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EDITORIAL
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 81,1988
The Fort Worth Press
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
WARD a SHELDON.
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of Circulations.
get rid of such a nuisance. It would be
futile to attempt any longer to enforce It
in the states whose people are overwhelm-
ingly against it, and it would be silly to
vote to keep It in the Constitution in such
circumstance#. Indeed, it would be worse
than silly. It would be promoting a dis-
respect for law. The 18th Amendment is
dead. And nothing can put life in it
again. All that is left to do is to give it
a decent burial and then try to forget it.
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31. 1933
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“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today
THE just man walketh in his integrity;
1 his children are blessed after him.—
Proverbs 20:7.
• •
Integrity is the evidence of all civil
virtues.—Diderot.
“INVESTIGATE TO THE LIMIT"
NO one will be surprised by the news
N that President Roosevelt has requested
the Senate committee to push its investi-
gation of, the Morgans and other large
bankers to the limit. • ,
It was Mr. Roosevelt who took office
with a specific pledge to restore the tem-
ple from the havoc wrought by the money
changers. . .
It was Mr. Roosevelt who suggested
that the Senate committee turn its im-
mediate attention from the commercial
to private banks.
So far there have been sensational ex-
posures but only a beginning has been
made despite the many weeks of hearings
and more weeks of preparation for the I
hearings.
There Is still much to find out about,
the National City Bank and the House of
Morgan, and after that there are at least
a score of others.
Only by making the investigation wide
and deep, can the public and Congress get
an accurate picture of the complicated
and inter-meshed financial machine which
has almost destroyed the nation.
It is not enough to show the opera-
tions of a short market, as the committee
started out to do; or the system of bene-
ficlary stock lists, interlocking loans, de-
posits' and directorates by which Morgan
controls banks, as the committee is now
doing.
The committee should reveal the work-
ing of a bull market, how, the big boys
deliberately boost stock prices in order to
unload on an uninformed public, how
they rope in smaller banks and invest-
ment houses to dispose of that stock, how
they whip up public speculative mania
by propaganda and false tips.
The committee should reveal how the
■ Wall Street bankers use their control over
industry to water stock, to over-expand
equipment, to produce beyond market de-
mands. to batter down wages.___________
The committee should reveal how bank-
ers milk railroads and other Industries
thru reorganization rackets and receiver-
PROCRUSTES IN TEXAS
TN Greek mythology there is the story
1 of a bandit named Procrustes, who
waylaid travellers and amused himself
and his men by stretching them on an
iron bedstead which, he owned.
If the traveller’s feet projected be-
yond the foot of the bed, Procrustes cut
them off; if the traveller was too short,
the bandits stretched him until he fitted.
This myth has been used ever since
as an example of the cruelty and useless-
ness of trying to make things or people
fit preconceived standards.
The Texas Legislature has passed a
constitutional amendment which. If the
people approve It, would limit to $22.50
per capita, for every two years, and for
all time tA come, the total overall ex-
penses of state government—including
roads built out of funds replenished by
gasoline taxes.
Thus the Legislature would stretch
our young giant and growing state upon
a bed of Procrustes, and, as its legs
stretched beyond the end of the bedstead,
would cut them off year by year.
No matter how much conditions
changed; no matter how complex our
social system grew; no matter how much
prosperity returned, nor how much the
people should want to expand their gov-
ernmental services, they would have to go
thru the long, slow processes of consti-
tutional amendment, if they wanted to
spend more than $11.25 per capita in any
one year.
This is about $30,000,000 less than
the total expenditures of 1929, by the way.
Where people have made their worst
mistakes of the past was In trying to
think and act for their children. This is
a foolish amendment, and should be
soundly defeated: Procrustes should be
sent back to Greek mythology where he
belongs. •
Misery in Mortar Boards
__By HARRY ELMER BARNES---
THE recent march on Washington by
1 representatives of the Association of
Unemployed College Alumni and Profes-
sional Men brings to our attention one
of the most remarkable revolutions in
our history.
It raises the issue of whether our
civilization will prove able to absorb the
growing supply of trained men and women
turned out anually by our Institutions of
higher learning and professional schools.
Graduates have been poured' forth
when society has been least able to use
their services. Yet we cannot blame it
all on the depression. The excess of sup-
ply and demand was already painfully
evident before October, 1929.
4 Few realize the change which has
taken' place here, even in the brief period
represented by my active memory. Thirty-
five years ago the college graduate and
the trained professional man could usually
find ready - employment.
• * •
ship piracy. .
The committee should reveal how
hanks thru industrialists and trade groups
maintain lobbies to prevent. Congress from
passing remedial legislation relating to
banks, public utilities, tariffs, and the
general economic life of the nation; how
they influence foreign policy, particularly
their tie-up with the munitions trust.
The committee should reveal how big
bankers thru campaign contributions, pre-
ferred lists of stock clients, and other-
wise, exert influence and in some instances
gain control of the major political par-
ties and of national administrations.
Pin-pricking the House of Morgan and
er others may be very exciting, but nothing
short of a surgical operation will do the
job.,
The investigation for diagnosis must
be complete, and the resulting operation
must be complete. Otherwise the public
will get nothing out of this but a brief
Roman holiday. .
We have had experience in this thing
before. Twenty years ago the Pujo in:
, vestigation put the head of the House of
Morgan on the grill; the public was just
as much shocked, just as resentful. Just
as excited then as now. Very little has
been uncovered In this investigation to
date that was not revealed in the earlier .
ing But It didn't get us anywhere. It was
allowed to run off Into an emotional de-
bauch Doubtless that is why President
Roosevelt has felt it necessary to urge
the present Senate, committee to keep go-
ing until it gets to the very bottom of
the financial muck. ■ •
But to follow the President's sugges-
tion the committee must be given suffi-
cient funds, a larger staff of aides and
experts for Mr. Pecora, and be ready to
continue its investigation thru the sum-
mer and into the autumn 1? necessary.
REPEAL OR NULLIFICATION
By Peter Molyneaux, In The Texas Weekly.
DEPEAL or nullification is what the
I country Is facing. Theoretically a
minority of 13 or more states can pre-
vent repeal of the 18th Amendment, but
It is now clear that if there are 13 states
in the Union that will refuse to ratify
the repeal amendment, they represent
such a woefur minority of the population
that they could not possibly Influence the
Federal government in the matter of en-
forcement and could not succeed in ob-
taining appropriations from Congress to
waste on the impossible task of "enforc-
ing" prohibition. The 18th Amendment,
therefore, would be nullified. This is the
only alternative to repeal, and ft is suffi-
cient reason, if there were no other, why
Texas should vote to ratify the repeal
amendment In August. The question
which Texas faces Is not whether national
prohibition shall be continued or not. It
is whether national prohibition shall be
repealed or nullified. And there ought
not to be any doubt as to how a majority
or the people of Texas will vote on such
a question as that. The uncompromising
prohibitionists can talk all they please
about a moral issue being Involved, the
truth remains that If a moral issue is
involved In the choice between repeal and
nullification, it is not on the side of th
who would force nullification. There 15
nothing moral left about the 18th Amend
ment. It has become a national nuisance.
Texas owes it to the people of th
other states of the Union to help them to
Elementary Economics
Tracy Says:
(Copyright. 1»33. for The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK.—Senator Carter Glass has
N been protesting that he can find no
logical scheme animating the Investigation
into the affairs of the House of Morgan.
It seems to me that
few Congressional com-
mittees have faced an
issue more clearly drawn.
Moreover, Mr. Morgan
himself did much to
clarify and establish the
battle lines when he
read his statement on the
"Code of the Private
Banker.”
In this statement Mr.
Morgan said:
“The private banker
is a member of a pro-
fession which has been
practiced since the Mid-
dle Ages.
“In the process of
Broun
time there has grown up a code of pro-
fessional ethics and customs, on the ob-
servance of which depend his reputation,
his fortune and his usefulness to the
community 'in which he works.
“'Some private bankers, as indeed is
the case in some of the other professions,
• are not as observant of this code as they
• should be; but if in the exercise of his
profession the private banker disregards
this code, which could never be expressed
in legislation but has a force far greater
than any law, he will sacrifice his credit.
This credit is his most valuable posses-
sion.”
Here Is the Issue
NOW, I think that on this statement
N alone, even without the details of the
■ working of the code as brought out by
Mr. Pecora, an excellent case can be made
for the necessity of the abolition of pri-
vate banking in a democracy.
From the Middle Ages down to the
present day the Guild of the Private Bank-
er has accounted itself a separate entity
within the governmental unit in which it
functioned. Its force has been greater
than any law. To the private banker, the
fact of fascist dictatorship, monarchy or
republic, has been of little moment. He
still ruled by divine right and complete
autocracy within his own kingdom.
* * *
The C ode of the House of Morgan
THE point has been made that in spite
1 of Mr. Pecora’s findings the House of
Morgan has lived up to its code. Mr. Ar-
thur Krock, writing In, the New York
Times, observes quite truthfully, I think.
"When all evidence in the inquiry shall
have been taken. It la the opinion of this
observer that J. P. Morgan & Co. will, in
some instances, shine by comparison with
certain others during the bull market
days."
That is "praising with faint damns."
as Percy Hammond once said, but I am
perfectly willing to admit that by and
large Mr. Morgan has lived up to the code.
I mean the code of the private banker.i
TODAY, teachers in country or "dis-
1_trict" schools are almost universally
normal school or college graduates. High I live on.
school teachers frequently hold an A. M.
degree and all newcomers are college
graduates.
In spite of better training it is im-
mensely more difficult to get a job. In
a small Southern college for women there
was recently an unimportant instructor-
ship In ancient history to be filled. It
paid 11,500. There were 85 applicants,
two-thirds of whom had the Ph.D. de-
gree, representing at least seven years of
work in college and university.
In the engineering field one can have
his garden walk surveyed by a graduate
of M. I. T. or the Cornell engineering
school.
Doctors are now compelled to spend
seven years of their life after high school
graduation preparing for their profession.
Even so, the profession is overcrowded.
The legal profession is overcrowded
today with men who are graduates of
high school, college and law college. Min-
isters are usually college graduates. And
any editor can take his pick of graduates
of good schools of journalism, to set pant-
ing on the trail of a fire engine or police
patrol.
THERE is acute misery among the edu-
1 cated today. Thousands of well train-
ed and experienced teachers are without
positions. Engineering societies In New
York City alone have on their unemploy-
ed rolls at least 20,000. Many reputable
doctors had been compelled by dire nec-
essity to resort to driving taxis and run-
ning elevators.
There are so many unemployed law-
yers and lawyers without an adequately
remunerative practice that the legal pro-
fession is periodically warning young men
to think twice before entering law schools.
Many lawyers with offices are barely able
to pay their rent.
Lack of organization is partly to
blame. As the newly formed Association
of Unemployed College Alumni and Pro-m
fessional Men well put the matter in a
recent broadcast;
“We are probably the most pitiful
group of workers in this crisis. Lawyers,
engineers, doctors, teachers, highly train-
ed business men—unemployment has
caught us all unorganized and with no
technique for combatting the organized
agencies of retrenchment."
mo discourage the desire for an educa-
’1 tion by offering nothing more than
the breadline as the culmination of many
years of expensive and strenuous Intellec-
tual effort, is supreme folly for the cap-
italistic order. It is akin to such out-
standing aspects of shortsightedness as
wage-cutting and other efforts to deflate
the consuming masses.
There is no other class whose loyalty
Is so absolutely essential to the present
order. If we drive the Intellectually su-
perior and technically trained groups into
active resentment or hostility, we not only
lessen the chances of even a chastened
capitalism but provide’the revolutionary
element with the most valuable of all as-
sets—the brains of the country. Let any-
body who doubts this read a little on the
relation of the Intellectuals in France to
. | the French Revolution of 1789.
There has been vast criticism of Rus-
sia because It is alleged that the Bolshe-
viks do not sufficiently reward the train-
ed classes there Russia has boycotted
the intelligentsia who have remained more
or less loyal to the old regime. We al-
low many more educated persons to ap-
proach the brink of starvation than exist
altogether In Russia,
WHEN TIMES ARE GOOD
WHEN Times ARE BAD
TAXES GO UP
TAXES GO UP
WHEN TIMES ARE NORMAL — TAXES GO UP
Mr. Roosevelt Promises To See This Doesn’t Happen
Editor. The Press:
WHAT OUR READERS SAY--
managing to get by on it. My
pension was cut to $6 a month
not enough to pay drug bills, with- 1
out mentioning board, lodging, and
other necessary expenses
Now that I am old and decrepit
TTE has been found at last! He
had sneaked Into the soldiers’
homes and hospitals where he was
hiding to keep from dying from,
wounds and diseases’ he received
while serving his "appreciative and,._____________
grateful” nation. . . , "kind and grateful" government is
in 1898 there was a certain.....- ... - : -- 44
“gang" doing business on Wall for want of medical attention 1
Street who got up an awful squawk |
for him to "Remember the Maine.” I
In 1917, they yelled still louder
to impress upon him the import.. ...... ...... ._. _ -.------.
ance of “Remember the Lusitania, to enlist, and Q. M. General Henry
and in 1933 this same gang yelled
louder than ever to "Remember
the Economy League, Down with
the Ex-Soldier, he is an awful
Treasury Raider."
I will not be of benefit to the Warl
profiteers in another war. My
going to see that I starve and die
tried to go to France, but was re
fused on account of my physic i
condition. Then I wrote Washing-
'ton and asked for a special permit |
And unless something is done to
curb the unlawful and high-handed
manner in which General Hines
and Mr Lawrence are handling
veterans' affairs. It isn't unreason-
able to believe there will be a few
million ex-soldiers, many of whom |
are being kicked out of soldiers’ -
homes and hospitals, who are go-
Ing to “Remember the Economy |
And that is where the rub comes in.
Even If it were not possible to find a
single deviation from this philosophy,
founded in the Middle Ages, the House of
Morgan would still not be half of one-
hundredth good enough to be allowed to
so *
Guilt Is Not Personal
T THINK it is a mistake for the public
1 to assume that the investigation has
brought up, chiefly, facts of private ras-
cality. Under that belief there might be
a disposition to compromise and make
certain restrictions and limitations. The
truth of the matter is that the greatest
anti-social fact is the code itself. The
House of Morgan and all private banking
institutions must be destroyed.
The phrase “usefulness to the com-
munity" in the creed of the private bank-
er. as recited by Mr. Morgan, most cer-
tainly does not mean usefulness to Tom.
Dick and Harry. Mr. Morgan means use-
fulness to his own loyal subjects—the ′
people on the preferred lists. They wore
good fellows and friends, every one of
them, and if some happened to be Judges
or Cabinet members or political leaders,
the only way to account for it is that Mr.
Morgan is such an absent-minded beggar.
-----AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT----
Beauty and Baby-Bearing
___By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON---
ANE foolish feminine fear that should
U be put to rout is the idea that hav-
ing a baby spoils a woman's beauty. I
imagine this is the real reason why so
many young pretty wives
mouryrarne-awy postpone the event. They
R may excuse their course
ssuect by saying that they fear
W thethe pain and inconven-
ience, the trouble and
expense of motherhood
but beyond these per-
sonal vindications, lurks
the thought that every
baby detracts from the
loveliness of its mother.
This theory has no
All things considered,
few governments have
ever meddled more con-
sistently with outside af-
fairs than our own.
I By M. E. TRACY _
o the extent that our foreign
1 policy lacks definitiveness, see-
retary Hull to quite right in as-
serting that it remain# unchang-
' ed. Those proverbial “best
minds," aa well aa men on the
street, are unable to My whether
I we have abandoned “isolation.”
W
Most Europeans prefer to believe
we have, but they obviously make
a wish father to th# thought.
What Ambassador Davis said at
I Geneva and what Secretary Hull
said at Washington leaves the
majority of people up In th# air.
According to the ambassador,
this government will join a "con-
sultative pact” under certain con-
ditions
To put it a little plainer, this
government will agree to talk
things over, if, when and as, a
| European row occurs and will do
nothing to balk the efforts of
other governments to maintain
peace, provided that they can
agree on who started i* and that
the United States finds their ver-
dict acceptable.
That does not sound very spe-
i rifle or very binding especially in
the light of Secretary Hull’s dec-
laration that our "traditional
policy" remains unchan g»d
MANY observers have accepted
Ambassador Davis’ statement -
i as quite revolutionary and aa
presaging a new era in the for-
| sign relations of this government.
Maybe they are right, but an
| unemotional reading of his words
and phrases, particularly those of
so-called examinations of income
tax returns of the influential were
nothing more or less than a white
washing
If the agent makes a mistake
and digs into something of im-
portance. It is not many hours be-lbopholes
fore he finds a little note on his
desk from his superior advising
him to terminate his examination
at once. It is not an unknown
event for him to receive a note of
instructions advising him just what!
transactions he is to investigate At
the time he receives the return for.
G. Sharp answered, thinking me
| for my offer
Then I registered giving my Age
10 years younger than I really, was
in hope of being taken In the draft
when the age was raised to 45.
Now I see nothing before me ex-
cept the poorhouse, and the tax:
payers of th» county in which 1
live will have to pay for my up-
keep instead of the government
and a few more Wall Street mil-
lionairesi can sneak out Of paying'
their income tax
A JT
Act" in 1936. | one of the Vietima,
This isn't Intended as a threat It 1
is simply a statement of facts ex. Suggests We Dig
pressing the feeling of millions of,
patriotic men and women thruout into Income Taxes
the United States who believe in | The Press
a “square deal” as well as a new Editor The m
Your editorial Of May 29. which
4
As
day
this
too,
was h
la qualifying character, reveals *
woeful lack of teeth.
The proposition he made, if
such It ran be called, is so hedged
about with ifs, buta and provid-
eds as to leave any number of
No doubt European
This condition has not been
found in the Democratic South to
any great extent In fact the tax-
payers in this particular section
hive been “socked” unmercifully
In most instances. In this section,
each agent—is ranked by the
amount of additional tax He sets
up: whereas, ih most sections o’
the North and East he la ranked
by the number of cases ha ex-
mines and closes.
The writer feels that if a there
investigation had been even started
1 into such incon * tax privileges.
, that It would not have been nec-
essary for the House to have Pass
led a bill further increasing the in.
come tax rates, as it did on May
statesmen will catch on after the
first mild wave of enthusiasm
has spent itself, and no doubt
some of our alarmists will get
over their present attack o' the
jitters at about the same time
True to custom, we are playing
with words, rather than ideas
“Isolation.” for instance, has
come to assume ■ meaning, not
only here but abroad, which hard-
ly squares with history in the
sense that the United States has
been less imperialistic than some
other nations, her attitude might
fairly be described as isolated or
aloof, but the late President
Harding drew on fancy rather
than historical facts, when he ad.
vocated return to “splendid isola-
tion '
26.1933
If you desire to unearth a can-
cerous growth which is piling the
A LL things considered, few
; A great governments have ever
' meddled more consistently with
tax burden on the little man, go
— one. -------1—Your editorial or May X—wnroYou should not have . great
1 don't believe the President ever indicates that the income tax law deal of trouble finding mer who
suspectede @Tolhaende ino thaw deli " te for the wealthy in. In my hoveurecentix, oA M2 NoNDW
they are getting when he signed opinion, misleading and incorrect, engaged in '■ ome tax practice
the act. I believe he intended that as only one sec tion of th» law is Those who are engaged in the
disabilities would be classified, and for the benefit of the wealthy. The practice: will, in most cases be
awards made according to the law: rafarraA th id that permit- afraid to talk. '- to do so would
as provided for in the veterans
regulations, but this isnk being
done. Allowances are being cut
and men are being dropped from
the pension rolls in disregard to
every law in the act, and the ex-
soldier is being shown less consid- |
eration than our humane sigieties
require dumb animals to rent ive.
This is the - way it is being
worked: I served more than two
years in the Philippine islands m
the Philippine insurrection and
Nore uprising We were required
to boil our drinking water about a
year of that time on account of
cholera epidemic, and as the cli-
mate was so hot our water never
had time to cool, so we drank It
hot. Try this some time and see
how refreshing it is. 1 have been
so famished after using all my wa-
ter on an expedition that, finding
a Carabao track made in the wet
season where water had collected
with green scum over the top. I
have skimmed the scum off and,
using my hand for a dipper, drank
eny foundation
originated during the
1 at days when women had
trl families too fast for
lal their strength and when
Mrs. Ferguson their work was heavy
and therefore they lost their health and
became old by reason of many worries.
But for the normal woman these days,
whose major fears regarding too many
children have been taken away and whose
domestic work is lightened, there is no
tonic that adds such a sparkle to the
eyes, such a bloom to the skin and such a
glow to the whole physical being, as a
brand new baby.
MIDDLE aged mothers look like young
M girls again. And what's more, once
the ordeal Is over, you actually feel
younger. For the catharsis to the system
that accompanies child birth really re-
juvenates.
And the spiritual zest It gives a wom-
an to find herself the possessor of a new
child with all the possibilities for happi-
ness that it brings, is a veritable going
back to vernal days. The opportunity to
refresh oneself at the well-spring of life
—how estimate what that is worth to the
Individual?
The first years in the existence of each
baby is a never to be forgotten experience
for the woman who Is rearing one. To
watch the flowering of the bud, to trace
the development of the mind, to witness
and in a measure be responsible for a new
and utterly different human being—this is
the Very manna from Heaven that feeds
and renews us.
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outside affair# than our own. The .
fact that it has done so without
the expectation of direct reward:
In many cases does not alter the
V
section referred to is that permit- afraid to talk, for tn d
1 ting percentage depletion in excess subje * them to disbarment by the
of the cost of oil properties and Committee of Enrollment and Dies
| without limit. barment Those enrolled to pracs
| This section was enacted during tice are under oath not to KAFC
Mr. Mellon’s term in office and has In personalities The penalty for
this, of course, is disbarment in- 1 ever it was
ternal revenue agents now employ- 1
been a great thing for Mr. Mellon,
et al The reduction in income
taxes thus given to the oil busi-
ness necessarily resulted In in-
creases of taxes to those not en-
Igaged in that,industry.
Just because a man happens to
be wealthy Is no indication that
he has made money in a certain
year and should pay Income tax.
Our ad valorem taxation covers
ed as such, would be afraid to give
you the information, for as sure
as the sun rises and sets, they Hemisphere
would lose their jobs, except for!
presidential assistance •
President Roosevelt cannot do
it all unassisted and the writer
hopes to see the Scripps-Howard
organization take up the gauntlet
in behalf of the majority of its
his holdings not our income taxa-
tion. | readers the average man.
If the Scripps-Howard papers A READER
will do a little investigating, they |
should be able to uncover the real
reason why influential men of
wealth do not pay the amount of
income tax which our laws say
they should pay, whereas the
smaller fry Is often forced to pay
hibit implied. Panama, Nicara-
gus. Haiti. Cuba, the Philippines
participation in the Boxer war,
the capture of Vera Cruz and
| other similar incidents bespeak
anything but a policy of isolation.
While our entrance into the
European war rep resented med.
1 dling on a grander scale than
„ _i strictly in line with
an attitude which we had built IP
toward trouble in the Western
..._____,.... The Monroe Doc-
trine itself rests onthe idea of
arbitrary interference with P.....
cies and politics outside of our
own domain. The one type of in-
| terference we have avoided is tbst
which goes with international col-
I lusion, diplomatic intrigue and
trumped-up alliances.
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The Bike Factories Work Overtime
By c. L. DOUGLAS —__
it, and glad to get it.
While at our regular station, we
received “fresh meat" from Manila
twice weekly. This meat had been
out of cold storage so long at times
it was so badly spoiled the com-
pany cooks cut off the worst and
had it buried, the best part went
to the company commander's quar-
ters, the balance was soaked in
vinegar to subdue the odor, and
fed to the men. This wasn't the
cook's fault; it was either that or
nothing.
Every "hardtack" T ate while In
the islands tasted and smelled of
mold. The men all had dengue
fever and stomach trouble anil
were treated by "contract doctors"
who gave them a dose of liquid
quinine and marked them "duty"
with a high fever. I still have
stomach trouble, bronchitis, and an
involvement in both lungs; have
been totally disabled and unable to
perform a day of work for nearly
three years, and depend wholly on
my pension as a means of living.
I was getting $50 a month and
more tax than the law cont d.DERITY
plates he should pay. PROSPERITY is
Such investigating should reveal I ward—on two wheels.
that a thorn investigation has not And when you go to Forest and
moving for-jlast 30 days had received 500
orders ranging from five to 50
been made of the income tax re. Trinity Parks In the evening for
turns of the wealthy men of in- ---— -
fluence, whose returns are claimed
to have been investigated by an
internal revenue agent. " H*44,
_________________--------------------------------back on the road to recovery.
It may seem a little far fetched
to say that the current cycling
fad is contributing in a large way
an hour or two of bicycling thru
... the trees you are doing your small
Yes, those bit to place a hard-hit Industry
This Is Life
By JAC K MAXWELL
TTELLO, and howdy-do!
1 Often we have heard the fol-
lowing "When the way seems
dark and the going uncertain, tie
a knot in the end of the rope and
wheels per order
But will hike -riding be just a
passing fancy, a fad that will go
into oblivion
I just as minia-
ture golf pass-
ed out of the
| picture after
the first novel-
to the advance of better times
but, nevertheless, it is true.
Because you ride in the Fori
Worth parks men are working
overtime in Ohio shops and pay-
HANG ON!"
Personally, that "crack" has en.
abled me to pull out of some i
mighty doggone tough spots. , In
fact. If a guy will get that one
bit of advice hung in his noodle,
and then has the intestinal forti-
tude to stay in there and TAKE IT,
well, it beats folding up and
playing the role of n QUITTER,
sez this punkin buster.
tv
off?
W
had worn
A Jor-
dan, one of the
larger dealers
rolls have.come into being where in the
doesn’t
no payrolls were before
s e e
city,
think
Ask The Press
You can get an answer to any an-
swerable question of fact by writing
to Frederick M. Kerby, Question Edi-
tor. Fort Worth Press Washington
Bureau, 1322 New York Avenue. Wash-
ington, D. C.. enclosing three cents in
stamps for reply Medical and legal
advice cannot be given.
* * *
Q. What is the official title of
American representatives at meet-
ings of the League of Nations?
A. Official observers.
* * *
Q. How is the batting average
in baseball calculated?
A. To determine batting averages In
baseball, divide the total times at bat
into the total number of base hits, but
never into the total bases on hita.
* * *
Q. Name the five leading dance
orchestras in America.
A A recent poll showed Guy Lom-
bardo. Ben Bernie. Warne King Paul
Whiteman, and George Olsen. In order
Todays
VUUUUKCo
May 51g
1519-Walt Whitman.
American poet, born
1864 Radical Repub-
licans nominate John
Fremont for President,
1790: First copyright
act of the United
States passed.
1933-Jokes copyright
in 1790 discovered
by radio comedians.
“THAT is happening in Fort
W Worth and In the South?"
That question comes in a letter
which Walter Wanamaker, 2312
Primrose Street, received the
other day from his father, Lewis
Wanamaker, who lives In Shelby,
Ohio.
And then the elder Mr Wana-
maker, who is employed by a
bicycle manufacturing concern,
explains.
"In one week," he writes, “our
company has received from Fort
Worth and other cities in the
South order# for more than 1500
bicycles. The plant has found it
necessary to speed up its schedule
to meet th# demand."
And incidentally, he pointed
out in his letter, th# week’s order
for 1500 machines represents a
en. He believes
that the sport
| is here to stay
, , , because
people h#v»
found In it • Douglas
type of recreation that combine# •
exercise with leasure to give the
schoolgirl complexion • natural
finish.
DUT further and more convine-
D Ing ■ roof, he believes, lies in
the fact that cycle sales have been
increasing steadily in Fort Worth
during past weeks—and at no
loss to the rental places In the
given.
Q. How many officers and en-
listed men are there in the aero-
nautic branch of the Navy?
A At the close of the fiscal year end-
ed June 30, 1033. there were 1283 offi-
cers and 12,358 enlisted men.
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greater volume of business
the plant received during
parks.
"I have ordered 125 wheels in
the past 40 days," he said, "and
I’ll probably be ordering 75 more
in the next week or so. The only
„ _ trouble is in getting delivery with
than the factories in the Fast and
•11 of North working night and day to
last year.
Is it any wondet that he asks
the question:
"What is happening in Fort
Worth and the South?"
* **
PUT the same thing that is go-
5 Ing on in the Ohio factory is
taking place in other cycle plants
over the country. One Fort
Worth dealer said that he had a
letter recently from an official In
one of the largest plants in the
country—at Chicago; and the of-
ficial said that his firm in the the
fill orders." s
Still another thing shows that
the sport has become something
more than a fad. College students
of thi# section, Europe bound this
summer, plan’ to use bicycles on
excursions while abroad.
A touring party from C. 1. A
to be directed by Miss Valliere
Decker, ha# not forgotten the bike
in laying out the program for an
eight-week vacation trips
machine# will be used for all day
journey# out from European cities
the students expect to visit-
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