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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1934
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 14 Section. Section 61, which shall read
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the State of Texas:
Section 1. That there be added to counties having a population of twen-
Article IX of the Constitution of the, ty thousand (20,000,) or more, ac-
State of Texas a new section to be cording to the then last preceding
federal census, shall hereafter be
numbered Section 2-A and to have
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which section shall read as follows:
“Section 2-A.
"(a) General management and con-
trol of the affairs of the County shall
hereafter be vested in the Commis-
sioners Court, provided that in the
exercise of powers not specifically
granted to the Commissioners Court
by the Constitution and Amendments
thereto, the Court shall be subject to
the authority of the Legislature of the
State, and the Court shall also be
subject to all general laws of the
State now in force not in conflict
with the provisions of this Amend-
ment until such laws are modified or
repealed.
“(b) All duties heretofore perform-
ed by the Clerk of the District Court
and the County Clerk shall hereafter
be performed by an officer to
known as Record Clerk; all du-
ties heretofore performed by the
County Tax Assessor and the Coun-
ty Tax Collector shall hereafter be
performed by one officer known as
counties of this State the Commis-
sioners’ Court shall be authorized to
determine whether precinct officers
shall be compensated on a fee basis
or on a salary basis; and in counties
having a population of less than
twenty thousand (20,000) according to
the then last preceding Federal cen-
sus, the Commissioners' Court shall
also have the authority to determine
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Tax Clerk; and in the coun-
ties where the sheriff performs the
duties of the Tax Collector he may
hereafter perform the duties of the
Tax Clerk. The Record Clerk and the
Tax Clerk shall be elected to hold of-
fic efor a term of two (2) years and
until their successors shall be elect-
ed and qualified. The Commissioners
Court shall have authority to com-
bine the office of County Treasurer
and the office of County Surveyor,
or to combine either, or both, of said
offices with any county office. With-
in the maximum and minimum limits
prescribed by the Legislature the
Commissioners Court shall have au-
thority to fix the compensation of all
county and precinct officers except
County Auditor, County Judge and
County Commissioners. The Legisla-
ture shall fix the compensation of
District Judges, District Attorneys,
County Judges and the County Com-
missioners and may provide for a
County Auditor and prescribe his du-
ties and fix his compensation and the
number and compensation of his as-
sistants. The Commissioners Court
shall fix the compensation of and de-
termine the number of deputies as-
sistants and clerical personnel of all
precinct officers and county officers
except the county auditor.
“(c) City and county officers and
employees may, in addition to their
duties as such city and county officers
or employees, be required to perform
such other similar duties for cities,
towns and districts within the county,
or for the county, as may be mutually
agreed upon and contracted for be-
tween the Commissioners Court of
said county and the governing board,
or boards, of such cities, towns and
districts; and the cost of such serv-
ice shall be provided for in said con-
tracts and paid by such county, cities,
towns or districts into the Treasury of
the county or city, town or district, as
provided for in said contract. All
such contracts shall be approved by
the Attorney General of this State
and such contracts shall not cover a
period longer than two (2) years.
"(d) The Legislature shall have au-
thority, by general law, to provide for
complete forms of county government
and organizations different from that
provided for in this Constitution to
become effective in any county when
submitted in such manner as may be
prescribed by the Legislature to the
qualified voters of such county in an
election held for such purpose and ap-
proved by a majority of the qualified
voters voting in said election. Pro-
vided, however, that no such law shall
impair the power of the Commission-
ers Court to determine the compansa-
tion of county and precinct officers
other than the County Auditor, to fix
the number of assistants, deputies and
clerical personnel which said officers
may employ; nor shall such general
law change the present constitutional
limitations as to particular and total
tax levies for any or all county pur-
poses; nor shall such general law
change the present constitutional lim-
itations on counties to incur public
debts.
"(e) In any and all cases where pro-
visions of the Constitution of this
State are in conflict with the pro-
visions of this Amendment, the provis-
ion of this Amendment (Section 2-A,
Article IX) shall control; provided,
however, should any county adopt a
Home Rule Charter under authority
of any provisions of the State Consti-
tution or Amendment thereto, this
Amendment shall not be applicable
to such county.”
Sec. 2. The foregoing Constitution-
al Amendment shall be submitted to
the electors of this State, qualified
to vote on Constitutional Amendments,
at an election to be held throughout
the State on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November A. D.
1934, at which election each ballot
shall have printed thereon the words:
“For the Amendment of Article IX
of the State Constitution by adding
Section 2-A thereto, giving the Com-
missioners Court general management
and control of county affairs, and au-
thorizing the Legislature to provide
more economical forms of county
government and different than as now
provided by law.”
"Against the Amendment of Article
IX of the State Constitution by add-
ing Section 2-A thereto, giving the
Commissioners Court general man-
agement and control of county af-
fairs, and authorizing the Legislature
to provide more economical forms of
county government, and different
than as now provided by law."
I Each voter shall scratch out with
pen or pencil the clause which he
desires to vote against so as to indi-
cate whether he is voting for or
against said proposed amendment.
A true copy.—W. W. Heath. See-
whether county officers shall be
compensated on a fee basis or on a
salary basis. All fees earned by dis-
trict. county or precinct officers shall
be paid into the County Treasury
where earned, for the account of the
proper fund, provided that fees in-
curred by the State, county and any
municipality, or in case where pau-
per's oath is filed, shall be paid to
the County Treasury, when collected,
and provided that where any officer
is compensated wholly on a fee ba-
sis, such fees may be retained by
such officer, or paid into the Treas-
ury of the county as the Commission-
ers’ Court may direct. All Notaries
Public, County Surveyors and Pub-
lic Weighers shall continue to be
compensated on a fee basis.”
Section 2. The foregoing Constitu-
tional amendment shall be submitted
der said charter shall contain any
provision inconsistent with the Con
stitution of the State, or of the gener-
al laws enacted by the Legislature of
this State; said cities may levy, as-
sess and collect such taxes as may be
authorized by law or by their char-
ters; but no tax for any purpose
shall ever be lawful for any one
year, which shall exceed two and
one-half per cent (212 per cent) of the
taxable property of such city, and no
debt shall ever be created by any
city, unless at the same time provis-
ion be made to assess and collect an-
nually a sufficient sum to pay the in-
terest thereon and creating a sinking
fund for at least two per cent (2 per
cent) thereon; ptovided further, that
no city charter shall be altered,
amended or repealed oftener than ev-
ery twelve (12) months.”
Sec. 2. The foreging Constitutional
Amendment shall be submitted to the
qualified electors of the State at the
next General Election, to be held on
the first Tuesday after the first Mon-
day in November, 1934: at which el-
ection all voters favoring such pro-
posed amendment shall write or have
printed on their ballots the words:
"For the Amendment to the Consti-
tution of the State of Texas permit-
ting any Home Rule City to alter,
amend or repeal its charter every
twelve (12) months;" and those op-
posed shall write or have printed on
their ballots the words: "Against the
Amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Texas permitting any Home
Rule City to alter, amend, or repeal
to vote of the qualified voters of this! its charter every twelve (12) months.”
state and the next general election to
be held on Tuesday, after the first
Monday in Novmbor, A. D. 1934 ,at
which election all voters favoring said
proposed amendment shall write or’
have printed on their ballots the
words:
“For the Amendment to the Consti-
tution of the State of Texas adding
A true copy.—W. W. Heath, Secre-
tary of State.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 30
Be it resolved by the Legislature
of the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 1G, Article
VII of the Constitution of the State of
Section 1 to Article XVI, abolishing] Texas be amended so as to herein-
the fee system of compensating all
district officers and all county officers
in counties having a population of
twenty thousand (20.000) or more; and
after read as follows:
"Section 16. All land mentioned in
Sections 11, 12 and 15 of Article VII
of the Constitution of the State of
value as ascertained as may be pro-
vided by law; and providing that the
Legislature may make reasonable
classifications of all property, other
than real property, for the purpose of
taxation, and that the taxation of all
property in any class shall be equal
and uniform; and providing further
that the Legislature may impose poll
tax and occupation tax and income
tax and exempting from occupation
tax persons engaged in mechanical
and agricultural pursuits; and ex-
empting from taxation Two Hundred
Fifty ($250.00) Dollars worth of house-
hold and kitchen furniture belonging
to each family; and providing that the
occupation tax levied by any county,
city or town shall not exceed one-
half that levied by the State for the
same period.”
Those voters opposing said proposed
Amendment shall write or have print-
ed on their ballots the words:
"Against the Amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Texas
providing that taxation of real prop-
erty shall be equal and uniform; and
that all property in this State, other
than that owned by municipal cor-
porations shall be taxed in propor-
tion to its value as ascertained as
may be provided by law; and provid-
ing that the Legislature may make
reasonable classifications of all prop-
erty, other than real property, for
the purposeof taxation; and that the
taxation of all property in any class
shall be equal and uniform; and pro-
viding further that the Legislature
may impose poll tax and occupation
tax and income tax, and exempting
from occupation tax persons engaged
in mechanical and agricultural pur-
suits; exempting from taxation Two
Hundred Fifty ($250.00) Dollars worth
of household and kitchen furniture
belonging to each family, and pro-
viding that the occupation tax levied
by any county, city or town shall not
exceed one-half that levied by the
State for the same period."
A true copy.—W. W. Heath, Secre-
tary of State.
Mr and Mrs. F. A Breeden and sons
Shelton and Robert Lee arrived home
Friday afternoon after an extended
and most interesting trip via automo-
bile, Leaving Bay City on July they
motored to Chicago to attend the
Worlds Fair after which they crossed
the Ambassador Bridge at Detroit.
Mich , into Canada, going around by
London, Ontario. They returned to the
United States by Niagara Falls, then
down through Harrisburg and Gettys-
burg. Penn. Their next stop was Bal-
timore, Md., where they visited John
Hopkins, living very much impressed
with the magnitude of this hospital.
Leaving from there they motored to
Washington, D. C., where they took a
guide for the day to see the District
of Columbia Then down through At-
lanta and Montgomery, Ala. to Pen-
sacola, Fla. While in that city they
visiteri the naval air station. They re-
turned home by Baton Rouge, La.,
where they visited relatives.
Mr and Mrs. Breeden stated that
the trip was very interesting and en-
joyable but they think Texas is best.
Miller’s Group to
Confer on Rice
Agree’t Named
2-9-16-23w
retary of State.
2-9-16-23w
HAZARDS
authorizing the Commissioners’ Court Texas now belonging to the University
to determine whether County officers
in counties containing less than twen-
ty thousand (20,000) population shall
be compensated on a fee basis or a
salary basis; and authorizing the
Commissioners’ Court in all counties
of Texas shall be subject to the taxa-
tion for county and school district
purposes to the same extent as lands
privately owned; provided they shall
be rendered for taxation upon the
values fixed by the State Tax Board
and that the values fixed for school
district purposes shall not exceed the
of this state to determine whether
precinct officers shall be compen-
sated on a fee or a salary basis." I values fixed for county purposes on
“Against the Amendment to the the same land; and provided that the
Constiution of the State of Texas] University of Texas from the Univer-
adding Section 61 to Article XV% sity Available Fund, shall remit an-
abolishing the fee system of compen-nually to each of the counties and
sating all district officers and all school districts in which said lands
county officers in counties having a] are located an amount equal to the
population of twenty thousand (20,000 tax imposed upon said land for coun-
or more; and authorizing the Commis- ty and school district purposes.”
sioners’ Court to determine whether
Section 2. The foregoing Constitu-
county officers in counties containing tional Amendment shall be submitted
less than twenty thousand (20,000) to the qualified electors of the State
population shall be compensated on at the next general election, at which
a fee basis or a salary basis; and au-] election all voters favoring said pro-
thorizing the Commissioners’ Court, posed amendment shall write or have
in all counties of this State to deter-printed on their balolts the words:
mine whether precinct officers shall “For the amendment to the Consti-
be compensated on a fee. or a salary tution of the State of Texas subjecting
basis." I the lands of the University of Texas
and school
Each voter shall scratch out with to taxation for county
pen or pencil the clause which he purposes and providing for the pay-
desires to vote against so as to indi- ment of said taxcs to the proper au-
cate whether he is voting for or thorities of the counties and school
against said proposed amendment.
ment of said taxes to the proper au-
districts where said lands are locat-
A true copy.—W. W. Heath. Secre- ed,” and all those opposed shall write
tary of State. 2-9-16-23w or have printed on their ballots the
words "Against the amendment to the
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 42 Constitution of the State of Texas
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 30, Article
16 of the Constitution of Texas be
amended so as to hereafter read as
follows:
“Section 30. The duration of all
offices not fixed by this Constitution]
shall never exceed two (2 )years, ex-
cept that the elected officials of a
city that has adopted and amended,
its charter as provided in Section 5,
subjecting the lands of the University
of Texas to taxation for county and
school district purposes, and provid-
ing for the payment of said taxes to
the proper authorities of the counties
and school districts where said lands
are located.”
A true copy.—W. W. Heath, Secre-
tary of State.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 13
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 16
Article XI of the Constitution of Texas
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
may, by amendment to such city’s the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 1 of Article
charter, hold office not to exceed four
(4) years; provided, that when a 8 of the Constitution of the State of
Railroad Commission is created by Texas be amended so as to hereafter
law it shall be composed of three (3) read as followsl: _. ]__,
Commissioners who shall be elected C: *
by the people at a general election uniform as ti
for state officers, and their term of equal and uniform as to all reason-
office shall be six (6) years pro-able classifications of property; and
vided. Railroad Commissioners first occupation and income taxes; exemp-
Section 1. Taxation to be equal and
real estate and to be
elected after this Amendment goes in-
tions; limitations upon counties, cit-
to effect shall hold office as
One shall serve two (2) years, and
follows: ies, etc.
“Taxation of real property shall
one four (4) years and one six (6) I be equal and uniform. All property in
years; their terms to be decided by 1 this state, whether owned by natural
lot immediately after they shall have persons or corporations, other than
qualified. And one Railroad Commis-; municipal, shall be taxed in propor-
sioner shall be elected every two (2) ' tion to its value, which shall be as-
years thereafter. In case of vacancy in certained as may be provided by law.
The Legislature may by general laws
make reasonable classifications of all
said office the Governor of the State
shall fill said vacancy by appointment
until the next General Election.”
Section 2. The foregoing Constitu-
tional Amendment shall be submitted
to the qualified electors of the State
on the next General Election to be
held on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, 1934, at
which election all voters favoring
such proposed amendment shall write
or have printed on their ballot the
words, “For the Amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Texas
permitting Home Rule Cities to so
amend their charters that the elected
officials of such cities may hold of-
fice not to exceed four (4) years,”
and those opposed shall write or have
property other than real property for
the purposeof taxation, and may im-
pose different rates thereon; provided
that the taxation of all property in
any class shall be equal and uniform.
The Legislature may impose a poll
tax. It may also impose occupation
taxes, both upon natural persons and
upon corporations, other than muni-
cipal, doing business in this State.
It may also tax incomes of both nat-
ural persons and corporations other
than municipal, except that persons
engaged in mechanical and agricul-
tural pursuits shall never be required
to pay an occupation tax; provided
that Two Hundred Fifty ($250.00) Dol-
lars worth of household and kitchen
printed on their ballots the words
“Against the Amendment to the Con- furniture, belonging to each family
stitution of the State of Texas of
Texas permitting Home Rule Cities to
so amend their charters that the el-
ected officials of such cities may hold
office not to exceed four (4) years."
A true copy.—W. W. Heath, Secre-
tary of State, 2-9-16-23w.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 41
n the State, shall be exempt from
I taxation, and provided further than
the occupation tax levied by any
county, city or town for any year on
persons or corporations pursuing any
profession or business, shall not ex-
ceed one-half of the tax levied by the
| state for the same period of such pro-
1 fession or business.”
Section 2. The foregoing amendment
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 3 of Article
VIII of the Constiution of the State
of Texas be so amended as to here-
inafter read as follows:
"Section 3. Taxes shall be levied and
collected by general laws and for
public purposes only; and the total
amount of revenue which the State
shall be authorized to collect during
such biennium from taxes, licenses,
permits and fees, (except fees paid
by students to state educational in-
stitutions, and except rentals, bonus-
es and royalties obtained from pub-
lic lands and other public property)
shall not exceed a sum reasonably
estimated to equal the product ob-
tained by multiplying the number of
the inhabitants of this State by the
sum of Twenty-two and 50-100 ($22.-
50) Dollars ;provided, however, the
total amount of such revenue which
maly be so collected, shall be reduced
by the amountof any usrplus funds
or unexpended appropriations re-
maining at the close of the preceding
biennoum. The expenditures of the
state government of funds derived
from the sources above referred to
shall never exceed during any bi-
ennium, a sum equal to the product
obtained by multiplying the number
of inhabitants of this State by the sum
of Twenty-two and 50-100 ($22.50)
Dollars, provided however, that the
population of the State (in deter-
mining the amount of revenue which
may be collected from taxes, licenses,
permits and fees or expended from
the revenue thus obtained) shall be
determined by the then last preced-
ing Federal census, to which popula-
tion shall be added or deducted, as
the case may be, for each year that
has lapsed since the last preceding
Federal census, the average yearly
increase or decrease of the popula-
tion as shown by said Federal census
when compared with the Federal cen-
sus which immediately preceded said
last Federal census, provided, fur-
ther, that is case of war, riots, or
insurrection, or a statewide calamity
daused by earthquake, fire, flood
or an epidemic which seriously
threatens the health of the citizens of
this State, the Legislature shall have
authority, by a two-thirds vote of
both Houses, to suspend for a definite
period this constitutilon limitation as
to the amount of money which may
be collected and expended during the
biennium.”
Section 2. The foregoing Constitu-
tional Amendment shall be submitted
to the electors of this State qualified
to vote on constitutional amendments
at an election to be held throughout
the State on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November, A. D.,
1934, at which election each ballot
shall have printed the words:
"For the amendment of Section 3
of Article VIII of the State Constitu-
tion providing for the levying and
collection of taxes and fixing the
maximum amount thereof which can
be collected and expended each bien-
nium.”
“Against the Amendment of Section
3 of Article VIII of the State Consti-
tution providing for the levying and
collection of taxes and fixing the
maximum amount thereof which can
be collected and expended each bi-
ennium.”
Each voter shall scratch out with
pen or pencil the clause which he de-
sires to vote against, so as to indi-
cate whether he is voting for or
against said proposed amendment.
A true copy—W. W. Heath, Seere
tary of State.
One of the fallacies entertained by
each generation is that the hazards of
civilization have been largely elim-
inated.
But each generation discovers, be-
fore it has outlived its lifetime, that
new hazards have been created.
The hazards of travel by rail had
been reduced to an almost negligible
minimum just about the time that the
automobile began to take its terrible
toll of life and limb.
When we created the federal reserve
system we thought that we had con-
quered the hazards of banking, but
the depression of the 1930's revealed
a new set of problems against which
the federal reserve was helpless.
By the enactment of national pro-
hibition a majority of our citizens
thought that they had put an end to
the evils of intemperance, but later
years showed that the evils were still
here and that many new problems had
evolved
The introduction of democracy into
political rule was hailed as the end of
the domination of the many by the
few, but the hazards of democracy are
so manifold that some weary souls
secretly long for a dictatorship.
The truth is that we can never free
life from hazards because of the vicis-
situdes of human nature itself. The
higher we climb the ladder of civili-
zation, the greater becomes the social
tension. Our great-grandchildren will
have a harder time keeping their bal-
ance than we have today .
Traffic Notice
2-9-16-23w
B. H cto the Constitution of Texas shall be
it resolved by the Legislature submitted to a vote of the qualified
of the State of Texas: electors of this State at an election to
Section 1. That Section 5, of Article be held throughout the State on the
XI, of the Constitution of Texas, be
amended so as to hereafter read as
follows:
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2
Be it resolved by the Legislature
of the State of Texas:
Section 1. That the Constitution of
the State of Texas, Article 16, be
amended by adding thereto another
"Section 5. Cities having more than
five thousand (5000) inhabitants may,
by a majority vote of the qualified
voters of said city, at an election held
for that purpose, adopt or amend
their charters, subject to such limita-
tions as may be prescribed by the
Legislature, and providing that no
charter or any ordinance passed un-
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1934. At this election,
all voters favoring said amendment
shall write, or have printed, on their
ballots the words:
“For the Amendment to the Consti-
tution of the State of Texas providing
that taxation of real property shall
be equal and uniform; and that all
property in this state, other than that
owned by municipal corpbrations,
shall be taxed in proportion to its
BEAUMONT, Aug. 17 Rice millers
of the Southern states meeting here,
chose a commission of seven mem-
bers to confer with federal rice ad-
ministration authorities on the gov-
ernment's marketing agreement for
that grain. Tlie commission members
are: J E. Broussard, Beaumont; R.
F. Pritchard, Houston: F. A Farda,
Houston: Frank A Godchaux Jr., Ab-
beville, La.; P. M. Lyons, Crowley,
La.; George Smith, DeWitt, Ark. and
C. R. Walton. Stuttgart, Ark.
C. G. Miller, federal rice admin-
istrator, and Thomas Plunkett, his
assistant, represented the government
at the meeting.
The millers effected an organiza-
tion as an advisory council to the rice
milling industry, electing as chair-
man D. C Dellahaussaye of Kaplan,
La. William Reid of New Orleans, ex-
ecutive secretary of the committee
on crop control, was chosen secre-
tary.
A resolution adopted calling for
proper recognition of rice by all con-
gressional agencies in the promulga-
tion of reciprocal tariffs, particularly
with Latin-American nations.
Details regarding the government re-
lief administration’s purchase of 500,-
000 pockets of rice are to be worked
out within 10 days and the advisory
council reconvened, probably in
Beaumont, to adopt ways and means
for complying with the specifications.
Tlie advisory council set up the fol-
lowing committees to report back at
the next meeting: Constitution and
by-laws, B. A Steinhagen, Beaumont,
chairman; F J Jumeville, Baton
Rouge, and H. K. Smith, Stuttgart,
Ark. Budget R. H. Hancock of El
Campo, chairman; Guy Landry, Guey-
dan and C. R. Walton, Stuttgart.
The ordinance requiring all cars to
stop upon entering the square is be-
ing violated to the extent that we are
having quite a number of accidents
again. Beginning Monday, Aug. 20 we
will have an officer on each corner
of the square and all drivers who do
not stop their cars at “Stop Signs”
will be fined St. This means every
day, twelve months in the year.—
Citv Council, by Paris Smith, mayor.
17-18.
We read in an English magazine:
Good
anti-cold remedy, called the
Scotchman's cure. Go to bed with a
bottle of whisky, a jar of hot water
and a silk hat. Place the silk hat on
4-H Club News
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 21
Be it resolved by the Legislature
of the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 1 of Arti-
cle 9 of the Consti ution of the State
of Texas, be amended so as to here-
after read as follows:
“Section 1. The Legislature shall
have the power to create counties
for the convenience of the people
subject to the following provisions:
First. In the territory of the State
exterior to all counties now exist-
ing, no new counties shall) be created
with a less area than nine hundred
square miles, in a square form, un-
fishermen. He did nothing to justify
those who talk as though the "eco-
nomic interpretation of history" were
the last word in wisdom.
But His fishermen were different
fishermen, transformed, endowed with
power, capable of great faith and mag-
nificent achievement. Through them
and their successors He started more
philanthropies than all men who have
ever lived. Hospitals and clinics,
charities and libraries, schools and
colleges, have multiplied where He
has inspired the souls of men.
His religion is the best asset of civ-
lization. That part of the world out-
side of which very few of us would
willingly spend our days is named
for Him, Christendom.
Stupid Taxation
“Handy Andy” Hailed
As Roger’s Best
By Richard Washburn Child
Noted Author and Diplomat and For-
mer Ambassador to Italy.
Scientific taxation!
Where is it?
The lack of it may be comical in
prosperity, or where taxation is light,
but stupidity in taxation gets to be a
tragic muff of government when de-
pression is on us and taxation to pro-
vide for emergency relief, or worse
yet, revolution by purchase, goes up
so that 30 or 40 per cent of the peo-
ple’s whole income slops on to the
ground of public expense.
Anyone would think that the best
experts we can summon at home, or
even borrow from abroad, would be
assembled to tell us how to escape the
political muddling and would be call-
ed to Sit at the president's elbow to
advise him and tell congress, when it
next meets, the neatest, cleanest,
cheapest way to get the enormous
loans and pay the pipe for the fresh-
ets anil floods.
He's A Farmer Now.
Once an outstanding 4-H corn club
member in Indiana and winner of
state championship honors, Homer E.
Crandall is today "just a farmer," as
he puts it, but not “just an ordinary
farmer." The difference is that he is
making a hard effort to do things
just a little better than the average,
and most of the time he is succeed-
ing. Over a period of years that
means success.
What the young farmer learned in
his 4-H projects he is still applying in
his farming, although he has been for
himself since 1926. Crandall was ju-
nior corn champion in Indiana for
two years. In 1921 he won the title
with a yield of corn of 142 bushels on
an acre. The next year he harvested
148 bushels. This acre, of course, was
a select piece of land and the crop
had every acre he could give it. He
doesn't grow such yields today under
field conditions, but he does get high
yields.
' Two very important things I learn-
ed in my club work and school work
about the production of livestock."
said the young farmer in giving his
story to us. "One is the selection of
livestock for the purpose you expect
to make of it. The ordinary farmer
looks on a milk cow merely as such—
all are about the same. But any 4-H
club member who has completed his
,experience in this subject knows there
one of the bed posts at the foot. Drink is a world of difference. And ho
whisky and hot water until you can
see three hats, by which time all
danger will have been averted.
less prevented by the pre-existing
boundary lines. Should the state lines
render this impracticable in border
counties, the area may be less. The
territory referred to may, at any time,
in whole or in part, be divided into
counties in advance of population and
attached, for judicial and land sur-
veying purposes, to the most conve-
nient organized county or counties.
Second. Within the territory of any
county or counties now existing, the
Legislature may by a two-thirds vote
of both Houses, create new counties,
combine existing counties and parts
of counties and abolish existing
counties and change county boun-
daries at will, provided that no new
county shall be created with an area
of less than nine hundred square
miles nor shall any existing county
be reduced in area so as to contain
less than nine hundred square miles,
unless such new county or such re-
maining county, and both shall have
a population of not less than fifty
thousand according to the last Unit-
ed States census prior to the date
of the creation or change of such
county. When any part of a county
is stricken off and attached to, or
created into another county, the part
stricken off shall be holden for and
obliged to pay its proportion of all
liabilities then existing, of the coun-
ty f om which it was taken, in such
manner as may be prescribed by law.
Third. No part of any existing coun-
ty shall be detached from it and at-
tached to another existing county
until the proposition for such change
shall have been submitted in such a
manner as may be provided by law, to
a vote of the electors of both coun-
ties and shall have recei red a major-
ity of those voting on th equestion
in earh.”
Section 2. The foregoing amend-
ment to the Constitution shall be sub-
mittea to a vote of the qualified el-
ectors of this state at an election
he ne’d throughout the State on the
First Tuesday after the first Monday
in November, 1934. At this election
all voters favoring said proposed
ardment shall write or have print-
ed ir that ballot the words:
For the amendment to Section 1
of Article J of the Constitution of
Texas, providing that the Legislature
may by a two-thirds voteef both
Houses create new counties and
change the boundaries of existing
counties.”
Those voters opposing said propos-
ed amendment shall write, or have
printed on their ballot the words:
"Against the amendment to Section
1 of Article 9 of the Constitution of
Texas, providing that the Legislature
may by a two-thirds vote of both
Houses create new counties and
change the boundaries of existing
counties.”
A true copy.—W. W. Heath, Secre-
tary of State.
knows what makes the difference.”
He mentioned the same distinction
in meat animals. "Some cattle simply
do not have it in them to make prof-
itable use of grain and forage. It only
takes a few of them in a carlot to de-
stroy your profits. Naturally, I select
feeding animals with this knowledge
to guide me.
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Will Rogers keeps the laughs roll-
ing right along in his latest picture.
Handy Andy," which opens at the
Franklin Theater Sunday and Mon-
day, Aug. 26-27 Without doubt, it's
his funniest picture. Dialogue and
situations combine to maintain a
steadily mounting crescendo of mirth
just a whirlwind of belly laughs.
He keeps the audience in stitches most
of the time.
Rogers portrays a druggist who
wants to work in peace. But his wife,
expertly played by Peggy Wood, nags
him to sell out and learn to play. And
he does!
First he becomes a pigec n fancier,
and lets his pets fly all over the
house. Then he takes up golf with
excruciatingly funny results.
The climax comes, however, when
his wife persuades him to take a
trip to the Mardi Gras in New Or-
leans. There Rogers rebels violently
when his wife tries to make him
dress in a fancy costume to attend
the Comus Ball She attends with a
gigolo and leaves Rogers at home.
Lonesome he meets a druggist and the
latter's girl friend, Conchita Monte-
negro. After a few cocktails with his
new friends, Rogers is persuaded to
attend the ball after all.
Rogers appears in a Tarzan cos-
tume and causes a sensation with his
The need now is not to supply at
the top enough wealth to drain off at
a bunghole; today the job is get
enough in at the top to fill a barrel
without a bottom.
Such a body of experts would prob-
ably remind the country of two im-
portant facts.
1. No government is any magic
source of wealth. Down to a penny,
whatever it pays it has to get out of
the hide of the population.
2. No taxation except inheritance
taxes perhaps has yet been devised
that prevents the payer of taxes from
distributing the loss to the whole pop-
ulation. The taxed landlord gets it
out of the tenant's rent. The taxed
manufacturer gets it out of the con-
sumers' ears.
On top of those two facts, which
most of us always forget like Simple
Simons, there are other facts to be
dealt with that are not dealt with
sufficiently now.
Taxes often defeat themselves.
It is easy to tax industry until
there is no industry to tax.
It is easy to tax so heavily that
money runs out of. the country or
hides away.
rough and tumble dance with Con-
chita. Tlie dance ends in a free-for-
all fight that lands Rogers in jail. Of
course his wife is completely cured
and pleads with him to return home
to his old quiet life.
There is a clever surprise finish
involving Rogers, Miss Wood and
the culmination of the diverting ro-
mance running through the picture
between Rogers' daughter, Mary Car-
lisle and Robert Taylor.
The screen play was written from
Lewis Beach’s stage success, “Merry
Andrew." by William Conselman and
Henry Johnson David Butler direct-
ed under the supervision of Produ-
cer Sol. M. Wurtzel.
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Ants Work at Night "
Weather Gets Too i
Hot For Day Labor
Talk about your daylight saving to
cut down on electric power bills, ants
over Dallas have gone human beings
one better. While folk are complain-
ing about the heat and the drouth,
ants shut up shop during the daytime
and do their foraging at night.
Look at almost any red am hill dur-
ing the daytime, you will see that it
appears to be deserted. But take ■
squint at it at night time and you
will see it alive with the busy little
workers to whom darkness is no ob-
stacle to seeking and finding food to
store up for the winter time and for
the youngsters that are growing up.
- Dallas News.
It is easy to tax in such a compli- M021 aTA
call'd manner that collecting the tax- RlvdL WULD
es costs more than the taxes yield.
Such are the tendencies of hot-foot
governments without the brakes of
scientific knowledge.
Here' we are today—the millions of
us and the national government,
whatever the administration of the
last 40 years taxing, taxing, taxing-
and all slipshod, hit-or-miss, grab-
and-muff taxation.
The Hearst press has little for its
pains in recommending a manufac-
turers’ sales tax to Washington, ex-
cept a sour reluctance.
The reluctance is sour because it
Record As Dallas
Misses Rainfall
cannot explain even why it is reluc-
(Dallas News.)
Ruin peppered down on three sides
of Dallas late Tuesday but the un-
canny precision the elements have for
tantalizing the city with smells of
rainfall continued as the dre uth ended
its 105th day here and a summer rec-
*
Afraid of what?
"Well,” the answer is, “we know
nothing about it are afraid that the
consumer who knows nothing about it
wouldn’t like it."
One of the main items in growing It is impossible to get a better ans-
good crops is in using proper seed- wer than that even, though the con-
that is, sound seed and the right va- sumer may realize that income taxes
rieties, stated this young farmer. "I come back on him with still a hard-
learned a lot about that in my club
work," he said. “I have learned a lot
about it since, too, because one must
be learning all the time on the farm
if he is to make it go."
tant except to say, “we are afraid," ord temperature of 103.4 degrees was
recorded at 2:30 p.m.
THE BOOK
Story That (hanged the World.
Surely a little group of unlettered
peasants could do nothing without
leadership and Jesus was dead. Jeru-
salem and the Roman power would
now be safe from the menace of one
who gave common people the foolish
idea that they were sons of God and,
hence, the equals of the king. What ac-
tually happened is set forth with
force and conviction in each of the
four Gospels, separately. Jesus’ disci-
ples declared that He still lived. On
their report the tomb was examined
and found empty. In the city where
He had been put to death disciples
set to work with results so immediate
and astonishing that even the Roman
authorities were shortly compelled to
take notice. They began to produce a
literature.
The pious men who broke the Bible
up into chapters and numbered ver-
ses contributed something to our con-
venience but they destroyed the swing
and charm of the unbroken narra-
tive.
The Scriptures are fed to us in Sun-
day school in measured doses of about
eight verses a week; we read the Bi-
ble, when we read it at all, one or
two chapters a day. This is not our
habit with other thrilling literature;
we give a good story a real chance by
reading it straight through in a sin-
gle interesting sitting
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er bump, and also that the income
taxes throttle industry.
Without arguing now about the lost
opportunity of the sales tax. the coun-
try may regard the last many years
of hit-or-miss, political-prejudice tax-
ation as a scandal of mismanagement
in a government which some men now
propose shall extend its functions to
running everything.
Credit
Is
Operative Today
All newspapers received today the
following very interesting letter from
Ward M Canady, director public re-
lations Federal Houston Administra-
tion.
The letter which follows explains
itself and can be further explained by
the officers of either Bay City bank.
Washington, D. C.. Aug. 15. 1934.
To the Advertising Manager Tribune
Bay City, Texas.
Your attention is respectfully called
to Federal Houston Administration
Bulletin No. 1, sent to the editor of
Good rains were reported at Arling-
ton and Fort Worth on the west, Hills-
boro, West, Waco, Waxahachie, Mount
Calm and Itasca on the south and
Kaufman and Forney on the east, but
only n trace was officially recorded
at the weather bureau here.
Tlie high temperature broke by .2
of a degree the previous mark of tlie
season was 103 2. established on July
24. The maximum, which preceded the
arrival of. clouds that threatened for
a few minutes to break the summer-
long dry spell, broke quickly with the
arrival of cooling breezes and an over-
cast skv.
Windstorm et Kaufman.
The record was reached only thirty
minutes after the 2 pm. recording of
98 and the official 4 p.m. reading
showed the mercury had dre pped back
down to 96. At 7 p.m. the recording
was 90, 10 degrees less than the read-
ing at the same time Monday after-
noon.
Tlie heaviest rain over the northern
part of the state was at Kaufman,
where .55 of an inch fell in thirty
minutes. Tlie precipitation was pre-
ceded by a standstorm and accom-
panied by a windstorm which blew
down trees and signs and broke tele-
phone and light wires, causing these
services to be disrupted temporarily.
One death was attributed to the
blistering heat when Mrs. J. E. Bur-
roughs, living three miles south of
Caddo Mills, was overcome while
picking cotton. She died belt re medi-
cal aid could be summoned.
Over most of the state the swelter
, , . . ing heat continued. The day was the
your paper for release August 10, second hottest of the summer at Sher-
which makes known this fact:
Today any property owner in the
nation can go to an approved finan-
cial institution and ask for credit from
$100 to $2000 for housing improve-
ments. If the credit is approved the
financial institution will provide him
with the money for modernizing, by
the terms of the modernization credit
plan under the national housing act.
Many national banks, state banks,
trust companies, industrial banks, fi-
nance companies and building and
Try this plan some day with the
Book of Luke and follow it with the loan associations in all sections of the
Acts. Forget that you have ever seen
nation have been approved as agen-
cies for extending credit. These insti-
the Bible before; read the whole ac-
count of the great beginnings as you tutions are now ready to have prop-
would read any other finely told
chapter of history.
It is the story that changed the
whole world. In saying that we are
erty owners' come to them for cre-
dit. Likewise manufacturers, distrib-
utors and retailers are desirous of at-
not unmindful of the limitations of the
work of Jesus. He did not overthrow
the oppressive government of Rome.
He did not lower the tax rate. He did
not improve sanitary conditions in
Jerusalem, nor erect a public libra-
ry at Nazareth. He did not increase
the wages of Christians over those of
infidels. He taught no sure cure for
disease.
The economic status of Jesus' fol-
lowers was exactly as it had been; He
found them fishermen, He left them
tracting attention to their products
and services.
The better housing program is in no
sense a temporary project. It was
drafted with the intention of bringing
about the reconstruction of American
property and involves a program to
last over a period of years. Yours very
truly.—Ward M. Canady, director of
public relations.
In spite of all the mistakes and
tragedies of love, it remains the
world's one vital thing.
man, where the mercury climbed to
107. one degree under the maximum
set July 24. The highest minimum
temperature, 82, was recorded Mon-
day night.
Houstonians Named
To Rice Mill Board
BEAUMONT, Aug. 16.—Rice millers
of the Southern states, meeting here
Wednesday, chose a commission of
seven members to confer with feder-
al rice administration authorities on
the government’s marketing agree-
ment for that grain.
The commission members are: J. E.
Broussard, Beaumont: R F. Pritch-
ard, Houston: F. A Farda, Houston;
Frank A. Godchaux Jr., Abbeville,
La,; P. M. Lyons. Crowley. La.; Geo.
Smith. Stuttgart, Ark., and C. R.
Watson, Stuttgart. Ark.
Millers selecting the commission
were given voting strength in propor-
tion to the amount of rice they have
milled in the last three years.
C. G. Miller, federal rice adminis-
•rator and Thomas Plunkett, his assist-
ant, represented the government at
Wednesday’s meeting.
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