The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 61, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 16, 1933 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
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CHEAP PARTISANSHIP
(Houston Post)
That was a rather “small” thing
to do—changing the name of the
great dam now in process of con-
struction in Black canyon of the Colo-
rado river from Hoover dam to Boul-
der dam. One would have thought
that Secretary Ickes of the interior
department could have found more
important things to do than to de-
prive former President Hoover of the
honor of having his name perpetu-
ated in a great public work. We quite
agree with Will Rogers that Ickes’
action in this matter is the silliest
thing the new administration in
Washington has done. It certainly is
not characteristic of President Roose-
velt.
A blunder has been made in car-
rying the partisan spirit to such an
extreme. The American people are
too good sports to approve of this
attempt to strike at Mr. Hoover after
he has left public office.
Roosevelt dam on Salt river and
Coolidge dam on the Gila river, each
making possible the development of
great irrigation systems in Arizona,
were named in honor of President
Theodore Roosevelt and President Cal-
vin Coolidge, . respectively. Those
great projects were authorized dur-
ing the administrations of the presi-
dents for whom the dams were named.
It is true that the dam in Black
canyon was ai<tho(rized during the
Coolidge administration, but the final
details of the enterprise were work-
ed out during the Hoover administra-
tion, and work on the project was
begun under his administration. He
was fairly entitled to the honor of
having his name perpetuated in that
great public work. Secretary Ickes’
decree that the dam henceforth shall
be known as Boulder dam is a mis-
nomer, for the reason that the 750-
foot barrier is not in Boulder can-
yon, where it was originally intend-
ed it should be located, but in Black
canyon.
Mr. Hoover may not have been a
great statesman or an effective poli-
tical leader, but few even of his ene-
mies begrudge him his reputation of
being a great engineer. There cer-
tainly could be no sound objection to
associating the name of Hoover with
a great engineering project, espe-
cially when the enterprise is one in
which Mr. Hoover’s home state of
California has a primary interest.
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(Dallas News)
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Little Pansy Peavish says the rea-
son her parents are having a fuss is
because mamma locked papa’s trou-
sers in the closet to keep him from
going to the ball game, and when she
got back home from the bridge party
he was sitting on the front porth in
his B. V. D.’s.
Civilization is believed to be a con-
structive force, especially at battle-
ship building.
One reason why we don’t like
ghosts is that they seem to have
nothing to do but scare people.
A West Dallas widow says the rea-
son she broke with her last finance
was’ because he was so kind to his
folks he never came to see her with-
out bringing his little brother.
It may get so some time that bottle
babies will be weaned on 3.2 beer.
The recently assassinated Presi-
dent of Peru left an estate amounting
to $30. He must have financed a
newspaper organ.
SUSPICION
(Indianapolis News)
Some of these days even the utility
companies may begin to suspect that
their customers are not wholly satis-
fied with things as they are.
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DOOMED TEXAN SENDS
FIFTH MOTHER’S DAY
GREETINGS FROM CELL
DALLAS, May 15.—For the fifth
consecutive year a graying mother
in a Tennessee farm home has re-
ceived a mother’s day greeting from
x devoted son who sits in death row
in the shadow of Texas’ electric chair.
Sunday, Mrs. Matilda Hunt, 55, re-
ceived a telegram at her home near
Beach Bluff, Tenn., which assured
her that her son, Dewey Hunt, had
not forgotten her during his years
ff torturous waiting while attorneys
jattled for his life. Each night dur-
ing those long years the brave little
mother has prayed for her son’s de-
liverance.
“You spanked me, you loved me
and you taught me what was right,”
read the message sent from the coun-
ty jail here. “So it isn’t your fault
I am not president of the United
States or something worth while.
But you know I love you and I am
nappy to tell you so again this
mother’s day.”
The United States supreme court
ias been asked to intervene and be-
ore another mother’s day passes he
probably will know his fate for the
alleged slaying of a street car motoy-
man here.
SENATE CONVENES
AS IMPEACHMENT
COURT FOR JUDGE
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Grave
and unaccustomedly silent, the sen-
ate sat as a court of impeachment
Monday to consider charges that Fed-
eral Judge Harold Louderback of Cal-
ifornia should be stripped of his judi-
cial robes.
Louderback, intently following
opening arguments of the house man-
agers for the prosecution and his own
attorneys for the defense, in his chair
behind a low table in the senate well
neard it said that he had destroyed
;he faith of the people of Northern
California in the courts by improper
appointment of receivers.
James H. Hanley of defense coun-
sel asked the senatorial jurors not
to try the jurist on surmise or sus-
picion, adding “we expect to show
chat there is not one syllable in any
of the articles of impeachment on
which Judge Louderback ought to be
removed from office.”
Five charges were voted by the
house in the impeachment indictment
on which the jurist is standing trial.
All involve selection of receivers.
They were reviewed briefly by Chair-
man Sumners of the house judiciary
committee in opening the case for the
prosecution.
Sumners, for the house, charged
che. judge allowed fees entirely out
of proportion to the services render-
ed in a receivership involving the
Russell-Colvin Brokerage Co., of San
Francisco and that he appointed Guy
H. Gilbert of that city, whom he de-
scribed as a telegraph operator, a re-
ceiver in several cases without evi-
dence to indicate he had any familiar-
ity with business transactions.
BOYCOTT OF GERMAN
PRODUCTS IS STARTED
NEW YORK, May 15.—An organi-
zation to effect a boycott of German
products in this country was set up
Sunday at a meeting sponsored by the
American league for the defense of
Jewish rights, which said some 300
organizations were represented.
A national council was formed of
delegates from all the organizations
represented at the session and sub-
committees were organized to enlist
professional, trade and commercial
groups in the movement.
Isaac Allen, grand master of the
Sons of Zion, presided. The speak-
ers included James W. Gerard, form-
er ambassador to Germany; Henry T.
Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati;
former Representative F. H. La Guar-
dia and Samuel Untermyer.
The independent order of Brith
Abraham, adopted a resolution call-
ing upon the president and other gov-
ernment officials to “let the official
voice of America be heard to protest
against the persecution and discrim-
ination perpetrated upon our co-re-
ligionists” in Germany.
COUNTY GOES INTO HOTEL
BUSINESS TO COLLECT TAXES
CHICAGO, May 16.—Cook county
took action Monday to seize 69 Chi-
cago hotels, theaters, office buildings
and club properties and operate them
to obtain payment of delinquent taxes.
The total tax delinquency against
the properties is $3,023,314. Attor-
neys for the county treasurer filed
petitions for county receivership un-
der an act recently passed by the leg-
islature.
After settlement of the tax bills,
the properties would revert automati-
cally to the owners.
Among the properties named in
petitions were the Embassy hotel, the
South Shore Country club, Sherman
hotel annex, Eastgate hotel and
buildings of the Illinois Steel com-
pany.
TRACES OF EARLY
AMERICANS FOUND
IN TEXAS CAVES
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Traces
of ancient people hitherto unknown
and who may have been among the
earliest Americans, have been found
in the caves of Chisos Mountains in
the Big Bend region of Southwestern
Texas, Frank M. Stetzler, assistant
curator, division of archeology, Uni-
ted States National Museum, gives
the results of his exploration of five
caves in 1932 in a publication of the
Smithsonian Institute issued here.
His field work . last year produced
what was termed an exceptionally
uniform type of cultural material.
The archeological researches were
centered at two points: The Chisos
Mountains area, 150 miles south of
Alpine, and in the Sunny Glen Can-
yon, eight miles west of Alpine.
Among the important artifacts
(products of human workmanship)
found were:
Grooved club fragments (rabbit
sticks) atlatl or throwning stick fore-
shaft, a blunt point, hand end of a
throwing stick, two fragments of
painted, twined woven bags and a
small sample of cloth woven with
apocynum fiber. Commenting on
these finds Mr. Setzler observed:
“As similar specimens have been
found with basket maker burials in
the San Juan (Northern Arizona)
region, we have here for the first
time evidence which may serve to
indicate the relative age and develop-
ment of our nonpottery culture in
the Big Bend area. But it should be
noted in this connection that, asso-
ciated with the specimens above men-
tioned, we also found numerous arrow
shafts and foreshafts which are not
a characteristic of the classic era of
the basket maker culture.
From Transition Period.
“They seemed to suggest, rather,
that the Texas cave dwellers lived
during a transitional stage between
the basket maker third and Pueblo
first periods. Absence of pottery and
house types in the Big Bend region
still contemplates this problem of
possible relationship. Continuation
of our studies may clarify this phase
of the prehistory of Southern Texas.”
In addition to the above mentioned
articles found the caves explored by
Mr. Setzler contained numerous nic-
tates, manos, projectile points, flint
knives, painted pebbles and end scrap-
ers, yucca bags, mats, nets and a
great ' variety of cordage, wooden
scrapers, scoops and awls; can tubes
containing minuteseeds, corncobs,
gourd sherds and bone beads; paint-
ed sticks, bones and buckskin bags.
FARM-INFLATION SCHEMES
(Dallas News)
The farm-inflation experimentalism
has passed both houses and will short-
ly reach the president for signature.
It may give us the. chance to deter-
mine whether Roosevelt is really rad-
ical or conservative in his preference.
If he employs every power granted
him in the measure, he is pretty near-
ly as unorthodox as Hitler or Stalin.
If he pigeonholes most of these pow-
ers, now that they are safely his
and nobody else’s his action will be
a conservative coup which students
of politics will long remember.
On the monetary side, there is like-
lihood that action in the direction of
lowering the gold content of the dol-
lar and similar methods will prove
unnecessary, as Secretary Woodin—
himself a conservative beyond mis-
taking—has already indicated. But
Secretary Wallace is no Woodin; he
is the March hai’e of the adminis-
tration. Left to his own devices what
he would do with and to agriculture
would be the gazing-stock of the
world. Luckily, there is basis for
confidence that he will not be given
a free hand. The suspicion is abroad
that he might have proved more em-
barrassment to the administration
outside of it than in, or at least that
the element he represents might so
have effected the situation. That
may be why he was taken in.
In surpressing the senate amend-
ment to guarantee a profit to the
farmer, the president took, of course,
the sensible view, bowling over the
Farmers’ Union, the Fanners’ Holi-
day Alliance and other groups of
kindred. At that, the agricultural
features of the bill are, to a large
degree, an impossibility. Yet it is
likely to be pi’oclaimed a success. The
lowest wheat crop in years has sent
up the price of wheat. Cotton has
improved in price also. If these
trends continue the farmers will at-
tribute them to the bill, and Secre-
tary Wallace will perhaps claim as
much himself. Claiming is harm-
less, however,'and if rises do continue
to the point of making farm relief
unnecessary, so much the better. Too
much relief already is part of what
ails agriculture.
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MEANS’ OWN STORY
IS DEPENDED ON TO
CONVICT HIM
WASHINGTON, May 15.—The ease
against Gaston B. Means and Norman
T. Whitaker neared the stage of jury
consideration Monday night with
Prosecutor Leo A. Rover staking the
outcome on whether the five men and
seven women in the box believe the
bizarre version of the Lindbergh kid-
naping told them by Means.
“The question you must decide,”
said Rover as he summed up after
all evidence was in, “is whether to
believe the story Gaston B. Means
told you. He did everything to try
and fool you. He is the modern Baron
Munchausen. ^
“Can you believe, can anybody be-
lieve, can even Gaston B. Means him-
self believe, the web of lies he has
told in this case?”
Means added one flourish to his
story at the morning session. He as-
serted that a month ago, from his
jail cell, he sent a letter to the law-
yers of Mrs. Evalyn Nalsh McLean,
whom he and Whitaker are accused
of conspiring to defraud, saying the
kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby were
in Washington and could be appre-
hended. To support this story, he
identified a carbon copy of the al-
leged letter.
Further he claimed he did not know
until he came to trial that Max Has-
sel, New Jersey beer baron whom he
had named as one of the kidnapers,
had been shot to death' several weeks
ago. He identified another carbon
as a letter he said he had mailed
Hassel on May 3, asking him to testi-
fy on Means’ behalf in the present
case.
DISASTROUS
(Philadeplhia Evening Bulletin)
With some women, a run in the
stocking is precisely equivalent to a
run on the bank.
TO OUR READERS
CLOSER HOME
(Florida Times-Union)
We hear a lot about foreign debts,
but they don’t worry us as much as
our own.
* The Leader is always glad to
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* er news of interest contributed
* by our friends and readers, but
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(By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Okla.I
J. L. Foster, advertising manager
of The Connersville (Ind.) News-Ex-
aminer, says:
“Communities grow, prosper and at-
tract others according to how well
each individual store and business en-
terprise builds for itself. There used
to be a lot of logic in concerted efforts
on the part of communities to fur-
ther their growth, but much of such
energy in these days is thought to be
lost, while the biggest help to any
community is efforts on the part of
individual merchants to build for
themselves and the community. A
community filled'with individual units
of business that make a success is
sure to bring greatest good to the
community as a whole.
“There is no need of a campaign
for home pride, community spirit and
boost the home town where each in-
dividual citizen has the pride of home
ownership in his heart. When every
home owner keeps his pi*emises clean
there is no need for a concerted com-
munity movement to clean up and
paint up. Likewise it is true that any
community having merchants who
are all on their toes building for
themselves needs no fund nor organi-
zation to further the movement for
patronizing home institutions. If the
individual store builds well and at-
tracts people the atmosphere for
standing by and for the community is
created automatically. You can easi-
ly have the home folks believe in the
home town and the community when
they believe in the individual units of
business represented in the town.
While a few tricky merchants can
soon tear down what it has taken a
lifetime for others to build. The pub-
lic is a strange mass. It judges
structures of most every kind by the
weakest piece of material used in the
consti'uction. A bad apple can event-
ually spoil all the other good apples
in the barrel.
“ ‘When I was a child I spake as a
child, I thought as a child, I acted as
a child, but when I became a man I
put away childish things.’ As a
church, lodge or societies of every
kind attract others because of their
individual membership, along with
their teachings, likewise a communi-
ty, or business center attracts trade
because of the likable nature of each
individuals or community centers it
is time to put away childish thoughts
and actions.
“Let’s serve the community best
and boost it most by serving cus-
tomers of our stores best, and by
building well our individual busi-
ness.”
TEXAS HOUSE SHAPES
BEAUTY PARLOR BILL
AUSTIN, May 16.—The Texas
house Monday engrossed a bill to
provide for licensing of beauty parlor
operators and beauticians.
The vote was 63 to 56. No effort
was made to suspend the rules and
finally pass the bill. It may be got-
ten up later on the regular calendar
of bills on third reading.
Each beautician would be required
to pass an examination and pay a
license fee of $10. An annual license
fee of $3 also would be charged.
The bill was proposed as an amend-
ment to the law establishing the
state barber board. It provided for
increasing the membership of the
barber board by appointment of three
women members to supervise the
beauty parlors.
An amendment was adopted that
exempted cities having a population
of less than 6000 from provisions of
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