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Monday, June 26, 1939
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Page Three
Nation’s Leaders Will Gather In
. New York For 29th Boy Scout Rally
Top, left to right* Grover A. Whalen, J. Edgar Hoover, Alfred E. Smith. Middle, left to rights Walter W. Head, John R. Mott, Jome$ E. We»t.
Bottom, left to rights Owen J. Roberts, Daniel Carter Beard, Theodore Roosevelt.
What promises to be the largest rally of Scouts ever held anywhere in the world will take place during Boy Scout Day at
the New York World’s Fair on June 29. The exercises will be combined with the 29th Annual Meeting of th*.* National
Council, Boy Scouts of America, on June 28-29. First day sessions, June 28, of the national meeting will be at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel where Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of Now York State, and Dr. John R. Mott, President of the World’s
Alliance of the Y.M.C.A. are to speak at the luncheon and dinner sessions respectively. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, will address the mass gathering of 75,000 Scouts scheduled for the Court of Peace at the
Fair on Thursday afternoon June 29, and at the same place Owen J. Roberts, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, is to officiate at a ceremony when 500 or more 21-year-old Scouts or former Scouts accept the specific
obligations of voting citizenship.
Grover A. Whaler^ President of the World’s Fair Corporation and Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City, will
welcome the National Council at luncheon in the Fair’s Casino of Nations just prior to the Scout Day ceremonies. Walter W.
Head of St. Louis. Mo., President of the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, will occupy the chair at all sessions
Both Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President of the National Council, and Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Commissioner,
are to take part in the sessions. Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout Executive and Editor of “Boys’ Life.” will make public
the Movement’s annual report for 1938, showing excellent progress in all fields and a 12.4' gain in membership. The Boy
Scout Foundation of Greater New York, host Council, is completing extensive plans to receive and entertain the delegates.
Few New Tax Bills Are
Passed By Legislature
In Its 163-Day Session
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BOV SCOOT RALLY
MORE TUAN 73.000 EXPECTED
TO BE PRESENT ON JUNE 29
FOR ANNUAL CONCLAVE
"If I had a son." J. Edgar Hoover,
Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, said not long ago. "I'd
encourage him to join the Boy
Scouts " "They are." Mr. Hoover al-
so said, "building for the nation a
, useful, manly type of citizen to ac-
cept the responsibilities which time
places upon him." The 75,000 Scouts.
I leaders, parents and friends who
I will jam the Court of Peace at the
I New York World's Fair on Thurs-
day afternoon, June 29 will expect
j the head G-man, hero of millions of
j present-day boys, to reveal again his
j high regard and esteem for the Boy
Scout Movement.
Waiter W Head of St. Louis. Mo..
President of the Boy Scouts of
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America, is to preside at the half
hour Court of Peace mobilization,
made colorful by the presence of
many thousands of National Flags
and the standards of Scout troops
and patrols. Then, in full view of
the largest group of Scouts ever
brought together, 500 or more 21
year-old Scouts or fonner Scouts,
presented by Colon'‘1 Theodore
Roosevelt, Vice President of the Na-
tional Council, will pledge to Associ-
ate Justice Dwen J. Roberts, of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
their participation as active voting
citizens, in accordance with the
spirit and provisions of the Scout
Oath and Law. Grover A. Whalen.
President of the World's Fair Corp-
oration will welcome the Scout par-
ty to the Fair and in reply a New
York City Scout, selected on merit,
to represent the 1.289.74G present
Scout enrollment, will thank him
and other officials for making pos-
sible the Boy Scout share in the
Fair.
The entire .Boy Scout Day pro-
gram is to come as the cap-stone of
the 29th Annual Meeting of the Na-
tional Council. Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica, which will convene at the Wal-
dorf Astoria Hotel in New York
City on June 28-29.
The occasion will be an annual
one since it Is only the second time
in tlie history of the Movement that
an Annual Meeting will have taken
place in conjunction with a large-
scale Scout activity, tire first being
in 1937 at the time of the National
Jamboree in Washington, D. C.
Session on June 28 will include
discussion groups, the annual busi-
ness meeting and a report from the
Chief Scout Executive. Dr. James E.
West, who is editor of Boy's Life.
The Honorable Alfred E. Smith,
former Governor of the State of
New York, is to be the principal
speaker at the luncheon that day.
Dr. John R. Mott, President of the
World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A.
will be a guest of honor and deliver
the main address at the dinner pro-
gram. Other features there will be
pageantry presented by the host
Scout Council, the Boy Scout Foun-
dation of Greater New York, and
the presentation of seven Silver
Buffalo Awards for distinguished
service to boyhood.
On June 29 the National Council
meeting will adjourn to the World's
Fair, for an inspection tour of the
Boy Scout Service Camp adjacent
to the Federal Building and a clos-
ing luncheon at the Casino of Na-
tions, addressed by the Honorable
Fiorello H, LaGuardia. Mayor of
New York City, and Mr. Whalen.
The attendance of delegates and
Scouters at the National Council
meeting is expected to exceed the
thousand mark, there are more
than 1200 members of (lie National
Council, living in all sections of the
country, men of every creed and
varying political views, including
business, educational, professional,
fraternal and civic leaders.
AUSTIN. June 26 — The main
work of the Legislature in its 163-
day session consisted of killing pen-
sion tax measures, dellberallzing the
old-age pension law to call for $20,-
000,000 or $30,000,000 a year more
money; of donating $161,000,000
state gasoline tax money for coun-
ty purposes; of donating to counties
$4,000,000 a year for five years as
half the state general ad valorem
levy; of abolishing land vacancy
racketeering, and creating a public
school land board; of making gen-
eral appropriations exceeding $76,-
000,000 for the biennium , of creating
a public welfare department, creat-
ing an all-inclusive official state
bar, of creating a state soil conserv-
ation administration.
Creates Welfare Board
The legislature consolidated into
other agencies the office of state
tax commissioner and that of re-
clamation engineer, and it permit-
ted the state planning board to ex-
pire
It created the independent public
welfare board, consolidating four
present and new agencies into this
new department. It set up the public
school land board, the state bar, the
soil conservation administration, a
new psychopathic hospital in the
prison system; new supervision over
mutual insurance groups; a travel
bureau supervisory administration;
a division in the health board for
inspection of bedding manufacture;
it broadened the medical practice
act and the optometry board; ex-
panded requirements for admission
of pharmacists, created a board for
the licensing of real estate agents;
rewrote the unemployment compen-
sation pay roll tax law to reduce
the minimum rate of taxes; and
greatly broadened the law for as-
sumption of bonds on roads taken
into the highway system, so as to
include local roads and the division
of surpluses to counties
Okays “Fair Trade Bill”
The* legislature conferred broad
rule-making ix>wer on the supreme
court. It expanded the Confederate
home into a general veterans’ home.
It extended the state oil proration
law for two years and extended Tex-
as participation in the interstate oil
compact commission. It revised pow-
er of the board of chiropody; sub-
mitted a constitutional amendment
for long term civil service appoint-
ments by cities; it extended the op-
eration of the state relief adminis-
tration with a new grant of money.
Tlie legislature created the Lower
Concho River authority and pro-
vided preliminary financing for half
a dozen river and conservation pro-
jects. some of it repayable.
It sent to Governor O'Daniel a
bill to prohibit advertising in “po-
litical sheets," or campaign-year
newspapers, as sponsored by Rep-
resentative Augustine Celaya.
Tire legislature passed tlie far-
reaching "fair-trade" bill to legal-
ize contracts fixing resale prices for
labeled merchandtes, which, though
it sets up no state machinery to
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enforce the edicts of drug manu-
facturers who sought tlie law, ap-
parently will glut the courts with
prosecutions of Texas business men,
li tlie measure should be approved.
The house refused to call up for
final action a bill by Representa-
tive Alfred Petsch to set up mili-
tary training on the University of
Texas campus. The house killed, in
the final days ol the session, a bill
to raise Arlington and Stephenville
junior agricultural colleges to four-
year rank.
It killed bills to make the state
auditor appointive by the legislature,
rather than the governor, and to
create a new office of budget direct-
or, appointive by the governor. Gov.
W. Lee O'Daniel vetoed a bill to let
barbers raise prices and require the
barber license board to enforce tlie
agreements.
Numerous bills strengthening state
supervision of mutuals and other
insurance groups were passed; and
Ihe house has voted an investigation
of the reasonableness of fire insur-
ance rates, workmen's compensation
and other insurance rates. The
house killed a bill to create "crime
clinics” in tlie schools, designed to
teacli tlie unprofitableness of crime.
Grants Rural Aid
The session was notable in sub-
mitting no constitutional amend-
ments of major importance. Those
submitted included one to let Red
River county levy taxes to refund
bonds: another to permit cities to
introduce long-term civil service
appointments; another to permit
the secretary of state to appoint
notaries, and abandoning senate
confirmation of notaries: and a
fourth to permit direct appeals
from trial to supreme court on
challenge of the constitutionality of
any law.
Tlie only bill passed over the gov-
ernor's veto throughout the session
was one to abolish appeal by writ
of error from trial court to the court
of civil appeals.
Rural aid appropriations of $13,-
200,000 for the biennuim were
passed, along with approximately
$2,000,000 to make up past obliga-
tions. The departmental appropria-
tion bill was cut approximately
$3,500,000 under the present bien-
nium. largely through consolidation
of several agencies, the consolida-
tion of some jobs and reduction of
travel expenses and other items.
Salaries in general were left un-
touched.
No New Buildings
All new building items were left
out of the educational and eleem-
osynary bills. This made a slight
reduction in the overall of the edu-
cational bill, but raised the total
nearly $2,000,000 for maintenance
and operation, based on a gain of
around 7.000 enrollment in tlie state
institutions. The eleemosynary bill
was increased, carrying for the first
time maintenance of the new West
Texas insane hospital at Big Spring.
The judiciary bill was left virtually
unchanged. Altogether, approxi-
mately $76,000,000 was appropriated,
in addition to continuing the use of
all gasoline and motor registration
fees for highway purposes, and the
appropriation of fees of various
agencies and institutions to supple- |
ment treasury grants.
The soil conservation administra-
tion already has been set up. The j
state bar has been formed, with at- i
torneys already sending in their $4 j
annual fees to tlie supreme court, i
The school land lease board and j
the real estate license board will
be organized in the near future.
VOLCANOES
HAVE GIVEN
TO'THE EARTH
MUCH OF ITS
WeALTHt'/
THROUGH THEIR.
CHIMNEYS,
DIAMONDS,
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 14, Ed. 1 Monday, June 26, 1939, newspaper, June 26, 1939; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528684/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.