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ATURD
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1980
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
EDITORIAL
0
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR!
By M. E. TRACY
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE DIAL 2-5151
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930
CROOKED as he may be, there
“GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND THEIR OWN WAY”
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the community.
THUS Is a pessimistic outlook
the long pull.
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- study of the 9000. Rural fam-
1 those members of the vice squa
UNCLE PANTHER’S MAIL BOX
ASK THE PRESS
They Say-
THE BUSINESS OF LIVING
number.
%
Stronger men enter the Sen-
ate In place of mediocrities
boosted into power during the
The Chest Is
the Only Way
rely exam
current
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Health and Protection Studied
changes in American family life, |
the
and
Ohio,
JEW
VIE
: Of Al Capone's conquest Of CM I
cago, and an element of flnan
THAT the fight game needs is more Scotch
VY pugilists. Then we would see some close
competition.
jecture is made that there are
some aspects of the old family
pattern which should be chang-
ook, Bick
publishers
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rites Bicke
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anticipation
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whoare so degraded as not onj
to be willing to listen, but t
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TRACY
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We don’t want vigi-
lance committees, but if
the law can’t handle the
situation, what else can
we expect?
In ear
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vision,
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soldiers
HERBERT p. SCHULZ
Managing Editor
L A. WILKE
City Editor
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about the racketeer who makes
hard-boiled bootleggers do his
dirty work, or gets control of
a city government by putting its
ward-heelers on his payroll.
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/ GOOD MEMORY 1
WIFE: You think so much o
poker you don't even remembe
when we were married. y
HUBBY: of course I do, da
ling. It was the day after I he
that straight flush at the clu
—Bulletin, Sydney.
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MAKES A DIFFERENCE •
“Are Maurice and Ethel 1
inseparable as ever? .
“No, they are married now.
—Buen Humor, Madrid.
NOW that Charley Paddock, “world's fastest
I human,” is married, he'll probably charge
everything up to running expenses.
EARL J. GAINES
Business Manager
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president Y
The Fort Worth Press
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by The Fort Worth Press Publishing Company,
it Wtth and Jones Streets, Fort Worth, Texas.
EDWIN I MINTEER
Editor
LEV H. FLOURNOY
Advertising Manager
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icals an
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district I
THE camera men who are to make the movies
1 of Bobby Jones will doubtless learn that
he also can make some good “shots.”
and Paris life. Her husband was elected to
parliament as conservative member from Car-
— Isle, and she was one of his leading campaign
. figures
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TT would not only appear harsh, unjust and
I inexcusable but barbarous. It would appear
to make a farce of that type of government
known as a democracy. ‘
Such a doctrine carried to its theoretical
conclusion would endanger the life and liberty
of every citizen. We are not learned in the
1 for the family in an urban
industrial civilization, seems to
be justified, says Dr." Stanley,
but on the other hand city chil- |
dren are better adjusted than
rural children, according to the
-----------------------IN NEW YORK------------------------
NEW NOVEL STIRS SOCIETY
ed probably related to the au-
thoritarian and undemocratic , end.reportinge whetheifinda
parental attitudes of the old-
fashioned family.”
THE impossible is never im-
1 possible. If you will just
make it a point to find out
why a thing cannot be done, it
is easy to go ahead and do it.
—Cyrus H. K. Curtis.
•* *
A birthday is not a thing
for which a man deserves any
credit.—Henry Van Dyke.
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It's just as essential to smile
as it is to sleep, for if you
never smile I'm afraid you're
booked for an exceedingly long
sleep.—Mayor James J. Wal-
ker.
shakes down dives,-speakeasies,
and gambling dens which those
higher up oblige him to pro
tect, -
| tips from the barber, the hasl
item resist ehenge and the con- slinger, the push-cart peddle
or anyone else who is to
enough to spread the muel
tracking girls into cheap lodt
| ing houses, quizzing japitor
Two razor companies have merged and Mar-
| 1 gin Max rises to suggest that it would be
• a keen idea to buy stock in the new firm for
T cial shrewdness has helped tr
relieve the ugly disclosures with
/ re ard to judges and magis
trates who have been run of
%
MANY a farmer has learned since the wheat
II surplus to look before he reaps.
----------A WOMAN'S VIEW POINT---:------
Rowing Over Religion
The people of the United
States are concerned with their
own affairs and do not meddle
in the affairs of other na-
tions.—Vice President Charles
Su=tle------------------------
of KOV
1 Interfer
is found
intries.
can make while doing my task
on the stage of life. As I have
often stated, I can find good in
any FAITH, whatever the name
of that faith may be, if it points
to divine things and the majes-
tie meaning of life.
My religious life is patterned
around a practical, working
knowledge of what I think is
BEST for ME. Yet, this knowl-
edge, when applied by YOU,
may prove a pitiful failure,
bringing into your life nothing
short of discord and a doubt-
ing attitude toward the great
Both take their lives in their
own hands, and the criminal
and corrupt they-still will pos
— seas some qualities which one
- can find it possible to admire."
But when it comes to these
Z Peeping Toms who sell w h at
they see thru the keyhole, and
to those lawyers and court of
ficlals who divide the loot with
• | the m, one looks in vain for
that spark of manhood which
generally survives, no matter
how rotten or depraved the
mind.
An element of brutal courage
has served to soften the shock
By JACK MAXWELL
SOMEBODY once said: "No
D one can tell another what
is right." Frankly, I may be
able to tell you how I do a cer-
tain thing, or perform a task.
But on the other hand, is my
manner of so doing CORRECT,
or the better way of doing it?
Above all, I wish to ascertain
that which may prove, in the
end, the most practical.
For years I have contended
that the more practical I may
arrange my life's program, en-
ter into a daily regime of living,
as it were, the more progress I
scheme of life, both here and
in the life to come.
By many I am thought to be
very unorthodox. However, so
long as I do not disturb the
beautiful DREAM of my fellow-
man, why should he take issue
with my life's pattern? He, too,
is weaving a pattern. And the
its weaving may bring into his
life a regime of living suitable
for his every need ... his PAT-
TERN might prove unsuitable
for me, were I to apply its
shadowy arabesque to the shap-
ing of my life.' I try to be very
CHARITABLE in my views.
THAT personal record of General Pershing
. that has caused no end of bidding is said to
have finally brought $250,000, for book rights,
serial rights and all the rest—which is some-
thing of a record . . . And Helen Kane, after
all that court ruction, is seen about these
nights with her young husband, who seemed to
have been left miles behind . . .. Boop-de-oo-
doop!
Randolph Churchill, son of the celebrated
Winston, has been visiting the Harlem spots.
They do say that Libby Holman, New York's
favorite blues warbler, who hails from Cincin-
nati, will marry Clifton Webb, the sleek dancer,
who was her partner in the "Moaning Low"
By GILBERT SWAN
NEW YORK.—Notes from a convenient cuff:
The warmest bit of chitter-chatter of the
moment concerns a certain character in Mary
Borden's new novel, “A Woman With White
Eyes. The character is so plainly drawn that
here is no mistaking it.
For years she kept “open house" in Paris,
dwelling there with another American woman
who later married into European royalty. Her
hospitality, not so many years back, was almost
a legend. She has for years been identified
with artistic and literary matters.
And the portrait drawn of her has crept
from tea-table conversation into the society
columns where one of the frankest refers to
it as “vicious libel"—or something of that sort.
. The Mary Borden, who thus finds her book
creating wide social whispering, is a former
Chicagoan who became identified with war-
time work, married the British General Spears
and became a figure in fashionable London
this year. Our faith in Fort
Worth's citizenship convinces 3
us that. the task will be speed-
ily completed.—
The needy extend an ap-
pealing hand. Many who ordi-
narily would shun charity now
must accept it. In this year of
unemployment and depression
there is no dishonor in seek-
ing aid from your fellowman.
Fate is tricky. Fate some-
times seems unjust. Which
doesn't alter the plight of the
men, women and children who
must have a lift. . Fort Worth
will not fail.
robust about
around, while the warped mer
tality bred by protected crime
has sunk so low that nothing !
too vile to appeal to it.
The one consoling feature 9
the mess is that the huma
imagination has thus far faile
to conceive anything . worse
which warrants the hope the
we have struck bottom. :
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House Cleaning Time
WHETHER we have struc
VY bottom or not, house clear
ing is obviously in order, and ‘
constituted authority has
come so corrupt, weak, or in
mobile that it can't attend to 1
the public will.
: Tho nation-wide in scope
this compound of lawlessness
and degeneracy represents th
same problem that frontier com
munities, mining camps, and a
booms produce. 1 there is n
other alternative, it will be me
in ways they found it necessar
to adopt.
We don't want that, don
want vigilance committee
mobs and barrel - head cor
victions, but if the law can'
handle the situation, what els
is there to expect?
| school children and learned such
things as these:
Marriage is earlier and fami-
lies larger in predominantly
manufacturing cities. Farm
families are larger than others
in rural communities.%
Foreign born families coming
from a rural culture tend to
continue their rural family pat-
tern even when living in cities
while those of essentially urban
culture such as Russian Jews,
approximate the family pattern
of native urban citizens. _.__
The per cent of married pop-
ulation increases as the size of
the community decreases. Child-
less marriages are more com-
mon in cities. The size of the
natural family living at home
decreases as the size of the com-
munity increases and the total
A committee headed by Dr.
Louise Stanley, chief of the Bu-
reau of Home Economics recog
nized current thought that the
family has been undergoing rap-
id and definite changes and
found that disintegration of the
“older family life" seemed: to
be indicated by statistics on
marriage, divorce, size of fam-
ilies and proportion of births
to populations
Conditions of production and
consumption tend to remove
from the home certain functions
formerly considered inherent in
family life, it is admitted, . But
despite the indubitable influ-
ence of trends in modern indus-
trial civilization, one learns:
“There is evidence of a differ-
ent sort that the family is not
undergoing any fundamental
change; that those functions
important question bein
whether the girl has som
dough, and whether she can b
scared into giving it up.
Struck Bottom
THUS we come to the dregs €
I an era, to the settlings
1 noble experiment, to the lar
word in human depravity a
made possible by organized vie
| and political corruption.
The hooch business, it seem
with all its expansion, has fai
ed to provide loot enough to g
dry reign of terror of
Anti-Saloon League
preacher , politicians.
(This is the second of three stories
summarizing some of the findings of
the nation's leading experts on chil-
dren as reported to the White House
Conference on Child Health and P‘
tection which has just met in Wash-
ington.)‘
* * * * !
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Writer ,
WASHINGTON The White
House Conference on Child
$ * *
THE committee studied the
1 home environment of 9000
| which are being removed from
| the home are superficial in their
| nature, and that when outside
I forces reach more deeply into
| fundamental family structure,
there is resistance to their loflu-
ence which will result in con-,
trol of those agencies which Im-
pinge upon family integrity."
Must a Technicality Send
This Man to His Death?
THE state of Texas has decreed that one of
I its citizens must pay the supreme penalty
in the death chair tho its highest criminal
court tribunal has said that the trial was not
conducted according to law.
The case is that of Dave Goodwin, con-
victed of murder in Bowie County. The Texas
criminal court of appeals has held that the
trial court erred in its instructions to the jury
but since the defendant's attorneys failed to
make exception nothing can be done but to
let the death verdict stand.
It is difficult to conceive that the law of a
great commonwealth could be so faulty as to
send a man to death under such circumstances.
Yet the criminal court of appeals says:
“It may appear harsh and unjust for a
man's life to be taken whom the record shows
— has not beentried—according to law, but such
appears to be the demand of the legislature
and to it we must submit. The rule which
under these circumstances refuses us the right
to reverse for such an error is inexcusable
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A Thought for Today
CET thine house in order.—Isaiah 38:1.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
—Burke.
Scarface Al's Daddy
no separate Al Capone from prohibition is
1 impossible. Prohibition violation is Capone's
business. When President Hoover tells the
states and communities to attend to their own
Capones, he is in effect telling them to enforce
prohibition—which the federal government has
been unable to do. *
. As long as there are millions of decent
American citizens who want to buy liquor,
there will be men to produce and sell it. If
it cannot be sold legally, it will be sold ille-
gally. And if it must be sold illegally, racket-
eering is the inevitable result. Such racket-
eering involves not only the colorful Capones
but the corrupt politicians from whom they
buy immunity.
Certainly the president is right in refusing
to burden the federal government with the
local problem of racketeering control, which
Washington should not handle and could not
it it would.
But if the federal government cannot help
the states, it can at least stop hindering them.
It can stop passing. unenforceable laws which
create new armies of racketeers preying upon
local communities. It can repeal prohibition
which is Scarface. Al's daddy.
Family Fun
LUCKY?
PETER: If I am naughty 1
I have to go to bed withor
supper.
JOHN: That can never ha
pen to me. I have medicine I
take after meals.—Moustique
Charleroi.
A Definite Airport Policy
MAYOR WILLIAM BRYCE has made an an-
I nouncement that brings on considerable
speculation, in answering some of the recent
rumors about. Meacham field.
The mayor says Meacham field either will
be improved or a new field will be provided.
This will be a definite action at getting
the A1A rating for Fort Worth's municipal
flying field. _. 1
Previously the mayor has expressed his de-
sire to see the present airport perfected. In
this airport Fort Worth took the lead in air-
port development in the southwest, and appar-
ently is not far behind that rating at present,
despite stories to the contrary on the part of
those who are seeking a relocation of the
present airport, known as Meacham field.
Mayor Bryce is of the opinion that with
Meacham field in its present fair condition, it
might be more economical and practical prop-
erly to overhaul this field than to start again
from taw.
With this idea he now comes out with the
direct assertion that the field will be improved
or removed. His views no doubt represent for
the most part that of the entire council.
For more than a year the subject of
Meacham field has been much discussed. First
——there was an offer to purchase it. — When that
was declined by the council the tirade of de-
nunciation against the field was loosed, but.
meanwhile ships continue to land and take off
with regularity.
Now the council, together with, aviation
officials, are “checking and double-checking"
possibilities of Meacham field. The mayor's
announcement indicates the problem will be
given needed attention in time for Fort Worth
to keep abreast of aviation development.
guilty or not.
Then comes a couple of law
yers, with several more to fo
low, confessing their part in th
sorry combine.
And there isn’t even the er
cuse of sex appeal to justify th
mess.
In the whole outfit, no on
played the part of a he-man
At the bottom of the bea
crawim the stool pigeon, gettin
THE Rotary Club did a fine
1 act yesterday. It decided
to abandon its annual Christ-
mas tree festivities and turn
the $500 thus saved to the
Community Chest.
That act serves us with a
tip-off on what Fort Worth
as a whole is going to do
about the Chest campaign. Cit-
izens are aroused as never be-
fore over the necessity of pro-
viding for the needy and un-
employed.
The wealthy will increase
their subscriptions. At least
we think they will. Those on
the brink of disaster will do
their utmost to give a helping
hand to those who have fallen
over the brink and must de-
pend on charity for the very
-necessities of life.
The Lions Clubs recently •
conducted a nation-wide buy-
now campaign to bolster up
business confidence. The cam-
paign was not expected to per-
form an economic miracle. But
it was effective.
Other service and civic clubs
are contributing their energy
to the cause of relieving the
unemployed and aiding the
needy. Mr. Average Citizen
says "I'll help, too."
Everywhere there is the
spirit of cooperation. The spirits
of "Let George do it". is miss-
ing.
Under such a system a man
might pay $150 a year for 16
years for entire medical care in-
stead of being faced all of a
sudden with an emergency
charge of $1,500 or more.
This proposal would not only
help doctor and patient. It
would also eliminate the spectre
| of state medicine which is
bound to come unless some way
is provided of securing compe-
tent medical care for the masses
without involving bankruptcy or
pauperism.—H. E. B.
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INDEPENDENT VOTING
Editor The Press:
SENATOR Borah hit the nail
P on the head when he saidy
that party spirit is low and
people are more and more
voting for individuals and less
for parties and are trying to
elect individuals in whom they
have confidence.
Seeming contradictions in
the last election are explained
by this disposition of voters
to belong to themselves rather
than to a party. Morrow got
by in New Jersey on person-
ality, and his courage in be-
ing Morrow instead of a Hoo-
ver yes-man—and in spite of
his being a Republican when a
Democratic landslide was mov--
ing.
Walsh, dry, won out on
personality in wet Montana
against a strong Republican
wet. Norris, dry, won out on
personality in Nebraska. Pin-
chot was elected governor in
Pennsylvania with the Penn-
sylvania Railroad and the Re-
publican machine against him
— and in spite of the fact that
he was fanatically dry.
That is, in spite of the wet
tidal wave, individual drys
won out because voters in all
parties had confidence in their
liberalism in other particulars.
The Senate will be stronger
for this independent voting.
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which once boasted of strong
men like John Sherman, Allen
G. Thurman, Joseph Foraker,
and later Theodore Burton,
fell down under Anti-Baloon
League domination to such
lightweights as Willis, Fess
and McCulloch.
Under Anti-Saloon League
TN years past we have heard
1 much grumbling about Com-
munity Chests and charity
drives. We recall the citizen
(and there were many like
him) who said he would do
his duty to charity privately
and in his own way.
We don't hear much talk
like that now. For we have
all joined in the common
cause of helping those who
need help. There are too many
thousands among those need-
ing relief to talk about doing
the job thru the person-to-per-
son method. We must act as
a mass. Any other method
would be fatal.
The Community Chest liter-
ally cries out for your sup-
port. We predict,that the call
will be answered with enthu-
slasm and a sense of duty
never before equaled in Fort
Worth. The Chest budget ought
to be more than subscribed.
It ought to be over-subscribed
by a considerable amount.
Thomas Meighan, after kissing the films
goodby, has gone back to them : • . And
don't forget that we told you that the name
of Rex Bell would be the next to be mentioned
in connection with Clara Bow's affairs of the
heart . . . Rudy Vallee dropped about $40,000
before he closed up the Cafe Daffydill, in
which he had a half interest. The other halt
was dropped by Don Dickerman, who has made
a fortune in several other spots.-------------
•
FROM over the country come
T reports of oversubscribed
Community Chests. Houston
raised $583,000, Dallas al-
most as much. Fort Worth
asks $277,000. Fort Worth
hard hit. Not to such a de-
gree as are many other cities.
For that we are thankful.
In normal years, we would
predict that some difficulty
would be encountered in: rais-
ing the $277,000. But not
political tryanny any man was •
satisfactory to the profession-
al prohibitionists provided he
was dry. It - made no differ-
ence what he was otherwise;
and we got into both houses
of Congress, into state legis-
latures and into governors'
chairs little-minded men. of-
ten they were submissive to
public utility lobbies who used
them to exploit the public.
One good thing about the
anti-prohibition movement has
been the fact that brewers
have been pushed out of con-
trol of the fight against pro-
hibition and direction of the
fight has passed into the
hands of men and women who
don't care a darn for the liq-
uor traffic, but who are in-
terested in real temperance
and the country's good.
To accomplish anything
worth while voters will have
to own themselves, to disre-
gard hereditary and associa-
tional influences and own
themselves instead of being
owned by any party. It will
be a good thing for the coun-
try and for all of us as peo-
ple if it so turns out that in
no state in the Union nomi-
nation by any party is equiva-
lent to election, whether the
party happens to be the Demo-
cratic or the Republican party
—whether the state be Penn-
sylvania or Alabama.—N. O.
COCHRAN.
SICK AND SOLVENT
Editor The Press:
SICKNESS is no picnic at the
D best. It brings pain, incon-
venience, loss of time and work.
This is bad enough: When to
these is added either financial
ruin or public charity' as the
price of decent medical care, the
prospect of illness is a merger
of tragedy and nightmare. Is
there no way out? .
Evans Clark believes there is
and sets forth his plan in the
Atlantic Monthly. He summar-
izes his scheme under the fol-
lowing heads: (1) group prac-
tice in medicine; (2) periodical
medical examinations, and (3)
the insurance principle which
divides personal risks into fixed
and regularly paid charges.
By group practice he means
the organization of a medical
guild which will include one or
more specialists in every impor-
tant branch of medicine and sur-
gery. This would combine the
convenience of the old family
doctor, who tried to do every-
thing himself, with the expert
care of the modern specialist.
The advantages of the period-
ical examinations do not need
to be defended at length. Noth-
ing is more important in reduc-
ing the frequency of serious ill-
ness.
The most important and nov-
el aspect of Clark's plan is his
proposal of a fixed fee to be
paid annually by members who
receive the services of the guild
of doctors. This fixed sum is to
be paid each year whether the
individual and his dependents
are sick or not. The fee will not
be any larger if all members of
a family are sick during the
year. This provides a small and
reasonable fixed charge on the
member families and insures an
adequate income to the physt-
cians' guild.
You can get an answer to any an-
swerable question of fact or informa-
tion by writing to Frederick M. Kerby,
Question Editor, The Fort Worth
Press, Washington Bureau, 1322 Newi
York Avenue, Washington, D. C., en-
closing two cents in stamps for reply.
—EDITOR.
Q. What is opal ice?
A. A new artificial ice. Invented in
Germany by a Max Heinrich Gurth, a
Berlin chemist. It consists of water
boiled with certain chemicals It is
not a refrigerant, but is used for skat-
ing surfaces in rinks.
. Q. Who was Gottfried Lelb-
nitz?
A. German philosopher and mathe-
maticlan, who invented the adding ma-
chine in 1094
Q. What is the capital a n d
seat of government of Bolivia?
A. Sucre is the capital of Bolivia
but the actual seat of government is
La Paz.
* * *
Q. How old was Charlie
Chaplin when he made his first
appearance on the stage?
A. Six years.
* * *
Q. How many home runs did
Babe Ruth hit in the 1928 sea-
son?
A. Fifty-four.
Q. How much does it cost to
send a letter to Italy?
A. Five cents for the first ounce
or fraction of an ounce, and 3 cents
for each additional ounce or fraction.
* * *
Q. What is "Merry Christ-
mas" in Spanish?
A. ‘Felices pascuas.''
number of children born has the
same trend. Single dwellings
decrease and multi-family dwell- .
ings increase with the size of
the community.
City families move most fre-
quently and the per cent of
those/ who stay in the‘commit
nity of their birth seems to be
inversely correlated with the
size of the community.
The number of married wom-
en employed outside the home
has increased faster' than the
number of single women, most
rapidly in larger places.
Both divorce and illegitimate
births increase with the size of
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
AFTER a long and faithful service of 21
A years in the same pulpit, a minister in a
certain city is resigning in what he calls the ,
“Interest - of harmony."
Which, being interpreted in plain English,
means that the fundamentalist members of the
congregation are clashing with modernistic
ideas. In a public statement this preacher
says:
“It's a deplorable condition when a minister
cannot go forward with a religious spirit that
will guide people properly because of differ-
ences in the fundamentalist and the liberal in-
terpretation of Bible phrases."
Indeed, it is a deplorable condition. And
one that does not reflect any too much credit
on a congregation. The church that lets a
hard-working minister go these days, when new
positions are so hard to find, is doing an
essentially un-Christian act. Especially when
that man has given all the best years of his
life to building up their church.
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TT'S amazing to a person on the outside look-
I ing in as to how these so-called “good peo-
ple” can be so concerned over mere Biblical
questions that, at best, can only be guessed at
by mortal man, until they will commit unfriend-
yl, unkind and even un-Christlike deeds in the
name of religion.
The position of the preacher these days is
a very precarious one. No wonder fewer and
fewer intellectual and spiritual men take up
the calling. They are so desperately hampered
by the squirrel-cage ideas of the congregations.
And it's byond me how any Christian, of
whatever school, can believe that merely stand-
ing ,still and believing the same thing today
that you believed yesterday could by any
stretch of the imagination be called religion.
Real religion must be a growing and a
changing thing or else a completely dead issue.
the New York bench, but this
—ater-revelation lacks even
much as a single drop of rer
blood to colorthe filth.
Officers in uniform, lawyer
Q—enth, repre sentatives o
the prosecutors office, profes
sional bondsmen and stool pig
eons, divide loot which would
make a pimp blush.
* * *
Dirty Business
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P Chilean, who made as mue
as $150 a week spotting wome
for the vice squad, and wh
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convicted without a scrap - C
technicalities of the law. For often the func-
tioning of our laws seems strange and at t
variance with the original intent of our organic
§ law the constitution.
2 But we think we know a little of the law.
% of common sense and ordinary justice. Dave
Goodwin may be guilty of the crime for which
he was convicted—murder. We profess to
know nothing of the facts. But until he is
convicted by a jury in a. trial that is con-
ducted according to the law Texas must not
exact the death or. any other penalty. For
Texas to do otherwise would stain the state
with an awful shame that time could never
eradicate.
If Texas has set up such court procedure
that makes it impossible for the court of last
resort to give relief to a citizen who has been
wrongly convicted, an overhauling of our sys-
tem of jurisprudence is the most important
work that the next legislature can perform.
‘ TUSTICE would be outraged even if a litigant
• were deprived of his wealth by the mere
failure of any attorney to make proper excep-
tion in the lawsuit record. It would be doubly
outraged if a person were deprived of his lib-
ertythru such a process. It becomes an un-
thinkable and tragic outrage if a person were
to be deprived of his life on a technicality.
The criminal court of appeals in effect
says it can do nothing about it. But something
should be done about it. And something will
be done. What's to keep a court from waiv-
ing aside such a technicality and giving the
man the fair and impartial trial that the law
says he must have.
Must one technical law be sustained when
the more vital and important law of providing
a fair and impartial trial is violated—especially
when the life of a man is the issue?
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