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REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
THURSDAY, JUNE I, 1944
Refugio Timely. Remarks
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Entered as second-class matter November 10, 1928, at the post office
at Refugio, Texas, under act of March 3, 1879.
Consolidated with Refugio County News January 1, 1919,
Consolidated with Woodsboro Weekly Times February 1, 1937.
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President’s Committee and “Race” Ads
The following article, in its entirety, is taken from the
latest issue “The Southern Weekly” along with the note of
Editor Peter Molyneaux.
EDITOR’S NOTE—During the past three months we
have been hearing reports of instances of employers in South-
ern communities receiving communications from local repre-
sentatives of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment
Practice ordering them to discontinue advertising for “white”
help or “negro” help, as the case might be. Where we have
been able to verify them, we found the employers unwilling to
permit the use of their names because of fear of administra-
tion reprisal, and we were not willing to publish accounts of
such incidents without printing the names of the parties.
These were instances, let it be understood, in which the em-
ployers were not engaged in war work and did not have Gov-
ernment contracts of any kind. On last Wednesday, it devel-
oped that such a communication had been addressed to The
Dallas Morning News and that The News decided to give the
facts to the public. The account of the incident printed in
the Wednesday morning issue of The News is the best pos-
sible presentation of it that we might provide for our readers.
Accordingly, we reprint it here, together with an editorial
from The News setting forth its position on the whole subject.
From The Dallas Morning News
THE DALLAS NEWS has been requested by Leonard
M. Brin, regional director, President’s Committee on Fair
Employment Practice, not to ask specifically for negroes
when advertising for employees. The offending advertise-
ment appearing in the Help Wanted column under Male (mis-
cellaneous) , and occupying one-half inch of space .read:
WANTED—COLORED MAN
To work at night as paper handler.
Essential industry.
See MARTIN JOSCH, Pressroom,
DALLAS NEWS,
after 7:00 p. m.
Brin said in part in his letter to The News: “The Com-
mittee on Fair Employment Practice, operating under Execu-
tive Order No. 9346, a copy of which is attached, considers
that such advertising is in violation of the order. It limits
applicants to the narrow field described in the advertisement
and automatically bars persons of other race or color from
applying, even though these latter may also possess skills
needed by your establishment.
“You are therefore requested to take immediate steps to
remove from this and from any other advertisement for em-
ployees and features which are discriminatory as to race,
creed, color or national origin. You are further requested to
advise your personal office or hiring agent that they should
disregard such specifications when considering applicants for
employment. This includes the United States Employment
Service.
“The need for using all available man and woman power
during wartime is great, and becoming greater. By planning
along practical lines we believe that there should be no diffi-
culty in utilizing workers on the basis of their skills, or adap-
tability to training, and we believe that you are willing and
anxious to assist in the furtherance of this in the interest of
the total war effort.”
Brin, when called on by a Dallas News reporter in the re-
gional offices of the President’s Committee on Fair Employ-
ment Practices, 1001 Mercantile Bank Building, said he had
received instructions to give no newspaper interviews unless
the questions and1 answers had been approved in Washington.
He suggested that any questions in regard to the plans and
policies in applying and enforcing the Executive order be sub-
mitted in writing, either to him to be forwarded to Washing-
ton or direct to Malcom Ross, chairman of the President’s
Committee on Fair Employment Practice.
Brin was told that he undoubtedly could answer the ques-
tions the reporter had in mind without referring them to
Washington, and that he should be better acquainted with
the local situation than would be a Washington official. Brin
replied that he had definite orders concerning submitting to
interviews.
The management of The News said that the want ad
followed The News’ long established policy of not running ad-
vertising that is discriminatory or misleading.
THE NEWS insists that all advertisements, in addition
to being truthful, be specific and fully informative, the man-
agement stated. The position of The News is that if a mother
wants a white girl to take care of her children that is exactly
what she wants, not a negro, or if she wants a negro, that
also is what she wants, and that this rule holds true in all of
the categories of things wanted as advertised in the want ad
columns.
The News adopted rules several years ago on personal
discrimination. All employees handling advertising were told
to discourage advertisers from using any wording or phrase-
ology that might be considered discriminatory toward any
sect, race or creed, and to refer to the management any such
copy which the advertiser might not be willing so to modify.
No discrimination beyond that recognized by law and custom
Is involved in the usual handling of advertisements differen-
tiating between the white and black races.
The rule book of The News says that “all employment
ads should clearly indicate the nature of the work and condi-
tions of the applicant.” The News holds that not specifying
white or colored for jobs that might be patently for white or
for colored constitutes a very serious form of misleading,
which would result in a lot of lost motion on the part of the
public, loss to the individual or firm advertising.
The News has been criticized at times because a distinc-
tion is not drawn in the classification of many want ads be-
tween the wants of whites and negroes. Negroes can adver-
tise in any or all of the various classifications. This is not
the case with many papers, The News is in formed. There is
one classification: “For Rent to Colored,” which has been
used for years by whites advertising servant quarters for
rent.
The order establishing the President’s Committee on
Fair Employment Practice is a wartime executive order of
the President, not backed by any legislation. Its purpose
ostensibly is to make full use of manpower. Its letters in the
Legal Notices
| duties as a husband and has at all
_ | times treated the defendant with
NOTICE TO THE CREDITOR OF | kindness and respect and has been
THE ESTATE OF LEE WAL-
LACE PRESCOTT, DEC’D.
Notice is hereby given that ori-
ginal letters of administration up-
on the Estate of Lee Wallace Pres-
cott, Deceased, were granted to
guilty of no act bringing about or
causing the hereinafter described
omissions and conditions on de-
fendant’s part. On divers occa-
sions while plaintiff and defend-
ant lived together, the defendant
me, the undersigned, on the 17th ! was guilty of excesses, cruel treat-
day of April, A. D. 1944, by the j ment and outrages toward the
County Court of Refugio County, | plaintiff of such nature as to ren-
Texas. All persons having claims j der their living together insup-
against said estate are hereby re-' portable.
quired to present the same to me,
within the time prescribed by law.
My residence and Post Office ad-
WHEREFORE, premises con-
sidered, plaintiff prays that de-
fendant be cited by publication to
dress is Refugio, Refugio County, t appear and answer this petition,
Texas. I and upon final hearing hereof,
I. B. PRESCOTT, j that the bonds of matrimony here-
Administrator of the Estate of j tofore existing between plaintiff
Lee Wallace Prescott, Deceased, j and defendant be dissolved and
held for naught, and for costs of
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF
THE ESTATE OF LILLIE ST,
JOHN WLLIAMSON
i
Notice is hereby given that ori- j
ginal letters of administration up- j tied.
Court, an for such other and fur-
ther relief, both general and spe-
cial, in law and in equity, to which
he may show himself justly enti-
on the Estate of Lillie St. John
Williamson, Deceased, were grant-
ed to me, the undersigned, on the
2th day of May, 1944, by the County
Court of Refugio County, Texas.
All persons having claims against a. D. 1944.
said estate are hereby required to j (Seal)
present the same to me, within the j District Clerk,
Issued this the 23rd day of May,
A. D. 1944.
Given under my hand and seal
of said Court, at office in Refugio,
Texas, this the 23rd day of May,
time prescribed by law. My rssi-
dence and Post Office address is
Refugio, Refugio County, Texas.
ADA DORSEY,
Executrix of the Estate of
Lillie St. John Williamson, Dec’d.
T. W. McGuill,
Refugio County,
Texas.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF
THE ESTATE OF NORA J.
CLARKSON
KNOW YOUR
BIBLE
(With this issue The Timely Re-
marks inaugurates a new feature,
a weekly Bible Quiz. . Each issue
Notice is hereby given that ori- j will contain a set of ten questions
ginal letters of administration up-1. which shall be answered in every
on the Estate of Nora J. Clarkson, subsequent issue. The study of
Deceased, were granted to me, the j these questions weekly would give
undesigned, on the 15th day of j the Bible student a knowledge of
May, A. D. 1944, by the County 520 Bible facts per year. Readers
Court of Refugio County, Texas., are invited to submit their own
All persons having claims against Bible questions or other Scripture
said estate are hereby required to j contributions. Address them to
present the same to me, within the ; the undersigned in care of the
time prescribed by law. My resi- j Editor.)
dence and Post Office address is Re-
fugio, Refugio County, Texas.
Christina Clarkson Cooper,
Executrix of the Estate of Nora
J. Clarkson, Deceased.
Set 1
1. What beggar was laid at a
rich man’s gate?
2. What is the name of the first
wood mentioned in the Bible?
3. Who delivered Joseph from
the hands of his brethren?
4. Why were Adam and Eve
driven out of Paradise?
5. How large was the Christian
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Perry re-
The plaintiff’s Origi- i turned lagt Friday from Fort
nal Petition was filed on the 29th
day of April, A. D. 1944. The na-
ture of the suit is as follows:
That plaintiff has been a bona
fide inhabitant of the State of
Texas for a period of Twelve (12)
months, and has resided in Refu-
gio County, Texas, for a period
of six (6) months, next preceding
the filing of this petition herein/
The plaintiff and defendant
were lawfully married in Marshall,
Ilinois, on or about the 11th day
of November, 1920, and lived to-
gether as husband and wife until
on or about the 1st day of Novem-
ber, A. D. 1941.
At all times while married to de-
fendant, the plaintiff conducted
himself with propriety, doing his
TECHNICAL TALKS by W. R. Hounsell
FORKS IN THE ROAD
THE STATE OF TEXAS
TO: GEORGIA McDANIEL
GREETING: You are command-
ed to appear and answer the Orig-
inal Petition of the plaintiff in the
hereinafter described and num- church on the day of Pentecost?.*,
bered suit, at or before 10:00 a. m. j 6- What man did Jesus save
of the first Monday after the ex- I ^rora drowning ?
piration of Forty-two (42) days ; 7. What were the dimensions of
from the date of the issuance of j Noah’s ark ?
this citation, the same being Mon. j Wlmt; man lived to be the
day, the 10th day of July, A. D. | oldest?
1944, at or before 10:00 a. m. be-1 W*10 was the
fore the Honorable District Court | niurderer ?
at Refugio County, Texas, at the
Court House in the Town of Refu-
gio, Texas, in cause No. 2734,
styled Harley McDaniel vs. Geor-
gia McDaniel, pending in the j
District Court of Refugio Coimty, !
Texas, where Harley McDaniel is
plaintiff and Georgia McDaniel is
defendant
world’s first
10. What was Samson’s riddle?
Refugio, Texas
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Rev. Martin C. Lopahs
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PERRYS ATTEND
UNUSUAL REUNION
Worth, where they had been since
Mother’s Day with his mother,
Mrs. W. M. Perry, at the home of
his sister, Mrs. G. T. Leonard.
The elder Mrs. Perry, who is 83,
had the pleasure of having all
nine of her children, 12 of her
19 grandchildren, and all nine of
the great-grandchildren present
for a Mother’s Day reunion.
INSURANCE
FIRE •WIND • AUTO
FRANK M. WOOD
REFUGIQ.TEXAS
forms of requests have gone to firms with war contracts or
engaged in other essential businesses.
THE DALLAS Better Business Bureau Bulletin of last
March 27 carried the contents of a letter received by a Dallas
firm from Brin concerning advertising that Brin said was dis-
criminatory. The Bulletin article was headed: “Dallas Ad-
vertisers for Essential Industry Must Eliminate Color Discri-
mination—Says Committee!”
The laws of Texas as approved by the Supreme Courts
of Texas and of the United States permit and require segre-
gation of white and negro races as applied to many activities,
legal authorities have informed The News. It is their’ belief
that any executive order ought to be applied in the light of
State segregation laws and embedded social practices.
In addition the these legal requirements of segregation,
a practice of segregation exists in the Southern States that
is of long standing and is widely approved by negroes and
whites alike as aiding in satisfactory relations between the
two races. Because of that practice, which is a part of the
social structure, employers want whites for some jobs and
negroes for others. Whites choose to work in some jobs and
not in others, and negroes likewise. An advertisement
Which ignores that difference is considered confusing and
misleading.
The want ad to which the President’s Committee on Fair
Employment Practice objected was run in The News by The
News management a second time on May 10. A negro man
was employed on that day, causing the ad to be discontinued.
From ancient times, man has
been confronted with the problem
of converting chemical-heat of
combustion, into power or mech-
anical-energy. The chemical com-
bustion of the food he eats pro-
duces the strength and energy of
his body. Chemical combustion
produces the enormous power of
dynamite, of all engines and elec-
tric generators, unless they be op-
ated from natural power produced
by the wind and water falls.
So far, the conversion of chemi-
cal heat into final-work-done, by
means of man made engines, is a
very inefficient process. The av-
erage steam-locomotive has a
thermal-efficiency of about 10 per
cent. This means that over 80
power and mileage. The average
gasoline starts to boil at about
100 degrees Fahrenheit, and is all
boiled away at 400 degrees Fah-
renheit. Water, at average at-
mospheric pressure starts to boil
at 212 degees Fahrenheit and is
all boiled away at the same tem-
perature of 212 degrees Fahren-
heit. This would show that water
is a pure, single compound, and
gasoline is a mixture of several
compounds called hydrocarbons,
each having a definite and distinct
boiling point of it’s own, just as
water has.
Some of these hydrocarbon liq-
uids have high octane values,
while others have low octane val-
ues. For example, /two of these
per cent of the heat of combustion j liquidSi although cl0Se together in
of the fuel, is dissipated by cooling j boiling point range_ may haTe 100
octane-rating, and zero octane-
rating respectively. A gasoline
having as low an octane value as
and friction.
Thus arises the cause for all the
present research work on engines,
by engineers, to more efficiently
utilize the present-day fuel; and
on the fuels, by chemists, to make
them more suitable for present-
day engines.
This of course brings about a
healthy competition between engi-
neer and chemist, one claiming he
is always far ahead of the other.
The definition of a Chemical Engi-
neer is an old one and rather
amusing; “he is an engineer when
talking to a chemist, but he is a
chemist when talking to an engi-
neer.”
With regard to the specific case
of future transport engines, which
include locomotives, automobiles,
ships and airplanes; engineers and
chemists are working together on
metals, fuels and lubricants.
Taking the transport-engine by
itself, it seems quite likely that
our future automobiles may run
renheit; but, the octane-value of
Hexane is zero, while that of Iso-
Octane is 100. They cannot be
separated profitably by any pres-
ent-day large-scale refinery equip-
ment.
....So much for the physical prop-
erties of gasoline and fEs Compo-
nent hydrocarbons. The petro-
leum chemist has known for a long
time that these hydrocarbons have
structural formulas that look like
a long chain of carbon atoms with
single hydrogen atoms attached,
one on each side of every link in
the chain, and one hydrogen on
each end of this chain.
The high-octane hydrocarbons,,
either look as though the hydro-
gens have been removed from the
ends of the chain, and then the
chain fastened end for end to form
a circle (cyclic-compounds); or, as
though one or more small pieces
of chain have been broken off
(with the hydrogens still tied to
the links) and again attached
somewhere along the side of the
original chain (side-choin or iso-
compounds).
Since physical separation by
50, may contain hydrocarbons distillation is so very difficult, the
with octane ratings as high as 110,
but unfortunately the zeros and
lower octanes have lowered it’s
average value to 50.
On the face of it, the solution of
this problem seems simple, but
such is not the case, not even theo-
retically. The high-octane com-
ponents of gasoline do not distill
off as a series of gradually in-
creasing boiling points, and there-
fore, neither do the low-octane
components. They are so inti-
mately mixed together by their
partial vapor-pressures, and their
other physical propeties such as
specific-gravity and boiling point
are so close together, that they
have only been isolated in the re-
search laboratory, after months of
repetitious distillation and rectifi-
cation.
Must one example of the close
chemist has tried to convert the
long single-chains into either cyc-
lic, or into side-chain compounds.
He has partially succeeded in do-
ing this,*and so has only partially
converted low-octane into high-
octane gasoline, by a variety of
modern “cracking” methods. An-
other enormous field of endeavor
for the future researcher.
So now we must wait and see
whether the engineer will revolu-
tionize our transportation with his
new turbine engine, or whether
the chemist will produce a super-
fuel, or whether we will come to
the forks of indecision oh the road
to future progress.
____
ADDING MACHINE RIBBONS
—For R. C. Allen, Corona, Rem-
ington, Burroughs, Sundstrand,
Victor $1 each.
Timely Remarks.
case of Hexane and Iso-Octane.
Hexane has a boiling point of
208 degrees Fahrenheit, and Iso-
Octane boils at 210 degrees Fah-
more smoothly and efficiently . , .
than at present, and yet no thave ; P™ximity of boiling points, and
any pistons, piston-rods, crank I‘He distance between the octane
shafts, tappets or sparkplugs, ’values of tw0 of these gaso me
while using fuel-oil or coal instead components, might be cited m the
of gasoline. Engines using the
new gas-turbine principle, are be-
ing used today in Switzerland in
railroad locomotives. Locomo-
tives and marine engines have
been designed in this country, us-
ing this same turbine principle, by
the General Electric Company and
a few others.
On the other hand, it may be
such a long time before metals
and lubricants can be made to
withstand the high pressure and
temperature necessary to efficien-
cy. that tne chemists will continue
to work on super-fuels for air-
plane engines, of the reciprocating
type.
Gasoline therefore, may be used
in airplane transportation for a
long time, and that is why so
much work is being done on im-
proving this fuel. The higher the
octane-value of gasoline, the high-
er the efficiency, measured in
Dr. W. E. Gillespie
Physio-Therapist
Second Door North of Ice Plant
Phone 4 Woodsboro, Texas
DAWGWOOD — FOR SALE
OR EXCHANGE
Will sell, or exchange for small ranch, or farm, the
property in Town of Refugio known as DAWGWOOD,
being the West half of Block 61; together with all fur- *
| niture and furnishings and libraries (excepting heir- *
| looms and personal items). *
| HOBART HUSON |
a •§*
THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...
“I can’t think Of anything else you’ll need
for your Victory garden, Judge... you’ve
got pretty nearly everything.”
“I think so, too, John. Ever get your
asparagus patch going?”
“I gave that up last year, Judge. Tried it
six years in a row with no luck. Just haven’t
got the right soil, I guess?”
“Well, I think you’re wise, John...no
use keeping on trying things you know won’t
work. Just like prohibition. State-wide pro-
hibition has been tried in this country
seventy-two times in the last ninety years.
It has been adopted forty-seven times in
the past thirty-three years and discarded
everywhere except in three stales. Same
thing was tried in eight provinces in
Canada and in Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Russia but it was an admitted failure
and universally abandoned.
“The reason is prohibition doss not
prohibit. All you get is bootleg liquor in-
stead of legal liquor, plus no end of crime
and corruption.”
This advertisement sponsored by Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc.
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