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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
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ITALIAN SURGEON HOLDS
MAN’S BEATING HEART IN
HANDS DURING OPERATION
NOTHING-BUT-TAXES
SESSION, NO TAXES
Scene of the tragic
Massacre of Texas
Heroes who deliber-
ately chose death
rather than surrender.
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MILAN, Italy. — A man’s beating
heart was held in a surgeon’s hand
recently during one of the rarest suc-
cessful operations in the annals of
Italian medicine, it was revealed here
today.
Recovery of the patient, Adolfo
Lelli, a 50-year-old store clerk, was
so speedy that in fifteen days he left
his bed.
The operation, first of its kind to
be performed in Italy and possibly
the first in Europe, was deemed nec-
essary following a long illness and
two crises which left Lelli totally in-
capacitated and on the .brink of death
due to thickening of the pericardium
sac enclosing the heart. The vital
blood-pump, beating only with the
greatest difficulty, was rapidly ap-
proaching incomplete paralysis.
Passageway Cut to Heart
Cutting a passageway to the heart,
the surgeon performed the operation.
He first sectioned three ribs, making
an opening big enough to allow him
to insert his jndex finger above. Re-
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Even so, the natural light in the
center of many kitchens is only
1/100th of the light at the window
sill. This is not enough for quick
seeing and nimble lingers at work,
and the addition of scientific light-
ing is the answer.
When a kitchen is light-condi-
tioned, you do not stand at the sink
or stove with your shadow falling
light at each work-center to ease labor and prevent eyestrain.
on your work. There are side-wall
fixtures or lamps with 60-watt bulbs
over each work area, and a 100 or
150-watt bulb in the center ceiling
fixture to give general lighting;
In the light-conditioned kitchen
shown here, note the smartly-styled
center ceiling fixture, the new “sof-
fit” lighting above the sink, and a
matching fixture at the cupboard.
about forty-nine billion dollars for
the old age program alone under the
present system. Critics have ob-
jected that such a fund is unneces-
sary and would be a standing temp-
tation to Congress to spend billions
of it on current expenses.
Some critics have suggested limit-
ing old-age pension reserves to a
few billion dollars, with benefits to
be paid from social security tax re-
ceipts. This, they say, would place
the program on a pay-as-you-go ba-
sis.
The Social Security Board is mak-
ing its own investigation of possible
changes, but declined to discuss the
results of its research until they are
presented to the advisory group.
Officials have expressed doubt
that any changes would be sought in
the reserve setup for the unemploy-
ment program. These reserves are
deposited in the Treasury to be
drawn on by the states to meet ben-
efit payments.
Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of
the Social Security Board indicated
recently that the board’s experts
were considering broadening the
By Jean Prentice
T TALKED, not long ago, with a
JL little elderly lady who had just
visited ... for the first time . . .
one of the modern new kitchens.
She was all a-sparkle.
“This kitchen,” she exclaimed,
“had a refrigerator big enough to
hold a steer, cupboards everywhere
. . . and the most marvelous light-
ing!”
She had visited a light-condi-
tiOned kitchen. Light-conditioning
is one of the newest conveniences to
be added to the room that, is so im-
portant a part of the homemaker’s
ilife.
Non-technically, the term means
having the right amount and the
right kind of lighting available .. .
regardless of whether or not the sky
outside is black with night or grey
with threatening clouds.
Often a kitchen has the most day-
light of any room in the house.
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scope of social security insurance.
He told the American Federation
of Labor convention in Denver that
possible moves in that direction in-
cluded advancing the amount and
time of payment for monthly old-
age benefits, and granting benefits to-
workers thrown out of employment
through physical disability.
Others have suggested that the act
be altered to include benefits for
farm and domestic workers, increase-
the monthly old-age benefits and be-
gin such payments before Jan. 1„
1942, the date established by law.
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A father whose own daughter was harming her eyes
under poor light started the train of action that brings
you the I. E. S. Better Sight Lamp.
«It is the first lamp ever designed to protect eyesight.
Every lighting feature of it is specified by the Illuminat-
ing Engineering Society. In over 2,000,000 homes it is
giving relief to tired eyes.
An opal glass diffusing bowl softens light, prevents glare.
Opening at top throws some light to ceiling, eliminating
eye-straining contrasts of light and dark. Wide shade
spreads light evenly over broad area. Special white shade
lining reflects more light than most shades.
You actually get from 3 to 5 times more light than from
ordinary lamps . . . yet the difference in operating cost
is only a cent or two an evening. Order one or more of
these sight-saving I. E. S. lamps for your home today!
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in your home for three days. See /
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eyes. Then if you decide to pur-
chase it, you may pay on easy
terms: small sum down, balance
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Many members of the Legislature
and a number of newspaper writers
have written articles trying to ex-
plain why no tax bills were passed
at the recent session of the Texas
Legislature. The following from the
pen of Raymond Brooks, well known
newspaperman, comes as near giving
the “low-down” on the much dis-
cussed subject as any article pub-
lished since the close of the session:
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NEW YORK. — Prediction that
many newspapers may be forced to
raise their circulation rates because •
of a fast rising newsprint and other
production costs, was given today by
W. G. Chandler, chairman of the
newsprint committee of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Associa-
tion.
Chandler already has asked pub-
lishers to protest to newsprint man-
ufacturers the threatened price in-
creases for 1938.
Newspapers in more than fifty
American cities have been forced to
raise their rates recently because of
increased costs, he said.
Costs of newspaper publishing, ac-
cording to statistics tabulated, have
been advancing recently far out of
proportion to increased receipts from
advertising and circulation.
ONE TREE ORCHARD
HAS 60 VARIETIES
OF APPLES, 1 PEAR
FREDERICTON, N. B. — A “one
tree orchard” on which sixty varie-
ties of apples and one pear flour-
ished during the past season is Frank
A. Good’s claim to fame.
By grafting shoots into sawed-off
branches of the parent tree, Good
said today he beat a record of a
United States horticulturist who
grafted twenty-five varieties of ap-
ples on one tree.
Good, who served twenty-five
years on the staff of the provincial
normal school as instructor of nature
study and elementary agriculture,
said he is increasing the number of
grafts. He said he has grown at'
young apple tree from the trunk of J
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WASHINGTON. — Major changes
in the social security system will be
considered when the Social Security
Advisory Council, a nonpartisan
group of twenty-four private citi-
zens, meets here Friday.
The council, consisting of twelve
representatives of the public and six
each of industry and labor, was
created in May to study suggestions
for amending the act. The council’s
recommendations will be laid before
Congress.
The study was ordered after a con-
gressional attack on the law, led by
Senator Arthur Vandenberg (Rep.)
of Michigan. Vandenberg has been
particularly critical of that phase of
the act which permits accumulation
in the Treasury of huge reserves.
Reserves represented by Treasury
obligations eventually would total
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Do you want to know where you
would go if you needed an “iron
lung?”
The machines are expensive, rang-
ing in price from $1,400 to $2,500.,
and in most instances they have been
purchased and placed in cities by-
public subscriptions. In some in-
stances, however, such as Del Rio
and San Antonio, the machines were
donated by public-spirited citizens.
Dr. John R. Brinkley purchased one
for Del Rio and Porter Loring bought
one for use in San Antonio.
One or more of the machines are
located, in addition to the two above-
named cities, at Houston, Galveston,
Port Arthur, Beaumont, Wichita
Falls, Austin, Abilene, El Paso, Pal-
estine, Fort Worth, Dallas, Tyler and
Longview. Other cities which have
campaigns under way for the pur-
chase of one of the machines are
Brownsville, Weslaco, McAllen and.
Bryan.
moving a small piece of the breast-
bone, he then pushed the heart out
into the open with his index finger.
Holding the beating heart in his
fingers, while the slightest inad-
vertent compression causing it to
beat either faster or slower would
mean paralysis of the heart and im-
mediate asphyxiation of the patient
through lack of oxygen in the blood
stream, the surgeon carefully sepa-
rated the tip of the heart from the
sac to which it had become attached.
Then he made a long incision verti-
cally downward through the sac as
far as the diaphragm, the set of
muscles separating the heart and
lungs from the digestive apparatus.
Then replacing the liberated heart
in its normal position, the surgeon
reinstated the removed section of the
breastbone, sewing it into place with
silver stitches.
Despite the extreme delicacy and
care which the operation required,
the entire process was completed in
exactly eight minutes.
fusal to let the state appropriations
be cut.
Could Have Saved Bill
He could have saved the bill as
late as 11:30 p. m. on the final night
of adjournment, as he sat among
members in the chamber of the
House. He could have done that by
opening the subject of appropriation-
cutting, when it would have been too
late for anything more than apply-
ing some lump-sum cuts for depart-
ments. Senator Franklin Spears—in-
cidentally an Allred supporter on
most matters—had carried a 20 per
cent cut in the Senate. Senate con-
ferees had given this up, and would
gladly have accepted a 5 per cent cut.
Spears himself, from the floor, of-
fered to scale his amendment down.
The pension-liberalizer majority
in the House wouldn’t have liked it;
but enough of them would have
flopped to have carried the tax bill
without the liberalizing rider.
One of the back-field errors was
that a group carried on the policy of
trying to segregate old-age pensions
revenues so as to get them only from
“illicit” sources, or by evasiveness.
The conference report tried to limit
the old folks to $500,00 from slot-
machine taxes and $300,000 from an
illegal general revenue appropriation,
subject to be knocked out by point of
order.
Another glaring error of judgment
was that of the big pension people.
Had they won their fight, they would
have done much harm to the very
old people they were trying to help—
greater harm than they did killing
the tax bill for paying pensions.
Texas, already one of the top three
states in the looseness of pension
eligibility, has long been on the rag-
ged edge of losing federal pension
matching. Only the 30,000 reduction
in the rolls has kept it from losing
money and its pension program go-
ing to smash.
If that House majority had
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vailed, and written orders into the
law that old folks, no matter how
wealthy or able their children were
to help support them, should be put
on the rolls, the only result would
have been that the social security
board would have cut loose, set up its
own examination system for passing
on eligibles, withheld all aid except
on its own reinvestigation and its
own terms, and refused longer to
bear a large part of the state admin-
istration costs.
Power Over-Built
Instead of having 113,000 people
getting federal-state pensions aver-
aging $14 a month, the federal gov-
ernment, possibly within a year’s
time, would have approved 50,000 or
60,000 for its share of matching, as it
determined that share.
In that case, the pension-liberal-
ists would have been up against ex-
plaining to their folks at home.
The idea of the political strength
of the old-age pension forces has
been enormously over-built. One
House member made a study which
showed that of the twenty-eight
House members who voted against
submitting the old-age pension
amendment originally, and ran for
re-election, twenty-seven were
elected.
Governor Allred, all during
thirty-day session just over,
minded the Legislature and the pub-
lic that he had asked that the appro-
priations be not increased, and had
protested increases. He vetoed out
over $1,000,000 of appropriations for
the Big Bend Park and a cotton
laboratory station, and millions of
dollars of tax diversions for districts
and soil conservation—crop control.
But he approved $15,000,000 in-
creases in the appropriations. He re-
peatedly said he would be willing to
retrench, if convinced this session
would do it. Majorities of both
houses voted they would do it, and
petitioned him by formal action of
the House and the Senate, to open
the subject of appropriation-cutting.
He refused to do it. When the bill
had been herded into the final cor-
ner, and his opening of the subject
would have trimmed $1,000,000 off,
he kept on refusing.
AUSTIN.—Senator Frank Rawl-
ings’ proposal for an agreed program
of economy and taxes in a non-sala-
ried meeting of the Legislature links
Tack to the labels on the session just
ended.
“Nothing-but-taxes”
the first title.
“The do-nothing” session came in-
to play.
“The dove-season session,” was the
familiar label.
But of all the names given prob-
ably that of “the great bull-head
-convention” probably was most near-
ly accurate.
Some of the members are looking
to what they would term a tragedy of
conflicts between three definite
groups. Some members are well
pleased that no new load of taxes
was piled on Texans; but many be-
lieved that the very meager and mild
tax proposal finally reached, and not
objected to by the principal groups in
the oil industry to which it applied
chiefly, would have been safer to
take than to kill and bring back the
dangers of a heavier penalty later on.
Economy Majority
One of the groups, those wanting
to give old age pensions to more peo-
ple, got the final blame for killing
the $4,000,000 tax bill, when they re-
fused to accept it without pension
liberalization.
The Senate economy group pro-
duced a clear-cut majority in both
houses, asking Gov. Allred to let the
Legislature remedy part of the $15,-
000,000 increases in state spending it
ordered early this year. This group
however yielded and accepted the
conference bill with the economy
feature cut out.
The third feature was Gov. All-
red’s unexpected and obdurate re-
fusal to let the Legislature shape the
appropriations bills just like he had
recommended in the spring that they
be shaped.
The particular incident that killed
the tax bill was the vote of the pen-
sion-liberalizers; but the underlying
cause for its failure was Gov. Allred’s
sharp and unyielding refusal to let
the Legislature cut a face-saving
amount off some of the big appro-
priation bills.
Succession of Errors
From the viewpoint of those who
wanted to raise a little tax money to
pay the obligations imposed by voters
in adopting the pension, teacher re-
tirement and two social security
amendments, the whole session was
a dizzy succession of errors, failures
and bad guesses. At least three
groups will be busy blaming, each
the other, in answering protests of
those who wanted something out# of
the session; and even those who
wanted no taxes, will have an in-
volved argument to make to the in-
dustry and business saved from new
taxes, because they weren’t the ones
who finally chopped the bill’s head
off.
There is a tremendously strong and
virile lobby of state officials and
employes dead-set against any re-
trenchment of state spending. Ap-
propriation cutting is the most un-
popular subject in Austin.
The power of this lobby lies in that
its workers are all on the ground;
that many of its leaders are impor-
tant political personages, and that no
small part of its numbers are kin-
- folks of lawmakers.
Out of the sizzing flames of criti-
cism, fed by Gov. Allred’s belated
declaration, by Speaker Calvert’s
historic “who killed Cock Robin” de-
fense of the House and the indignant
retorts of senators, this fact floated
up into visible detachment from the
rest of the smoke: ,
Gov. Allred could have had his tax
bill, much smaller than he asked for,
if he had yielded an inch in his re-
Comfortable rooms with sleep
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fans, and circulating hot water.
Splendid.food in the Crockett
Coffee Shop-moderately priced.
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The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1937, newspaper, November 4, 1937; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1230771/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.