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Largest Circulation
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Volume III
Henry Come Out Agin Regimentation
WENDELL
WILLKIE
Maybe it is all right for the
politicians to assume that an order
On Order
for a rifle is the same thing as a
riile But a doughboy has never
been known to make that mistake
V
NEED INSTRUCTIONS
President Roosevelt Should Tell
Mayor Hague to Obey Law
President Roosevelt talks a great
deal about keeping bright the Arcs
of democracy But In Jersey City
bis henchman Mayor Frank Hague
Vice Giairman of the Democratic
National Committee and ardent
third term supporter thwarts the
workings of democracy by refusing
to install voting machines as direct-
ed by the State Legislature What
does Mr Roosevelt say about that
Nothing
All Promise No Performance
Including his campaign pledges
President Roosevelt has promised
Continued on page 4
LET EVERYBODY SEE IT PUT IT INVITE NEWS
New Head Nurse
At Local Hospital
Mary Belle Merrell of Temple
Tex arrived in Canadian Friday to
assume the duties of head nurse at
the local hospital during the ab-
sence of Miss Lee
Miss Josie Baker and Elton Miller
were married In Fort Worth Sun
day The bride has been employed
at the Killarney and the groom is
connected with his father in the
grocery business
Mr and Mrs Jack Bales and Mrs
Abe Haddox shopped in Amarillo
Wednesday
A daughter was born to Mr and
Mrs William Wheeler of Glazier
Sunday
A girl was born to Mr and Mrs
Tom Riley yesterday morning
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CANADIAN TEXAS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1940
Power To Take Over
Private Property Old
As English Law
By GEN HUGH S JOHNSON
Special to TheHemphlllCounty News
and Associated Newspapers
WASHINGTON This column has
been so busy kibitzing about the con-
scription of men under the selective
service bill that it hasnt had much
space for kibitzing about the so
called conscription of industry or
wealth tho commandeering pow-
er added to the Burke Wadsworth
bill
Of course the whole idea of tack-
ing this provision on a selective serv-
ice bill is pure political hokum It
was put there to enable congression-
al candidates for re election to say
to their constituents
I wouldnt vote for conscripting
mens lives until I had Insisted on
voting to conscript mens dollars
The power to take over private
property for public use is as old as
English law It was called the law
of eminent domain It is practiced
almost every day In peace time and
is called the process of condemna
tion The only real difference In
war Is that it is called comman-
deering f
Any Important difference In the
proposed legislation Is only in the
method for determining whether the
need Is for public use In both
cases a court must determine what
must be paid the owner for his prop-
erty That must be so because the
Constitution Itself provides that pri-
vate property may never be taken
for public use without Just com-
pensation
In peacetime condemnation the
court must adjudge both that the
proposed use is public and what
the compensation shall be In this
proposed legislation whether the
property Is to be taken on a rental
or ownership basis the secretaries
of war or navy can determine
whether the use is public but it
is as it must be left to the courts
to determine Just compensation
In time of war or times like these
where nearly every use In connec-
tion with armament Is public there
isnt much to that distinction The
law is faulty however In vesting
the commandeering power in the
two secretaries It should be In the
President That is another lesson of
1918 Both war and navy depart
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Number 2
Milton McWhorter 91yearold Bakcrsficld Calif lncntor Is shown
left chatting with a reporter after his cabin background had been
broken Into by unknown persons who destroyed his deathray gun that
McWhorter had perfected for the national defense The Imentor claim
his device while In the experimental stage killed a bull and a flock or
geese at a range of two miles
WENDELL WILLKIE PRACTICAL FARMER
Republican Nominee for President Raises Hogs and Feeder Steers in Indiana
By WHEELER MclUILLEN
EditorInChlef Farm Journal and
Tanners Wife
During the past two months na-
tional Interest has focused on five
farms lying In a three mile semi-
circle just south of RushvUIe Indi-
ana typical of thousands of corn
belt farms Living on and working
them are five shrewd Indiana farm-
ers German and Scotch Irish ex-
traction They were purchased in-
dividually by Wendell Willkle but
only after careful inspection by Mr
Willkle and analysis of the soils by
agricultural scientists
The farms were purchased by Mr
Willkle with his savings long before
he had sny notion of entering na-
tional politics They are operated
on a selfmaintenance pattern with
hogs and feeder steers as the princi-
pal sources of revenue Mr Willkle
and the five tenantmanagers share
profits on a 5050 basis Each farm
has made a profit since Mr Willkle
took it over
The names of the tenants who
share partnership with Mr Willkle
are Joseph Kramer Jesse Bell
Louis Berkemeler Charles Brown
and Harold Moore All of the farms
arc signed up with AAA Miss Mary
Sleeth of Rushville an old friend
of Mrs Willkle acts as a sort of
local overseer for the farms She
also looks after one of rjer own
No Show Places Here
None of the farms is a show place
or fancy in any respect Soon
after purchasing each place Mrt
Willkle directed that the houses be
put in good repair and well painted
Kitchens were modernized and elec-
tricity brought in from the local
HE A lines The barns and other
business buildings were pu In or-
der Each farm has Its own vegeta-
ble garden chicken yard and fruit
orchard
Typical of the Willkle system of
farming Is the Louis Berkemeler
place 808 acres of woodlot and pas-
ture running along Mud Creek and
purchased by the candidate In 1934
This summfcr It grew 10 acres of
barley 85 acres of corn and 60 acres
of wheat to support Its 80 Herefords
and 200 hogs
Farmer Welfare First
The Kramer place a mile and a
half up the road from the Berke
meiers has a flock of 60 sheep
They are not only a source of cash
Income They free Joe Kramer from
the taik of keeping fence lines
cleaned and furnish Christine Kra
mer with s source of material for
the blankets and carpets she has
woven during the past three years
Wendell Wlllkles idea seems to be
that the farmer who makes the best
living as well as the surest profit Is
the farmer with a low overhead By
this he does not believe that wages
should be peeled to 1890 levels nor
that farmers should starve their
families and themselves In order to
build up a bank account To the
contrary he Insists that the opera-
tors own bodily welfare come be-
fore other considerations The trim
homes vegetable gardens fruit
trees and chicken yards on each
Willkle farm are proof to that end
He does vigorously oppose the
farm practice of selling on a whole-
sale market and buying extensively
on a retail market especially when
It comes to the matter of materials
that can be grown at home That
belief shakes down to the rule that
lies behind the success of the five
farms a balanced ratio 0f live-
stock and homegrown feed
The whole plan for operation of
the farms seems to be characteristic
of their owner Generous considera-
tion for the fact that his associates
in their management are entitled to
live well was one of hi first
thoughts He laid down the bntlc
principles of operation selecting
those that successful farmers bad
found to be profitable an < 2 then
K
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trusted the men he had selected to
carry the program out day by day
Encourages 411 Clubs
Not the least of Mr Wlllkles in-
terests as he goes around the farms
on his frequent visits are the chil-
dren of his farm partners He en-
courages them to have animals of
their own and Is a hearty supporter
of 4 H club activities
Faith In farm land as a sound
business investment according to
Miss Sleeth Is apparently the real
reason Wendell Willkle Invested his
savings In Indiana farms that and
a desire to keep his roots in the
soil Mr Willkle also wanted his
son Philip a Princeton student to
have the experience of actual farm
work
Mr Willkle explains Louis
Berkemeler says we can have Just
as many steers and hogs tn we
please so long as we grow enough
stuff right here on the place to feed
them the year round He says
thats the way to make money in
farming grow as much stuff as
the land will stand without running
away and then sell what you cant
use yourself Well sir you know
that was right down our road Thats
the way tSwai brought up and Its
never b n known to fall as long as
man takes proper card of his land
Thats why wovo ma I a profit cut
hrrs for the last tj jBfi ir
Faces About Town Senator Bob
Wagner and kin standing In the long
queue In front of the Rivolf for al-
most 30 minutes to see Foreign
Correspondent Ralph Bella
my wearing a Hoosevelt button in
Jimmy Kellys place which Is net1
only smart but safe In Kellys
Gypsy Hose Le reading the first 13
pages of her first book Tha
G String Murder to Life photogger
Eliot Elisofon in the Stawkllb Don
L bledayDoran will pay her 20 cents
T per 2 copy Lcelee F6hs7frMi
a tan from Honolulu BroadJ
ways own Wilkie Mahoncy who
ghosts B Bcrnlcs quips Billy
Hose Franchot Tone Myron Seh
nlck and other leatherlungers talk
ing at once in Moores and not one
listening to the other
Sallies In Our Alley Judge Jean
Nathan the fussy first nighter was
in one of those heated discussions
In the Algonk dining room when
owner Frank Case passed What
Mr Nathan so excited about he
Inquired of a waiter Hes talk-
ing about the war was the reply
he doesnt seem to like HI
Milton Berle who has Inherited the
late J Oslcrmans col m in Variety
was gleeful over the assignment
Imagine he Imagined Ive writ-
ten only one column and Im booked
for Locws State nlreadyl
Clive Howards definition of an ag-
ing ham one who never played the
Palace A would be HasBecn
And then theres the one about
the Stock Exchangemessenger who
was held up in broad daylight and
robbed Of 35 Willkle buttons
Mid town Vignette It happened re-
cently at the Hurricane weeks be-
fore Betty Allen took over the Ethel
Merman role In DuBarry Was
Lady Bettys lifetime ambi-
tion was to appear on Broadway
When she warbled at the Park Cen-
tral that was on Seventh avenue
nnrt DuBirry Is on Fortysixth
Continued on page 2
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, September 20, 1940, newspaper, September 20, 1940; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47161/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.