Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 124, Ed. 1 Friday, January 5, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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BBOLATIONI8TB FIGHT FOR NEW PROGRAM
WASHINGTON January 5—The isolationist bloc
taCbngxsm rm oriel from the last session bloodj but
This court dectosoa la regarded as a distinct victory
for the government, but tt is rather hard on the
ginners Apparently the ginners were just too trust-
ful and the federal men were just too trustful of
West Texas cotton fanners who neglected to take up
FCA loans after their cotton was sold
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FOREION ISMS LESS POPULAR
The Ktncaid building on the north side of the
court square. which has been occupied by the Dan-
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boon rent
ice tor a number of years, has not yet
since it was vacated by the office moving
* A lawyer recently received a telephone bill M
years Into. Now he probably won't get the discount
for prompt payment.
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the obstacles which now stand in the way of con-
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good campaign in all the 254 coun-
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among large corporations, not without congressional
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hot ume
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Credit Administration and paid the money to the
farmers instead of the FCA The federal court for
the northern district of Texas several months ago
rendered a verdict for the jinnera. but the circuit
court of appeals at New Orleans ruled that the tin-
ners had no right to pay farmers for cotton that
was mortgaged to the FCA and that agents of the
TZ FCA had no right Co waive mortgagee
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WHERE YOU MEET YOUR FRIENDS
HELPY-SELFY
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Phones 1133 - 1153 Free Delivery Service
All this, you understand took years—six, seven
maybe eight . . v But it is there, and so today the
Greek who came from Sparta. Greece, to Sparta.
New Jenev is she master at his own particular Moimt
Vernon—the Spana Ina on leas than George gas
master of the home that now, is a shrine where thou-
sands of visitors pay their respects every year
I think I love the Sparta Inn so much because
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Winter NOW with Hav-
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BIO POLL TAX YEAR
All of Uie larger Texas cities and most of the
smaller ones have launched "pay your poll tax" cam-
paigns and from all indicatians. a new record will be
set in Texas this year, naff as and Houston are out
■ to surpass the other with around 100 000 poii taxes
each. nhQe Fort Worth is endeavoring to pile up
a voting strength of 00.000 m Tarrant County
J This is a year when a poll tax. will be a reel asset,
for It win entlUe the holder to vote in primary and
runrtff elections for county and State officials, and
then to rote tn the general election next November
when a prrMdei:-. arxi rice-president along with sun-
drv Coc.gresemen and Senators, will be selected Now
is the time Io get a poll tax to be able to do some-
thing other than just talk tn the heat of July eiec-
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to be bishop ol Wichita, Kan . and
the very Rev Dr. Sidney MatUiew
MeUger. pro-rector of St. John’s
Seminary. San Antonio, to be titu- ’
lar bishop of Birta and auxiliary
bishop of Santa Fe. N. M.
buy throe homes on a rer.taj pnretiaffi
have incentive and inaptratlon to t—
A Welsh schoolmaster baa been teaching chil-
dren for 40 years, but he can't read nor write.
Some day the kids are going to uoUee that.
Some folks in the east complain that their
hitching post U being stoien continually They
might try tying a horee to it and see what hap-
pens.
a Prwtert
tar—ii Arnold s re>
rurt prosocutlotu will
Mean Federation Of
Kiden Moray aa B»
and thtatMdC
lobby kt rttn Bro—
: to reduolkWriCud
A curfew has been placed on wrestling in Phila-
delphia making it the am attempt Io place a
legal time limit op honurtde
INSURANCE
EN ALL ITS BMANCRM
Writ— only 1a straw «M 1—
•tort aou—ntas.
Ba buying. Uuwnuiea^rou^ bg
nr issuiag your
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txaaa r—tu ship Transfer
t There is also the rhaixce that any attempt to dis-
poro of Amortean morchaat wbbIb made Mte by the
neutrality lawk cash-and-carry wettan wffl raise a
rumpus The proposed transfer of sight of th— ships
ta Pahama a mmrth or more ago. raised a great deal
of dust, and lator proposals to seU them to Great
Britain or Norway will be scanned equally cio^etjr.
The ieototton group ta a mtaurtty. but it B a re-
* lenUesc and watch! u. muxMltr. and any moviMbta
r ja ttalr eyes tends to lead the United States toward
them pouncing on it like cats. Any
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DENTON LAUNDRY A DRY CLEANERS
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in their ey-i tends to lead the United States toward
war will bring them pouncing on It like cats Any
effort for tort sure to get around the Johnson Act
ia arder to make loans to Bun^-ga countries wff!
get a quick onceover by this group Thta act forbids
Mans to any ooantry boar in iimiik of r<>.i«auanB
to the United Btntos. That ire-ludre mart of the
cotthtriM now st war. and various d<<iges have been
yrcBUMKl to^at around It
AtmM Rrgwt Hr
Aatatant Attorney Oanortd
gMBC for more money for anti
'{■MN* Btat fBpesltlrti ' The A
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THE MAN ON A FARM AND HIS HOME
During his visit to Little Rock Nathan Straus, ad-
ministrator of the United States Housing Authority.
■sM that he strongly favors amending the housing
act so that farmers may be pennittel to buy their
homes (As the law stands all bouses constructed un-
der the rural housing program would ixlong to the
U8HA •
It seems peculiarly desirable and appropriate that
rural families should own their homws. There are __
important social ends to be served by increasing home I monla.
ev—wasawraPi 1 r% M—d mil iha »—wanBm ssrbwm. i aim WmeawB— I ___ -H n-nmBB— -
1»M Batea oswpe. Ms ads rd «qeip.
pad. Dtavere ta Dentaa for stay
H— Bea diss Motor Os. Dswtea.
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This bill originally had the sponsorship of Ml sena-
tes*. and would practically tax war profits out of
cxtatence There is an alternative war profits pre-
poaal. the Lee toll but this u eapected to Ue dormant
*—of ttenamr LeTg etovnr > to the adminta-
trauon
Work for 300 men at this season
ot the year helpk the e< onornic »H-
uation vary materially hem. Mata
cd throe men would find ft dF“
mitt to get private employm
during the duU winter months.
a considerable
their oppenenu-
bsttsr known and II ta more diffi-
cult for the ’ out* ” to become I
known Personal MMitacu between '
candidates and voters is not as
easy in populous centers as else-
where It ii impossible for most
voters to know any of the candi-
dates personally and they are like-
ly to east their ballots for names
with which they are familiar.
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unbow tri They are right back this winter to serve 1
nonce that ah tasuro defining American relattona
with the Ruropean war are by no means settled
■tar one thing, there ta the matter of taxation at
war profits During the neutrality debate of last year,
the isotaUontato rtid bluntly ha if the embargo were
repealed they would demand adoption ot the Bone
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i the past 15 years.
There are various proabbie rea-
sons iccording to Moore One is
that in large cities the “ins' have
advantage over
Their names are
NEW BISHOPS APPOINTED BY
POPE PIUS
WASHINGTON Jan 5 —<AV-
Pope Pius XII appointed today the
most Rev Christian H Wmkel-
mann, auxiliary bishop of St Louis.
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ORANGES E-
By GEORGE TUCKER
NEW YORK. January’ 5 —He was a Greek and be I
was a waiter and he came from Sparta to the United
States, fought with the American army in France
and wound up eventually, in Sparta. New Jersey as
a waiter in the old Sparta Inn. an Inn where the
Colonists used to go for their buttered rum in the I
days before the Revdltrtion when Moody’s Raiders
were sweeping through there.
His name is Teddy Pringrw, and he is a very good
friend of mine Sometimes I go up there and fish or
hunt, as the case may be. and a number of years ago
I formed the habtt occasionally of taking him books
to read
All this time Lie was a waiter, but after a while, he
bought an interest in the Inn and then m a little
while he owned it outright It wawrt much of a place
when TVddy got it. and he began to make a few ini-
provetnentb. noa- and then when he gut the money
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Nineteen | ears Ago
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Lee S Reese and Miss Joe Sparger, society editor
the Recxird-Chronicle were married Saturday ere-
nlng at the residence of her cousin. Mrs. Effie Tem-
ple. 311 Texas Street. Mr. Reese ta manager of the
Hant-A-tard Company <m West Oak Street Upon
rrtum Iran thotr bonsymoon Mr and Mrs tame
Witt be at home at 303 Avenue B.
In his reading he became fascinated with the story
of George Washington—he calls him The Pox Hunter
—and though he never admitted as much, tt was easy
to see that Washington bad become his hero
As Teddy read more, and as he made new improve- f
menu on the Inn. I began to notice something
vaguely familiar about its appearance There w*»nt
anything I could identify outright But one year he
would add a wing here, and the next he would add
a wing there—and finally—last summer that ts—it
was complete And for the first tune the full supilfi-
cance of all these change* became apparent
It was Mount, Vernon There it was, with its high,
white columns, its king verandah, its windows and
iu strange. sympalheUc colotual elsgance
elected to fill the
> of Rep
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not let them
can’t get what
islature can be elected, k,
Turnover of the legislature may J
be heavy in many dtatncU. bt* .
If somebody would devise a way ’ Ho*nton sends its legislators right
politics out of .municipal back, cr has a record for doing so |
to keen pouucs out or, municipal »»
government affairs—and dut of fW
other government affair* as well— 1 *
he would be making a great con-
trioution to the economic welfare
of this country. So far. such has
not been done, and present condl-
Uom give no LudlcaUesv ti»»l such
will be the case any time soon The
theory of • city manager is- fine— '
U it would work It might, if poli-
tics could be kept out But even
at that, it would be a difficult thing
to do In the first place, a govern-
mental agency ta quite different
from individual effort, since the in-
dividual wants to collect all he can
and keep as much of it a* possible
for the future A government
should collect only what is neces-
sary to operate and not undertake
to accumulate money Also, the
people are not satisfied with a gew-
rnimen; to be run like an individ-
ual’s al'airs. They demand many
things ci the government that they
would not provide for themselves,
even if they had the money When
officials are honest and willing to
do their best, they can not oper-
ate an economical form of govern-
ment simply because the people will
When taxpayers
they want, they
a change in offl-
W N
He had
not sought re-election to the house
in 1938 so that he could run for
governor Asked whether he again
would go after the governoxship. he
replied
"I have no plans at this time In
that connection '’
day that fewer than a million Ameneara have been
influenced seriously by subversive activities and that
the influence of these foreign elements was rapidly
declining, due to recent exposures of the duplicity of
German and Russian dictators The activities of the
Dies committee also might be listed as a factor in
awakening a great number of Americans to the
rlnteter schemes of a eotnparatavely few agents of
foreign governments who were making definite in-
roads into American institutions and organtaaUons
While the activities of subversive groups have slow-
ed down somewhat, the Dies committee warns that
continuous efforts by American organucauoxu 'and
governmental agencies must be esurrieti on to ferret
•art Ihoae groups and taxttvutoais wno are guilty uf
un-American activities tf American people are to be
protected from there foreign tarns that depend on
Haas wars, disturbed labor and financial conditions
’ and other chaotic troubles to implant a dictatorship
in my opinion, a candidate
and his friends cannot get their
message ewer to the people for less
than >50.000 "
Farmer was <
unexpired term
Corry of Keller, resigned.
States May Taste Hatch BfU«-
Having swallowed the Hatch (dean politics) bill
e* (retata '4^'ftf*«UMMs4ra(ter. Otaita rey
pare the same tase aleng «o the states tMs wtater
Senators Hatch and Neely have proposals to bar
political activity to state oAcials in the same way tn
which the Hatch hill now bare it to federal o..-ce*
holders
This proposal is tn for rough sledding because mahy
congressmen are beneficiartak of too work of state
machine*, and will thtna twice before throwing a
wrench into them. *,f.. D ■
■f UWUfS RiMftr d*
amble on back to the kitchen and steal things out
of the icebox without saying anything to anybody
If I want a steak at 4 a. m.. cook it. Y have yanked
whole turkeys out of the icebox, and whole hams,
and all the wonderful fruiia that are a matter ot
course with Inns that are excellently managed, and
gorged until I couldn't walk
I have a date in January to go up there and fish
through the ice, and forage in the icebox, and sit
comfortably, after it is too dark to fish, in a pleasant
bar and swap pleasant talk with a Greek who found
in George Washington an inspiration and an ideal.
X JANVARTK 1»4>
STOpAY
By MHMRD T. MMtmtftfcfc----
AnrotMH Press Btan
Open warfare to Um 1M0 cam-
paign foe governor may not start
re early In the year aa It did two
yean ago.
In IW«, Bmsst O. Thompson an-
nounced on Jan. 1. - While develop-
mente not foreseen now might
cause a change in his plans, he ts
eacpeeted to announce this yeer in
Runner-up to W. Lee O'Daniel in
1988. Thumpaow's Mends say he
believes aa cwrty announcement is
not necessaiv because he ia bettr:
known. Mar rover, * longer active
campaign tn
more expensive
the voter* .»■* iayaYare at an T
Uer titne plans of poUUcal maneu-
vering. T
Of IB State senators whose terms
of offire expire thta year, probably
. .. - j-ireea 111 ixj ig ittreMwitae* ■
of the neort aanMe. .ire
This is the statement of Sena-
torjxWtaver Mooie of Houston
wrekatnuanw ana tatore ttat ww. a reretaer oi
inr Bomb « R milhbiMMiMi.t-
out of the to ssnaton who are
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or seven
whu Will not return. That ia the
average turnover each taro years
About hat number either win de
-xi. not to run or be defeated ’
“It ta possible of coarse, for the
aventg- not to obtain in any year
It might not prove out this year,
because It looks as though the 16
this time are unusually strong ”
ownership Not all the Lenanta who coustarulv shift
abort aEtdom working the aaanr land and living in
the same house two years tn successton. are men who
would buy hdm« 4f they rortd. But there are many
rural families that have tt in them to work and save
' tor a home of their own With the anchor of home
ownerrtitp a family is In bettor postttoe to make the
most «Tschool and church and demonstrated dub
«rxi other neighborhood aeUvMea.
The UBHA proposes to build its rural h mires on
one-acre tracts, sufficient land tor rteWlnyrertt bv a
home-owning family into a little hcrnext.wzl with a
garden and * poultry ran and some fratt trees
If famtoes of the right kind oould Im enabled to
buy these homes on a rer.twi pui rftMt plan they would
have mcendre and inspiration to thrift and to more
, profitable farm operation to obtain the money needed
for home pffiBMUta—Arkansas Oaartte
^Mrv-al worns?' has never rr.rteri a w-ntenev with a
preponuou. The resson ta that
ed the sad of a
The 16 senators are A M Aikin
Jr of Paris. E Harold Beck pf Tex-
arkana Hcughton Brownlee ot
Austin. Gordon M Bums of Hunts-
ville. Wilbourne B Collie of East-
land. Dora Hardin of Waco. J
Manley Heed of Stephenville. Ver-
Doa Leruena of Waxahachie, G. H
Nelson of Lubbock. Will D Pace of -
Tyler, Jdhn S Redditt qf Lufkin.
Moiris Roberts of Pettus. Clint C
Small of Amarillo. J. FrankUn
Spears of San Antonio. Albert
Stone of Brenham and H L. Win-
field of Port Stockton
Most at tivese men tiave served
full four year terms. Senator Har-
din has served about two years,
having been eievted to fill out tiie
unexpired term ot Senator W.
Newton, who died in office
Seventeen new senators may
chosen The seventeenth would
to the place of Senator Clay Cotten
of Palestine, who is not up reg-
ularly but may resign. Cotten has
been appointed director of the gas
I utilities division of the railroad
I commission but has not resigned
I as senator and has not qualified
for the commission position He
has been ill.
If there is no special session of
the legislature,
that Gov O’Daniel wouid call a
special election to choose a succes- >
sor to Cotten, even if Cotten re-
signed Ttie election probably
would be at the time of the July
one of Hous- that much more than that amount
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Projects .now under way and
Uffire MttMufod tar Uto future
should mean the employment <4 •
large .lumber of men here for a
long time to come Aa a matter
Of tact. severar’WPA “ ----
beenuiKfer way «*■ *
umSIv for many VI
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The Paris News has this to say:
TOWARD MONOPOLY
The Federal Communications Commi&rton. accord-
ing to forecasts from Wasliington. will recommend
not only the uninesuou of the Pcutai Telegraph and
Western Union Companies, but also the transfer to
the new company of leased wire and teletype services
of tl* American Telephone and felegrupti company
If this forecast ia borne out another striking illus-
traUou will have been provided of the manner in
wbfch government regulation under the New Deal
promotes nwnopolies The cotnmtasmn. it is said, will
justify the proposed consolidation by saying that
there u not enough telegraph business for two com-
panies and that the plow nt physical condition of the
propertie* is such that the national defense is im-
periled
These may be valid reasons and then again they
may be plausible pretexts for doing exactly what the
bureaucrats want to do. Regulation, particularly as
tt has been conducted under the New Deal, has pro-
moted monopoly The CotnmunlcaUons Commission
has permitted two radio chains u> own or dominate
half the radio stations in the country and almost all
of the big ones The Civil Aeronautics Commission has
greatly restricted corapeUtaon among air lines NRA j st^rt' d^nanduig
"* J? .,Bney for te^Uig monopoly practices and be he mayor or’city man-
; agpr he will be replaced unless he
I to satUbfy a Iafmc tnsjor*
The New Deal promotes conaentration of economic I tty of the people and so satisfying
power through regulation Ooncentratior) can serve I he is not ‘ ‘ ‘ -
many purposes among others it will avoid many of i economic
the obstacles which now stand in the way of con- affair.
FLORA finch of movie fame
BL’CCUMB*
HOLLYWOOD. J*h 5--
Flor* Finch, a famous film co-
medienne of the nickelodeon days,
is dead after years of obscurity An
accidental arm-scratch led to a
streptococcug infection which sent «
her last Saturday to a hospital.
She died there late yesterday of
blood poisoning and bronchial pneu-
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ADMIRATION
Lions are said to #ve payehologists valuable aid
on traits of the cal family, and they ore being
psychoanalysed by three scientists. The neiMcft-
en might save tbemsetvea a tot of tone just by
looking over the story of Daniel
Rumors that he would not run
tor stale treasurer are unfounded,
Harry L McKee of Port Arthur
eaid here.
“I am in the race to a finish and
believe I will win " said McKee,
who wa_s a representative in the
43rd 44th and 45th legislatures
In 1938 McKee attempted to un-
seat Senator Allan Shivers, also of
Port Arthur, and failed
* Arother who has indicated he
wrtU go gunning lor Treasurer Char-
ley Lockhart is Rep Lon E Al-
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aVBSCRlPTtOR Lira
OM rear (IB advaaoa)
Ma nwathi by mail (to advanoe) —
Three nurnUxe b» matt (In advance) —
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NOTICK TO THE PUBLIC
Any csraMoua reflection upon the chasMtas, repn
os stoMUng of aap Arm. UtaividiMl
, wm ^e Kladiy eenwMrt upon being caBefl tg toe
— to saetartvsly snUttod to toe
wiuT^-as-ws
local news publtobed hertta.. • > ~
DENTON. TEXAS JANUARY i. 1940
GINNKRH LORE 1600.000
Texas ginners stand to lose gMO.OOQ they paid to_
’the flnnew took the word of e<ento of the P^rm
-h ea
Of
position
OCStditMMl
obtain- a city manager can do
both in making for
and in keeping ex-
When it does not
exist when the manager is be-
set by the aldermen or commis-
sioners who employ him with
requests • sometime* thinly
veiled orders» to employ this
nr lira’, person, a friend or de-
pendent of the aiderman or
commissioner, the city man-
agement ta in name only. For
if the requests are not com-
plied with there are ways plen-
ty at "*
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Dallas may have not put this
burden on Its managers, but
the fact that none of them
. they W ine arrive in thr atofidto at the night and occupied the place much tf any
longer than an elected mayor
would have done, indicates
that some politics' is still
oeing played And Dallas 1*
not alone among Tevas citiea
in political activity.”
sup of Cartilage chairman of the
house committee on contingent
expenses and one of the veterans in
the legislature s lower branch
Lockhart ta now serving his fifth
consecutive term al two years each
As a result cf a constitutional
amendment adopted in 1936 his
job is one of the beet paid in the
state government. >6.000 a year
Prior to the constitutional amend-
ment which also boosted salaries
of five other state officials the
treasurer received >2.500
The cost of conducting a first-
class campaign leg governor in
Texas ia at least >50 000. says Clar-
ence Farmer of Fort Worth recent-
ly returned to tl»e House -of Rep-
resentatives. in a special elecUoti
and in ’<138 an unsuccessful guber-
natorial candidate
The law puls a top of II00Q0 on
personal expensre of candidates
for governor, but it ta wed known
Since 1934 only one of Hous- . that much more than that amount
tons legislative delegation ol six usually is spent on behalf of a
real contender
’’You might well put it down
that i| costs a lot of money to run
for governor in Texas.’ Farmer
j aaid. “and this may be for perfect- I
| ly legitimate npuuw. Texas no
but'
has been defeated. Senator Moore
further commented
In other words, it seems that
Houston ta one of the safest places
, from which a member of the leg-
eitiea |
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Bad weather Is causing some de-
lay in the extensive WPA con-
struction program in Denton, on
which about 300 men are now ert-
ployvd Tbess projects include
several ftgr the oiunicip. aty. and
the construction eg,«n educatioo
tattldttM at the State Cottsge for
Women ■ rt. ■> ’ •'*’ w
Among other things that
were reviewed in Dallas news-
papers. covering the last ten
years, was that Dallas had in
that jienod changed its city
government from the old-
fashioned form ta city mana-
ger set-up One. at least, of
the stories, however, did not
recount that in the nine years
Dallas has had a city mana-
ger (here have been three men
occupy ing the place and that
the hangxjs that were made in
personnel—all stemmed back
to what ta called, for want per-
haps of a better word, ’poli-
tics’. Dallas like many other
ciues plays politic*. The outs
want in and the ins strive to *
slay in That is perfectly nat-
ural and not to be cause lor
wonder But so long as a city
is politically minded and allows
what once was called ward
politic? to nourish, that city is
no better off under city mana
gersii p than under any other
form Of government. The pur-
pose ol having a city manager
is to have administrative au-
thority vested in one man who
is not dependent on favor
the voters for his
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