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Thursday,
WISE COUNTY M.
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TH& MUM WREL CIRCULATED NEWSPAPER IN WISE COUNT
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firm, person or corporation which may aDpear at any time in the columns of
the Meseriger will be gladly corrected uPon its being brought to the attention
of the publisher—DICK COLLINS, Publisher.
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Press Association, Texas Editorial Association.
be assumed that the 73rd session op
ens with no other object in view than
to do just what the country needs,
and in the most efficient and speedy
manner.
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TTHERE is No SUBSTITUTE FOR CIRCULATION"
Nise muty Hlessenger
ESTASLISMED IN 1eso
PUMLISHED IN THE DAIRY CENTER OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
three gallons of pure juice, or water-
ed as some do. a bushel will make
hone is in vain.
those baffling problems are
er 15 billions average
1918-1919 — more than
It is going to take time.
will not be possible to pick out any
one map as responsible for a misstep.
All will be tarred with the same stick
if things go wrong and all will par
per year for
wrecks the machine.
sale for $1.50 a gallon,
about 300 vines per
tion upon his appearanc before the
joint session of congress, w here he .
brought abont in recent months • |
here give the various organizations
and their abbreviations.
AAA—Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
up. it is ther we must exercise all
the optimism of our very being, solve
them and put them in the background
and go on to the next one, and so on
through life.
The farmer, the grocerman, the
hardware dealer and all men and wo-
men who make up the business, the
trade, the professional and the pro
ducing world, must continuously face
some problem and solve it before fur-
CURRENT COMMENT {McFarlane Writes of
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by the house Friday will inerease the
1 revenue about $50,000,000 per year.
we drink as much as some say we
'will (which we won’t) the south will
soon be impoverished unless we do
something to balance trade. I hope
we Texas people can supply so much
better wine than was ever put on the
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Following is the program for the
young people’s department for Sun-
day, Jan. 14:
Subject : Eternal Values in My Dai-
ly Work. Leader—Helen Reed.
the price of juice fell to 50c a gallon, in part justified, and in part unwar
there would still be $300 or $400 an
Co-ordinator of
Washington, D. C., January 10.—
The first session of congress under
the 20th amendment convened Jan-
uary 3, and since congress was al- i
ready organized during the special
session, it immediately went to work. ।
The' president wan given a great ova-
man welcomes quiet, the other looks
forward to a wider activity. So far
as the public is concerned, it may rest
will get much support. — Wichita
Times.
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Government Agencies
Abbreviation Explained
ticipate in the glory of accomplish-
The juice sells whole- ment if things turn out well. Repre
ther progress can be made. We are
a peace-loving, profit-seeking, profit-
sharing folk, striving every day to
make some progress toward a goal, a
stake that we have set out there
somewhere. All our hope, all our en
ergy, all our dreams and till our plan:
are made in that direction. anti wh ,
not? The world praises a perkor
The proposed changes in the income
tax law will bring in an additional
$150,000,000 per year. The president
recommends no change in the postal
rates. The postal department the past
year <lue largely to consolidations, el
iminations and the 15 per cent econo
my cut. reduced part of their loss
but this year's operations will suffe
a heavy loss.
ministration.
FHLBB—Federal Home Loan Bank
Board.
HOLC—Home Owners Loan Corpo-
ration.
ICC -Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion.
NACA—National Advisory Commit-
tee for Aeronautics.
NBA—National Recovery Act.
NEC—National Emergency Council.
PAH — Petroleum Administration
Board.
PWA —Publie Works Administra-
tion.
RFC—Reconstruction Finance Cor-
2 Miration.
Ahrv A— Teanessce Valley Authority.
about Mr. Woodin. That,
represents the difference
coming in and going out.
not do if? Why not boat the other
fellow to it? California and France
will get richer, and Texas poorer, if
we don't do this. If the north fur-
nishes us with whiskey. California
our wine and St. Louis our beer, and
have a
income.
A fundamental of the Roosevelt '
New Deal is that those large econo-
mic groups which perform economic |
personally delivered his message. He
painted an optomistie picture of re-
turning recovery and told congress
New Deal must be expanded into a
permanent national economic plan.
The cost will be heavy in the imme-
diate future, lie said, but it will ie i
turn in a generation or two, many
times the money spent on it. His
speech was enthusiastically received i
with cheers and applause by a capa-
city audience which had packed the {
house chamber. The message con- 1
tained no specifie recommendations,
but he made known that such recom- {
mendations will follow. *
nunerous as congress.
The Washing! n Daily News. in an
editorial discussion of the budget
message perhaps voices most ade
quately the general reaction of the
country and of official Washington,
w hen it notes :
'When we entered the World war.
wur expenses jumped from less than
acre of grapes.
It seems to me that Texas farmers
might as well get this money as any-
body. We can grow more kinds of
grapes to blend with, and they are
all good. Our hot sun and dry wea-
ther seems to be just what grapes
need. We don't have to send to other
countries for their grapes: we til-
ready’ have the best wine grapes
growing right here in Texas that ever
have been found. Then, on top of
grapes, we have blackberries and
dewberries. Berries will make 200
gallons per acre. Many growers claim
they make more than this, but I want
to be on the safe side. Two gallons
of berries will make a gallon of cor-
dial. Considering the fact that ber-
ries are so easily grown, they are not
a bad crop.
From the beginning of time, grapes
have been an important crop. There
have been more books written about
grape growing than any other fruit.
They are going to become the leading
crop in many places, but Texas has
the best grapes. I am anxious to see
our people develop this crop. Som-
body is going to supply the juice, and
we can make the best wine a man
' ever tickled his tonsils with, so why
By the time these words are in
print, the 73rd congress of the Unit-
ed States will be in session. Few
legislative bodies in this country have
opened for business with more seri-
ous problems confronting them. There
will be the old question of spending
freely, or passing out public funds
under greater check and restriction.
To most of us, a dollar is a dollar,
but congress may have to decide what
a dollar is. It would be strange if
five billions yeurly greater than the
present sum. .Most of that money
went for war. It was blown up.
burned up, loaned up. and otherwise
destroyed. For the 10 billion involv-
ed in the president’s peace-time emer-
gency program, at least we will have
some bridges and roads and public
buildings, and domestic instead of
foreign loans. Instead of death and
shattered bodies and pensions, we
will have a rehabilited army of un-
employed larger than the army that
went ’over there.'"
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animal kingdom. Clearly, the unus-
ually active state of Ohio is in a
condition of slothful disgrace.
For information of those who can’t
seem to remember all the govern-
mental agencies that have been
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On January 4, the president sub-
mitted his budget estimate calling for |
an expenditure for the next fiseal
year of $9,403,006,967. Of this sum.
$3,045,520,207 are general expendi-
tures with $6,357,486,700 emergency
expenditures for the year ending June
30. 19:15. His budzet for 19:4 rails 1
for general expenditures of $3,257,
512,200 with emergency expenditures
of $3,960,798,700. The president says
that for the next six months we must
borrow $6,000,000,000 of new money
ami in addition $4,000,000,000 to meet
maturities of like amount.
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who has overcome great barriers and
pushed forward until he stands in th
front ranks of success.
We folks, then, can remember our
fellow man across the street or dow
the lane a piece; trade with them
give them a lift if it will not put 1
at a disadvantage, and helps him
All that any of us can do is live and
enjoy that life to the fullest ext
whether rich or poor, big or little, old
or young, ugly or g od-looking, be-
cause we are just folks.
-JCIN F' : BLLIIT
occurs to
The first change in the president's
ificial family has taken place. Mr.
sVoodin is out, under resignation, due
to ill health, his office as secretary
of the treasury having been taken, as
was expe ted, by Mr. Henry Morgen-
hau, Jr. Mr. Morgenthau has been
iooked upon with suspicion in some
quarters, but states that the policy
4 the treasury, under his administra-
tion. will remain unchanged. Perhaps
Mr. Morgenthau is known best by his
handling of the Farm Credit Adminis-
tration. although that is not his only
achievement, by any means. The pa-
pent have a good deal to say about
Mr. Morgenthau, and not mnch to say
Nev Year's passed quirt I v In offi-
cial Washington. The usual White
House reception was omitted, and the
president put in the day at work.
Some persons make it a point to keep
busy on the first of January, under
t i| rstition that if they are em-
‘oyer on that day, they will have
work for a twelvemonth thereafter.
It is not necessary for a president of
l be United States to resort to any
such theory, and of course Mr. Roos-
~velt did not do so. Every day is a
‘musy day for a president ani Mr
"onsevelt will find nlentv for 1i
hands ! do during 1931.
Up to January 5 the wheat farmers
had received $21,386,607.26 for agree-
ing to reduce 1933 acreage 15 per
cent. When completed approximately
one-half million wheat growers will
receive about $102,000,000 for making
the required reduction in the 1931
crop.
You can grow
acre. Even if
The figures on cotton growers' sit-
uation are us follows: farm value of
lint cotton for 1933, $617,716,000, as
compared with $317,861,000 in 1932.
Rental payments totalling $111,528,-
DOJ plus $48,000,000 option profit.
Cottonseed income 1933, $79,532,000,
compared with $53,627,000 for 1932.
making gross income for 1933 cotton
crop $856,776,000 compared with
$125,488,000 in 1932. Approximately
$125,000,000 in rental and benefit pay-
ments will be made the co-operating
farmers who sign up production
agreements by January 31. immedi-
ate action by the farmers is neces-
sary.
ALD. Stephensville, Texas.— Dallas
News.
of the things that it has done in the
past, as emerzrency legislation. Per-
haps the most diflicult task will be
the drawing of the fine line of de-
mareation between the powers of the
legislative and executive branches. In
Not the least interesting of 1934‘s
prospective political contests is that
for congressman from this district.
The east end of the distriet, which
had no entry in 1932, will have a
formidable one this year in the per-
son of Fred Minor of Denton, former
speaker of the Texas house. G. W.
Backus of Vernun, who was a candi-
date in 1932, is again in the race.
There are persistent rumors that
District Attorney Sam B. Spence will
enter, but he has made no announce-
ment. One or two other Wichita ns
who are known to be casting wistful
eyes on the place apparently do not
plan to contend for it this year.
A new congressman usually lias to
fight to hold onto his seat for the
first two or three terms. If he sur-
vives those efforts to unseat him, he
can occupy the seat with reasonable
certainty of becoming a fixtun*.
There is no disposition among the po-
litically ambitious gentlemen of the
13th district to allow Congressman
McFarlane to feel permanent in his
place by conceding him an uncontest-
ed second term.
It should be an interesting contest,
regardless of whether there are any
additional entries.—Wichita F alls
Times.
[ market hefore that it will hurt the
Hous whiskey trade.
Emergency Relief A man is serving a righteous cense
* ‘ by planting grapes.—J. E. FITZGER-
It has been discovered that a
Frenchman upon whom an honor was
to be conferred, and who was requir-
ed to appear in full dress, wore a
garment that was made before 1S0
That is a record which it will be hard
for the United States to break, but it
the Frenchman is being subjected to
unfavorable comment he will have the
sympathy of thousands of his breth-
ren in this country, who are hauled
out of a business-suit existence now
and then to attend a tail-coat fune-
ti li.
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be chopped out by a friend « f the
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A very eminent philosopher, once
said. "There are only two outstanding
classes of people—pessimist and op-
timist: and all are just folks.” The
pessimist is one who looks on the
dark side of everything at all times
the optimist i.s one who looks on the
bright side of everything, and holds
that the present state of things is
for the best.
There are times when all of us
look on the worse side of a thing and
think that the worst of hard times
has just hit us. No person ever man-
ared to sail through life on mere
plans, it takes more than that, yet
work with no plan is of little value
to any man. It Dikes a little plan-
ning. a little scheming and a lot of
work to got through life.
SOUTHWES’T CORNER SQ. — )ECATUR
Bishop Cannon's proposal for a
new constitutional amendment which
would simply give the federal con-
gress the right to regulate liquor is
offered about 17 years too late. If
the prohibitionists, in the heyday
of their political power, had been
content with such an amendment as
that instead of demanding a direct
and categorial one, the dry cause to-
day would be much better off.
It wouldn't have a chance now.
The country has definitely turned
its back on federal regulation. It
was inevitable, following adoption of
the repeal amendment, that there be
some confusion in working out plans
for state control. No less inevitable
was it that the distillers, a little
intoxicated by the triumph of the
repeal movement, should attempt to
revert to the selfish and arrogant
habits of two or three decades ago.
The resulting situation has caused
some to wonder if a larger measure
of federal control than is permitted
by the repeal amendment would not
Im* salutary.
There is the remote possibility that
something of the kind will be found
advisable. For the present, however,
we must hold to the hope that the
state will, by trial and error, work
out such methods of regulation as
will make federal regulation unne-
ministration.
CCC—Civilian Conservation Corps,
Commodities Credit Corporation.
CWA—Civil Works Administration.
FDIC—Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
In this letter I am not going to ar-
gue for or against prohibition. We
have to accept things as they come,
whether wo like them or not. How-
ever, it is true that France and Cali-
fornia are preparing to sell Texas
ami the south millions of gallons of
w ine. Lots of people will drink
French wine because it is imported,
and lots of others will drink Califor
nia wine because it is advertised so
much. What I want to get at. since
we are going to have wine anyway, is
why shoul Texas not get some of the
trade? Out at South Bend. Texas
farmers are preparing to do this. but
in other places the people are asleep
at the wheel.
It is a fact that the finest wine
grapes grow in Texas that grow on
the globe. Even the French had to
send here and get some of our grapes
as a foundation for their fine wine
grapes. As a man who had been to
France said to me. our wild grapes
make as good wine as French grapes
in East Texas. muscadines grow
along creeks, ami there is no finer
grape in the world than the Scupper-
nong. They are hard to gather, but
we have the Carman, Herbermont
and Black Spanish.
Any of these are better wine grapes
than any that grow in California.
The Carman makes about one bushel,
on an average, to the vine. The Iler-
bermont and Black Spanish may beat
this. If the vines are allowed to ov-
erbear, we can get two bushels per
vine, but that weakens the vines for
the next crop.
A bushel of grapes will produce
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