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TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934
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SEWARD R SHELDON.
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crime, his prison behavior and bls past
criminal record.
We would make the decision of these
clemency courts beyond repeal and reserve
for the governor only the right to stay
the execution of a death penalty under
emergency circumstances which would not
permit the convening of a clemency court.
And we would make these clemency
court hearings public so that all might be
apprised of the facts of every pardon, pa-
role or other clemency acts.
We would propose that these pardon
and parole commissioners be originally ap-
pointed by the chief justice of the supreme
court for terms of two to-six years, and
that thereafter vacancies on the’ commis-
sion be filled by other members.
Then as a safeguard we would sug-
gest that all commissioners must be con-
firmed by the voters at every general elec-
tion.
We would suggest rigid educational and
other qualifications for these offices, pay
them well, and further bestow onthe
commission the power to name our prison
wardens.
Would not such an independent penal
system go far toward divorcing clemency |
from politics?
“Give light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way”
CRITICISMS OF RELIEF
THAT was a long and particularized list
1 of criticisms made by David Hall, a
amount necessary to cover fixed chargee,
maintenance, and commercial expense costs
a utility nothing more than the bare op-
erating expense.
"Even if you have an old, high-cost
generating plant, in which your bare op-
erating costs run as high as six or seven
mills, you can make money by Inducing
customers to use more current at two cents
a kilowatt-hour after your basic costs have
‘been provided for in the earlier steps of a
promotional schedule. ’
• "But if you have a really modern, low-
cost plant. In which operating costs are
two mills or less, the profit possibilities
that flow from increasing the consumption
of electricity are tremendous.
"The second principle, which has been
abundantly demonstrated during the de-
pression, is that the business of supplying
residential and small commercial consum-
ers is, year In and year out, the steadiest
that any utility can have,
“When a business slump comes, the In-
dustrial electric load fades away like the
proverbial snowfall in Hades. But. no
matter how hard the times, homes must
be lighted, dinners must be cooked, and
stores, must display their wares.
"It follows from these two principles
that those utilities will be most enduring-
ly prosperous which bend their energies to
A Security That Has Nothing to Do With Armament
PAGP
A Thought for Today
member of The Press staff, on the work-
ings of the Tarrant County relief admin- j
| HAVE seen all the works that are done, istration, as printed,in The Pre 8 yester-
I under the sun; and, behold, all is van-day •
ity and vexation of spirit. — Ecclesiastes The relief administration is important
1:14. because, first, it is so far as anyone can
now see, a permanent part of the local
Every man’s vanity ought to be his j governmental setup, and second, as high
greatest , ame; and every man's folly as 25 per cent of our pe ople have been
ought to be bis greatest secret.—Quarles.
dependent upon it for their daily bread and
may be so again. L
The criticisms
building up their domestic and commercial
business to a high level of consumption and
a.high load factor thru a policy of progres-
sive rate reductions."
EARLEY FORGOT
O keep the record clear, it is noted that
l the Hon James A Farley, part-time 1
GOOD MEN AND TRUE
DoUQt ETS are due several individual
H members of the departing Congress.
The largest should go to Senator
Fletcher of Florida and Representative
so far as they relate o
| matters within the power of local admin-
istrators are of flaws which can be cor-
rected
Postmaster General and part-time Demo-
cratic National Chairman, allowed Congress
to adjourn without presenting to it the
promised bill to place postmasterships un-
■ der the Civil Service.
More than 11 months ago, President
| Roosevelt directed" Mr. Farley to prepare
such a bill "In order that. I may submit
To put it in a word, they would seem |
to indicate that the organization is being
run more on the lines of a big industrial
plant than a social service agency. There
would not seem to be enough considera-
Rayburn of Texas, those two staunch con-
servatives who proved radical enough to |
insist that honesty an'd fair dealing should tion of the clients’ side of the questions
dwell in the securities markets of the na- There is, as Mr. Hall ; irfted-out, no
tion . | general grievance board to which they can
Against the most powerful and per- submit grievances Men on work relief lose
nicious lobby in recent history. Senator | part of a day if their work cards do not 1
Fletcher kept his sharply-divided Banking ] " 00 " 1
Committee at work, on the stock market
investigation and uncovered the abuses
It to the next session of Congress." That |
“next session’ is now over.
We do not know why President Roose- !
velt permits a cabinet member to disobey 1
The disarmament conference is * fail-
ure since some of the nations’ would
rather lock arms on the battlefield than
block arms in the conference room.
provide for enough labor to complete a day.
First come are first served instead of giv-
deep
3 e IR34 NEA
Efforts to End Gas Dilution Began Years Ago
_ WHAT Ot It RE AIDERS BAY
—that served as a basis forthe market, ri'll-
• trol legislation.
Representative Rayburn's brilliant
handling of the stock market bill in the
House was the most remarkable perforni-
ancer of the session.
The Fletcher Rayburn team won addi-
tional laurels by frustrating efforts to
emasculate their truth-in-securities law.
One of the biggest achievements of the
preceding session.
It is said that Rayburn aspires to the
House speakership. He has earned the
promotion.,
Other bouquets should be awarded:
To Senator Wagner of New York for
his fight for the labor disputes bill, for
unemployment insurance (with Represen-
tative Lewis of Maryland), and for the
anti-lynching bill (with Senators Costigan
and Van Nuys); .
To Senators Nye, Bone and Vanden-
berg, for forcing the Senate Inquiry into
munitions manufactures;.:
ing the neediest cases preference.
—-St or
And
A Texan has combined 10 garden tools
in one, but it still isn’t perfect as Jong as
— you have to go out and’operate ft.4
It would seem that the rules tend to .
be so rigid as to make no allowances for
individual differences. Possibly this, is *
—hard tavold-in-the ease of a big organtza-
tion which is handling some 10,000 or
12:000 individual cases But nil of those ’
cases are of human beings with varying
needs,-varying temperaments, and of var
lows degrees of desperation. That should
always be kept in mind.
Some faults found in local admini- -
tion are beyond the scope of local admin-
i istratorc There is not enough money to
do more than provide t . i ire # of rations
There are not enough case workers The.
state relief commission’s habit of not al
lotting money for a month’s needs until
| almost the middle of that month, is un-
| fair to local administrators ind prevents
1 them from providing a continuous and
-ordered flow of -relief Fortunately the
To Senator Norris of Nebraska and |
Rep. Rankin of Mississippi for securing
passage of a resolution providing for a
nationwide study ot electric power rates,
and also tot Senator Norms for his bold
but unsuccessful fight to outlaw patronage
politics in the Home Owners' Loan Cor-
poration;
To Senator LaFollette
1
What with the
and the Towa quadruplets, ean’t the A A A
do something about This overproduction?.
, Editor, The Press
Headlines and news
E the past
discovery by publi of
Canadian quintuplets, I nert .matter in the Fort M
----AS ONE WOM IN SEES IT----
All Victims of the Same
Timidity
By MES w VI 11 it I I RGUSON____
AMERICAN club women, says Dr. Harry
A Elmer Barnes should begin active e f
forts to break down the. discrimination
which now exists In almost every industry
against the woman worker, who invariably
state commission has indicated it will cor-
rect this.
. Nothing in this editorial or Mr Hall s
article should be construed as implying |
grave inefficiency. On the contrary, the
Tarrant administration is held up as a |
model by Miss Marie Dresden, state relief |
administrator. From what we have seen
| and heard of the conduct of relief in other
| counties and other cities, Tarrant has been |
of Wisconsin 1
fortunate
pies of Fort Worth V %
for two years that Long Sta
to the lines at th Joshua .f
g p of cor rs joined 1
for boosting surtaxes on larger incomes I
and larger inheritances;: 1
To Senator Couzens of Michigan * for
able assistance to Senator LaFollette in
this drive,
To Senator Black of Alabama, for un-
covering government waste and favoritism
in ocean mail and airmail subsidies;
To Senator Johnson of California and
XOT A CALCOOLIDGE
Mrs. Ferguson
receives less pay than
the man.
It is to be hoped we
shall act upon his ad-
vice, But very little
can be accomplished
even so, until men them-
selves regard the ques-
tion with ’.the same in-
telligende shown by Dr.
Barnes, until they see
that the injustice af
fects harms - our en-
tire economic situation
One thing, by this
time, should be definite
ly proved Women do
not make changes by
their own efforts alone.
the . use
t’tha
It contal
4
Representative Sumners of Texas, for
passing the bill which prevents public util-
ities from escaping rate reductions by
dilatory pleas in federal courts;
To Senate Minority Leader McNary for
efforts, to minimize G. O. P. partisanship.
There was other good work by other
men, to be sure, but the performances
here listed come to mind without even
perusing the Senator’s record.
\TOT often does the mayor of, a big-city
get out in the harvest season and pitch
his own oats good heavy oats, too into 1
his own wagons.
J,The fact that Mayor Van Zandt Jarvis
of Fort Worth works like a hired hand on
They must have the co-operation of, at
least a certain number of Influential men
The same old question is put to us
A
1 SEP RATE PARDON AND
PAROLE COURT
(An Editorial In The Oklahoma News)
■ 9own extensive farms because he likes
it—re-emphasizes the peculiar closeness of
Fort Worth’s relation to the soil and the
agriculture Of the Southwest.
endlessly “Why do women not take more
of an interest in politics’ Why are they
inactive when they hold so much power
in their hands’"
I’ll tell von why: Because no woman
will go against the wishes of the man in
It was born as an agricultural trading
post; the supplying of farmers with the
needs of their industry and their life, and
I the purchase and processing of their prod-
| ucts has always remained the backbone of
I its business
I To build industry here without losing
I our closeness of touch" with the soil and
! the men who till It is the sure tho slow |
. path toward a larger city. We should have I
her family and the family man in the
United States is almost never willing for
his wife to mix in political matters With
all our so-called “buying power," the
women of this country are still dominated
by men, especially on the economic, side.
a peculiar sympathy with the farmers.
..1 Their problems are ours, whether man-
WRITERtO The News would revise , ,
' made and soluble, or whether, as. now,
our laws to make governors criminally
responsible for the depredations of those
they parole or pardon. t land
It- is not likely that such a law would 1
stand constitutional’ to s, nor that It
would have any practical value."
In effect it would end all executive
clemency, for no governor would risk a
trip to the electric chair because of a mur-
der committed by one of his paroled con- 1
victs.than that I women probably be bet- ’
ter to repeal all clemency laws.
But It is still a fact that we shall not, 1
solve our penal problems except thru in- !
telligent Application of the clemency sys-
tem.
Thus we preserve discipline in our
prisons and make them more humane and
conducive to reform. And ll Is more pm -
portant to reform a man than to punish
him until he feels that he has paid, or over- .
paid, for his crime.
Nor is It necessary to pardon Baileys
and Kelleys in order to extend mercy to
more deserving prisoners. That may be
achieved by divorcing clemency from poli-
ties which Is also within the range of
possibility.
Suppose we create a separate state
clemency commission, made tip of as many
commissioners as are necessary, Then let
two of these commissioners meet Intermit
tently with the presiding judge 'of each
district to hear Jocal clemency petitions,
Ender, such a system clemency cou-ts
would be convened once, twice or three
times annually In each county to hear the.
petitions of all convicts sent up from that
district.
Certain rules could be prescribed
whereby a convict would be entitled to
a pardon, parole or reduction of sentence
hearing after serving a certain part of his
sentence depending on the nature of his
■ ert matter I the , iM tr
the fact that people were payi:
and booklets were distributed
to believe they read and unde
stood 11 tharcly
In addition the writer in con
pany, with Council: in Willia
Monnig, spokeat dozens of nia
Night after night we • a ■
doing to them
More recently, Mortimer Jone
recently splendidly vindicat
the I S expert ent her
told offic ials and the put
this inert and worthless
harmful matter, was bein
into the pipes tn Bie h a in
| so It ran thru the meters
' was charged to the public
same as if it were of iny use or
1 service whatever
1 Mr Jones, however WAN un-
able to convince men in high
places and eventually
missed and see mingly an attempt
I was made to 04 . redit
the fact remained that he had
i called attention to this and that
| he had declared that this inert
| matter was worthle AS if not in
jurious In orde r to nullify Mr
Jones’ statements an Exp rt was
brought to Fort Worth, and aft
er a day or two, he said he saw
THE reasons for this are very simple I nothing wrong in the gas com-
1 It Is true that there are thousands of | pany’s actions In putting this in
girls and women in the Industrial world er mnitter 0 ’ was mains
nd ,1
Ask The Press
1 . •
Burea
* M Kerby quest n Eer
New York Aver e Wash
81 Englor K Ibreecents in
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Corl ashes have lit
when sled a
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Dola
gentle rest Iff i ut
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■ pro luc ing
Mr. Booth Comments
On Court Decision ’
Editor. The Press
nesday . dismissed f - want of
jurisdiction an application for
A writ of error in the appeal of
J H Booth and others, seeking
| today, where yesterday there were only .
| hundreds. But they are bound by the SIDE G L A,N C ES — By George Clark
heir chief problem is that nature is not |
supplying enough moisture for the thirsty
same fears which have held men in In-
dustrial subjection for so long They are
And about that picture now It wasn't
a Calcoolidge, as Mr Jarvis’ friends know.
Farming is perhaps his real vocation in
spite of his wide and varied interests.
LOWER RATES BETTER-----
BUSINESS
TIN the course of a recent address in Wash-
1 ington Basil Manly, a member of the
Federal Power Commission by appointment
of President Roosevelt, said that in his
opinion it was inevitable an electrical rate-
structure resembling that of the Tennessee
Valley’ Authority would spread thruout. the
country sooner or later.
He said that in his opinion such re-
vision of the general rate-structures would
bring back electrical utilities to the sun-
| shine of public favor they once enjoyed,
| and would put their companies in a sound
er and more stable financial position. He
explained as follows:
“This apparent paradox of securing
larger and steadier profits by reducing resi-
dential and small commercial rates arises
out of two fundamental principles, which
every intelligent utility operator knows
but which have never been understood by
, the bankers and financiers who control
I the industry and determine its policies,
"The first of these principles is that
there is no Industry in which the expan-
i sion of mass production and mass distribu-
tion yields such handsome returns as in
I the electric light and power industry.
“The reason is so simple that even a
child can understand it. After the dis-
tribution system is in place for a house
or a store, every kilowatt-hour of energy
sold to a customer over and above the
Q. What was the Greek name
of the ancient Egyptian city of
• the Old Tests-
Q How
he age of dino- 1
sAur CEES de termined 7
A Observation of the earth in
them were deposited, and by
Q How many workers are
still unemployed in the I S*
A The American Federation of
10 05.000 1 t neluding men working
on government relief projects
| afraid of losing their jobs.
Arid the woman at home harbors the
same terror. She can't afford, to offend |
her husband, if she would. He is her I
bread-winner,-her boss strictly speaking
She, too, is afraid of losing her job. Thus |
we are all the victims of the same timidity |
No wife is likely to take an active part
- in enty politics, for instance ir her hus 1
| band disapproves Tho we may talk to
j her constantly of her duties as a citizen,
the fact remains that she will always
think first of her duties as a wife. If
economic necessity does not hold her,
j love will.
in everything they attempt women are
thrice handicapped, since before they can
* accomplish anything they have first to
convert their own men, and then men in
general, to a belief in their cause.
The Daily Nosegay
Hon. Van Zandt Jarvis,
Mayor. Fort Worth.
Dear Van:
I have vainly rough! for something to
express ,
My emotions on seeing your picture in
The Press. N
Something breezy and nonchalant, you
know, 7.
With a motif of “Hay, bay, hay," or
“Hoe, hoe, hoe!”
But isn't'it silly? this is what came
to mert
“Our good gray Mayor is all that he
used to be.”
Yours, etc.,
LESTER (Just call me Lest..
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40 034 NEA SERVICE NC.
“You see, in my work it’s personal appearance that
counts.”.
Tracy Says:
Sometimes you cannot
help wondering just how
much sincerity there it
in these trumped-up
peace moves, or to what
extent they are deliber-
ately conceived to mis-
lead gullible folk.
Hy M. E. TRACT
A FTER applauding this gov-
4 ernment for leading off
with an arms embargo against
Bolivia and Paraguay, the
League of Nations calmly aban-
dons the project.
The League can contribute
nothing but moral support, and
even that is doubtful.
The League is too busy .try-
ing to arrange a peaceful settle-
ment between Bolivia and Para-
guay and too anxious over the
glory that might accrue from
success to jeopardize its posi- —-
tion.
Restricting the importation of
arms must, therefore, be left to
Individual countries.
All this, mind you, after the
United States la definitely com- "
mitted.
TEN other countries have ex.
1 pressed willingness to iss e
an arms embargo, but only . if
Germany and Japan agree to do
Germany has made no answer,
while Japan has orally informed
the League that, having with-
drawn as a member, she is dis
inclined to take any part in
League activities of a political
nature That leaves the situa-
tion about where it was, except
that we are definitely out of
the arms market as far as the
Chaco war goes and that the
Je that any
sort of an a” •“.•■• argo will
them because Paraguay in 1
losses of n re adequate
e the are forced
g tr the
—o. t it trio-. uL DUCAL • ---
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little but to furnish certain Eu-
arms market and ll * benefit <.
a jefin te inti NT eTi . sent,:
This Is Life
By JAC K MAXWELL
H
eacher Man And *
* p .; Book, t •
Live or gray And
to this goodiday The Book re-”
I. "Ana MT Mani 1 ket town: 1
what we call Happy Valley. I
st d’er the way from, the Tur-
It s the sar e Old Book my
r other used to read bet I she .
t Ton:
passing years: and it gave them
H I when the way was ro gh 1
and the going was bad An.1
lay w folks *
' wanting to change the things
written in The Old Book . I
kick outta the iden
Juet w hat is i'll Ahead I know
not But t’s like this with me
What’s the se Of monkeying
with something th at a proven a
Howling Success for all those
years and Under all kind of Try-
ing Conditions? In case® you
have not doped out the book In
9 iestic n 1 ay I slip you the
low down on same It is the
BIBLE
A Mule Changes a Man’s Destiny
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4 MULE changed the course
A of D W McKoy s destiny
DOUGLAS__E
wagon and took his horse.
which the train boss was rid-
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give him
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You have
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■ get discour
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soking stra
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j walk cate!
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l>i r dange
b not num
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lonely as you
which they cl
their comrade
But won’t
patron of the
of coffee hour
conversation
When the v
found an eas
Courageo
. In
If it hadn’t been for one of |
the stubborn, hard-headed end.
long-eared work beasts Mr Mc-
Koy, now resident of Brecken- |
ridge, probably would have |
added another name to the list
or seven men massacred when |
Chiefs Big Tree, Santanta and 1
datanit louted and burned lien-my
ry Warren’s wagon train in I
1871 near Jacksboro,
But as things turned out he’s
still alive today starting on
| his 77th year. He told me about
| it the other day as we sat in
his home at Breckenridge.
Mr. McKoy was a young man
when he left his home in Mal-
| vern, Arkansas, to see what ad-
venture offered in the West. •
| That was in, 1871, and he head-
■ rd toward Texas astride a dap-
ple gray horse that he called
| Captain Jinks.
AT LENGTH he reached
| A Weatherford, and he
| wasn’t long in finding a job
with Banker Henry Warren,
who was running a freight wag
on train from Parker County to
Fort Griffin. The banker took
the Arkansawyer on is driver.
Everything drifted along
nicely for a time, but one day
out in Palo Pinto County one
of the mules in Mr. McKoy’s
string grew stubborn and the
new driver employed the whip.
The train boss happened
along, and he didn't like them
business, and lost no time' in"
passing the news to Mr McKoy,
"Nobody,” replied young Mc-
Koy, "can tell me what to do.
Just give me an order for my
money . . . now."
He crawled down from the
Ing and with his time order in
his pocket, started the long ride
to Weatherford.
MR. WARREN tried to per-
NI suade me to stay on, said
Mr McKoy, “but I wouldn't. 1
asked for my money and got it.
tm glad now that I did, for IT
1 had thanged my mind 1
wouldn't be here today,”
For It was only a few months
later that the
wagon train,
going out of
Jacksboro, was
attacked by the
Comanches and
Kiowas under
Satanta, Big
Tree and.- Sa-
tank.
Seven men,
all former com-
panions of Mc-
Koy, w ere slain
after brutal
torture, and the
wagons burned.
Troops caught
the three In- Douglas • ,
dians at the Fort Sill reserva-
dlan, but Satank was killed
while the trio was being return-
ed to Jacksboro for trial under
the prosecution of Sam Lanham,
later governor.
Mr. McKoy was working at
the time on a ranch down in
Palo Pinto County.
“And when 1 heard the news
I sure was thankful for that
mule," he said, "and I still am."
He thinks, like any Western-
er, that the horse is really the
King of Beasts, but there are, he
adds, a few goodwords that can
be spoken in fa' ‘r of the mule.
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