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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
& it 'k ir ■ it
IN REVIEW
^ by frUvuAxL ID. Pi
ewis and His C. I. O. Are
Moving Forward
yj OU’VE got to hand it to John L.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis. The beetle-browed leader
of the C. I. O. is going places and
doing things, despite several set4
backs in his plans
to unionize all in-
dustry. The steel
magnates are yield-
ing to a great ex-
tent, and the threat
of a general strike
in that industry is
fading out. With the
Carnegie - Illinois
corporation, largest
subsidiary of United
States Steel, leading
the way, the biggest
concerns in that industry are grant-
ing increases in wages and the 40
hour week, and agreeing to deal
with the unions affiliated with the
C. I. O. This is the first time in
45 years that “Big Steel” has recog-
nized union labor as a bargaining
agency for its employees.
Lewis and Philip Murray, chair-
man of the steel workers’ organiz-
ing committee, were jubilant, but
the Carnegie-Illinois corporation is-
sued an official statement that toned
them down a bit.
“The company will recognize any
individual, group, or organization as
the spokesmen for those employees
it represents,” the statement said,
“but it will not recognize any single
organization or group as the exclu-
sive bargaining agency for all em-
ployees.
“Under this policy the status of
the employee representation plan is
likewise unchanged. It will continue
as the spokesman for those of the
employees who prefer that method
of collective bargaining, which has
proved so mutually satisfactory
throughout its existence.”
The General Electric company
'declared its willingness to discuss
a national collective bargaining
agreement with the United Electric-
al Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate; and
the indications Were that Lewis and
the Appalachian coal operators
ould be able to negotiate a new
age ‘and hour agreement in time
o avert a coal miners’ strike.
The C. I. O. announced the forma-
tion of the United Shoe Workers of
America with a nucleus of 20,000
members and went after New Eng-
land’s shoe industry. Still more im-
portant, Lewis and his aids let it
be known that the next target of the
C. I. O drive would be the textile
industry.
General Electric and some of the
other big concerns that yielded to a
certain extent to the demands of
the C. I. O. followed the example
of the steel companies in asserting
that they still reserved the right to
deal also with other unions or
groups of employees, and in some
cases company unions undertook to
maintain their independent posi-
tions. Furthermore, President
Green and other leaders of the
American Federation of Labor en-
tered wholeheartedly into the fight
against Lewis and his C. I. O. The
lhtter gained strength by the deci-
sion of aluminum workers at the
New Kensington, Pa., plant of the
Aluminum Company of America to
renounce the federation in favor of
the C. I. O.
In Chicago there was a strike of
taxicab drivers who formed a union
and sought the support of the Lewis
organization. They demanded high-
er pay.
Eight thousand employees of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
facturing company’s Pittsburgh
plant demanded a 20 per cent raise
in wages and it was feared they
would start a strike if the demand
were rejected.
Because the Chrysler motor com-
pany refused to recognize the United
Automobile Workers of America as
the sole bargaining agency for all
its employees, a strike was called
in all its major units in Detroit, and
other plants of the company were
closed because of dependence on
Detroit production. More than 50,000
workers were thus thrown into idle-
ness. Vice President B. E. Hutchin-
son of the corporation said it ap-
peared that “the conferences into
which we entered' with good faith
had only one purpose, namely, to
put this union in complete control
over all our employees, regardless
of individual wishes.”
The union also called a strike at
the Hudson Motor Car company be-
cause, they asserted, officials of the
concern were stalling in negotia-
tions on working conditions.
© Western Newspaper Union.
four-year federal crop control pro-
gram.
Meat imports in January aggre-
gated 30,387,000 pounds, compared
with 19,922,000 in January of 1936
and only 7,14,000 pounds in 1935.
Dressed pork imports alone reached
the record figure of 5,580,033 pounds
compared with 2,250,389 in January,
1936, and only 265,000 in 1935.
Heavy imports of pork continued
during the first three weeks of Feb-
ruary, government figures for re-
ceipts at New York indicated. Dur-
ing this period foreign nations
shipped 2,988,500 pounds of pork to
New York, which exceeded imports
for any February.
Canada proved to be the largest
source of supply for the American
market. Imports of all kinds of
meat from Canada during the first
month of this year were approx-
imately 17,102,000 pounds, an in-
crease of 190 per cent over the 5,-
884,000 pounds imported in January
of last year.
Washington
Digest
National Topics Interpreted |
By WILLIAM BRUCkARTJ
NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. WASHINGTON D C .
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Edward and Wally May
Lease Maryland Home
A CCORDING to a copyrighted ar-
tide in the Philadelphia Rec-
ord, Edward, duke of Windsor, and
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson may
live in the United
States after their
marriage early in
May. The duke,
says the Record, is
“considering most
favorably” for their
home the Cloisters,
the castle-like coun-
try residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Sumner A.
Parker near Brook-
landville, Md., just
outside of Balti-
more. The article
says he had options also on an es-
tate in Carroll county, Maryland,
and on one on Long Island, but will
take up neither.
“The option on the Cloisters pro-
vides for a year’s lease,” the news-
paper says. “It gives the right to
the duke to renew the lease for two
additional years if the place proves
satisfactory. Apparently feeling
certain Edward will lease his es-
tate, Parker has ordered improve-
ments to meet the duke’s specifica-
tions.”
Duke of
Windsor
United States Gets Meats
From Foreign Nations
EUGURES supplied by the Depart-
*• ment of Commerce show that the
live stock producers who predicted
the United States would be forced
to depend on foreign meat imports
this year were right. During Jan-
uary the arrivals of foreign pork
at domestic ports set an all time
record for any month, and the im
ports of meat were far in excess of
• those a year ago. This condition
is blamed on the drouth and the
Death of Dr. W. T. Hornaday,
American Zoologist
T)R. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,
one of America’s foremost nat-
uralists, died at his home in Stam-
ford, Conn., at the age of eighty-
two. He was the first director of
the New York Zoological park, re-
tiring in 1926. Doctor Hornaday was
a devoted advocate of the conserva-
tion of wild life and steadily worked
for the protection of migratory fowl
and for federal game refuges.
One of the leaders of the Repub-
lican party passed with the death
of Mark L. Requa in Los Angeles.
He was national committeeman
from California from 1932 to 1936,
was a close friend of Herbert Hoov-
er and for years a dominant figure
in politics on the West Coast. During
the World war Mr. Requa was di-
rector of the oil division of the Unit-
ed States fuel administration and
the “motorless week-ends” he es-
tablished are still remembered.
More Prominent Russians
May Be Put on Trial
ICTATOR STALIN hasn’t
cleaned up the Russian Com-
munist party to his own satisfac-
tion, and it seems probable that
more men once
prominent among
the bolshevists will
go to trial as trai-
tors. Foremost
among these unfor-
tunates are Alexis
Rykov, former pres-
ident of the council
of people’s commis-
sars, or premier,
and Nikolai Buk-
harin, former editor
of the government
organ Izvestia.
These two were expelled from the
Communist party the other day on
charges of anti-party activity, and
it is believed in Moscow they and
a score of others will soon be tried
for conspiring to overthrow the
Stalin regime.
For ten years Rykov was pre-
mier of the soviet union, and befpre
that, during the civil war, he had
the job of provisioning the Red
army. Though succeeding to Len-
in’s position, he did not have his
power, for Stalin reserved that for
himself.
Washington.—Many times in these
columns, I have called attention to
the confusion that
More has come to be so
Confusion much a part of
the federal gov-
ernment’s general administration. I
have talked about the bluster and
the ballyhoo and the cross purposes
a4 which so many pieces of the New
Deal program have operated, and
another outstanding example of this
condition now appears.
Two governmental agencies, one
a strictly New Deal _ agency, the
other with a beginning in the Hoover
administration, find themselves
working directly in opposition to
each other—and in the end taxpay-
ers will pay.
It is not the fault of the Home
Owners Loan corporation that it
finds itself in a position where it is
going to be landlord to something
like 160,000 pieces of real estate—
largely homes.
When the government went into
the business of loaning money on
private residence it had experience
upon which to base its program.
Many years ago the farm loan sys-
tem was organized with none too
happy results. In the late days of
the Hoover administration, howev-
er, three or four politicians were
able to drive through the legislation
creating a system of government
loans on residences as distinguished
from farms.
I predicted in these columns some
three years ago that the govern-
ment, through the HOLC, was going
to be the proud possessor of a lot of
real estate. My statements at that
time were based upon what I had
seen happen in the case of the loans
on farms. The article brought me
direct criticism from two or three
places in the government—but at
this time I can report that the
HOLC, before another year passes,
will own something like 160,000
homes.
It is always difficult for a mort-
gage or bank institution, privately
owned, to dispose of property which
it has been forced to repossess
through default of the borrowers. It
is much more difficult for the fed-
eral government to dispose of that
type of property, try as it may to
get rid of the parcels.
So, we find one governmental
agency serving as a landlord on a
wholesale scale and with signs por-
tending moves • by politicians that
will in the end cost the taxpayers
hundreds of millions of dollars.
These politicians are proposing leg-
islation in congress to cut the in-
terest rate on the loans now in
default and other loans as well;
the principal of the loans on the
defaulted mortgages and they are
seeking means by which those in
default may have unlimited time in
which to make the payments in a
way that, superficially at least,
makes the proposals appear actu-
ally as an outright gift to those
who have bought homes under the
government loan plan.
There is no way to tell now what
will happen to these various pro-
posals. Undoubtedly, most of them
will fall by the wayside and re-
ceive no consideration in congress.
Yet, on the basis of observation of
many such movements, it does not
seem far wrong to guess that the
politicians in congress will accom-
plish something in the way of re-
duction of these debts where the
defaulters bring pressure to bear
on the home town political ma-
chines.
* * •
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By Elmo
Scott Watson
© Western
Newspaper
Union
Alexis Rykov
President Contemplates
Another Fishing Trip
n RESIDENT ROOSEVELT told
* the press correspondents that he
was planning another fishing trip
and hoped to get away late in April.
This time he is going after tarpon
in the Gulf of Mexico, and he in-
tends to go to New Orleans and
there board the Presidential yacht I multaneously with a gigantic pro-
"D4-nruico alnnrf + ' OT*£*TYY in 1X7 Vl 1CH TYl
Now, concerning the other govern-
mental agency involved in the game
of cross purposes
Cross that I mentioned.
Purposes I refer to the fed-
eral hdusing ad-
ministration. Like the Home Own-
ers Loan corporation, it is not the
fault of the housing administration,
that it finds itself in a tough spot.
It is commanded by the President
and by congress to proceed with a
gigantic housing program, to loan
money on new homes wherever it
can persuade contractors to build
and individuals to buy. It is to be
remembered also that loans on
these properties are guaranteed—
the legislation calls them insured
loans—and that makes the federal
housing administration liable in
case the new home buyers fail to
meet their commitments.
The housing administration an-
nounced its program to encourage
wholesale home building throughout
the nation only recently and it was
by coincidence, I am sure, that the
housing program was announced al-
most simultaneously with the deter-
mination by the HOLC to start fore-
closure proceedings in order to
maintain its own solvency.
Thus, to bring the picture to a
focus, we find one governmental
agency that has loaned hundreds of
millions of dollars on residences be-
ing forced to foreclose in order to
protect the money it has spent, at
least in part, and a second govern-
mental agency entering the field si-
people encouraged to place them-
selves in debt.
I cannot criticize the housing ad-
ministration policy any more than
I can criticize the program of the
HOLC. The point is that there is
simply no co-ordination in govern-
ment policies as they concern these
two agencies, and consequently, one
group is building new homes and an-
other is taking over old homes for
which the buyers have been unable
to pay. In my humble opinion, it
does not make good sense.
I have heard considerable talk
among influential New Dealers to
the effect that new homes will sell
more easily than the old ones and
therefore the housing administration
plans are held to be justified. Yet,
it does seem to be a perfectly nat-
ural and logical thing that new
homes become old homes as -time
elapses and there are many who
believe that the government, be-
cause it has guaranteed the loans
on new homes, will have to take
over a large percentage of ttiem as
well. That is, it will have to take
over at least a normal percentage
because whether the loans are made
by private financing companies or
by the government, a considerable
number of buyers are unable to ful-
fill their obligations. It is not al-
ways the jault of the buyers. Sick-
ness, loss of jobs or a thousand and
one other circumstances may de-
velop that prevents the buyer of a
home from . carrying through his
cherished dream of own the roof
over his head. It is the way of life
that a certain percentage will, and
of necessity must, fall by the way-
side.
* * *
I never have been able to agree
that the federal government has any
business in the
Wrong field of financing
Principle homes or Extend-
ing credit to indi-
viduals. I have always criticized
the Hoover administration for cre-
ating the Reconstruction Finance
corporation and the Roosevelt ad-
ministration for expanding its oper-
ations. The principle is wrong be-
cause it uses money either borrowed
by the government or paid into the
Treasury by the taxpayers to fi-
nance, to build up, personal funds of
individuals or corporations.
It seems quite clear to me that
the HOLC, following the experiences
of the farm loan system, justifies
the conclusion that the federal gov-
ernment cannot successfully engage
in that field. In the first instance,
I think it is bad business for gov-
ernment to go beyond the protection
of life, liberty and property, with
all the implications carried in those
three words as a governmental pol-
icy. Further, and with much more
emphasis, I am sure that any time
government engages in that field it
opens the way for politicians to be
tempted, to be forced, to do things
in a legislative way that cannot be
justified as economically sound.
Earlier in this article, I suggested
the difficulty always surrounding
the sale of property that has been
taken back from the original pur-
chasers. Officials of private mort-
gage companies and other financial
institutions have grown many a
gray hair in their efforts to recover
money loaned in cases where the
borrowers have met with unfortu-
nate circumstances. The govern-
ment, finding itself in the position
of the private lender insofar as re-
possession of property is concerned,
has about one-half the chance of
liquidation that the private lender
would have. And beyond that, there
is too much chance for favoritism,
scheming and even crookedness
when the government attempts to
do a job like the HOLC now is fac-
ing. I say that regardless of the
honest purpose that I know char-
acterizes the present HOLC man-
agement.
“Hot Water War” Leader
“QUAY'S REBELLION” and the
“Whiskey Rebellion” are the
outstanding examples of minor
“wars” which somehow manage to
get into our school histories. But
most of them overlook the “Hot
Water War” and its leader, John
Fries. Yet he was a very important
figure in the early history of our
nation and more particularly in 1798
when we were about -to go to war
with France.
In order to raise money for an
army to fight this war, if it came,
congress enacted a direct tax law.
known as the “house tax,”—20 cents
per $100 on houses valued at $200
to $500 and 30 cents on houses val-
ued at $500 to $1,000 The value of
the houses was determined by
counting the number of windows
and measuring them.
In Pennsylvania especially was
there resentment against this tax.
When assessors went around to
measure the windows on houses,
the women threw open these win-
dows and poured scalding water on
the officials, hence the name “Hot
Water War.”
It was also called “Fries Rebel-
lion” because the leader of resist-
ance to collection of the tax was
John Fries, a veteran of the Revo-
lution (who had also helped sup-
press the Whiskey Rebellion in
Pennsylvania!) He was a traveling
auctioneer and this occupation gave
him a good opportunity to harangue
the people and urge them to resist
collection of the house tax. More
than that, he raised a force of
armed men who chased assessors
from township to township, forcibly
released prisoners, who had been
put in jail for resisting the tax col-
lectors, and in general kept the
eastern part of the state in an up-
roar.
Finally President Adams called
on the governor of Pennsylvania to
call out militia to suppress the riot-
ers. Fries was captured and taken
to Philadelphia to be tried for trea-
son. His attorneys insisted that he
was answerable only to a charge of
rioting, but a federal jury found him
guilty of treason and he was sen-
tenced to be hanged. Then Benja-
min Franklin Bache, editor of the
Aurora, a Republican (Democratic)
paper, and bitter critic of the ad-
ministration, took up Fries’ case.
He raised such a fearful row about
it that it became a national issue.
At last, President Adams was led
to pardon Fries and after that the
leader of the short-lived “Hot Wa-
ter War” dropped out of sight and
is lost to history.
Potomac
Texas coa
a cruise along the
gram in which more hundreds of
millions ytfill be expended and more
It may not have occurred to some
but the fact that the federal govern-
ment through the
U. S. a HOLC will own all
Taxpayer of these houses
w^ich ha!d to be
taken back, means that the federal
government becomes a taxpayer in
every city, county and state where
it owns these homes. At the rate
things are going and assuming that
the ratio of delinquencies and de-
faults continue as they do for pri-
vate lending agencies, another four
years will see the HOLC in posses-
sion of a minimum of 250,000 par-
cels of real estate. Of course, I
imagine, the local tax collectors will
be glad to see the federal govern-
ment taking over the property be-
cause they will then collect their
taxes. But where does that money
come from? Sooner or later, di-
rectly or indirectly, it comes from
the taxpayers of the nation. It is
!not a pleasant outlook.
And who knows but what there
may be more decisions like that of cause she had been an ardent de-
* . , - j*____3__TD rt rf-xr Fotnn in f hn
the Florida judge who refused to
grant the foreclosure plea of the
HOLC attorneys on a twelve hun-
dred dollar mortgage on the home
of a carpenter.
© Western Newspaper Union.
The Growing I.Ihn
117 E ARE all blind until we
** see
That in the human plan,
Nothing is worth the making
If it does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious
If man unbuildea goes?
We build the world in vain
Uuless the builder also grows!
I —Edwin Markham.
Labor With Zeal
Labor with what zeal we will,
Something still remains un-
done,
Something uncompleted still,
Waits the rising of the sun.
—Longfellow.
Riches of Contentment
There are those who are rich
in their poverty, because they are
content, and use generously what
they have; there are Dthers, who
in the midst of yieir riches, are
really poor, from their insatiable
covetousness or profusion.—Cal-
met.
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To Strive
To strive with an equal is a
doubtful thing, with a superior,
a mad thing, with an inferior, a
vulgar thing.—Seneca.
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The First “Muckraker”
U'ARLY one morning in the late
1820s a comedy was enacted on
the banks of the Potomac river near
Washington which is without paral-
lel in American history. Enter the
first character: a swimmer, sans
bathing suit or any other raiment.
He is no less a person than the
President of the United States, for
it was the custom of John Quincy
Adams to go for an early-morning
swim in that historic stream.
Enter now the second character:
an old woman, poorly dressed, car-
rying a huge umbrella, an inkhorn
and quill pen and some paper. She
marches out to where the swim-
mer’s clothes lie on the bank and
sits down beside them. The swim-
mer sees her, hastily sits down in
the water until only his head is visi-
ble. “Go away! Go away!” he
shouts.
“Not until you answer some ques-
tions, sir!” the woman replies.
John Quincy Adams rages. He
threatens. He pleads. But it’s no
use. The woman not only refuses
to budge but she makes him come
closer to the bank so that she
can hear more plainly what he has
to say. And thus Anne Royall, edi-
tor of the Huntress (appropriate
name, that!) and “Grandma of the
Muckrakers” forced Adams to ex-
plain to her his national bank pol-
icy, then the most important pub-
lic question of the day. It was one
of the first Presidential interviews
and undoubtedly the most unusual
one ever given.
But that was characteristic of
Anne Royall. Left a poor widow
when her husband, a Revolution-
ary war veteran died, Anne Royall
went to Washington to claim a wid-
ow’s pension. While waiting to col-
lect it, she bought an old printing
press, hired a printer and began
publishing a small weekly newspa-
per which she called the Paul Pry
Journal. In it she fearlessly printed
everything that she considered
news, regardless of how much it
embarrassed public officials.
They tried to hit back at her by
having her tried as a common
scold, but John Eaton, President
Jackson’s secretary of war, fur-
nished bond for her (mainly be-
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1854 shot was a crusading journal-
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A Vital Motive
Ideal education is a vital motive
for any and all good work.
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Lane, Ella E.; Plageman, Cecile & Plageman, Annie Louise. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1937, newspaper, March 18, 1937; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1160906/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.