Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 177, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 9, 1950 Page: 4 of 6
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TUESDAY. MAY », I960
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Mom her Texas Pres* Attociation and National Editorial Auociatton
Labor Saving Machines
•There is nothing to be gained bv protesting the use of labor-
saving machinery. The present standard of^ living, enjoyed by
our people, is absolutely the result of the introduction of mach-
inery into the production of goods.
The fact that such machines tend to displace workmen is
unfortunate. This croutes a critical problem for the affected
laborers and they should, if necessary, be the recipients of
special regard by the government. Past history indicates, we
think, that improved machinery has resulted in far more em-
ployment and higher wages than would have been possible with-
out its adoption.
The same argument applies to the introduction of labor-
saving devices into farming. The objections raised relate to pres-
ent dislocations and disadvantages but they are not sufficient to
justify permanent abandonment of the use of such machines
when we reflect upon the gains that they mean to future farm-
ers.
Farm drudgery, so often depicted by the orators seeking the
votes of the agricultural population, will never be relieved un-
less labor-saving machinery is developed for the tasks of the
farmer. Shorter hours, now general for industrial workmen, will
be possible for agricultural workers when the farms become
mechanized.
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Another Week Ahead
National Family Week, scheduled for May 7-14, joins the
ever-expanding list of special weeks that are to be observed by
the American people.
Certainly, it is highly proper for the churches and the public
to' emphasize the value of the family and the home and it is to
be hoped that the observance of a special week will lead to great-
er appreciation of this institution.
We sometimes doubt the usefulness of special programs, al-
located cm the calendar to advertise worthwhile projects. The
energy and enthusiasm concentrated in a few days might ac-
complish moiy good if expended regularly throughout the year.
This is not meant to criticize those who sponsor special oc-
casions. Human nature is infinite in its variety and. consequent-
ly, there must be many efforts if all persons are to be reached.
The special vvfeeks probably stir up some indivduals. Certainly,
they can hardly do harm.
Erath Business
Expanded During
Years 1939,1948
Retail, wholesale and
establishments located in
service
Erath
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IT’S LIKE THIS
By JADA DAVIS
Confusing the Public
Two news items which appeared in a daily newspaper not
long ago explain the confusion with which the public .views cer-
tain governmental affairs.
One news item told of the plan of the Veterans Adminis-
tration to construct a hospital to cost around $21,000,000 and
the other told about plans to abandon a large Army hospital in
the same state. Naturrflly, the public wonders why it is necessary
to build a hospital at the very moment that others are being
abandoned.
There may be reasons sufficient to satisfy medical and effi-
ciency experts that the old hospital cannot be adapted to the
uses for which the new hospital is planned. Nevertheless, it
might tend to produce more confidence in the management of
public affairs if these matters were brought to the attention of
the public, along with announcement as to the construction of
new buildings.
We’ll call hm Henry, for the sake
of anonomity. He was a farmer,
and he lived way back in the hills
and woods. You could tell he was
starved for company, for he was
eager to talk.
“Let’s see,” he said, “they
TEXAS, OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS
NOT TO REACH CENSOS ESTIMATES
tell
Good Advice to Advertisers
Emphasizing the need for advertisers To stop the abuse of
truth and good taste,” Fairfax M. Cone, Chicago business man,
says that a small amount of false and misleading advertisement
vvill discredit advertising in general.
The advice which Mr. ^Cone recently gave to convention'
of American advertising exports is timely. Undoubtedly, there
has developed*a distrust of the extravagant claims made by
certain advertised products. Moreover, advertising in general
has been injured by the moronic implications of some commer-
cial blandishments.
It is fairly easy to recognize the danger that is developing
for advertising in general but the remedy is not so easy to find.
Apparently, it should be a matter of concern to all advertisers
and they should not overlook the admonition of Mr. Cone that
“when we ignore infractions, we, in effect, condone them.”
Oiganized picketing of others, for political reasons, savors
of the boycott but, so tar. nobody in authority seems inclinedTfo
punish any organized group.
The Hoover report may not bg perfect1 but it will make a
good start towards governmental efficiency if Congress will
\ole it into effect, without regard to patronage.
There is nothing so positive as the assertion of the man who
knows little or nothing about what he is discussing.
t>n<* ^ind moMt °f Us with a lot of business
-hat should have been attended to several years earlier.
A Loan in
Guaranteed
Confidence!
PRIVATE
Strictly a personal matter with
you — strictly a personal matter
with us — this is how we handle
•very loan, no matter the purpose
or siaa.
Rental of a Safety Deposit Box ia bo little, you’ll want one,-
to flaeet year needs.
The Stephenville State Bank
The Bank That Better Service la Buildlag
Member P.D.LC
me you own a manure mill.
"A what?” I gasped.
"A manure mill, yeah. Interest-
ing work, I’d say. Notice you’ve
got a car ther^-Nice car. My broth-
er owns a car but I own a truck.
Yeah. A car would be just luxury
for me, don’t you aee, because a
truck gets me to town if T want
to go to town, and I can always
pitch in some, potatoes or a crate
of eggs or something to sell when
I go to town. Yeah.
“But I don’t own a manure mill,”
I blurted. *•’
He was framing his next words,
and 1 might just as well have kept
my mouth shut.
"Guess you own a fleet of trucks,”
Henry said. “Yeah. Own a truck
myself. Now, if that car of yours
ever floods down, just let it set
a while and it’ll be al right, yeah, j
My brother’s car floods down like
that.” I
“But my car doesn’t . .
"Funny thing about my brother’s
car," Henry continued. “Brother
had a 52-acre farm near here, but
he got tired of farming. Yeah,
plumb tired. Went into town and
put an advertisement in the paper.
Said he’d trade the farm for a
car. Well, sir, the very next day
n man drove out in a 1936 model
car and they traded. Found out
later the man saw the adverti^-
ment and went straight to a used
car lot, bought the car, and traded
it to Brother for the farm.”
“You mean,” I said, “that your
brother traded a 52-acre farm for
a 1936 model car?”
“Yeah, sure did. Say, where did
you say your manure mill is lo-
cated?” *
_“I didn't say. Fact is, I don't
own a manure mill. I don’t even
own a fertilizer factory. I do news-
paper work.”
“Oh,” Henry said, “a paper mill.
That’s right, I remember now. You
own a paper mill. Guess there’re a
lot of trees where you live.”
“Well, no,” I said.
Henry let it ride. “Yeah, Brother
owns his ear now. Pretty good old
car, only it floods down now and
then. If your car ever floods down,
just let it set a while and it'll be
all right.”
“But my car doesn’t .' . . ”
“Well, I guess it’s interesting
work, running that manure mill,
Henry said. „
I gave up. “It sure is,” I said.
Henry was silent for a few
minutes.
“Say, Henry,” I said, “isn’t a
52-acre farm more valuable than
a 1930 automobile? Didn’t your
brother made a bad trade?”
“Well, now,” Henry said, “I don’t
know. Brother uses that car in his
work now. Yeah, he sells brushes.
Fact is, he’s got his eye on a little
farm of 50 acres or so. He thinks
that in another year or so he’ll
have enough money to buy that
little farm.”
“Oh,” I said.
DALLAS, May-9 < UP>—Popula-
tion figures for Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas and Texas are not likely 'to
reach their high early estimates,
James W. Stroud .census director
for the three states, said today.
Stroud said that while Texas
would show considerable growth,
he doubted that the population
would reach 7,600,000 as estimated
by the bureau earlier.
Though he said that figures for
the other tv^p states were not yet
available, he hinted that neither
Oklahoma nor Arkansas would
show any great population increase
over the 1940 figure and, in fact,
might show a slight decrease. .
, jtfople Moving to Towns
He said that all three states were
likely to show a great shift from
rural to urban settlement. This
will be particularly true in Texas
where, he estimated, one-fourth of
the state’s population will be found
Trial Begins for
Thornton Slayer
AMARILLO, May 9 (UP)—Se-
lection of a jury continued today
in the murder trial of Evald John-
] son, charged with the tourist court
' murder of W. A. (Tex) Thornton,
oilfield explosives expert.
Four jurors were chosen yester-
day in the first day of selection.
Both defense and prosecution at-
torneys expected to complete the
jury today.
The prosecution implied by its
questioning that it would ask the
death penalty for the 29-year-old
defendant. The defense indicated
it would base its case on the “un-
written law.”
Thorntoq was slain on June 22,
1949. Johnson's wife, Diana, pick-
ed up for routine questioning by
Washington, D. C., police, said that
Thornton picked up her and her
..... h-hik
in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio
and Houston.
Stroud said that he was unable
to determine just what percentage
of Texas’ urban increase was the
result of immigration from other
states but felt that it would be
large.
In Oklahoma and Arkansas, he
said, the increase in urban popula-
tions will generally come from
shifts within the two states them-
selves rather than from people
moving into the states from other
regions.
Stroud explained that within the
three-state area, about 70 per cent
of the districts thus far had not.
met the estimates which the Cen-
sus Bureau compiled before enum-
eration began.
Hs added, however, that many
of these would reach estimated fig-
ures by the time the census is com.
pleted.
Will Be Completed Soon
Stroud Said enumerations for the
three-state area were about 83 per
cent complete and should be finish-
ed by June 1,
The district nearest completion
was Little Rock, he said, where
97 per cent of the counting has
been done. On the bottom of the
list was Houston, only 55 per cent
completed. *
Other near-completed districts in-
cluded Fayetteville, Ark., 94 per
cent; El Paso, 94 per cent; Tyler,
96 per cent; Oklahoma City, 87
per cent, and Dallas, 75 per cent.
Stroud said he expected final
figures from some districts to start
arriving at his office this week.
husband as hitch
leers in New
Mexico and was bludgeoned fatally
and robbed by her husband soon
after they checked in
rillo tourist court.
at an Ama-
Claude Pruitt Dies
In Iredell Friday
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Flanary at-
tended the funeral in Iredell Sun-
day of Mr. Flanary’s brother-in-
law, Claude Pruitt. His death Fri-
day was attributed to a heart at-
tack. *
Deceased was a singer of-note
and was well known in Erath coun-
ty where he had taken part in
numerous gatherings of singers.
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Receiving Treatment
L. Riggins, veteran employee of
the Stephenville Empire-Tribune
and Dally Empire, is a patient in
the Stephenville Hospital where he
is receiving treatment for
piratory infection.
a res-
Mra. Smith Improved
Arnold Smith went to Dallas
Sunday and brought Mrs. Smith
home from a hospital there where
ahe had been receiving treatment
for several weeks for a aeiatic
nerve infection. Her condition is
greatly improved.
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county showed a substantial expan-
sion in dollar volume of trade from
1939 to 1948, according to prelimin-
ary figures from the 1948 Census
of Business released by the Bureau
of the Census.
Retail sales in the county during
1948 aggregated $13.4 million, an
increase of 253 per cent over the J
$3.8 million in 1989, when the pre- 1
ceding Census of Business was
taken.
Wholesale sales in the county
reached a total of $4.4 million in
1948 as compared with $1.9 million
in 1939. The service trades included
in the Census of Business record-
ed receipts totaling $647,000 in
1 1948 compared with $198,000 in
1969.
Employment in the county rose
over the 9-year period between
1939 and 1948 for the above trades,
which also includes data for the
cities of Dublin and Stephenville.
Final figures superseding the pre-
liminary data for Erath county will
be included in a bulletin for the
state of Texas, to be issued in sev-
eral months. Similar data will be
made available this year in pre-
liminary and final form for each of
the counties and states. A single
copy of the preliminary release for
Erath couRty, as well as an order
blank for other area releases, may
be obtained by writing to the Bu-
reau •'of the Census, Washington
25, D. C.
School Can Not
Count Military -
Base Children
AUSTIN, May 9 (UP)—The San
Antonio Independent School Dis-
trict lost yesterday in its efforts
to include school children on mili-
tary installations in the district’s
school census.
The State Board of Education
rejected the district’s request, thus
upholding earlier action by J. W.
Edgar, state commissioner of edu-
cation.
The district would collect about
$260,000 in additional local support
funds if permitted to count stu-
dents on military bases. Attorney
Arley V. Knight also told the board
that the district would get more
money from the state under the
Gilmer-Aikin minimum foundation
program.
A 15-member state textbook com-
mittee, recommended by Edgar,
was confirmed by the board.
The members include:
Mrs. Monetta Brown of Midland;
Mrs. Cathryn Edmiston of Har-
lingen; R. R. Ashworth of Tyler;
A. B. Await of Woodhouse; Idris
Evans of Bonham; Gussie Hicker-
son, Crawford; I. L. Lasater of
Winters.
Minerva Love of Corpus Christ!;
Mrs. Evelyn Myrick of Lubbock;
Mrs. Gladys Polk of Freeport; Mrs.
& If Proffer of Denton; Min. T.
N. Seal lorn of Ennis; Kate Wat-
kins of Fort Worth; Mr*. Virginia
Whiddon of Houston, and T. J.
WhUroy of Lufkin.
Facing a New Industrial Revolution .
Tim United States is “on the threshold of a catastrophic
second industrial revolution,” declares Dr. Norbert Wiener, of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who says that the
change will be “brought about by the use of the automatic maeh-
ne.”
‘ What the mathematician had in mind is that machinery,,
controlled by “electronic brains,” will eventually “completely
wipe out the factory assembly-line.” As a result, he foresees
unemployment and a shifting of population to rural districts as
our industrial cities face a vast decentralization process.
What the professor has in mind is the development of a
factory, almost entirely controlled by- electronic devices, which
will be able to manufacture the products now made by the labor
of men and machines. If the machinery Is regulated and operated
and contrcAled by electronic devices, there will be a huge re-
duction in the number of men necessary to make the products
of our modern civilization.
What will happen if mechanical power and controlled de-
vices manufacture the necessities of modern life? Will society be
able to find other,employment for those who lose their means
of livelihood, or will we go through an era in which the nation
will have a large portion of its working force on the dole? V
The revolution foreseen by the mathematician will not come
about all at once, but to those conversant with the rapid perfect-
ion of manufacturing machines, it is already on the way. Ful*
utilization of the process may be delayed through the lack of
capital. This will slow down the transition period and make it
easier for society, as a whole, to accept the new economy.
There is also a danger that the means of production, be-
coming less dependent upon the labor of men, will pass into th$
control of a relatively few-companies. This tfill virtually give to
the few men directing the companies tremendous power over the
welfare of the country, but, with the people of the nation having
the control of their political machinery, any undue threat to the
general welfare could be met, no doubt, by legislation.
It is always safe to discount the testmony of a partisan.
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