The Rocksprings Record and Edwards County Leader (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. [16], Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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The German Government, declaring
Germany no longer obligated under
the Versailles treaty, Saturday an-
nounced quadrupling of its regular
army.
Under the Versailles treaty, signed
at the end of the World War, Ger-
| ^many's armaments are sharply restrict-
ed and its standing army limited to
100,000 men.
Simultaneously Chancellor Hitler,
lashing out bitterly at rearmament ov-
er Europe, disclosed thSt the Cabinet,
ir. decreeing compulsory military ser-
vice throughout the Reich, acted in
■ direct answer to the French move in
■ creasing the term of army conscript
service to two years.
The Cabinet’s decree provided that
Germany’s future peace time army
shall consist of twelve army corps of
three divisions each, or thirty-six di-
visions in all. It will number from 325,-
000 to 480,000.
A dispatch from London said Hitler
bluntly told Sir Eric Phipps, the Brit-
ish Ambassador, that the German
army will number 500,000 men
Der Fuehrer, reiterating Germany’s
peaceful intentions, said its national
Safety demanded an increased army.
He cited rearmament throughout Eu-
rope, assailed violation of the Versail
les pact on the part of other powers
and said under these conditions Ger-
many had to take the necessary meas-
ures to put an end to its defenseless-
ness.
With German arms works plans
working virtually “on a war footing,”
according” to the Government's own
admission, Reichsfuehrer Hitler repli
ed to a British protest on rearmament
that he is still willing to talk peace
with Sir John Simon.
Immediately after answering Lon-
don’s flat charge that Hitler’s rearm
ament is “calculated seriously to in-
crease the uneasiness of Europe,”
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
told the world:
“Germany already possesses a pow-
erful, well-equipped army with excel-
lent artillery and huge reserves of
trained men.”
He said war material was being sup-
pied from German arms factories “in
an ever-increasing volume.”
The feverish days of 1913 were
sharply recalled in the lobbies of
France’s Chamber of Deputies Sat-
|§r urday as the purport of Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler’s denunciation of the
Versailles treaty sank home.
France pictured Europe again in two
armed camps, struggling for the bal-
ance of power, just as before the de-
vastating World War. y-
The elaborate set-up of antiwar and
mutual assistance pacts has been defi-
nitely wrecked, officials said, by Ger-
many’s making another scrap of paper
out of the military clauses signed at
Versailles.
The Government for the moment
was silent on its policy while Premier
Pierre-Etienne Flandin and his Cabi-
net Ministers consulted.
Wool flippings®
' Bring 9 to 10 l-2c
SAN ANGELO.—The wool clip-
pings of the state were practically
cleaned up by the wool trade in pur-
chase of about 275,000 pounds here
and at other points Saturday at prices
of 9 to 101-2 ceots a pound, with dis-
counts for heavy lots. The wool sold
g&g?sealed bid sale at the Joe B.
Blakeney warehouse, the Texas Wool
and Mohair Company and other places.
The buyers were Tom Ricbey, of A.
W, Hilliard and Son and Max Robin
of Davidson and Co.
Among the lots sold were those of
the Joe B. Blakeney warehouse, 75,-
000 to Mr. Richey; Sonora Wool and
Mohair Co., 35,000 to Mr. Richey;
Texas Wool and Mohair Co., 50,000
to Mr. Robin; Eldorado Wool Co.,
30.000 to Mr. Robin: Texas Stok-
men’s Supply Co., about 20,000 to Mr.
Robin.
The sales have brought purchases
of clippings in the state to about
350.00 or 400,000 pounds and leave
few in the warehouses.
Sumner Willis, wool buyer for Wal-|
ter Marston, brought his string of
purchases in Menard to five cars with
his buying of two more cars there.
Prices paid there for 12 months 1934
wools are reported to have ranged
from 20 to 21 1-2 cents. The wools
were said to be some of the best left
in the state.
Uncle Sam Is
Hard Competitor
NSB&
A telephone network hooking
don, Rome, Brussels and the 1
Entente with Pari* brought gfl
comments from the other capitals.
Government circles Aid’ the whole
Stephenville Empire-Tribune—Un-
cle Sam may print envelopes in com-
petition with local printers, do dental
work in competition with dentists, he
can loan money, run banks, conduct
commercial shipping, handle railroads,
buy wheat, sell groceries, and operate
mills, but there is one thing that he
cannot do; he cannot make any money
or pay any dividends in conducting all
this business. The tax payer, who is
called upon to meet all the deficits,
has found this out. Just as the govern-
ment is going into business, thousands
of people are going out. In the mean-
time, taxpayers have increased in the
Federal Government by 720 per cent,
and those who still have a "going
business” find it hard to pay this in-
crease in taxes, much less meet Gov-
ernment competition, according to of-
ficials of the Minnesota Taxpayers As-
sociation.
The postoffice here was flooded
with circular mail from a department
store doing business in another city
Wednesday. This vast amount of mail,
under -a rtew ruling, is merely bundled
and sent to postmasters, and city
boxholders and rural boxholders have
these circulars placed in them. We no-
ticed the large, waste paper basket in
the lobby of the local postoffice was
full of these circulars by the middle
of the afternoon Wednesday. The
country weekly newspapers ar* get-
ting it “put to them” good and plenty
these days. It was first envelope
competition, now the postoffice depart-
ment has gone into the circular dwtri
buting business. Where will it hll end?
Just unload your circulars, pay post-
age, then have postoffice employees
Dust Storms Over
CountrvSaturdav
Permeating the air with a powder
fine barrage that hid the sun, inter-
fered with air traffic, brought per-
sonal discomfort and a layer of dirt
on floors and furnishings, one of the
worst dust storms in years beseiged the
state Saturday.
So densely did the tiny particles
fill the air that visibility during the
day was one-eighth of a mile and the
ceiling was at zero.
Many people wore cloth pads over
the mouth and nose to keep from
breathing the dust, which filtered
through clothing and seeped into
buildings.
Visibility at Amarillo was repoted
at only one mile, while Canadian had
only half a mile. Wavnoke, a short dis-
tance across the Oklahoma line, had
one-fifth of a mile of visibility.
'The dust descended on Austin late
in the afternoon, and the airport there
reporting visibility not more than a
quarter of a mile and “no ceiling.”
Longview in east Texas, was struck,
at 3:20 p. m. by strong winds bearing
the dust. The temperature dropped
swiftly.
Sweeping from the northwest, a sev-
e sand storm that visited Denison,
North Texas was plainly visible north
of Red River long before reaching the
town The storm was so heavy that
motorists were forced to use head-
lights. Red sands from the river ap-
parently were picked up as the storm
passed over.
El Paso reported late in the day that
the dust pall had begun to grow thin-,
ner.
Here are a few things that hap-
pened Saturday during a dust storm
described as the worst in Western
Kansas’ history.
The wind blew so hard that it knock-
ed the tops off sealed milk cans in a
truck.
Police and the sheriff offices were
deluged with calls from frantic par-
ents asking aid in locting their miss-
ing children.
So thick was the dust that James
Seymour, truck gardner, was lost in
his ten-acre patch eight hours. He had
walked around in a circle in the swirl-
ing dust cldud until he fell exhausted.
Frank Anderson
international policy must be revamped ,
to conatruct a chain of treaty alliances
around Nazidom. War whs openly dis-
cussed in the chamber J»y the Govern-
m
forcing through his two-yew^p
;j service, plan, to which Hitler -gave
defiant reply.
Indications that Austria is following
Germany in the direction of compul-
sory military service were plentiful
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Germany is steaming straight ahead
Iter "big arnty" plana while
Italy and British sought to
differences growing out of
that of the Bril
without being addressed is another
way of trying to make the postoffice
department keep.out of the red. Vet
the thousands yf pounds of “franked”
meat opposition when Flandin was worthless mail keeps poiping through.
il»Ury Jt seems that Uncle Sam is merely
putting
taking from one pocket and
it into Whether. : |p
America’s greatness is built, not up-
on political officiousness, but upon the
industry and the thrift of the rank
and file of the American people.
When the Government eventually
finds its W*y back to its proper sphere
whep it quits competing with its own
taxpayers, when it commences again
the
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Merger Is NowMjf
Go To Membership
(San Angelo Times)
The executive committee of the
Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association
voted here 27 to 2 in favor of merging
the association with the Texas Wool
and Mohair Growers’ Association, the
consolidated group to be known at the
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Asso-
ciation. The motion was made f>y
Charley Canon of Sheffield after Roger
Gillis, vice president of the associa-
tion had explained the proposed con-
stitution and by-laws for such a mer-
ged body. A committee of three, Sol
Mayer, Roy Aldwell and H. C. Noel-
ke, were named to present the merger
plan to the membership by mail, the
decision of the membership to be made
as quickly as possible. The plan pre-
sented by Mr. Gillis came after a ser-
ies of conferneces between commit-
teemen from the two associations, the
last one ending at 12:30 the night be-
fore. After the membership of the
Sheep and Goat Raisers' has made its
decision then a meeting is expected to
be called to elect new officers and a
new executive committee.
T. A. Kincaid, president, presided
Chief features of the new plan are:
dues are to be one-tenth of one cent
a pound on wool and mohair; the pre-
sident is to serve no longer than one
year and can not succeed himself; no
magazine would be published by the
association: the executive committee
to be no more than SO in number the
first year to be named by a committee
of five selected from the floor paid
up members of both associations;
votes for officers are to be cast by bal-
lot and not orally. It was said that
the Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Associa-
tion has 677 paid up members, the Tex-
as Wool and Mohair Association 211
paid up members with $2,500 cash and
bills of $1,600. The Sheep and Goat
Raisers had on hand $806.05 with col-
lections of $2,512.63 in the last three
months.
It was decided that the next meeting
of the committee would he held in Del
Rio on the second Thursday in June.
The invitation was extended by Roger
Gillis who said there would he a bar-
becue and other entertainment.
The association withdrew its reward
1_ir—--jft -i;n,vTT» dtft ^ c°8t administration, a cur
to deliver them to the boxholders re tit report of the state auditor indi-
farmer, was mar- j of $250 for conviction of sheep and
ooned and was almost smothered by i goat thieves, it being said that such a
the time rescurers found him. i reward is not a stimulus to action by
Some business men closed their officers,
stores despite the fact that Saturday When T. A. Kincaid, president of the
Sheep and Goats Raisers -Association,
anonunced at the conclusion of the ex-
ecutive committee meeting of the as-
sociation that his chair was vacant, af
ter the committee had voted in favor
of the consolidation with the Texas
Wool and Mohair Growers Associa-
tion, no action was taken on his resig-
nation.
Under the proposed new constitu-
tion and by-laws for a merged asso
ciation of the Sheep and Goat Raisers
with the Texas Wool and Mohair
Growers’ Association, the association
is not to publish a magazine though
it would have an official organ as the
Sheep and Goat Raisers does today.
The official organ is to be designated
by the association but the association
will not be in the publishing business
itself. The executive committee of the
new association would be formed by
not more than 50 persons for the first
year. These 5Q would be chosen by the
paid up membership of both associa-
tions and would be nominated by
committee of five selected also by the
paid up membership from both asso-
ciations. This five would be part of the
50. Executive committeemen would
be named each year at the annual meet-
ing.
trade is the best in the week.
Dust, a foot deep, was shoveled off
sidewalks like snow in the winter.
All air and bus travel was suspend-
ed.
Hundreds of motorists were forced
into ditches, their vision obscured and
the 'wind of sufficient strength to
blow th’e cars off the road.
The temperature dropped 54 degrees
in eight hours.
Wheat fields appeared to have been
stripped of all plants.
Cost of Aid In
Texas Is High
Cutting down the high cost of giv-
ing away public funds is a considerable
problem in Texas, despite efforts to
During the period from ^pril 1, to
November 30, 1934, eight month*, It
cost $3,066,283 to give away $21,265,-
243, which was 12.6 per cent of the to-
tal spent. : / “ ■ 1
While the average for alt counties
was 12.6 per cent, there was a wide
variance in the counties from 6.7 per
cent in Brazos county to 35 per cent
in Glasscock county.
Tbc average charged to administra-
tive expense was kept down by the
fact that in the larger counties, the per-
centage moved in a narrower range,
from 11 to 15 per cent. It was in these
counties that most of the money "was
The percentage af administrative
expense in the larger counties was as
follows: WiKMBgh Jm
El Paso, H.2; Galveston, 14A;
LEADERSHIP TRAINING CLASS
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
HA leadership training class will be-
gin next Wednesday night at 7:30 in
I the Presbyterian church. The class will|
study unit number six of the Standard
Leadership Training Curriculum, which
is "The Touching Work of the
Church." This ie an introductory
course to the other courses in the cur
riculum. It will be a survey of H* edu-
cational work of the church. The ob-
jectives of the Sunday school, lead-
ership training, the cerricuiom, grad-
lipment, and
•
Do you know that the Federal tax
alone on cigarettes, for instance, is
considerably more than the combined
return to the farmer who grow* the
tobacco, and the manufacturer who
makes it into cigarettes. In the case of
a package of cigarettes, then the tax
collector is the strongest competitor
when he takes 6 cents, as against 5c
for production of tobacco and the
manufacture of the cigarettes.
On the iverage, it is said, that the
tax on cigarettes is around eight
times the value of tobacco. Some states
then pile up an additional tax of from
2 to 5 cents a package.
It is pointed out that if a person
smokes one package of cigarettes a
day, such person pays taxes on that
luxury alone of around $21.00 per year.
From authentic sources, we gather
the information that the average value
of motor vehicles is $190 each, but
the average annual tax paid by ow-
ners of motor vehicles is approximately
$45, which tax in four yerfrs amounts
to as much as the car is worth. This
computation does not include dealers'
license, fines and penalties, real-pro-
perty taxes on factories, garages and
bus terminals, etc., etc.
For instance, in going into the tax
matter, one oil company had a pay roll
of $69,000,000 in 1933, paid taxes from
its earnings of $12,82,961, paid taxes
obtained from consumers $61,838,708,
showing that a tax of $1000 was paid
for every single employee.
And so on down the list, we find
that taxes are fast eating up the na-
tion's resources, for in the instance of
electrictv, it is pointed out that the con-
sumer only gets 85 cents worth of
juice, the rest of the dollar goes for
taxes.
The cotton manufacturers are report-
ed to he paying $160,000,000 a year in
taxes, and $200,000,000 in wages.
Federal taxes consist of income,
capital stock, various excise and stamp
taxes. State taxes cover property, ex-
cise on capital stock, franchise, gross
receipts, income and various minor
licenses, gas taxes, sales taxes, liquor
taxes, luxury taxes, poll taxes.
Then wc have county property taxes,
and minor licenses, and the same for
cities. Then we have school taxes,
dog taxes, and goodness knows where
it ends, if we go fully into the matter.
Even the air we breathe will be taxed,
if something is not done toward stop-
ping the various inroads taxes are mak-
ing into our every-day living.
With conditions continually gett-
ing worse, millions out of employment
and wages just barely at a living point,)
then expensive governments stepping
in and demanding taxes on most ev-
erything we wear or eat, we can see
nothing but further depressed condi-
tions following in the wake of this
procedure.
Mason Boy Holds
Champion Steer
FORT WORTH.—Mason county,
which last year furnished a grand
champion steer, started off in tradition-
al fashion Saturday as the 39th South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show got under way. August Jordan,
Mason, exhibited the champion steer
in the Boy’s Baby Beef Show when
his "Art Favorite” won fikst place
ribbon over his “Jordan’s Pride.’’
“Art Favorite” was winner of the
first place honors for steers senior
class under 900 pounds. “Jordan's
Pride” won first for steers sfnior
class of 900 pounds or over.
Other winners in the less than 900
pound class were Lewis Patterson,
Brady, second and fourth, and Sam
Knutson, Rochelle, third, in the 900
pounds or over class. Other winners
were Clifford Huffman, Brady, second.
Junior McMillan, Mason, third and
James Grote, Mason, fourth.
ear, 13.9; Jefferson, 13.8; . Harris,
r; Dallas, 12.5; and Tarrant, 11 J.
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as applies to other
lowed in pelting
In conversation
tor while here, :l§?r
among other things, "a#
raising Karakul fjheep
near Pontiac, Michigan;
various visits to the State
have met members of four TC**a ’ A.
& M., particularly Dr. and
discussed with them tW;;na*JcKn'”|0sri;
blems of sheep raising V,
been asking me if therewaan’t any-
thing worthwhile that coukj'^K done
m salvaging premature nail weak kid
skins of which reportedly ^yan- have
here from 5 to 10 per cent Oftfce goats
raised, excluding disasters such as you
had last year in March. '
“Dr. Warwick sent •**§;• $ lew ©f
these premature kid skin*, tj*K» years
ago and *1 took the pain of having
them dressed and made a Ifttie Jacket
out of same and returned H $9 him
at College Station. Last year I met Dr.
Warwick at Ft. Worth, during the
Fat Stock Show and he asewqg me of
the beauty of the jacket tttpde from
these skins. A little later last spring
Ben Cuenbarv spent me several skins,
which I had dressed and dyed in a
brown color, that also turned out very
beautiful. . ■ . : 1L .•
“On this year’s trip I stopped at
College Station to see Dr. Warwick and
he begged me to spend a little more
time in the goat section to get the goat
raisers interested in salvaging these
premature skins and show them the
different ways to pelt and dry them
for commercial use.
“The skins should he carefully taken
off the carcass so as not to have any
damage or holes or cuts in the pelts
and then nailed up to dry in some
shady place, and then they will be ready
for shipping. In case of disaster, such
as last year, thousands of goats per-
ished and there woldn’t be sufficient
time to nail these pelts out immediate-
ly. They could be thrown into a solu-
tion of salt water, about one pound of
salt to thre or lour gallons of water,
in which brine they could be left two
or three days without harm and then
nailed out to dry.
"To give you ranchmen some idea
of the value of these pelts, the natUftl *
horn kid has quite a curl on, and that’ • Jt
is least valuable. The prematurely
born skin that shows short hair •
a very fine wavy marking in it is the
most valuable, and the quite prematore , i
skin that has a very short nap of fop '
on it, very sleek and shiny,
some value, however, not
the ones which have the
ings in the fur. ‘ ' \
"At the present prices Hie*?
skin and the real flat ones will ’
from 25 to 50 cents per skin and
wavy skin from 50 to 75 cents, so
can readily sec that even at £f
per skin, it is worthwhile
vage them.” -,j> .1'
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A Memorial to
BrikFroml
Unit Formed Ft
Care of
Rev. H. C. Suttle, Rev.
Dr. A*B. Currie, Wsi, i
dames Forrest Johnson .
Donaho, and M»S, ML;
with A. H, Abbott of
tiva secretary of The
For
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All profits from Texas
central exposition
build a memorial in
rating 100 years of
tone Star State.
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