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SHARECROPPER SUCCESS
STORY
BEAUTY CONSCIOUS
Gradually the people of this coun-
try are becoming beauty conscious
and that does not include those de-
votees of the human form divine as
exemplified by the strip-tease per-
former or the admirer of the gor-
geous setting of a Hollywood picture.
Judged by the interest shown in the
wild flower show the highway de-
partment is putting on in various sec-
tions of Texas, the concern is in the
simpler forms of beauty, and those
created by nnture rather than by art
or money. The highway people arc
doing a great service in thus attract-
ing attention to the natural beauties
of the roadsides and fields and for-
ests of the state — and a service
that could have been rendered by no
other organization.
Time was when the wayside flow-
ers were largely considered as weeds
despite their attractive coloring and
artistic forms of plant and blossom;
but these flower shows will dispel
much of that idea and every man and
woman who say they admired the
plants and flowers in one of these
exhibits will have a better idea of
what beauty really is, and will he
more likely to aid in protecting the
roadsides from vandals and in in-
creasing the natural attractiveness
of the landscape by well considered
plans that will be carried out by the
highway department.
Man cannot live by bread alone,
and there are more and more people
coming to believe that a primrose by
the river’s brim is something more
than merely a primrose — that it is
a living evidence of the Power that
created man and everything that
makes for man’s comfort and pleas-
ure, and that therefore it is worthy
of protection.
Tho highway department’s flower
shows will mark the beginning of a
larger appreciation of natural beau-
ty and will be worth all and more
than the trouble and care that goes
to making them. — The Marshall
Morning News.
The success story of John Shannon,
sharecropper of Jonesboro, Ark., was
a highlight of the recent faim che
murgic Conference in Detroit.
With practically no education save
in the school of tilling the soil for
49 years, Shannon’s speech to the
scientists, industrialists and experts
won merited applause because of its
simplicity, vitality and content. From
experience he had gained something
to say on beating hard times, drouth,
and flood.
Proudest was Shannon of his fam-
ily of seven, the crop to which he is
devoting his entire life. One son has
graduated from a university, two are
in college and others are on the way
to a thorough education. The father is
not only putting his children through
school but always is able to pay his
rent.
His success recipe: Grow things to
eat rather than things to sell, begin
work at daybreak, and have no time
left for bad habits. He declared that
the failure to grow a full garden and
big potato patch had put
farmers on relief than any other
causes combined. Chickens, milk
cows, hogs, fruit trees and every-
thing “from rhubarb to radishes” in
the garden are details of his plan.
All of it is old wine in a new bot-
tle, but all significant in the light of
much stuff about the plight of the
sharecropper.—Fort Worth Star Tel-
egram.
TEXAS LAW ENFORCERS TURN
TO SCIENCE
Several days ago in a press con
ference, Governor Allred took a few
minutes out to do a bit of boosting
for the men in the department of
public safety who are daily making
law enforcement more active.
He was discussing a case of mis-
taken identity which had resulted in
the possible incarceration of innocent
men. Then he showed where finger
prints had come to the rescue.
Texans who don’t know much about
the new ideas being used in the in-
telligence and fingerprint bureaus
of the vast state department may be
prone to raise an eyebrow at the
more than a million dollar appropri-
ation for the new state department
of public safety.
But if they could take a tour thru
that department or follow finger- Amenta’ u’nde'r
REPEAL OF RACE BETTING
Now that the senate, after five
months, has finally voted for the re-
peal of pari-mutuel betting on horse
races in Texas, the governor undoubt-
edly will lose no time in urging the
legislature to tighten up on the
“bookie” and other gambling laws
of the state. We are likely to see a
drastic handling of the entire sub-
ject and, it is to be hoped that the
move will be for the best.
There have been many arguments
for the retention of the present horse
racing law, and The Chronicle was
among those who questioned the wis-
dom of complete repeal at this time,
but there is no very logical defense
for gambling as a whole. In the case
of horse racing, there was involved
the element of revenue to the state,
and fairness to those who had made
DISCOUNTS FOR TAXPAYERS
There seems ample justification
for permitting a slight discount to
those tax payers who pay their tax-
es in advance of the date when they
would otherwise become delinquent.
This is the main objective of H. J.
R. No. 23 by Sharpe and Moffeit,
which is to be voted on at an election
on the fourth Monday in August,
1937. There are several angles to
this proposal. In recent years there
has been much delinquency in ad va-
lorem taxes on account of the de-
pression, and the numerous droughts
that have occurred during the depres-
sion. This has thrown the tax col-
lecting machinery considerably out of
gear. If the proposed amendment
is adopted by the people of Texas, it
will offer some inducement to the tax
payers to pay their taxes promptly
from now on. The success if the
principles of offering a small dis-
count has been amply demonstrated
by the gas companies, which permit
a small discount for the prompt pay-
ment of monthly bills. This seems
to have met with universal approval
and furnishes a successful and prop-
er analogy for doing likewise in the
payment of taxes. Furthermose, the
Treasury of the various tax subdivi-
sions is usually worse than empty 90
days prior to the dead line for the
payment of taxes and consequently
the taxing authorities frequently
have to go to a bank and borrow
money for current expenses, Where-
as, if this amendment is adopted at
least a sprinkling of tax payers will
be induced to pay their taxes early
and the treasury of the taxing dis-
trict would be replenished.
BEWARE OF PROMISES
print expert C. C. McGraw over the
state, they would dismiss their fears
of extravagance.
McGraw is a man who gained some
fame before leaving the Beaumont
police department, which is recog-
more | nized as one of the most modem in
the state. He had aided in tracking
down such criminals as Clyde Barrow
and Raymond Hamilton with his fin-
gerprint expertness. He had estab-
lished himself as a handwriting ex-
pert.
Since going to the state depart-
ment (at a sacrifice in salary) al-
most two years ago, he has testified
in many cases over the state with
handwriting and fingerprint evidence
and he hasn’t testified in a case yet
in which the state has failed to get
a conviction. This new scientific
crime fighting department has be-
come known as an effective agency
because the men in that department
first get the evidence and then pre-
sent a case.
Their efforts have aided police and
sheriffs throughout the state. Law
and order is more in respect in Tex-
as than ever before. Known crimi-
nals are learning to avoid this state
just as they have avoided Beaumont
for many years.
Texans are more secure now. Law
enforcement is more effective be-
cause politics has been removed from
the great centralized state enforce-
ment agency.
four years ago permitting the re-
sumption of the betting.
Undoubtedly, ill effects have fol-
lowed the return of the betting sys-
tem to the state. Bookie shops, in-
deed a rarity before 1933, flourished
all over Texas, and there has been
the bix'th of a gambling mania
throughout the state. Such a situation
is highly undesirable and if the only
way to curb this menace to the- gen-
eral morale of the people was pro-
hibition, then tho govei'nor’s argu-
ment was strong, indeed.
The govei-nor felt, it is plain, that
the vote he received last summer,
considering his announced views on
the question and the woi'ds of the
Democratic platform, was a direct
mandate for him to seek repeal. Balk-
ed by parliamentary maneuvering in
the senate at the regular session,
he availed himself to the same wea-
pons. He called a special session, with
no other measures before it, and thus
forced the senate to act. In thi3
technical battle of wits, his was a
victory.
It was a victory, unfortunately,
at the cost of some friends and of
many hard words and accusations.
It is to be hoped that the feeling en-
gendered by the debate will pass off,
and that future legislative problems
can be approached with more amia-
bility between the upper house and
the chief executive.
Such senators as Weaver Moore
of Houston, who voted against repeal,
unquestionably acted on the firm be-
lief that they were representing
their constituents as those constitu-
ents wished to be represented. There
has been a strong pro-race sentiment
here, and although there never has
been such a thing as a plebiscite on
the subject, the senator from Harris
had every xeason to believe that his
people wanted him to vote against re-
peal. Too, Senator Moore is a liberal,
a xxxan of broad-gauged tendencies
who is sincerely frightened at the
trend toward attempts at legislating
morals into a people.
Other senator’s, no doubt, felt the
same way. The governor, on the other
hand, was equally siixcere in his
stand. The battle has been fought,
the issue decided, and it seems wis-
est now to heal the sores.
The Chronicle believes that those
senator's who accused the governor
of inconsistency did so without giv-
ing him a fair break. Circumstances
during his first term definitely de-
feated him on race appeal. Sentiment
for repeal had not then reached the
point that it had this year.
Nor does The Chronicle believe that
the governor, in taking the natural
leadership which comes to the head of
the Democratic party in Texas, was
trying to make “poodle dogs” out
of the senate. In this state, with its
cne-paxty system, the govex'nor is
not only titular, but actual, head of
the party, and on him lies the re-
sponsibility of trying to get action on
the party’s platform planks. Some-
one has to do some forcing in every
legislative battle. That the governor
was a little more active, publicly, on
this question than on many other vi-
tal subjects, was plain, and the wis-
dom of his personal leadership in the
fight at the regular session may be
questioned. But that he took such
leadership should not be interpreted
as meaning that he sought dictatorial
powers over the legislative body.
There are, now, still many im-
portant problems before the state,
not the least of which is the raising
of revenue necessary for cairying on
the operations of the government,
and once this gambling question isi
out of the way, perhaps the legisla-
ture and executive can approach
these subjects in a give-and-takp
manner.—The Houston Chronicle.
GETTING TIRED
NO RACE BETTING IN TEXAS
The Texas legislatui’e, at the in-
sistancc of Governor Jimmy Allred,
has repealed the law, now on the
statute books, which permits gamb-
ling on horse racing in the Lone Star
state. It required a special session
and a vigorous use of tho gubernato-
rial big stick to get results, but when
the lawmakers finally made up their
minds to take action, they “didn’t
mess around.” As the record shows,
tho repeal forces did a good clean
job in both houses; result, parimuteul
machines arc out for good.
Repeal of the betting permits
means, of course, the end of horse
racing in Texas. It is a sport that
cannot survive without gambling.
Though it be the “sport of kings,” as
some have claimed, it cannot be
healthy pastime. It thrives on crook-
endness and folds up when an honest
effort is made to keep it clean,
let it go. Texas is well rid of the
whole shady business, and the gover-
nor and the lawmakers are to be com-
mended for » good -job.
At one or more points in Texas
ierable sums have been expend-
and the owners of property of thiB
sort will in all probability feel their
losses keenly for the time being. But
the other millions of Texans, includ-
ing the suckers who gamble at the
tracks, will be infinitely better off,
now that the gamble** and the pari- men sent to the legislature is needed on the banana stem.
Stating that Texas old age assis-
tance checks ax-e likely to be pro-
rated soon, and that the Federal
government is I'estive because of the
large number of rolls in Texas, an
Austin correspondent who is an ob-
server of trends and can put his ob-
servations into words, adds that the
pension (as old age assistance is
commonly called) will be the big is-
sue in the next election for governor.
Only too true. And very unfortu-
nate.
For the next governor, whoever he
be, will have very little if anything
to do with the payment of pensions.
The Texas part of it is up to the leg-
islature—to get the money and to
direct its distribution. Tho federal
part of it is up to congress to do
the same thing, and no matter who is
elected governor in Texas he will
have little chance of influencing the
congress in the matter of the old
age assistance or anything else. Nor
should he have. The governor of Tex-
as is, or should be, elected to look af-
ter affairs of this state and let the
president and the congress manage
those of the Union.
The voters will not be convinced
of that. They will vote for the can-
-didate who promises thp most, in res-
pect to pensions, although the candi-
date will never be well aware that he
cannot *piirry out th'
makes, if and when he is elected.
But tho purpose of most candidates
is to get in, and they can then find
excuses plenty for their inability to
do what was promised.
More attention to the calibre of
mutuels have been outlawed. Texas
money will be spent for the necessi-
ties of life—and race-horse gambling
«an not even be classed as a luxury
—The Shreveport Journal.
by Texas voters. Because electing a
governor who promises large and
well-nigh universal pensions is not
p’oino- to get them.—The Paris Morn-
ing News.
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Fed up with policies at the national
capital, and uneasy lest the fish
should stop biting down in Uvalde,
Vice Pi-esident John Nance Garner
is i-eported getting ready to hike out
for home and a vacation before the
end of the month of June. Other lead-
ers of the administi'ation may have
agreed to stay in Washington, and
fight it out along the lines laid down
by Mr. Roosevelt, even if it takes
all .summei'—but not Old Cactus Jack.
He has been through sessions that
lasted into July and August, but
that was in the days when he was
merely a member of the lower hoxxse;
now that he is vice president, and not
inquired to vote except in case of
a tie, he feels he can be spax'ed. The
fish and old cronies are calling, and
he must go. One Washington cor-
respondent reports the president has
already given his permission, with
the understanding that if the vote on
his court reform bill gets too close
for comfort, the vice president will
remain at his post of duty.
So far as the records show, no
other vice president has ever duck-
ed out of a congressional session,
light in the middle of a big battle,
but John Nance Garner is a law
unto himself, and he has no illusions
as to the importance of a vice pres-
ident’s position. If the president
should need him badly, of course,
Garner would return to the capital,
but he has no intention of listening
to the senate argue over trivialties
during the long heated period which
invariably causes Washingtonians to
smother during July, August and
September. No one can blame him
for wanting to go home; indeed there
ere many other senators and repre-
sentatives who would like to get
away for a vacation, on the under-
standing congress would be reconven-
ed in the fall to complete the pres-
ident’s pi-ognim. Mr. Roosevelt, how-
ever, appeal's determined to keep
the law makers in session without
recess, so all that l'emains is for
those who are big enough to defy
the white house to go AWOL. That
is Vice President Gamer’s program,
and just now it seems to him more
important than anything the chief
executive has in mind.
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