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GAINESVILLE DAILY REGISTER, GAINESVILLE, TEXAS.
Arnold
fumbled. He might
*
vance
s months, in advance-.
--$150
$2.00
YOUR INCOME TAX
many lives.
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a
Contemporary
In Other Days
Gems of Thought
Phone 178
Miller Tires
, Home-Owned
Since 1915
Want ads ring the cash register.
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FHA Meeting to Be
Held Tuesday Here
Standard Replacment
Parts of AU Kinds
For Your Car
It is optional with the taxpayer,
in a year prior to that in which
a debt becomes wholly worthless,
to take a deduction for partial loss
if partial worthlessness occurs.
The provisions of the Internal
Revenue code with respect to bad-
debt and partial bad-debt deduc-
tions are not applicable to a tax-
payer, other than a bank as defined
by the act, where the debt is evi-
dence by bonds, debentures, notes,
or certificates, or other evidences
of indebtedness, issued by any cor-
poration (including those issued by
a government or political subdi-
vision thereof), with interest cou-
pons or in registered form.
GENEVA, N. Y. (UP) .—Charles
Hoffman, former bantam weight
champion of America, is living in
obscurity in a small flat in Gene-
va’s 'business section. The 60-year-
old former champion likes to recall
incidents of the early days of the
boxing profession.
the Lone Star Debating club of
the high school in the county in-
terscholastic meet.
most respected citizens of Gaines-
ville.”
Six months, in
advance _____
Notes Refinanced
MONEY LOANED
On Automobiles
USED CARS BOUGHT
W ashington
By PRESTON GROVER
New York
By GEORGE TUCKER
Blood Runs Cold
By ANN DEMAREST
GEORGE
BROWN-
PONTIAC
COMPANY
E. California Street
questions. “Dirck, someone wrote
on. my list of questions again while
we were out to breakfast.”
(Continued tomorrow.)
have been sold it wouldn’t be hard
to trace them, would it?”
The Sergeant left right away,
promising to put a man on trail of
the books immediately. And, with
a wan smile at me, Mr. Kimball
followed him out of the room.
Shortly after they left, Mr. Kim-
ball called me to come downstairs.
There was a telephone call for me
in the shop. It was Dirck and his
KENYON’S
Pennsylvania
Motor Oil
come to you and save lives.
Write to this newspaper about
any questions which you do not
understand.
(Prepared by the Fracture Committee,
Texas State Medical Association; spon-
sored by Texas State Highway Depart-
ment and Texas Public Safety Com-
mission.)
LEAVE 'EM
WHERE THEY LIE
Game cannot be brought into
Texas during the closed season on
such game without a permit from
the Game Fish and Oyster Com-
mission.
through the years, but then I
have never let it embitter me be-
cause I f e e l that the ability to
spell is innate, like hair or teeth.
If you are fated to be bald, all
the tonics in the world cannot
save you from a bare skull. Per-
sonally I have more hair than I
know what to do with.
voice was so low and guarded that
I could barely catch the words.
However, I gathered that I was to
meet him at noon on, the southeast
corner of Fifth Avenue and Eighth
Street. I was to dress warmly and
wear galoshes.
“You are all right?” he asked
anxiously, after giving me the di-
rections.
“Of course,” I said.
“Is Patrick around?” he asked
PREAMBLE
Series of instructions on First Aid
Following Injuries on the High-
way— Leave ’Em Where
They Lie.
city will be held Tuesday at 7:30
p. m. in the Chamber of Commerce
building it is announced by P. S.
Luttrell, state production manager
for the Federal Housing Adminis-
tration, with headquarters in Dal-
las.
At this conference there will be a
Bargains
in THE CLEANEST
Used
Cars
in North Texas
must have been determined by the cent changes in the FHA program,
taxpayer to be worthless within particularly as applies to recent
MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 19, 1940.
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the office or to my home and sort
of collapse in front of a type-
writer and let nature take its
A special meeting of all lumber
and material dealers, realtors, ar-
chitects, contractors and repre-
sentatives of financial institutions,
newspapers and utilities of this
$2.50
-$1.25
prices now as a rule. In good times
they would have been worth close
to a thousand dollars.”
Speechless
The sergeant’s jaw dropped.
“How in hell did she happen to
have such expensive books?”
“When her father died, he left
her some. They were all first edi-
tions and very old. I’d given her
from gross income,
The NEW Sensation!
Cars
Lubricated
UNDER ACTUAL ROAD
.CONDITIONS
With the New
AUTO-BOCK
Increases the Life of Your
Car . . Decreases Repair Bills
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PATRIOTIC BLUE SKY SELLING
DOR POLICING the nation’s capital mar-
i kets the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission has a set of rules as long and in-
- volved as the code for the ostrich plume in-
dustry under N. R. A. It covers everything
. the genius of the regulators could think of.
If the S. E. C. is serious about its regula-
\ tions concerning the issuance and sale of
hen securities it should call on the carpet the
2? Hon. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary
g of the Treasury, says Clifford B. Reeves in
F Nation’s Business. The secretary recently
1 published a (handsome, four-color prospec-
tus of U. S. Savings Bonds that complete-
ly puts in the shade,the dry and drab pros-
pectuses that corporations must produce
in order to keep within the law. It blazons
the American eagle, a picture of the capitol
and a great array of patriotic dollar re-
cruiting come-ons.
Some of the treasury advertising claims
would do more than lift the eyebrows of
S. E. C. inquisitors if made by a wicked
corporation. For example, there is the flat
statement that the bonds "are increasing
every year,” and a promise that the buyer
can "add one-third to your investment in
ten years.” That’s blue-sky language for
describing three per cent interest, since
there’s nothing to indicate that the bonds
NEW YORK—Writing a daily informal New York column can be a lot
-\ of fun at times, and it can also be a lot of grief.
Yesterday: Someone again en-
ters Christine’s apartment and
leaves another written warning.
The door was locked. Sarah, the
maid, says she lost her duplicate
keys.
will appreciate in value during their life of
ten years.
Furthermore, Mr. Morgenthau doesn’t
attach to his prospectus a financial state-
ment, as any corporation would be ex-
pected to do. Probably for obvious reasons.
A financial statement of the Secretary’s
“corporation” would hardly inspire an in-
vestor to buy. It would have to show a ten-
year- deficit of $27,000,000,000 and a cur-
rent income only 40 per cent of the outgo.
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Men are won not so much by being
blamed as by being encompassed with love.
—Channing.
hospital or doctor increases
Chapter 30
Afternoon Adventure
“T’m CERTAIN that MacDonald
I committed suicide, but I can’t
prove that he was here at the time
WEEKLY REGISTIR
BY MAIL, in all other counties or the United
States:
some, but not as valuable as her _ '
others. Of course, they wouldn’t 36 YEARS AGO
bring that much now. About five (from the files of the Daily Hes-
hundred dollars or perhaps a little perian, Feb. 19, 1904.)
more.” His face was strained. “The Rev. Charles Remington of Fort
door has been l o c k e d,” he an- Dodge, Iowa, will hold services at
nounced. “I don’t see how anyone St. Paul’s Episcopal church t h i s
could get in.” week.
Well, Sarah had been in there, Visitors to this office today from
of course, but I was sure neither out-of-town were, Y. T. Kilcrease
she nor Mrs. Evans would have and sister, Miss Mamie Mosley of
taken the books. It would never Collinsville; Capt. T. J. Rone of
occur to them that they would be St. Jo; J- C. Winder of Waketon,
worth so much.” Texas, and D. W. Gordon of
The Word of God
That Means Today: Seek ye the Lord while
he may be found, call ye upon him while he is
near.—Isaiah 55:6.
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WOMEN’S QUESTION ANSWERED
ANSWERS TO women’s foremost ques-
lY tion, "How can I buy more economical-
ly for my family?” were found in profu-
sion by several thousand women—buyers
for their families—in Chicago recently. All
they had to do was walk down an avenue
of manufacturers’ exhibits at Consumers
day, presented by the Womien's Advertis-
ing Club of Chicago.
The idea of bringing the ultimate con-
•burner, who usually fusses about the prices
of every day products, into contact with
the manufacturer is gaining ground, it is
reported. One of the first attempts came
a year ago, says the Christian Science
Monitor, when the Women’s Advertising
. Club of Chicago staged its first consumers’
day. Now, New York City and Milwaukee
are scheduling similar days for early
spring, and several mid-western cities are
hustling to organize similar projects.
Improving on its previous venture, the
Chicago Club assembled some 25 manufac-
turers’ exhibits in a downtown hotel re-
cently. Here eager housewives and club
women sought firs t-hand information
about what goes into the ice cream they
buy, when is a mirror just a plain plate
glass, how to put the contents of cans into
tempting dishes, how to distinguish be-
tween wool and the mixture of Wool and
rayon, and how to buy stockings that
wion't run easily.
Consumers found from their journey
through the exhibits that manufacturers
are using exacting tests, doing research
work, and preparing pamphlets containing
information about their products to help
the consumer buy more economically.
Some of the firms put on contests, of-
fered samples, and gave away loads of
printed matter. A Silk Guild, for instance,
spread out 24 swatches of fabrics—wool-
en, silk, rayon, and mixtures of these and
asked the women to see how many they
could correctly name.
Through dramatic skits, editors of home
magazines put in their word of advice to
women consumers who buy silk stockings,
cosmetics, draperies and other commodi-
ties. A woman displayed her pair of stock-
ings spun of air, coal, and water, which she
had worn for five weeks.
The importance of advertising in the
modern world as a means of setting the
tempo of living was emphasized and it
was urged that the glamour and drama be
not excluded from it. Advertising, it was
pointed out, gives employment to thou-
sands of people, and actually affords econ-
omly to selling.
Lowest Prices
Quality Merchandise
KENYON
AUTO STORE
Corner Commerce-Broadway
* * *
WHEN WE CONSIDER THE
fact that nowadays, 85 per cent of
the membership of the church is
derived from the young people who
are brought in through the Sunday
Schools, with only 15 per cent ob-
tained through conversions of
adults, and when revival meetings
do well if there are 25 or 30 ad-
ditions, certainly the Lockett Adair
meeting, does stand out as monu-
mental in Gainesville church cir-
cles.
shock tremendously and costs
TESTIMONIALS TO THE
VALUE of the meeting were made
by such leading citizens of that
day as JOHN M. MAUPIN, W. C.
BROWN, E. S. GOODNER, J. O.
“Anyone could have gotten in,” Temple, O. T. PATTERSON, E. D. WHITE,
I said, “or at least the person who The great comedy success, J. M. J- W. BLANTON , WILLIAM
found the keys.” Barrie’s “The Professor’s Love KILLGORE, F. A. TYLER,
I didn’t know whether Sarah Story,” will be presented at GEORGE E. N. BALL, WOOD
had mentioned it to Mr. Kimball* Brown’s Opera house tonight with STONUM and E. C. McDONALD,
but if she hadn’t I thought both Mr. Harry Beresford in the leading high school principal.
men should know about it. role. Quoting from an editorial in the
“The keys?” They shouted si- ' Hesperian:
multaneously. 15 YEARS AGO “Seventy-five per cent of the
I told them what Sarah had said. (From the files of the Daily Reg- converts are men; consisting of the
Mr. Kimball paced back and ister, Feb. 19, .1925.) mayor and part of the city coun-
forth, eyeing the Sergeant anx- J- B. Naughton of Ponderay, cil, bankers, docters, merchants,
iously. “I didn’t know this, Ser- Idaho, is visiting relatives in the farmers and the entire police
geant,” he said. “One reason why I county. force, as well as a number of men
never kept a duplicate set myself Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Barrett of who were in the liquor business,
is that I don’t believe in having Somerville were visitors in the city all of them among the best and
extra ones around.” this week.
The Sergeant was speechless. Schad & Pulte have purchased ------- . , =
No. 19
Bad Debts—
Year in Which Deductible
To be allowed as a deduction
Thomas H. Mason
Dies at Mt. Zion
me ---
Thomas Henry Mason, 83, pioneer
citizen of Cooke county, died at
his home in the Mt. Zion communi-
ty, and funeral services were held
in the Mt. Zion church Sunday aft-
ernoon of last week. Rev. C. L.
Miller of Bolivar officiating, with
burial in the community cemetery.
Pallbearers were Ralph Cox,
Bert Johnson, Pat Cox, Raymond
Brown, Hughlen Kyle and Ben
Reasor.
Mr. Mason is survived by two
sons and three daughters, Mrs.
Lucy Moore, Gainesville and Misses
Maggie and Mae Mason, Mt. Zion;
George Mason, Plainview, and Ed-
win Mason, Mt. Zion, a grandchild,
Hazel Moore, Gainesville, and a
number of nieces and nephews.
Mr. Mason was iborn in Arkansas
and came to Cooke county 63 years
ago. His wife died in 1905. He
was a member of the Methodist
church.
a bad debt thorough explanation of all re-
* * *
Never has any man plucked the fruit of hap-
piness from the tree of injustice.—Anon.
seem to flow across the page and
at other times they are extremely
: jumpy and reluctant.
j As to the value of this routine,
there is a difference of opinion
3 among my editors. I am by nature
a lousy speller and have been
since birth. Because of this defi-
ciency I have had to stand for
some good-natured razzing
One year, in advance______________________________
when subscription is not paid in advance or re-
newed within one week after expiration, straight
price of 50 cents per month will be charged.
DAILY REGISTER
BY MAIL, OUTSIDE OF Cooke, Grayson, Denton,
Montague, Wise counties, Texas, arid Love county,
Oklahoma:
One month, in ad- Six months, in nd-
vanee ------------70c vance ______________
One year. In ______________-_____--------- ----$6.50
By MAIL, in Zones 6,-7 and 8?
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vance --------—75 . vanee_________ 82.25
Six months, In One year, in
advance --------------- advance -------87.50
WEEKLY REGISTER
BY MAIL, in Gainesville or in Cooke, Grayson,
Denton, Montague, Wise counties, Texas, and Love
county, Oklahoma:
RECOMPENSE
Recompense no man evil for evil. Provide
things honest in the sight of all men.—Romans
12:17.
• . a 2 , 3
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course. Sometimes the words
He finally exploded. “Ever since the south half of the block east of e
the night Joan Kent was murdered, the courthouse, from the Dougher-
someone has been walking around ty estate, which includes four
with keys to this whole house.” buildings, two of which are occu-
“That explains why the books pied by their company.
are missing,” Mr. Kimball said in Elbert Perryman and Robert
a tired voice. “I suppose if they Joiner were selected to represent
tion,” Adair’s life history, and a
description of the tabernacle.
**,*
THE TABERNACLE was
90x110 feet, or just about the same
size as Fair Park auditorium. It
was located at the corner of Den-
ton and Main streets, and built
under the direction of John Cason.
It is stated “when it was 22 de-
grees below freezing on the out-
side, the thermometer register 70
in two sections of the tabernacle
and this might have been run up
and kept at 80.”
**.*
the taxable year for which it is amendments under Class 3, Title 1.
claimed and, where books are kept, Henry Heyn, chief valuator, and
it also must have been charged off J- Max Montgomery, field repre-
within the same year. The neces- sentative, both of the Dallas FHA
After you do it for a while you
find yourself leading an irregu-
lar life, because history on Broad-
ou, Mr. John Public, have, way is usually at—1
through the press and other nipht and vou
sources of general informa- ca"tE’taik"to peo-
tion, been told many things and ple unless you
been taught much about public measure your
health, about contagious diseases n 1 a 1 4 . . - U. 1800098
and their prevention, about tu- PsytimebY,om
berculosis and cancer. theirs ~ which (
You have learned much in the means crazy g
prevention of disease, in how rea- hours and al- q
sonably to take care of yourself mostnever going I
and your family when trouble to bed before 3)
threatens or arrives. or 4 a. m. !
You have been taught that Most Broa.d-g
wounds may become infected and way columnists |
to go to your doctor early; you simply i n v t
have been taught that a broken' , EM———«»
bone must be set; but you have their work - day GEORGE TUCKER
not been taught what to do and and let it 80 at that. They make
why in the case of injury and regular rounds of the gathering
emergency on the highway, where places, with pad and pencil, and all
there is no one to whom to turn their nights are spent in theaters,
and you only have your own bars, and clubs,
knowledge and ability to take care * * *
of such emergencies yourself. Maybe I’m not geared for it or There was once an editor of mine
The series of articles on the sub- maybe I should have been an engi- who looked upon a misspelt word
ject of highway accidents, describ- neer, but a couple of nights a week as a sort of horrible crime, and yet
ing each one in turn and telling chasing around is enough for me. tie was a kindly fellow who spared
you in each instance what and Perhaps this is a subconscious way the rod and spoiled his men. One
what not to do, is being published of making excuses for- myself, but day he looked up from some of my
for your information, only to help I have always felt that people with copy and, more in sorrow than in
you help yourself or someone else much imagination couldn’t sit in anger, said, “Tucker, you have
—your wife, your mother, your stuffy rooms night after night, curious limitations.”
child, your neighbor—in such an week-end-month cut, listening to And yet it was the same edi-
emergency when the difference be- the same old blare, going through tor who rose to my defense one
tween saving life or limb depends the same old motions. day when his assistant came to
upon “oing the proper thing at the I like to drop into a few places, him and complained of the way
right time. A single act. wisely say three or f o u r in an evening, I misspelled simple words. “He
don better.than a hundred and nail somebody who is a good isn’t hired to spell,” he said, “and
aerte hurriedly done without rea- talker, and let him get the remi- , so long
as his copy reads all right
Whv are vou told to ay — niscences going. If you listen I will hold the editors responsible
Jier’ closely and if you have a broad for his spelling.”
Because unless you have been enough background you can piece Well, he is dead now, and some
taught what to do, you will do together a do z e n columns from day when I go back to Ohio I
much more harm than good; be- the things one man tells you. will lay a wreath on his grave
cause excitement, hurry, improper . * and murmur, “Peace to the soul
handling, which often complicates Then I like to wander back to of Heinie Rieker.”
matters seriously and rushing to
“Still hurts. Didn’t have time to would bother to have anyone fol-
look at it.” low me. ft was grand to be out of
“I’ll be glad to help you bind it doors. The only fresh air I’d had
again.” were the hurried trips out to meals
“Wanting to strangle me, too?” and the ride to Fourteenth Street
he said wittily. “Or are you just. When I hadn’t had time to breathe,
trying to stay on the right side of And the day, though it was gloomy
the police?” and cold, was invigorating.
I smiled. “Do you still suspect After I passed the Knife and
me?” I tried to sound disinterest- Bork I turned back to look in a
ed. shop window, and less than half a
The Sergeant leaned back in the block behind me I saw Ishi. He
chair and looked at me with half- hesitated when I stopped, crossed
closed eyes. “I do and I don’t.” the street and headed back to the
Then he opened his eyes and stared shop. When I saw his back turned
at me curiously. “Mrs. Evans told - slipped around the corner and
me about your goings-on last hailed a taxi.
night.” A little before noon I landed < Have the docter or ambulance
“Goings-on?” I raised an eye- at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street,
brow.” but Dirck's long yellow roadster
“Umm. She seems to think you was already parked near the cor-
had the lawyer in here all night.” ner. , ,
He paused expectantly. The less said about the first leg
“I was just trying to provide my- of that drive, the better. Dirck
self with an alibi,” I said. tucked me in the car, a heavy blan-
u. j , ket around my knees, and headed
He shook his head and growled. 115 MF+H A./,. 15'/ „
“I can’t pet it ” he said “When vou UP Fifth Avenue without a word.
l eant get it he said. When you His attention seemed to be entire- p
bring A bunch of supposedly re- on the driving, except for a "TVT rgv_•
spectable people together and start preoccupied frown that showed he £ OWU I Ong
to question them, the thmgs that had something more important „ . I . *' sity for this provision is obvious, office, will be present to discuss
come out would floor a respectable than the car and me on his mind. BY A. MORTON SMITH If a debt could be deducted with- in detail the recent changes and re-
crook. . . It was noon when we started and rTIWENYFIIF,, c, out the requirement that it be visions in FHA procedure and reg-
Before I had time to defend my the little sun there’d been during J "repiy FnEYEARS AGO.a charged off the taxpayer’s books, ulations.
honor, Mr. Kimball put his head the morning had disappeared be- Gainesville neetins.Was.h d in the certainty of its worthlessness
in the door to ask the sergeant if hind heavy clouds. New York lay merous revivals regha been.,u- would be open to question. Neither
hescouldtake some of Joan S boo S in an oppressively somber mist. - have been Man, sforer’ but we the taxpayer nor the government
doWnstairs. , , , . i And Dirck’s* continued silence doubt there was ever c5‘DI 4 5 could be certain that a debt would
v. They are too valuable to leave didn’t make me feel any too cheer- this city, not be claimed more than once,
here, he said. ... ful. We drove block after block, 00 If a bad debt were allowed, as a
There was some argument, but finally turning right on Fifty-sev- » r e our grammar school days, deduction without regard to the
it seems she hadn t left a will, so enth Street, and I was one large W‘ . Veheardabcut the wonders year when it became worthless,
finally Ishi dragged up several question mark in regard to where oft e .01 KETT ADAIR meeting such charges could be accumulated
large boxes and the sergeant went we were going- held int is city.in 1911, and those to be deducted in a year when
into the apartment to superintend when we stopped for a red light „. nded the meeting have there was a large income,
the packing. _ at Second Avenue I said in a ten- often.expressed the opinion that it PLe (burden is Uon the taxnayer
I hadn’t forgotten that Dirck "Ativ, yice “Ishi was folowing was the most successful ever held . -ne purden is upon tne taxpayer
fnid +. L• ireful hut +her, tative Volce, -sn1 Was ronoWan8 here to show, that a debt claimed as a
told me to be careful, but there me when I left the house. When * deduction was without value dur-
seemed to be no reason to keep the I turned around and saw him he And so, of course we were quite ing the taxable year A statement
door locked while Ishi earned the went back towards the shop.” interested when MRS. EUGENIA shud be attached to the r^tuni
boxes down to the shop. Besides, Dirck whistled softly, then REID sent to the office the past shovingP. troetythearetu
the sergeant was in and out of my laughed. "I think Ishi is playing weekend, a copy of the Daily Hes- duction for bad debt If in the ex-
apartment several times. Twice he detective," he said. "He waylays perian of December 5, 1911, which eris of Lound ousisess nioeet
went downstairs to telephone but me ever time i see him, to find devoted its entire front page, and 5 Savr unnchudnesseudement
he didn’t say anything w h e n he out more-of my methods,” most of two other pages to the A,taPyerecrncudes,coer.mag
came back. Before they’d finished IH, couldn’t leave the shop just meeting. . 8 eVe Y reasenaDe effort to de
41. +L ne couian l leave tne snop jusl s termine whether there is likelihood
With the P ack in8 Mr. Kihban because he felt like playing hide A large headline reads “Lockett of recovery that the debt is of no
rushed into my room, and go seek,” I said a little shortly? Adair Meeting Greatest in History value deduction for such debt is
"Have-youseensanyonntakins Dirck grinned at that. ■■Nobody's of North Texs," andsub-heads re- allowable. Court action as proof
hingssrom -oan Sapart 1' going to put anything over on you, veal that at the time of the publi- that the debt is worthless is not
He was very much excited. are they, lady?” cation of the paper, 571 persons essential.
I shook my head. He swung the car onto the upper had ‘been converted and 333 had al-
Then the sergeant followed him level of the Queensboro bridge be- ready united with local churches,
into my room. “You are sure?” he fore he spoke again, “Mr. Kimball Their names are listed.
■asked Mr. Kimball. is keeping an eye on everyone in On the front page is a picture of
I know it, Sergeant. Her collec- the house,” he said. “Long instruct- the evangelist with his small son,
tion of books is as familiar to me ed him to. After all, he can’t force Jack and Rev. J. A Old Rev
as my own. There are half a dozen you people to stay indoors all of John V. McCall' Rev T d’iimr
missing and they are the most val- the time. A couple of people are or Smith, Hez Williams Edwin C
uable ones.” were being watched carefully, but Huckabee, Rev. E, C. Mobley, Rew
The officer rubbed his chin re- I don’t believe the Sergeant is wor- w. E. Neill, Mrs j Gilmore Smith
flectively. What would they rying about you.” Mrs. Huckabee and Rev. R L Ir-
amount to in cash . "He’s not suspicious of murder,” ving, the cooperating ministers and
“Well,” Mr. Kimball said after I told him, “but of my morals, members of Mr. Adair’s evangelis-
a moment’s thought, “this is a bad Mrs. Evans told him that you spent tic party. The remainder of the
time to sell books. They bring low the night in my room.” page was devoted to impressions of
He chuckled. Mr. Adair by local pastors an
Then I remembered the list of editorial on “Christian Coopera-
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* * *
He who wishes to secure the good of others
has already secured his own.—Confucius.
* * *
Every duty brings its peculiar delight, every
denial its appropriate compensation, every
thought its recompense, every cross its crown;
pay goes with performance as effect with cause.
—Charles Mildmay.
* * *
How good and pleasant a thing it is to seek
not so much thine own as another’s good, to sow
by the wayside for the way-weary, and trust
Love’s recompense of love.—Mary Baker Eddy.
* * *
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.—
Cowper.
1 on.
But Arnold had a different case. He simply
told the House appropriations committee that his
investigators had uncovered plenty of racketeer-
ing in the building industry. In some cities, he
said, racketeers have hiked the price of a home
or an office building by 25 per cent.
Even while the appropriation bill was pending
in the House, a whole herd of accused people in
Pittsburgh agreed to pay fines and mend their
ways. It was the first real fruit of the building
trades investigation.
“We believe the savings in Pittsburgh alone,”
said a Pittsburgh paper, “would be sufficient to
pay the entire cost of the national investigation.”
* * *
It’s a Simple Plan
We went over to the Justice Department to
find what sort of racketeering Arnold was after.
One of his aides outlined it:
A big contractor decides to bid on a building
job, he invites a lot of sub-contractors to quote
him figures on portions .of the job, such as wir-
ing, bricklaying, plasterifg and plumbing. In old
days he would simply pick the low bidders from
each group, add in the cost of the amount of work
he would do with his own outfit, then, have a ba-
sis on which to bid.
But, in a typical case, the sub-contractors de-
cided they were cutting their own throats. They
decided to organize fi, “pool” to which each bid-
der would submit his bid—just to compare notes.
That was legitimate and no chiseling was in-
volved. But the next step, our informant said,
was for the sub-contractors simply to meet
around a table, take all the competition out of
the bidding, and apportion the work among them-
selves at comforting prices. As other jobs came
along, the contracts would rotate.
Getting the labor unions into the setup was
the next step. To protect their own bids, the
“pool” of sub-contractors would have to shut out
an honest low bid from outside. That was simple.
They went to labor unions, agreed to pay top
union wages plus a cut to labor agents under an
agreement that the unions would refuse to work
for any contractor who was not in the pool.
That made the set-up complete. Any sort of
agreement could be worked out. Manufacturers
and dealers in building materials could be
brought into the show. Dealers, sub-contractors
and union representatives could pick up fatter
profits by a mutual squeeze-out of competitors.
* * *
Pressure Groups Displeased
Under pressure of the anti-trust prosecutions
the combinations melted in Pittsburgh and in
Washington, D. C., among other places. Indict-
ments against building racketeering operations
have been brought in eight cities. The anti-trust
division under Arnold planned to bring in as
many as two dozen more. Fines have more than
paid the cost. Arnold asked for a million increase.
The House and budget gave him $60,000 less than
last year.
Part of Arnold’s trouble was that his per-
formance had created pressure groups. The AFL,
whose unions have been most affected, demanded
the inquiry be dropped. Contractors, too, have
voiced protests. In election years, such pressure
groups can make themselves felt.
By contrast, J. Edgar Hoover gets his re-
quests without interference of pressure groups.
Guilds of kidnapers can’t lobby. And Congress
these days is seeing two spies in every telephone
booth.
of his sister’s death,” said the ser- surprisingly.
geant. “I haven’t seen him.”
“How about Miss Rogers?” I “All.right. Now listen to me,
asked tentatively, expecting to be Chris. Don’t tell anyone where you
demolished with a look. are going, and keep an eye out to
But the Sergeant apparently see if you are followed.”
didn’t resent the question, or per- After that I felt more uneasy
haps it was because he had a soft than before, and thinking that Mr.
spot for red hair. Kimball might find such a one-
“That poor little girl,” he said, sided conversation odd, for I’d said
“She was afraid to tell me that very little to Dirck, I stayed in the
she’d been with him the other shop for a few minutes to talk with
night. Protecting him, she was. I him and with Ishi. It was pretty
told her after this to tell the truth difficult to seem natural, for the
always; it was better in the end. call had excited me tremendously.
But she didn’t know if he came Finally I left to go upstairs,
back to the house or not.” Within fifteen mnutes I was bun-
With difficulty I restrained a died to the ears in my fur coat, a
smile. beret and a red wool scarf and was
“I’ll never get anywhere if leaving the house.
someone doesn’t come through. I Trailed
must prove that he was here at the There wasn’t anyone around.
time.” Norton wasn’t stationed outside of
“I think you’ve done very well, the front door today and there
Sergeant,” I said, trying to be were only a few people on the
tactful. “How is your ankle this street, mostly women with market
morning?” baskets. I wondered if the Sergeant
TIWASHINGTON — Assistant Attorney General
yy Thurman Arnold’s shakedown of the alleged
rackets in the building industry will have to
get along this troublesome election year with a
! gmdn bob-tailed appropriation.
g | Arnold f—’ ’ J . ‘
dshhave got the money if he had
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linked his case with national
defense. That is the one thing
ggeggseg gasag: these days that will survive —
18 8 m at least in part—the economy
g wave.
. / J> Edgar Hoover, Chief G-
» —g man, was cagier. Hoover nabbed
$1,475,000 out of the deficiency
« 8s ' bill to hunt spies and saboteurs
88 in munitions and airplane plants
# for the next six months, and got
an additional $2,488,000 to hunt them from July
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE
AEORGE W. COLEMAN tells a story which
ST well illustrates that big men are not too big
to make preparation when called on to speak.
President Conant of Harvard was being awarded
a citation for a. service to mankind. While sitting
next to Mr. Coleman the brilliant university head
asked, “Who makes these citations?”
“I do,” answered Mr. Coleman, “and I have
my words all typed out here in my pocket. Would
you like to see them?”
Dr. Conant expressed his desire and read the
typed remarks carefully. Then he turned to Mr.
Coleman rather timidly and said, “And I have
my acceptance all typed out. Would you like to
read it too?”
Here was the president of one of America’s
greatest universities taking no chances on off-
hand thoughts to express .himself. He had not
only taken time to prepare himself for so little a
thing as a gracious acceptance of an honor but
he had compared English and rhetoric with an-
other that his remarks might be improved. The
really big man attaches importance to . little
things. The little man can’t be bothered.—CAPS
and lowercase.
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