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ENNIS. BAM:NEWS, YNNIS, ELLIS COUN^r TEXAa SATLJtDay iiVi;NI,\G. DE€. 7.,194fi
Editorials
he Ennis Daily News
Opinions
Features
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Amusements
In FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR
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Published daily except Sunday by the United
Publishing Co., Inc., which also publishes The Ennis
Weekly Local and The Palmer Rustler.
Entered as second class matter at the post office
at Ennis. Texas, under thd Act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
R. W. NOWLIN
Editor and Manager
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standing or reputation of any person, firm or cor-
poration which may appear in the columns of the
News will be gladly and duly .corrected upon being
brought to the publisher’s attention.
The News stands for and pledges to
support all things for the good of Ennis
4nd Ellis County.
THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DREW PEARSON
Patiene, Brother, Patience
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Enough of material substance and
great abundance of‘ wealth that money
cannot buy at all: In the house of
righteous is much treasure.—Prov. 15:6.
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COORDINATED TRANSPORTATION
It is time that the transportation policy
of this country was overhauled in order
Washington—Most important proposal for
long-term Settlement of the coal crisis has
come from elder statesman James M. Cox, j
former governor of Ohio and candidate for j
president against Warren Harding in 1920. j
Cox urges an impartial body similar to the !
Tennessee Valley Authority to regulate the j
coail industry. Pointing out that the miners
got the little end of the stick for many years,1
and^the public is getting it today, he proposes
that it is now time to make sure that all
sides get a square deal; and that the way
to do it is regulation of the coal industry. J
The more you study the coal chaos, the I
more plausible Cox-s proposal appears to 1
be. In the Pennsylvania anthracite regions, |
for instance, mine operators'have dug under!
towns to such extent that cave-ins «have!
swallowed streets and houses.
Anoth;^r problem is the removal of wooden !
mine props and coal mine pillars. The re- j
moval, of wooden props causes cave-ins after
a m/ne is abandoned; the retention of coal)
pilihrs leaves valuable coal underground j
n,ever to be utilized by man. Once a mine I
Is abandoned, it is difficult, sometimes im- j
possible, ever to bring to the surface the1
coal left therein.
Another problem is conflicting seams.
.Near Morgantown, W. Va., for instance,*
| three gearns run in close juxtaposition—the
Waynesburg, which is near the surface, the
iSewickley Seam, 350 feet below, and the
j Pittsburgh Seam, another 90 feet below that, j
j If the Pittsburgh Seam is mined ahead of
(the Sewiekley Seam, the latter is likely to;
work too far down and cave into the shafts
of the Pittsburgh Seam. And all these seams
are mined by different conflicting owners.
While the mine operators have fought
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that all common carriers may coordinate to j against government regulation of the coal
provide the most efficient and economical
form of service—and that all may pay their
own way to the greatest possible extent. As
P. Hiarvey Middleton of the Railway Business
Association, recently said, “Railroads cannot
continue indefinitely under a policy of self-
supporting transportation versus govern-
"ment-aided competitors and still provide the
service the nation needs in time of peace
and must have in time of war.”
The only major form of transportation
is entirely self-sustaining at present
is the railroads. They buy and maintain
everything they use, from locomotives to
track and terminals. Motor carriers, on the
other hand, have the public highways as
their rio-hts of way. The airlines have the
enormous advantage of publiclv-built and
maintained airports and terminals. The
great, cost of these is becoming a very real
problem to the taxpayers in these davs of
more and bigger planes, and ranidlv increas-
ing congestion on the maior air routes.
It is the view of the railroads that sound
transport coordination would result in traf-
fic going to the type of carrier which can
best handle it on a cost and service basis.
The existing law generally bars a railroad
from operation in competitive forms of
transport except for limited auxiliary ser-
vices., As a result, the law prevents the
public from receiving the best possible trans-
portation for goods and passengers.
We need a transportation policy which
neither penalizes nor favors any carrier—
and which permits all carriers to work to-
gether to best serve the nation. The job of
formulating that policy should start at once.
mines, John L. Lewis also has been just as
vehement against it—except in certain cases
where he benefited. He has favored federal
mine inspection, and in the early days of
the new deal he fathered the Guffey Coal
Act which permitted coal operators to con-
spire to fix prices wittf the blessing of the i
government.
However, when Frank Hayes was president
of the United Mine Workers back in the
Wilson administration, he urged government
regulation similar to that now proposed byj
ex-Governor Cox. When Lewis succeeded
Hayes, though, one of the first things he djd
was to come out against government regu-
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
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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 our 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-
lessness—the lives of 10,000 of our people
and almost $600,000,000 in homes, business
properties, commodities and natural re-
sources.
“No nation, not even ours, cam afford to
be so wasteful. No nation is rich enough to
squander its human and material wealth as
we are doing today.”
The tragedy of fire lies not only in its
ghastly toll, but in the fact that it is need-
less. Not more than one fire in ten can than 15,000 times.
Several weeks ago this columnist reported
that the United States had given the basic
portions of the atomic bomb to England.
The story was immediately and vigorously
denied.
However, as so often happens with diplo-
matic denials, telltale hint-s 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
bomb off. This may have been omitted be-
cause o^ danger in shipping the bombs.
(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 the '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
Q—What was the first commer-
cial phonograph record?
A—A recita t i o n, “Limburger
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Q—Slow 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 to traffic crises?
A—Men, according to highway
engineers’ tests' conducted at the
1946 Ohio State Fair. Of 1,000
drivers’ tested, men were found
to have a reaction time of 57 hun-
dredths oi a second, to 62 htm-
dredsth for women. Reaction time
is fastest in the 20-29 age group.
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honestly be said to be “unpreventable.” The
human factor is the cause of the other nine.
And that human factor means you and your
neighbor—every one of us.
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Some people think of the depression as the
good old days when there was only a short-
age of money.
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The following startling announcement re-
cently appeared in the San Francisco, C’alif.
Thronicle:
[j‘The bride, if authorized, will be of the
spension type.”
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lSpeak well of your enemies; remember
imade them.
maTLPQor .wlicu^speiid. less -than he.
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 that 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.
—J. replied., . “hecfts&e*< I
checked up on him.”
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DEADLIEST WEAPON!
THE SCULPTOR’S DILEMMA
The controversy ov§y the statue. of the late President
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
with the sculptor, Sir William Reid-Dick.
Readers are doubtless aware that one group of
Britishers, including several members of Parliament, ob-
ject tb the fact that the model of the proposed statue shows
the late President standing, and wearing a cloak. They
point out that most people remember Mr. Roosevelt as
having been seated much of the time. And they insist that
he wore a cloak only bp,the last year of his life—although
we believe that point is open to question.
This criticism fails to take into account some problems
confronting the creator ’of a memorial statue which should
be apparent even to the inartistic layman. A memorial
statue is part monument arid part portrait. It must be
iormal, 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 of the sculptor’s many difficulties.
But they are made progressively worse by the changing
fashions in men’s attirfe.. There is nothing formal, noble
or impressive about a business suit.
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
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Many* work hard in order to provide for their ■ families, pay their
debts and to maintain a respectable standard among their neighbors.
Should a reproach be cast against their/name, it would be resented.
And rightly so. Why? Because their name means much to them.
Yet many of these same people, when it is pointed out to them that
they are wearing religious names not found in the Bible, will say dis-
dainfully, ‘‘Well, what’s in a name?” Consistency, where art. thou?
Does God consider that there is anything in a name? If there is
nothing in a name, why did God change Abram’s name to Abraham?
(Gen. 17:5) Why did He change Sarai’s name to Sarah? (Gen.
17:15, 16) why did He change Jacob’s name to Israel? (Gen. 32:27-28)
Why did He name John before his birth? (Luke 1:13) Why did He
name Jesus before his birth? (Matt. 1:2) Thus we see the attitude of
Godwin the matter.
As to the name God’s children wear, let us consider the scriptures.
“And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy
glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of
the Lord shall name.” (Isaiah 62:2) The Lord, not uninspired man,
would designate the name, and that when the Gentiles had seen
His righteousness, and the kings His glory. The Gentiles, did see the
Lord’s righteousness in conversion of Cornelius and his household,
representative of Gentiles, as set forth in Acts, the tenth chapter.
Earlier the envious kings of the earth became aware of the Lord’s
glory. (Acts 4:26). Further, “Even unto them will I give in mine
house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons
and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name to those in
his house. In I Tim. 3:15. we learn that the house of God is the
church. Therefore, those in the church bear the name. Paul was
chosen of God to bear his name “before Gentiles, and kings, and the
children of Israel.” (Acts 9:15). Now, in the eleventh chapter of
Acts with all the foregoing conditions met, we find” . . . they (Paul
and Barnabas) assembled themselves with the church, and taught
much people. AND THE DISCIPLES WERE CALLED CHRISTIANS
FIRST IN ANTIOCH.” (Verse 26) CHRISTIAN, then is the God-
given name his children wear.
Yet some, in an effort to justify some man-given name which they
were, will say that the name CHRISTIAN was given in derision by
the enemies of the early saints. Let Peter refute that statement:
“But if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but
let him glorify Goa in this name.” (I Peter 4:16, A. V.)
The name CHRISTIAN is never used as an adjective in the New
Testament, but always as a noun. Hence, the church, the body of
Christians, is called the CHURCH OF GOD (I Cor. 1:2), the CHURCH
OF CHRIST (Matt. 16:18 and Rom. 16:16) and the CHURCH OF
THE LORD (Acts 20:28, A. V.
Man-given religious names are derisive in character, designating
particular parties. They are sectarian in purpose and effect, sepa-
rating some professed believers from others by their peculiarity.
Therefore, they are antagonistic to the spirit of Christ
17:20-21) and condemned in the New Testament (1 Cor
They honor some man, exalt some church ordinance, or designate
some particular manner of church government. Thus they divert
honor belonging to Christ.
Are you honoring Christ? Can you find the name you wear in
the Bible?
CHURCH OF CHRIST
WASHINGTON COLUMN
skirted coats of the period lacked a dignity befitting the
Father of His Country.
Today the sculptor is confronted by the sack coat, the
four-in-hand tie, the soft shirt and the laced oxford. They
are comforable garments, and not unattractive in the
original. But they are scarcely heroic habiliments when
preserved in stone or bronze.
So we can’t blame Sir William for including a graceful,
sweeping cloak in his composition. We can’t object to his
including a cane, which is both accurate and decorative
Nor do we find fault with him for showing Mr. RooseveXt
standing. The choice may be justified as symbolical df
the subject, whose life was one of action rather than cc
templation, despite its infirmity.
Sir William may have emphasized the monumental and
artistic at the expense of the photographic and realistic.
But he is surely on safe ground if he assumes that, in
another generation, few people who see his statue are going
to worry about whether Mr. Roosevelt customarily wore a
cloak.
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BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
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Edson
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^ASHINGTdN, 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 unusual 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 W?ll 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
can protest the seating of Bilbo and the only sena-
tors who,,can vote on the question wili 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.
QUORUM of the Senateffct 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 unse’at Bilbo, 31 to 30, since a simple majority
decides the issue.
The, political dopester must then look over the list of 32 Democratic
hold-overs to see if any might be inclined to vote against Bilbo, and
who would vote to let him take his seat.
Sixteen of the senators are conservative Southern Democrats who
could be expected to vote to, let Bilbo take the oath. Eight are what
might be called Northern and Western conservative Democrats. How.
they would vote is anybody’s, guess.
jgUT the remaining eight are what used to be known as New Deal
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 a 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 11 -Democratic votes to turn the trick. And that
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