The Ennis Weekly Local (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1946 Page: 2 of 6
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THE ENNIS
WEEKLY LOCAL
Published weekly by the United Publishing Co..
which also publishes the Ennis Daily News and the
Palmer Rustler.
Entered at the post office at Ennis, Texas, as sec-
ond class mail matter under the act of Congress
March 3, 1879.
All communications of business and items of news
should be addressed to the company and hot in-
dividuals.
R. W. Nowlin
— - Editor and Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In the County
Three Months ___________________________________ 35C/
Six Months _____________________________________ 50O
One Year ------------—______________________ $!.(/>
Out of County
Three Months ___
Six Months _____
One Year ______
50c
$1.00 swallowed streets and houses.
41.50
VETERANS LOOKING AHEAD
With our colleges and universities swelled
to the full capacity and often times mjore
than they are able to properly handle,'/by
the veterans getting schooling under the
GI Bill, it is interesting to see just how they
are adapting themselves to their study.
The Universiy of Wisconsin finds that the
army, the little woman and junior all help
the college man to get good grades. For
proof it offers an analysis of grades made
by 4,201 veterans, a quarter of whom were
married, last spring.
Non-veterans on the campus last spring
earned an average grade of 1.57. Single
veterans scored 1.62. The steadying in-
fluence of matrimony was reflected in mar-
ried veterans’ overall average of 1.80. Junior’s
nuisance value seems to be over-rated be-
cause fathers among married veterans out-
scored non-fathers 1.90 to 1.73.
The figures show that women veterans,
too, are better students because of their
training in service. The 62 co-ed veterans
last spring earned a high grade average of
1.82, compared to 1.70 average of other wo-
men students.
Paul L. Trump, adviser to men, admits
age is highly important factor in the;, good
grades achieved by veterans. The .married
veterans’ average of 2.15 helped to balance
the 1.43 average by married freshman
veterans.
Veterans as a whole are now ready to get
down to serious business, apply themselves
and prepare for the future. They are
anxious to forget about the war and look
to tomorrow.
THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
B5 DREW PEARSON
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Washington—Most important proposal for
long-term settlement of the coal crisis has
come frorji elder statesman James M. Cox, .
former p^bvernor of Ohio and candidate for
president against Warren Harding in 1920.
Cox /urges an impartial body similar to the
Tennessee Valley Authority to regulate the
coijil/industry. Pointing out that the miners
got/ the little end of the stick for many years,
ahfcl the public is getting it today, he proposes
tnat it is now time to make sure that ail
.sides get a square deal; and that the way
to do it is regulation of the coal industry.
The more you study the coal chaos, the
more plausible Cox-s proposal appears to
be. /In the Pennsylvania anthracite regions,
for instance, mine operators have dug under
towns to such extent that cave-ins have
• iTlOOX A LOM6- '
3jRP]o WAKfe UP
Patiene, Brother, Patience
Another problem is the removal of wooden
mine preps and coal mine pillars. The re-
moval of wooden props causes cave-ins after
a mine is abandoned; the retention of coal
pillars leaves valuable coal underground
never to be utilized by man. Once a mine
is abandoned, it is difficult, sometimes im-
possible, ever to bring to the surface the
coal left therein.
Another problem is conflicting seams.
Near Morgantown, W. Va., for instance, i
three seams run in close juxtaposition—the j
Waynesburg, which is near the surface, thej
SeWickley Si-am, 350 feet below, and the
Pittsburgh 'Seam, another 90 feet below that.
If the Pittsburgh Seam is mined ahead of
the Sewickley Seam, the latter is likely to.
work too far down and cave into the shafts j
of the Pittsburgh Seam. And all these seams!
are mined by different conflicting owners.
While the mine operators have fought
against government regulation of the coal
mines*'John L. Lewis also has been just as
vehement against it—except in certain cases
whei*q he benefited. He has favored federal;
mhie inspection, and in the early days of
the new deal he fathered the Guffey Coal,
Act which permitted coal operators to con- j.
spire to fix prices with the blessing of the
government.
However, when Frank Hayes was president
of the United Mine Workers back in the
Wilson administration, he urged government
AnpThi^ 6enXtdo, VVILL-
t-VENTuALLY COME TO
wis Senses
K WASHINGTON COLUMN
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BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
*° EDITORIALS.. By James Thrasher
THE SCULPTOR’S DILEMMA
QUESTIONS AND
, ANSWERS
Q—What are costs of American
occupation of Germany?
A—$200,000,000 a year.
Q—How many civilians does the
Navy Department employ?
A—Under reductions being made
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LIBRARIAN SCENT GOOD BUSINESS
An unprecedented number of persons will
Visit public libraries during the next few
years as the result of library services rend-
ered servicemen during the war, at least
The controversy over the statue of the late Fresident
Roosevelt to be erected in London has now assumed the
proportions of a minor international incident. So we * feel,
.____.... ... . .. , - - ■ ,. that it is time we stood forth and proclaimed our sympathy I currently the number is being cut
regulation similar to that now proposed by] with the scuiptor sir William Reid-Dick ito 363,800, that figure to be reach-
ex-GrOvernor iCox. When Lewis succeeded Readers are doubtless : aware that ' one group of/d by jan. i, 1947.
Hayes, though, one of the first things he did Britishers, including seyefal members of Parliament obJ «-wwt to the British ship
ject to the fact that the rriiodel of the proposed statue shows! */'*,/ sec, "! ... ,
the iate President standing, and wearing a cloak, %
po n out that most people remember Mr. Roosevelt as ; preserving meat and extracting
was to come out against government regu-1
lation.
If Lewis had stuck by previous UMW policy
for government regulation, the whole his-
tory of mine workers’ wages and welfare
might have been different.
A Bombs to England
Several weeks ago this columnist reported
that the United States had given the basic
portions of the atomic bomb to England.
that is the opinion of qarl HI Milam, ex- ... . , , .
ecutive secretary of the American Library was imrtiediately and vigorously
Association.
Writing on the association’s annual re-
port, Milam said the wartime reliance of in-
dustry, labor and government on libraries
also will contribute to an increased peace-
time use. He also believes that appropria-
tions for library service will be increased,
because “plans for library improcement and
extension will have the support of ex-service-
men and their organizations.”
Recently at a meeting of the Lions club
the members «were asked to hold their hands
if they had been to the Ennis public library
during the last week. Only three members
held up their hands which shows that busi-
ness men do not have much time for read-
ing, yet many people do visit it regularly.
This is especially so among the women and
school children.
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“SOMEONE WAS CARELESS”
Good advice to the nation came over the
,air waves when Edward J. Hickey, State Fire
Marshal of Connecticut, spoke on a country-
wide broadcast sponsored by the National
Board of Fire Underwriters.
“I want to warn you about a disaster that
might strike at any one of you—the disaster
of fire,” he said. “Throughout oyr nation
the toll of lives and property from fire is
mounting to an unprecedented, all-time
high . . .
“Most of those lives were lost because
someone was careless. We here in America
must realize now that each year we are
destroying—largely through our own care-
ness—the lives of 10,000 of our people
almost $600,000,000 in homes, business
perties, commodities and natural re-
r
Ration, not even ours, can afford to
steful. No nation is rich enough to
its human and material wealth as
loing today.”
igedy of fire lies not only in its
ill, but in the fact that it is need-
lore than one fire in ten can
I said to be “unpreventable.” The
Fetor is the cause of the other nine.
K human factor means you and your
fi.’bor—every one of us.
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OMIT FIRST WORD
Daily Oklahoman; Sharply simplified from
here on out will be the task of the disturbed
columnists who have been directing so many
keen barbs of criticism at “southern Demo-
crats.” They can now discard the first word
in the indictment, for the returns from the
country show emphatically that the only
Democrats left in the country are the south-
ern ones.
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Some people think of the depression as the
good old days when there was only a short-
age of money. ,
denied.
However, as so often happens with diplo-
matic denials, telltale hints of the truth
later leak out; and this week in New York,
Senator Tom Connally made a speech in
which he dropped a most significant dis-
closure. For some strange reason what he
said was buried on the inside pages of the
New York Times while other papers, as far
as can be ascertained, ignored it.
What Senator Connally said was that
Canada and Great Britain “now possessed
the atomic bomb.”
It is now possible to report more details
regarding the mysterious reported shipment
of basic atomic bomb parts to northern
England.
What was sent to England were the fis-
sionable materials, in other words the ex-
plosive parts of the bomb which, when set
off, cause so much damage. The British,
however, were not given the bomb mechan-
ism—the detonator device that sets the
borhb off. This may have been omitted be-
cause of danger in shipping the bombs. I
(They were carried from the United States
to England by air.) or the mechanism may
have been omitted for other reasons.
At any rate, without the mechanism the
bomb is practically useless. In order to ex-
plode it, certain component materials must
be brought together within 1/10,000,000th
of a second. This achieves vthe chain re-
action and atomic explosion. So far this
has been the real headache for countries
hoping to make atomic bombs.
For instance one portion of this trigger
mechanism was developed at Cornell uni-
versity after repeating one experiment more
than 15,000 times.
Baruch Checked on Truman
Following the Merry-Go-Round’s revela-
tions about bombs to Britain, the American
atomic bomb commission chairman, Bernard
Baruch, visited the chief Soviet delegate to
the bomb commission, Andrei Gromyko, and
had a conversation which throws Interest-
ing light on the general veracity of diplo-
matic denials.
“When we started this commission,”
Baruch said in effect, “I told you chat Rus-
sia would receive equal treatment, no better
and no worse than any other country. I
want you to know that I called the president
and he said we haven’t sent any bombs to
England.”
“How do you know the president is telling
the truth?” asked Gromyko.
“I know,” replied Baruch, “because I
checked up on him.”
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having been seated much of the time. And they insist that
he wore a cloak only in the last year of . his life—although
we believe that point .is open to question.
• This criticism falls to take into account some problems
confronting the creator 6|Ja memorial statue which should
be apparent even to the| inartistic layman. A memorial
statue is part monument and part portrait. It must be
formal, noble and impressive. It must be appropriate to
its setting and surroundings as well as to the character of
its subject.
These are but a few df the sculptor’s many difficulties.
But they are made progressively worse by the changing
fashions in men’s attire.; There is nothing formal, noble
or impressive about a business suit. v
Current men’s fashions seem to have plagued sculptors
of memorial statues before. At least some of George Wash-
ington’s artistic contemporaries reverted to the toga, or
simply the unadorned chest, in portraying him in marble,
apparently believing that the ruffled stocks and full
skirted coats of the period lacked a dignity befitting the
lather of His Country.
WEEK END SPECIALS
N-S FEEDS
Maize .... ......... .................. $2.75
Shorts ....................... .. ............... .......$2.95
Corn ......................... ...............$3.70
Bran .......................... . ................. $2.75
Lay Mash, pretty print bags .......... $4.35
Raymond Jones Feed Store
Waxahachie Marble and
Granite Co., Inc.
The following startling announcement re-
cently appeared in the San Francisco, Calif.
Chronicle;
“The bride, if authorized, will be of the
suspension type.”
Waxahachie, Texas
Day Phone 1020 Night Phone 586
C. R. MONTGOMERY, Manager
chemicals. Balaena is Latin for
whale.
Q—Where is a week GO days
long?
A—On the Chinese calendar.
Each day has a name.
Q—What was the first commer-
cial phonograph record?
A—A recita t i o n, “Limburger
Cheese.”
Q—'Rbw many of the world’s
.motor vehicles are owned in the
United States?
A—31,000,000, or 75 per cent.
Q—Do men or women drivers
react quicker t6 traffic crises?
A—Men, according to highway
engineers’ tests conducted at the
1046 Ohio State Fair. Of 1,000
drivers ■ tested, men were found
to have a reaction time of 57 hun-
dredths of a second, to 62 hun-
dredsth for women. Reaction time
is fastest in the 20-29 age group.
Q—Who are Drs. Hermann J.
Muller, J. B. Sumner, P. W- Bridg-
man, W. M. Stanley, J. H. North-
rop?
A—The five American scientists
who won Nobel prizes in physics,
chemistry, medicine and physiol-
ogy for 1946
Q—What are the three so-called
voting blocs in the United Na-
tions?
A—Latin-American, Russian, A-
rab. The Latin-American, which
includes the U. S., is the most nu-
merous.
Q—What is the decoration M.
B. E.?
A—Member of the Order of the
British Empire.
Q—'Are there any women in the
French National Assembly?
A—33 were elected at recent
elections.
Q—What is the leading export
of Southwest Africa, which the
Union of South Africa wants to
annex?
A—Karakul lumb pelts, for
coats. Diamonds once were. South-
west Africa karakul is not as lus-
trous or as tightly curled as the
Persian strain, from which it was
obtained.
W/ASHinGTON, D. C.— (NEA)—When the new Congress convenes
and the time comes to protest the seating of Mississippi Senator-
elect Theodore G. Bilbo, the Senate will be in an unnatural state of
organization and will have to go through an fmusual parliamentary
proceeding.
' Each of the 36 senators elected last month will
have to march up the aisle and be sworn in. Even
the senators who were re-elected—like Bilbo—will
have to be sworn in. From the moment the Senate
is called to order until they take the oath, these new
and .re-elected senators aren’t senators.
They will be called to take the oath in alphabeti-
cal order. First man on the list is Gov. Raymond
E. Baldwin of Connecticut. Second man is Bilbo.
At that particular moment, the only senators who
ervn protest the seating of Bilbo and the only seria-
ls tors who can vote on the question will be brand-
new Senator Baldwin and the 60 hold-over senators
who did not have to run for re-election on the 5th of November.
A QUORUM of the Senate at this time will be not a majority of the
“ full 96-member Senate, but a majority of the 60 hold-over sena-
tors plus Senator Baldwin. The other 35 senators-elect—34 and Bilbo
—will be standing by.
A check-up on the political complexion of the 60 hold-overs indicates
an extremely close contest, if the vote to deny Bilbo his seat follows
party lines. Thirty-two are Democrats and 28 are Republicans. Count-
ing Senator Baldwin, the Republicans will number 29. A shift of two
Democratic votes could unseat Bilbo, 31 to 30, since a simple majority
decides the issue.
The political dopester must then look over the list of 32 Demo
hpld-overs to see if any might be inclined to vote against Bilbo,
who would Vote to let* him take his seat.
Sixteen of the senators, are conservative Southern Democrats
could be expected to vote to let Bilbo take the oath. Eight are
might be called Northern and Western conservative Democrats. How.
they would vote is anybody’s guess.
jority
; who
what
"OUT the remaining eight are what used to be known as New Deal
J senators, and they might be against Bilbo. From this group the
anti-Bilbo forces can probably get enough votes to keep “The Man” out.
If the combined Republican and Democratic forces don’t stop Bilbo
at this particular parliamentary moment when senators step up to be
sworn in, the chances of depriving him of his seat in the Senate after
later full-dress investigation will be much slimmer.
For after all the senators are sworn in, a two-thirds vote is required
to oust u man from his seat. The full Senate of 96 members will be
divided 51 Republicans to 45 Democrats. Since it would take 62 votes
to unseat Bilbo by a two-thirds majority, the Republicans would have
to pick up at least II Democratic votes to turn the trick. And that
might be lough.
DEAD ANIMALS
Free Removal of Your Dead Stock
Horses, Cows, Mules,
Call Buck Aldridge, Mgr.
ENNIS RENDERING CO.
Phone 88 Collect, Ennis
THIS BEATS
the "Good Odd Vats'
In the so-called "good old days” water had to .be pumped by hand
and many other back-breaking jobs made the farmer’s day a suc-
cession of tiresome chores.
But life on thousands upon thousands of Texas farms has been
changed. Rural electrification, pioneered in Texas by Texas Power
& Light Company, has shortened the working hours by relieving
the farmers of scores of jobs. On the modern Texas farm, electricity
provides running wafer just like city folks enjoy.. . preserves foods
through refrigeration and freezing... sa^vs the wood ... milks the
cows... and does scores of other' things to help both the farmer
and his wife.
Since 1915, Texas Power & Light Company has been extending
its rural lines to bring dependable, 'low-cost electric service to farm
and rural homes. By 1921, the Company was serving 6,926 rural
and farm families and today serves from its 7,000 miles of rural
lines more than 68,000 farms and rural homes in North, Central
and East Texas.
Back in 1927, John W. Carpenter, president of the Company,
called a special meeting of 'officials of other power companies,
farmers, business men and representatives of state educational
institutions, at which meeting the Texas Committee on the Rela-
tion of Electricity to Agriculture was formed. This Committee has,
since its inception, conducted research to speed up farm electrifi-
cation and has advised farmers on the efficient use of electricity
on the farm.
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
Pioner of Rural Electric Service in Texas
John W. Carpenter, President and General Manager
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Nowlin, R. W. The Ennis Weekly Local (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1946, newspaper, December 12, 1946; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth798707/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.