Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 222, Ed. 1 Monday, January 2, 1939 Page: 4 of 6
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matures
MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1939
off?ce"""in* Sweetwater Texas, Feb. 9, |w.
George Bennltt and Russell Bennitt, Pubs.
■tmm
my brother Jonathan;
haat thou been unto me; thy love to
mm wonderful, pairing the love of women.—
uel 1 ;26.
Lave gives itself; it is not bought.—Longfel-
law.
TODAY'S HISTORY
WRITTEN IN BOWLS
Most of today's history is tied to what goes on in
the several bowls scattered from Florida to California.
Gladiators of the gridiron will joust for fame—and may-
be fortune. Winners of the bowl games will be heroes
of the hour while their vanquished foes are relegated
to the also ran clan.
Practically speaking today becomes the end of the
football season, which once upon a time was laid away
in moth balls on Thanksgiving Day.
Texas interest is divided between its own Cot-
ton Bowl where the Red Raiders of Texas Tech
battle St. Mary's Galloping Gaels from the Moraga
Hills of California, and T.C.U. making its final bit
for fame this season in the Sugar Bowl at New
Orleans against Carnegie Tech.
Naming these bowls according to products grown in
the immediate vicinity ought to have some commercial
value.
A NEW CONGRESS
GOES TO WORK
Business can feel more assured over the present line-
up of congress than any session the past six years. It
has better balance. This should signify that the legis-
lative functions are going to be fully assumed again by
our lawmakers. Proper consideration of bills should re-
turn as a routine matter after the shot-gun process that
has nullified the true spirit of representative govern-
ment. If bills are carefully drawn and debated the out-
come is certain to be more satisfactory to the people
who are to be served.
As far as reform legislation goes there is no
question but what changes will have to be made
before investment capital again flows freely into
new enterprises to put people back to work and
thereby cutting down relief expenditures. The
tendency to create boards and bureaus with leg-
islative, administrative and judicial functions all
in one, has given us somewhat the kind of gov-
ernment we accuse certain European powers of
using. Human nature being what it is where such
boards hold sway, we get a rule, not of law but
of personal power. The growth in number of these
boards of which the National Labor Relations
Board is an example circumvents the constitu-
tional guarantees.
If there was any mandate to congress in the
election last November, it surely was one of stop, look
and listen.
o
The radio broadcaster at the Louis-Lewis fight in
New York will have to be a double-talk expert.
A Cleveland, 0., woman asked a divorce because her
husband scolded her for biting her fingernails. Hobby
probably hurt her to the quick.
AMERICAN COWBOY HUMORIST
HORIZONTAL
1, 5 American
cowboy
humorist
pictured here.
9 Citizen.
11 Artless.
12 Blunder or
mistake.
14 To allot.
15 To grieve.
18 Killing
disease.
20 Before.
21 Early settler.
23 Blackbird.
24 Mountain.
25 To make lace
26 His made
him a popular
stage star.
28 Ell.
29 Noise.
30 Corded cloth.
32 Tiny vege-
table.
34 Confused
retreat.
36 Pertaining to
the ear.
38 Black haw.
40 To separate
from others.
Answer to Previous Puzzle
JNAU
CAESAR
BJUINIT
42 To presage.
44 Preposition.
45 First woman.
47 Parent.
48 Fish.
49 Turf.
51 Before Christ
52 Act of with-
drawing.
55 Epic.
57 Grasping
persons.
58 He started as
a rider
and ended as i
a movie star.
59 He was a fine
swinger.
VERTICAL
2 Sluggish.
3 Tardy.
4 Falsehood.
5 To relax.
6 Hog.
7 To renovate.
8 Senior.
9 Insensibility.
10 Ketone.
13 Sun god.
14 A museum
in Oklahoma
is his .
16 Hawaiian
bird.
17 Note in scale.
19 He was
in a plane
crash.
21 Skillet.
22 Rent seam.
25 Named.
27 Examination.
29 Duet.
30 To regret.
31 Soft food.
33 Beer.
35 Hops kiln.
36 Supped.
37 To cut ofT.
39 Upon.
41 To affirm.
43 Declaims.
46 Human trunk
48 Frosted.
49 Bustle.
50 Profound.
51 To hoot.
53 Type
measure.
54 Form of
55 Pair.
56 Myself.
"be."
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Attempt at Perpetual Motion
KZVOLUTlOti
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Wfiwrufii
• STORIES
IN STAMPS -
Holiday Symbol
For a Troubled World
CHRISTMAS, 1938, finds the
dove of peace fluttering des-
perately against war's blast.
In Europe, Asia, in Palestine it-
self war flames. In many coun-
tries race has been set against
ra^c, persecution is the watch-
word. Freedom generally is en-
dangered around the world.
.Centuries after Calvary, the
church faces crucial tests. New
ideologies, new isms have swept
peace from the skies and littered
the heavens with bombing planes.
Machine guns will throw menac-
ing shadows over the Holy Land
where Christ was born.
Ironically enough, the Span-
iards, in their second year of
bloody civil war, are thinking of
the dove of peace this Christmas
but only as a passing gesture.
Fighting may be halted for the
celebration of the Nativity but
that is all.
So 1938 years after Bethlehem
humanity still falls far short of
a genuine brotherhood. But fogged
as it temporarily is, it has not lost
for one minute the ideal. The
dove of peace still symbolizes the
hopes and dreams of the greater
portion of the world.
It wings out again this year
from the churches and the homes
in every land as bright a symbol
as ever. The
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Madam Anna—Gives advice on
all affairs of life. Hours, 10 a.
m. to 9 p. m. Camp Joy.
Hose mending, 308 Lamar, dial
547.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
We feel very grateful to the
people of our trade territory ^
for their good patronage for *
the past year, and especially
those who took advantage of
our 1-4 off Christmas Sale, and
in order to give others a
chance to save on musical in- f
struments we have decided to
extend our 1-4 off sale, un-
til Jan. 10th.
G. A. Beeman Music House
Sweetwater
Safety is of first Importance in
buying life insurance, but the
careful buyer today can save
money without sacrificing
anything in the way of secur-
ity. Joe H. Boothe, Represen- £
tative. Southwestern Life In-
surance Company.
Employment
15V JOHN T. FTANN-
AS the year draws to a
close one wonders what has
become of the great Public
Works program of over a
billion dollars authorized last
June, which was to lift the
country out of the reces-
sion then going along mer-
rily. Although over a bil-
lion dollars was authorized,
only 68 million of that mon-
ey has actually been spent.
For several months after
.Tune, almost weekly an-
nouncements were made
giving huge totals of projects
that were authorized. The
impression got around that a
vast pouring of i ublic funds
into public works, instead of
WPA, was to be the admin-
istration's final bid for recov-
ery.
Then an announcement
was made that all of the
vast sum had been author-
ized and there was no more
left. The WPA appropria-
tion was purposely kept
down because PWA was to
take up the load as the days
w'ent on.
Still Plenty of Funds
But now WPA funds are
practically exhausted and
PWA is still far from being
under way. For 68 million
dollars in six months is only
about 11 million a month,
hardly as much as the gov-
ernment spends in the most
prosperous periods.
Rumors have got around
that PWA funds are being
purposely held back in ord-
er to have them available
for military construction
when Congress meets. The
argument will tie strong that
the armament plan will thus
cost very little more than
the funds already provided.
But in the meantime, what
becomes of government ex-
penditures for relief and
work relief? If there is any
validity in the claim that
public works expenditures
will produce recovery, then
is it not plain that any plan
which tends to divert them
into war expenditures will
postpone recovery?
The question whether we
are to have a great arma-
ment program is one thing.
One may hold what view he
wishes on that. But it will
be idle to suppose that an
armament program can be-
gin to have much effect on
business for some time to
come.
Goes Rnrk 0 Years
Six years ago the presi-
dent, when the first PWA
money was appropriated,
wes urged to go in for low-
cost housing. This he re-
fused to do. Here and there
a few housing projects have
Ho!iywood Scraphook
BY PAVL HARRISON
HOLLYWOOD — Short takes:
A down-and-out horse gambler
tugged at the sleeve of a pro-
ducer the other day and blurted
been built at costs and at
rental rates which put them
completely beyond the reach
of the low income group.
Had the president .->x
years ago put behind a real
low-cost housing program
one-half the energy that was
expended on the ill-starred
NRA and other almost for-
gotten adventures, the gov-
ernment would have some-
thing tangible in assets for
the money it has spent: the
people would be well on the
way to the solution of one of
our most serious problems.
We would now know
something perhaps about
low-cost housing construc-
tion. But now, six years af-
ter the New Deal began, it
is a little late to talk about
housing. It ought to be in-
augurated, even at this late
day, but it will take years
to develop it to the point at
which it would lie develop-
ed had the golden opportu-
nity been seized in 19",.",.
Now, apparently, we are to
have battleships instead of
houses.
out a hard-luck story. The pro-
ducer said: "That sounds pret-
ty good. Put a happy ending on
it and come to see me at the
studio next week."
Jimmy Cagney's Christmas
cards were a plug for "The
Oklahoma Kid": showed him in
western costume holding a cou-
ple of guns. John Barrymore's
cards were an advertisement for
his new picture, "Midnight".
Fanny Brice sent out a Baby
Snooks card with this scrawl-
ed at the bottom: "Daddv says
I should wish you a Merry
Christmas. Why?"
Note To Reviewers
In the monthly Critics Poll,
Hollywood correspondents who
review films chose "The Great
Waltz" as the best picture for
November and Julien Duvivier
as the best director. What the
reporters don't seem to know
is that Duvivier was dismissed
from the assignment and re-
turned to France. Victor Flem-
ing made or remade about three-
fourths of "The Great Waltz."
Metro often has been critic'z-
ed for the non-glamorous cos-
tumes in which Eleanor Powell
was presented. In "Honolulu",
though, she was allowed to wear
a grass skirt and wiggle through
a hula. But the dance has been
toned down in spots, and most
of the still pictures have been
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"Which one of you guys is 'Hulph the rat ?"
rejected by the lla.ys Office. . -
Jeanette MacDonald, though,
who also has needed a touch ol
"umph" in flickers, is allowed
to shiver in a fairly torrid
shimmy for "Broadway Sere-
nade."
Movie (Twits?
Everyone's wondering whe-
ther James Roosevelt will con-
duct fireside chats on the state
of the movie industry . . . The
Basil Rathbones have applied
for the adoption of twins from
Evanston's Cradle . . . Warners
are looking for a new name
for the Dead End Kids, who
have grown up.
A theatre double billing,
"Gold Is Where You Find It",
and "You Can't Take It With
You", lost an evening's re-
ceipts to a stick-up man, who
took it with him.
Marlene Dietrich and Colum-
bia have called off that two-
picture deal which was to have
included Frank Copra's direction
. . . The same studio announc-
ed "The Great Coster Swindle"
before the ink was dry on news-
papers carrying the story. Half
a dozen writers are working on
it now.
Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
are being paged for "Lost At-
lantis", which should have the
most spectacular technical ef-
fects of anything to date.
Warner Baxter, whose con-
tract expires soon, plans to re-
tire . . . And Dick Powell and
Joan Blondell, out of Warners
expect to do radio work mostly,
with maybe a picture a year.
Nice Thought
Local department stores are
offering a kitchen item called
"Garb-O." It's an oiled-paper
container for lining garbage
pails.
Hedy Lamarr seemed disap-
pointed when she was shown
her new dressing room and
found the walls done in pink
satin. She exclaimed, "Oh, I
thought it was to be lined with
naughty pine!"
Maxie Rosenbloom told an in-
terviewer: "I'm the busiest man
in Hollywood. 1 fight in the
ring, work in pictures, act on
the radio and rura a night club.
I'm a human domino!"
At his night club, Rosenbloom
was being heckled by an elder-
ly wit. at a ringside table.
Finally the rnaster-of-cercmonies
looked at the nuisance and said,
"Next time you buy a toupee,
try and get one with some brains'
in il."
o .
Humble Pipeline Co.
Moves Into Midland
MIDLAND — (UP) — Hum-1
ble Pipe Line Company will
move its Cisco and McCamey of-
fices to Midland soon after Jan.
1, officials announced here. The
Midland office will lie in charge
of pipe line operations in West,
Texas, the Panhandle, and New
Mexico.
Humble Oil and Refining com-
pany already has here its divi-
sion headquarters for produc-
tion. leasing, geology and engi- j
neering. Fifteen or more fami-1
lies will move here as a result |
of the transfer of pipe line activi-
ties.
o
There are 3,248,854 telephones
in Germany, or five phones to
every 100 persons.
Frances Perkins
Paints A Bright
Picture of 1939
j Middle aged unencumbered wo- 0
man wants work as practical
nurse or housekeeper in moth-
erless home. Go anywhere.
Apply 508 Cedar.
Apartments For Kent *
Housing: Industry Will He
Busy; Factories, Mines
Will Increase Output
BY MISS FRANCES PERKINS
Secretary of Labor
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The beginning of 1939 finds Am-
erican industry well on its way
toward higher levels of activity.
During the last six months of
1938, the output of our factor-
ies and mines increased by more
than one-third. Indeed, they en-
ter the new year with produc- j
tion levels 30 per cent higher (
than in January of 1938. Em- j
ployment in private non-agri-
cultural activities has arisen by j
nearly one million during the j
past five months. Non-agricul- i
tural pay rolls have advanced by j
$107,000,000 a week.
The brightest spot in the pic-
ture for 19,".9. as far as we can
see at the present moment, is
the housing industry.
The year just ended witnessed
the erection of more than 350,-
000 dwellings, the largest num-
ber since 1929. Moreover, these
houses were being built in in-
creasing quantity for the lower
income groups. At the present
rate of progress, we estimate
that more than 400,000 dwellings
will be built in 1939 with pri-
vate capital. In addition, exist-
ing plans and arrangements call
for the construction of 50,000
low-cost units under the direc-
tion of the United States Hous-
ing Authority.
On the basis of past experience
the housing industry should af-
ford employment at the site of
construction to more than 800.-
000 workers during the coming
year. In addition, the building
of these homes will require
the production of more than
five billion board feet of lum-
ber, of almost seven billion
bricks, 25 million barrels of
cement, two million tons of
steel, and 20 million gallons of
paint. The manufacture and tran-
sportation of these and other ma-
terials used in housing construc-
tion should provide employment
to an additional million and a
quarter workers.
The favorable outlook for the
building construction industry
definitely bears upon the fu-
ture of the railroad industry. Be-
cause of their heavy and bul-
ky nature, building materials
tend to move by rail rather than
by other forms of transporta-
tion. The additional traffic aris-
ing from increased building
should play an important part in
improving the financial condi-
tions of the railroads and in
turn stimulate the purchase of
railway equipment. This in its
turn will have direct effect upon
employment and activity in the
steel and other heavy indus-
tries.
By and large, American in-
dustry and American labor en-
ter the new year under condi-
tions which should give confi-
dence to all who are interested in
bettering our national welfare.
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Ocean sunfish increase their
weight 00,000,000 times.
For Rent: 3 room apartment,
newly furnished. Utilities
paid. Garage furnished. 1201
Sam Houston.
For Rent: Furnished duplex,1
modern, newly decorated, pri-
vate bath and garage. Phone
owner, 2338.
For rent: Modern 5 room unfur-
nished apartment. 1103 Pine'
St., dial 2174.
For rent: 3 room furnished
apartment, utilities paid. 500
West 4th St.
FOR RENT—Furnished apart-
ments. Phone 484.
Rooms For Rent
ROOM AND BOARD: Brick -
home, close in, nicely furnish-
ed, reasonable. 311 Hickory,
phone 780.
Bedrooms, steam heated with
bath, maid service. Weekly _
rate 82.00 and up. Gilbert apt. ™
Furnished 1 room efficiency apt.
Pueblo Courts, 907 E. Broad-
way.
For Sale
For sale: Used sheetrock in
good condition. Parkes Neb-
lett.
Bale oat straw, 1101 Lamar St.
FOR SALE: A few springer Jer-
sey cows. See Tom Wade.
For Sale: New pianos at 15%
off, 3 good used pianos at 'A
off, other instruments at a
discount, until Jan. 10th. G.
A. Beeman Music House.
For sale, trade or lease money
rent, 100 acres 5 miles west 1
mile south highway. Posses-
sion at once. Well improved.
John M. Wood, Colorado, Tex.
37 acres with modern home, city
water, electricity, a bargain
for quick sale with easy ^
terms. See Marvin Allen, own-
er, one-half mile north of oil
mill or phone rural 4F5.
For sale: 3 Jersey milk cows.
Good producers. Roy Mathews, A
900 Bowie St.
•'or Sale: Milk goats. Have
eight now. Fresh milk. Prices
$10 to $25. See John Calvert,
one half mile west Lake ^
Trammel! section house.
For
Sandwiches • Beep
And All Soft Drinks
Drive To
"I'KK WEE'S"
Formerly Taylor's Drive Inn
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Sweetwater, Texas
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