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THE FORT WORTH PRESS
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THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1939
THU
The Fort Worth Press
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
DECI ED Most of the Horrors of Adulterated Food and Drink
' EULER Don't Amount to Anything in Actual Practice
The Operation’s About to Begin .
DON B. WEAVER
JAMES A FOLTZ
............Editor
...Business Manager
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post- |
office at Fort Worth, Texas Oct 3. 1921 under
act of March 3, 1879
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
D ECENT discussion of unsuspected
It horrors which sometimes lurk in
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the food that Americans buy in car-
tons and cans, such as mouse hairs on
nickel candy bars and weevil wings in
services have yet to report a fatal epi-
demic of hamburger poisoning. I have
known individuals to feel uneasy at
baseball and football games after eat-
ing one or more hamburgers on the
way up, but even though they were
made of painted meat which was not
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By carrier per week 13c. or 55c per month.
Single copy at newsstands and from newsboys,
Sea By mail in Texas, $6 per year. $7 per year
elsewhere.
"Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
flour, prompted me to examine again
one of those fright-books by which it is, fresh, the hamburgers, of themselves,
made to appear that
the only way to escape
could not have been convicted.
The
naked rye, Scotch or gin which the
poisoning is to live
under glass in a hos-
pital from the cradle
to the grave.
One warning in this
alarming work had to
do with a famous
brand of /tooth paste.
This paste, it was
said, contained poison,
and during the war a
German officer com- Mr. Pegler
victims consumed out of the bottle
must have been named co-defendant.
Even so, I never knew of anyone dying
of this trouble. Some few passed
out, but popular opinion had it that
’they were plastered, and any plea
that they were overcome by hamburg-
ers would have been derided. .
The Way to Zone
IHE directors of the Chamber of
FX Commerce warmly indorsed the
I reportr of their Civic Affairs Commit-
L tee recommending that the City, Coun-
cil immediately have a zoning ordi-
nance drawn up and then enact it.
Fort Worth is one of only a hand-
ful of cities of its size which does not
“regulate its own growth.
Zoning is nothing more or less than |
planning so that respective areas of j
a city can be reserved for the type
of development for which they are j
best adapted. .
LORT WORTH went part way when
mitted suicide by consuming a tube of
it. This caused me to shudder, •be-
cause it happens that I use this very
tooth paste, but after a time I pulled '
myself together, reflecting that, after
all, I have no intention of spreading
it on my bread, and if 20 years’ use
of this paste in the prescribed manner .
has not been fatal the danger is noth-
ing to worry about. \ .
The same feeling of calm courage
possessed me after reading of the foul
treachery of the man who sold adul-
tered ginger extract, causing a plague
of paralysis, known as jake-leg. Not
even during prohibition, which was
when this evil deed was done, did I use
ginger extract for beverage purposes,
and there was no assertion that a
minute quantity which is all that any-
one would normally consume at once,
People in the circle of my ac-
quaintance use in discreet quantities
practically all the well known brands
of tooth paste, shaving soap, rouge,
powder, breakfast food, canned stuff,
ham and flour, and although at my
age, one learns to expect occasional
gaps in the ranks, no friend’s death has
been certified as due to such use.
They are, in the main, .high-strung,
high-tension people, and the wear and
tear is such, so the doctors say, that the
years after 40 are dangerous years
and, in some cases, borrowed time.
Those who have dropped out were vic-
tims of heart trouble, operations and
other normal causes, even after prohi-
bition, during which most of them did
their bit for repeal.
1 would cause inconvenience,
it adopted a forward-looking plan | *. * *
of parks and playgrounds. As the |
result of this planning, or zoning, sev- |
era! years ago, it now has one of
the best park and recreational systems
in the country.
But it was strangely negligent in
failing to adopt a zoning plan which
MOREOVER, it may be remembered
IVI that during prohibition not only
| the bootlegger but the United States
I Government itself poisoned the scof-
flaws, and that many of us consumed
hootch which we had reason to believe
was dangerously impure. Probably that
experience has increased our resistance
T AM not surprised to learn that
1 some patent preparations cost much
less to produce than the customer pays
for them, nor does, this news arouse
resentment. In the zone between the
actual cost of ingredients and mixing
and the purchase over the counter many
citizens take each a little toll in the
way of wages or dividends on their in-
vested savings so that they in turn
may buy the services or the goods of
those who pay the marked-up price for
patent wares.
This being undoubtedly so, it is
ETTERD C The Case For Shippers of Perishable Produce, In
LE I 1 ERo Connection With Truck Controversy, Given by Reader
Editor, The Press:
JUST A FEW days ago there
was a petition circulated in Boyd
asking our state senator to sup-
port a bill to increase the load
limit of trucks so that our farm-
would protect private property owners
from infringement by building not to warning outcries, for survivors of
adapted to certain areas, the . rebellion must feel that
Westover Hills has made itself - the long rebellion must feel that they
ers could .dispose of their prod-
plain that if the distributors middle. I Ucls' as Wise County farmers pro-
piain n distributors. middle- duce great quantitie8 of perishable
products such as melons, toma-
men and investors were squeezed out
of the play and the goods sold direct,
.... . _ were not born to die of poison,
separate satelite community because „ E
The same work reports in a tone
of startled indignation that the bright
Fort Worth could not protect its valu- |
able residential property from1 depre-
red hamburger which people buy at
The city is troubled with tax de- t many roadside gas-and-lunch stations
is artificially colored with a substance
ciation due to improper building
toes, berries, peaches, etc., most
with only a small profit to the maker, °f which are sold in Fort Worth
and Dallas. Under the present
7000-pound load limit they are
badly handcapped. as anyone who
ever ran a truck knows that it is
too expensive to operate a truck
with a 7000-pound limit.
the unemployment and relief problems
would be unmanageable. Many of those
who are consumers at the so-called
linquency, much of which is caused
by valuable property losing its value
which wars against health and often
because grocery stores or filling sta- is overripe. That, however, is not
news, and wasn't news even when the
tions are built next to fine residences,
or warehouses erected near residential
streets.
THE City Council has been awaiting
1 the Chamber of Commerce. recom-
mendation. It has a well-prepared re-
port from the Civic Affairs Committee,
pointing out the needs and reasons
for a zoning ordinance.
We are glad that the Council has
decided to go ahead at once with this
long-needed legislation, instructing City
Manager Lewis to assemble the infor-
mation needed to prepare an ordinance.
Fort Worth has already waited too
long before taking steps to regulate
her growth. The best we can do now
is to do as much as we can toward
zoning and planning without further
delay.
The way to zone a city is to zone it.
book was published.
People have been knowing all this
for years and years, and yet the ham-
burger curve in this country continues
to rise like a high fly, and the health
on its own and squandered a quarter
of a million dollars on a display in-
tended to "sell” its program to the
citizens, who thus will be propagan-
dized at their own expense. And, if
you think $250,000 is chickenfeed, con-
sider this: It would have kept 1388
workers on WPA payrolls for the next
three months. Or, yesterday,
income tax day, consider this: it will
high prices today would not be in the
market as consumers at all. -
It boils down to the fact that under
our system many of us merely go
through more or less laborious but un-
necessary ‘motions to justify our ex-
istence.
As for the poison in the tooth paste
if we just bear in mind that tooth
paste isn’t jam, everything should be
O.K.
Job For the Army
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
TN my years of watching women’s
1 group activities, I’ve never seen
'Economy' In WPA
“All possible economies in admin-
istration and operation are being
sought and will be constantly check-
ed. . . ."—From President Roosevelt's
message renewing the request for
$150,000,000 more for WPA.
THAT is the crux of the matter.
1. “all possible economies'' are,
If
in-
deed, being sought and made effective,
then great good has resulted from the
decision of Congress to withhold a part
of the deficiency relief appropriation
for which the President asked in Janu-
ary.
His request, then, was tor $875,-
000,000 to keep WPA going for the
five months from February through
June. Congress voted $725,000,000.
This was not because Congress had
visited other places of interest in
the vicinity that made the his-
tdry of Louisiana colorful. We also
made an excursion down the river
in the boat.
At the time we were standing
at the place where Uncle Tom
was murdered, we were discussing
the subject pertaining to life’s
success here and hereafter. He ex-
claimed in Southern accent:
TO!
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By HUGH S. JOHNSON
TTAVING been in Washington
most of the time since March,
1933, both in and out of the Ad
ministration, observing it closely,
I feel safe in saying that never in
that time has it been so demoral-
ized as it is
now.
It is wrong 1
to suppose that 1
its tendency to 1
fly apart is due 1
merely to cold- a
ness between
some congres- ,
sional leaders a
and the Presi- 1
dent. There are 1
vital disagree-1
ments within!
the cabinet it-I
self. There are 1
difference s |
even more bit- Mr. Johnson
ter between administrators, heads
of bureaus and especially among
unofficial “policy-makers" tucked
away inconspicuously in depart-
ments. These have hitherto been
active in hunting out new white
rabbits for the trick hat of the
Great Magician.
These are the gentry of the
White House janizariat and of va-
rious wizards who at one time as-
pired to take the nation apart
and put it together again. Some
rabbits have sickened and died.
Some have decomposed into such
sorry objects as the cat drags in.
And some, in their inconsistency,
have developed into wildcats now
engaged in clawing each other s
entrails out.
The conviction within the Ad-
ministration is becoming general
that most of these soaring schemes
have failed, that the nation's es-
sential condition is much worse
than it was when they started to
perfect it and—and in their eyes
darkest of all—that the country
knows it and wants no more of it.
• • • .>
TVHIS raises a suggestion that
A would have been scoffed at
no later than six months ago —
that perhaps the whole Adminis-
tration is on the skids and that
certaintly many of these wand.
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pieces by heavy trucks.
If railroad rates are too high,
then the law ought to force them
to lower these rates. This coun-
try should not be permitted to
suffer because of some adamant
stand by the railroads or any oth
er agency. The lawmakers of
Texas have shown excellent judg-
ment in refusing the truckers
heavier loads. Truckers could not
possibly handle cotton from Ok-
lahoma or North Texas to Hous-
ton or Galveston at a profit, and
why should these ports hog all
the business? What about the
wavers are In any undisciplined
and inexperienced army, the ap-
proach of disaster always starts
a babble of blame — a scramble
for alibis, scapegoats, accusations
and excuses. That is happening
millions invested in interior com- here For this was certainly an
big undisciplined and inexperienced
army. That is why it is break-
ing up and that is why it failed.
It was a perilous period the
country was going through. But
these people persuaded the Pres-
ident that experience was exactly
what he did not want in the great
responsible positions of govern-
ment. New faces, new blood, new
ideas—get rid of the old gang in
the party and the government of
old experience in both business
and politics—that was their ar-
gument, and it prevailed.
Just glance at the roster of
"There ain't no such thing as luck.
Life’s success depends upon our-
selves, It will be just what we
make it. We are the masters of
our own fate; we are the captains
of our own souls.” Uncle Tom's
grave was near, but we could not
_______________...____locate it. ____
The petition above mentioned After returning to the syrup
was signed by everyone to whom mill in the buggy I watched the
it was presented with one excep- black smoke pour from the chim-
1 tion, a railroad section hand. If I ney. the young ladies skimming at
am not mistaken, only four states the pans and the darkies forking
have a measly 7000-pound limit, hack the bagasse. I observed
The people of this section are at the farmer was the master of the
least 90 per cent in favor of in- situation and after close investi-
creasing the load limit law to at gation learned the setup was the
least 14,000 pounds, and I want fruit of his own loom. Returning
to make the statement that no to the buggy, I had this to say:
office holder will ever be re- "Can a man of my age—21 years
elected to office by the vote of the and without money—make good
people of this section who opposes as you have?.”
the bill to increase the limit. If His eyes sparkled and he an-
any one doubts my assertion just swered: "Young lad, if you accom-
make an investigation and see plish anything worthwhile in this
for themselves, life, you will pay the price as I
told you." Through the mist of
years I have learned inherited
wealth is not worth much, nor out-
right gifts a tinker's dam. I learn-
ed at the mill worthwhile things
must be accomplished through the
channels of hard work. The point
of my argument: We must labor
at the mill and save the grinding
R. G. MARTIN.
Stephenville, Texas.
No one objects to a law being
passed to inspect all trucks or mo-
tor vehicles and force the opera-
more enthusiasm than that now dis-
played by members of the Garden tors, tokeep them .equipped with
being clubs. The industrious ant has noth-
take the taxes on 5208 incomes of
$5000 each to pay for that WPA ex-
hibit.
THE truth, we believe, is that WPA
1 is not seeking “all possible econ-
omies" — that Congress has succeeded
in very small degree, if at all, in en-
couraging WPA to break its bad habits
of foolish and wasteful spending. To
save the needy from suffering for the
extravagance of WPA, Congress may
find it necessary to vote at least part
of the $150,000,000 more now asked
by the President.
But, more clearly than ever before,
it is the duty of Congress to find out
all about what WPA does with its mil-
lions and its billions, to .expose the
waste and folly that are depriving the
presses? Somebody, some
body, should wake up and use
common sense. If the country
compresses are put out of busi-
ness, then add thousands to the
bread lines. There is but one way
to place America on the road to
prosperity, and that is for the
railroads to so reduce their freight
and passenger rates as to make it
unprofitable for trucks and buses
to operate at a profit. Prosperity
would run rampant through the
land. Millions of unemployed
would find profitable work; pov-
erty would really vanish from
America. It's just too bad that
the big boys, which means both
government and private, cannot
visualize these conditions, and
bring them about.
Alvarado, Texas.
J. E. JAY.
ing on them. They are never -idle, and
at the first hint of spring they turn
out in droves eager to
demonstrate some
knowledge they have
good brakes, tires, lights, mirrors,
etc., also setting a safe speed
I limit,
gained during the
winter. In fact, most
Then too, while on the subject,
let me suggest that a law be en-
acted and rigidly enforced, mak-
ing it a felony to drive a car or
truck while intoxicated.
We have often heard the remark
that the railroads built Texas. Like
heck they did. The people built
. . , the railroads by giving section
of the country keep after section of land as a bonus to
'of them in our part
right on digging the
year round. Such a
CHEAPER RAIL RAJES
WAY TO PROSPERITY
Editor, The Press:
THE ARTICLE in your March
10 issue over the signature of
Marshall McNeil relative to high-
officials. With a few notable ex-
ceptions, none of them was ever
before heard of outside of some
small circle which had little or
no relation to his present heavy
responsibilities to the nation. None
stood for much of anything in
' particular policy or practice They
were mostly ingenious young am-
ateurs.
LABOR DOESN'T
CONTROL COUNTRY YET
Editor, The Press:
I NOTICE you have a new col-
umnist, Ludwell Denny, comment-
• ing on Bill Green and John Lewis,
etc. Allow me to say to Mr. Denny
that neither John Lewis nor Wil-
liam Green are dominating our
country yet. Mr. Roosevelt may
think so, and some of our sena-
tors and representatives at Wash-
ington may think so, but organ-
ized labor is far from being able
to control our Government. The
sooner our representatives learn it
the better off we will be.
When the producers and con-
* * *
PHEY could and did either shove
1 veterans of their political
faith out of the executive branch
or frighten them into submission
and quiet. But they couldn't do
that in Congress. They tried and
the failure of the attempt split
the President away from his con-
gressional leaders. In the result-
ing weakening of the President's
leadership and the failure of both
their own plans and the high ob-
jective of those plans to rescue
the country, they are falling apart
among themselves to the great
disadvantage of both their party
and the country.
More than any other single
cause, it is this condition of lost
leadership, absence of experience
and internal division and uncer-
tainty which postpones recovery
by paralyzing the confidence in
which spending and investment
could flow freely. Recent changes
of front by words anti promises
are good. Action on some of this
build. Also, each town was re-
quired to donate large sums of
going money in order to get the build- way commerce is misleading
68’ f ers t0 run their tracks through Those who understand the circum-
the town. Everything has its day, stances know that this country is
the ox wagon, the old so-called not suffering because -trucks are
tar-wheeled wagon, the butcher not permitted to litter the high-
wagon, the buggy, all had their ways with extremely heavy loads,
day. ..........
The trucks will in the end en- gotten that the greatest trans-
j tirely replace the railroads, the portation industry in the world
airplanes will finally be our mode stands ready to take care of every
of travel. In the name of good- transportation need of this coun-
ness,~ what’s the use of building try.
a truck if we are not allowed to The country is already in too
load it? Let's everyone do as the much trouble for a cabinet mem-
most of our voters are doing her to agree with allowing trucks
around here, keep tab on the ones to run riot, forcing the national
fighting against the passage of government to go deeper in debt
the bill to increase our truck load to build highways to be torn to
limit and defeat the last one of
them for re-election. I do not, and
never did, operate a truck for
. i j hire. I have been a farmer and
Among their major aims, so our truck grower most of the
the last 35 years, we did well to
get $4 to $5 per ton on the cars
for our watermelons before the
trucks came into use, and even
at that price the freight rates
were so high that no one but the
coming and
such an exchange of
suggestions, as they |
fall into huddles to
talk over the back-
wardness of their
Psescoa bulbs and the pranks
Mrs. Ferguson of their children.
Many worth-while projects have
been begun by them in various states,
unemployed of money intended for They are fighting the billboard
them, and to insist upon sensible con- nuisance, planting trees along the
trol of federal relief spending, highways, beautifying public parks.
highways, beautifying public parks,
while their own homes bloom with a
sumers finally wake up, which
they are gradually doing, there
- . ----will be an end to this minority
unless those in authority have for- group rule. 1 believe it is in sight
eetten that the . .... ._ - now, at least I hope so. While I
am 67 years of age, still I hope
to live to see the time when no
alien can come here and lead
Patricia's Gas Bag
T ONDON tenement mothers.
L. have tried out the British
who
gov-
hardened its heart against the needs ernment’s newgas-proof bags for
of ths unemployed. It was because babies too small to wear gas masks,
Congress believed that WPA had ac-
quired habits of wasteful, extravagant,
perennial loveliness which undeniably
enhances the real estate values of the
towns in which they live.
state president tells me, is a campaign
foolish and needless spending—habits
which should be broken and which
WPA might be encouraged to break
if given, for once, something less than
the full amount it demanded.
seem to be divided in their opinions.
One reports that her infant slept peace-
fully in a bag for three hours, Mrs.
Alfred Tully, however, described this
quite different experience to a United
Press correspondent:
against soil erosion. Old Mother
Earth is to have her face lifted, and
goodness knows she needs it. No cause
ought to be dearer to the heart of
"They put by 6-month-old Patricia
; - And there were- abundant groundsin a sort of rubber bag and put a
for this belief, strap between her legs to stop her
TFITH the $725,000,000. voted in
January, WPA has received $2,-
150,000,000 for the current fiscal year
—far more money than in any previous
year. Yet business has been improv-
ing for the last eight months. Private
employment has gained. Unemploy-
ment insurance payments and other
social security benefits have increased
hugely. And the federal public works
and housing programs are now reach-
ing their job-making peaks.
But if WPA is seeking “all possible
economies," how explain such things
as its expenditure, just revealed, of
$250,000 of relief money for a build-
ing to house Its exhibit at the New
York World’s Fair?
Congress appropriated $3,000,000 for
a federal exhibit at the fair.. Congress
did not authorize WPA to have a
kicking. Then they tied up the end
with string. There was a thing like a
concertina on the side of the bag, and
they told me to keep pumping it. Well,
I pumped, and it made my arm fair
ache.
“I could see the poor little mite’s
face through the mica window. She
was screaming at the top of her voice
and getting redder and redder. After
about 15 minutes I said, 'Here, I’ve had
enough. Get her out.' I've never seen
anything like it in all my born days.
She was searlet. You've seen a boiled
beet? That’s just how Patricia look-
ed." •
Of course, the time may come when
Mrs. Tully and others may be glad to
see their babies parboiled in rubber
bags rather than exposed to poison
rained from above. Yet the screams
separate exhibit, and undoubtedly would
have refused such autherityif it had
been asked. But WPA has gone ahead , heard
of little Patricia, helpless behind that
mica window, seem to us as eloquent
—aplea—for—peace—as—this—world—has
American women than this one, for
whether we belong to Garden Clubs or
not, all of us get our living from the
soil. A good many city people forget
the fact, perhaps, but every thought-
ful citizencknows that, if we go on in
our grasshopperish way, our descend-
ants may face real starvation. Every
great desert has been created because
the people to whom' the land gave of
its fertility had not the good sense
to keep it fruitful.
It has been suggested that the
United States Army might very well
take over the responsibility for this big-
time job—and it sounds to me like a
good idea. So long as all our enemies
do not invade us in ships and air-
planes, the forces for national defense
could justify their keep by carrying on
campaigns against our most dangerous
foes—floods, forest fires, winds and
insect pests—all of which destroy the
rich topsoil and are the chief cause
of our fallow fields.
Why shouldn’t the Army and the
Garden Clubs get together on a work
which is certainly, just as important
to—our welfare as the raising of roses
or the .building of new airplane fleets?
wealthy could afford to buy a
melon. We are not fighting the
railroads, we are only fighting for
our just rights and we, the grow-
ers and producers, will fight to a
finish for those rights.
DOLPH CONLEY.
Boyd, Texas.
VISIT TO SYRUP MILL
TEAC HES A LESSON
THIRTY YEARS ago I visited
a country syrup mill on a planta-
tion in Louisiana. The mill was in
a shady grove on the river and
consisted of a boiler, engine, press
and several pans. It was owned
and operated by the plantation
farmer. We developed a great
friendship.
The farmer could not be classed
as wealthy but well-to-do. The
plantation mansion overlooking
the river and lowlands was large;
broad acres in the bend and its
''quarters" with its inmates and
banjos romantic beyond descrip-
tion. He had a fine team of pranc-
ing mares and new buggy, besides
a gasoline boat with a pretty cane
opy he used to make trips down
the river and far over in the in-
terior. On that romantic occasion
in the buggy we drove to the
place where Uncle Tom, hero of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was beaten to
unions and preach the overthrow
of our Government by force,
Emma Goldman was deported
for less than has been charged
against Harry Bridges.
L. A. WRIGHT.
Bedford, Texas.
SIDE GLANCES . By George Clark
palaver would be better.
But best of all—electrifying in
fact—would be at least a partial
house-cleaning within the Admin-
istration and a few—just a piti-
ful few—good sound appointments
of wise and experienced men
, whose very nameswould give the
country faith from the records of
their lives and achievements.
COPR. 193 BYNEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REO. U. S. PAT. OFF.
death by a cruel, overbearing...,
overseer on Cane River, and also ( pictures.
/
"How abett the-movies Lenigh2—1‘s one ofthone family
Today's Poem
SIGNS OF' SPRING
When the robin's on the wing
And the redbird parks to sing,
When the wind with breezy air
Bursts the buds with ceaseless
care,
Then it's Spring.
When the winds and stormy rains
Dash against the window panes,
When the lambs within the fold
Frisk about with joy untold,
Then it's Spring.
When Old Man Winter's in re-
treat
And his breath turns not to sleet
When the bears begin to sniff
Honey from the nearby cliff,
Then it’s Spring.
ELIZABETH H. ROSAMOND.
Little Lines
By MARGIE B. BOSWELL
Some works are weights; others
are wings.
I Dogbane is as forbidding on the
hills as in the hollows. /
Pity the daisies planted in des-
erts!
Rivers swerve around the rock#
they can not override.
The wise weigh their words be-
fore a broadcast.
= To repair a splintered dream 1s
difficult indeed.
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