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Take Care Roads
President Truman
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MANILLA is producing
hemp crop this year. Th.
States could profitably uc
hemp if the many thousand
fiends, highway robbers and
McKinney Examiner
CLINT THOMPSON
WOFFORD THOMPSON
Editors and Proprietors
asks,
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A Fall River, Massachusetts wom-
an was leaving court after being
fined $3 for a traffic violation heard
a request for a translator for a rab-
bi, returned and received a $2 inter-
preter’s fee.
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This Shows At Ten Year Intervals The Number Of Graduates
From East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Since 1918
When It Became A State College.
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Wilson and
family have been spending Christ-
mas with relatives in Indiana. They
came near moving up there a few
years ago. Wonder if they still like
that cold country.
Marshaw says Truman could play
pretty well, and that he would have
no doubt made a deal with Harry
but the orchestra he was conducting
“flopped.” Thus you see how the
great U. S. came near not having
Mr. Truman as its president. He still
plays the piano and no doubt gets
much relief for his overtaxed nerves
at times.
The Examiner hopes Mr. Benedict
enjoyed his Christmas. He ought to
be rewarded for the above sensible
suggestion.
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Musical Opinion
She shut off the record player and
turned excitf^ly to her father.
“Daddy!” exclaimed. “That is
the latest swWg record. Did you ever
hear anything so wonderful?”
“No,” he replied wearily, “I can’t
say I have, although I once heard a
collision between a wagon load of
empty milk cans and a farm cart ’’
filled with ducks!”
“They sit like this because there’s
nothing, else here for them to do.”
Staff physicians explained meth-
ods used in restoring non-acute pa-
tients to society.
Electric and insulin shock treat-
ments can clear the minds of a ma-
jority of mental cases. More often
not, however, doctors don’t
time to give the treatments.
Phycho-therapy, called “personal
work” by attendants, consists of in-
terviewing patients, diagnosing their
disorders, and clearing their minds
through persuasion. Phycho-therapy
is work for psychiatrists, but psy-
chiatrists are scarce at State salaries.
San Antonio, with 2,927 patients, has
only 4 psychiatrists.
Occupational therapy (job train-
ing) takes brooding patients out of
the “day rooms” and puts them to
work. This gives them self-confi-
dence and a “will to get well.”
“Occupational therapy is far more
important than giving a pill,” Rusk’s
Dr. Jackson declared.
But at Abilene, only 90 of 1,351
patients get occupational therapy,
and in Austin, 25 per cent more pa-
tients are capable of benefiting from
it if they had the chance.
Church services and recreation
also are big steps toward the “out-
side.” But Rusk State Hospital is the
only institution having a suitable
building for worship and play, and
it is overcrowded.
Representatives of the hospitals
will be explaining the economics of
“room and board’ for mental pa-
tients to the x Legislature when it
meets in special sesison in January.
The hospitalization will try to con-
vince the lawmakers that it is eco-
nomical to spend money for reso-
cializing “State boarders.”
FIRST thing we know now, Gen-
eral Eisenhower will have his pic-
ture taken out around the barn
somewhere, says an exchange. But
not until he tells us he was born and
raised on a farm and hoed cotton
will we believe he might yet give
his consent to become a candidate
for president. A real politician
wants to have something that will
convince the voters that he is quali-
fied for the job.
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Did you ever hear President Tru-
man playing the piano? Many peo-
ple do not know that he is a fine
artist in music. A story from Los
Angeles says Clyde Marshaw, 69,
thought Harry S. Truman a pretty
good pianist—even back in 1908.
Marshaw, a retired printer, said he
organized an orchestra in Kansas
City back in 1908 and came near
hiring the man who is now occupy-
ing the White House. I would like
to have had him. He could play bet-
ter than the piano player we had.
But the orchestra flopped.
THE PARIS News editor
“Are we all crazy?” Why do
ask? Just look around.
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Doctor—“The thing for you to do
is to stop thinking about yourself;
try burying yourself in your work.”
Patient—“Mercy, and me a con-
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Let This Be a Lesson
last night.”
“My wife explored my pockets
“What did she get?”
“About the same as any other ex-
plorer—enough material for a lec-
ture.
Grayson County Commissioners
Court Saturday issued an appeal to
all citizens, particularly to farmers
terracing land, to help care for the
A court resolution
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Inside Collin County (1 year) _$1.50
Inside Collin County (6 mo.) _$1.00
Inside Collin County (3 mo.)
Outside Collin County (1 yr.) $2.50
Outside Collin County (6 mo.) $1.50
Outside Collin County (3 mo.) $1.00
More and more Texans are seek-
ing college degrees and typical of
the growth of higher education in
the state is East Texas State Teach-
ers College, Commerce. Founded in
1889 as East Texas Normal College,
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A DALLAS bandit pulled 7 hold-
ups in 11 hours. They ought to send
him up for 11 years. But they won’t
Too many cases ahead of him. They
will just hang it up. It is said the
criminal court docket in Dallas is
so overloaded with untried cases
that the judges simply cannot try
them. Recently it is said one hun-
dred cases were marked off the
docket. Some of the principals had
died, witnesses moved away. The
criminals know what they are doing.
They know if they can load the
courts so heavy that their cases can-
not be tried quickly, that they can
beat them later — if the case comes
up. The lawyer—he knows
business.
es which will forever destroy, in
whole or in part, many free enter-
prise business, says a writer in Dal-
las News.
That catchword “subsidies” effec-
tive at every crossroad with possible
complete subsidies on the principles
of Russia MAY BE IN THE MAK-
ING. Farmers, don’t sell your Amer-
ican freedom for a “mess of politi-
cal pottage” and throw away your
American birthright for temporari-
ly helping the “money changers”
subsidize you, says the writer.
Meeting in Fort Worth to do some-
thing towards getting water in West
Texas, directors of the West Texas
regional Chamber of Commerce
heard two United States Senators
voice approval of asking govern-
ment aid in the emergency, says the
Paris News.
The general manager of the
Chamber, arguing for the necessity
of government loans, said that the
government has been spending
money to CONTROL FLOODS, and
if that were proper why not spend
money to CONTROL THE LACK
OF WATER. “If water excesses are
a MENACE to society, is water
SHORTAGE not a menace to socie-
ty?” he asked, “and if so, shall West
Texas PARTICIPATE in the gov-
ernment BENEFITS?” Then he im-
plied that West Texas has been
SHORTCHANGED already on the
Federal grant front.
It’s pretty hard to get away from
“If we don’t get it somebody else
will,” and so GOVERNMENT
SPENDING CONTINUES.
Senator Tom Connally injected a
lighter note into the meeting when
he said there was no use letting
GOOD WATER flow into the
OCEAN, that he had flown over the
Atlantic and there was ENOUGH
WATER THERE. And Senator Lyn-
don Johnson urged that we should
not fear the Federal government,
asking, “If you can not trust your
government to help you QUENCH
YOUR THIRST, how can you trust
your government for any task?” No-
body seemed to have an answer to
that, and the West Texas folks will
ask Federal money to
DAMS. William Warne,
AN ARTICLE in the Readers Di-
gest asks if there is room in the
poor house for 149 MILLION PEO-
PLE. We haven’t been out lately.
We mean out of our office—not the
poor house. But if that bunch in
Congress which is voting ITSELF
HIGHER SALARIES and handing
out PUBLIC FUNDS to political
pets isn’t fired, we may just have to
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roof over the nation.
Deficit — spending under Tru-
man’s administration next fiscal
year will make the national deficit
to
the Gilmer-Aiken Bill, Texas school
teachers are now going to be held
accountable for things which some
of them have been able to get away
with in the past.
This is the advice given by Dr.
H. M. Lafferty, professor of educa-
tion at East Texas State Teachers
College, in an article in a recent is-
sue of ‘The American School Board
Journal.” Entitled “Nobody Feels
Sorry for School Teachers,” the ar-
ticle points out that the Gilmer-
Aikin Bill has raised the salaries of
teachers and the public will now de-
mand better work from teachers.
“As long as the village teacher’s
income was below that of the ma-
jority of wage earners in the same
community, few people looked care-
fully at the teacher’s handiwork,”
the professor reported. “They knew
that teachers were NOT getting
much pay and therefore did NOT
expect too much from them.
However, Dr. Lafferty contends,
now salaries are higher and if teach-
ers can’t do the job like it should be
done, then the public will get some-
one who can do it.
Wrong Letter
Teacher (giving a beginning pu-
pil a lesson on the alphabet)—
“What comes after ‘O’?”
Pupil—:‘Yeah.”
Entered at the Post Office in Mc-
Kinney, Texas, as Second-Class
Mail Matter.
The Dallas News is somewhat of
an example for both old and young
and the praise, honor, glory and re-
spect for the leaders is always
stressed. Yet the papers refer to the
second highest official of our coun-
try as the Veep. Would you refer to
your company’s vice-president as
Veep or address him as. such? I
would not.
I think the practice should be dis-
continued. Let’s respect our Vice-
President. If you are the loyal gen-
tlemen I think you are, I think I
will see an editorial condemning
such disrespect for our government
officials. They are elected by our
people for our people and deserve
it.
M. O. BENEDICT.
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THE Federal census^bureau re-
' ports 14,715,600 bales’ of cotton
ginned up to Dec. 1 ffom the 1949
crop. This number compared with
12,744,152 ginned to the same date
last year and 10,046,013 two years
ago.
BRITISH-MADE Ford cars and
trucks have just been reduced 30 to
34 per cent in New York. That is
only a starter. Marshall Plan money,
with billions of American tax pay-
ers’ money loaned the British under
a “SHOESTRING” promise to RE-
PAY, plus billions more United
States taxpayers’ money loaned oth-
er foreign countries spells more
danger for United States.
Tight Pitching
Young son, home from a baseball
game—“Hey, dad, I pitched a
hitter.”
Father—“That’s fine, Son,
was the score?”
Son—“We won, 9 to 6.”
Father—“How’d they
runs without any hits?”
Son — “Aw, those
homers.”
Roommates
Two tramps were hailed before
a judge and the following evidence
was brought out:
Judge—“Where do you live?”
First tramp—“Nowhere your hon-
or.”
Judge (to other tramp)—“And
where do you live?”
Second tramp—“I’ve got a room
above him.”
Highest Bidder
Army Recruiting Officer: “Young
man, would you like to join the
army?”
Potential Recruit: “I might. The
Navy offers me a girl in every port.
Lake Success, N. Y.—Canada
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Secretary of the Interior, said West
Texas could not depend on
GROUND WATER, that streams
MUST BE DAMMED if there is to
be INDUSTRIAL and AGRICUL-
TURAL development.
the institution has grown from an
enrollment of a few students to
more than 2,500 at the present.
Around 1,200 degrees were awarded
by East Texas State Teachers Col-
lege during the 1948-49 school year.
around $10,000,000,000 or more. That, county road system.
wilii greany meumeS, A court resolution pointed out
will cause large INCREASE in tax- damage that is being done through
....... ' ■ ‘ building terraces so that drainage
is diverted into the highways and
lateral road system, through plow-
ing' along and across road drainage
ditches and driving across surfaced
roads with machinery that is not
equipped with protective devices,
and dumping trash and refuse on the
shoulders and in the road drainage
ditches.
“The county has at great expense
constructed blacktop, rock and
gravel roads for which the citizens
are paying and will continue to
pay,” said the resolution.
“The Court by this resolution ap-
peals to the pride and common sense
of each and every citizen and to
each community and requests that
any and all refrain from doing that
which is injurius to the roads and is
contrary to state roa dlaws.
Farmers building terraces, repre-
sentatives of the County Agricul-
ture Agents and the Soil Conserva-
tion offices are requested to use
diligence in protecting the roads
from excess diverted drainage. The
court pointed out that dumping
trash within 300 yards of a public
road, diverting water into road
ditches or injuring a public road in
any way, are all violations of state
laws and are punishable by fines.
Collin County’s Commissioners
had the same trouble and may still
have cases like the above. But our
commissioners took right hold of the
danger, and we have not heard of
the law being violated since
warning was given.
That Settled That
“I’ll take this suit, George,” the
businessman told the tailor, “but
'you’d better let the waist out on
the pants—coupla inches, maybe.”
“No, you don’t, George,” barked
the businessman’s wife from a few
paces down the counter. “Just leave
them as they are. Let him take off
a few pounds.”
day that the only assurance against
a future “atomic Pearl Harbor” is
full agreement on the Baruch con-
trol plan.
In a hard-hitting speech which
launched the 59-nation UN special
committee on its long-awaited bat-
tle over atomic control, Lester Pear-
son, Canadian foreign minister, said
neither the U. S. nor Russia can
win an atomic race which will be
touched off if agreement fails.
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• CROWDED AND FALLING APART are many of th*buildings
at the Mexia State School, shown above, which houses, the young
feeble-minded of the State and senile men and women. The
picture above shows a group of patients crowded on a porch (an
attendant is in the foreground) because they have no other place
to sit. Below, is one of the old tar-paper shacks at Mexia, which
in 1943 was used to house war prisoners. The photo shows how
it is falling apart at the seams, yet it is still being used to house
mentally deficient children.
Austin (Special).—Texas taxpay-
ers are paying “room and board”
for mental patients who could have
been returned to society decades
ago.
The overworked staffs of Texas
mental institutions, handicapped by
lack of time ,space, and equipment,
are unable to take full advantage of
scientific means of “resocializing”
their patients.
Because of this, hundreds of mild
mental cases turn into lifetime
“state boarders.”
This lesson in economy was em-
phasized to members of the recent
press tour of State institutions.
According to Dr. A. T. Hanretta,
superintendent of the Austin State
Hospital, the current cost of a year’s
care for one of his 3,200 mental pa-
tients is $515.88. This is double the
per capita cost four years ago.
Correct treatment can restore half
the State’s costly mental wards to
normal life, Dr. C. L. Jackson, Rusk
hospital head, believes. But lack of
funds bars the way to this achieve-
ment, and Texas mental hospital is
increasing daily.
Average daily population of the
Austin hospital has climbed 700 in
12 years. San Antionio’s institutions
accepted 856 patients last year while
dischraging only 649.
While inspecting the institutions
the newspapermen repeatedly saw
conditions which not only were do-
ing the patients no good, but ob-
viously were speeding up their men-
tal decay.
New admittances, capable of re-
covery in a matter of months, were
seen thrown into close association
with hopeless, violent cases of in-
sanity. In this sort of situation, in-
sanity can be called “contagious.”
Dimly-lit “day rooms” were filled
with further evidence of mental de-
terioration. The “day rooms” were
jammed with brooding patients,
backs bent and heads drooped to
knee-level.
“They’re thinking about them-
selves,” and attendant volunteered.
A laugh is as good as a dose of
medicine, so they say, but this time
I laughed until I thought I’d need
some pills. After all over a fighting
rooster.
He had terrozized me for months
—would jump at me without a sec-
ond’s warning. And he wasn’t par-
ticular where he spurred me but it
was usually on the legs and several
times he made the blood come. How
my husband would laugh! He
thought it was the funniest sight
he’d ever seen just to watch that
rooster back off and crow. I’ve seen
my husband chuckle over it repeat-
edly. I asked him to kill the rooster
so I could cook him, but he would
say, “Oh, he’s so pretty I hate to kill
him.”
Sure, he was pretty. A great big
red fellow. But now comes the story:
One morning my husband decided
to feed the chickens. I was working
by the kitchen window where I had
a good view of the chicken pen. The
mister was stooped over the feed
trough starting to pour the feed in
when—wham!—the old rooster took
him right where he sits down. My
husband was either so badly jolted
or so surprised that he went sprawl-
ing over the feed trough while the
bucket and feed sailed through the
air. And Mr. Rooster strutted to one
side, stretched his neck and crowed
the most victorious crow I ever
heard.
When my husband got up, he put
his hand back where he was spurred,
felt around pretty easy and sheep-
ishly looked to see if I was anywhere
in sight.
Needless to say, I laughed until I
cried and my sides fairly ached.
When my husband came in he knew
I’d seen the show. He said, “Do you
want to cook that old so-and-so to-
day?” /
Yes, I cooked him. And every time
I’d take a bite, I’d laugh until I
nearly CHOKED.
MANILLA is producing a
hemp crop this year. The United
States could profitably use more
hemp if the many thousand sex
fiends, highway robbers and cold
blood murderers were hung instead
of being turned loose to roam the
highways and streets.
A Sense of Humor
During the night, two burglars en-
tered a service station. One ap-
proached the locked safe, took off
his shoes and sox, and began to pick
the lock with his toes.
“What’s the matter with you?” his
partner blurted. “Let’s open this
thing and get out of here!”
“Naw, it’ll only take a minute
longer this way, and we’ll drive the
fingerprint experts crazy.
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WASHINGTON (AP). — Almost
one of every four aged persons in
the United States is on public assist-
ance rolls.
State and federal aid for the
needy aged (65 and over) declined
sharply during the war but is now
increasing rapidly. The main rea-
sons are the growing population of
elderly persons and a general trend
for states to pay larger benefits.
During August 1949 some 2,661,-
000 persons received a total of $116,-
643,611 in old-age assistance pay-
ments. This was 22 per cent more
than the total paid in August 1948
and 300 per cent more than the $36,-
548,000 disbursed in August of pre-
war 1939.
For the country as a whole the
average payment last August was
$43.83 per recipient. That’s more
than double the average of $19.36
in August 1939, when prices of food
and other necessities were much
lower than now.
Several states this year boosted
their maximum payments of old age
assistance. The maximum was in-
creased in Illinois from $45 to $65,
in Maine from $40 to $50, in Michi-
gan from $60 to $80, in Nebraska
from $50 to $55, in North Dakota
from $40 to $60 and in Tennessee
from $45 to $50.
Average monthly payments rang-
ed recently from a low of $18.81 in
Mississippi to a high of $70.70 in
California. Colorado had the sec-
and highest, $67.02. Washington
State was third with $66.87.
The proportion of elderly people
receiving assistance varies greatly
in the states. In Louisiana 791 of
every 1,000 persons 65 and.over were
receiving payments, and in Ala-
bama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia,
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas
more than 400 per 1,000.
At the same time fewer than 100
aged persons per 1,000 were on the
assistance rolls in Connecticutt, Del-
aware, the District of Columbia,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York
and Virginia.
Factors in the wide differences
between the states are general eco-
nomic conditions, the proportion of
persons receiving the benefits under
old age and survivors insurance
and the ability of children to care
for destitute parents.
Some people confuse old age as-
sistance with old age insurance.
Persons who receive assistance
payments do not contribute toward
them.
Under old age insurance em-
ployees and employers make month-
ly contributions. These later pro-
vide monthly payments for retired
employees regardless of their needs.
Some welfare authorities contend
that widening the coverage and in-
creasing the benefits under old age
insurance would go far in reducing
the need for old age assistance.
Recently some 10 per cent of the
persons receiving old age insurance
benefits were also getting old age
assistance. That was because their
insurance benefits (national average
about $25 a month) were not enough
to keep them from the ranks of the
needy.
The Social Security Law provides
federal grants-in-aid to the states to
cover a share of the cost of old age
assistance. Each state determines
for itself who is eligible fo rassist-
ance and also the cash amount to be
given each person.
Under present law the federal
share is $15 of the first $20 of the
average payment per person, plus
one-half the balance up to a maxi-
mum of another $30 on individual
payments—that is, another $15.
A bill passed by the House at the
last session of Congress would in-
crease federal contributions, parti-
cularly in states where the payment
levels are low. It will be considered
by the Senate at the next session.
The bill provides that the federal
share be $20 of the first $25 of the
average payment, plus $5 of the next
$10 and $5 of the next $15,
The maximum federal contribu-
tion thus would remain $30 per re-
cipient, but states with average pay-
ments between $20 and $30 would
be able to raise their payments as
much as $5 per person.
The federal government does not
now contribute to assistance people
residing in public institutions. The
bill would have the government
share the cost of payments to such
persons for mental disease and
tuberculosis.
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