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Senator Morris Busy
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Farmersville
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to Bennie
Christianity in Action
Keep the Poll Tax
out
SHORT ON HELP
THE OLD TIMES WERE BETTER
Denton A Capella Choir
PARTICIPATION by the Belgian
Drunk Boat
Driver Arrested
In Midstream
The Tennessee Valley Authority
now operates 18 dams.
McKinney Examiner
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
Mrs. H. T. Lyttleton has returned
to Marshall after a visit here with
Mrs. J. H. Hill and Miss Mae Hill.
She will receive her bachelor
of arts degree.
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The Wylie News says the Collin
County Soil Conservation District
has been granted the assistance of
80.50 acres in T. H. Henley survey,
H. H. Chandler et ux to Lester
in Henry
don’t know how well they are “fix-
ed” until some real misfortune over-
takes them.
He loved Glen Ellyn, roamed each
stream and field;
In grammar school and high school
came to know
So many friends. These
streets he wheeled
With heavy Sunday papers in the
snow.
refrain
say we trust he did not die 'in
vain.
ARTHUR FREDERIC OTIS,
in Chicago Daily Tribune I*
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Mrs. Suda Morris
Dies at Pilot Point
Miss
among
grees at the May 30 commencement
exercises at the University of Tex-
as. She will receive her bachelor
EIGHT THOUSAND carpenters
are idle in Philadelphia. Plenty of
houses needed. People would take
them if the carpenters would’ build
them. But the carpenters belong to
a union in wich a few big shot lead-
ers have been unable to agree.' So
what? So there. It has become so
critical in some places that if you
do not join a union you are “be-
damned” and if you do you are left
in the same mess. Who wants to live
in a big city dominated by such con-
ditions? We don’t. Just give us our
good old hick town where we can
walk out to the creek and go fishing.
THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, MAY 26,1949
From Okinawa, home again to stay,
He rests beneath a gracious, spread-
ing elm,
His football field an echoed cheer
away
And, all around, his
realm.
Three volleysj^Faps. A ringing, clear
To
a Marine
THIS country is wormy. Listen to
H. G. Johnson, head of the depart-
ment of entomology (bugs and
worms) at A&M College, who fears
that in addition to the damage the
worms do this year they will set
back the SOIL CONSERVATION
PROGRAM. His reason for this is
that some farmers have told him
that the large infestation is because
so many fields were devoted to
COVER CROPS during the winter,
which protect the worms. Many
farmers have told him, Dr. Johnson
says, that they would not plant
cover crops again.
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MOST people in this old world are
unhapy simply because they just
In her Capitol Talk column this
week, Nell Churchwell Reports some
timely work by Senator Morris:
In 1946 the Board of Insurance
Commissioners passed an order
which permitted fire insurance com-
panies to put on the face of all
policies covering real property a
statement that in case of total loss
due to fire, the persons carrying in-
surance could collect the face of the
policy, less depreciation on the pro-
perty.
Senator G. C. Morris of Green-
ville, who is sponsoring a bill to
remedy this situation, said thait this
order is contrary to the law.
“It is contrary to that article of the
statutes which states that the person
insured is entitled to collect the full
face value of the policy,” he said.
Senator Morris’ bill would force
the Insurance Commission to order
all such policies changed to include
the provision of the law. He believes
that unless this bill is passed the
insurance companies will continue
to be able to misrepresent the
amount of coverage to the policy-
holders.
The Greenville Senator pointed
out that passage of this bill will
guarantee to the policyholder that
he can COLLECT ALL that he is
ENTITLED TO.
This bill has passed the Senate
and is now/pending in the Insur-
ance Committee in the House. Sen- .
When a man and wife both passed
away, they took different route to
their destiny. When the wife got to
Heaven, she immediately called her
husband on the telephone. “How do
you like it down- there?” she asked.
“Fine,” was her husband's reply.
“All we have to do is wear a red suit
with horns and every now and then,
shovel some coal on the fire. We
don’t work more than two hours out
of every 24. But tell me, how is it
up there?”
“My goodness,” said the wife, “we
have to get up at four in the morning
and gather up the stars; then we
have to haul in the moon and hang
out the sun. Then we have to roll
the clouds around all day long.”
“But how come you have to work
so hard?” queried the husband.
“Well, to tell the truth,” said the
wife, “we’re kind of short of help
up here.”
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BREWERIES were operated in
Egypt 3,700 years before Christ.
Wonder if they advertised Bock,
Annheuser-Busch, et al brands.
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THIRTY BILLION gallons of gas
were burned in 1948. A Washing-
ton dispatch says: Automobile driv-
ers burned 30,646,486,000 gallons of
gasoline in 1948 and paid taxes of
$1,802,675,690 for the privilege.
States collected $1,342,973,000 in
gasoline taxes; the federal govern-
ment $459,702,609.
Stolen Drugs Found
A part of the narcotics stolen last
month from Dyer’s Drug Store was
discovered Saturday afternoon by
Buford Moore and George Wilcox-
son. The drugs were found under
a mass of dead leaves on the north
side of the Methodist Church lawn,
near the shrubbery. No special ef-
fort had been made at concealing
them. The narcotics were not box-
ed; they were loosely scattered
about.
According to F. M. Dyer, the more
valuable drugs, such as morphine,
which have a ready market among
addicts, were not among those
found.
Leaves for P. I.
Mrs. H. L. Parker, daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. J. R. Best of this city, with
her two children, Carrol and Jerry,
left Monday morning to drive to San
Francisco. They will sail from San
Francisco on the 25th of May on the
General Hassie to join Capt. Parker,
who is stationed at Clark Field,
Manila, P. I.
For the past several months, Mrs.
Parker, who is the former Mary
Alice Best, and her children have
made their home in Faarmersville.
They will arrive in Manila on the
13th of June, and will be there for
at least a year from that date.—
Times.
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Blind Man Helping
Deaf to “Hear” Baby
Omaha, Neb., May 20.—A deaf
couple in Oklahoma will be able to
“hear” the cries of their infant son
through an electronic device fash-
ioned for, them by an Omaha blind
H19D. . ------------ —
The deaf couple, Mr. and Mrs. Soil Conservation Service by the
Carl Coates of Ponca City, Okla., ” + + A 14“"
wanted some way of knowing when
their 19-day-old son needed atten-
tion other than keeping a constant
watch by his crib.
The device was suggested by Vic-
tor Smith,- of Omaha, Mrs. Coates’
brother, and fashioned by La Von
Peterson, blind founder and direc-
tor of the Radio Engineering Insti-
tute of Omaha. The U. S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce named Pet-
erson one of the 10 outstanding
young men of 1947. He trains blind
students to do radio repair work.
He supplied a microphone for the
baby’s crib. The noise of a cry
picked up by the microphone is am-
plified and sent through an elec-
tronic tube. It then passes through a
relay which throws a switch and
turns on a lamp.
A long cord permits the mother
to carry the signal lamp with her
about the house.
“They can pick up the baby’s
tiniest gurgle if they wish,” Peter-
son said. “Or they can set the in-
strument to tone down the infant’s
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THE Health Department
nounces 14 new cases of diphtheria
in the state. Parents are warned
to be careful of exposing their chil-
dren to this deadly disease.
Robert E. Powledge et ux t_____
G. Roberts, lot in McKinney, $5,-
500.00.
Lillie E. Russell to J. W. Oakley,
lot in McKinney, $325.00.
Amos England et ux to G. F.
Kirby, 12% acres in Thomas Cham-
bers survey, $50.00.
C. H. Bland et ux to Otis McLain
et ux, 36 acres in T. A. Rhodes sur-
vey, xxxX.
P. L. West et ux to C. A. West, .75
acre in Sylvester Williams survey,
xxxx.
Lenard R. Brummett et ux to W.
D. Prince, 12.50 acres in Daniel Row-
eltt survey, $1,500.00.
Eldon Earthman et ux to Perry
F. Evans, 82 acres in Thomas Rat-
ton et al surveys, $5,750.00.
Lloyd B. McGinnis et ux to W. E.
Carrell, lot in Plano, $4,532.12.
Plano Consumers Co-operative,
Inc., to Plano Co-operative Gin, lot
in Plano, $750.00.
J. B. Davis et ux to W. O. Silk et
ux, lot in Norris Austin survey, $5,-
750.00.
Feland Montgomery et ux to R.
E. Clements et ux, lots in Princeton,
$100.00.
J. F. Collinsworth et ux to D. L.
James, lot in Lebanon, xxxx.
W. J. Mitchell et ux to J. F. Col-
linsworth, lot in Lebanon, $75.00.
Jewel Addington Cosby et vir to
W. P. Addington, 60 acres in John
Kirby survey, xxxx.
W. P. Addington et al to R. E.
Clements et ux, 118.96 acres in A. D.
“Thar’s Gold Under •
Them Waves”
The Denton High School A Capella
Choir, under the direction of John
i Graham, presented a program for
i students of both junior and senior
Bill Wilson of Dallas was a busi- i high schools at Walter B. Wilson
ness visitor in McKinney Friday. He j Auditorium Wednesday night, May
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Colough 18. The chorus was composed of 60
Wilson of near Prosper, and is con- ; members, and recently won a Divi-
nected with the Internal Revenue ' sion I at the Inter scholastic League pu muem lu tune
Department in Dallas. ' meet in Denton. | loudest demands.’
“Five Minutes After I Die”
WHEREVER there is an active
Salvation Army organization you
will find it working hand-in-hand
with the Red Cross. Help these
people whenever possible. The Sal-
vation Army works where some
other organizations are inclined to
pass by on the other side. In a re-
port sent the Examiner from Dallas,
we are told that the Salvation Army
is working in 94 countries around the
globe.
In its “Yearbook 1949” The Salva-
tion Army gives a report of its min-
istry to MILLIONS of needy peo-
ple in the countries where it serves
as a force in BOTH RELIGION AND
WELFARE.
Through its social welfar opera-
tions, The Army last year supplied
more than 22 million meals, more
than nine million beds, provided
more than 26 thousand needy and
handicapped with jobs in its own
salvage workshops, and found more
than 43 thousand jobs for others in
private employment.
More than half a million people
were taken care of in its hospitals
and clinics, and more than 20 thou-
sand unwed mothers and their ba-
bies were looked after in Salvation
Army maternity homes.
Engaged in its world-wide reli-
gious and welfare programs are 17,-
329 corps and outposts manned by
more than 97 'thousand uniformed
officers and more than 14 thousand
full-time employees without rank.
The Salvation Army also provides
SPECIAL WELFARE ASSIST-
ANCE to prisoners, to alcoholics and
to many others in NEED OF A
FRIEND and a helping hand.
(Greenville Herald)
It was an old-time prospector, we
are told, who coined the expression
“thar’s gold, in them hills.”
But it has required a modern Fed-
eral Administration, a streamlined
United States Supreme Court—and
the perennial hunt for NEW sources
of Federal revenues—to bring about
the latest adaptation, which is:
“Thar’s gold under them waves.”
In other words, the United States
Department of Justice, able to upset
United Sates Supreme Court deci-
sions that had been for more than
one hundred fifty years obtained
to secure the states their owner-
ship to the tidelands, has succeed-
ed in getting the streamlined version
of the great tribunal to lay down the
precept that the Federal Government
POSSESSES “paramount rights” in
the tidelands of ALL STATES. That
was done in the California case,
decided in 1947.
In California the value of, pro-
perty leased or sold by the state for
oil, fishing and other purposes
through the years had run into
many millions of dollars.
Tuesday the United States Su-
preme Court overruled the conten-
tion of the states of Texas and Louis-
iana that the Federal Government
has no authority to sue the states
without their permission. Instead,
DALLAS, May 19. (AP).—An in-
ebriated motorboat driver taunted
Patrolman J. N. Hansen.
The man was running the boat up
and down a flooded street. Once
the wake of the speeding craft
sloshed into a grocery store and
knocked some merchandise off the
shelves.
Hansen yelled at the driver to pull
over to the bank.
“Ha! Ha! Why don’t you come and
get me?” The man taunted. Then
he churned his boat up the street
and back again. But then just as he
came back opposite the policeman
his motor conked out. Hansen wad-
ed out to the man.
“He didn’t come out of there high
and dry either,” said the policeman.
“I made him get out of the boat and
wade out just like I came in.”
The motorboat speedster was jail-
ed for disturbing the peace.
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Real Estate Transfers
The plans are being worked
to destroy the poll tax law. Not be-
cause it costs you $1.75 when you
register. But because it is a regular
FBI in detecting fraud in elections.
It is the best law yet devised to pro-
vide fair, decent and lawful elections
and keeps out the riff-raff that is ir-
responsible financially or morally.
It is a protection against Com-
munism. In a recent contribution
which appeared in the Ft. Worth
Star-Telegram, Judge Andrews said
under the caption:
Doorway to Corruption
Editor: Will you vote to repeal the
poll tax law to make it easier to vote
men in blocks of hundred, early and
often, without regard to age or resi-
dence, so gamblers, criminals and
dens of vice can dominate many if
not all Texas cities?
They claim registration will give
the same protection that the poll tax
does. Did it prevent Louisiana, in
carpet bag days, from importing 15,-
000 illegal voters from other states?
Did it prevent the Kansas City ma-
chine from voting enough dead men
and non residents in the 1946 pri-
mary to elect Truman’s slate? The
grand jury said it did not. When
millions of dollars are at stake in
elections it is possible to hire 100,000
autos to haul illegal voters from oth-
er states and Mexico and bribe or
deceive them and win the election
with 500,000 illegal voters. And if
corrupt men are elected they will
not punish the offenders.
Pilot Point.—Mrs. Suda Morris
died at 3:45 p.m. Monday at the
home of a daughter, Mrs. C. C. Buf-
fington, seven miles west of Pilot
Point.
Funeral-services were held at 3:30
p.m. Wednesday, at the Beck Funer-
al Horne in Pilot Point. Burial was
in the Masonic Cemetery at Pilot
Point.
She was born Sept. 10, 1864, at
Weston. She married Thomas W.
Morris in Weston, Oct. 18, 1882. He
died in 1904. She was a member of
the Methodist Church .
Survivors include four daughters,
Mrs. Buffington, Pilot Point; Mrs.
Ada Postum, Nocona; Mrs. V. W.
Crawford, Houseville, Texas; Mrs.
Thelma Sutton, Myra; two sons, I.
W. Morris, Hebron; Luther Morris,
St. Jo; 15 grandchildren; 10 great-
granchildren; two sisters, Mrs. R. I.
Wallace, Van Alstyne and Mrs. J.
H. Stinson, Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Cicero C. Buffing-
ton and Mrs. Morris formerly lived
at Chambersville.
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Wylie Area Aided
By Plano Work Unit
him a withering
PARTICIPATION^' tteBelgian terted ^’wha^ver tea
from Brussels, authorizing contract
for 1600 square feet of floor space in
the General Exhibits Building.
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The interested landowners in the
Wylie area are served by the Plano
work unit five man staff. The dis-
trict board of supervisors have work-
ed out a program and plan. To
have a systematic approach to the
demand for assistance the 'super-
visors have designated certain wa-
tersheds in which to concentrate
The Plano wprk unit staff ii
the following personnel; Jac/______,
unit conservationist; J. M. Norton,
Agricultural engineer; Pat A. Car-
penter, Soil conservationist; R. C.
Thomas and Bill Jackson, Conserva-
tion aids; Mrs. Opal West does the
clerical duties of the Plano office.
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^lary Louise Petway is
J»e 648 candidates for de-
the May 30 commencement
It’s a noble gesture when a Lady
quits her job to join her husband.
But the Texas Employment Com-
mission is having its hands full
keeping such women of nobility
from upsetting the whole process of
paying employment insurance, the
Employment Commission announces.
Women who VOLUNTARILY
QUIT their jobs to join their hus-
bands are NOT ENTITLED to em-
ployment insurance. In fact the law
provides that an individual shall be
DISQUALIFIED from receiving em-
ployment insurance if he or she has
left the last employment VOLUN-
TARILY WITHOUT GOOD CAUSE
connected with the employment.
That “voluntary without good
cause connected with his employ-
ment” part is what takes away bene-
fits from these formerly employed
women who follow their husbands
and later file claims for unemploy-
ment compensation. Although the
Texas Unemployment Compensation
Act was set up primarily to benefit
the employee who becomes UNEM-
PLOYED through no fault of his
own, the employer pays the bill
through, a payroll tax. Many women
do not realize this and frequently
complain: “I paid in the money and
I’m entitled to get it back!” The
1 % deducted from her pay is for Old
Age and Survivors’ Insurance which
is Federally administered.
During World War II, many wom-
en went home to “mother” while
husband went forth to do battle with
Hitler and his sattellites and took
employment to help meet expenses.
Well, the husband comes home after
the war and tells her that he’s got a
job in Podunk Holler. The wife tells
her employer that she must quit and
go with her husband who has em-
ployment elsewhere. This she does
and later enters one of the Texas
Employment Commission offices to
file for employment insurance. She
tells the claimstaker why she left,
but UNDER THE LAW he is requir-
ed to assess PENALTIES. The
determination on the claim is mailed
to the unemployed woman, but TO
HER SURPRISE she has been DIS-
QUALIFIED. She doesn’t under-
stand why, so she writes the Admini-
strative Office or visits the local of-
fice where she filed her claim for an
answer. Some appeal their cases
right away. But in most instances,
the Appeal Tribunal or the Commis-
sion will uphold the claims examiner
in the matter, since the law SPECI-
FICALLY says, “It was not con-
nected with the last employment.”
Decoration
school band,
He played green-clad football hus-
kies took their stand,
He played right tackle, watchj&g
for a break.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Inside Collin County (1 year) _$1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) _$1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.)__75c
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.50
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
PHONE 233 —
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
Ten married couples were having
a get-together. As they reminisced
about the events of the past, one
husband remarked, “By the way, i
whatever became of the old-fash- j
ioned girls who fainted when a man
kissed them?”
His wife gave
look.
Locke et ux, 1% acres
Johnson survey, xxxx.
Charles Hooper et al to N. K.
Locke et ux, 1% acres in John Lee-
right survey, $3,298.75.
C. A. Leverett et ux to A. E. Pet-
ty, 10 acres in W. B. Williams sur-
vey, $8,500.00.
Mose Carter et al to Bennie
Dixon et al, lot in Frisco, $75.00.
C. H. Standerfer et ux to Homer
Horton et al. lot in Plano, $2,600.00.
Lawrence Price, Jr., et ux to S. W.
Phillips, 64% acres in Turner O’Dell
survey, $10,320.00'.
W. M. Gaskill et ux to C. H. Sand-
erfer, lot in McKinney, $2,600.00.
Willard M. Morrow et ux to R. C.
Roberts, lot in McKinney, $2,000.00.
C. A. Carter to R. L. Burgess, lot
in McKinney, $100.00.
Wm. Sachse to J. W. Harper, un-
divided interest in 51% acres in
Thomas Chambers survey, $136.00.
Faye Qaither to Thalia Beatrice
Cameron, $12,00.00.
M. A. Morrow et ux to Joe J. Jen-
kins et ux, lots in McKinney, $475.00
Joe Bell et ux to Garrett Bell et
al, lot in Plano, xxxx.
Tommie Miller et ux to Jack En-
loe, lots in McKinney, $950.00.
B. F. Dinsmore et al to Willie Gal-
lups, lot in Samuel Sloan survey,
xxxx.
H. R. Gallups et ux to S. N. Lons-
ford, lot in Samuel Sloan survey,
xxxx.
the court decided to let the Depart- all policyholders would make their I
---x <-.TTTn . . . opinions known to their representa-
tives.
The cemetery bill authored by
Senator Morris has parsed the Sen-
ate. Under its provisions the ceme-
tery association has the right to
make rules and regulations regard-
ing the cemeteries. However, after
these rules pertaining to markers,
monuments and foundations have
been made they cannot be changed
EXCEPT BY APPROVAL of LOT
OWNERS of the cemetery.
The lot owner will be permitted
to set his own foundation for a
marker or monument as long as he,
complies with the cemetery associa-'
tion rules.
Further the cemetery association
is given the power to set UNIFORM
FEE CHARGES for monument set-
ting. They are to be based upon the
cost of labor and materials in the
vicinity where the cemetery is sit-
uated.
Monument dealers are to receive a
schedule of these charges and no
change can be made without giving
the dealers thirty days notice.
“Romans 8:11” J
But if the Spirit of Him that rais-
ed up Jesus from the dead dwell in
you, He that raised up Christ from
the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his spirit that
dwelleth in you.
Message
Five Minutes After Death
Loved ones will weep o’er my
silent face
Dear ones will clasp me in sad em-
brace
Shadows and darkness will fill the
place
Five minutes after I die.
Tears of sorrow I will not see
Voices that cry will not reach me,
But where, Oh, where will my
spirit be?
Five minutes after I die.
Oh, Lord, will I dwell in thy Hol'y\
Hill? )
Oh, Lord, will I abide in thy
Tabernacle
That I will know and see
Five minutes after I die.
Here I have complained, worked
and lost,
Here I have cherished, and roved
far off.
Here I have been cursed, anck pat-
ted on the back, '
There, and then, it will all be
changed,
Five minutes after I die.
Why cast along that broad way,
For it leads us right into destruc-
tion,
You will fail to set your brakes
some day and cast into hell
Why not take the way of the Cross
For the way of the Cross leads
home,
Into a peaceful Heaven.
Not just you, or I but everyone
shall see,
Five minutes after we die.
“Behold I sta^d at the door and
knock: If any Ban hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come into
him, and will sup with him, and he
with me.”---Rev. 3:20.
—Waymon L. (Tex) Robin.
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Requiem for
The Greenville Herald editor
knows two men who could have told
them. The Herald says:
Two of the men who could, if they
desired, say “I told you so” in the
Eisler case reside in Texas. They
are former Congressman Martin
Dies, who originated before World
War II the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, and Robert E.
Stripling, who quit as chief investi-
gator a few months ago. The work
of this committee was carried on
with parsimonious appropriations
grudgingly granted by the Roose-
velt Administrations and their suc-
(dessor, the Truman Administration.
' It was the House Committee on Un-
American Activities Eisler defied.
Now, due to a small bond, put up by
an organization Attorrney General
Tom Clark’s Justice Department has
listed as “subversive,” and to negli-
gence on the part of Federal agents,
Eisler has been able to create an IN-
TERNATIONAL INCIDENT. A
' 1 Communist agent—and one of the
principal ones in this country—for
‘. ryears, Eisler is putting over the
propaganda, for the benefit of the
Germans, that he is a German re-
fugee who left his native country be-
cause he was AFRAID of ADOLPH
HITLER. The President’s “red her-
ring” has grown to alarming pro-
portions, says the Herald.
ment of Justice SUE both states
FOR THEIR SUBMERGED COAST-
AL LANDS.
The court showed some action ab-
solutely uncharacteristic of it, too.
It decided upon SPEED. Perhaps
some of the Justices may have read
in the newspapers that proponents
of state ownership of the tidelands
now had bills before Congress and
that thirty-one members of the Sen-
ate had signed to vote for the meas-
ure, despite President Truman’s
known opposition to it.
Louisiana stands in the shoes of
California. If the California dici-
sion is constitutional—and the Su-
preme Court finally determines con-
stitutionality—Louisiana is sure to
lose.
TEXAS has a CASE DIFFERENT
from that of ANY STATE IN THE
UNION. Texas’ claim to three
leagues beyond the shore line at low
tide is based upon resolutions that
accompanied TREATY OF AN-
NEXATION between the United
States and the Republic of Texas. It
is BASED UPON A CONTRACT.
Texas agreed to ASSUME the ob-
ligations it had incurred as a re-
public. In return, it SPECIFICAL-
LY was granted its PUBLIC
LANDS, the TIDELANDS and some
islands off the Gulf Coast. It would
seem that the United States, al-
ways proclaiming its own integrity
and the sanctity of treaties, would
be the last to breach a contract hon-
estly entered into between it and the
PEOPLE of a REPUBLIC who had
WON THEIR OWN INDEPEN-
DENCE and maintained it for NINE
YEARS.
But that is not the case.
President Truman is ever de-
manding MORE and MORE TAX
MONEY. Congress, even under the
spur of an economy bloc drive, thus
far has been able to reduce the ap-
propriations sought by the Admin-
istration by less than one per cent.
There must be more revenues—■
by the most painless method. What
more natural, then, than that OF-
FICIAL Washington should be
looking this way, regardless of the
MORAL or LEGAL justification of
its acts, as it reflects “thar’s gold un-
der them waves”?
And doesn’t the Greenville Her-
ald hand it to Truman? And isn’t
it time the' people of Texas wake up
and see what their representatives
are doing about it?
; On the land where the United Na-
■ tions headquarters in New York are
rising, five men, not hoboes, but by
their, own description of themselves
“bums,” confronted an interviewer
from the New York Times.
They lived there, sleeping under a
bridge in cold weather, earning a
1 dollar or so a day by salvaging junk
from refuse piles, and observing
mankind’s efforts to build a struc-
ture of peace for the world. “It won’t
work,” opined the more articulate
member of te group. “As long as
there are two men on earth and one
> thinks he’s better than others there
will be war.”
The other four men nodded agree-
ment. What had been said had a
sound of profundity. Yet the inter-
view disclosed that these men ev-
ery day were disproving the validity
of their own pessimism.
They didn’t “split” their earnings.
(“We’re not Communists.”) But
they shared them. When one was in
need the others helped him out. One
acted as barber for the group, anoth-
er as cook, and they had some
friendship with boys in the neigh-
borhood who sometimes supplied a
nickel or a dime in time of fiscal ur-
gency, or brought ice cream or candy
to make life luxurious.
Many of the dynamics of peace
were at work at this small group,
^vxxxxxxx^c xxx txxC ocxx- Yet the MOST IMPORTANT was
ator Morris expressed a wish that i Rangely AB SEN^. That is, the BE -
....... - - - ' ’ | LIEF m the possibility of peace. And
the absence of that belief seems
traceable either to IGNORANCE of
the, basis and significance of their
own constructive behavior, or to a
sense of the very superiority over
their fellow men to which their
spokesman alluded as a cause of
war.
Thier position seems worth think-
ing about because it is the position
of so many persons in this peace-
starved world today, says the Chris-
tion Science Monitor.
Peace is possible because men
must live — whether under New
. York bridges on cold nights, or in
penthouses on Park Avenue—by the
same things these men live by. And
they must live that way not only
because that is the way by which
they can best supply physical needs,
but because that is the only way in
which they can satisfy that inner
something which makes them men.
“No man is an island,” physically,
morally or spiritually. Ultimately
there is no way of really satisfying
the craving for superiority except
by learning HOW TO LIVE not only
AT PEACE with, but in a helpful
relation to, one’s fellows.
Apparently the five men on the
UN building lot have got hold of a
big part of the solution of the war
problem.
Call them HOBOES, call them
BUMS, it is important to the world
that they should grasp the lessons
of their own lives and learn to BE-
iLIEVE in the possibility of peace.
And it is important that the REST
| OF US DO IT, TOO, says the Moni-
Havens et al surveys, xxxx.
W. O. Hagggrd et ux to W. O.
Haggard, Jr., .65 acres in John M.
Salmons et al surveys, xxxx.
J. W. Talley et ux to J. R. Love-
lace et al, acreage in Jonathan
Douthitt survey, xxxx.
W. R. Old et ux to A. J. Old et ux,
80.50 acres in T. H. Henley survey,
$1,000.00.
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