The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1940 Page: 6 of 8
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PAGE SIX
McGREGOR MIRROR, McGREGOR, TEXAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1940
CIVILIZATION WILL PERISH
UNLESS MEN LEARN TO LIVE
TOGETHER SAYS COMPTON
“Either people will learn to
live together or civilization will
perish from the face of the earth”
declared Dr. Arthur Holly Comp-
ton, eminent iphysisicist and
Nobel Prize winner, in the cur-
rent Rotarian Magazine. “This
is not sentiment, but fact—the
basis of fact, with the world’s
culture, science, education, pros-
perity and social welfare at
stake.
“The story of the millennium is
being written now,” thinks Dr.
Compton. In his article,
“Science Is Not Enough,” he
does not minimize the present
conflict and its potentialities for
widespread devastation, but sug-
gest that it like others will pass.
He praises todays almost univer-
sal education which has taught
men the folly of ignorance and
the pestilences it breeds. “It is
vital that we go forward resist-
lessly with teaching, learning, ex-
perimenting, investigating, in-
venting, preparing the way for
the onward march of mankind.
But with it must go progress in
the art of living together.
Political
Announcements
Made subject to the action
of the Democratic Primary to
be held on July 27, 1940.
“Science, alone, is not enough
Goodwill to all men, old in state-
ment, but ever new in significan-
ce, is the vital spark needed to-
day. If such goodwill is absent
as men become more and more
dependent upon each other, we J
can only expect increase of vic-
ious strife. Hostilities pile up
between nations, business and
government, labor and capita1;.
As men divide into antagonistic
groups, science and technology
may become terribly destructive
he reasons.
Yet Dr. -Compton is not pessi-
mistic. Few men, he thinks, want
the war now darkening the
world. “I believe that progress
has been made, that the world is,
through science and moral agenc-
ies working together, acquiring a
higher standard of morality in
spite of industrial strife, wars
and other throwbacks. I believe
that if we continue on the basis
of research and goodwill, courag-
eously seeking and applying both
scientific and moral truths, the
bonds of empire will be extended
far beyond anything we can now
forsee,” the famed scientist de-
clares.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
TEA LAST THURSDAY
For Congress (11th Cong. Dist.)1
W. R. (Bob) POAGE
(Re-election)
0. H. CROSS
For Sheriff
W. B. MOBLEY
JOHN DUNCAN
(Re-election)
JIM D. McCLAIN
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 4
WINN W. NICHOLS
(Re-election)
For Constable, Precinct No. 5
BILLIE WHEAT
(Re-election)
Again it was the privilege this
year of the ladies ■of the town to
attend thd Gdorge Washington
tea in the very lovely home of
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Mann, last
Thursday afternoon, February
22nd., with the Methodist ladies
as hostesses.
Kreyer’s orchestra furnished
music throughout the hours uf
calling and the tea was beautiful
ly dispensed from a lace laid
table with gorgeous settings.
Mrs. A. C. Amsler presided at the
tea service, while Mrs. Irby Cobb,
of Austin, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Mann, poured the coffee.
This is always an annual af-
fair and this home with its spac-
ious and stately rooms create an
atmosphere of charm and loveli-
ness.
CITY ELECTION IN APRIL
For Mayor •
N. R. LEGG
For Commissioners
G. W. LEE (re-election)
I-I. P. MANSKE
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February 23, 1940.
Dear Friends:
The tariff question is almost
as old as the United States of
America. As tariffs have been
increased industry has strength-
ened itself at the expense -of agri-
culture. As industry has become
strong it has secured higher and
even higher tariffs; finally, cul-
minating in the outrageous Smoot
Hawley tariff of 1930. This ta-
riff resulted in the immediate en-
actment of retaliatory tariffs
against the United States by most
of the nations of the world. The
result was that not 'only did the
tariff act to keep practielaly all
imports out Of the United States,
but it ke(pt our exports out of the
nations of the world as well. We
were unpleasantly reminded of
the fact that we can’t continue
to expect to sell our products to
other nations and refuse to buy
any of their products.
If a Central Texas farmer pro-
duces a bale of cotton and that
cotton is ultimately sent to France
both the vital productive ele-
ments 'of American soil and the
time or labor of American citi-
zens—the very lives of human
beings—have gone into the cotton
and are carried with the cotton
out of our country. Unless Am-
erica gets in return something
that can be used—something that
represents at least an equal com-
bination *of natural and human
resources, America is poorer by
reason of having exported the
cotton. But if we receive in re
turn for the cotton which re-
quired, let us say 250 man-hours
of human labor, some useful ar-
ticle that production of which in
this country would have required
more than 250 man-hours of hu-
man labor, as for instance a case
of French sardines, then Ameri-
ca has been benefited by the
trade. And if the article sent to
America in exchange for the cot-
ton could have been produced in
France for less than 250 man-
hours uf human labor, then both
nations profited by the exchange
and the people of each nation
will be able to enjoy a higher
standard of living with the same
expenditure of human labor,
(life.)
This is the fundamental reason
for trade—the exchange of goods
between people *011 a basis which
enables each party t0 the ex-
change to acquire more of the de-
sirable things of life than he
could acquire if he were to under-
' produce everything he
needed for himself. We readily
recognize the advantage among
individuals. On it depends all
specialization of production. It
enables one man to grow cotton,
another bee! another to make
cloth, etc., and by exchange of
goods between them each one of
them has more of all of the need-
ed goods than would be possible
if each family attempted to pro-
duce and fabricate every article
needed by that family. In other
words, trade lets each individual
and each locality Specialize in the
article he or it can produce with
the least expenditure of effort.
The same relationship exists
among nations. We need trade
if we are to raise the standard
of living. Each part of the world
should produce those articles it
can produce with less expendi-
ture of human lit© (labor) than
any other section, and should de-
pend upon trade with other na-
tions for those things which ’other
nations produce more efficiently.
In this way everybody the world
over would have more of the
goods he needs. It is possible to
grow rubber in Texas, but it is
nut practicable (it would proba-
bly have to be grown under
glass. Is it not, therefore, better
for Texas and the United States
t0 produce cotton, oil and cattle,
and trade these things for the
rubber, coffee and tin that we
need than to attempt to folloAV
the European effort to become
“self sufficient”? To become
self sufficient, any nation must
he willing to sacrifice a tremend-
ous portion of the effectiveness of
its human labor—in other words,
it must be willing to force its
1 people to do a great amount of
• useless labor and thereby to low-
er its standard of living.
The protective tariff system of
the Republicans sacrificed the
American living standard by de-
j straying the opportunity for our
farmers to exchange their pro-
ducts for the greatest possible
amount of useable goods. The
present Administration, on the
other hand, has sought to in some
measure restore our. markets by
working out reciprocal trade
treaties with various foreign na-
tions whereby we lower our
tariffs 011 the goods we need
from those countries and they
lower their tariffs on goods that
they need from the United States.
This plan is not as rapid in its
working as many would like, but
it avoids the serious economic up-
sets that would of necessity fol-
low a complete and immediate re-
versal of our tariff policy. As I
see it, this plan is practicable
and offers the greatest possible
benefit t0 all parties. Certainly
it offers some hope for the recap-
ture of lost foreign markets, and
it assures America that we will
get actual useable goods that will
help our people in return for the
American products we export,
The House has just voted 216 to
168 to continue this sound policy.
I voted for the reciprocal trade
policy as did most of the Demo-
crats. With best wishes, I am
Your friend,
W. R. POAGE.
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public an analysis of what its em-
ployes do with their $120,000,000
monthly wages, reported Satur-
day that $50,000,000, or 42 per
cent, went for food:
It is reported that the rest was
spent approximately:
$24,000,000. 20 per cent, for
housing.
?$12„000,000, 10 per cent, for
household expenditures, as heat,
light, gas, ice and supplies.
$11,000,000, 9 per cent,
clothing. jL ,
$6,000,000, 5 per cent, for trafi&f
portation.
$5,000,000, 4 per cent, for med-
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$12,000,000, 10 per cent, for
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