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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
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Thursday, August 10, 1939
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
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THIS PUDDING, TOO, WILL
DEPEND ON THE TASTE
By next January, we will know.
The President's plan for a huge
spend-lend program has been re-
jected by a Congress which believes
It correctly understands that the
people of the country demand a
brake on spending.
Of course, this same Congress
pushed farm appropriations to a
new high. And the deficit for the
Current year will probably be tops.
Nevertheless the principle has been
established. Those who have felt
that Congress should reassert it-
self, and halt the presidential philo-
sophy of pump-priming as such,
have had their own way.
Business has been forging its way
gradually upward throughout the
year, and up to the time of the con-
gressional checkmate, had been
making steady progress toward a
level that promised a year perhaps
70 per cent above 1938.
Those who have been demanding
encouragement to business in the
form of some sort of brakes on the
Bpending program, some sort of re-
buke to the New Deal attitude to-
ward business recovery, have had it.
The pudding for this year has been
cooked.
How will It taste? That will be
the proof of the pudding.
Changes Social Security
Laws Call For More A nd
Bigger Benefit Payments
Sued for Tenth
of Her 'Million'
EASTLAND PLANNING
TWO CELEBRATIONS
A Dutch boy's cornucopia pockets and double-breasted jacket weie
used for Gloria Jean’s navy silk-broadcloth school dress, easy to
wash and iron White piping is stitched in blue and the front panel
buttons are silver. Skirl is mod "lately full, shoulders smartly
squared. White collar matches the piping.
which is scandalized by a briet intent of the word morals than a
bathing suit, but is silent in the face
of the moral degradation of those
who try to rouse racial prejudices
and class hatreds. And the result is
women sent to prison for life for
possessing a pint of whiskey, and
reversion to some new witch-hunt
against cocktail drinking, clgaret
smoking, and petting in the park.
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Will the budding business revival perfectly respectable citizens hauled
Farm Clubs
continue? Will the slowly-increasing
employment rolls and the slowly de-
clining unemployment list absorb
those who have been taken off
WPA? Will timid capital, encour-
aged at last by having gotten what
it wanted in the form of a “turn of
the spending tide,” now rush into
the breach? Will people furloughed
and otherwise removed from WPA
rolls make the expected effort to get
jobs, and will there be any jobs for
them to get?
All economists agree that at least
a billion dollars in savings awaits
immediate productive investment.
We used to invest around eight bil-
lions a year, including refundings.
Recently it has been nearer three.
The money is there. Congress has
gone to some lengths to create the
mood and the opportunity.
Next January. Congress will be
back. They will have heard, in the
meantime, from their constituents
back home. They will have seen at
first hand the results of the new
policy. They will have sampled the
pudding.
And on the taste of it will rest
the proof, and the recipe for the
kind of pudding which Congress
will be most likely to start cooking
next January. If^the retrenchment
pudding tastes good, the congres-
sional cooks may feel justified in
assuming that the country likes it
and wants more of the same. If not,
Chef Roosevelt may again be asked
to provide the recipe which was re-
jected this year. The proof of this
pudding, like that of all puddings,
will be in the eating.
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BY ALL MEANS LET’S
HAVE A MORAL REVIVAL
off to the local calaboose for trim-
ming a hedge on Sunday afternoon.
In short, many well-intentioned
moralists train their heaviest guns
on the mice of the moral jungles.
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and let the elephants run' rampant.
To demand decent, peaceable,
friendly relations among nations; to
demand honest, effective govern-
ment at home; to demand honesty
and fair treatment in business, la-
bor, and industrial relations; there
is a field ample in scope to absorb
the energies of all moral revivalists.
It is a field more true to the real
The girls of the Center 4-H club
met Wednesday of last week at the
home of Mrs. George Burrell. The
house was called to order by the
president and the girls repeated the
motto, pledge and prayer In unison.
Mrs. Dodson gave a demonstration
on the different kinds of games, so-
cial, simple and active. The girls
played games of each different type
and learned some new songs. The
next meeting will be at the home of
Mrs. A. C. Burrell.
WASHINGTON, — Sweeping
changes In the Social Security law,
designed to provide more and big-
ger benefits and still save the tax-
payers about $905,000,000 in the next
three years, won House approval
Friday after weeks of deadlock.
A Senate-Home conference com
mlttee agreed on a compromise bill
after more than three weeks of ne-
gotiations, and the House approved
the lesulting measure a short time
later without a word of opposition.
Only Senate acceptance is needed
to send the legislation to the White
House for President Roosevelt’s sig-
nature.
The deadlock over the amend-
ments broke when the Senate con-
ferees agreed to drop the Connally
Amendment, which would have re-
quired the Federal Government to
contribute $2 for every state dollar
provided for old-age assistance, up
to a total of $15 monthly per bene-
liciary.
Elimination of the amendment by
Senator Connallv, Texas, designed
to help the poorer states, restored
the House provision under which
the Federal Government would
match, dollar-for-dollar, state con-
tributions for the aged up to a total
of $40 a month per beneficiary.
Present law provides for dollar-for-
dollar matching up to a total of $30.
All these provision for public as-
sistance to the needy aged are dis-
tinct from the old-age insurance
system, under which workers con-
tribute to pensions for themselves.
The House agreed to elimination
of the amendment by Representative
McCormack which would have per-
mitted reduction of state unemploy-
ment compensation taxes below the
present 2.1 per cent maximum and
still enabled employers to claim the
full 90 per cent credit on the federal
unemployment tax to which they
are entitled by payment of the state
levy.
Representative Treadway express-
ing regret at the failure of the con-
ferees to reach a compromise on this
amendment, told the House it could
be revived at a later date.
Treadway said She most important
change effected by the amendments
was the freezing of the old-age in-
surance tax rate at Its present level
of 1 per cent on both the worker
and employer for the next three
years. This tax was scheduled un-
der the existing law to Increase to
1V4 pel cent on both on Jan. 1, 1940.
Savings to both the workers and
the employers under this amend-
ment were, estimated at $825,000,000
In the next three years.
An amendment limiting the em-
ployer's unemployment compensa-
tion tax liability to the first $3,000
he pays each worker would give
the employers a saving which has
been estimated at $65,000,000 an-
nually.
The only other important saving
which would be effected would be,
about $15,000,000 In the form of re-
funds and abatements to employers
who paid their 1936-7-8 unemploy-
ment compensation contributions to'
the States too late to be eligible for
the federal credit.
Liberalization and extension of
tile act’s benefits would add about
$1,500,000,000 to the program's cost
during the next five years, experts
estimated.
One of the principal liberaliza-
tions would start the payment of
old-age annuities in 1940 instead of
1942. Another would provide month-
ly benefits to aged, wives, widows,
children and aged dependent par-
ents, previously covered by lump-
sum payments on the death of the
insured. \
Another important section of tho
measure would permit persons who
already have reached their sixty-
fifth birthday to continue their old-
age insurance tax payments for the
purpose of building up a sufficient
reserve to obtain monthly benefits.
These persons 65 and over may com-
merce these payroll tax payments
retroactively from Jan. 1, 1930.
The original Social Security law
stopped payroll tax payments as
soon as a person reached 65, regard-
less of whether the person continued
to work, and paid him a lump sum
benefit if he had not built a reserve
sifficlent for monthly payments. It
was estimated by the Social Security
Board that over a 15-year period
from 1939 to 1954, this new provi-
sion would Increase the amount of
benefits by about $695,000,000. This
sum Is to be paid out of the payroll I
tax collections.
EASTLAND, (UP)-Two
tees are at work planning the 113th
annual Eastland County Fair] and
i the Texas Peanut Festival, botH;Sof
which will be held here Sept. 28, 20
and 30. $
i T. E. Richardson of Eastland
I charge of the livestock departi
j of the fair, which is to be enlaj
j this year, Cecil Barham of East]
I is head of the peanut festival
mlttee.
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ill
Italy is utilizing menthane] or
marsh gas as a gasoline substitute.
Fifteen hundred omnibuses use the
fuel.
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Hollywood actress Susan Hay-
ward, above, will probably look
more sorry than placid if Wal-
ter Thornton collects $100,000
he’s suing her for. Thornton,
head of New York model bu-
reau, says he was responsible
for her fame as model which
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PECOS, (UP)—A trip to Carlsbad
Caverns and a tour of the Big Bend
region of the Rio Grande is planned
for newspaper men attending the
annual convention of the West Tex-
as Press Association here August 11
and 12
A joint session with the New Mex-
ico Press Association will be held
during the Carlsbad trip, first event
io a three-day post convention tour.
Visits to McDonald Observatory,!
historic Fort Davis, and exploration I
jaunts in the Davie mountains are j
scheduled for the trip.
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BY GOLLY,
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There are signs, scattered through
the news, that the United States is
about to have a moral revival.
It’s long overdue. A good case
could be made for the theory that
the one great failure of the world
In the past 20 years is a moral
failure. That failure is all too evi-
dent in faith-breaking nations, and
In cynical governments, national
state, and local, as well as In per-
sonal relations.
It Is questionable whether all the
staggering losses of the World War
in men. In material, and In money
total up to the loss in moral force
which has never been restored.
The tragic part of moral revivals
of this kind Is that they so often
spend themselves on non-essentials,
and, in Interpreting morality in the
narrowest terms of strictly personal
conduct, produce tempests of sound
and fury amid which the great so-
cial abuses go unscathed.
The Governor Dickinson type of
person is capable of rousing a stonn
of indignation over the sight of a
cocktail, but of remaining unmoved
in the sight of that most monstrous
of immoralities, war. There is a type
of person who can rant about the
immoralities of dancing or card
playing, and remain mute in the
face of the most grossly immoral
civic corruption. There Is a type
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1939, newspaper, August 10, 1939; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528144/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.