Stephenville Daily Empire (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 150, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1950 Page: 4 of 6
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J#rather Tax at Pro— Atooeiation and National Editorial A atostation
Suspicion About Government
In Announcing the taking of the seventeenth national census,
President Truman assured the nation that no individual’s pri-
vacy will be violated and that the data of the census would not
be used as a'weapon to increase taxation or in any way to affect
the status of the individual with respect to his civil liberties.
Apparently, the president took cognizance of opposition to a
provision for getting data on incomes. Under present plans,
eveiy tenth person will be asked to state his incomeTHe called
attention to the fact that the census is required by the constitu-
ion to make possible the (apportionment of seats in the House of
Representatives and that refusal to give information is punish*
able under federal laws.
The existence of some opposition to certain questions in
the census-taking offers evidence of a suspicion on the part of
some people that the; government is not above using confidential
statistics of the census for purposes not associated with the oper-
ation itself. This suspicion may be slight, at present, but it is an
indication which responsible; officials should not ignore.
It will be an unfortunate day for the United States, as a na-
tion, if the people of this country begin to suspect that their
government contemplates or practices the misuse of one function
for the purpose of accomplishing something else. That there has
developed a tendency, both in the legislative and executive
branches, to obtain results by indirect, but forceful tactics, is
apparent in the political sphere of action. Moreover, there is
some suspicion that the judiciary itself is showing a trend in the
same direction. ,
ARSON
OTTER’S
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COMPELLING ... the advertise-
men of the Electric Light A Power
Companies (Time, April 8) . . .
one of the finest pieces of adver-
tising this scribe has even teen
. . . picture of a young lad looking
nt four objects on a table . . .
the Holy Bible, a key, a pencil and
a ballot . . . with this caption,
“Will you leave these to your chil-
dren?4—we suggest every citisen
rend this sermonic piece of psycho-
logical advertising.
WHY? . . did the farmer have
his cows sleep on their backs? . . .
so the cream would be on the top
in the morning . . . yak, yak, yak!
WORD! . . . existentialism . . .
know what it means? :; . if you’d
a been at the American Home din-
ner Tuesday night you’d a knowed
. .. Miss Westbrook discussed seme
at some length . why net look it
up in the dixunary. -
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ADD ... to the already pub-
licized list of progressive construc-
tion reports . . . the new movie
drive-in on the Mineral Welle hiway
. . . and there are other big’una a
brewing in the planning pot.
TEARS , . . note the political pot
is really boiling down Laredo way
. . . maybe the tear-gas episode
’tother nite was an omen . . . after
all, after the votin’ is done it’s
too late to shed tears.
TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE: "The
Lord is my helper, end I will not
fear what man shall do unto me.’’
(Hebrews 13:6).
NEED . . . more every-day
Christianity and less Sunday
churchanity! * r~----
BETWEEN
law and grace
Advertising Builds Success
Advertising is perhaps the most wonderful development of
the modern commercial age.
It is maker and breaker of business, big or little. It is the
one factor of successful sales that is most apt to be overlooked
by the merchants of small towns and cities.
Advertising is not the exclusive weapon of big business; it
is the power that will make little concerns grow into larger
success. It is a science that requires study and, be it said, char-
acter. It cannot succeed if it is untrue. It must build upon faith
and honesty.
The Stephenville Daily Empire is prehared to assist local
business men in their advertising problems. Itmny say, with
due modesty, that its staff knows something about advertising,
and that their experience is available to all who wish to use it.
Texas Receives More
Red Cross Aid Than
Any Other State
AUSTIN, March 31 fUP) —
Texas has received more Red Cross
disaster aid than any other state
in the Union, H. D. Carmichael,
Red Cross stste relations officer,
said today.
Carmichael said that a tabula-
tion of disasters for the 29-year
period ending on June 30. 1949,
showed Texas first with 288 disas-
ters in which the Red Cross gave
relief.
Illinois, with 268 catastrophes,
was second. Pennsylvania was
third with 212. —■»
The largest single disaster oper-
ation carried out in Texas, or the
nation, by the Red Cross took place
at Texas City following the April,
1947, explosion, Carmichael said.
Aid was administered from April
16 until the following December at
a total cost of 81,861,915.
The Red Cross, conducting a
campaign to raise 82,763,636 in
Texas, spent $2,200,000 on disaster
relief in the state last year, the
Now They’re Seeing
Smoking Discs
AUSTIN, March 81 (UP)—Fly-
ing saucers and silver pancakes
took a back seat to smoking discs
here today.
Some half dozen persons in vari-
ous parts of the citv reported they
saw a strange object cavorting
around a B-36 as it droned hign
over this city yesterday afternoon.
Sterling McLean, a TIn,versH*' of
Texas sophomore, said tha object
circled the B-36 and then the mac
gave off a cloud of smoke and dis-
appeared noiselessly, he said.
Several persons with McLean, in-
cluding a staff writer on the Daily
Texan and two university work-
men, said they saw the object, too.
at the Onyx yesterday morning ...
two preachers on one side . . . two
officers on the other side . . .
Claude Bryant in the middle.
TOMORROW . . . ia April 1
. . . and that is known as April
Fool’s Day . . . but before tomor-
row comes, there is today . . . and
another page . . . the third one . . .
must be torn from the calendar
. . if we were required to give a
strict accounting of those 90 pages
of history ..'pages that were
clean on the 'first minute of the
new year of 1950 . . . what could
we aay . . . and tomorrow we start
a fresh 30-day month . .. the pages
of that month are yet spotless . . .
and on April Fool's Day of the
The grenteat shipping disaster
in Great Lakes nistory was at Chi-
cago on July 24, 1915, when tije
excursion iVsmer Eastland over*
turned with a loss of life totaling
835.
state relations
had 22 catasti
received Red Cross
is officer aaid.
rophea last yei
Cross 144.
Texas
last year that
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GREEN STAMPS
Ask for them!
PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICE
STEPHENVILLE LAUNDRY
AND DRY CLEANERS
239 N. Colombia Phone 264
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you — strictly a personal matter
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•very loan, no matter the purpoee
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Rental of a Safety Deposit Boa la so little, yea’ll wont one,
to ate«
i ville State Bank
F. D. L C.
new month let’s not fool ourselves
that there is any substitute for
honest work in the affairs of men
. . . nor any substitute for decency-
Democ racy-Die ty.
NO CURE . . . fellow stopped
me on the street ’tother day and
when I inquired of the man’s
health he told me he had just bean
to zee the doctor . . . the m.d. ad-
vized him that his case had no cilre
nor could the doctor offer any cure
... asked him what'was the matter
. . . with a grin he told me his
disease .. . laziness.
PROPHET . . . sticking my neck
out again . . . but we predict that
the Phillies will be among the top
three in the National League pen-
nant race . . . o.k. I said it and
I’m glad.
REAL ESTATE ... do you ever
take time to read the factual
Court House Records column that
appears each week in the Daily and
also the Empire-Tribune . .’. you
would be surprised how may $s
per week are involved in real es-
tate transactions . . . and who
sells whom, what, and for how
much. .
PEACE . . . “at any price’’ . . .
is not very_ often a bargain.
SEE YOU SUNDAY!
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AREAS SUFFERING WIND EROSION
DAMAGE DOUBLE PAST TWO WEEKS
FORT WORTH, March 31 (UP)
— Texas and Oklahoma areas
suffering wind erosion damage
have more than doubled in size in
the past two weeks.
Louis P. Merrill, regional dir?
ector of the U. S. Soil Conserva-
tion Service, said today that more
than 400,000 acres had been add-
ed to the areas with “moderate^ to
severe” erosion.
Two weeks ago, Texas surveys
showed 196,000 acres in that cate-
gory. Today, Merrill said, it has
496,000.
i f Oklahoma acreage jumped from
110,000 acres two weeks ago to
279,600 acres.
For the firat time, unprotected
cotton lands began to blow and
over-grazed fields of sorghum
stubble were involved.
But the major factor, Merrill
said, was dying wheat fields—lost
to drought, insects’or over-grazing.
Moat Severe of Season
Dust storms in the Lubbock and
Lamesa area in the past week
were the most severe of the season,
Merrill said.
But he said conditions are not
generally worse now than at the
comparable time in the last four
years.
Early rains, preparation of land
for planting, cessation of strong
winds and conservation measures
in those years came in time to
save most of the wheat crop and
prevent any semblance of a real
“dust bowl.” . -
He predicted that there would"
be a "good many more” sand
storms and a few dost storms this
Mild and Cloudy is
Week-End Forecast
By United Proot
Mild and cloudy weather was
forecast for Texas oyer the week-
end with southerly winds increas-
ing today.
There was no indication of a
"significant amount” of rain, tho
the weatherman said clouds over
Texas might shed a few drops in
scattered areas.
Only the extreme southern part
of the state had broken clouds this
morning, the U. S. Weather Bu-
reau reported.
Presidio had the warmest weath-
in Texas yesterday with 88,
blow season, but severe land da-
mage will be held to small isolated
areas.
“The likelihood of major damage
comparable to that of the dusty
‘30,a is remote indeed,” he aaid.
i Conservationists Report
District Conservationist Mar-
shall Howard at Lubbock reported
severe wind erosion damage to
small areas. However, work of the
farmers in that area to safeguard
their land has been extremely en-
courging Marshall added. He pre-
dicted that there would be little
serious damage this year to land
because of the widespread useof'
tillage.
Moderate erosion was occuring
on 31,000 acres of unbroken cotton
land'with slight and probably tem-
porary loss of loose surface soil
on 200,000 acres broken during
the last three weeks.
District conservationist Jesse D.
Jenkins at Lamesa reported a
sharp jump tn acreage suffering
moderate wind damage. He said
175,000 acres of sandy land cotton
fields and mixed land fields on
which stalks have been cut are
undergoing damage. Sorghum
stubble fields are holding effec-
tively. Farmers have deep-plowed,
disked or listed many fields and
these are holding.
District conservationist John
A. Perrin at Littlefield said 150,-
000 acres are suffering moderate
damage from wind. Winter wheat
and cover crops are in poor con-
dition, he said. In his Reporting
area, 600,000 acres are without
NEW TEXAS MASONIC GRAND LODGE
yesterday
while Dalhart had tha lowest max-
imum with 62.
Dalhart was also the coldest spot
in the state last night with a mini-
mum of 43 and Brownsvile had the
highest minimum with 68.
Increasing winds from the south
this morning showed a 22-mile blow
at San Angelo, while Abilene re-
ported a 21-mile-an-hour wind and
Laredo and Brownsville recorded
the wind at 20 miles per hour.
However, the weather bureau
added that no duat “to amount to
anything” was expected because
the wind was blowing from the
south.
CYCLIST KILLED
PASADENA, March 80 (UP)—
Pasadena recorded its first traffic
fatality today in over a year with
the death of a 26-year-old motor-
le driver. William L. Blake died
the pavement and skidded 60 feet
last night It was Pasadena’s first
traffic dead in 868 days.
cycle dr
shortly after his motorcycle left
Cuayus Son Arrives
Doan and Mrs. Paul A. Cunyus
have announced the birth of a *
March 28 in Harris Msmorial Hos-
pital in Fort Wo Ah. He weighed
8 pounds, seven ounces and, ao far,
has been given only one name,
John. He has a sister, Shirley and
a brother, David.
’ This magniAcent building at Waco is Texas’ new Masonic Memo-
rial Grand Lodge Temple. The imposing $2,000,000 structure has been]
described as the most beautiful Masonic Grand Lodge In the United
States. Covering almost a city block, it houses a 3,700-seat auditorium,
a library and a museum, and aervta as headquarters for the govern-’
ing bodies of Texas’ 192,000 Masons in 902 lodges. Elaborate dedica-
tion ceremonies were among the most impressive in the hi:
Masonry. Cement for the building—8,750 bbls. of standard
cement and 600 bbls. of mortar cement—was supplied by U. S. steers
Universal Atlas Cement Company front its Waco plant. The Temple
also has 720 tons of steel, 30,000 cu. feet of stone and nanite and
1,500 eu. feet of marble. General contractor was A. J. Rifs, Dsl'aa.
Robert Leon White, Austin, and Broad A Nelson, Dallas, Wert the asso-
ciated architect! and Walter Cocke, Jr., Waco, was resident architect.
NOTICE!
Wc are now in a position to make real estate loane in amounts
from $760.00 up. The proceeds of the loan may be used to pur-
chase, refinance or repair residence property.
Mdst of the loan companies have been accepting no loans for less
than $3000.00 therefore we think we are fortunate in making a
connection where we will be abla to aerve our dtisena by offer-
ing them these sinatier loans which may be repaid over a period
of from five to eight years.
See ae for all yoar insurance and loan needs. ‘
ELLIS INSURANCE AGENCY
Mart, Texas,
|Bso named be-
cause in early days It was a busy
trading
market.
Money Still Being
Sent to Farmer
Over Mule Deal
LOCKHART, March 81 (UP)—
William Hagedorn, a wrinkled Ger-
man immigrant farmer, accumu-
lated new ‘wealth* today as friends
and strangers replaced more than
half of the life savings he lost this
week in a damage suit involving a
mule he did not own.
Hagedorn, 77, lost the $2,632.20
he had saved over a 52-year period
of dirt farming in Texas last Tues-
day when the State Supreme Court
ruled he erred in not appearing in
court to deny he owned the mule.
Small amounts of money from
sympathetic Texans dribbed in
Tuesday. The volume became
greater. Wednesday and, by Thurs-
day, contributions had reached $lr
323.60. _;
sufficient protection against blow-
Will the House Have a Chance to Vote?
The Home rules committee has decided, by a vote of seven
to four, that the House itaelf will not have the opportunity of
considering the Lodge-Gossett resolution, adopted by the Senate
on February I, which would provide a new syetem for electing
presidents and vice-presidents of the United States.
The action of the committee on rules illustrates once again
the arbitrary power exercised by that committee and the vital
importance of the decision last year to provide means by which
the House itself can by-pass an adamant and stubborn rules
committee.
Previous to the amendment, cuttibg down the power .of the
rules committee, there was no way for the hnembers of the House
to consider any bill or resolution against the unfavorable de-
cision of that committee. Now, under present rules, the chairman
of the judiciary committee, which recommended that the Lodge-
Gossett resolution be considered by the House, may be able to
override the rules group decision by taking advantage of the
calendar Wednesday process. ,'
Another means by which the amendment proposal may comei
to the Houee is the twenty-one-day rule under which committee
chairmen, at certain times, may seek recognition by the speaker1
for calling up bills blocked by the rules group.
It would also be possible to get the proposal to the floor by a
petition signed by a considerable number of the members. ,
The issue may get to the floor by another device, that of sus-.
pending the rules of the House, which requires a two-thirds
-vote. Since favorgble action on the Lodge-Gossett amendment
likewise, requires a two-thirds vote the motion to suspend the
action could succeed if two-thirds of the House members favor
the proposal. ¥% ■
Meanwhile, considerable opposition has developed to the
proposed constitutional amendment, since favorable action by
the Senate. Sen. Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, says that adoption of,
the amendment would kill any chance of Republican success in
presidential elections. Offsetting this Republican declaration is
the position taken by Rep. Adolf Sabath, Democrat of Illinois,
who suggests that the Lodge-Gostett resolution would seriously
weaken the Democratic party, in pivotal states.
Under present law, where major parties are equally divided
a small minority group, holding the balance of power, is assid-
uously courted in order to win the state’s entire electoral vote..
Under the amendment this minority group would only count for
the one or two delegates it would be entitled to on the basis of its'
proportionate voting strength.
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Some people, writing in the press, seem to think that their’
business is to create disunity.
ing.
Our experience is that those who want to borrow can tell
you why the loan should be made. s
Advertising continues to be the atomic bomb of sales!
ship but it takes a well-trained crew to drop the bomb thh'
place a the right time.
Few young men realize what they are doing when a
young thing murmurs the magical word, “Yes.”
The subsidy that holds up the price of potatoes may wo
other way if the public becomes disgusted with the whole
price support program. . .*' / y ’
Control of the high seas will determine the outcome .of.a
war as long as one nation or the other has to transport inch
materials in surface ships.
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