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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, June 1, 193&-
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AUSTIN.—Gov. Lee O’Daniel shed
his gloves and tore viciously into the
minority bloc of the House which has
been opposing a sales-natural re-
source tax constitutional amendment
in his regular Sunday morning radio
broadcast from the mansion.
He threatened to take the stump in
all parts of the state and read the
honor roll if the necessary funds to
finance social security were not
raised. And he further asserted the
statutory tax was not the answer.
Blistering criticism* of the Gover-
nor’s speech came from several mem-
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pres-
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to certain legislators that unless they
supported the sales tax, he would
veto their pet local bills, and in prac-
tically every instance, the answer
was a defiant “Go ahead and veto it
and I’ll fight the case before the peo-
ple of my district next summer.”
The Governor’s unrelenting stand
for the sales tax constitutional
amendment has convinced many peo-
ple that O’Daniel is more interested
in freezing a sales tax into the con-
stitution than he is in getting money
for old age pensions.
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taught them not, and things un-
known propos’d as things forgot.—
Pope.
Senate honor
of those Senators
the constitutional
amendment. He said he would await
final vote on the proposal in the
House before calling the roll there.
The Governor declared opponents
of his plan could not clear their rec-
the
bills
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bers of the House. They called
tention to the unprecedented j
sure he has brought to bear on
Legislature to write a sales tax into
the Constitution.
O'Daniel eliminated all entertain-
ment from his program. He strode to
the microphone immediately after a
brief introduction and launched up-
on his speech which ran several min-
utes over the allotted half hour. His
four-piece orchestra which usually
plays and sings was silent as the
, executive heaped criticism and con-
demnation on the heads of those who
have opposed the Senate’s constitu-
tional amendment.
Governor Cites Record
The Governor gave his own record,
from his advocacy of a transactions
tax to his approval of the Senate pro-
posal over the same radio network
several weeks ago. Immediately after
his speech then the Senate resolution
came up in the House and was de-
feated for the fourth time, by a larg-
er vote than previously.
“You will recall about a month ago
I told you that I believed the only
method which offered any prospect
of success to get the necessary money
to pay old-age pensions, teacher re-
tirement, and the other obligations of
the state, including a reasonable re-
duction of our $20,000,000 deficit, was
that offered by Senate joint resolu-
tion No. 12, then pending and still
pending in the House of Representa-
tives,” O’Daniel thundered.
“I believed this Senate joint reso-
lution No. 12 as amended in the
House offered a basis for compromise
whereby the social security problem
could be solved and the other finan-
cial problems of the state solved at
the same time. All events that have
taken place since then go to show
that I was right.”
Dodge Brothers Coup
The Governor said the House then
passed a tax bill “but the result was
exactly what I thought it would be
—they passed an omnibus tax bill.”
He continued:
“It is a combination gross receipts
tax, sales tax and natural resource
tax. They call it an omnibus bill but
they should call it a Dodge Brothers
Coup because it is a coup whereby
so many brothers dodge the tax by
the exemption detour that it will not
produce half enough money to meet
the state’s necessary obligations, even
if the Senate were to pass it.
“And I do not think there
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Chinaman’s chance of the Senate
passing any statutory tax bill for so-
cial security purposes.”
Further blasting at the
bloc, the Governor said he did not
“criticize their motives but I do most
definitely criticize their judgment.”
He said if the Legislature ad-
journed without meeting the No. 1
problem the responsibility
squarely on the shoulders
minority group of the House
has successfully staved off the con-
stitutional amendment four times.
O’Daniel said this group had had
every opportunity to raise the money
on its plan and asserted now that it
had failed it wa's time to join the
89 members of the House and the 21
of the Senate and work out a satis-
factory constitutional amendment.
Reads Honor Roll
Followed then the
roll—the names
who voted for
ords back home by pointing to
gross receipts and omnibus
which have passed the House.
“I have done my duty,” he said. “I
submitted my recommendations to
the Legislature the day following my
inauguration. I stated plainly how I
thought these services could be fi-
nanced. I accepted the Legislature’s
plan in changing the tax which I rec-
ommended and I am standing firm-
ly with the 21 senators and the 89
House members and I am willing to
let the people decide if failure comes
who is responsible for the failure.
“And I want to promise the citi-
zens of Texas one thing and that is so
far as I am concerned this fight has
just begun. If the old people in
Texas are forced to go two more
years without money; if the depend-
ent children and the blind are to be
neglected for two more years; if we
are to refuse for two more years to
comply with our promise to match
the teacher retirement fund; if we
are to be forced during the next two
years to reduce drastically rural aid,
support for our eleemosynary and
educational institutions for lack of
money in the general fund, I promise
now that from every stump in Texas
I expect to call the roll and there will
be no hedging and dodging.
“I am going to give the people of
Texas the facts.”
Describes Terrible Mess
O’Daniel spoke swiftly and dis-
tinctly as he described the terrible
mess the government was in. He re-
called his promise to drive out the
professional politicians “who have
been running this state government
for their own selfish gains.”
Pointing out the Legislature had al-
ready exceeded by two weeks the
constitutionally-suggested 120-day
limit O’Daniel said he thought it high
time to “give to you an accurate re-
port on what is being done and what
is not being done here at Austin.”
He said the $19,000,000 deficit in
the general fund existed when he
took office. He mentioned pensions,
teacher retirement and other pro-
grams saying they had been approved
by the voters prior to his election.
Although he advocated decreased
governmental expenditures in his
campaign, the Governor said it is
sheer nonsense to talk about cutting
$27,000,000 out of general appropria-
tion bills to raise the necessary •
funds. He figured the $27,000,000 on
a two-year basis of $10,000,000 for
teachers, $3,000,000 for dependent .
children, $3,000,000 for loans from
banks and $1,000,000 for aid to the '
blind and $10,000,000 to be applied to !
the deficit. He pointed out 'this fig- ‘
ure did not take into consideration
the $22,000,000 for pensions, which
would raise .the total to $49,000,000.
Attacks Professional Politicians (
O’Daniel fired a verbal barrage at ,
the professional politicians who “con-
demn every thing I recommend re- j
gardless of its merit or demerit,” he
said.
“Of course, I know that so far
By D. B. Hardeman
In Dispatch-Journal
AUSTIN.—As time goes on, it
comes increasingly clear that Gov. W.
Lee O'Daniel knows practically noth-
ing about Texas political history.
If he had possessed even an ama-
teurish knowledge of the state’s po-
litical history, he would never have
made his ill-advised attack on the
Legislature Sunday. By resorting to
heavy-handed threats against legis-
lators who refuse to back his sales
tax program, O’Daniel perhaps put
the final seal of defeat on this pro-
gram.
In strong terms, he threatened to
go into the various legislative dis-
tricts and campaign against the men
who are blocking his sales tax plans.
In effect, he said, “Vote for what I
want or I’ll have a political purge of
my own”
May Have Lost Votes
This did two things. In the first
place, those legislators who might
have swung over to support the sales
tax program at the last minute find
it much harder to do so now because
as surely as they change, they will
have to face the charge that they
have been bulldozed by the Governor.
The saving of face is very important
in politics, and anyone who changes
sides now will lose face among his
colleagues. Instead of gaining votes
for his program, the Governor prob-
ably cost himself several.
And the second important result of
this open threat was to increase the
home strength of the legislators who
have blocked his sales tax dream.
History shows that when the voters
must choose between supporting the
Governor and their own representa-
tive, they invariably choose to sup-
port their representative.
Recalls FDR’s Case
No better example of this could be
found than President Roosevelt’s ill-
fated purge l^st year. Even in states
where he is undeniably the most
popular figure in years, Roosevelt
could not dictate to the voters who
they should choose as their repre-
sentative. He took a smashing defeat
in every instance except one race for
Congress.
Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel will fare no
better if he attempts to tell the home-
folks who to send to he Legislature.
Joe Bailey’s Threat
Sen. Joseph Weldon Bailey threat-
ened to drive from political life ev-
ery man who voted to impeach him
30 years ago, but the men who sought
his impeachment continued in the
public favor long after Bailey was a
political has-been.
In recent years Gov. James V. All-
red publicly asked for the political
scalps of certain legislators, but most
of them still sit in legislative circles.
No, the people of Texas have the
idea that they should do their own
picking when it comes to legislators,
and they need no help from the Gov-
ernor of Texas. O’Daniel should have
examined the state’s political history
before making too many threats.
In recent weeks he has sent word
they are concerned all they can talk
about is the fool pension plan of
O'Daniel’s; all they can say is that if
O’Daniel recommends it, then it is
wrong. All blare forth in a concerted
plan to turn the masses of the people
against the Governor who is fighting i
for the rights of the common citizens,
because such a Governor does not fit J
into their diabolic plunder plot which '
has gotten this state government into
the deplorable condition which now
exists.
He termed the $19,000,000 deficit
“a dead horse which died before I
was elected. The professional poli-
ticians rode him to death.”
The Governor then quoted Section
49, Article 3 of the Constitution as
follows:
“No debt shall be created by or on
behalf of the state except to supply
casual deficiencies of revenue, repel
invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
fend the state in war, or pay existing
debt; and the debt created to supply
deficiencies in the revenue sh^ll nev-
er exceed in the aggregate at any one
time—two hundred thousand dol-
lars.”
O’Daniel contended this was proof
the framers of the Constitution in-
tended the state government should
not be conducted with hot checks.
“And if that is the meaning of the
Constitution then we have no right
to have a $20,000,000 deficit in the
general fund,” he continued. “But
the entire debt was incurred before
I became your Governor. That is the
dark blind alley the professional pol-
iticians have led you into, and they
turn loose all the poison propaganda
at their disposal because you now
have a Governor who is trying to
lead you out.
“They want to keep the public feed
trough full so the favored few may
feast, even at the expense of mort-
gaging you and your children and
your children’s children for genera-
tions to come.”
The Governor had high praise for
members of the House appropriations
committee and the Senate finance
committee for its efforts to reduce
appropriations.
As in the past, the mansion
packed for the broadcast.
a seaman-
for 35 years and commander of the
Ulysses, in which the boys cruised
the ice fields of the Antarctic looking
for whales, said the food was not
fancy, but was as good as possible on
a long voyage.
The gunners, he said, do rather-
well for themselves, averaging $8,000
a year from their $125 monthly sala-
ries and 25c a barrel commission on
whale-oil.
He emphasized that the boys, who
answered an advertisement in a New
York paper asking for adventurers to
sign on the expedition, did so volun-
tarily, although they were told it was
no Sunday outing.
The stocky shipmaster admitted
that the rice had maggots, that the
potatoes were rotten, the flour
mouldy and the beef bad, but he in-
sisted that sailors must be hardened,
to it.
Americans, he said, could get ahead
in whaling if they only had the pluck
to stay with the business.
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Some of the farmers have been
cutting grain.
We had a good rain Friday night.
Miss Ina Lee Hicks left Tuesday
morning for Groom.
Ellon Rowden spent the week-end
with Doris June Hunter.
Dorotha Jean McCord spent Tues-
day night with Jennie Irl Hicks and
visited Whiewright High School
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Williams, May-
bell Jewel, Estelle and Rayburn Gun-
ter visited Mrs. Mattie McCord
Thursday night.
Mrs. Etta B. Hicks has returned
home, after a visit with her son, Jim
Hicks, and family.
Margaret McCord has returned
home from the Wilson N. Jones Hos-
pital, Sherman.
Mrs. Charlie Rogers and baby
spent Friday with her mother, Mrs.
B. E. Rowden.
Dorotha Jean McCord spent Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Coop-
er and son, Larry.
Jim Hicks and family visited Mr.
and Mrs. George Hicks and
Sunday.
Doris Jean Hunter spent
with Ellon Francis Rowden.
Willa Jean Hunter spent
with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rich
daughters
F. M. and Rayburn Gunter spent
Sunday with Leo and Orvil Howell.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Williams spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. An-
derson.
Rev? M. M. Shaw and family spent
Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. J.
T. Robinson.
Mrs. C. C. Morgan and son and
Lynn Cooper and daughter and Lewis
Cooper and son called on their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Cooper,
Sunday afternoon.
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WASHINGTON.—The men who go’
down to the sea in ships to hunt
whales may have a romantic, life in
the storybooks, but in reality it is a
hard, grinding existence, two college
boys told the House merchant marine
committee Saturday.
The collegians—Robert Randall of
Orvington, N. Y., who left Harvard to
see what sailoring was like, and Ed-
gar Larsen, Newark, N. J., of Rutgers
University — were so fed up with
their experiences that they volun-
teered to relate them to the commit-
tee, which is considering two bills,,
designed to give America a share in
the whaling industry now dominated,
by Norway. They made these points:
1. Their pay totaled $200 for sev-
en months, out of which they had to
buy boots costing $12.
2. Food consisted chiefly of salt
pork, tea, coffee and potatoes. Lar-
sen said he had a touch of scurvy
when the voyage ended.
3. Americans were not allowed to
shoot at whales, because the Nor-
wegian Union of Whale
monopolizes that work.
4. The ship’s cargo of whales made
it smell, smell and smell.
Capt. H. M. Mikkelson,
FORT DIX, N. J. — Those eight
army mules, whose death sentence
stirred a congressional fuss and
brought a War Department reprieve,
have been dead these two weeks now.
The mules, condemned to die as no
longer serviceable because of their
age—^one saw World War service—
were executed quietly, it was dis-
closed Saturday, to “avoid recurrence
of all the fuss.” - A war veterans’
group, among others, had urged that
they be permitted to live a peaceful,
retired life.
“The army has been shooting mules
for 162 years and nobody ever said
anything about it before,” said one
high official at the fort. “Our veter-
inary ordered their destruction be-
cause they were so sick and infirm
that it would have been cruelty to al-
low them to live any longer.”
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1939, newspaper, June 1, 1939; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230930/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.