Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 192, Ed. 1 Monday, September 7, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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Bfenham Banner-Press
Labor Day, 1942
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L ter to make rubber from alcohol.
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plfth only what we have all along
resolved to do: that is, it wc
assure rubber for military and
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with compensation, of all tired f
Excess of five per flqotdrtrf; the
expropriation of all tires not u*6d
for IndispensabW'Alving, And ra-
tioning control ovef non-riftenttal
of tires not taken.
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In« preyert
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Wm. Penn, (Bluff); Albert Boek-
er, farmer; Gay Hill, and Martin
C. Stegemoeller, farmer, Wiede-
vllle.
£dolph Kelhng of Wonder Hill
bailiffs include Falcom Shaver, of
Chapel HU!,' Robert Cueldner of
Muellersville, A. J. Neutzler of
Burton, Will Tappe of Wiedeville,
John Husemann of. William Pehn,
Andrew Hill of Union Grove, Gus
Kiel of Rehburg. and Henry Pries-
meyer of Wesley. ,
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teachers .._ .
ment age applied for retirement.
Many who had, applications oh
file, withdrew them when a teach-
er scarcity became apparent, and
announced they Will teach for the
duration of the war.
Quite a number Of the 547 who
retired a year ago haVe indicated
a wilHngneaa to teach in the em-
ergency but unfortunately the re-
tirement afct Is so worded that
when a teacher once retires he
cannot go back to work Without
forfeiting the right to retirement
Minimum age at which a teach-
er can retire and be paid fa 60
y.ears.
movie oi cmgusn scnooi me in war Miss Rose Modrill a name now
has many an imitator among ^ex-l*4 being signed on ‘'fh»)w 37" or-
- ders issued by the Texas Railroad
Commission. She probably is the
first woman to sign sufh orders
and send them to the Commission-
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afto to detefmlhb in what mahhgr
■ Ail } rsfewtes can'
best be husbanded. This, of counrt. '
leaved the realm 6t mifth4mdrftefl
and becomes speculative.
"TM ttfehhatives moqt seriously
•irgrd Include natloh-wide gaso-
line rafiontaji; the expropriation,
with compfehsation, oi all tiret th
them effective.
The Commissioners have no
complaint of her. work and Chair-
man Ernest O. Thompson said so
far as his vote goes, she can con-
tinue to d'O this work,
Miss MOdrill has been
ploye of the Texas Rallroa<
mission for mOrO than 15
much of it in the division
regulates oil operations, including
spacing of wells.
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have access to certain dat^ Which1
can not properly M made public
in time Of war. Its membership
would need to command enough
respect so that whatever factual
conclusions might be drstwn from
unpublishable information would
be accepted as accurate.
Most of the pertirwnt facto.
Itowever, lie in the pubfe domain,
Um DITYUNOESS FEED
W» bay Ksy^.wjS, feaitvy paylar
pitone urn
the state. r
Miss Wyona Robbins is State
Agricultural Department's seed
expert. Her title Is state seed An-
alyst Miss Robbins is a member
of North American Seed Analysts.
In one year, she passes upon
and classifies a train-load of aeed.
Other women experts in the
pure seed division of the depart-
ment of agriculture are Misses
Winona-Dixon and Ina Mae Har- •
ris. Miss JIartlet . Smithers in
charge of the state archives is a
worlii-recbgriized authority 'on
Texans. ,
Director of Elementary Educa-
tion in the State Department of ,
Edncatfon is Miss Edgar Ellen
Wilson.
Some Of the older state em-
ployees fan remember when a wo-
man state employe was a raffty.
In fict, at one time a resolution
was passed by the State Senate
recommending that departments
have st least ohe woman employe
atnOng the staffs.
War taking men, the* percentage
how is almost the other way for
some departments , k
Oscar Bronenkant
Repaired
Brenham, Texas, All Work Cash
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expendable resources of petroleum.
If our farmers raised alcohol,
rather than wheat and com,' it
would be cheapef, quicker and bet-
But since the fartners grow
grain, whleh must be transformed
first into alcohol', ft is wisest to
rely largely upon petroleum. This
because, once we have utilized the
existing distillery facilities, we can
not spare the critical materials
which would be needed for the
dUtiiiation of alcohol from graih
maih; and also because the dis-
tlllatiOn of alcohol from grain, and
the plant it woiild require to do
bo, would Increase the time Bind
expense of rpaking synthetic rub-
ber.
The making of the ingredients
for Buna 8 from pel
> Contrary, is a natural incident
|he making of the high ofctanb
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Drives gets Hitching ..Ponta
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spite protests from townspeople
who believe the hitching posts
soon will be more essential than
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1 Hill; Dan Homey*, merchant, gkm scrap drive committee- ship-
J Long Point; John Spreen, farmer,' ped off Painesville's three hitching
•« 4Xlar Htll, Otto Gindorff. farmer, devices.
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• "before them. The grand jury
• Started dfeberations and varfotls
court officials took up details of
• _thelr work.
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• and criminal dockets will be light,
• '“with few important cases to be
• '.tried.
Members of the grand jury in-
J elude: Albert Fricke, farmer.
«.-Brenham, foreman; Willie Stolz,
•” merchant. Washington; H. H.
• ttocher, janitor, Brenham; R. A.
,. Eckert, merchant. Greenvine:
Trttz BerX*r’ farmer, Sandy Hill;
Lesser, merchant, Chapel
Dan Homey*, i
future if retiring State Democratic
Chairman E. B. Germany and oth-
er party leaders can bring it
about.
Germany is asking the state
executive committee at its session
next Monday to insist on candi-
dates reporting all their expendi-
tures they know took place in
their behalf.
Particular cuAoaity 1 s t being
shown about radio expenses.
In this connection a state offi-
cial suggested that people become
familiar with tne statute which
prohibits any candidate tar nom-
ination from expending or contrib-
uting money or a thing ait value
for the furtherance of the candi-
dacy of any other candidate.
.Enforcement of this provision
falls to the duty of district attor-
neys in plaices where violations
have occurred.
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State Senator Karl Lovelddy of
Meridian expects to offer a resolu-
tion to the state Democratic con-
vention which if adopted will mike
a* party request to the legislature
to pass a stricter law on campaign
expense reporting.
Such a proposed law has been
drafted, calling for official peering
into the expenses during the pro-
gress of campaign. To meet the
objection of a San AntoniO court
that a candidate for an office
created by the state constitution
cannot be barred from an election
ticket because of irregularities,
Lovelady said a constitutional
amendment also will be offered to
the next legislature.
The San Antonio ruling was
based on an argument that when
the constitution specifies qualifica-
tions for an official others cannot
be added by statute.
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Former Gov. Pat M. Neff, pres-
ident of Baylor University, who is
slated for temporary chairman of
the State Democratic Convention,
already has demonstrated h fs
ability to put a convention in or-
der. *
The demonstration wm at the
Waco convention when Roosevelt
and Garner delegations w.ere stag-
inpa fight that resulted in fisti-
cuffs among some of the rival
delegates.
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UNBIASED 8UURVEY would
By ft. BUTTON HEATH
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
NJEW YORK, Sept. 4—The mys-
*■ ~ tery about rubber is thicken-
ing. Until recently there was an
almost panicky agreement that
the United Nations face potential
disaster because the .Japanese
have cut off 97 per cent of the
rubber upon which we have de-
was appointed door bailiff. Riding pended. *, • t:
Today it is possible t<| create a
heated controversy even by sugi
gestfrig that there is S rubber
problem. There are those who say,
with "straight faces, that no rub-
ber shortage exists.
COM MISSION COIjLD
USE SECRET DATA
Under such- circumstances, there
is a growing demand for an im-
partial survey, by a commission of
unbiased persons Who command
general public confidence, to de-
an em-
;d Com,
yCars, i
i whi«Sh
iding
t TT'*? °?r C1«B M u^-A^^Divtaiom Sd
has Its offices so designated on
state capitol doqrs. Miss Modrill
(o6k oier tht Issuance of the
"Rule 37”, orders when Stanford
Payne of Del Riq resigned.
whleh must be transformed j Aljother ‘ i^tant executlV*
posttfah tn a state d^pirtment is
tkat tit Vttai Alfcft Miller, Who
has hfeh fh the ptotehMtng drift-
ton of the State Board 6f Cohfrbl
for many yeartt. She ft an expert
on the types of supplies bought by
The convention wm being held
in the auditorium at Baylor Uni-
versity. When the uproar became
so great that none of the party
officials could do anything, a' call
wm sent to President Neff of the
college.
Neff strode to the platform,
rapped for order, and stood his
ground until the racket subsided,
ft was a masterly demonstration
of one man remaining unflusteYed
by all the hub-bub and bringing
about order.
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The lovable Mr. Chips in the
and would merely require veriffta-
tion, assembling, and presentation
in language understand? He by the
man in the street.
On the basis of much research,
inspired by no motive except to
ascertain the truth, herb is sub-
stantially what this writer be-
lieves that such a commission
would be forced to report to the
President ,the Congress and the
public: . Therefore, for months or years,.
T^ere la a rubber shortage so to' come, there ft ho hope of get-
serous that it threatens the pro-
duction program upon which rests
our hope of winning this war.
That shortage ft prospective, ra-
ther than immediate. '
As of today, it would be pos-
sible for the War Production
Board to permit re-tiring of al)
civilian automobiles.
CAN"f 1«AVE RUBBER
AND “DRIVING AS USUAL”
It that were done, however, be- ’
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hltst Eye, Ear, Nene asM Throat
plants out or steel and copper eritl
termine the basic facts. ifofo the middle of 1943 fe'eran
Such a body presumably woUftl I Would not bb rubber avtpabfe for
--- " USe of thb Army, the I^avy and tioh
indispensable transportation facil- |
(ties 1__
There are many ways in which miftbb
rubber for civilian tires cduld be chide 1
procured. f . t
One ft the scheme devised by
the rubber fndtirtry and public*
ized by some writers m proof that
thire actually is no rubber Shbrt-
Upon close examination. hoW-
g^er, it develops that thft scheme
oes not provide for driving m
usual. Essentially, it would acoom-
that ft, it would
.1 es-
sential civilian driving, and no
ihftre. ,
Science knows how to make m
much good synthetic rubber as
we could use. There ft no scarcity
of the rtw material*—^troleum
or grain. But there ft * danger-
ous scarcity of the *teei and cop-
build tne pUUn. -Wfm ----
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•abecriptioa Rates: By carrier one week 15; month 60c: year 16 00
I WuhiMton and adjoftias counties: 53-50. Texas 55 00. out of state ft 00
a Labor Day
•T ABOR DAY was sponsored originally by the Knights of
•L» Labor, first general trade union organization in this
•country, which had much more resemblance to the present-
Zday C. I. O. than to the A. F. of L.
Quite naturally, perhaps, we have come to think of
LAbor Day as the particular prqperty of those workers who
are organized into trade unions—the ones of -whom we
speak, reverently or fearfully,’as Labor with a capital “L”.
t But since this year we are fighting a bloody war for the
“£fesPrvatioh of democracy, let’s talk about democratic labor
I—with the small “L”—which comprises perhaps 85 or 90
"percent of those who work for a living.
* Because of the shortsightedness and sometimes the sei-'
'.fiphness of certain union officials. Labor1—with the capital
' “L”—has brought upon itself frequent severe denunciation.
*** • • • .
But Labor is made up largely of laborers. And the re-
Lcord Will dhow that labor—the men who actually do the
• work—has proven itself as actively, sacrifically patriotic
as any element in our population.
\ Because of our geographical position, because of our vast
•natural resources and because of our productive capacity,
Ithe anti-axis world is forced to depend upon the United
-States for much of the material of war.
Upon the shoulders of American labor the fate of the
• World rests today. If labor continues to come through as
'it has been doing, totalitarianism can be whipped. If labor
. were to let down, as nobody has the right to expect that it
will, then all the courage of all the soldiers and sailors of
, -the United Nations cannot save us.
• • •
The point to be kept in .mind is that democracy depends
upon American labor, not American Labor. The first, with-
out the capital "L”, includes the 85 per cent who are not
' unionized, plus probably 99 per cent of those Who do belong
-to unions. r
* The boys in the front lines look for their weapons and
munitions to the men at the machines—not to the relatively
- few union officials who show an inclination sometimes to
’ forget that this is hot their private war.
The men behind the machines are you and us, the folks
.with whom we brush shoulders on the street, in buses and
; trolleys and elevators.
T Give them a chance to speak for themselves, and these
; millions are as willing to sacrifice for the preservation of
■ democracy as any loud-voiced street-corner orator,
’ So on Labor Day this year let’s forget that ’ the first
; Monday in September used to be dedicated to Labor, and
in the brief moment that we can spare from production fbr
wtT. let us remember that labor should not be branded for
• the sins of a" few of its self-proclaimed oracles.
, IContinuM from pare ob«1
aa School teachers, the entrance of
thia country into war has detnon-
strated. ■ • - • .
Last year, when provisions of
the teacher retirement ay»tem approval W make8
were made effective on Sept. 1,
a total of 547 eligible teachers
availed themselves of the oppor-
k 1 rcat- ,
iteryF-mtember less thah 200
lers who had reached retire-
awM 7.h,&
ly needed elvtwlftre.
thdugh they are. much inferior fh
the qiiKItties pba*e»ed by planta-
tion rubber and Buna S synthetic.
Summing tfp these indftidual
findings, the rubber survey cbm-
undbtibtedly would con-
clude that we niu« husband with
the Zeal tit < miser evfry ounce of
rubber we poaaftft
Oil AIN <S. ALUdHOL
is Dangerous row
.The cofnmftMoA win not have
dftne lift hill duty linless ft Irt-
(jiilres into the dangefous dispute
between advocates Of grain and
proponents of petroleum.
On thia point available evidence
indicates that the commission
would have to report, subatantai-
r foltoWs: _
The end phoduct, Buna S, Win,
i be the same whichever process ft'
1 used.
1 Everything else being equal, It
’ would to desfrabte to use grain,
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WALL
VAm,.,
AddU, to gHi W»uty
of our iramcEL W >
complete stock of late pat-
terns to select from.
WOODSON
LUMB&R CO.
■ “ 11 ni K wflkJJ
the
gasoline we must have, and
utilize .the same equipment.
MlGflT FIGURE HOW
TO CONSERVE SUPPLIES
The eomrnftrton might to aikedf
the available rubber
transform petroleum ‘and alcohol
Into latex.
Moreover, the construction of
such a plant takes time. Even to
the extent to which steel and cop-
per can be diverted to this use,
it will be some time before latex
can actually become available,
even in quantises required for
military and indispensable civil-
ian needs.
Therefore, for months or------
ting civilian tires, for other than
essential use, from synthetics. , ....
It ft possible to make g»t.^ movie of Englfth school life, in war
able tires, from reclaimed scrap
rubber. These might relieve the
Civilian situation, except that the
scrap, like the limited supply of
virgin rubber available, ^s needed
wdrse for war use than for civil-
ian convenience.
The same is true of those syn-
thetics, such aa thlokol and butyl,
which could be used for tires al-
i
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stem couple of
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now be made
The reason: BEW
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Edam
from going
able arrax
made to1
The Puerto Rican sugar people,
anxious to make a deal for them-
selyes as favorable, started nego-
tiating With an thq, variout
eminent agencies' ag required.
They just started, however, when
their Washington representative*
received i letter frftn the sugar
section of the Board of Economic raphers
Warfare. It said, in effect, that joinlpg
BEW had heard about this pre-
posai and it was BEW’s opinion
that any deal for Puerto Rican
sugar should now be
through BEW. ‘
has control of
. z. .. Jf
'T’HE full story has never been
told on why the government
was never able to get a full con-
fession or statement out of Theo-
wjre ^thrown in for good measure.
riTHERE are now seven govern-
x ment agencies having some
Ay-ib Oh augar supply,, and that
leads to coihplfcations.
Into this already oversweetened
kettle of fish an eighth agency has
nbW stuck Its spoon—the Board of
-Economic Warfare, One subse-
quent situation developed like
this: Although Department of
Commerce agencies have bought
and stored prabtically hie entire
crop of Cuban sugar to keep the
Cuban sugar growers and mills
' "oke^fio such fayof-
ments have been
the crop of
• EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN
BY Ptni BBB0M
ifKA Service Washington CafrfefeMt
W/AR Production Board Boss Donald M. Nelson hu taken hard the
W kicking around and whipping that merciless Washington gives
to its top public men. Tor the past month or so he hasn’t laughbd
much or been hft usual good-natured self.
His week’s vacation in northern New York did
him a lot of good, however, and shortly after he
came back one of hft assistants got an old-time
Nelson beHy tough out of him. They were talking
about the proposed firings of WPB industry branch
chiefs for inefficiency. ’’Heads are going to roll!"
s.-id Nelson seriously.
“W4 might,” said the assistant, “make the slogan
•Keep ’em Rolling.’ *
Unca’ Donal* threw back his head and roared.
' .4 • •
^ELSON’S Labor Day speech at Cleveland is his
first major address since last June. Last spring
he let himself gW.fe.tor a whole series of public
appearances that ended with the whirlwind tour
that took him to his alma mater, University of
Missouri at Columbia, Mo.; a miners’ meeting in
Butte, Mont; a MacArthur-day celebration in Chi-
cago; a Northwestern University dedication in Evah:
radio talks were thrown in for good measure.
.. dore -Wozniak, the man who is
>e supposed to have started the fire
at the Canadian Car and Foundry
Plant in Kingsland, N. J., Jan. 11,
1917, setting off an explosion that,
with the Black Tpm disaster, was
supposed to be the most effective
job of sabotage in the last war.
Now that Wozniak is again in cus-
tody, the story is out.
Wozniak dropped out pt sight
after the fire and was n6t located
until 1930 when the Mixed Claims
Commission was conducting Its
investigation Into the disaster.
Then Wozniak appeared and of-
fered tb sell his mfornrattnn.
Not knowing what his ififorma-
tion was, no terms could be made,
but a supposedly secret meeting
Wa* arranged between Wozniak
ata thq variolas gov- land a member of the coinmftMon.
_ -----.-j. >Wozniak specified that no one else
should be present and that thtere
should be no stenographic record.
Just the same, a couple of stenog-
, ' j were stationed in an ad-
joining room to take down the
statement. '
Half way through the state-
ment, one of the stenographers
sneezed. Wozniak bolted from
the door and disappeared. By the
time he wa's next located, the
statute of limitatiohs had rOn out
and he was saved from prosecu-
tion. But the Department of Jus- .
tlce has him in custody now, just
for safe keeping. ,
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