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Jurday, January 9,1937
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
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Every Tooth's A Good One, When Quins Face Test
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Buzz Machines Have No Terrors For Dionnes; Their Pearly Dental Array Is Near-Perfect
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That dental buzz-machine that strikes terror into your heart, and yours, and yours, is just a joke to the Dionne quintuplets. For care and diet have given them almost/
perfect teeth. So when Yvonne, left, hears Dr Dafoe say "Open wide, now,” she Isn't a bit afraid of the approaching polisher. Annette, center, seems more curious *
about the machinery than worried by the inspection. And Cecile, right, smiles broadly and with complete confidence as the doctor waits patiently for a chance to
polish up the pearly little baby teeth that haven't needed a bit of repair work as yet.
Unemployment
Compensation
In Texas
Emilie is much intrigued by the funny machine that whirs so prettily, and she Marie is the central figure in this “dental conference,” and she seems to enjoy in-
watches closely as Dr. W G. Thompson, chief of dental inspection for the province _ vestigating the apparatus that so many folks find less pleasant. Left to right, Dean
of Ontario, handles the apparatus. Perhaps Nurse Noel’s hand on Emilie’s arm Mason 9f the dental college of Toronto University, Dr. Thompson, Marie, and Dr.
helps to reassure her. Dafoe himself.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Under this
heading is being published a series
of 25 questions and answers pre-
pared by R. B, Anderson, chair-
man-director of the Texas Unem-
ployment Compensation Commis-
sion, which explains . fully in
simplified terms the various pro-
visions of the recently enacted
Texas Unemployment Compansa-
tion Act.
How to Figure Your Weekly Wage
QUESTION 6—"My work is irre-
gular or seasonal. Some weeks I
work more hours, earn more pay,
than in others. Previous articles
have made it clear that to determine
what benefits I can receive, I must
know what my wage has been. Does
the law say how the amount of my
wages is to be determined?"
ANSWER—To determine your
weekly wage, you must find out two
things: ,
(1) YOUR FULL-TIME WEEKLY
HOURS. To get this figure, add to-
gether all the hours you worked to
all the weeks in the last 52 weeks
in which you were employed 30
hours or more.
Example: In the last 52 weeks, you
worked 25 hours a week for 5 weeks,
28 hours a week for 10 weeks, 29
hours a week for 9 weeks, 30 hours
a week for 21 weeks, 34 hours a week
for 5 weeks, and 48 hours a week for
two weeks.
Since you failed to work 30 hours
a week the first 24 of these weeks,
disregard them. During the remain-
ing 28 weeks you worked a total of
896 hours, or an average of 32
hours a week. Therefore, 32 is your
full-time weekly hours.
(2) YOUR HOURLY RATE OF
EARNINGS. To get this figure, you
consider only the thirteen weeks just
before you became unemployed.
Out of these thirteen weeks, take
those in which you worked full-time.
Add together the total of hours
worked in these weeks.
In the example used above, these
13 weeks should include: 2 weeks at
48 hours, 5 weeks at 34 hours, and 6
weeks and 30 hours.
So out of the 13 weeks, you would
count only seven — the two at 48
hours and the 5 at 34 hours, because
only in tbsse weeks did you work
your full-time weekly hours (30) as
determined to (1).
Now, In those seven weeks, say
you made a total of $108.50. Divide
this amount by the number of hours
you worked In those seven weeks, or
266. This will give you the figure of
40 cents an hour.
This is your HOURLY RATE OF
PAY.
After you have gotten (1) your
full-time weekly hours, and (2) your
hourly rate of pay, multiply the
hours (1) by the rate (2).
This will give you $12 AO.
This is your full-time weekly wage
which will be used to determining
the amount of compensation.
What About Irregular Workers?
QUESTION 7—“Your last article
told how I could determine mjt
weekly wage for the purposes of th®
Unemployment Compensation Act;
but this example does not fit me.
My week’s work seldom averages 30
hours a week. How am I to pro-
ceed?”
ANSWER—To try to be fair to
every worker, the Commission haa
been given the power to vary from
the above formula, either to deter-
mining th weekly hours, or to de-
termining the hourly rate of earn-
ings, or both.
Suppose your previous employ-
ment record is not long enough to
fit this formula. What then? The
Commission has the power to find
out for itself what the customary
pay is for your kind of job.
The aim of the law Is to be fair
to every worker. The formula was
worked out carefully to fit the ma-
jority of cases. But there always
are exceptions, and each exception
will be treated fairly by the Com-
mission Itself.
If you have any questions con-
cerning the operation of this law as
it affects employers or workers, you
can have your questions answered by
writing to R. B. Anderson, chair-
man, Texas Unemployment Com-
pensation Commission, Austin.
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Good Attendance—
(Continued from Page One)
A humorous reading of a foot-
ball game by Clyde Fillmore got a
big hand from everybody, following
which Coaches G. B. Rush and John.
Walker each made short) talks,
thanking the players for their per-
formance and the fans for their
loyal support.
Short, extemperaneous talks were
made by Homer Ewton, Flake
George and J. B. Clark. Members of
the Irish squad were introduced by
Toastmaster Heare.
The banquet table was a replica
of a football field which had a grass-
turf, 10-yrd stripes, goal posts,
benches, players, officials and coach-
es. The table covered the entire
church basement, guests being seat-
ed on both sidelines as well as on.
the end zones. The beautiful and
elaborate layout was planned by Dr.
J. G. Hamer, ardent Irish fan. Miss
Helen Hise assisted him in the dec-
orations.
Lizzie Gokey, 57, of Stroud, Okla.,
is believed the only living Miami
Indian.
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West Virginia separated from Vir-
ginia during the Civil War.
A toy balloon released at Ottawa,
Kan., during a Santa Claus parade
was found near Dover, Del., ap-
proximately 1,050 miles away.
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Behind the Scenes
In Washington
The Shamrock Texan
Office Supplies — Commercial Printing
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON—A host of writers
have voiced their views on the fa-
miliar questions pf what will happen
under Roosevelt in the next lour
years, and will the president “turn
right or left?”
Certain of these forecasts are
much more important than the oth-
ers and the cream of the crop to
date — in this writers’ opinion —
are recent articles by Dr. Stanley
High in Liberty, Ernest K. Lind-
ley in the Nation, and Dr. Rexford
G. Tugwell in the New Republic.
All three writers are personal
friends of Roosevelt; all three have
discussed his policies with him.
High was one of the half dozen
men closest to Roosevelt in the
campaign and one of a trio which
worked intimately with him on his
speeches.
Lindley, a first-class reporter, as
well as perhaps the most intellectual
of the Washington correspondents,
was Roosevelts authorized 1932
biographer and has written probably
the best available evaluation of the
New Deal in “Half Way With Roose-
velt.” ,
Tugwell was once the president’s
top brain-truster and is likely to be
an influential adviser In future
months.
• * *
Roosevelt expects to be assailed
from the right for going too far
and from the lift for not going far
enough, according to High. He In-
dicates F. D. R. Is ready to take to
the radio against certain newspapers
if they repeat the distortion and
misrepresentation of which tfhe
president feels they were guilty in
the campaign.
Roosevelt will go ahead with poli-
cies for the regulation of business
monopoly and economic power, High
believes, but not until he first tries
to win voluntary co-operation from
business. High predicts, however,
that "prestige of money as a power
in government will almost certainly
decline in the next four years — as
it declined in the past four.”
Further predictions: The U. 8.
Chamber of Commerce and business
lobbyists will have less authority.
Roosevelt believes he can balance
the budget without new taxes, but
if new taxes are necessary they will
be imposed as far as possible on
higher-income brackets.
The president hopes the landslide
election endorsement will influence
the U. S. Supreme Court to a much
more liberal attitude toward New
Deal laws, says High, but if there’s
no change Roosevelt is likely to
propose various constitutional
amendments.
* * *
Roosevelt, High suggests, would
most of all like historians to be able
to say that because of his New Deal
“freedom and free institutions sur-
vived and were strengthened.”
Lindley points out that future
New Deal history depends on wheth-
er we have war or peace. He’s sure
Roosevelt would resist “the economic
and emotional suction that would
be applied to ns,” but isn't confident
we could keep out of a European
war.
* * *
Tugwell doesn’t predict Roosevelt's
course, but calls for “economic
statesmanship” and national plan-
ning. Industry, he complains, “con-
tinues its unplanned and direction-
less course.”
"The purchasing power of con-
sumers must be enlarged until it
suffices to take off the market the
goods that an expanding industry
can supply. Otherwise, employment
will flag, debts will again increase
and the two — unemployment and
debt - will again bury us in dis-
aster,” he says.
Tugwell deplores unwillingness of
big business men to co-operate in
national planning, attributing it
partly to ignorance of economic
facts.
The word "tariff” is derived from
the Arabic “ta’rifa,” which means a
notification or inventory.
In early times, according to Eras
mus, a polite caller started his visit
by kissing his host, his hostess, all
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Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 209, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 9, 1937, newspaper, January 9, 1937; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth526319/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.