The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1938 Page: 7 of 8
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Washington.—It always has been
interesting to me to see how politi-
cians frequently
Too Many overlook real is-
Laws sues in national
affairs. Many
times they stimulate the hound that
overruns the rabbits. That is the
reason why so often a new man in
public life suddenly rises to leader-
ship. He has taken hold of a bad
situation that is right under our
feet, offered a constructive solu-
tion and has dealt with an immi-
nent condition rather than schemed
for re-election through political
fence building.
These facts lead directly into a
bit of current history. It will be
recalled how Bruce Barton cam-
paigned through congested sections
of New York’s Manhattan island for
an unexpired term in the house of
representatives last fall. About all
that Mr. Barton said of consequence
in his campaign speeches was that
there are too many laws. I think
that is obvious. When he was cam-
paigning on that line, he was speak-
ing for great masses of inarticulate
citizens.
But Mr. Barton went further. He
announced his intention to seek re-
peal of one federal law a week un-
til there is some semblance of rea-
son in the structure of federal laws.
Now, of course, Mr. Barton is
very new in politics. He had been
keeping his nose to the grindstone
of business. He knew only what
other persons outside of politics
knew, namely, that high pressure
minorities, sour pusses and nit wits
Were getting one law after another
through congress, and that, in the
end, those laws would be ruinous to
the country as a whole. Whether
Mr. Barton thought he would suc-
ceed or whether he recognized the
fact that he was only making a
start, it does not matter. Bruce
Barton has taken hold of an obvi-
ous issue in national affairs and it
is not outside of the realm of prob-
abilities that he will “go places’’
with his program. Thus far, it must
be said that Mr. Barton has suc-
ceeded only in getting a dozen re-
peal bills into the house commit-
tees through introduction in the
house. None has been acted on.
Few probably will be acted on—if
the house runs true to form. That
is to say, Mr. Barton is a Republi-
can and the house is controlled by
Democrats and New Dealers. Nat-
urally, they will give no opportunity
for the opposition to gain credit for
anything, no concessions at all.
The significance of the Barton
program goes much deeper, howev-
er, and it is of that significance that
1 want to write. Through more
than twenty years as an observer
of national affairs here in Washing-
ton, obviously I have witnessed
many issues develop, or be created,
or be discovered. It seems to me
that the really important national
issues are those that develop, as
the Barton program is developing.
That means the issue is fundamen-
tal; it means, further, that there is
no necessity for building the issue,
and it means as well that it in-
volves vital questions of policy.
As I said above, there are too
many laws, too many don’ts and
very few do’s. Restriction and reg-
ulation always breed more restric-
tion and regulation. The Roosevelt
administration has been constantly
saying “don’t” in the shape of laws
and the tremendous majority in con-
gress has been giving President
Roosevelt almost unlimited power
to do as he wants to do beyond
the “don’t” legislation. So the Bar-
ton program would restore a great
deal of freedom to the people them-
selves and would restore to con-
gress much of the power that it
has given to the President. To car-
ry that thought further, then, the
Barton program actually seems to
me to propose saving only those
laws that the progress of civiliza-
tion shows to be sound and work-
able.
• ♦ *
We might consider some of the
statutes which Mr. Barton wants to
, repeal. There is
Time to Cut for example the
Them Out so-called Thomas
amendment — one
of the most assinine and dangerous
pieces of legislation ever to get on
the statute books. The legislation,
forced through by Senator Thomas
of Oklahoma in May of 1933, gave
the President the power to issue
$3,000,000,000 in paper currency. I
do not see how anybody can regard
it as anything but authority to issue
printing press money. Of course, it
never has been used by President
Roosevelt and probably never will
be, but the authority to go into print-
ing press inflation exists and that is
the danger. How, for instance, can
you or I or anyone else feel sure
that the money we have in our
pocket or the few dollars in the
bank is going to be worth anything
tomorow when the President of the
United States, by one stroke of the
pen, could turn loose a flood of
worthless money.
Mr. Barton also seeks liquidation
of a flock of government agencies.
Some of them are 20 years old or
of even greater age—built as war-
time emergency units,, but still in
existence for no reason at all. Be-
sides the War Finance corporation
and some others of that wartime
era, it is proposed to get rid of
some things of more recent date.
The Commodity Credit corporation
and the two export-import banks, to
mention only three. Now, there is
no reason available for retention of
the skeletons of the World war, and
there appears to have been no rea-
son for creation of such things as
the export-import banks. I mean
there was no sound reason. Those
radicals who forced the diplomatic
recognition of Soviet Russia thought
there was reason for the export-
import banks because they held
such banks would enable trade with
Russia. But Russian trade has
amounted to about the same as the
sale of mules in my home county of
Missouri.
Two other pieces of legislation
which Mr. Barton seeks to repeal
are strictly New Deal. One is that
law which gave the President the
right to change the value of the dol-
lar at will, within certain limita-
tions. I suppose there are some
who still believe that devaluation of
the dollar has done or can do good
in aiding recovery. It seems to
me, however, that existence of that
power in the hands of one man is
just another basis for uncertainty
among all of the people. In any
event, the failure of that panacea
has been amply demonstrated.
The piece of far-reaching New
Deal legislation concerned is the so-
called Guffey coal law. That thing
is a price fixing measure. It gave
authority to a coal commission to
prescribe prices throughout the
country, and producers would be
violating a law if they sold below
those figures; they would be sub-
ject to fines and prison terms. Only
recently, the price fixing features
were enjoined by a circuit court of
appeals and so at the moment they
are not operative. Yet the threat
exists. And attention should be
called to the fact also that the three
judges who granted an injunction
were appointed by President Roose-
velt and supposed, therefore, to be
very liberal in their views. Mr.
Barton called the Guffey coal act a
piece of “grand larceny against the
consumers,” because, he explained,
the consumers are made to pay the
higher prices fixed by the commis-
sion and they have no word to say
about it.
Among other laws which Mr. Bar-
ton wants to repeal is the ill-starred
silver purchase act. That law was
another one which the inflationists
in congress forced through in 1934
when all of the brain-trust camp
followers were in their heyday. The
only result that I can discover flow-
ing from the silver purchase act is
a grand outpouring of cash for the
owners of silver mines. They ob-
tained two or three times what their
silver was really worth.
Analysis of the limited number of
laws, I believe, shows the trend of
the Barton program. It may be
that he will never get to first base
with any of them. My conviction,
however, is quite to the contrary. I
firmly expect to see a growth in
the strength that such a program
will muster.
* * *
About the time you are reading
this column, there will be an inci-
. dent taking place
Milestone in ’way off in Tient-
Army History sin, China, that is
a milestone in the
history of the United States army.
Late in February orders become
operative for the departure of the
Fifteenth United States infantry
from Chinese soil. That, of itself,
of course, does not provoke particu-
lar interest. But the famous Fif-
teenth has been on foreign duty for
26 years and that is the longest any
unit of the United States army ever
has been away from our shores.
It ought to be explained that very
few of the soldiers making up the
Fifteenth infantry were with the
outfit when it first was assigned
overseas. But the regiment has
been stationed abroad and the re-
cruits to its ranks have been dis-
patched continuously to it as re-
tirements and expiration of enlist-
ments have occurred. It is now
coming back to American soil and
will be stationed at Fort Lewis.
The Fifteenth has a most honor-
able record, beginning with its or-
ganization in 1861. It won honors
at Shiloh and in the campaigns of
1862 in Alabama and Kentucky. It
fought at Murfreesboro, at Chicka-
mauga, Chattanooga, and at Atlan-
ta. In 1880, it was at the front in
the campaigns against Utes, and
again in the China relief expedition
of 1900, and these were followed by
action in the Philippine insurrec-
tion. There was a brief spell when
the regiment was on home soil, but
then it went to work in Cuba. Sub-
sequently, it was moved around
here and there until the Manchu
dynasty was overthrown and China
became a republic. It sailed for
Tientsin in November, 1912,, and
there it has remained.
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY. TEXAS
LET IT OUT
"I’ve been putting on weight and
this dress suit is rather too tight
for me. Could you let it out a bit?”
said a man to his friend, who did
a little tailoring in his spare time.
“I’ve never done such a thing,”
was the reply, “but I’ll see what I
can do.”
A week later the owner of the
suit telephoned to see how his friend
was getting on with it.
“Better than I expected,” said
the friend. “I’ve let it out to four
men already.”—Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
NOTHING DOING
Mother—Did the young man strike
you forcibly, Ruth?
Ruth—Why, of course not, moth-
er—no gentleman would strike a
lady!
All But
“Ah, old fellow,” said a man
meeting a friend in the street, “so
you are married at last. Allow me
to congratulate you, for I hear you
have an excellent and accomplished
wife.”
“I have, indeed,” was the reply.
“Why, she’s perfectly at home in
literature, at home in music, at
home in art, at home in science—
in short, she’s at home everywhere
except—”
“Except what?”
“Except at home.”—Tit-Bits Mag-
azine.
Safe Choice
While traveling through Europe a
fighter got into an argument with a
Frenchman. Digging into his pock-
et the Frenchman handed the Amer-
ican a card.
“We will settle this on the field of
honor,” he cried. “Choose your
weapons!”
The pug gulped.
“Boxing gloves,” he replied final-
ly. “At 50 paces!”
Stenographer’s Delight
"I’ve an invention at last that will
mean a fortune!”
“What is it this time?”
“Why, it’s an extra key for a
typewriter. When you don’t know
how to spell a word you hit that
key, and it makes a blur that
might be an ‘e,’ an ‘a’ or almost
anything else you like.”
Tender-Hearted
The Market Man—I have some
very fine shell oysters, all fresh and
alive.
Mrs. June Bride—You may send
me enough for my husband and my-
self and have them killed and
dressed. I couldn’t bear to chop
their heads off myself.
Morning After
Telephone Voice—Hello.
Telephone Voice—Hello.
Telephone Voice—How are you
this morning?
Telephone Voice—All right.
Telephone Voice—Sorry, wrong
number.—Columbia Jester.
Burp!
Young Wife—Yes, I do all the
cooking and baking for you, and
what do I get? Nothing!
Young Husband—Lucky you. I get
indigestion.
CLASSIFICATION
"Did you call that coal dealer an
old fossil?”
“I did.”
“Then to what geological age does
he belong?”
“The carboniferous, of course.”
Best Wishes
Ted—I had a fight with the boy
next door.
Father—I knew it. His father
came to my office today to see about
it.
Ted—Well, I hope you came out
as well as I did.—Exchange.
Cosmetically Speaking
“How do you manage to keep
your girlish complexion?”
“I don’t keep all of it,” answered
Miss Cayenne. “My maids purloin
at least 50 per cent of it.”
Three Frocks—a Wardrobe
^Isk Ms Jlnclher
© A General Quiz
16,
a
Enters Body
through
Stomach and
Intestines to
Ease Pain
Relieves
THROAT
PAIN
RAWNESS
it. That’s
that builds
and steers
50.
35-
Execrate the "Maybe" Man
There is a constitutionally “no”
man. You don’t like him because
he is stubborn. You also dislike
the “yes” man. What about the
“maybe” man?
At first Fortune smiles, after
you have made your pile, then
she threatens.
Common sense is mostly the
ability to estimate results of one’s
actions.
When a man marries for money,
his wife is seldom fooled, at least
not for long.
If We Only Knew What
We have a tariff “to keep out the
product of pauper labor,” but
something else must have gone
wrong.
Few know what wisdom is until
20 years after it has been em-
ployed.
Special laws should be made
for special malefactors. The
trouble is we are saturated with
the idea that all must be punished
alike to reform a single group.
One “I Know” Worth
a Dozen “I Thinks”
a dinner at eight, you’ll be cor-
rectly dressed in this frock.
The Patterns.
1976 is designed for sizes 32, 34,
36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and “
Size 34 requires 4% yards of
inch fabric.
1452 is designed for sizes 14,
18, 20, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 16
requires 4% yards of 39-inch
fabric.
1451 is designed for sizes 34, 36,
38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 re-
quires 5% yards of 39-inch fabric.
For collar in contrast % yard.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Plan With Vigor
The method of the enterprising
is to plan with vigor; to sketch
out a map of possibilities, and
then treat them as probabilities.
—Bovee.
There’s just one way to know
thing and that’s to know it. A lot
of fellows know things halfway,
but if someone comes along and
argues with them, right away they
begin to doubt if what they
thought they knew is so. That kind
of knowledge never gets a man
anywhere. Be sure. And, when
you’re sure, stick to
the kind of knowledge
bridges, bores tunnels
ships across the seas.
Such knowledge is also the kind
that builds character, that gives
proper direction to life, that en-
ables us to avoid needless trou-
ble and tragedy.
The speed with which Bayer tab-
lets act in relieving the distressing
symptoms of colds and accompany-
ing sore throat is utterly amazing
. . . and the treatment is simple
and pleasant. This is all you do.
Crush and dissolve three genuine
Bayer Aspirin tablets in one-third
glass of water. Then gargle with
this mixture twice, holding your
head well back.
This medicinal gargle will act
almost like a local anesthetic on
the sore, irritated membrane of
your throat. Pain eases promptly;
rawness is relieved.
You will say it is remarkable.
And the few cents it costs effects
a big saving over expensive “throat
gargles” and strong medicines.
And when you buy, see that you
get genuine BAYER ASPIRIN.
IF YOU want to be all set for a
1 full and gay Spring, have these
three dresses in your wardrobe.
Something for morning, something
for street and a lovely frock for
afternoon parties. All three are
easy to make. And you can have
the complete group for a fraction
of what you would usually spend,
if you make them at home.
Shirtwaist Style.
Trim and tailored, this is the fa-
vorite silhouette for Spring. The
skirt with kick pleat back and
front is fun to wear, very comfort-
able for walking and going about
your daily work. Note the yoke
top and inverted pleat in back of
bodice to permit perfect freedom.
It is a grand spectator sports
dress and will make up beauti-
fully in silk crepe, rayon print or
cotton fabrics.
Princess for Morning.
You’ll feel sweet as sixteen in
this pretty square-necked princess
dress with fitted lines. The sil-
houette is molded and slim. Note
the pretty sleeves, puffed high, to
make the waistline look even
smaller. Choose a pretty cotton
print or one of the new rayons to
make a dress as charming as the
one shown. You’ll find the pattern
complete with sew chart telling
you exactly how to proceed.
Fitted Lines for Afternoon.
Look lovely and picturesque in
this frock on molded lines with
uplift at the waist and soft shir-
ring in front of bodice. The roll
collar and low V neckline is very
slenderizing. You’ll enjoy the
good lines, the flattery of this
dress and its grand wearability.
Whether it is a luncheon for six or
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ilsIlSSr ■ figure out exactly where you want to go, how long you can stay, and
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marked especially interesting places with a star, or two or three—
■ tO 1 1 so that when you land in Europe, you know exactly where to go
Anno* ■■ b ■ sibba and what to look at. The advertisements in this paper are really
IflUsIfltv a guide-book to good values. .. brought up to date every week. If
1 H you make a habit of reading them carefully, you can plan your
iflhWfcV shopping trips and save yourself time, energy and money.
1152
1. How many fundamental odors
are there?
2. What famous actress was
born a Jewess, baptized a Catholic,
French by birth, and Greek by
marriage?
3. What is dry ice?
4. What was the length of the
President’s term as given in Alex-
ander Hamilton’s plan for govern-
ment of the United States present-
ed at the Constitutional conven-
tion?
5. What is the altitude of the
Dead sea?
6. The United States has diplo-
matic representatives in how
many foreign countries?
The Answers
1. Four—fragrant, burnt, acid
and caprylic.
2. Sarah Bernhardt.
3. It is a solid compressed car-
bon dioxide snow, the tempera-
ture of which is 114 degrees be-
low zero F.
4. For life.
5. The surface of the Dead sea
in Palestine is 1,290 feet below
sea level.
6. More than fifty.
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"Don’t I knowit, Burl,” Ab Hudkins
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is a good friend o’ mine. It treats my
tongue right, and it draws perfect.
In fact, P. A. makes a fellow feel he’s
right with the world.”
"Sure enough,” Bruce Galbraith
(center) puts in. "It’s one ’makin’s’
tobacco that rings the bell every-
where. I understand it’s as popular in
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