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EDITORIAL
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Tune In On KRBO
Friday Evening, February 23, 1940
Friday
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.---Deuteronomy 5:32, . .Deviation from
either truth or duty is a downward path and none can say where the descent will end.---Tyron Edwards. .
Scholastic Census.
"Don’t overlook anybody” is the succinct
instruction given by County School Superin-
tendent Tom McGehee to enumerators in 31
common school districts as they prepared to
take the annual scholastic census.
If a child is overlooked, it costs the district
$22, that being the state apportionment for
the current year.
Under the haphazard eart-before-horse sys-
tem under which such matters are conducted
in Texas, the state pays off on pupils enumer-
ated, not on those actually in school. The sen-
sible and fair way, of course, would be to base
the pay-off on the number of pupils enrolled,
but that’s not the way it‘s done. The only pro-
tection a school district has is to get every
eligible child on the census rolls.
In Abilene it is just as important as in the
rural districts to see that every child is enum-
erated.
In West Texas the attendance rate is higher
than in Mexican and negro districts along the
border and in deep East Texas. A system of
pay based on enrollment would favor West
Texas. The present system penalizes West
Texas, and the only protection we have against
it is to see that every child is enrolled in every
district in the county.
Parents should be sure their children have
been enrolled. If they are not sure of it. they
should check up and find out. It means $22
a head.
Those Ignorant Tibetans.
By a curious custom that sounds goofy to
Occidental ears, the good people of Tibet have
chosen a new ruler. He is Ling Ergh La-mu-
tan-chu .According to the rules of selection,
he was born at the exact moment the late
fourteenth Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal
ruler of Tibet, cashed in his earthly checks. He
was found after diligent search by consecrat-
ed priests, and as proof of his heirship he
stretched out his hands and touched certain
belongings of the late Dalai Lama, including
the royal chopsticks. Two other youngsters
who qualified in most respects but missed the
big chance will serve as Ling’s advisers and
deputy All-Highests.
Our first reaction to this sort of thing is a
snort of disgust that people should be so naive.
The idea of picking the ruler of millions be-
cause he fulfilled certain preconceived notions
that were in themselves purely superstitions
or fictional gives us intelligent, enlightened,
coldly practical and high-minded' Westerners
a feeling of revulsion mingled with a smug
sense of superiority.
And then we pause to think. Is it so silly
after all? Is it so vastly different from the way
we choose our rulers? Come, come, now: is it?
When we come to cast our ballots, do we
vote for a man because we hate someone else,
or fear someone else? Do we vote for him be-
cause he has nice hair and eyes, a pleasant way
of speaking, an engaging manner? Or because
he promises us things we know he can’t pos-
sibly deliver? Or because a friend asks us to
support his friend? Or because we hope to
profit by his election?
Well, dammit, do we?
Yes, brother, we do more times than not.
Then why sneer at the way the Tibetans do it?
Wouldn’t we be just about as well off to adopt
their method of selection? They vote for an
ideal, arrived at by mumbo-jumbo. We vote
for a good voice, a smooth manner, or a hand-
seme necktie.
Battle of the Starlings.
A pesky bird is the starling, which is rapid,
ly becoming a real problem in countless Amer-
ican cities. He is noisy, keeping up a constant
racket; he is voracious, eating the feed that
would go to other—and better—birds; and
one of the 200 species of the great starling
family, the oxpecker, has the quaint habit of
dining off cows’ backs.
The country laughed at official Washington
two or three years ago when somebody in au-
thority equipped groups of unemployed men.
with tin pans, whistles, drums and other noise-
making devices and sent them out to drive the
starlings from their perches on public bulldr
ings. It was no laughing matter to Washing-
ton, however; and sundry cities have long
since ceased to laugh when the problem was
brought home to them. In the throes of anti-
starling drives in recent weeks have been Ok-
lahoma City, Dallas and Houston,
And even West Texas isn’t exempt. The San
Angelo Standard reports a group of sportsmen
went out the other day to Lake Nasworthy
to study the starlings concentrated there-
abouts. They estimated the number at 200,000
to 300,000 birds. They first appeared a year
or two ago at Lipan Flat, where they robbed
chickens of their feed.
We suspect Abilene has had them in smaller
numbers for the last two or three years. They
have not yet reached the public nuisance stage
here, but all they need is a little time.
First starlings in America were imported
into New York exactly 50 years ago. The origi-
nals resembled meadowlarks and had a pleas-
ing singing voice and the mockingbird’s flare
for mimicry. Their descendants seem to be
qualified to do only what the fly does in the
song parody small boys used to quote.
I We might as well get ready for open war-
fare against the starlings. They’ll be along by
millions presently.
Other Viewpoints
How the Housing Money Goes.
From the New York Sun:
Is the improvement in the building indus-
try largely an illusion? Taking a long-range
view of residential construction, the American
Builder averages the figures for nine years,
and sets them up beside the “family average”
sum derived-from government spending for all
purposes. Fifteen years ago the people of the
United States spent $183 a family on dwell-
ings; the government spent $111 a year of the
average family income, Last year, after six
years of "recovery," the people of the nation
spent only $66.50 a family on houses, while the
government spent $267 a family for all pur-
poses. It is the theory of the American Build-
er that because the- government now takes
such a large percentage of the average fam-
ily’s income, less money goes for. construction
of new houses.
Of course numerous factors are involved in
any calculation pertaining to building. New
materials have been devised which lower the
cost of building, and smaller dwelling units
are now more popular than they were fifteen
years ago. But the rivalry of government in
the building business has become a threat to
private' enterprise. The government conceals
deliberately the truth about what it is spend-
ing for public housing. .The United States hous-
ing authority issues reams of material to the
press, but usually avoids mention of the annu-
al subsidies its grants to cities and towns
when they obtain loans. The subsidies are pay-
able annually for the next sixty .years. Loans
are also made for sixty years, but the subsi-
dies, or. cash gifts, are so generous that mu-
nicipal housing agencies may pay off the loans
from them and make a profit on the deal.
Last year the USHA issued loan contracts
for a total of $328,136,000, but it also contract-
ed for housing subsidies estimated at nearly
$14,600,000 a year. These subsidies are esti-
mated at 10 percent more than is necessary,
to cover extras in building costs. Even allow-
ing for this percentage, however ,the USHA
last year committed the treasury to the pay-
ment by 1999 of about $780,000,000 in unre-
tunable subsidies to local housing agencies.
But the USHA does not seem proud of this
achievement; it has drawn no attention to it.
New York wants both political conventions.
If Dewey is nominated, he would just have to
step into a subway to get down for the accept-
ance speech.
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20,000 Farmers, Ranchers in Texas
By RAY NEUMANN
Associated Press Staff
Twenty thousand farmers and
stockmen in Texas work with-
out pay for the federal gov-
ernment. They are reporters
for the crop reporting service.
If this army through unpre-
dictable cicumstances suddenly
stopped tiller faithful labors,
chaos might result in the
tethering selling, stopping and
marketing of food.
The workers, plus railroad of-
fice clerks rural mail carriers,
University of Texas and Texas
A and M college officials, the
U. S. census bureau and other
agencies, form the backbone of
the federal crop reporting ser-
vice.
A highly important factor 1a
the complex machinery which
supplies human beings with
three meals a day, the service
operates without publicity. -
Only during emergencies,
such as the recent extended
freeze in Texas, is the average
man conscious of the service's
existence and then he probably
is motivated only by a desire to
know high prices will go due to
crop damage.
In the present-day compli-
cated transportation - market-
ing system, the slightest fluc-
tuations in acreage, condition
and other factors in the pro-
cesses of supplying table-fare
are of tremendous importance.
Slightly more than three-
quarters of a century ago,
marketing speculation which
was costly to farmers, gave
birth to the crop reporting
service in the form of a min-
iscule staff in the U S depart-
ment of agriculture.
Today the service Is an elab-
orate set-up but its 300 000 vol-
untary reporters over the na-
tion make it comparatively In-
expensive.
The purpose of the service is
to collect, collate and publish
statistical data relating to acre-
age. condition and production of
crops, number and production
of livestock, prices of farm pro-
ducts and related information.
The state office at Austin,
With a staff of 13 and no paid
employee in the field, last year
mailed more than 500.000 blank
questionnaires to its listed re-
Chapter 34
OUT OF DANGER
Ax I turned to leave I heard the
sergeant calling me from the stair-
way. Explanations were getting to be
second nature, so it took me only
a few minutes to tell him the little
I knew. I said I wasn't at all cer-
uto when I first heard the sound
of the engine. I was afraid to
ask who had been found to the ga-
rage.
"Well, that's that," he said. “It’s a
good thing you heard it. He'll pull
through."
So the man was alive. "Who is it?"
I finally said.
"Whitefield.”
“Why—how—?”
“That's what I'd like to know.”
The sergeant shook his head an-
grily. "His car wasn't in the garage
at six o'clock. There's supposed to
be someone watching this house
every minute, yet he drives in leaves
his motor running to commit sui-
cide and no one sees him.”
He stamped down the stairs, leav-
ing me to a ferment. Whitefield had
tried to commit suicide. And for
what reason? And where was Dirck?
And when I thought of him, I knew
why Bermuda had lost caste. New-
York with its murders, blizzards and
mysteries was better with Dirck
than fields of fragrant Easter lilies
and sunshine would be with Toby.
And then I thought, “That law-
yer has a high regard for you, Miss
Howarth. He goes dashing off, leav-
ing you to the mercies of people
who break into rooms and roam
she’s changed her name. I hoped
and prayed this Adrianne would be
her.".
I was confused and she must
have noticed it, for she said, "You
see, I'm Ada Wells' mother."
I murmured something inaudibly.
There was nothing that I could
think of to say It seemed almost
incredible that this pleasant, home-
like person could be the mother of
a girl like Adrianne Wells.
"Is she all right?" she asked
eagerly. “Well, I mean?"
“Why, yes, of course." I managed
that much.
She hesitated. "I read all about
it in the papers and I was so wor-
ried. I couldn’t leave him—her
father-to come here yesterday. He
isn't very well. She isn't ... I
mean," she faltered, “the police don't
suspect her, do they? It didn’t sound
right in the papers."
"No, of course not." I told her
quickly. “They question everyone in
the house. That’s just a formal Illy."
The woman was intensely relieved,
I’could tell, although she said
hastily. “Of course. I knew she’d
never do anything wrong, but not
hearing from her and not knowing
where she was living worried me."
She took a handkerchief out of her
worn leather bag and wiped her
eyes.
"You must have been upset,” I
said.
SHAKEN
The woman leaned forward con-
fidentially. "She's a good girl," she
said, "but she was always head-
strogn, and when her father for-
bade her to go on the stage, she
around fire escapes."
That Wednesday night, the third
evening I'd spent in the house, was quarreled with him. Then she ran
the longest I've ever put to. I sat away from home. I’ve always
— in the wine chair hv the fire- thought if we’d been a little more
sympathetic she’d have listened to
reason. And she did write me as
soon as she got to New York. But
you see she didn't say where she
was living. I guess she was afraid
of what her father might do. I
wanted to come and find her. But
he’s a hard man. He wouldn't let me
lift a finger. Is she working?”
I shook my head. "She was, I
know,” I said cautiously. “I’m not
up in the wing chair by the fire-
place with the lights on, alternately
furious at Dirck and then melting.
I got snatches of sleep, I suppose,
but the little I had was interrupted
by dreams, and I would start up.
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WASHINGTON—Many months will pass
before the impact of the supreme court de-
cision again denouncing the “third degree” is
felt in the bull pen of the nation’s police sta-
tions. but in time it will get there like a re-
freshing breeze.
The supreme court, speaking through Jus-
tice Black, told Florida that four negroes
could not be executed on the basis of forced
confessions to a murder. A respected citizen
of Pompano, Fla . was killed in 1933 and
about two-score negroes were rounded up in
double-quick time. Then the third-degree heat
was applied steadily for five days. Three of
them ’‘broke’’ on the sixth day.
EASY CONFESSIONS’
Many policemen will defend the third-de-
gree methods to the last breath on the ground
that it saves a heap of time to get convictions
that way. —
Probably every cub reporter ever assigned
to a police beat has seen the process or watch-
ed its results. There will be a series of petty
thefts and house breakings around the town.
The papers and the public will begin to howl
at police inefficiency. Then some luckless devil
will be captured around the railroad yard. The
police will “question" him. Before another 24
hours have passed his “confession”.will estab-
lish a new high in efficient banditry.
With a dozen unsolved thefts to account for,
the police often enough saddle the whole cate-
gory upon the boob, and glowingly assure the
citizens that one more menace to public safe-
ty has been cleanup up by Chief of Police
Wiley Beckstoop.
STATION-HOUSE TACTICS
Not all the third-degree practices are con-
fined to the south, among the negro popula-
tion. We had our book filled out west where a
man’s a man, and a bum’s a bum with the po-
lice after him.
We’ve been away a few years from police
courts as a regular beat and some of our
friends tell us that things have changed. That
is nice to hear, and at this point it ought to
be explained that your policeman out on the
corner guiding traffic and old ladies across
the street cuts mightly little pie in this third
degree business. That falls to the station-house
boys who have to make good for the chief.
BLACK PROVES FAIR
It might be added that the supreme court’s
opinion in the case of the Florida negroes was
written by the member of the court who for
a long time was expected to be its public
scapegoat because of his early Klan affilia-
tions.
But opinion is growing steadily around the
court that Justice Black is building himself a
reputation for alert jurisprudence.
Without question he writes the smoothest
opinions, from a strictly spectator standpoint,
of any pf the new appointees and is a close riv-
al in that respect to the chief justice.
ONE MAN DECISION
But we can’t pass now without letting you
know that in the Arkansas gasoline case the
Constitution is what Justice McReynolds says
it is. He wrote an opinion saying Arkansas
had no right to levy special taxes on gasoline
in the tanks of “through” vehicles.
Four other members of the court agreed
with his final idea but refused to say it as he
did. They wrote a special “concurring” opin-
ion of their own.
Three others disagreed altogether. How-
ever. since McReynolds was officially assigned
to the job by the chief justice, his one-man
opinion became the official voice of the court.
my eyes going first to the lire
escape and then to the door.
In the morning about eight o’-
clock Dirck appeared without a word
of explanation, looking as though
he’d been up all night. After break-
fast with him at the Knife and Fork
he brought me back to the house
and left again. He had said noth-
ing except to ask me how I’d slept.
The shop was still closed, of
course, and Ishi wandered around
the house following the reporters
who had arrived in droves. The at-and then through the open doorway '
tempted suicide seemed to- make I could see Adrianne Wells coming
more impression than the murders.
Mary Ann and Adrianne were both
out and Mrs. Evans was among the
sure whether she is now."
“Maybe shell come home with
me," her mother murmured. "Her
father's illness has made him a lit- .
tie softer. He'd be glad to have
her back now."
I heard voices in the lower hall
up the stairs. Her mother's eyes
lighted at the sound of her voice as
—------Adrianne called back to Mr. Kim-
missing for a change. , ball, and when she hurried out into
Sarah finally showed up and gave the hall I closed mydoor. I didn't
my apartment more of a lick and a feel in the mood for a reunion. But
promise than the thorough cleaning I’d gotten a glimpse of the girl’s
that it needed. She went about her face. She was shaken at seeing her
work in sullen silence and departed mother, but there was something
with a backward glance of disap-deeper than that in her eyes. She
provaln . , was afraid of something, even if she
Mr. Kimball called me about half- | hadn’t been last night.
past ten. He asked me If I minded
sitting in the shop for a little while
in case anyone called. The reporters
It was after twelve when Mr.
Kimball came up to tell me that
Sergeant Long had called. Mr.-
had nearly driven him mad and he Whitefield was still in the hospital
wanted to take a short walk. Ishi
had to stay with the reporters while
they were in Whitefield's apart-
but he had improved considerably
and was out of danger. There was
The Family Doctor - - By Dr. Morris Fishbein
The numerous conditions which
may affect human speech are of
special interest to the doctor be-
cause changes in the speaking
voice may help In diagnosing dis-
eases that are otherwise hidden.
The most common change in
speech is hoarseness. Hoarseness
is seen so often that frequently it
is dismissed -with little attention.
Hoarseness- is, of course, a symp-
tom of trouble with the larynx.
“but this does not mean that the
larnyx and the vocal cords are
necessary for speech. Dr James
S Greene points out that a cat
has no vocal cords, but that it has
a voice with a wide range of
sound .
The condition which may affect
the vocal cords, making operations
necessary, include tumors, cancers,
burning with lye and caustic sub-
stances, and tuberculosis. Because
of the multiple conditions which
may be involved, it has become
customary for specialists to study
every case of hoarseness seriously.
When a patient has a cancer of
the larnyx, involving the vocal
cords, the doctor always explains
that the matter of first Importance
is to get rid of the cancer Most
patients immediately want to
know whether or not removal of
the vocal cords will make it possl-
ble for them to talk. Nowadays it
is possible for doctors to tell
patients that a this operation does
not mean inevitably a destruction
of the voice
Several different devices now en-
able patients to speak even after
a complete removal of the larnyx. 1
All that the larnyx does is to de- i
velop a sound out of a column *
of air. Speech is molded by the!
tongue the cheeks, the lips and
ment.
The reporters subsided a little
after he left and the house was
fairly quiet and desolate, though the
day was clear and the, sun shone
brightly on the snowy street. I had
the feeling you have after a funeral
when the shades are still drawn and
voices are muted.
ADA'S MOTHER
About eleven o'clock a woman
came to the shop and asked for Miss
Wells. I called up the stairway, but
neither of the girls had come in yet.
And the woman, I took her to be
about Mr. Kimball's age, asked if she
might wait. She took a chair by the
window and sat there until Mr.
Kimball came back, and then I took
her up to my apartment.
She took a chair by the window,
sitting on the edge of it and looking
at me timidly from time to time
without speaking. I tried to talk a
little, but she didn't seem to be lis-
tening. and suddenly she interrupted
me in the middle of a brief survey
of New York weather.
“Do you know Miss Wells?" she
asked.
"Yes," I said. "Not very well,
though. I've lived here for only
three days."
She was silent again and I looked
at her curiously. She was rather
attractive in a faded sort of way.
Her clothes were unpretentious, but
she held herself with a quiet pride.
"I wonder," she said after a mo-
ment, "I wonder If you would mind
describing her—Miss Wells—to me?"
I was surprised. It seemed odd
that she had come to see the girl
without knowing her. But when I
a broken place in the roof of the
garage where air could get in and
that had saved his life But Mr
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the palate. When the larnyx Is re-
moved, the patient has to learn to
collect air in the throat, the eso-
phagus and the stomach to replace
the air column in the lungs.
Next the patient learns to pro-
'finished a very lame description the
woman nodded her head vigorously
and a smile lighted her face.
Work for Uncle Sam - -Without Pay
“You don't know what this means
to me," she said, drawing her chair
closer to mine. "I've worried for
months not knowing where she was
or what she was doing. Then I saw
her name in the papers. Adrianne
Wells, it said. Her name is really
Ada. But I said to myself, maybe
Kimball said surprisingly that the
artist was under arrest. What theory
the sergeant had built around
Whitefield's attempted suicide, we
didn't know.
When Mary Ann came in. Mr
Kimball invited both of us down to
the shop for lunch and I accepted
gladly and so did Mary Ann. The
Knife and Fork was a noble insti-
tutlon. but I was a little more varied
Wheat cakes and ham and eggs are
swell occasionally, but for a dally
diet they are a little heavy even for
a thin person.
Ishi had prepared a delicious
luncheon, but he served it with
that smile on his face that gave me
the willies. I wondered if the ser-
geant had gotten Mary Ann to talk *
and whether Mr Kimball knew the
girl had been with Richard the
night Joan died .Mary Ann was
quiet and Mr. Kimball talked lit-
tle, so I was glad to leave them
and get back to my apartment I
wanted to be alone to worry about
Dirck. He hadn’t been in the house
all morning ------------------
It was a little after two when
the sergeant "rushed upstairs. "Is
Miss Wells to?" he shouted
Before I could answer Adrianne
came out of. the apartment and
closed the door behind her. Her
face was as white as a sheet. ' #
"I want to talk to you, young
lady."
Adrianne followed him down the
stairs and Mary Ann passed them
on her way up.
"What does he want with her?
What did she do?" she gasped to
me. ,
I shook my head If Whitefield
was connected with Joan’s and
Richard's deaths, Adrianne would
be mixed up in them too. She'd
been with the artist that evening. ■
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porters, used as many as 13,000
answers in compiling one offi-
cial report and published more
than 200 general and special
reports.
The mail is tremendous but
more than 75 years existence in
its current set-up has given the
service experience by which
these reports are tabulated, run
through calculating machines
and evolved as easily under-
standable statistics with lightn-
ing speed. , ■ ,
Any widely-dissenting figure
from an individual is lost in the
masses, but sharp-eyed experts
soon located undependable re-
porting and their services are
terminated.
However, the voluntary corps
is in the main a faithful group
and Agriculture Secretary Wal-
lace recently said:
"Month After month and
year after year, they report to
their state offices the facts on
crops, livestock and prices. They
fill out long and often involved
questionnaires. They take time
from their regular work to keep
the nation posted on the facts
of agriculture. They sizes up
conditions In their own locali-
ties with an experienced eye.
and they report what they
see
"All this they do without
hope of personal gain. They
“ are volunteer reporters, as in
many cases their fathers and
grandfathers were, primarily
because they are proud to be of
service In their communities.
“These farm people are the
backbone of an organization
that has long been unique.”
Practically all estimates in
the state office are made on a
basis of change and sampling.
The census bureau gives a peg-
ging point to acreage and
yield Quantitative checks and
absolutes are furnished by cot-
ton glnners. shippers and mar-
ket men.
Crop meters, devices which
record miles of frontage on
crops while driving along roads,
are aids in determining acre-
age of plantings
In Texas, more than 1,700
rural mail carriers cooperate to
r annual crop acreage and semi-
' annual livestock surveys.
duce tone by means of the other
tissues Experts have developed
regular voice lessons for people
who have had their larnyxes re-
moved
Recently an eminent physician
sent a questionnaire to 30 patients
on whom he had operated, during
the past 10 years, for removal of
the larnyx due to cancer Eight-
een said they had learned to talk;
five said that they could whisper;
and only six said that they could
not talk..
The persons who had been op-
erated on included salesmen, mer-
chants, carpenters, doctors, labor-
ers, steam fitters engineers, print-
ers, tailors, a hotel proprietor, a
milkman and a business executive.
Seventeen of the 30 were able to
resume successfully the same work
that thed had done before the op-
eration. 1
Public Records
WARRANTY DEEDS
Standard Savings and Loan association
to O. S. King and wife, Ruby King: $1.-
900: Jan. 19, 1940; lot 10 In A G. Hobb’s
subdivision of west 285 feet of lot 1, block
1. Fair Park acres, an addition, city of
Abilene
Colonial Loan and Investment Company
to Ella Blanton, a feme sole: $1,850; Feb.
17, 1940: lot 10, block < Christian Col-
lege addition, ctiv of Abilene
FILED IN 104TH DISTRICT COURT
W. R. Chapman, Judge Presiding
Ellen Grubb vs. Milton Grubb, suit for
divorce.
W E. Edington vs. O. D Dillingham,
suit for wages. A X
MARRIAGE LICENSES
R. D. Davidson Jr. and Fay Sitton.
D F McCarty and Elsie Pearl Couch.
J. Faulkner and Viola Florence Schoon-
over.
Laurence Wayne Thorton and Frances
Avanel Hendricks
NEW MOTOR VEHICLES ′
Chrysler sedan, B C. Humphrey.
DeSoto sedan, E. L. Spiker
Plymouth sedan, A. G. Harker,
Mercury sedan, D A Bandeen.
Ford coupe, Frank Boggeman.
Ford coupe, Faye Bloss ,
Ford pickup, H. C Purcell
Dodge truck, Ben E. Keith company.
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