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tHE DENISON PRESS, DENISON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, lftSl
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Running Out of Apologies
Those blind followers of the Truman
administration who have been able in the
past to find some sort of even an ambigu-
ous excuse for his bad leadership, have
now come to the point where even ambi-
guity fails. The ones who have trailed
along close to his heels have now thrown
up their hands and started talking about
how things were back in 1923 when corn
sold at 14 cents and wheat at around 30
cents. They can not say anything that
the people will take in the way of straight-
ening out things Truman has so muddled
up.
For a buck passer, a sycophant who
grovels in the path of the Roman heir-
archy; a four-flusher who says he is going
tol kill the Taft-Hartley act when he knows
he can’t budge it; a stubborn and wilful
man who shows all the characteristics of
a man who thinks such self-will is tanta-
mount to leadership, the president’s chair
has never seen the like in all the history
of the U. S.
His heel lickers who thought to hang
on to him meant their election have gone
too far and now they are all too near the
brink to be able to retrieve themselves.
Afraid to attend political meetings in
which they once more or less had the say-
so, his closer supporters now find them-
selves talking about subjects which draw
no line of demarcation as to the nation’s
policy or future.
Plato once said of a certain party
who was always running for some office
when asked if he thought this certain
party might run again, said in substance,
“When you find a jury that will bring in
a verdict that the sun does not shine at
midday, then he will not run.” It is even
so with those heelers of his, except they
have so far committed themselves to Tru-
man they are now ashamed to say they
were in the wrong. Characteristic ‘ politi-
cians who can do no wrong, they depend
on the ability of the people to forget and
walk up to the polls and place their necks
in the brass collars and vote her straight.
Rut that day is gone. People are looking
for the Moses who will lead them out.
They are going to find such a man. The
times have arrived for such a leader and
the man for the hour will arrive.
It is too late now lor all those heelers
and yes-men to be the leader of the peo-
ple any longer for the people have gone
on far down the road toward a return to
the liberty wherein they were born when
Democracy was the possession of the com-
mon man. They are determined to have
a return to such a day, but the Trumanites
and the heelers are too far in the arms of
communism to awaken. They think every-
body else is out of their mind save them-
selves and there is no hope for them to be
of any use any longer to the people. They
will be left in their cage by themselves,
mumbling with their political dolls and
muttering incoherently as they try to re-
vive them.
The Texas State Fair at Dallas which
closed recently has outstripped its high
records of the past and this year is near
a quarter of a million over any former at-
tendance. One Englishman newspaper
publisher who was at the fair and saw
the thousands of school buses with their
70,000 students from over the state, said
he dare not write the facts about such an
attendance, and send it back to his paper.
He gave as the reason that the people
would not believe such a thing could hap-
pen anywhere. We of Texas, who have
seen this thing more than once, know it to
be a fact. All Texas is proud of the
fair and that is the chief reason of its
continued success.
At last Texas received that fifty mil-
lion dollar rain. It was somewhat be-
lated, but it will stop sending cattle to
the market on depressed conditions, bring
about a revival of garden truck so badly
needed and give .abundant water for
human beings and livestock. It has been
many years since Texas suffered so for
water. But God who sends the rain on the
just and the unjust revealed to waiting
humanity that the heavens can send rain.
Maybe He has His ways of disciplining
humanity. Moses was made to suffer for
his arrogance when he struck the rock with
his rod and said “Shall I bring forth wa-
ter?” He took the credit where God
j should have been honored. That’s why it
! is best for man to leave the rain and the
I sunshine in the hands of the all-wise God.
OUR DEMOCRACY-
--by hi
THE BALLOT
(S\ uieApon tk.Af comas doum as still
cfls snoiufla.kes fall upon tlie soil
executes a free man’s mill
cfU lijkthirtcj does the mill of (SiocL
- JOHN PtCHPONT
Forged in the fire of free men's spirit, the ballot is a
WEAPON THAT WE MUST KEEP SHINING AND SHARP BY USE.
ONLY BY EXERCISING OUR RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE CAN WE EXECUTe
OUR FREE MAN'S WILL AND MAINTAIN THE MIGHT OF THIS
WEAPON THAT MEN WITH COURAGE AND DEVOTION HAVE
FASHIONED TO SERVE US.
Other Eds Thoughts
•---a
OPS JUSTIFYING ACTIONS
(Rennie O’Drien in Celina Record)
The Office of Price Stabiliza-
tion in a recent booklet mailed to
The Record, points to efforts by
the government at price control
during and immediately after the
Revolutionary War, apparently in
an effort to justify current gov-
ernment price control laws, and
quotes Washington as having said
it took a “waggon load of njoney
to buy a waggon load of supplies.”
Truth of the matter is both
Washington and Tom Payne saw
the fallacy in government price
controls, and Payne said “They
may force down, the price of the
stock in hand, hut after that the
market will be empty. 1 will give
you an example. In Philadelphia
wo undertook, among other regu-
lations of this kind, to regulate
the price of salt; the consequence
was that no salt was brought to
market, and the price rose to 3(1
shilling and sixpence per bushel;
price before the war was only one
shilling and sixpense per bushel;
and we regulated the price of
flour until there was none in the
market, and the people were glad j
to procure it at any price.”
military service” and is determined j
i * ■ the following basis: (1) 90J
I days’ service between Dec. 7,
, •. : 1 and Sept. 2, 1045; (2) 12
months’ service between Sept. Hi, Itnain unchanged
1940 and .June 24, 1048; and (3)
honorable discharge after June
24, 1948 upon completion of 3
years or more of active duty after
that date.
GOODBY—FOR A LITTLE WHILE-Sgt. W. White of the 1st
Battalion, the Welch Regiment, keeps the parting strictly cheerful
as he plays with his one-year-old son Colin before sailing with his
unit from Southampton, England. The battalion, originally des-
tined for Korea, had its orders changed en route and was shipped
to Port Said to reinforce British troops in the powder-keg Suez
Canal zone.
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove
•------•
Well, folks, friends, and coun-
trymen, here I am crossing the
bridge into llickorytown to spread
the bad news into svery city, way-
side village and farm. Look out,
1 say. For what, chimes in Hen-
ry. For the closing days of Con-
gress, I says. During the last
few days of Congress, that is
when the dirty work is done—that
is when, during the confusion and
dust stirred up by getting ready
to go home, and quick, a congress-
man votes “Yes sir” on anything
proposed, if it means he can head
for home a day sooner.
All the unneeded things, which
Mr. Congressman aided in stav-
ing off earlier in the session are
dusted off by the Rig Govt, hoys
and tacked on—in fine print—to
the motion to adjourn. And out
the window goes any aid to the
heavy laden taxpayer. I am talk-
ing turkey to you folks who fig-
ure you have a pretty fair con-
gressman down there on the riley
I’otomac, Right now, this eve-
ning, a few words of warning to
him ,is every man’s and every
sweet little woman’s prime task.
Five minutes, is all it takes, to tell
that congressman and senator to
watch his step and that you ex-
pect him to show his colors and
fits. Income from annuities, cap-
ital investments, rentals, stock
dividends or bond interest do not
affect his Social Security entitle-
ment.
Q.—What periods ol service en-
able veterans t" he classified as
4-A?
A.—The draft classification 4-A
is “for those who have completed
Okay 10% Hike
For Building
WASHINGTON. — The Wage
Stabilization Board approved a
statement of policy, unanimously
recommended by the Construction
Industry Stabilization Commission,
empowering the commission to ap-
prove petitions to increase wages
10 percent over the level of rates
prevailing in the construction in-
dustry at the outbreak of the Ko-
rean war.
Tlie 10 percent figure is to re-
until Jan.
1952.
The commission's statement of
policy:
1. Since the base date of Jan.
15, 19.70 falls between seasons in
the construction industry at a time
when rates negotiated for the
1949 season were still effective;
the base date should lie advanced
generally to June 24, 1950; and
1, to July 1, 1950 in cases where the
contract establishing the July 1
rates was executed prior to June
24. Abnormal cases woulil be con-
sidered on a case by case basis.
2. Increases should bo approv-
al’le up to 10 percent above the
are i rates on the base date.
3. No change should be made in
this policy effective prior to Jan.
1, 1952.
FOR RELIABLE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE
1 ELECTRIC 1
Carburetor, Generator, Starter, f.
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309 W. Woodnrd Ph. 1165
Located in Rear Painter’s Trading Post
911% Nr! 10% Against
Railroad workers are represented by 23 standard
unions. By mutual agreement, 20 of these unions—com-
prising about 1,200,000 men, or more than 90%—are
working under wages and rules agreed to by them and
the railroads. But leaders of three unions—with only
about 130,000 men, or less than 10%—still refuse, after
more than a year of negotiations, to accept similar
wage and rules agreements. These are even more
favorable than the terms recommended by the Emer-
gency Beard appointed by the President.
Yes, it certainly seems to be finally about time that the leaders of the three unions stop their
delaying tactics—their quibbling. But the leaders of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Conductors
continue to refuse. They continue a course of diilying and dallying. It is definitely time to
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Lip A I T14 TAI KS This <an best be explained by
LiLmuj 111 Itho example of emotions or gener-
* " ; al changes which affect the whole
Many mental "breakdowns’ are niind, in both normal and abnor- j
strictly mental, that i- without any j mill people. Excitement, depres- ]
physical changes any place in the Lion, apathy, sleep walking, loss
body. But there are other mental juf memory, hallucinations, delu-
disorders which tem actually ^ions of grandeur or persecution,
from physical changes that are re- obsessions of fear and suspicions
fleeted in the capacity of the mind jlu.e all “feelings” which affect all
to maintain the proper level of ,)al.ts 0f the mind. In mental defi-
thought processes. jcients or persons with mental dis-
Some mental disorders re dt j orders of many types these “feel-
from faulty formation of the j ings” are greatly exaggerated with
brain structure, some re.-ult from i xcitement becoming a wild, aban-
alterations in the brain nurture, jdoned excitement; with depression
and some result from improper becoming an extreme of misery;
function of other parts of the body - ith apathy becoming a complete
which in turn affect the function 1 blankness of feeling without any
of the brain. excitement or depression, etc.
Mental deficient- are ho e born ; Any one or all of these feelings
without the proper "ingredients" nay be the predominant character-
for the full development of the listic of a mental deficient; he may
mind. These persons, also called swing rapidly from one to the
feebleminded, remain “childisl ” | other extreme hut it will he an ex-
all their lives, never achieving in- jtreme of each feeling. The men-
dependence. There are three do- al deficient has the instincts of
grees of feeblemindedness: idiocy, !the normal person, but none of
imbecility, and moronity. The the restraints of mature mental
idiot, often speechless and help-
less,, unable to guard himself
against common physical dangers,
remains an infant, capable of ac-
complishing only such things as a
three-year-old might achieve. The
imbecile may grow mentally only
as far as the pre-school child,
from 3 to 7 years of age, usually
learning to talk and to perform
very simple tasks such as the nor-
mal child of that age group can
do. The moron, while still a
“child,” may be taught many of
the things that a 7 to 12 year old
child learns, but fails to apply
his learning in an intelligent way.
With mentally deficient individ-
uals the mind just stops develop-
ing at the age levels mentioned
above. Like children, they remain
always in a “self-world,” never
replacing or adjusting that “self”
in association with others or with
life situations. When people and
problems come in contact, with
them, they become confused and
react in a number of different
ways, pearly always extravagant-
attitudes.
Dementia is the name applied
to those mental changes or deter-
iorations that occur during life.
The best example, perhaps, is se-
nile dementia, in which the struc-
ture of the brain undergoes
changes that replace the world of
other people and the world of sit-
uations with only that one world
of self.
It is interesting to note that
sometimes the aged person who
actually shows the most extreme
changes in the physical structure
of the brain maintains the reality
of the other worlds and his rela-
tion to them. On the other hand,
some aged persons who show-
slight deterioration of the physical
structure of the brain will retire
completely into that “one world,”
the self world of “childishness.”
So obviously, once the mind has
achieved mature development, it
takes more than physical changes
of the brain to cause deteriora-
tion. Each person’s adjustment
to the world during ins active life
has a definite bearing upon his
capacity to remain mentally heal-
thy when the aging process
changes the structure of the
brain.
The mental changes associated
with old age may be a reflection
of physical changes in the body
other than in the brain which in
turn affect the mind. Improper
function of parts of the body may,
at any time of life, create changes
in the mental processes, just as
injuries and illnesses may cause
brain changes.
Your doctor is aware of the
many illnesses and injuries which
may have a direct bearing upon
mental processes. The nervous sys-
tem itself, carrying messages to
and from the brain, is intricately
involved in mental health and the
neurologist is the medical doctor
who is versed in the study of the
nervous system; frequently your
doctor will call in a specialist in
neurology or psychiatry to help
trace the origin of some mental
disorder.
The first search in medical
treatment of mental ill health of
any kind is to see if there is some
physical stumbling block which
may be the cause or a contribut-
ing factor to a lack of mental co-
ordination. If a physical cause
can be located, and can be diag-
nosed as the first source of diffi-
culty, then that original cause
must be treated as well as retrain-
ing the other functions of the
body which were diverted from
their proper function by that first
stumbling block. And it stands
to reason that the earlier the phy-
sical defect is found and retrain-
ing undertaken, the more hopeful
is the outlook.
Many mentaJ illnesses seem to
be purely mental, however, with-
out any sign of physical involve-
ment. Here the psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst are the specialists
who have been trained to help
you discover and overcome the
first mental stumbling block that
is keeping your mental processes
from coordinating as they were
meant to do.
backbone.
Hearken, I say—it is your very
own dinero they will fritter away.
Tell ’em.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
•--------•
Veterans’ Questions
And Answers
•-----•
Q.—At what age are doctors
exempt from induction under the
so-called “Medico-Dentist Draft?”
A.—They are exempt upon at-
taining the 51st birthday.
Q.—What year were the major
veterans groups formed and chart-
ered by the Congress?
A.—The American Legion was
founded March 15-17, 1919 and
chartered by Congress Sept. Hi,
1919; The VFW was founded
Sept. 29, 1899, and was chartered j
by Congress May 28, 193G; The :
Disabled American Veterans was
founded in 1920 and chartered in
1932; The AMVETS was founded
in 1944 and chartered July 23,
1947.
Q.—Has the 82nd Congress ex-
tended the time limit within which
to file claims for the $1 per day
benefit exl’OWs can get for each
day they were in enemy hands?
A.—March 31, 1952 is the re-
cently amended deadline date. Kx-
POWs who seek application forms
may, on request, receive them
from the |Vetera.ns Affairs Com-
mission, Austin, Texas, or from
any Dept. Hdq. of Veterans Or-
ganizations.
Claims for widows or depen-
dents compensation or pension re-
quire a certified copy of the deatli
certificate showing the cause of
the veteran’s death. Be sure that
the cause of death is on the cer-
tificate as this may establish ser-
vice-connected death and result in
a higher rate of compensation.
Q.—Could a veteran age 65,
who is drawing an annuity from
his NSLI also receive Social Se-
curity Benefits?
A.—Yes, if he is fully eligible
' to receive Social Security bene-
On June 15, 1950, an Emergency Board
appointed by the President under the
terms of the Railway Labor Act—an Act
largely fathered by the unions themselves
—made its recommendations on certain
wage and working conditions ("rules” in
railroad language) which had been in dis-
pute between employes and the railroads.
More Than 90% of Employes Accept
Since then, terms equal to or better than
the Board recommendations have been
accepted by about 1,200,000 railroad em-
ployes—more than 90% of the total of all
workers. They are represented by 20 of
the 23 standard railroad unions.
Less Than 10% Refuse
But three unions—with about 130,000
men, or less than 10% of the total—have
refused to accept, even after months of
negotiations. These three unions are the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway
Conductors. These are three of the so-
called "operating” unions. Already the
highest paid men in the industry, their
leaders demand still further advantages
over other workers.
In all, there are about 270,000 operating
employes. But not all of them, by any
means, are represented by BLE, BLF&E,
or ORC. As a matter of fact, less than
half—132,000 to he exact—are in these
three unions. More than half—about
140,000—are in other unions, principally
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
What makes the whole situation so hard
to understand is that these 140,000 op-
erating employes are working under wages
and rules which the leaders of the other
130,000 say they cannot agree to.
What Do the Railroads Offer?
They offer these three unions the same
settlement which was contained in a Mem-
orandum of Agreement signed at the White
House on December 21, 1950, by four
brotherhoods and the railroads. Later
these brotherhoods sought to repudiate
this agreement. But on May 25,1951, the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen signed
uompieu) agreement carrying out the
principles of the Memorandum Agreement
of December 21. They have been working
under this agreement since May 25.
What About Wages?
Under the terms of the agreement, yard
engineers, firemen and conductors would
now be receiving a wage increase of $.34
an hour ($2.72 a day) and road engineers,
firemen and conductors would now be re-
ceiving an increase of 19'A cents an hour
($1.56 per day). Large sums of retroactive
pay have already accrued and if the agree-
ment is carried out, will be paid promptly.
What About “Cost of Living" Increases?
The White House Agreement includes an
"escalator” clause under which wages will
be geared to changes in the Government’s
cost-of-living index. Two such increases
—April and July, 1951—have already been
paid to the 90% of railroad employes cov-
ered by signed agreements.
What About the 40-llour Week?
The White House Agreement calls for the
establishment of the 40-hour week in prin-
ciple, for employes in yard service. The
employes can have it any time after Jan-
uary 1, 1952, provided the manpower sit-
uation is such that the railroads can get
enough men to perform the work will
reasonable regularity at straight time
rates. If the parl ies do not agree on th
question of availability of manpower, tin
White House Agreement provides arbitrn
tion by a referee appointed by the President.
What Else l)o the Union
Leaders Demand?
The continued quibbling of the leaders of
the three unions has to do principally with
rules changes, which have already been
agreed to by the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen. Of these, the principal one
seems to be that having to do with so-
called "interdivisional service”—runs
which take in two or more seniority dis-
tricts.
The union leaders would bar progress
and efficiency in the industry, and better
service to the public, by maintaining a
situation where they can arbitrarily stop
a railroad from establishing such inter-
divisional runs. The carriers propose that
if a railroad wishes to set up an inter-
divisional run, the railroad and the unions
should try to agree on such run and the
conditions which should surround its es-
tablishment, and if the railroad and the
unions can’t agree, the matter will be sub-
mitted to arbitration.
But the three union leaders still refuse.
Rules Can Be Arbitrated
■ lie railroads have not only offered these
iiree unions the same rules agreed to by
ue BRT and covered by the White Hous**
\greement, but have even agreed to sub-
nit such rules to arbitration.
The Industry Pattern Is Fixed
Vith the pattern so firmly establishes] in
to railroad industry, it seems fair to sug-
.■st that the leaders of BLE, BLF&E,
nd ORC stop their quibbling and take
action to make the railroad labor picture
100% complete. Certainly today’s eco-
nomic and international situation calls for
a united front. And certainly no good rea-
son has been advanced why these three
unions should be preferred over all other
railroad employes.
W*> nr** publishing this ard oilier adverlL* a;ents to talk to you
at first hand about matters which are important to everybody.
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