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EDITORIALS
Well, a Fellow Can Dream, Can't He?
OF Tins AND THAT
If we desire to secure peace . . it mutt be 1
known that wo are at all times ready for war. 1
. (Geo. Washington to Congress, 1793J J
Henry McLemore
TH
Program For Abilene
Mayor will Hair’s citizens’ advisory com-
mittee. after long study, has come out with
recommendations designed to take care of
the city’s more pressing needs through a bond
issue of $750,000. It may seem to conserva-
tive to some, but consideration of one point
"advanced by the committee should lead most
people to agree that it is sound. That is the
contention that only "pressing and imme-
diate" needs should be considered now, due
to present inflationary conditions.
These conditions likely will last another
two years or more, by which time additional
bond issues can be voted as reeded Construc-
tion costs are rising steadily, and may soon
become prohibitive for a season.
The recommended emergency program
covers $350,000 for schools, $75,000 for street
paving. $75,000 for airport improvement at
the army air base. $125,000 for right of way
to bring Highway No. 80 through town, and
$125,000 for water and sewer extensions. This
latter is in addition to the $250,000 in sani-
tary sewer extensions now under w ay based
on revenue warrants.
The committee recommends raising the
school tax levy from the present 80c to $1.50,
instead of separating the schools from the
city for taxation purposes. It urges provision
of about $40,000 additional per year to pay
teacher salary increases and adjustments.
For parks and playgrounds it recommends
an additional $25,000 per year for permanent
improvements.4
With respect to raising propertv valua-
tions. the committee agrees it should be done
wherever inequities exist, and argues that
a careful revision upward would yield suf-
ficient revenue to enable the city to fulfill
its obligations. To this end, the committee
urges the mayor to name three of its mem-
bers to work with the board of tax equaliza-
tion. 3
While the report will not satisfy everyone,
it represents a great deal of thought and
work on the part of some of the city’s leading
business and professional men, and as such
it should receive the earnest attention of the
city commission and the citizenship. It has
the advantage of offering a concrete program
for handling the city’s more serious prob-
lems. and forms the basis for a line of action
that should produce desired results.
Time Doesn’t Stand Still
In the 1850s the Butterfield stage coaches,
passing within a few miles of where Abilene
now stands, required about 26 days to travel
from St. Jo. Mo., their eastern terminus, to
San Francisco, the western terminus The
fare was around $100 per passenger, horses
were changed at frequent intervals. Indians
sometimes took a swipe at the hacks, and
everybody who made the long and arduous
trip wished he hadn’t.
There is nothing of particular interest in
this bit of history except as a peg on which
to hang a comparison.
This week three P-80, jet-propelled fighter
planes made the round trip from March
Field, Calif. to a field just outside Washing-
ton in 12 hours and 22 minutes The pilots
ate breakfast at March Field, lunch in Mary-
land. and dinner at March Field Average
speed was 413 m.p.h,’elapsed time
Even this dizzy speed will seem tame a
year or so from now, for Uncle Sam now has
a jet engine capable of driving a plane at the
rate of around 1.500 m.p.h. He has the en-
gine: his next problem is to build a plane
that will stand the strain, and determine by
experimentation whether pilots can stand it,
too Don’t make any bets against 1.500 miles
an hour as a probability. Ten years ago sober-
sided areonautical engineers were arguing
that even 500 m.p.h. was impossible. Some
of the more cautious scientists figured a ... n
plane would burst into flames from friction WASHINGTON CALLING
at slightly more than that speed.
If one of the Butterfield travelers had
been told that the time would come when
the round trip from St Jo to San Fran
would be made in the time it took the stage
to travel from Ft. Phantom Hill to Ft. Chad-
bourne he would have laughed himself sick.
"Don’t be ridic." he would have said re-
proachfully. if jive talk had been invented
then.
Abuses in GI Training Cited
BY MARQUIS CHILDS
WASHINGTON Young vet-
erans are lining ip before the
doors" Of every
ersity and
Two Sides to Even thing
college in the cour rv. They are
taking advantage of the gener-
and fore-
J prove
■ By an act of congress dating back to 1934. the fact that if they sold to one they would
io radio station can be compelled to accept have to sell equally to all If one candidate
political advertising. But that isn’t all. If a
9 *
bought one hour of time, all the other eleven
would have to be given the same privilege
i tation does sell time for political purposes, would have to be given the same privilege
t must sell an equal amount of time to the That would run to 12 hours of radio time in
ns of the GI
I of rights
That is well
ri good. It is
ri of the
o mis e we
de- to our
is when they
nt away to
opposite aide
• Suppose Station WOOF sells 15 minutes
a day for 30 days to Canaidate A If Candi-
date A has opponents in the persons of Can-
didates B C. D. E F G H. I. J and K Sta-
ton WOOF is compelled to sell 15 minutes a
day for 30 days to each of them, if they de-
mand it.
a single day.
Radio stations are not averse to selling
time. It's the only way thev can make a liv-
ing But they have to consider the listening
public, and any station that put on 10 or 12
hours a day of political ballyhoo would soon
_ & But there is a
CHILDS phas of the vet-
erans’ training progr m that is
not well and good I is already
subject to serious abuses. If they
: That runs into time, and Station WOOF
might be turned into nothing but a political
mouthpiece.---------.--------------:-------------
• There are more than a dozen candidates
for governor of Texas, and a complaint has
1 been filed against a Texas network because
it had refused to sell time to one candidate
before June 11
• The stations had decided that June 11 was
* early as they could make provision for
sb much political time on the air, in view of
find itself minus an audience Also, there
are only 24 hours in a dav.
Congress made the rules, and if the radio
stations don’t abide by them, their license
will be taken away. They must give Candi-
date X exactly the same consideration they
give Candidate A, though Candidate A may
make it appear that the stations have entered
a deliberate conspiracy to prevent the public
from hearing his oratory.
There are two sides to everything, as the
fellow said when he pulled on his trousers
hind part before.
are not corrected, e
lation or by change
they can discred
program ind cost
on-the job training,
“trains’ to become
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while
unmarried he gets
subsistence throus
ans’ admir
married.
er by r gu-
in the law,
the ent re
nation
of dollars.
exsoe__cd
The veteran
soda jerk-
- by with
wa e
If he is
a month
he is
CAPITAL COLUMN
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Modernized Congress Costs More
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By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. June 14—If
every reform proposed in the La-
Follette-Monroney bill to reor
ganize Congress should be ap-
proved, the additional cost would
be about $12,000,000 a year. If
that sounds like a lot, it isn t—
not by comparison with other
government expenses
The present cost of the entire
legislative branch of the govern-
ment la about _
DCA
year That is
less than the 1
cost of any one 1
of the eight ex-1
ecutive depart-1
men’s If is only 1
2 1-2 percent of 1
the total cost of j
the executive
departments. 1
Under the La-
Follette Mon-
#
EDSON
roney bill, raising salaries of
congressmen and senators from
110 000 to $15,000 a year would
cost $2,500,000. The congression-
al retirement fund would cost
the taxpayers $3,000,000 a year
Providing each lawmaker with
an $8.000-a-year administrati e
assistant would cost $4,000,000
Improved staffing of congres-
sional committees, and other ad-
ministrative changes would cost
another $4,000,000
Ohio’s Sen. Robert A Taft.
. who walked out of Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Com
hearings on the compulsory
health insurance bill after a tiff
with Chairman James E Mur-
rey of Montana, has walked back
in again Taft has been Invited
to testify before the committee
on behalf of his own substitute
for the Wagner Murray Dingell
bill, but is holding off.
The committee has another
month of hearings scheduled
Action on health insurance by
Congress »il probably be de-
layed until 1947
ERROR IN TRUMAN
LETTER
In a letter written to Presi-
dent Truman on May 25. Alvan
ley Johnston of the Brotherhood
' of Locomotive Engineers and A
F Whitney of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen stated
We rank No 27 in the matter
of wages The remark was wide-
ly quoted to build up sn argu-
ment that railroad workers were
among the j oorer-paid crafts-
men.
In a letter two days earlier,
however, the two brotherhood
lea ers said it differently Then,
their statement was that trans-
portation err plot es have slipped
since 1936 from second position
to 27th in percentage raises in
hourly compensation
There’s a vast difference in
meaning of these two statements
The second statement shows that
the brotherhood statisticians
went back 10 years and twisted
the meaning to make their figure
look as bad as possible.
Dependable railway wage
statistics from independent sour-
ces are hard to get The Inter-
state Commerce Commission
collects figures for all railroad
operations The Bureau of Labor
Statistics collects wage figures
for sll other non-agriculutral in-
dustries But they don’t keep
their books the same way, so
comparison is practically im-
possible
However for February ICC
reports that average earnings of
railway operating personnel
averaged $263 a month For non-
operating personnel the figure
was $189 a month February be-
ing a convenient 28-day, four-
week month, this would make
~ average weekly earnings for
trainmen and enginemen more
than $65 a week, for other rail-
way employes over 144 a week.
Average weekly earnings for all
manufacturing workers ac-
cording to BLS. are $42 All
these figures include overtime
and do not represent basic hour-
ly rates ICC says the average
railroad operating employe earn-
ed $1 10 an hour. BLS says the
average production worker earn-
ed SI 03 The recent strike in-
crease would boost the railroad
operating figure to SI 28 12 an
hour
STASSEN’S FORUM IDEA
Ex Gov Harold E Stassen’s
Republican Open Forums idea
is now on . two months old, but
already it has over 600 groups
meeting to discuss the “issue of
the month” and cast ballots on
what should be done about it
Stassen got the idea for this
grass roots movement while talk-
ing to a group of veterans af In-
diana University One of his aud-
ience suggested they stand up
and take a vote on a particular
point the Republican leader had
been discussing. Stassen saw that
here was the real way to measure
public opinion on current issues
and get people interested in
politics
The June topic, for discussion
is What Shall Our Price Control
Policy Be? Forums will be ask-
ed to argue it out, then vote on
whether they want rigid con-
trols continued, various degrees
of gradual easing of controls,
or outright repeal
Tabulations on the forums'
second monthly question. “What
Shall Our Labor Policy Be? .
are now under compilation and
will be announced soon.
tified that he was tra ng to
executive vice prseide t. a
that would pay S6000 a year a
on this basis he apri ed for
subsistence allowance of $90
month
ob
nd
Getting $10,000 a year you
can be in training for a $20,000
a ear job and dra S90
a month subsistence : you are
otherwise eligible for In oth-
er words there is no limitation
on salar^s in relation to subsis-
tence grants.
The veterans’ administration
has heard of instances in which
lawyers returning to law prac-
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tice have claimed and been grant-
ed subsistence allowance be-
cause they made a showing of
being "in training for a differ-
ent branch of the law The num-
ber of veterans getting on-the-
job training is increasing at a
geometric ratio in some instanc-
es it is little more than a rack-
et The connivance of employer
and employee is winked at by
the state government
The VA in Washington has is-
sued several orders l field of-
fices calling for supervision to
determine whether veterans are
pursuing bona fide training
courses or whether they are try-
ing to circumvent the law But
the VA’s powers are extremely
limited under a law so loosely
drawn that sound administration
is all but impossible.
The number of veterans in
training on April 30 was 620 444
I included 478 233 in colleges
and other ins itutions and 142.-
strange and wondrous ways
The county commissioners of
Montgomery county in Maryland
announced that they had approv-
ed on-the-job training for four
veterans in the county engineer s
office They were to be paid $60
a month by the county and would
get $90 in federal subsistence
This, said the announcement
proudly, would save the country
$360 a month and therefore four
more veterans could be hired
The average veteran is eligi-
ble for three and a half to four
years of subsistence while he is
in college or in training. By
April 30 a total of 2 180.930 ap-
plications had been filed It
takes only simple arithmetic to
show what this can cost.
It helps to feed the mounting
flame of inflation. Thereby it re-
duces the value of the benefit
to the veteran who is giving all
his time to train himself in a
profession or a craft
(Copyright 1946 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc )
205 getting on the job training.
The latter isthus i nearly 25 per
cent of the total which is three
es the ratio of three r ■ i if
months ago. The percentage get-Odl Welfare
.....ejob training will in- *1 ‘‘MY
crease as more and more veter-
an- are turned away Irom over-
crowded colleges and as word of
this easy money gets around.
The division of responsibility
follows a familiar pattern dictat-
Chapter to Drive
For New Members
Plans for extending the drive
ed by states rights congressmen
d ermined to protect standards for more members were made at
be w the national average The the meeting Tuesday nizht in the
federal government pays out the Windsor Hotel of the Abilene Tay-
money for veterans subsistence, lor County chapter of the Texas
But the states have sole super- Social Welfare association, orga-
visory authority Of the educa- nized here about a month ago
tional benefits the law says: Major Damon Nicholas of the
Salvation Army here outlined the
WHAT THE LAW SAYS background of his organization
No department agency, or of- which he and his wife have served
fieer of the United States, in car- with continuously for the last 25
rying out the provisions of this years since their graduation from
part shall exercise any supervi- Chicago University.
sion or control whatsoever over Mrs George J Martin, presi-
any state educational agency, or dent, presided at the meeting of
state apprenticeship agency or the organization, whose purpose
any educational or training in is to promote better understanding
and better relationship between
That is a parody of states agencies related to social welfare to
rights The money flows off the bring about social action on desig-
federal printing presses and the nated local social welfare prob,
state have the right to misspend
* as they see fit. This workst in
RICH
oit
TANO
HAD To stick 1
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By HENRY McLEMORE
POMPTON LAKES. N J. —
Here, in a sylvan setting ao
beautiful that noon day finds
me bounding from bed to en-
------- joy it, Joe Lou-
is is just about
to finish train-
ing for his fight
with Billy Conn
in the Yankee
Stadium next
Wedneesday
night.
The cham-
pion will wind
up his pre-bat-
tle werk on
...____Monday after-
McLEMORE noon by hang-
ing the four or five animated
punching bags which serve him
as sparring partners, and then
just relax until the bell sends
him out against the handsome
fellow from Pittsburgh.
During my years as a sports
writer I never picked Louis to
win a fight This unusual pro-
cedure paid off but once, and
that was due to Louis' inexperi-
ence and Max Schmeling’s right
hand I am going to pick him to
win this fight, however. I be-
lieve that he will win by a
knockout within seven rounds,
and I would not be greatly
shocked if he accomplished this
before the third round. Many of
my colleagues are in complete
disagreement with me. Indeed,
scores of them are going to
name Conn as the winner.
THEY PICK CONN
The Conn backers have never
reasons to offer in defense of
their man than a "d" has "f."
which is short for dog has fleas.
Conn is younger Conn is three
times as fast as Louis. Conn has
grown an inch since the last
time he met Louis, and Conn
has developed a new and dan-
gerous punch, and Conn was
born in the right month, under
the right star, and an analysis
of his handwriting shows that he
is of the stuff of which cham-
pions are made.
They also point out that Louis
is older, slower, creaks in vital
joints, and doesn't have the
stars on his side I talked to Joe
about this and he was as infor-
mative as ever What has Joe
worried is his golf game. Sam
Snead s golf game, and the in-
ability of the Detroit Tigers to
whip the Boston Red Sox. I ask-
ed Joe if he had slowed up, and
he said he just couldn t hit a
No. 2 iron. "That s a mighty-
hard club for me,” he said. "If
I could hit it right. I’d always €
shoot in the low seventies."
I inquired how he planned to
fight Conn. Was he going to car-
ry the fight to the challenger, or
hide his time and wait for Billy
to make a mistake?
"When you see Snead." Joe
answered, "tell him to shorten
his backswing. 1 think that is
where he gets into trouble—
overswinging. He oughta win all
the tournaments, not just one
now and then."
"Joe." I asked, “do you think
this fight with Billy will last as
long as the other one?"
"Don't look like anyone is go-
ing to stop these Red Sox," he
said. "When they knock New-
houser out of the box the other
day I figured my Tigers were
through. Maybe they'll slow
down later on, but right now
they look like the best thing in
the league by a mile."
This should have been enough
information on which to base an
expert piece, but 1 decided to
talk to Ray Arcel, probably the
best handler of fighters in the
country. Arcel has never second-
ed Louis, but he has been in the
corner of 11 of Joe's victims.
* * *
4
4
EXPECT LOUIS WIN
"I am still tired from lugging
out the guys Joe hit," he said.
"And I expect to see Conn lug- ■
ged out after this one. Joe has *
slowed down a little, sure, and
that’s natural, but people for-
get that slowing down a bit
doesn’t hurt Joe very much, be-
cause he never was anything
but slow on his feet. He always
was, and always will be, a shuf-
fler. And he hasn’t slowed down
in the hands, and that’s where
the payoff is He can still hit as
fast with either hand as any
fighter who ever lived, and 4
when he tags you, you either
fall down, or start acting pretty
funny while sending up Mind
you. I m not knocking Conn. He
is a good boy. Fast, strong, and
brave as two burglars. But he
can't afford to make a mistake. •
Not one He knows that, too.
I think Joe will knock him out
with two punches—a left hook
that he will throw over a jab,
and a right to the body."
Don t forget this, either Louis *
will enter the ring at about 208
or 210, and Conn will weigh in
at 182 and a fraction. That’s a
big pull in the weights, and
when a good, big man meets a
good, little man, the good, big
man is a good one to bet on
(Distributed by McNaught
Syddicate, Inc)
THE GALLUP POLL
Slightly More in Poll Favor
Than Oppose Worker Draft
By GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute of
Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J. June 14.-
With the question of labor legisla-
tion dominating’public thought.
One fact stands out a
segment of the American people
are willing to support extreme
measures in order to win indus.
trial peace.
Although the President a pro-
posal to draft
J
posed that employers and em-
ployees who refuse to run strike-
bound essential industries taken *
over by the government he draft-
ed into the armed forces and sent
back to their jobs. Do you ap-
substantial prove or disapprove of this?"
Tele-
Present graphic
Poll Survey
47° 53%
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workers into the
Army if they re-
fused to return
to work in a gov-
ernment - seized
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storm of opposi-
tion on his head
from both ex-
GALLUP treme liberals
No opinion ... ... 10 9
Although a substantial majority
of union members are found op- •
posed to the proposal, the ranks
of labor show tome division on
the issue.
Six out of 10 oppose the idea,
but three out of 10 say they favor
the idea of drafting workers if
need be while one cut of 10 has
no opinion.
While opinion is fairly evenly
divided on the specific proposal
of drafting employers and em-
ployees, it would be a mistake to •
assume that the great majority
An earlier preliminary check of 0( Americans are not in favor of
and conservatives, among the
American voters polled, slightly
more favor the idea than oppose
it.
opinion taken by telegraph across some steps to compel workers to
the nation, immediately after the return to their jobs in government-
President first offered the pro- seized struck industries.
posal, showed a higher votein A large majority are found fa-
favor of it than la found in the voring the principle of compulsion
present, follow up poll taken after in cases where the industry is con-
the idea had been more widely dis sidered essential.
cussed . . The question asked in this con-
, The telegraphic survey showed nection:
Irma to afford an opportunity for , slight majority voting approval
planned and integrated discussion of the proposal Today, while
of the principles and problems the vote of approval falls abort of
_ of social welfare, and to further , majority, the preponderant num-
By Webster local and statewide interest in the ber among the voters interviewed
field of social work continues in favor of the idea.
Officers of the organization, be- The question in both surveys:
7 sides Mrs Martin are County Judge “President Truman baa pro
s Wiley 1 ffey first vice president,--
"President Truman has pro-
posed that employers end em- €
ployees be compelled to run strike-
bound essential industries which
the government has taken over.
In general, do you approve or dis-
approve of this?”
Tele-
Present graphic-
Poll Survey
Approve ........61%
Disapprove .......28
No opinion .......11
3 Miss Geneva Voss, Red Cross exe- . ..
1 • cutive secretary, second vice presi- , A legendary island in the At
Ml dent: Mrs Roy Cypert of the Abi- lantic was named "Brazil.” the
” lene Taylor County health unit, name later being given to the
- treasurer Mro Margaret Schmidt South American country. _______
of the city county welfare depart- ___. __.
ment, social action chairman Mr* THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
- Esther Sharp of the city-county A * 44 * 1 a * 7
welfare department, program com-
mittee chairman: Bert Chapman,
who is unconnected with other wel-
fare organizations, chairman of the
membership committee, and Mrs.
Berneice Landers of the State De
partment of public welfare, record-
ing secretary.
Picks the Winner
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