The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 274, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1939 Page: 5 of 8
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1939
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,1939
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
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Ernie Tells Us What to Carry
On Desert Trips, You'd Think
He Was Crossing the Sahara
By ERNIE PYLE
Press Roving Reporter
CAMERON, Ariz., Aug. 17.—When we started this long-drawn-
out trip into the desert country of New Mexico, Utah and Arizona,
we prepared ourselves as though we were going from the Cape to
Cairo.
inaon
Ing the
scribes,
ime the
Wallace
t prices
than he
s for it
I to re-
sin pri-
wages,
rged to
he sur-
ces by
■ on so
Wallace
nd not
est ef-
lo more
i prices
st ebb
began,
ch low-
ist and
nt that
ked to
s hign-
npeting
y have
4
’ A
on, in-
squeez-
t of his
perma-
produo
lanting
but it
o other
sr been
itry. It
—polit-
o store
. to in-
ply off
often.
inently
1. The
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e sold,
price,
spects.
ple to
nerican
to the
in peo-
isn we
ing re-
giving
cts at
ire be
money
in that
ley be
decided
other
rnment
ling to
people
ify for
regard
story—
subsi-
? Any
to be
ton to
r than
essary
ary to
)
We replaced two worn tires with new ones. We bought a shovel.
We carried a five-gallon can ofv-———-------------------------
water for the radiator and a gal-
lon thermos jug for ourselves.
We bought a tire pump, a can
of patches, an extra fan felt and
two quarts of oil. We took a
first-aid kit, and a snake-bite kit.
A. We had a funnel and a tin cup.
Had Jack Ready
We had a small board on which
to place the jack in sand. We
had a roll of old gunny sacks, to
J put under the wheels if we got
■ stuck. We had two cans of sar-
dines and a box of crackers, just
610 Opens Battles
On Dozen Fronts
Lewis Plans Swift
Action to Offset
Recent Criticism
Jobless Now Eligible For Social Security Benefits A fter Working Year and Half
By THOMAS L. STORES in January, 1937. This barred allnew formula for old-age insurance become eligible in that time. have washed out the Govern- ■
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. *— *-----45 + *0** —.. . 44 *
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. —
More liberal old-age benefits,
with coverage of many not pre-
viously included under our social
security law, now is provided in
the revisions made by Congress
at its recent session.
Both the Administration and
Congress, in liberalizing the act,
had in mind the threat of the
Townsend Plan with its glittering
promises of a Utopia for the old
folks.
Under the original act a large
class of elderly people was barred
from monthly insurance benefits,
for to qualify under it a worker
had to be in covered employment
at some time during five different
years after the program started
in January, 1937. This barred all new formula tor old-age insurance become eligible in that time,
who became 65 before 1941. All which requires that, to be eligible, This won tit an than, ment’s obligation I
they were entitled to was a lump- a worker need only earn $50 a_2t an ton ol .
sum benefit representing 3 1-2 quarter for six of the last 12 have already reached 65 and have Under the revised act he will
per cent of total wages earned quarters, in other words, for six qualified or can qualify. The as- be entitled to a monthly payment
while insured, quarters out of three years. If sumption is that those who have of $25.75 as long as he lives. If |
Under the revised act, a worker he continuously earns $50 a quar- not the necessary work-earnings his wife is 65, or after she
who has been in covered employ-ter for a year and a half he can as required by the formula ean reaches the age of 65 he will re-
ment for as short a period as 2-----------------------------now so ahead, set tops sufficient reive a monthly benefit payment
to meet the requirements and
year and a half may be eligible CATSUP SHILLEP build up their eligibility. |
for a monthly benefit, if he is TULARE, Cal.—If California’s Typical case will show how the
otherwise qualified. He may claim traffic laws made spreading cat- revised plan works.
his retirement benefit at any time sup on the highways a serious of- One is that of a man who has
after he has passed his 55th birth- fense, depending on the quantity been making $100 a month since
day and has stopped work. There used, someone here would have the old-age insurance system went
is now no arbitrary cutting-off at had a huge penalty to square. Jo- into effect in 1937 and who will
65. Nor does the worker have to seph Goss turned his truck into become 65 years old on Dec. 31.
remain in covered employment un-another one being driven by Wil- 1939. Under the old plan he
til Jan. 1, 1940, when monthly liam E. Long and the latter's en- would have received a lump sum
payments begin, if he already is tire load of 12 tons of catsup of $126, representing 3 1-2 per
qualified. , were spread over the neighbor- cent of his total wages of $3600
All this is made possible by the hood for the three years. That would
of $12.87, making a total for the
two of 138.62.
If the husband should die after
1940, then his widow's monthly
benefit for the rest of her life
will be $19.31, or three-fourths of
the husband's "primary benefit*
SENSATIONAL NEW MALLORY
OENDAIUNAL CARBURETOR:
MAKES ENGINES PERFORM BETTER
-arom GASOLINE WASTE-
Easier Starting, Smooth Idling, Flashing Pick-Up,
Top Speed, Economy
LIBERAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE
“Install . MALLORY Teday—Start Saving Temerrew”
Mummert Automotive Elec. & Battery Co.
616 West 7th St.
Distributors
Phone 3-2571
in case.
By LUDWELL DENNY
Scripps-Howard Labor Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — A
rapid offensive on a dozen fronts
We had a .22 rifle and a Ger-
man Luger revolver. These were
just for fun and not because we is John L. Lewis militant
thought we d need them. We wore 1
overalls and heavy shoes. .. .
This, sounds like a lot, yet we Congressional criticism - of his
got it all in the baggage com- Garner attack, and to President
partment, and didn 1 have “ thing Roosevelt’s latest labor peace plea,
strapped on or hanging outside The new offensive covers vir-
tually every major industry ex-
Now the desert trip is over. Of cept coal, where the C.I.O. already
all this paraphernalia, we had no has won union-shop contracts
need for anything except the two - P contracu-
cans of water, the funnel and the clude steel textiles
tin cup.
Didn’t See a Snake
...______answer
to the threats of the A.F.L. Coun-
cil’s Atlantic City meeting, to the
The challenged industries In-
, clothing, au-
tomotive, construction, maritime,
and meat packing.
PACKING: The C.I.O. Packing
FREE
PARKING
SPACE
)1
ay Only
eekly and
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* Troxel Saddles
7° Doublebar Frames
* Balloon Tires
• Gothic Mudguards
• 3-Plate Crown Fork
24
Bio Rolls
Of Tissue
$8e
Regularly $1.29! Good quality
tissue, white, soft and absor-
bent. 1000 sheets to a roll!
— Pyres Ware
... Casserole
D and Frame
1 97.
Regularly $1.19! Heat-proof
glass casserole, with chromium
plated frame! 14-qt. size. 4
d with
of Mr.
h this
—from
ted by
t farm
ree of
forces
ch, in
let it
narket
mer a
dollar
nly on
ned at
a sur-
narket
lower
don't
er pay
igners.
ways
wn to
le fair
e—but
Why
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: can't
o pop
to Slip
to my
the
fter
leat
are
We never even saw a snake. We ____
never saw anything to shoot at House Workers organizing com I
except some prairie dogs. We mittee told Secy, of Labor Per-
didn't eat our sardines and the kins yesterday it would strike 25
fan belt didn’t break. < Armour plants, with 50,000 em-
Yet if I were making this trip ployes, before Labor Day,
again, I wouldn’t eliminate a the Government forced the
single thing. For it is entirely pany to negotiate a union
possible to need all these things tract. At the C.I.O.'s demand
in the desert, and when you need Miss Perkins asked Armour of fl-1
them you need them bad, cials to meet her here tomorrow,
Most important of all, I would and the company agreed. The
a C.I.O. warned her that the strike
probably would spread to Swift,
Wilson and Cudahy.
STEEL: The C.I.O. Steel Work-1
ers’ Organizing Committee hailed
the Labor Board s decision yes-1
terday against Bethlehem Steel as
a vindication of the 1937 strike,
and announced it would demand
a Bethlehem contract. At the I
same time Bethlehem petitioned:
the U. S. Court of Appeals to set
aside the board order requiring it ।
to disestablish its employe-repre-1
sentation plan, and finding it
guilty of violating the Wagner!
Act in the unsuccessful 1937
strike.
• say, are water, good tires,
• shovel and a tire pump.
We never did get stuck in the
{
sand, but we came close to it a
number of times. Twice we had
to stop and let the radiator boll,
and each time it took about a gal-
lon of water.
Carried Our Lunch
Our thermos jug was indispen-
sable. Nearly every day we car-
ried our lunch, fixed for us at
wherever we stayed the night be-
fore.
These dirt roads through the
Navajo reservation are not what
you would go out on for a Sunday
afternoon's spin. Yet they are
not as bad as we expected.
The worst part was the 10
miles between Bluff and Comb
Wash, in Utah. As they term it
kins yesterday it would strike 25
unless
com-
i con-
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MARITIME: Eight C.I.O. un-
ions at the current Washington 1
conference, plan joint action for
____________________, ........better Pacific and Atlantic con-
, In Bluff, the road is "slow." My tracts next month and for uniting
" term for it would be "it stinks." all C.I.O. and A.F.L. sea unions
You're in second or low gear in a National Industrial Mari-
much of the time. You're driving Federation,
across acres of solid sheet rock. CONSTRUCTION: Faced with
You're through sand to the hubs a national A.F.L.-employer agree-
You’re all the time so up-and-ment outlawing A. F. L. jurisdic-
downish you can hardly sit in the tional strikes, and with a tighten-
car. Sometimes the steering wheel ing of A. F. L. - employer lines
is jerked out of your hand. r against the newly formed C.I.O.
Rather Steep | United Construction Workers or-
And when you finally make the ganizing committee, the latter an'
summit of Comb Ridge, and nounces that it is issuing chart-
swing around a hairpin turn, you ers and nladine ---------------
are suddenly and surprisingly con-
fronted with the steepest down-
4 grade I've ever been on.
They call it Navajo Hill. It is Fains
just wide enough for one car. The board
thing gave me a terrific start. I
1 01 threw into second gear, and then
into low, and used both brakes.
I don't see how some of these
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/
1
old cars ever get up it, going the
other way.
They differ locally on just how-
steep it is. After we were down
in the valley we stopped and
looked back, and tried to judge
We figured at least 25 degrees,
But the boys around Mexican Hat
say it is 32 degrees.
We laughed many times at what
appears to be a road rivalry be-
tween Utah and Arizona. Every
single person we met in Utah
would say exactly this:
"The roads are all right till
you hit Arizona and then they're
pretty bad."
And the truth is that nowhere
on the Arizona side did we find
roads as bad as in Utah. *
Sand Is a Worry
The main worry, all along, is
about getting stuck in the sand.
If you do, above everything don't
sit there and spin your wheels.
You'll just get stuck deeper.
Get out, shovel a channel ahead
of your wheels, gather some sage
brush and make a carpet of it in
the channel, let the air out of
your tires down to about 15
pounds, be sure that your front
wheels are headed straight, and
then get in and drive out.
Most new cars today aren’t
equipped with tire pumps. But
you should carry a pump in the
desert, to pump up your tires if
you do have to let the air out of
them.
The best months for a trip
through this country are June
and September and October. The
rains come in July and August.
You can get through during the
rainy season if you know your
naaff. But if you're a novice in
this country, as I am, it's better
A stay out July and
Twe didn’t suiteFat all from the
ers and placing more organizers
in the field.
AUTOMOTIVE: The C.I.O. Un.
lied Auto Workers campaigned
against the A.F.L. rival Labor
- representation elections at |
Packard, and the forthcoming
Chrysler, Briggs, and Motor Prod-
ucts elections. C I O. also hopes
win later General Motors elec-
tions with the increased prestige
of its supplemental contract with
that company, obtained last week
CLOTHING: The C.I.O. Amal-
gamated Clothing Workers de-
mand a 10 per cent wage increase
for 40,000 shirtmakers and 5000 |
pantsmakers in states from New 1
York to West Virginia.
TEXTILES: The C.I.O. Textile
Workers’ Union presses its organ-
izing campaign throughout the!
South, with efforts today concen-
trated on the strike of 8000 at
the Celanese Corp., Cumberland,
Md.
i SKUNK AFFIXED TO FENDER
BERKELEY, Cal.—Allen R.
Tierman drove as fast as he could
without breaking traffic regula-
tions to get out of a skunk trail
into which he had driven. When
he finally reached home, however,
he still found himself in the midst
of the trail. Investigation revealed
the skunk tied to the rear bumper
of his car. • - -
of ni
and chase
blood circulating
urse we re sort of
niacs. In fact, a
J had to go out
to keep my
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fill
plu
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umes which assertedly
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