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THE MATHIS NEWS, MATHIS, TEXAS, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1941
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THE MATHIS NEWS
GEO. W. COlilTilN, Editor.
Subscription lV.ee, $1.00 a Year
Entered as second-class matter at the
Post-office at Mathis, Texas, Jan. 31
1916.
ARE OUR YOUTHS WEAK?
NATIONAL DEBT LIMIT
For the time being the na-
tional Congress has set a limit
of $65,000,000,000 upon the
national debt of the United
States.
Just what the limit amounts
to no one knows. If either
the President or the Congress,
or both, shall desire to borrow
more money or to incur great-
er obligations, all that is nec-
essary, in all probability is to
ask for another debt limit.
There’s no limiting to limiting.
Meanwhile, that 65 billions
is just 65,000 millions. No;
you can’t begin to grasp a
There is room for concern,
if not anxiety, in the fact that
local examining boards are re-
jecting, over the country, an
average of 32 per cent of all
applicants, under the draft ^ jjLao
act, on account of physical de- j that surrl) jn y0Ur mind.
This amounts to nearly one-|
third of all the young men call- " ^ STftM
ed. It is asserted that the ex-1 Roosevelt administration,
amming physicians are not ov-, Qive jugt a little sober
er-careful, and this se . (thought to the situation. Re-
be the case, for when t e . - -, garc]jesg 0f cause if a man gets
ceni'ofSflSr I a year in the
eliminated. This
$25,800 IN SCHOLARSHIP
AWARDS FOR 1941 GOOD
DRIVERS LEAGUE
WINNERS
Dearborn, Mich., Feb. 26—
With the nation’s high schools
preparing for second semester
activities, the Ford Good
Drivers League today announc-
ed details of its 1941 good driv-
ing contests, in which $25,800
pass are
makes another nearly 8 per
cent of the whole number, a-
bout 40 per cent in all, of out'
young men who are judgd unfi
for military service.
This is astounding! Surely
the authorities are not prejudie
ed, or at least are not set a-
gainst accepting too many.
On the other hand, plainly loc-
al examiners are too lenient to
please federal surgeons. To
find the cause is becoming in
parents and public authorities.
Contributing causes certain-
ly are the nervous strain of
fast living, fast driving, dissi-
pation in several ways, and
plain, soft idleness. Whatever
the causes, it is up to the public
in general to come alive and
remove this serious condition.
No one wants a -weak race in
America, surely.
FORD SAID HOPING NEITH-
ER SIDE WILL WIN WAR
Henry Ford was quoted in a
copy-righted dispatch in the
Atlanta Constitution’s Sunday,
morning editions that he “sin-
cerely hopes” that neither Eng-
land nor the axis powers will
win the war in Europe.
The dispatch from Ways
Station, Ga., quoted Ford:
“We should give them (Britain
and the axis powers) the tools
to keep on fighting until they
both collapse.
There is no righteousness in
either cause. Both are moti-
vated by the same impulse,
which is greed.
“It is not the little people
who are doing the fighting and
the suffering who are the
greedy one3. They are inno-
cent of that. Their only guilt
is idleness. : Idleness makes
them stupid and stupidity has
made it easy for the big ones,
the greedy ones, to lead them
into war.
“If we can keep both sides
fighting long enough—until
they cannot fight any more,
then maybe the little people
will open their eyes. Then
they can see that they have
been the dupes of this interna-
tional clique- of greed—and
we have its members in this
country, too
ed them into war.
Ford was quoted that after
the belligerents “collapse,” the
United States could then' ‘help
them both make a just peace.”
—Dallas News.
sum of $500, inevitably he will
have to make $500 more the
next year to keep even, and
then make $500 more to pay
the debt carried over. Now
that is where we are. Forget-
ting all the why’s and where-
fore’s, this country will soon be
65 billions of dollars in debt,
mostly incurred during the last
quarter-century. To keep ev-
en, at that rate, “to balance
the budget,” we shall have to
have revenues to amount to
65 billions more during the
next 25 years, and then we
shall have to have another 65
billions to pay the old debt.
In other words, to wipe the
slate clean of debt in a quarter
of century ’ we shall have to
raise the nice sum of 130 bil-
lions more money, if we start
going about it now.
But we are not at the end.
Probably we have just begun
the huge defense program, in
appropriations of money as
well as in actual work. If our
debt shall stop under 100 bil-
lions, say in four years from
now, we shall be lucky.
How many times shall we
have to pay this principal sum
before we shall liquidate prin-
cipal and interest? Probably
not less than three times.
AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE CALLING
AN ELECTION FOR THE
PURPOSE OF ELECTING
A MAYOR & TWO COM-
MISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF MATHIS, APPOINTING
OFFICERS OF SAID ELEC-
TION AND DIRECTING
THE POSTING OF NO-
TICES.
in scholarships will be award-
ed boys and girls of high school WHEREAS, the next reg-
age throughout the country. j ulai* election of the officers for
Started last year by Edsel the City of Mathis is set by
Ford to promote improved driv law for Tuesday, April 1st,
ing and increase motoring saf- 1941;
ety among youth, the Good THEREFORE, be it ordain-
Drivers League embarks on its ed by the City Commission of
second season with one major the City of Mathis, Texas, that
innovation that is expected to an election be held on the
more than double the member-' first day of April, 1941, .at
ship. which election there shall be
Where the nation-wide 1940-: elected a Mayor and two Corn-
good driving contests were op- missioners of the said City of
en only to boys, the 1941 con- Mathis, Texas,
tests will be open to girls as i Said election shall be held at
well as boys. j the City Hall, within said City,
This major change in the an(^ S. ^ • Henderson is here-
League program already has by appointed Presiding Judge
produced widespread interest,; an^ pe,cl] N01'0011 1S hereby ap-
with indications that girls are , pointed Assistant Judge, m the
fully as anxious as the boys to sa^ election,
demonstrate their knowledge; Said Presiding Judge shall
and skill at handling an auto-1 be authorized to appoint two
moki]e | competent clerks each to as-
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MATHIS, TEXAS
STATE SOCIAL SECURITY
PROGRAM
The good people of Texas
had little idea of what they
were saddling onto themselves
when they voted the social se-
curity program which the legis-
lature is trying to carry out.
Roughly, it costs Texas a-
bout $25,000,000 a year to run
its affairs, exclusive of high-
ways, education, Confederate
pension, and possibly some oth-
er special funds.
Right now the legislature is
battling pro and con over a bill
to appropriate nearly $27,00,-
000 for social security—that is,
old folks’ pension, needy blind,
teachers’ retirement fund, and
maybe something else. In oth-
er words, the dear people have
voted upon themselves an ex-
penditure double that of form-
er, and it copld be said, pres-
ent, yeays, so far as the general
fund goes,
SAD USE OF INVENTIONS
v-ho have trick-;
load is divided into several spec
ial funds or carried along un-
der one heading; it all has to
be raised by taxation.
Social security is a huge suc-
cess as a means to equalize
wealth by taking from those
who have it and giving to those
~ ~~ . . J J . . I who have it not. Social secur-
Doubtless it is utterly vain to : ity> state and national, is also
bemoan the bad use to which; a refined and sentimental lux-
many of the great inventions of j ury that grows on the body pol-
the world are being put recent- i itic.
ly. It is sad to see the match- J *_;_
less power of airplanes applied !
to destruction of men and prop ; ITALIAN ‘PSYCHOLOGY’
erty; it is sad to see the great j-
buildings—art galleries, cath- j Someone says that the Ital-
edrals, palaces, homes, busi-! ian forces in Albania have
ness houses—laid waste by
Bombs that science has invent-
ed.
But remember that the bad
use of inventions is no attri-
a
wrong psychological slant on
war, and that is why they keep
up such a consistent retreat.
Reliable reports state that
, certain Italian forces have had
bute to the inventions them- i to fire upon some of their own
subject of safe driving, and
their answers to a question-
naire on driving.
In each of the 49 state final
contests, safety experts ass&i-
a ...... ed by the League board of
selves. Like many other things; men to stop hasty retreats. In [judges will rate the boys and
boys will have a section of their
own. There will be no mix-
ed contests.
As awards for the national
winners, Mr. Ford revealed
that 98 Good Drivers League
scholarships would be present-
ed as follows, with identical a-
wards for both the boy and
girl divisions: First prize,
$5,000 university scholarship;
second prize, $2,000 university
scholarship; third, fourth and
fifth prizes, each $500 scholar-
ships ; and the next 44 winners,
$100 each.
The contests are open to
boys and girls between 14 and
18. In order to qualify for
membership in the Ford Good
Drivers League, all entrants
must be qualified and legally
authorized to drive a car in the
state in which they reside.
“The Good Drivers League
objective this year is the same
as last—to encourage better FOR
driving among youth,” Mr.
Ford commented.
“The response to our
contest was very gratifying and
encouraged us to broaden the
scope of the League’s work this
year. We feel that over the
years the Ford Good Drivers
League can and will make an
increasingly important contri-
bution to the cause of good driv
ing and to increase safety on
our streets and highways.
“It is hoped that this year’s
League activity will
highly interesting to many civ-
ic organizations, safety clubs,
public officials and schools
whose help last year in further-
ing the work and objectives oi
the League is gratefully, ac-
knowledged.”
Each state, according to Mr.
Ford, will have its own elimina-
tion contest to select the boy
and. girl state champion driv-
er, as well as a runner-up in
each division. A separate el-
imination contest will be held
this year in the District of Co-
lumbia. Last year Washing-
ton, D. C., entrants competed
in the Maryland state contest.
State competition through-
General Election Laws of the
State of Texas and the Amend-
ments thereto, and only quali-
fied voters of the City of Math-
is, Texas, shall be allowed to
vote.
A copy of this ORDINANCE
signed by the Mayor and at-
tested by the City Clerk of said
City of Mathis, Texas, shall
serve as a proper notice of
said election, and the City
Clerk of the City of Mathis is
hereby directed to give the
proper notice provided by law,
of said election.
PASSED AND APPROVED
this 25th day of February,
A.D. 1941.
(Signed) : W. A. Guynes,
Mayor,
ATTEST:
J. W. Henderson,
City Clerk.
(SEAL)
STUDY CLUB HAS DEC-
EMBER SOCIAL
RENT —
Small Furnished House for
rent. See Mrs. Fannie Wright,
Mathis, Texas. tf
Fair grounds will be used a-
gain. These include day and
night driving tests, all under
the auspices of the board of
judges, assisted by a group of
nationally known safety ex-
perts.
Winners of the 98 scholar-
ships will be announced at
/the League’s second annual
Pro7e. banquet of champions on Aug.
11 in Dearborn. Last year the
first award of a $5,000 univer-
sity scholarship was won by
Gene Kennard of Evansville,
Ind. Jimmie Hymer of Phoe-
nix. Ariz., won the second a-
ward,, a $2,000 scholarship.
Not eligible for awards in
the contests are the 1940 state
champions; sons and daugh-
ters of members of the League
board of judges and the Lea-
gue advisory board; and em-
ployes and sons and daughters
of Ford Motor Company em-
ployes and dealers.
Registration blanks can be
obtained from Ford dealers or
Christmas candles burned
beside patriotic red, white and
blue flowers on last Tuesday
night when the December soc-
ial committee of the Mathis
Study Club entertained at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Frels. . The party had been or-
iginally planned for December
but was postponed because of
the flu epidemic. Hostesses
were Mrs. L. T. Porter, Mrs.
E. G. East and Mrs. E. G. Frels.
Invitations to the affair were
on Christmas cards and an-
nounced a Corrigan Christmas
party. Winners in the games
of 42 received red and green
paper bells as tallies and losers
progressed from head table to
foot table. Refreshments
were served when the guests
arrived.
KALONIE BANKS CELE-
BRATES THIRD BIRTH-
DAY ANNIVERSARY
Kalonie Banks’ third birth-
day anniversary was celebrat-
ed Friday of last week with a
party given by her mother,
Mrs. B. C. Banks. The birth-
day cake was frosted in pink
with three pink candles in the
center and rosebuds encircling
it. Guests included June Ev-
elyn Berry, Beverly Lebman,
Allison Guynes, Elaine Maed-
gen, Joanne Guynes, Buddy
Maedgen, Mary Lou Hutchens,
Billy and Merilyn . McNeill,
Betty Jean and Don Edward
Stone, Mary Henderson, Ben
Morgan Guynes, Tommy Suth-
erland, Jane Gordon Cabaniss,
Joyce Soehnge, Chas. Soehnge,
Roger Howell, Katherine
Brown, Sally Carr and John-
ny Clemons.
... ,. . by writing to the national head
out the nation is scheduled for quarters of the Ford Good Driv
next tfllly 1, blinking lOgGtll- Ayr. T-.pQ.cmp Dparhnrn
er at a central point in each
state the 12 leading hoy and
12 best girl contestants. They
will be chosen by the League j
board of judges on the basis j
ers League, Dearborn, Mich.
Upon registration, entrants
will receive a kit of material
that includes a book entitled
“How to Become a Skmed Driv
er,” a membership card, a mem
of a road test under a quali- j hn+tnn nnri rWaimn m
fegjrjm /he /tractions about theNntests. "
Enrollment deadline is May
and matters, the trouble is
wdth the men who use them.
Take human greed and unGod-
ly ambition out of men and in-
ventions would be used to
move men upward and on-
that case there is a suspicion
that the trouble isn’t altogeth-
er psychological; it looks rath-
er physical to the casual ob-
server. It was just “plain scar-
ed,” which after all may be
girls on their driving ability in
“on the spot” tests. The 49
boys and 49 girls chosen as
state champions will be invit-
ed to compete in the national
finals to be held in Dearborn,
starting Aug. 6.
Each national finalist, ac-
companied by a sponsor, will
ward, mostly. j a mental state put into physic-
Kow unfortunate is the mis- ; al action,
use of good things! That is1 On the same line, when Ben-
not to imply that a nation must ito Mussolini shall have lost his make the trip to Dearborn as
not defend itself against a- African domains and his Al- a guest of the Good Drivers
gression. But how a decent banian territory, perhaps that
nation does hate to be drawn j gentleman will become sort of
into such use of grand inven- psycho-scared and quit his fool-
tions! ishness. Here’s hoping.
15.
League. In the finals, a, series
of comprehensive tests similar
to those given last year at the
finals on the New York Worlds
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