Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 134, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 25, 1937 Page: 2 of 4
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The Dally Times Has the largest Mt. Pleasant Circulation of Any Newspaper
Wednesday Evening, August 25,1937
(IT. PLEASANT DAILl TIMES |
Published daily
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Saturday by
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fffaM Review "PublUhin# Compa"^
G. W. CROSS. Editor
HUGH C. CROSS. Ai»i*t»nt Ea»or
Entered as second class mail matter at
fee Post Office at Mt. Pleasant, lexas
■Oder the Act of Congress. March i, 187.).
'Any erroneous reflection upon the char-
acter, standing or reputation of any per-
son or concern which may appear in the
columns of this pat er will be gladly cor-
lected when brought to the attention of
the publisher.
Obituaries, resolutions of respect and
*rds of thanks will be charged for at
Uvular advertising rates.
“The merry-go-round broke down"
Py Carrier 40c per month
By Mail. $2.5# per year in
aA joining counties; elsewhere, $4.#0.
Titus and
TEXAS’ ATTITUDE TOWARD
LABOR
(Denton Record-Chronicle)
The attitude of most Texans
toward the organization of labor
unions in this State has been
pretty well expressed by Gov-
ernor Allred in his recent actions
and statements in connection with
the efforts of labor unions to in-
crease their membership. Three
months ago he was severely criti-
cized by CIO leaders for his
statement that Texas wouldn’t
tolerate sit-down strikes at a time
when these strikes were paralyz-
ing many of the large industrial
plant sof the North and East. Two
months ago he again was criti-
cised by labor for sending rang-
ers to Fort Worth to prevent the
recurrence of violence in the
strike of gas company employes.
But now the shoe is on the
other foot. Following the out-
break in Dallas when a union or-
gainizer was beaten and a social-
ist lecturer oiled and feathered,
the State Department of Public
Safety sent 25 rangers to that city
to protect organizers from hood-
lums and ruffians. So far, no
other violence has occurred, and
the representatives of the same
unoin which heaped invective on
the Governor for his criticism of
sit-down strikes are being as-
sured of their constitutional right
to peaceable assembly.
The right to join any union of
their choice is being protected
in Texas, and likewise, those em-
ployes who don’t want to be
coerced into joining a union or
striking are protected, as was the
case in the Fort Worth gas strike,
Texas will not tolerate" the re-
peated violence that has charac-
terized labor troubles in other
sections of the country.
priated for tourist advertising by J
I states this year. It finds that I
! twenty-eight states have spent ]
j approximately $2,000,000 this j
j year seeking to lure the vacation- i
j 1st into their various places of
I recreation and scenic beauty.
' This advertising paid rich
l' dividends this year. There has
I probably been the greatest vol-
ume of tourist business in his-
tory, due to ever better high-
I ways, better motor cars and—
most important of all—the fact
that quite a few people were able
to take vacations this year for
the first time since depression
started.
Professional Advertisements *
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OPENS SCHOOL FOR
CHINESE
PITTSBURG, (INS)—Eight years
ago Gilbert Pow-Sam Lee, 26,
left Canton, China to seek an
education in the Western world.
Today he has an A. B. degree
from Duquesne University, earn-
ed by working his way through
college by teaching English to
Chinese-American tots. He teach-
es in a quaint one-room school
in the Chinese district.
OHIO ENACTS RACIAL LAW
COLUMBUS, O., (INS)—Under
a newly-enacted Ohio statute it
is unlawful for stores in this
state to discriminate against
prospective customers because of
race or color and air lines must
accord the races equal treat-
ment, Refusal of a Cleveland
ladies’ wear house to sell mer-
chandise to a negro woman led
to passage of the law.
That “I”
The newcomer knocked on the
pearly gates and St. Peter’s voice
called “Who’s there?”
“It is I,” answered the new-
comer.
‘Well, get out. We don’t want
any more school teachers.”
INEPT ILLUSTRATION
Selection of Thomas Babing-
ton Macaulay as a predecessor
of the people who today are op-
posing some of the measures the
president advocates was unfor-
tunate, to say the least. How-
ever, as few people nowadays
are familiar with Lord Macaulay
and his career as the outspoken
champion of the common people,
the damage to the president’s
standing as a user of apt illustra-
tions and phrases will not suffer
greatly, if at all.
What appears to have roused
the president’s ire was the sen-
tence in Macaulay’s letter, writ
ten in 1857 to a friends in United
States, in which he said, “Either
some Caesar or Napoleon will
seize the reins of government
with a strong hand, or your Re
public will be laid waste by bar-
barians in the twentieth cen-
tury.”
Neither of the things has come
to pass, but the twentieth cen-
tury has near two-thirds its life
yet to run, and even Mr. Roose
velt cannot deny that the tem-
per of the people today is giving
color to Macaulay’s prediction
in a mild way. Mr. Roosevelt is
not a Caesar or Napoleon but
there are many pretty good peo-
ple who believe he would be the
equivalent of one had he been
THIS DATE IN
NEWS of PAST
•■piled fcy Clark Kinnaird: Copyright
BJ International News Service
Wednesday, August 25
Years Ago Today—Paul Red-
ook off at Brunswick, Ga.,
azil. He was never found.
—New Orleans was found-
French.
-Baltimore and Washing-
c.iroad was opened.
21 — War between United
"> and Germany ended of-
/, with signing of treaty of
— United States made
rotest to Russian Soviet
mt over Communist ac-
this country in “flajtr
' Russian pled
given everything he has asked
for.
There are no barbarians in this
day of the sort Macaulay had in
mind, but there are others under
different names who if allowed
to continue their tactics may not
lay waste to the country but who
will take it far on that road. The
unbridled arrogance of the CIO
leaders, the freedom allowed com-
munist and facist and nazi agi-
tators, if continued, cannot but
result in the condition, or near
the condition, foreseen by the
English historian.
nery Bill is enacted and its pro- erners of gainful employment in
visions applied, thousands of | factory and field certainly do
Negro workers who earn a meag- j not operate to increase that in-
Duchess Ducks
er but adequate living will be
thrust on relief rolls. They will
be among friends, for they will
join thousands of their race who
were evicted from tenant farms
by the cotton reduction program
of the AAA, another “Negro
Riddance Act.”
What is conveniently ignored
by politically minded social re-
formers, who are too busy de-
ploring the plight of the South-
ern laborer to inquire into the
Citing Macaulay was one of the j reasons for it, is that lower wages
few tactical errors the President
has committed.—Ex.
NEGRO RIDDANCE ACT
C. W. Rice, editor of the “Negro
Labor News” of Houston, ef-
fectively injects the race issue
into the controversy over the
Black-Connery Bill. Declaring
that “the wage and hour bill is
fraught with more danger for
the Negro worker than any other
legislative act”, he likens the
proposed legislation to the NRA,
which he describes pithily as the
“Negro Riddance Act”, because
during the period of its opera-
tion countless thousands of!
Negroes lost gainful employment.
The opposition of this Negro j
editor is wellfounded, and de-
spite the fact that the Black-
Connery Bill is a grave threat
to Southern employment among
all races he is perhaps correct in
his contention that the Negro:
worker would suffer most acute-
ly. The bill is an audacious at-
tempt to prescribe minimum
wages and conditions of labor,
and certainly Negro employment
is heavier in those industries in j
the South which would face ex-
tinction through the enactment
of usch legislation than it is in j
those industries which could j
conform to the board’s edicts.
If and when the Black-Con-1
in the South simply reflect the
lesser share of the national income
which the South receives. And
measures which deprive South-
come. An eloquent public opin-
ion may yet perceive the truth,
and work out a “riddance act”
of its own.—Dale Miller in Texas
Weekly.
GETTING THE TOURISTS
From Greenville Banner
A little bit tardily, perhaps,
the various states of the union
are beginning to realize the im-
portance of tourist business and
the proper method of getting it
—by advertising.
The Council of State Govern-
ments has just completed a sur-
vev of officials aopro-
UUST HIIMAMS
By GENE CARR
“I’M Give You Boys a Nickel If You Stop Fighting!”
“Give th’ Winner a Quarter an* It’s a Go!”
DudMM of Windsor
While watching her husband, the
Duke of Windsor, play a round of
golf at Salzburg. Austria, the for-
mer Wallis Warfield was surprised
by the cameraman and snapped
In an informal pose.
THIMBLE THEATRE, STARRING POPEYE NOW SHOWING—“Ladies In Black”
CLElAND
Optometrist
MT PLEASANT,TEX
ROY L. BARER
SINGER REPRESETATIVE
New and Used Sewing Machines,
Vacuum Cleaner* and Electric
Irons. For FREE Demonstration
Call 398-W
Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Singer Sewing
Machines
Have 25 good bargains. Will
trade for cows and hogs.
Genuine Singer Parts, Needles,
Oil, Belts, Repair any makes.
All work guaranteed. Come to
see me at Charley Driggers’
Store.
J. H. BROOKS
Telephone No. 425
LET’S FIX IT!
Servwel Welding
Works
Electric & Acetylene
Hard Facing Our Specialty
Washington & Alabama Sts. 1
Willard Batteries*
(Exclusive Agency)
If your Battery needs R*p»»H«g
—we can do it.
Mt. Pleasant Battery
Company
Day Phone 228 - Night Phone 408j
Agan & Patterson
Loreeo Gasoline, Koolmotor
Oil, Acme Tires and Tubes
NEW EQUIPMENT
Jefferson and Fifth Streets
South Jefferson Gulf
Station
W. R. Presley, Prop.
Gas, Oils, Candies, Cold Drinks
S. Jefferson and E. Alabama
Washing and Greasing a Specialty
Broadway Service
Station
Cities Sendee and Loreeo
Products
A power wash and ride Improv-
ing Lubrication on your car $1.25
24 Hour Service Phone 10
Magnolia Products
Washing and Lubrication
Prompt, Courteous Service
Lloyd Agan
North Jefferson & Sixth
Phone 141
COOK CABINET
SHOP
Covers for chairs,
couches and room
suits. Furniture re-
paired, cabinets,
screen, window and
door frames.
We do particular work for par-
ticular people.
Sinclair Service
Staton
FRANK OUSLEY, Owner
North Jefferson St.
Most Complete Washing and
Greasing Racks.
GUARANTEED SATISFACTION
Phone 36
‘‘Service With a Smile”
ENLARGEMENT FREE
We will make one enlargement
free from each roll of films de-
veloped at our studios.
PRAYTOR’S STUDIOS
Highway 1, West of Tow
WILLIAMS
HUMBLE SERVICE
24-Hour Service
Southeast Corner Square
MANSFIELD TIRES
Unconditional for 3 to 18 nrrnths
P. A. WILLIAMS, Prop.
Free Road Service--Phone 222
IF YOUR RADIO IS SICK
CALL
A. M. GADDIS
AT
COKER ELECTRIC SHOP
McCLINTON RADIO
& ELECTRIC
Radio and Refrigeration Service,
Comfort Cooling by Attic
Vei itilati
PHONE 490 and 98
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS
JOHN ENNIS
USED PARTS
A general line ol new and used
parts for all make cars.
We pay top prices for old au-
tomobiles, radiators and
batteries.
North Mt. Pleasant
FLOOR SANDING
New and modern machine and
equippment. Work done at reas*v
onable prices. ^
Wayne Bankhead
I Wright & Simpson
National Tires, unconditionally
guaranteed.
Road Runner Anti-Knock
Gasoline
Southland Batteries and Tubes
and other Accessories
Road Service
Phone 212
Brrgains in residence lots. Call
A. S. Mitchell Co., Phone 233 tf
Ouch!
From West Seattle (Wash.)
News: “William R. Logan de-
parted on a three weeks’ trip
to the East Wednesday. He was
accompanied by his bitter half
as far as Chicago.”
New Tonsor Shop
EXPERT BARBER SERVICE
New Equipment, Comfortable
lounging chairs. Tub and shower
baths.
FRANK J. BERNARD. Manager
Dr. J. B. Ferrell
Office 102—Phone—Res. vl
Optometrical Specialist in Cor-
recting Errors of Refraction, and
all Muscle Conditions of the Eyes.
Office Over First National Bank
Mt. Pleasant, Texas
AUTO REPAIRING AND
WRECKER SERVICE
Goolsby Garage
“We Never Close"
All Work Guaranteea
WALLACES
GULF STATION
West First Street
Most complete washing and greas-
ing. Power washer, -gun and
vacuum cleaner—Phone 184.
“We Get the Job Done.”
Road Service.
R. H. MEADOWS
HARDWARE
You will find a complete line of
Hardware and Household Needs.
China Ware and Crystal Ware
Prices are always Right
By Segar
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