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EDITORIAL
THURSDAY; JANUARY 1, 1981
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
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“GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND THEIR OWN WAY"
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Business of Living
who
the
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walls of that room a coating of
THE 18th AMENDMENT
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the site of Fort Wor hiding.
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What western civiliza-
tion needs is less of the
ostrich and more of the
missionary spirit. •
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Member or the United Press, Beripps-Howard News Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association,
Newspaper information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulation.
New Coat of Paint for Jury Room
at Court House
light brown paint.
The bedroom on
floor of the court building, where
jurors spend the nights during im-
portant trials, also is being re-
painted. New coats are still to be
given to the walls in the office of
the court reporter and in the wit-
ness room adjacent' to the court.
Single copy two cents: by mail In Texas, 50 cents per month: by mail outside or Texas, 40
cents per month; in Tarrant County, two cents per copy, 10 cents per week: elsewhere, five cents
per copy and 10 cents per week.
JURORS GET RELIEF
FROM DIRTY WALLS
EARL J. GAINES
Business Manager
HERBERT D. SCHULZ
Managing Editor
L. A. WILKE
City Editor *
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. Fire the Commissioners
AT the present moment there is only one way
A in which the United States senate can op-
pose nullification of the federal water power
act.
That is by removal from the federal power
commission of George Otis Smith, Marcel Gar-
saud and Claude R, Draper, whose first act in
office was dismissal of William V. King and
four times as many autos N all
the rest of the world put to-
gether, or that we.have twice
as many telephones, does not
mean that we have done such a
.complete job.".
If every able-bodied adult in
this country were to work eight *
hours a day every day in the
year for the next 100 years, we
1 Editor The Press:
TT is fundamental In this coun- T
I try that no human being can
exercise any kind of public au-
| thority which is not conferred
by law; whatever is not so giv-
en is withheld, and the exercise
of it is but audacious usurpa-
tion..
At the Revolution, the sov-
ereignty devolved,upon the peo- '
ple of the several colonies, and
they alone had power to frame
their form of government. ,
Jan. 5 to 9.
4 The conference 1
auspices of the Ue
Missionary Society,
Rev. A. Preston Gr;
.University Christian ••
The mornings will
days were
purposes."
that when department _____
made their employes work over-
time or on Sundays or holi-
days they should do so “by
special order, stating the rea-
That Extra
Session
- CONTROLLING THE HOUSE
Rep. Blanton 4D., Texas):
Notwithstanding the fact that
the 120,000,000 people of the
United States have 435 Rep-
resentatives sent here by them
to Congress to legislate for
- them, and to vote their senti-
ments, all are impotent except
the few members who, acting
for the chief- executive, have
prepared a measure to meet
-------A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT-----
Alienating Affection:
The Fort Worth Press
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
Owned and published Sally (except Sunday) by The Fort Worth Press Publishing Company,
at Fifth and Jones Streets, Fort Worth, Texas.
acts b
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monies
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VOU hear people talk a 81
I deal about the wonde
market China will one day 1
nish for our machinery and
plements, or Africa and South
America.
But what are we doing to
help the good work* along? A
Are we tackling the propost-
tion the way we tackle that of a
new town site or a suburban
No matter how well off they
may be, those who quit are lost.
The problem.Is not to curtail
production, except in spots, but
to promote consumption, par-
ticularly among people
have not caught up with
ALL
TOGETHER
FOLKS’
SERVICE IS BEGUN
ON NEW AIR LINES
Create Markets
DEOPLE can't drive autos I
T without roads; neither can /
they market their goods- at a
profit. |
It the United States wants to |
see more business in ths world, 1
the United States must take |
hold and help to create it. 1
That is one responsibility that 1
goes with the possession—of 1
one-third of the gold in exist- 1
once, with being the, world's 1
outstanding leader in com- 1
merce, finance and manufactur- 1
Ing.
EDWIN D. MINTEER ' •
Editor
. LEV H. FLOURNOY..
Advertising Manager
ture deliberations than the here-
tofore dirty walls of the jury
room. Workmen are giving the
handclasp fills not an empty
. belly; but it helps, like the
very dickens, to encourage a
guy to stay in the game when
plenty of hell is popping and
the trail on ahead is darker
They Did the Manful Thing
ONLY the man of small brain capacity will
U not admit a mistake. J
Manfully to admit an error is to display a
mentality capable of broad and sincere thinking. -
Councilman Monnig and City Manager Carr •
In addresses before the CofC directors said they
thought the three-judge federal court was in-
- fluenced In its gas rate decision against the
■ city by accepting invitations to social affairs
- In Fort Worth during the hearing.
With strong denials from those accused and
with proof lacking on the allegations both city
officials have withdrawn their statements and
expressed regret at making the charges. That
was the honest and courageous thing to do.-nm
So let it be hoped that the entire matter is
water under the bridge and will not be used
as a smoke screen by those opponents of the
gas issue who are not willing to deal with facts.
The statements made by Mr. Monnig and
Mr. Carr in the heat of their discussion have
no bearing on the real merit of the case.
There is only one question now involved and
that is whether Fort Worth wants to continue
its fight for a cheaper gas rate. We believe
UNCLE PANTHER’S MAIL BOX
Job, after attending the functions they would .
attend anyhow, to sit down and write a report
. upon the trend of fashion.
% Each is asked to describe the sort of dress
seen, the colors being worn and give the names
of the wearers.
■ Thus can the big store keep in touch with
what the Who’s Who is donning, and direct
their style plans accordingly.
TT was Eddie Cantor who dug up a grand old
1 one the other night when the Club Rich-
mond called upon him in between one of his
many trips back and forth from Hollywood.
Cantor has quite * family, but they're all
girls. Frequently he has been accused of
waiting until they grew up, getting his own
music show and rearing his own chorus.
J » " F
holidays “for all
It was stipulated
City. The service is to be ex-
tended to Fort Worth by Feb. 1.
The NAT has been flying the
mall between .Fort Worth and
Chicago for four years.
Tri-motored Ford • nassenger
thousands are eager to learn where they can
get a seat to a good show for less than box-
office price. This year, Leblang went in for
wholesale balcony seat buys.
The king of Broadway's ticket men., Joe •
got his start rolling cigars in one of those
little tobacco shops that dot the mid-town belt.
The cigar plant in which he worked happened
to be one that attracted actors, producers and
such. They fell into the habit of leaving him
a couple of passes. Leblang would sometimes
use them, but after a while he found himself
with so many that, needing a little extra money
he sold them fori half their value—or less
This gave him the bright idea of buying up un-
sold seats and bartering them for less than
the regular price. With the result that he’s a
millionaire today.
could still find something, to
do.
Knowledge Increases con-
sumption as well as production, .
and of the two consumptionis
the more Important. a
It is not what some of
raise or make that counts, Tt
the way many of us can use i.
Responsibility M
WHAT western civilization
VV needs, especially in Amery)
ica. Is less of the ostrich Sere
more of the missionary spirit."
No nation can grow by wall-
ing Itself In, lying down on the
job and. living off its own shelf.
Success means responsibility
as well as privilege.
his demands, and, under the
recognition of the Speaker,
■ move to suspend the rules and
pass it, just exactly as the
President wants it passed.
HELPING THE FARMER
Rep. Arkins ) R., III.) = Orig-
inally we called upon the fed-
eral government to make a
loan to the farmers to pur-
chase seed In a drouth-strick-
en area. That went over all
rigbt. My understanding is
that on that there is about 15
per cent loss to the govern-
ment. Then they said we must
have feed to help us put out a
crop. Well, they had that.
Then they came and said we
must have fertilizer, and we
made a loan for fertilizer.
That went along pretty good.
Now,' they come and say that
they must have feed to feed
the families. About the next
thing will be a loan for money
to buy the mule and pay the
rent. --I
DOCTORS AND LAWYERS
CEN. COPELAND, (D., N.
D Y.): Doctors are extreme-
ly individualistic. Every doc-
tor is an authority unto him-
self. I have no fault to find
with that attitude. There is a
, great difference between law
and medicine, in that law is
founded upon the principles of
Justianian or promulgated by
parliament or revealed by Prov-
idence; but in the medical pro-
fession every map is an au-
thority unto himself.' -
way’s most interesting characters. His cut-
rate shop has for 'years called forth a’ mob
framed by a committee appoint- 1
ed by the Continental Congress
and submitted to the people of |
each state for its adoption or .
rejection.
It was adopted after the Fed-
eralists had agreed with the
delegates that a bill of rights
would be added to the Federal
Constitution.
It Is simply a delegation of
power to ths federal govern-
ment, in that the federal gov-
ernment can only do what the
people authorised it to do in the
Constitution.
The Fifth Article of the Fed-
ersi Constitution provides two
methods for its amendment, one
by Congress acting in conjune-
. tion with the legislatures of the
several states, and the other by
the people acting thru delegates
selected for that purpose. Thus,
for amendments which would
modify the mode of carrying
into effect the powers delegated
to the federal government, they
ordained:
“The Congress, whenever
two-thirds of both houses
shall deem it necessary, shall
propose amendments to this
Constitution • *. • which
shall be valid to all intents
and purposes, as part of this
Constitution; when ratified .
by the legislatures of three-
Charles A. Russell, the two commissioner em-
ployes who have fought for enforcement of
the act, for protection of the public’s’ power
resources and regulation of private companies.
Pleasant promises of future rectitude are
not convincing from these commissioners now.
Reemployment of one or both of the ousted
men, while the senate temporarily holds a gun
over the commissioners, would be no guarantee
of conversion and devotion to the law.
.. The senate has already been notified by
the November balloting how the people feel
about the matter. It does less than Its duty
if it does not transmit this warning .to the
administration. .
District of Columbia’s statutory
holidays. :
President Roosevelt thought
giving the clerks a Saturday
half-holiday was too generous
and held that Saturday after-
noon was only a holiday as it
concerned negotiable paper—
the payment of notes and simi-
lar transactions.
THEN congress amended the
1 law to declare that Satur-
day afternoons and other holi-
In Criminal
their’ range of experience—several countesses,
debutantes and Social Register ladies were re-
tained for a sort of spy system. It is their — —just before curtain time in the theaters, since
boulevard! -
- a ^ YORK--------------
MANHATTAN’S NEWEST NIGHT SPOT
* By JACK MAXWELL
DEING one of the best ques-
D tion askers, I indulge my-
self in this delightful pastime
quite frequently. By. asking
questions I glean knowledge
concerning how the other fel-
low turns’the TRICK. I be-
come more intimately acquaint-
ed with the doings’ .of my-fel-
lowman; and in doing so I can
give/ to him a better break,
when he or she falls beside the
roadway of life. ..
It is impossible for me to
aid all mankind, in a big way.
But is quite possible for me
to SYMPATHIZE with the most
forlorn, discouraged and down-
trodden. I admit the friendly
the second
By M. E. TRACY
MORE Jobs thru a shortened
A working day; higher prices
thru the arbitrary curtailment
of farm crops; better busi-
ness thru the exclusion of for-
eign goods, and so on ad in-
finitum.
No matter how good each
proposition may look by itself,
the scheme as a whole is all
wet.
While it is true that modern
industry has led to overproduc-
tion in certain lines ana that
mechanical power has Involv-
ed the decrease, if not the ex-
tinction of certain trades, it is
not true that people have been
provided with the comforts and
conveniences of civilized life
even in the so-called civilized .
countries.
Furthermore, civilization was
not attained by building barri-
cades or quitting-in the middle
of the afternoon', nor can it be
preserved that way.
% * *
Need Consumption•
MORE than half cf humanity
N still lacks a speaking ac-
quaintance with what we re- "
xard as ordinary necessities.
Neither is that half confined to
the swarming plains of Asia or
' the jungle depths of Africa, as
some seem to think. 1
There are millions right here
in America living without bath- 1
tube or screened windows, not -
to mention electric lights, hard-
wood floors and washing ma-
chines.
The fact that we are driving
- The Corporation’s Boss
WHATEVER may be the merits or demerits
mo"" o the decisionof. Judge Jenkins in the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube cause, he “mays
one statement which could be read with profit
by many other judges and by all corporation.
officers:-
“No matter how powerful the corporation,
how extensive its property holdings or finan-
cial interests, its working and very existence
even are subject to, the direction, approval and
will of the people, expressed, thru its govern-
ment, laws and courts," he pointed out. “The
operation °‘ a corporation must, to repeat, ac-
cord WIth the standards of conduct held by
its CL.eator, the state and its people."
states subsequently coming
into the Union all’ contained
Bill of Rights, in which the
powers of their legislatures are
limited, and the natural and
inalienable rights of the people
are reserved to the people and
exempted from the power of
the legislature.
The so-called 18th Amend-
ment was proposed by Congress
and ratified by the legislatures
of the several states.
It was never submitted to the
people of the several states.
Where did the state legisla-
tures get the authority of the
people to act on the matter?
It is axiomatic that the test
of the validity of a power is
not how it is probable that it
will be exercised in a given
case, but what can properly be
done under it.
If the national and state leg-
islatures have much power,
then it is a power not only un-
regulated by law but incapable
of being regulated.
If they could do what , has :
been done, what could prevent
them from amending the Con-
stitution and abolish the Su-
preme Court, or make the of-
fice of president hereditary, or
perpetuate themselves in office?
Such an interpretation is sim-
ply a declaration that the peo-
ples are slaves, and have no
protection stronger than the
whim of a majority of the na-
tional and state legislatures.—
D. B. CHAPIN
Missionary and Religidure such an attitude, or that one man will
tion in Texas and inflict such ignominy upon his fellows. But a
Thursday, Young Peogood many of them seem highly flattered. If
meer Conferences; F they are done in fancy packages and look ex-
JoYMTeNoTaty Edecensiye, and somebody is ready to pick them.
Supervised recreaticp. they put an excessive value upon their af-
held daily at 4 p. m. ections.
Standard Leadership *»»
each evening will be IN JOTHING in .our entire system of jurispru-
a faculty of nationa.N dence is less sensible, than these alienation
They will be as follow affection or breach of promise suits. And
The Message and Prosverybody knows they are possible only because
ChpistiandRel sansumane profession of law, weighted with dignity as
Religious Education, t is, seems to lend itself readily to any kind
Darsie: Unit 108, Dra hijacking scheme that its lowest members
and Pageantry, led by an contrive.
McGavran, and Unit While the lawyers do not admit it, the
and Recreational Lifeadividual knows that no person ever “pos-
Sly 1 u i W esses’ another’s love in the manner in which one
wort, regional Rupermay possess a house or a purchased parcel,
the Southwest districting when a m”n or woman or a court of law
Chicago-Fort Worth Branch Open charge of the conferenttempts to put a valuation upon love. It low-
a to Kansas City ----------------------- the person concerned to the status of a
Service started Thursday on. ... .... .house or a purchased parcel. It strips human
the first section of the National COMPLAIN OF 'affection of all its glamor and of all its in-
-Air Transport’s new air passen-' -pINItrisic worth
ger line between Fort Worth and TUPI TRINTBC worn.
Chicago. .
The first passengers were car-
ried from Chicago to • Kansas
By N. D. COCHRAN
WHILE I have 'spent much of
a long life being in the mi-
nority, I don’t really think I am
contrary. I was with a small mi-
nority over 30 years ago in ad-
vocating the eight-hour day and
the right of workers to bargain
collectively. But that minority
. is a big majority today.
When anything new is advo-
cated minorities are invariably
wrong. People are such crea-
tures of habit and so wedded to
their idols that they can’t be-
lieve anything can be done that
hasn’t already been done.
SOMETIMES they get notions
P in their heads and don’t
know where or why they get
them. For years editors and
other# have belittled Congress
and boosted presidents. Cheap
witticisms have been sprung on
the public at the expense of
Congress, all tending to lead
people to believe that only when'
Congress was in session was the
country in danger.
Just now there is a general
outcry against an extra session
of Congress based on the old
delusion. Again I am in the mi-
nority, for I believe that the
.country is not only In no,dan-
ger from an extra session but
, that it would be a good thing to
get the new Congress together
as quickly as possible and put
into effect the verdict rendered
by the people in last Fall's elec-,
tion..
A LONG SHOT
HECTOR: I’ve put your
dress shirt on the clothes
horse.
HORACE: What odds did
you get?—Answers.
MODERN METHODS
TEACHER: Now, in getting
the meal, what ia the flrat
and most important thing?
CLASS- (In chorus): Find
the can-opener.—Answers.
CHANGED SLOGAN
“So you’ve taken on old
Mortimer for better or worse,
Mary?”
“No, Bertie; I've married
him for more or less— that's
what a girl does nowadays.”—
Tit-Bits.
$------.
GRAVE QUESTION
WIFE: Is that the hole
naughty Fido mader in your
garden, dear?
HUSBAND: No, darling, this
is the hold I made for him.
Nottingham England, News,
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served,
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Mrs.
Place
at a
mounds
peas and
Pled 1
for
Countre
ered to
in, and
half ho
ballroom
day gri
than a stack of black cats.
A kind word spoken may
not insure a. JOB, for the fel-
low whose family is in need
of food and clothing, but It
will warm the cockles of his
heart and let him know that,
at least, one fellow Is encour-
aging him to “buck" the line.
I am not financially able to
place a dollar in the out-
stretched hand of every poor
cuss I may meet along- the
way . . , but I can refrain
from making his life more ar-
duous. . And, by smiling thru
my own tears, laughing when
I feel like crying, dishing out
HOPE when I am almost with-
out HOPE, mykelf. 1 can be
of help to those I meet TO-
DAY. In other words, by
helping MYSELF to fight life's
battle, I encourage the Other
Fellow to stay in the RACKET
. .and take It on the
CHIN. Now, laugh that off.
- GALLERY JINGLES
Last Roll Call
I_3___
By GEORGE SANFORD HOLMES
THE Senate pauses; -silenced
1 Is debate; *
Before the rostrum rests a
somber pall,' .
Where all that now is mortal
lies in state
Of one who answers to the
last roll call. :
His finger-tips could graze
. those distant years
, When civil strife appalled his
boyish, eyes;
His was the role of those who
dried their tears 4
And helped a land united to
arise.
Hushed is the Senate; stifled
all debate,
As colleagues pass before the
shrouded pall ii
Where he who served so long
the Old North State
Is answering “Here" to his
last roll call.
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
A NOTHER woman stole my hsuband.” wails
, A a wife as she seeks redress in the courts,
committee meetings, Such statements should definitely deflate
supervised study and the vanity of the male. A man might be a
.ration for evening c parcel left inadvertently lying on the hall table,
conferences will be h the way he is looked at from a legal stand-
front 2 to 4 p. m. point.
The afternoon m He “belongs’ to somebody. He is carelessly
scheduled as follow exposed by his owner. Somebody else comes
general set-up, with by and picks him up and takes him away. It is
charge; Tuesday, interred that he himself has nothing what-
training, vnan a never to say in the matter. He is a mere dumb
Th w/iMa n askeusdpawn in the hands of woman..
Contribution Should I Now. it looks as if this would make men
of the Bible Mako to extremely angry. I a in amazed that they en-
The people of each of the col-
onies declared their indepen-
dence and adopted constitutions
for -their own' government.
These constitutions are older
than the United States, and
each of them contained a Bill
of Rights in which the people
reserved to themselves and ex-
empted from the power of their
legislature many enumerated,
rights, including their natural
and inalienable rights as well
as the right of local self gov-
ernment. *
These state constitutions are
a limitation on the power of the
legislature, in that the .legisla-
ture of a state could enact any
legislation it saw fit so long as
it did not infringe upon the
rights reserved by the people in
their constitution. •
The Federal Constitution was
TT isn't difficult %to understand'
1 why the - power combine
would lye happy if Congress
n’t meet at all, but left
everything in the-hands ofthe
President ahd the kind of pow-
er commissioners he likes to ap-
point. I can understand why il-
legitimate business might fear
legislation curbing its greed.
But I can't see, why any legiti-
mate business should worry
about whether Congress is__In—
session or not—-or why the peo-
ple generally should fear Con-
gress. ,
My personal belief is that It
would be a great protection to
democracy, the Constitution
and Bill of Rights if the new
Senate were to convene- at the
earliest possible moment and
stay on the Job as long as pos-
sible. Possibly the new House
may be worth while, too; it
couldn't possibly be worse than
the bunch of cowardly dummies
in the present House who dumb-
ly wear the ring of the Commit-
tee on Rules in their little
noses.
son."
Nevertheless, the government
clerks have gone right on work-
ing Saturday afternoons and
they are doing that now. No
one has been able to find any
order, general or special, to
account for this seeming defi-
ance by the executive branch
of government of what was the
original intent of the legisla-
tive branch.
The Federal Bar . Associa-
tion made a long, exhaustive
and futile search for such an
order. It submitted a brief to
the president last summer ex-
pressing the opinion that the
Saturday half-holiday here was
mandatory on the government.
. But there is no promise that
anything will be done until
congress acts again and mean-
while the government clerks
will, continue to feel that they
are being gypped.
would give all federal em-
ployes Saturday afternoon off
beginning at 1 o'clock.
— McKellar, holding that em-
ployes of the federal depart-
ments here appear to have
been illegally, employed on
Saturday afternoons for nearly
30 years, has a resolution di-
reeling heads of' departments
and other federal establish-
ments to explain why they
have, been keeping their forces
at work.
Postal employes will benefit
from a bill, passed by the
house and expected soon to he
passed by the senate, granting
them a 44-hour week. The
postal employe unions say that -
this law will mean employment
for several thousand additional
persons.
Most federal employes here,
however, work a seven-hour'
day, from 9 a, m. to 4:30,
with half an hour for lunch.
If they got off Saturday at—
noon, they would have a 38-
hour week.
ONCE upton a time the gov-
U ernment clerks worked
only six hours a day and there
is no record that they com-
'plained of long hours. Con-
gress decided, however, that
six hours wasn't enough and
in 1898 passed a law requir-
ing them all to'work seven
hours a day except Sundays
and days declared public holi-
days by law or executive order.
Three years later, congress ap-
pears to have thought it might
have been hard-hearted and so
said Saturday' afternoons
should- be included among the
- By RODNEY DUTCHER
NBA Service Writer
WASHINGTON— The five-day
working week as a par-
tial solution of unemployment,
proposed by Senator Watson of
Indiana, Democratic Chairman
Raskob and many others, is
—unlikely to be endorsed by the
administration..
In fact, the federal em-
ployes in- Washington haven’t
been able to wrangle a five-
and-a-half-day week out of
their superiors, despite the fact
that the law appears to grant
them a Saturday half-holiday.
Hardly anyone has been pro-
posing that the government
undertake to pass laws for a
five-day week in private indus-
try, but ft has, been widely,
proposed that both the nation-
al government and various
- state# and municipal govern-
ment stimulate the practice by
leading the way. Uncle Sam,
however, proves very cautious
about giving ills workers any
more leisure. When President"
Hoover issued an executive or-
der allowing government work- ,
ers the afternoon off on the
Wednesday before Christmas
he carefully added the warn-
ing: “This order is not deemed
as establishing a precedent.”
* » ♦
DUT It seems reasonable to
D suppose that there will be
a five-and-a-half-day week, for
government workers before
there is any five-day week, so
some general interest attaches
to measures introduced by Sen-
ator Wesley Jones of Wash-,
ington and Senator Kenneth
McKellar of Tennessee. Jones
At any rate, Cantor related that upon the
arrival of the last child he awaited feverishly
for some report. His wife had been in ill
health and he was worried. Furthermore, he
felt he had enough girls in the family and
could stand a change.
But when the wire arrived it read: “It’s
a girl. All well."
And then, relates Cantor, his eye, sadly
traveled down to a slogan printed at the bot-
tom of the message paper. It read: “If you
want a boy—call Western Union."
WHEN tickets were ‘being sold at 50 bucks
YV per each for the Army-Navy charity game,
the Broadway sack was held by Joe Leblang,
the cut-rate ticket agent, who is said to have
dropped $50,000 when stuck with tickets.
Leblang is, beyond doubt, one of Broad-
fourths of the several
states • ♦ *‘
But, when it comes to adding
new powers to the federal gov-
ernment, or reframing the Con-
stitution or abolishing it, only
the people can do it, because
they being sovereigns as to
rights not delegated, ordained
that:
‘“The Congress • • • on the
application of the legislatures
of two-thirds of the states,
SHALL call a convention for *
proposing amendments, which
• • • shall be valid to all In-
tents and purposes, as part of
this Constitution, when rati-
fied by conventions in three-
fourths thereof O •”
The Tenth Amendment to the
Federal Constitution ordains:
“The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Con-
stitution, nor prohibited to it
by the states, are reserved to
the states respectively or to the
people." - .
The constitutions of the
THRU TRIM’
I i A Moreover, the legal profession trails its ban-
... ners in the dust when it allows its members
in Center ofRioneden to bring to Its attention ratters like this. We
• »>s P J hear a good deal about legal ethics, but when
A fence—and it we see the kind of fool lawsuits that can be
So passes Overman and goes
his way,
A courtly figure faded from
men's .view;
A.broken link ‘twixt ante-bel-
lum day z "
And all this strange and
changing, order new.
TT W7 A CLIINTAVANT. The five-day week doesn’t get very far
IN. W. ASANO ION: with the administration.
| development?
We are not. We are sitting
down and waiting for them to
get set, and whining because it
takes so long.
If there is a revolution,
can generally find ways to loan,
the new government some cash
to pay off its soldiers, provided
we think it is going to last
more than a week.
How much have we ever
loaned for real, honest-to-God
improvements; for better roads,
reclamation projects and such
other enterprises as are neces-
sary for the development of nat-
ural resources?
A Thought for Today
-' NY brethren have dealt deceitfully as a
brook, and as a stream of brooks they
pass away.—Job 6:15.
Trust not in him that seems a Saint.—.
Fuller. --
By GILBERT SWAN
NEW YORK. — One of Manhattan's newest
I night spots has.one of.Its walls partially
papered with checks that “bounced back.”
And attached is the sad sign: “Little
White Lies."
And another one has established a‘round
table which has been named “Liars' Corner."
It’s for newspapermen and columnists only.
They can congregate there as often as they
wish and the chap with the loudest voice gets
to tell his story first.
• • ♦ ■;
ONE of the leading department stores of this
U big town now employs a "flying squadron."
composed entirely of women whose names are
in the Blue Book. .
When it was discovered that society women
seriously intended going to work—that is, If
the work happened to be pleasant and within
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