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A Thought for Today
A ND he that reapeth receiveth wages,
A and gathereth fruit unto life eternal;
that both he that soweth and he that
reapeth may rejoice together.—St. John
4:36.
* *
Work as though you would live for-
ever: but live as though you would die
today.—St. Edmund of Canterbury.
of three different governors are "hamper-
ing Mr. Simmons."
Why shouldn't the board "hamper"
him when necessary?
If Mr. Simmons is to be given supreme
authority, why have any board?
Certainly the present law makes Mr,
Simmons subordinate to the Prison Board.
That board hires the manager and can fire
him. It has the legal right to order him
to do this and that, and he must obey if
the members insist upon their rights.
Unfortunately for Texas, Mr. Simmons
has assumed too much power. He takes
full command. Many legislators and a
majority of the Prison Board members
bow to him.
Only three of the nine members dare
lift their- voices in opposition to his rule.
The penitentiary system of Texas is the
greatest school of crime in all these United
States. We make hardened criminals of
first 'offenders and put more hatred of all
mankind in the hearts of those who are
sent back for the second, third or fourth
time.
What does.it matter if the board has
five, six, seven or nine members? We
need a board that can do something for
the good of Texas and one that will con-
trol the manager instead of letting him
I control them. ,
The New Deal
In
Washington
‘Throw All That Away, I’ll Make the Country Prosperous'.
Johnson Says:
TUESDAY, 1
UNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE
THE PENSION DECISION
THE Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision de- •
1 claring the Railway Pension Act un-
constitutional has frightened Congress and
New Dealers. Some are,, afraid it marks
the end ot much of the New Deal. This
may seem far-fetched. After all, the law
in question applies to only one industry
and. Its employes, it may be said.
But that is the rub. If the court ma-
jority had merely found this law defective.
Congress could easily have redrafted it.
That was done "following the hot oil de-
cision of last fall.
A reading of the majority and dissent-
ing opinions, however, shows that in this
case the court' majority attempted to kin
not only this particular legislation but all
of a similar purpose. Thus the majority
says of provisions relating "to the social
welfare" that: "These matters obviously ’
lie outside the orbit of congressional pow-
er. And Chief Justice Hughes, for the
minority, comments in reply:
“The majority finally raise a barrier
against all legislative action of this nature
by declaring that the subject matter itself
lies beyond the reach of the congressional
authority to- regulate Interstate commerce.
. , . That Is a conclusion of such serious
and far-reaching importance that it over-
shadows all other questions raised by the
act. Indeed, it makes their discussion
superfluous."
"So, if the court majority continues to
maintain this generalized ban against so-
cial welfare legislation, one of two results
might follow: Either the country will
give up such social welfare legislation, or
else abolish the court's veto power over
legislation, as often demanded in the past.
We doubt, however, that either of
these logical results will follow.
As to the. first, It seems inconceivable
that Congress or the country will give up
social welfare legislation— as a means of
national self-preservation this type .of law
will be extended. Doubtless the Su-
preme Court in this, as in other matters
BRONSON CUTTING
SENATOR BRONSON CUTTING'S sudden
D death in the fog and darkness of
Missouri was a national misfortune.
He was a statesman of rare promise.
He was independent financially, but, more
important, he was independent intellectu-
ally and politically. He fought the selfish,
back-pulling cliques of both the old
parties. He helped swing his own state
to the Roosevelt New Deal. Yet when he
thought the President was wrong he voted
against him. He won leadership in an
otherwise reactionary state party organi-
zation and forced upon it a liberal plat-
form and ticket. He could well .have been
proud of his enemies.
Quiet, even bashful, Mr. Cutting did
not seek the limelight. He never lost
touch with the plain people. With all his
wealth, charm and culture, he had little
time for what we -are pleased to call “the
best society." Instead, he spent Ills lei-
sure either with books or among the com-
mon people. His personal benefactions,
which Ite never mentioned, were count-
less. His last speech was a plea for fed-
eral funds to keep open the public schools.
The measures he fought hardest for were
those to preserve the civil rights of a
democratic people, to socialize money and
credit, to mitigate poverty and insecurity.
There is bitter irony in the accident
that took this young Senator’s life. Never—
did the republic stand In greater need of
men of his character and his courage.
Now that scientists have recommended
grass as a human food. “Keep Off- the
Grass" signs will probably be changed to
read “Do Not Graze Here.”
The white race is regularly and pro-
gressively, getting fewer, says Mussolini.
Rut people have to have automobiles.
A
By RODNEY DUTCHER
WASHINGTON.—Economic recovery has
YY been only partial. But the American
big business man's recovery of his morale
appears to be complete.
Hanging around the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce convention, a curious corres-
pondent had no trouble learning the frame
of mind which lay behind the fusillades di-
rected against the Roosevelt administration
by speaker 'after speaker for this great lob-
by of industry and commerce, which broke
definitely with the administration.
Most of these men believe the New Deal
contains some threat to the free right to
make unrestricted profits. Anticipating
business recovery on a rapidly rising scale,
they want no interference with their priv-
ilege of making whatever money they can..
The average member of the chamber
reacts with especial violence against the
administration's moves against the “power
trust.” It makes no difference to him that
a public utility is a publicly granted mo-
nopoly, as distinguished from a competi-
tive private enterprise.
TVA is Bogey
H E SEES the great TVA project as the
A 1 spearhead—the camel's nose under the
tent lor the Fovernmient’s entry into other
lines of business.
And he sees Roosevelt’s proposed elimi-
nation of electric utility holding companies
as the beginning of an effort to bust up
other huge combinations of corporate pow-
er and wealth. -
He resists government regulation be-
cause that, too, threatens profits—as In
the case of hours and wages. He resents
what he considers the administration's en-
couragement of labor to organize and pre-
sent demands. 1
He is divided as to continuance of NRA
and AAA and as to Roosevelt’s social se-
curity program, but he is insistent that re-
lief appropriations be cut, because taxes
eat into profits.
He is against the Roosevelt banking bill
because that means more government regu-
lation.
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Asks Mercy for Raymond Hamilton
w HAT Ou R READERS SAY
in the past, will change its mind. That
is the price of the court's survival. Most
of our great jurists have pointed out that
the Constitution was not devised by its
authors as a strait -jacket but as a living
body of principles applicable to a grow-
ing nation and changing conditions.------
As Chief Justice Hughes said in the
Minnesota moratorium case:
"It is no answer to say that this public
need was not apprehended a century ago.
or to insist that what the provision of the
Constitution meant to the vision of that
day it must mean to the vision of our
time. ... It was to guard against, such
a narrow conception that Chief Justice
Marshall tittered the memorable warning
-—‘We must never forget that it is a Con-
stitution we are expounding-a Constitu-
tion extended to endure for ages to come,
and consequently to be adapted to the
various crises of human affairs'."
The basic issue in this railway case,
as in so many others, is the conflict of
property versus human rights. The .court
minority defends human rights as follows:
“The fundamental consideration which
supports this type of legislation is that
industry should take care of Its human
wastage, whether this is due to accident
or age. That view cannot be dismissed
as arbitrary or capricious."
But if, as we hope and expect, the
court majority later changes its position.
Congress must do a better job of legis-
lating. 'The Railway Pension Bill was
passed hurriedly and virtually without de-
bate. It was pressure legislation — the
product of pressure of a lobby and of time.
Railway labor succeeded in sinking itself
here.
Tills Is a warning. The court liberals
recently have shown themselves even more
The President’s Barrel
By JOHN T. FLYNN ______
THE Republicans are in a state of
1 patriotic funk at the spectacle of what
they call the greatest pork barrel in his-
tory—the President’s gigantic public relief
fund of $4,800,000,000. They are .even
more fearful since they have begun to
realize that the fund 18 a good deal bigger
than that. .
We needn t waste any sympathy on the
virtuous apprehensions of the grand old
partisans. But we do know there is such
a thing as human nature. And we know
that God created us all- Republicans and
Democrats alike with a ravening appe-
tite for pork. This being so, it is a good
thing at this stage, to check up on the
size of the President % barrel and the
amount of the succulent meat in it.
It must be remembered that the Presi-
dent has not spent all of the billions voted
to him last year and the year before, A
lot of the money appropriated for public
works in 1933 is still unspent. Hence, in
addition—to the new—billions voted him,
he has all of the old billions which still
remain in his hands. I have tried to find
out how much these are.
In April, before the last big grant
was voted, he had still left in his hands,
according to the Treasury statement,
nearly five billion dollars. However, a
good deal of this was Reconstruction Fi-
nance Corporation and farm credit money
which he is not supposed to spend, but
Few Back President.........................
T TSUALLY, he believes New Deal policies
C have hindered business recovery more
than they have helped. But a few members
feel that Roosevelt has done more good
than harnt. though it is now time to "lay
off reform" and let business men run busi-
ness without annoyance from Washington.
A small group feels further government
regulation is essential and Inevitable It
‘sees the financial-industrial structure head-
ed toward another and bigger crash, after
a »DO sible boom of unguessable duration.
Unless Washington is in a position to put
on the brakes.
But this group Is a tiny, almost Inar-
ticulate, minority of the chamber.
Howl No Longer Muffled
HTOR the first time, the average big busi-
ness man feels able to yell blue mur-
der about all the things he doesn't like
among the Roosevelt policies.
Two years, and even one year,ago,
there was a feeling in his heart that his
crowd had made an awful mess of things
and that it might be necessary partially to
reverse the time-honored custom of letting
big business tell the government what to do.
But now much of the confidence, he had
in tire-depression days is restored. Busi-
ness is better - whether Roosevelt had any-
thing to do with that or not and good
times lie ahead.
Mr. Roosevelt Is no longer considered a
miracle worker of a strong man.” The
more he has compromised with powerful
interests represented by the chamber, the
more those interests have kicked his pro-
gram around as their lobbies here regained
their old-time influence.
to lend. But there was plenty more.
There was a trifle of $38,000,000 in
• the TVA chest Loans had been made fo
states. But of those over $500,000,000
was yet, to be passed put. Over $159,-
000,000 of the monies allocated for pub-
lic highways is still unspent and about
- as much again for river and harbor work.
There was left $127,000,000 still to be
spent on public conservation work and
nearly a hundred million in the emer-
gency relief cash drawer. Altogether,
there was about $2,300,000,000 available
for spending before the last big grant was
made. And as that was $4,800,000,000,
it will be seen that the President has at
his disposal to put out in the next 14
months about $7,100,000,000. That is
Lose Fear of VTote Hold
V/HAT conservative business men most
feared was Roosevelt's remarkable
hold on the voters, based to some unde-
impatient than the conservatives with
blunderbus law-making
The immediate job of Congress is to
rewrite the general Social Security Bill,
now in the Senate Finance Committee, in
such intelligent form that at least one
other member of the Supreme Court will
be brought over to the position so bril-
liantly and justly stated by Chief Justice
Hughes yesterday for himself. Justices
Brandeis, Stone and Cordoza.
5 ZU Mw - *pu w - ——-—.— . ere pory-psces , -
* 5 2
THE PRISON BONRDT
- —rom-The No........Pres." pa
POHE State Prison Board will not be red
1 duced nor will there be a new board.
Under the able leadership of Senator T.
J. Holbrook of Galveston the attempt to
change the personnel and the numerical
strength was foiled.
Why Senator Gordon Burns of Hunts-
ville wanted a new Prison Board was not
made clear. He and Representative A. T.
McKinney of the House were joint authors
of a bill reducing the board from nine to
six members.
Why six? If It Is desirable to change,
why not have five or seven? In order (o
get a majority vote on a six-member hoard,
there must be two-thirds on one side.. On
a five-member board it is three to two,
and where there are seven. It is four to
three..
Mr. McKinney of Huntsville is an able.
Intelligent legislator, but he seems to have
the idea that- Lee Simmons must not be
a hampered by any board of any kind. In
fact, he is quoted as saying one reason
" for demanding a new hoard is because
those now holding office by appointment
$435,000,000 a month or $14,500,000 a
day.
It will be interesting to compare this
with our great war-expenditures. To do
so we must add to this some $3,500,-
000,000 for ordinary expenses not Included
In these emergency figures. Hence the
coming year the President will direct the
laying out of $10,600,000,000.
In 1917, the first war year, we spent
for everything-war and ordinary govern-
ment costs -$2,980,000,000 tin round fig-
ures). In 1918 we spent $14,360,000,000.
So we are far ahead of the first war year
and pretty close to the last war year.
Besides, the President has in his hands
several billions in the RFC and Farm Loan
Administration for credits. And now we
“"Onsprkionwd-wilh The possibility-of and
other two billion in bonus payments
the veterans: det 2 ,
The ea .inimense grant
of monies calls for sleepless vigilance' by
the nation in thecoming year and as a
political campaign opens.
terminable degree on a blind faith that he
— would rescue them fromthe- big bankers
and Industrialists with whom they asso-
ciate the depression.
For the present, at least, that’s not a
major factor of worry.
On the eve of the Chamber convention,
Roosevelt delivered -one of his “fireside
talks." Many of his friends agree that it
was the most ineffective, least inspired, of
the several he has made. 11 was not a
“fighting" speech.
The only logical reason for it was its
possible stimulation of popular pressure on
Congress for passage of the boggled Roose-
velt program. _
A check ,on Capitol Hill shows, at this
writing, that pressure has not arrived.
With these thoughts in mind as ft
shouted its defiance at the White House,
the Chamber of Commerce of the United
States stepped bravely toward the burst
of prosperity which it believes is just
around the corner.
(Copyright, 1935, by NEA Service, Inc.)
Ask The Press
You can get an answer to anit answer-
able question of fact by writing to Fred-
grick M. Kerby, (Ke stion Editor: Fort Worth
Mess Washington Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth
The Daily Nosegay
Hon. James V. Allred,
Governor of Texas,
Capitol, Austin.
Dear Jimmy:
Some say you'll call the Legislature back
to toil
Again, but I can’t agree, by heck —
Would a man deliberately re-infect a
boil.
Just when he's about to get it off his
neck?
"1
Yours, etc.,
LESTER (Just call me Les)
By HUGH S. JOHNSON
WASHINGTON, — Last Satur-
YY day was an anniversary of
the Battle of Chancellorsville—
right, a mill-mmspnews
tary freak. A
Most of the 4
Ge ne rals on Dr. M FT
both sides ofas ph’E
the Civil War * 1
had been at #**
West. Point M
together
Forty was a
big claw then.
Those boys
knew each
other better
than most
brothers. That
knowledge de-
cided many ncan zounsow
battles.
That day is gone. My son at
West Point does not even know
all his classmates. It was al-
ready so in my class of Ninety-
three. Old grade were already
beginning to say "The Corps has
gone to hell."
Perhaps they were right. Sher-
man cut loose from his base and
marched through Georgia to the
sea because he knew, from
Hood’s classmates that the latter
was a hot-head who would throw
away the chivalry or the South
against the imperturbable
Thomas at Nashville.
At Chancellorsville, Stonewall
Jackson would never have vio-
lated every tactical principle to
march across the front of the
12th Crops If.Jackson had not
counted on his classmates’ esti-
mates of the lethargic stupidity
of Howard,
Both amazing moves derived
from the close comradeship of
the old West Point.
ONE sultry afternoon as a
U plebe. I was a sentry or old
post Number Four at Cadet
Camps, which was then exactly
as it was in Grant's day. A
quaint old man tried to cross my
post. When 1 halted him, he
said: “Boy, one afternoon nearly
sixty years ago. 1 was walking
I this post. On Number Three.
right around the corner, was
Ulysses Grant On Number Two.
Editor. The Press: against this proposed execution. A |eral lifetimes in the penitentiary,
The mitts of fustics trove decreed—human being — will ha = **---+-*___onon the luma tout wand
| that on May 10. Raymond Ham- snuffed out by a cruel and re his sentence to life imprisonment
ilton must die in the electric chair, vengeful state for a crime he Far worse men than Hamilton are
If this unfortunate youth dies un-never committed, namely, the kill- being lately confined in the pent
der the present circumstances jus- -- ~* n-4— “----J - —
tice is assuredly dead in Texas
across the camp, was Stonewall
George McClellan.”
It was all true in the same
ing of Prison Guard Crowson tentiary.: Everyone who believes small group, then at West Point
Hamilton should by all means „,. is not guilty of the crime he were Hancock and Longstreet in
not be killed simply on a notori-fis charged with should be doing classes just a few years earlier
He.be already all in their power to influence the | or later was every man of prime
governor to save his life I importance in the Civil W ar. It
I It is regrettable that there are gives you some idea of why
many people who are clamoring Grant and lee at Aopomattor
Alonth° rmepd REN NL X ■ ARM OS
mandmant Thou shalt not kill j they realized * endour
MALCOLM A GREEN | reason why they were there,
. , Rockdale Texas But to get back to Chancel-
NEW YORK. Reports from the overwhelming force of barefoot ... forsville it y did Joe Hooker
I other side have it that the riflemen shooting figures of eight Another Pleads wait one
great Italian patriotic expedition with their deadly pawnshop rifin 4
which went to Abyssinia- to de
fend the .very gates of Rome is to hang their heads in shame
having a hard time — with the the—present emergency, for
It is a significant fact that the
majority sentiment of the common ous reputation
people all over the state is.firmly been duly convicted and given sev.
Fair Enough . . By Westbrook Pegler
The Americans have some car
For Hamilton
—editor. The Pre
whole day inactive
while the myethe Jae son
marched around-him and won a. _
weather and insects and may have gallant Italian patriots in Abys-
to postpone the detense of the sinia would not now be swatting
Eternal City until fall. This post-flies and drinking pollywogs out
ponement would be inconvenient of ditches if the United States had
in the face of 1 less considerate joined the League of Nations. '
I notice in your—publica
April 27 the following cor
"Public enemy, facing,
threatens to haunt his foes
| battle though outnumbered two
ment
chair.
14 no need for worry, however We
have the sptrit.of the law on our
: side.”
I I would just like to ask the
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Regional Lat
Sayt Ecor
In U. S. 1
President Ro
economic refort
social security
no means, drast
necessary to pr
of the depression
Elllott:-regional
National. Relate
an interview to
Dr. Elliott- fa
De works plan
by congress and
ures tending to
relief but decla
taken for perm
the country’s ex
For one thin
make some arrt
to care for the
which yearly x
because Of lab
Praises V1
Referring to
“fireside chat"
Elljott said
“Again the P
son the people
mm
well being of 1
as well, and fn
criticism of his
The Preside
In America kne
out definite eco
in the very nat
‘ues Tt 14 Impos
from centinuin.
Bent made ate I
they carry with
fior His propo
and in
gor’d for-the •.
Necurif
order that-all r
have security A
term which does
invited all of ut
funds for or
R A. to go out
Te was a victory as
and improbable as the First
Marne. “The race is not to the
Swift nor the battle to the
Strong.
But Ntonewal died’there Lem
thus lost his “right arm" and
perhaps the war. : The religious
Jackson said with his last
.breath, "Let us cross over the
river and rest in the shade of
the trees.”
invader then the Ethiopian King ter fighting a war for the rights
of Kings but when Benito Musso- of small nations, such as Musso-
lini’s peace-loving Italy, the Amer- editor to get his Bible,, if he has
Ileana refused to join a great in- one and in he has not one to bore-
ternational corps of vigilantes to A / . , UA
keep order in the world This 50th duepter end bafan *
left Italy at the mercy of the law he is referring- to
King of Kings. | I never heard of Raymond Ham-
* * * until last s ther TMAGINE any of ese t
THERE is another factor which do 1 uphold crit inals but God 1 happening In t • stee effi
peace-loving alone can give lire and He alone clency of European war___.er.
nations can appreciate. That is ’the iehttotae 1 ------•—7" European anythin r Tn all the'
the necessity every so often for years old ind War never efficiency, Europe never pro-
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practice wars so as to tune up do not think that Raymond got yet * Sherman nor a Ie" . ,
for their big wars among them-it. I think the people should peti- r ,
selves. The plan is a good deal tion Governor Allred to commute sentimental boobs nut I
like that of the great powers of his sentence to life imprisonment, like us. I
lino was look-
Ing for a men-
ace he canvass-
ed
and
the field
W 1 s.e
The 1
made a
choice.
French
army, for ex-
ample, is much
closer to the
very gates of
Rome and on
past perform-
ances, s e e m s
more likely to
crash the gates
than the Abys.
N.
only civilized.
I guess we
are a bunch of
, A
Ta deasay
' . ry° "ihnoocuwaft
. “Tout
kind of think we had *
American intercollegiate football
| which always schedule games with
sinians. More-
over. the Pegler the Abyssinians of the football
French are equipped with air-world by way of preparation for
planes and other modern weapons their big games. Thus, Harvard,
whereas the army of the King of will play practice games with
R. A COVINGTON
Route 2, Cisco, Texas
better stick to our own stuff and
This Is Life
By JACK MAXWELL
work out our own human prob-
lems in our own way.
(Copyright, 1036. by United Feature Byn-
dicate Inc Al viehts.reserved Reoree
duction in whole or in part forbidden )
Kings is a barefoot army which such- schools as Bates and New :
Hampshire, and the United States H ELLO and howdy-dol - —
Military Academy will vigorously For instance: Lindy Lou. my pair of re-formed Cornfield Acros
1 1 .1 - . First Wife, and 1 are very fond of bats:
hurl back the forces of Mercer • fried chicken, the aforesaid fowl Buck Fulford. Port Arthur,
and Coe College. As a rule the being submerged In a generous Texas, killed, picked, cooked and
great powers of football, exem-pouring of cream gravy. And ate a chicken In one minute and
plars of the highest ideals in owing tn the fact that we do our 50 seconds.” I doubt not Mr. Rip-
sport, are able to rebuke these in-leating. at one of the Local Food ley a account of the Poultry Rusi-
feriors Just as the peace loving Shops we lose a bit of time wait-ness But If My Cook can even
Italians at the present writing ing for the cook to run down and lay one "on the nose HI the race
, pans the present writing fizzle the chicken. So, today 1.mi for Fried Chicken: come “under
If the Italians were to send an pan tor discipline the Ethiopians going to hand the gentleman the the wire" in 20 minutes after he
expedition to France to defend when the fly swatting season is following by Ripley, in the hope has received our order , . I’ll
Rome, the wear and tear on the over, but sometimes the great it will show the guy just how buy him a bottle of the best beer
defenders would be so severe that powers forget to duck. Harvard quickly a Country Chicken ran be to be had in my home town,
after a while there might not be has done this on some embarrass-l........................................... —..............
many Italians left to care what ing occasions and Italy
happened to Rome. More than
fights with corn-razors and obso-
late rifles which shoot outcurves,
sinkers and screwballs However,
the very proximity, the past per-
formances and the preparedness of
the French probably have some-
thing to do with Mr. Mussolini’s
decision to repel the Abyssinians
instead.
likely, the French army would
not agree to hold still until the
weather was more agreeable to
the defenders as the King of
Kings has done. The French are
very unsportsmanlike when they
are conducting an invasion, espe-
cially on their own home grounds.
They demonstrated this when they
were hammering the gates of Ber-
lin around Verdun. They would
not give Mr. Mussolini’s defend-
ing army a chance to send home
for drinking water and fly-swat-
ters but would insist on conduct-
ing their invasion of Italy In a vig-
did so
when the Abyssinians were invad-
ing Rome at a long distance he
fore the turn of the century. In
such cases it is always the hope
of the great power to obtain a
return engagement so that the
humiliation may be avenged.
In 1894, the Italians were over
in Abyssinia fighting a practice
war with the colored boys as a
workout for some major engage-
ments to follow and met with an
unfortunate accident. The color-
ed boys, as usual, did not have
very fancy equipment but they
had a sort of Pop Warner trick
play for which the Rome home-
guards had not thought to pre-
orous manner, rain or shine, the
more so if it were Being conducted
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“THE ilL informed and IM-dis- sudenie-mhey amnnanan
seed .. “ a
grievous misinterpretation of It-
Taly's position in the present grave
crisis. Mr. Mussolini is charged
with an unprovoked and preda-
pare a defense. The colored boys
dis-robed and dumped before •.
All Ready for a Good-Sized Job?
By C. L. DOUGLAS
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were being rushed back to their
own goal and seemed to be only
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR
Never say, "Hr sough; female compan-
ionship"; say "female companions" or
"feminine companionship."
Q. Who said, "Man’s inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands mourn?”
A. Robert Burns in the poem, “Man Was
Made to Mourn."
Q What is the total population of the
world? A. More than two billion, ac-
cording to the 1930 estimate of the Inter-
national Statistical Institute of the League
of Nations.
** *
Q. What causes rainbows? A. The
reflection of sun-rays on rain-drops, or
drops of moisture in the air.
Q Did General Grant ever own
slaves? A. He was a slave-owner at one
time.
* * *
Q. How many home runs did Babe
Ruth hit in 1928? A. 54.
tory campaign against an inno-
cent state. Thanks to some letters
from Italians reaiding in the Unit-
ed States, it is possible to explain
that the African people have been
notorious for their vicious atti-
tude toward the peaceful nations
of Europe. Many years ago, the
British were called upon to send
expeditions to Africa to defend
the gates of London.
The Germans found it neces-
sary to maintain a gallant watch
on the Rhine in Africa, and the
French, with their intense love
of homeland, have dashed into
the fray in many far places to
protect the treasures of Harry's
New York Bar. Mussolini un-
doubtedly had reliable informa-
tion that the King of Kings was
fixing to attack Italy with an
suddememary ammousiec nie-fad
tan arapec clean wan. , The
Italians, yelled foul hu‘t they
saved only 3000 of their Rome
defenders out of a lineup of 11,-
000. The verdict In the practice
war went to the Abyssinians.
Naturally, the peace-loving Ital-
ians have been eager to schedule
another war with Abyssinia and
this time the motto has been In-
stilled in all the patriots is "Don’t
forget to duck." However, in the
confusion of haste and the enthu-
siasm of the generals to earn their
‘varsity letters they did forget
their fly-swatters anil their oll of
citronella. The King of Kings,
In a display of high sportsman-
ship, has agreed to postpone the
contest.
It has all the appearances of
a cruel war in defense of the very
gates of Rome.- Returning pa-
triots will open their shirts to
show the chigger bites which
they received in Eritrea, fighting
for the Eternal City. „
T TOW do you feel? Ready to
1 tackle a good-sized job?
Maybe you're tired and long for
vacation time to roll 'round. If
that’s the case you'd better,
take a few bottles of Buck-You-
Uppo or something because, if
the Townsend Old ke Pension.
Plan goes through by any
chance you'll have a real job
on your hands.
If that piece of legislation
becomes" actual law you may
find yourself in the position of
having to produce ... . all alone
. . . all the commoditiae-rad-
goods used INSHese—United
5 # at
You ask: "How.comer WAIE. .
I can.only give you the statis:
tics in black and white as they
were given to me by Mr. D. G.
Liggett who, as you may know.
Is one of our most prominent
local insurance men.
TT WORKS out something like
1 this:
The population of the United
States, let us say, is roughly
124,000,000, and fairly accu-
rate estimates show that of that
little group 50 million will be
eligible for old age pensions if
the Townsend plan achieves the
, seemingly impossible and goes
through %
That would leave, wouldn't
It, 74 million people to keep
the wheels of the country go-
ing. But—
Of that 74 million not all
can be in producing fields."
Child labor laws, and those
working on government jobs,
cut ths grand total down to 14
million by lopping off 60 mil-
lion
Now do you get the point? At
this stage of the statistical game
only 14 million out of 124 mil-
lion are left to keep the haO
rolling.
PUT that isn’t all not by any
D means.—
According to T
Mr. Liggett’s
figures the re-
lief rolls of the
nation show a
total-yol paiov
ployed.
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leaves only you
and I— two out
of 124 million
people to pro-
duce and get to
market all the
on
nation s node T I d
and commodi- =============
ties. Douglas
Did I say two? 1 mean one-
because, like Mr. Liggett, 1 feel
a little weary . . . and have de-
cided to leave It all to you.
That is, of course, if the Town-
send plan goes through.
And there you are the sta-
tistics in black and white.
They say that figures never
lie. Perhaps they do; perhaps
they don't. But If you find
anything wrong with this set
please don't tell me about It . 2*
just lake II up with Mr Liggett.
—Or, better still, Just shift
the burden of mass production
on other shoulders than your
own
roads Of degree
pubHe further
To amend th
system, is simply
ern economic 1:
€ ensors (
"The United
Commerce and
Manufacturers'
ganizattons. ha
on.....the . presen
The system crea
by these groups
the chaos In wh
selves those pas
one, shall look
of the White H
rather than to
Chamber of C
American Man
Put the propose
tration side by
the United Sta
Commerce, and
Manufacturers'
ask the questtc
best the interea
man?"
DINNER IS
A ___Fort Worth 1
, purchasing ager
1 first annual ge
i void of speech
1 today at the
General Chafrm
maid today.
: enn E. Mar
emalforney, will b
A Land Ta char
Amber of Courier
t committee," :
, Mr. Rogers st
* sons will attend
t So followed by
T gram.
, •——--——
In Was
That’s When
Chain Le
Come
His Honor, t
dimes for chair
Mayor-Van Z
his head over
the morning's
la Missouri. “
"Put that. In
where it belong
his secretary.
Mr. Jarvis sa
the sender, who
quest to “Mayor
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