweet Texas girl,
as southern as they make ’em. Her
grand-uncle was Jeff Davis. My
daddy was Jeff Davis’ relative, too.
And this young Dewey trained for
grand opera. Speaking of this charm
thing, think of a President who’d
wind up his fireside radio chats sing-
ing “Home on the Range.”
Yes, sir, the G. O. P. might go
farther and fare worse.
* * *
Nordic Supremacy.
TT ECENT events bring to mind a
•Ta- little story of some years back
when night-riding patriots in an
Arkansas county felt called on, as a
sacred duty imposed upon all true
Caucasians, to put the Black broth-
er in his place; said place, in at
least one instance, being a colored
cemetery.
Also, there had been a flood of
notices to vacate sent through the
mail to members of the African
race, followed by unpleasant sur-
prise parties did the recipients fail
to heed the gentle warning.
So the community was getting
more Nordic by the hour and the
sound of the Anglo-saxophone was
heard oft in the stilly night. That’s
the scene and the plot. Now for
the sketch:
Pelagria Perkins meets Hook-
worm Hostetter on Main street:
“Hooky,” says Pelagria, “effen
you wuz to git a letter frum dese
here w’ite shirts, whut would you
do?”
“Mel’” says Hookworm. “Boy,
I’d finish readin’ it on the train.”
IRVIN S. COBB.
Copyright.—WNU Service. .
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Peace in the Home
He is happiest, be he king or
peasant, who finds peace in his
home.—Goethe.
Anger Is Like Rain
Anger is like rain which breaks
itself whereupon it falls.—Seneca.
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