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Heartening News
On Freight Rates
THE news from Washington that
1 the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion has approved the new compromise
bill intended to remedy the railroad
freight rate differentials, points the
way toward victory in the Southwest's
fight against these unnecessary and
unfair burdens on its economy.
The bill isn't all we had hoped for.
We still believe Congress has the right
to order the agency which it created
- to regulate railroad rates—the Inter-
► state Commerce Commission—to inaug-
urate a nation-wide system of rates
which would be fair and reasonable.
We believe Congress has the constitu-
: tional power to order the differentials
eliminated, just as it has the power
/ (which it has already exercised) to say
that employers shall pay their work-
; ers a minimum wage, and work them
a specified number of hours.
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PECLER The Dies Investigating Committee Has Opportunity
To Set a Precedent for Proper Congressional Quizzes
, By WESTBROOK PEGLER And if it is true that Dies erred in
abuse which has been heaped , admitting irrelevant statements regard-
| A on Congressman Dies of Texas for ing Communist activities, it was true
investigating the Communists as well
as the Nazis and Fascists in this coun-
try is defeating its own purpose. It
arouses a strong suspicion that the
Communists are afraid of even more
interesting disclosures, and draws pub-
lie attention to the difficulties of Dies’
job and the personal penalty in smear
and insult which must be endured by
anyone who fights the —
Stalin Nazi-Bolshevism ,
openly.
Dies is physically N
and mentally rawbon- D
ed and was unpopular
even before he under- T
took to investigate un- 1
American activities. Y
also that Minton, by the President's
own authority, had obtained the power
to inspect the income tax returns of
anti-Administration lobbyists, which had
nothing to do with the case. Minton,
however, escaped the furious .wigging
to which Dies has been subjected, even
when he proposed as a side issue a
press gag measure which, might have
forbidden publication of the Bible.
The campaign against Dies may be
traced to the fact that he traced Com-
munism into branches of the govern-
ment and the CIO, in which latter or-
His
committee had
only $25,000 for the
first
phase of the
work, and he himself, io ana
lacking experience and Mr. Pegler
skill, made a clumsy job of it.
But when he is accused of insin-
cerity and an uncommon appetite for
personal publicity, this charge naturally
invites comparisons with Hugo Black
and Sherman Minton, New Dealers who
also conducted investigations in the
course of which their names appeared
in print more than a few times.
TUSTICE BLACK'S methods were
U criticized by some of his victims
ganization some of his critics hold
membership, and to apprehension that
he will reveal more Communists in
Federal employ before he gets through.
Yet those who try 'to see and report
his work objectively, not concealing or
defending his mistakes, are placed in
a difficult position, too.
They have to bear in mind that
communism.is not the only anti-Amer-
ican ism of the day and, in appraising
his work, note particularly whether he
pays due attention to the rise of re-
ligious and racial hatred of the Nazi [
type. If the tremendous propaganda
for this purpose is not analyzed and
the sources of its vast revenues are
not revealed Dies will be guilty of
either an honest, if culpable, failure or
an evasion. He has assumed an oh-
ligation to make good.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1939
April Fool?
WE PASS THE
BUCK THE
will X0U 8
CONSTITUTEO
YAMEN DMEMF
VOTENT
: PUT in the hurly-burly of » Con-
: D gressional fight, with opposing
, forces pulling all ways—each delega-
J tion from each state trying its best
1 ■ to protect its own interests—no state
; and no section can get exactly what it in the certain knowledge that there
and certain neutral observers, but the
present chorus against Dies includes
some who not only were able to ap-
prove Black’s procedure but even ex-
cused his membership in an organiza-
tion of notorious bigots, nightriders and
masked terrorists on the ground that
if he hadn't joined up he could not ------- ... -..wii bepasuavue, anu
have won election, to a cheap political citizens and organizations under in-
job. Minton was’given a mission to anertien --------41- v .
investigate lobbying on a measure dear
to the New Deal. He curried individ-
uals who lobbied against the bill, but
avoided inquiry into the lobbying in
favor of it because he is a New Dealer
himself, and those who lobbied for it
ASa possible unexpected profit from
A the case, the criticism of Dies
might result in the creation of a fair
code of procedure for congressional in-
vestigating committees. The present
system is loose and j capricious, and
spection apparently have no rights •
which such committees are obliged to
respect.
were described as White House mes-
sengers and included Jimmy Roosevelt.
The Communists have suffered. no
more than many genuine citizens of
the country from a custom which per-
mits Congressmen and Senators to
make publicity and politics by harrass-
ing witnesses.
LETTERS
Editor, The Press:
MY LAST LETTER to this col-
umn was a plea to fix the 33rd
Street underpass. Not long after
it was published I noticed some
men with plow scrapers and mule
teams working on it. On investi-
gation I found that it was the
city, and they were really doing a
good job, too.
Mr. Hughes Thanks City Administration for Prompt
Action in Fixing 33rd Street Underpass
(NOTE: The Press receives EVEN UNJUST CRITICISM
more letters from readers'than HAS ITS GOOD EFFECT
it has space in which to 'pub-
lish them. Those printed are
chosen for their Interest and as
Editor, The Press:
T AM PROUD that we have a
governor and president big enough
to stand the criticisms of all the
They were scooping out a wat-
er-way that in my opinion will
take care of any future floods we
may have the re.-----------------
JOHNSON
Lincoln Knew the
Common People As
Roosevelt Does Not
By HUGH S. JOHNSON .
VESTERDAY there came to my
I desk a big book called "Lin-
coln Talks,” by Emanuel Hertz. It
says it collects all the Lincoln
stories. Both sides of my family x
came from the area around
Springfield, III. They started there
about when Lincoln did in the
1830’s. For some reason — until
about 1900- nobody around there
paid much at- -
tention to the inns
fact that Lin-Mfoe==--hhh
coin rode that , 2
circuit. Thenh, %
many people
got an idea of * ag
the value of .IWW^RII 4
what Lincoln 1
had said or hg.” P-uist
written. They Ma-h
raked the rec-pikal
ords of the lo-r
< and Mean
took out every-Might
thing that bore pond
that character-God / ue
istic ’hand of Mr. Johnson
write.”
The Lincoln myth was no more
nor less than a story of a popu-
ar country lawyer of his time
He knew more dirty stories than
any man in Illinois- and he got a
reputation for it. Those tales
reverberate still from Freeport to
Cairo. In this book, narratives
are credited to him which almost
certainly do not belong in his
treasure chest and many that *
do are omitted to avoid obscenity.
* * *
I INCOLN was not only the best
• small-time politician of his
time, he was also the most
Rabelaisian raconteur. An example
of stretchers is the story that he
was sent by his father-—then long
dead to pay $50 for a horse and,
if that was not enough, to pay
$60. There is no question that
this is an incident in the career
of General Grant as are several
other tales in this book.
a
VV
%
' wants.- - will be no winners. All three will be
All legislation, someone has said, is licked.
! a compromise. For, as Roy W. Howard reports in
In this case, the Hill-Ramspeck bill, his series of cables now appearing in
which the ICC now approves, instead this newspaper, every informed states-
of ordering the Commission to do thus man abroad as well as at home is con-
• and so about the differentials, au- vinced that war now “would probably
j thorizes and directs that body to in- wreck ever existent government in
vestigate rates, and to issue appropriate Europe.”
orders to adjust them in cases where Of course Italy and Germany might
they are found unlawful. . possibly encompass the destruction of
Because of the pressure of public Britain and France. But they would
I opinion from the Southwest and the destroy themselves in the process. Our •
way of life—our "civilization," we call
it—simply could not stand another
World War. Consequent impoverish-
ment and unemployment would leave
mankind’s status little, if any, above
that of common beasts for an inculcu-
lable time to come.
South, and because of such new ap-
pointments to the ICC as that of J. "
Haden Alldredge, we believe the Inter-
state Commerce Commission has a new
view of the rate differentials problem
’ of the South and the Southwest. The
$ proposed report in the Southeastern
governors case is another indication
, along this line.
: PEFORE such a Commission, we be-
- D lieve the Southwest will be able—
• under the terms of the Hill-Ramspeck
bill—to present a most convincing case
w to the ICC. A case which will cause
1 it to issue the “appropriate orders'*
: mentioned in the bill; orders which will
A remove from between our section and
" markets in the East and North the
% man-made barriers which ought never
to have been erected.
At any rate, the procedure under
this compromise bill ought to be given
a trial.
We hope that Congress, which now
‘. has before it the favorable report of
the ICC on the bill, will pass the
measure so we can be assured such
: a trial.
: Europa's Samsons
r ESS than 24 hours after the speech
L of France's Premier Daladier, Pre-
mier Mussolini has come back with a
warning that Italy does not intend to
remain “a prisoner in the Mediterran-
ean."
And Virginio Gayda, foremost editor-
* ial spokesman of the Fascist regime,
followed this with the assertion that
Premier Daladier wanted to “shut tight
the half-closed door" to Franco-Italian
negotiations.
This is not exactly the sort of get-
away that the rest of the world had.
hoped for the beginning of a new at-
tempt at rapprochement between the
two countries. It was to be expected
that both sides would make a show of
firmness, but if peace is to be pre-
served firmness must be tempered with
reason.
So we hope the Samsons now roam-
ing the halls of Europa's temple will
have brains commensurate with their
power. We hope they will have the
sense to see that though they may
bring the temple toppling, they will
pulverize themselves along with the
rest.
The House Shows Sense
Friends at the Counter
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
THE discourtesy of clerks is still a
1 chief source of complaint by
American housewives or so a survey
conducted in several cities by the
Scripps-Howard News-
papers, tells us.
Now it is unlikely
that men can be whol-
ly blameless of the
charge, but it seems
to me women are our
chief offenders at this
point. After some
lengthy study on my
account in local fields,
I have decided that a
good many girls fail
to make good behind Mrs. Ferguson
the counter because they are so intent
upon impressing the customer that
they haven’t the wit to find out her
wishes. They can smile, but they can’t
suggest.
You can spend an interesting and
profitable afternoon going from store
to store studying the behavior of
salespeople. No doubt a good many
are tired, worried and unhappy. In-
THE House vote against the constitu-
I tional amendment levying a. sales 4 crus . . -
tax and other taxes for pensions does, deed the fact is, stamped upon their
not mean that the House is against pay. droit that anyone with compas.
ing pensions. • - A
It simply means that the House is 2 suspect ill health prevents at least
against writing the pension plan and 25 per cent from greeting their custo-
taxes into the constitution, where they
cannot be repealed or changed except
by another constitutional amendment, a
cumbersome system involving delays
and danger of minority rule in the Leg-
islature,
It also means that "House members
are willing to accept direct responsibility
for enacting a pension bill, instead" of
passing the buck to the people.
Both are very fine signs which re-
store faith of close followers of govern-
ment in the legislative system.
It is now up to the House to tackle
the pension problem fairly and squarely
as a bill.
It should do that immediately. '
There is enough wealth in this state
to permit the Legislature to levy a tax
based on ability to pay and produce suf-
ficient revenue to pay every needy aged
person in this state a pension adequate
to give him an honorable living.
The time for action has arrived. Let
the Legislature act rapidly and sensibly
to solve the pension problem.
mers with eager looks and glad smiles,
although Dan Cupid must also be in-
cluded as an accessory before the fact.
Sometimes the youngest and most
vigorous girls are buried in day-
dreams. They look as if they hate be-
ing bothered by a buyer who might
disturb their meditations. The taste
Italy continues to advance certain but * । .
as yet vague, claims against France, Texans in the Record
But France cannot enter into a discus-
sion of these claims, moderate or oth-
of last night’s kisses seems literally to
linger upon their lips, and their smiles
are for someone invisible at the mo-
ment to the customer.
You can't help loving them, even
when they exasperate you, and to me
they are the most pathetic of all our
working sisterhood, because they are
so obviously marking time until their
Romeos appear.
I am convinced also that merchants
lose large sums yearly because they
do not take the trouble to study fem-
inine psychology as carefully as they
do their financial reports. ’ If they did,
they’d soon find that a good many
women would rather trade- with a
friend than bargain with a stranger.
Scores I know go back year after
erwise, under Italian guns,
Tl Duce is entirely correct in saying
Its cannot afford to allow herself
to bottled up in the Mediterranean.
2 - France and the British empire
have equal claims on the use of those
waters. If for any reason they were
deprived of such use, under prevailing
world conditions, it probably would
doom them as empires.
Therefore, Italy, France and Great
Britain have but two alternatives:
They must find a way to share the
Mediterranean peaceably as partners,
or fight. If they’ can't talk it out,
* they will have to shoot it out,
If they go to war, they will do so
REP HATTON SUMNERS of Dallas
—We are all in the same boat, govern-
mentally and economically, and this
boat will not stand much political rock-
ing. The economic problems of agricul-
ture are the problems of everybody—
of every section of the country. Men and
women of sober judgment are serious
when they confront the question wheth-
year to the same clerk. They know
she understands their needs and, when
she is intelligent enough to consider
their wants in relation to their pocket-
books, she builds continual good will
for her employer.
I Class distinctions have become so
faint in our country that the customer
and the saleswoman may be very good
friends—and many are.
er or not America can survive as a
democracy. We almost have to pinch
ourselves to realize that we in America
actually have to recognize that in ■
definite sense that question actually
confronts the American people. I think
we will win. I know we will not win
easily.. We have got a long, hard road
ahead of us. Divided we fall.
I think the members and the people
are beginning to realize that Congress
can not be all things to all people.-
Daniel Reed, veteran New York rep-
resentative in Congress. 5
Voting the money and then not
raising the debt limit is like locking
the barn door after the horse is stolen,
— Treasury Secretary Morgenthau.
No one need have any fear of
drowning there now, and, while I
am not trying to take the credit
for causing all this to happen, be- unal we neea, it is time for our
cause other citizens and civic people to take the initiative and
league members had been working put such laws into effect
on it too. I would like to thank Or if such laws are unsatisfac-
tory they should be referred back
to the qualified voters for ap-
proval or disapproval. If one or
more officials fail to do his duty,
he should be recalled, or put out
of office, by the qualified voters.
Our state constitution is such
that our people must have per-
mission from our Legislature be
fore we can take the initiative on
any legal action we find neces-
sary. The present arrangement is
clumsy at times and our constitu-
tion should be amended to give our
people a quicker method for tak
ing the initiative regarding laws
as well as our constitution.
the city for its response, and for
doing an adequate piece of work
which was badly needed.
I would like to add here that,
election or no election, that kind
of work merits praise, and it has
greatly raised the batting average
of the City Council in my estima-
tion. and I think, too, in’ the esti-
mation of the several communities
which the Diamond Hill bus
serves
E. W HUGHES.
City.
RAILROAD AND TRUCK
TAXES ARE COMPARED
Editor, The Press:
they represent a true cross-
section of reader opinion. They------- — —
should be as brief as possible, aid stand pat politicians and then-
Unsigned letters are not consid- ‘ W *
ered. If there Is a good reason
for not publishing your name,
we will Use initials or nom de
plume, but the original letter "‘ Jvu. LUI au u‘u uneir rainers or
— must be signed as evidence of .. the false prophets"One writer
good faith.—Editor.) thinks our governor is not a
—---------------------Christian because he attended the
, Stock Show on Sunday.
cal leaders fail to give us laws He was probably closer to God
that we need, it is time for our at the Fat Stock Show than he
would have been in the amen cor-
ner of some hundred-thousand-
dollar church built to worship a
stable-born Savior in, while mil-
lions of people are hungry. co
And all this right in the shadow
of the so-called churches which
have been built by the money-
changers.
Christ never went into such
places as these except to whip
the money changers out, there
fore why should our governor go?
Some of us speak reverently of
Christ and at the same time de-
nounce every principle he ever
taught.
Some state officials, such as
KINDLY PERMIT me a few the governor, attorney general
lines in your letters of the people, and speaker of the House, should
which I have enjoyed reading, be empowered to call a general
I would like to call the atten- election to make needed changes,
tion of Mrs. J. B. Siler of your upon the presentation, of a peti-
city to a few statements in her tion signed by aproper number
letter of March 23, in' which she of qualified voters, or by the
so ardently defended the trucking chairman of a public convention
industry, held for the purpose.
The trucking industry has ad- If any law or laws, or lack of
i monished the railroads. The rail- such, is proven improper by the
' roads have at no time contended courts or unsatisfactory to the
that the trucks and buses should people, such laws should be re-
be put off the highways They leered to the voters for proper Be-
have contended that all transpor- tion. A public official should be
tation should be put under the considered a public "hired hand”
same laws, which in my opinion is and as such he should be recalled
just when he fails to do his duty.
The railroads to my personal We now have a lot of legisla-
knowledge has no paid lobbyists tors who have become such weak,
at Austin during the time the kneed politicians that they are
his her load limit bill was brought finding it hard to redeem'their
up. The truck and bus interests campaign promises to enact a
had many, in fact so many that suitable old age pension law as
they almost caused a demonstra- well as to attend to other business
tion and were admonished, for which they were hired by
You ask how much the railroads voters X
pay in gasoline tax to keep up the It is a pity that we on
====================
own roadbed and keep it repaired with down the re, in their places,
without asking you or me for a to Jet thiSs done ability enough
dime to keep it in repairs. Their set times done DswoptE
contribution in tax for the up-keep RangerA WADSWORTH,
of our highways is a staggering sangen Texas.,
sum. ------------------------------------
You say it is fair. Well,, I
don't’ think so, for the simple rea-
son that most of our highways are
built by bond money that Indus
try and the people are taxed for.
Without the bonds and taxes,
Texas roads would be so many
streaks of mud, and there would
be no such thing as fine bridges,
even if every cent of the gasoline
tax went to the highways, which
it does not, as one-third goes to
the school fund.
Now, let's just see how much
truck and bus operators paid in
taxes in Tarrant County for the
year 1937. The total motor car-
riers. including trucks and buses
for hire, $12,306.15. Railroad
taxes, 1037, $295,679.86, of which
$27,061.29 went for the upkeep of
, your county roads.
Now let's see about the state
ad valorem taxes. Total motor
carrier for hire, $80,154.88; rail-
roads $5,939,142.03. The state
roads received $875,345.22.
G J SMITH.
Cleburne, Texas.
POWER OF RECALL
NEEDED IN TEXAS
Editor, The Press:
SOME several years ago, we had
a political organization in this
country that fostered the idea of
initiative, referendum and recall.
I did not agree with the organiza-
■ lion on some of the other things
| they said and did, but I now be-
| Heve the foregoing I. R and R
would be of much help to our
country if properly used at this
time. .
When our lawmakers and politi-
Charlie McCarthys. It makes__
all the more sure they are right.
You know. Christ said: "Woe
unto you when all men speak well
of you, for so did their fathers
It doesn't make any difference.
The stories are of the earth.
They indicate the career of a
us j man who knew his people not by
reason of some professional or
academic advisors with plans and
theories for their betterment, but
with a first-hand smell of all their
problems. •
It seems we have no way of j
measuring the principle of men .
except by dollars, and some of us
think the world would go to the
devil if it were not for them. The
fact is, they have never been any-
thing except a wart on society
and would never be missed except
for the fuss they make.
But I think criticism, even
though unjust, has its good effect,
for it makes people think, and
some of us haven’t had a thought
of our own for so long that if we
tried to have one we would likely
have to go to the hospital.
C. M. EVANS
Breckenridge, Texas.
I could criticize this book I
could find fault with much of the
Lincoln myth. But anybody would
have trouble in divorcing Mr.
Lincoln from the problems of the
people from whom he sprang He
is given credit for saying: "You
can fool all of the people some
of the time, and some of the peo-
ple all of the time, but you can't
loot all of the people all of the
time It makes no difference that
Pliny said it 2000 years earlier.
Lincoln said it in the language
of his people. * *
With all his catch phrases, Mr.
Roosevelt does not do that. The
perplexities of the people of the
Middlewest are as unlike those of
Dutchess County of New York or
those of the Pacific Coast as are
those of the Sudeten Germans
from those of the Magyars.
4
y
Little Lines
By MARGIE B. BOSWELL
Trite thoughts are trash in
ports of opportunity.
To falter in any venture invites
failure.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S baronial
I estate at Hyde Park or his
farm at Warm Springs partakes 4
of none of the difficulty of 90
per cent of the agricultural prob-
lems in the country at large. I
recall that his solution of the
farm problem in 1932, advocated
also by Mr. Morgenthau, was to
plant 8 belt of trees across the
Middlewest. That had been urged
ever since 1 was a little boy. Over
and over again it had been prov-
ed impracticable because trees do
not reach the water tables in those
latitudes. Many of ha Westerners
told him but it didn’t click.
*
Without water, ragweeds as
well as roses, wither away.
Seeds are citadels of safety for
our flowers.
Enraged rivers are only wreck-
ers.
Puffs are pretty but unsatisfac-
tory for supports.
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR
Do not say, "I saw an item
about you in the newspaper"; say,
"short article about you.” *
Mr. Henry Wallace, knows the
midwestern -agricultural problem
because he grew up with it But
he has no notion of the cotton
and tobacco problem of Texas and
the Southwest because he gets it
second-hand — principally through
technicians who, like Hamlet,
when the wind is southerly,
"know a hawk from a handsaw. ’
But it costs us millions.
Because theoretical amateurs
4.
SIDE GLANCES . By George Clark
have written the agricultural
program of the United States, it
is now in a state of complete col-
lapse. They do not know, as Lin-
coin did, the real problem of the
dirt farmer, nor do they know
the economic problems of the
United States in competition with A
the world and especially are they
incompetent to deal with such
gangster competitors as Hitler
and Mussolini have proved them-
selves to be. -
Toder’s Poem
IN MY SOLITUDE
I sit alone and dream away
Of days that used to be.
I often think of yesterdays
That flow into a crystal sea.
My eyes grow dim on some of
my thoughts,
On others they’re clear and free.
And I think back in yesteryears
To you, and then to me.
Upon life's dusty highway
We trod alone just we
My thoughts were turned to you
And your’s were turned to me.
But now that we have parted
With many an hour amiss,
I hope and pray that you will have
Life filled with happiness
AUDEAN CROMER.
Gordon, Texas
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"Exactly what is my future with the firm, Mr. Roxbury ?"
A PIGEON FLYING
Against the blue it flies away.
Its wings are snowy in the sky,.
A bird of little wit, they say . .
Why do I turn aside’and sigh ?
The plow is heavy as it goes
Around the field in ragged rows.. • «
A bird shall ny across the hills,
And I shall labor as God wills
OLIVIA FREEMAN
Hawn Texas.,---—==-----6=
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 156, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1939, newspaper, April 1, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688845/m1/4/?q=%22thurber+%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.