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DENTON, TEXAS, RECORD-CHRONICLE, TUESDAY, JULX 28, 1937
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have provided, however, an exhibit
f ehe No. Yonk Academm) 4 Mh-
Remarks the Henrietta Independ-
Kimbrough-Tobin Drug Store
Then it does take hold. In spite
t practiced, the achievement will be
Puri
Free Delivery
Telephone 47
The
solution of the patient’s dimical-
need to work for his living
a ____ . • • •
two thickly-populated Far Eastern
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there This happened again.
and because he had seen guards dis-
I
L. Bcott, county demonstration
East Elm Street
Phone 248
Truman Bcott and Lawson Robertson of Denton
oped in recent weeks.
i lain infectious diseases, the belief
Memorial Day
Clash Newsreel
the patient Then the treatment, to '
ACCIDENTS
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READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS
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Blum, Texas
Let Stuart Do Your
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PLUMBING
only
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Tim Meddln shys: "Frum my standpoint It mite
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sale. They fascinate him and that’s just his way
of decorating his office Paintings and Towers leave
him cold, but to his way of thinking, nothing is so
attractive as a row of nice, smelly catchers’ mitts
GOOD
DEMAN
BER.
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having become a little dun, Ja-
pan and China have taken up
the cause and are fighting fu-
OFT
OF
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who for many months had been cruelly neglectful.
It's the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which in
Plenty
ny Sp
A goo
of the very marvels of modern med-
icine. Because so many specific rem-
edies and cures such as anti-toxins
and immune serums are available
for the effective treatment of cer-
The king-pins of them all, of course, are Shaw
and H Q. Weds who, with Kipling, for years con-
stituted the “big three" of English letters. Shaw be-
gan his career as a critic and went on from there to
become world-famous as a cynic and a playwright
But Wells was a big man tn letters before he ever
wrote a line for the newspapers. He was the only one
their relief, not in money, but in
the effort to attain a cure.
Witness the overweight patient,
who persists in carrying a burden
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
In Memory of
Mrs. W. T. Hester
hand shop whei
But it isn't Th
on horses, but
19 Years Ago Today
(From Record-Chronicle. July 20, 1918)
JUST
AMONG US
FOLKS
The charge was linked with new
shakeups in high offices
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oosriphL 1937, MA
46.50
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Friends he
of the birth
named Vurg
Mrs. J. Fraz
leans. The
Miss Virgini
do happen, often causing
much expense for doc-
tor. hospita lization,
nurse, etc. A Maryland
policy, for a small prem-
ium, pays the entire ex*
■ pense up tn $500 or
11000. Phone or see
HI<<O<IUK<HSSSI
BIBLE THOUGHT FOB
TODAY
one may purchase such bric-a-brac,
roprietor is a "book" and takes bets
he boxing gloves et al. aren't for
it
a J. 2WAASS .....
U A. McDONALD -
I JU R MCDONALD
A ■. poWL
No otter
degree I
ta a ser
matter
Attentio
only serve his patient by guiding The newsreel which caused |
have been repaired, are to be added
soon.
tionist and a poet, and so was Gilbert Chesterton. [ ent:
who spent most of his life actively engaged in writ-
ing for the press Up to the time of his death he
never failed to turn in at least one column a week.
FREE, UNLIMITED, UNRESTRICTED PARKING
SPACE AT W. L YARBROUGH, Jeweler
Phone 128. Oakland, Across From Lowry Hall
"OPEN NIGHTS UNTIL 8”
M
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ties. Beyond this, he is powerless
One can lead a patient to his
Soviets Execute
24 More Spies
Willy Nilly promised to tell peo-
ple this just as often as he could.
And then Willy Nilly stopped
the car along a lovely patch of field
DEPENDABLE REPAIRING
Complete Body and Fender Repairing and
and Painting
Best of Service On All Make Cars
CALVERT BROTHERS
Your correspondent desires to welcome back an old
friend who once favored him with no end of mail, but I
large circulation when It is consid-
ered that the project is new and
that it will take time for the peo-
T W Leverett announced Friday afternoon that
he had sold his stock of hardware to Harris A Bent-
ley of Abilene who will take charge July 25. The new
proprietors wiul conduct the business in the same
location for the present at least, and Mr. Leverett
will continue his grocery business in the same room
People in need of reading matter
should take full advantage of the
services the library offers No fee
From the prison Bemeimans was
sent to Buffalo as a guard in a newly
which has been of great value to
the committee in endeavoring im-
partially to ascertain all of the facts
relating to this particular phase
of the investigation",______________
The picture to be shown at the
Texas is exactly as it was made
without editing and as it was shown
before the U. S Senate committee
in Washington, D. C., it was stated.
cat bird who had paid them a visit
in the spring
Willy Nilly talked to some bats
who asked him to please stop the
gossip about their getting into peo-
ple's hair.
"We've never done that and we
would be as miserable as any per-
son if we got caught in such a way."
said the bate "And if we get intom
room at night please ask people to
turn out the light until we can go
back into the darkness of night
again.
“The light blinds us and fright-
ens us. So please ask them to be
a red squirrel who was as gay and
lively as could be even though Wil-
ly Nilly knew that the red squirrel
' was not always as well behaved as
by organised labor's friends as dangerous, dumb bus-
neaa Rqosereu a friend at labor at least to date, may
try to do the job himself. •
me scoop in this column, however is the fact
, to make way for
Ung of the struc-
■ buildings which
ly acquiring a cure.
Part of this difficulty arises out
Five Denton County boys, members ot the county
agricultural cluka, will leave for College Station Sun-
day to attend the boys' club section of the farmers
short courses at the A A M College. They win be
mtma • emeond-ciae mal mattar at Demtom,
------...JT . ... --------------------
Daily smsuea at 214 Wet Hickory Btteet, Denton.
Ti, every alerogm excepe Sunday by the Record-
Cromidle Comgang. Inc
ing book. —
boiling point arrived. for this
• Bemeimans was made
Contemporary Thought
DANGER IN SPECIAL SESSION OF
LEOIBLATURE ON TAXES
With a special session of the legislature In prospect
for September or shortly thereafter to raise new rev-
man there is worry over the growing tax burden,
the necessity for new revenues arising from appro-
priations rather than from Increasing deficit Off-
setting somewhat the deficit tn the general fund is
the surplus In the school fund As a matter of fact
large part of the general fund deficit is due to the
school fund surplus.
The governor is reported to be committed to a
further increase in taxes on natural resources, re-
cently hiked both through higher levies and through
increased assessed valuations in the meantime, there
is examination ot the state financial situation by
several parties in a hope of showing the legislature
that small if any additional revenues are needed
State taxes are Increased tremendously, as shown
by the official report of collections And a variety of
Interests are well aware of the increased rates and
mereased assessed valuations Increased school fund
was to relieve schools that were short of local funds.
Ute bevent intended to reduce local taxes for school
purposes But the local reduction has been more ap-
parent than real
Once a special session is called. numerous bills for
tax inereases will be Introduced Had the last regular
session passed all tar bills offered these would have
Mother of Mrs. Dave Barrow
.......— Denton, Texas - -
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1835 Oldsmobile Two-door Sedan
1931 Pontiac Two-door Sedan
1930 Marquette Coupe
DICKSON-HAMILTON MOTOR CO.
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pce
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pie over the county generally to be-
come accustomed to receiving the ।
services the project has to offer.
The library now has 1,600 books on
the shelves and many others, which
1
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by __ ______
agent. and Mrs Mna W Trie, county home eco.
open ics agent. The boys who will go are Tom Harwell
of Aubrey and Bollle Carpenter Raymond Willams,
ly Unfortunately, while massage
. may whip up circulation, there is
We Are Equipped To Do
ENGRAVING
Or Do Anything in the Photographic Line
THE CARRUTH STUDIO
when away from his job. Some
would have their cures as others
take their exercise, that is, passive-
Senator LaFollette, chairman of
the committee said: Following the
Memorial Day clash between strik-
ers and police, the Senate commit-
tee requested Paramount News to
furnish it with the print of the
pictures they had made on the
n
• (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service,Inc.)_____
Ivan Akulov, a Soviet official, has resigned be-
cawe at a chronic headache. You know the kind
—with shooting pains
With the new fruit season's run of startling
stories. mud-slingers appropriately will shut from
“snake in the grass'' to "spider in the bananas."
• • •
Funny thing about our European cousins When
they're taking enough or a licking to holler “Un-
de," they never forget to add the "Sam.”
• • •
The navy, at least, should appreciate the work
of trailers. In the next generation should be many
a youngster with sea-legs as a natural heritage
• * * • .
Reports of people swallowing coins, safety pins,
bolts, etc., are not the end of such things. The
tales themselves are sometimes pretty hard to di-
gest.
prohibition days produced its “cUp sheet" each week
for correspondents here, but which seemed to fold up
after there wasn't ady prohibition any more
Here’s the "CUp sheet" again, however, and it's en-
tirely devoted to a long and learned summary of
Supreme Court decisions in cases having to do with
strong drink. It seems th court from away back has
taken a sock at strong drink every time it had the
chance. In these days when the Supreme Court is
beleaguered by the forces of Mr. Roosevelt, the big
repeal man of four years ago. the Methodist Board
comes stalwarty to the defense of an old ally.
Of course the nation has gone wet again and your
guess is as good as mine as to whether the board is
going to the opponents of the Presidents court plan
more good than harm.
(Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.)
£
Strangers wandering past that little leathery-smell-
ing nook in 6th avenue will notice any number of used
boxing gloves, baseball mitts, leather aprons hanging
on the walls. To all the world it looks like a second-
A,,
iain
LU2NMN
While Japan probably awallonwinAuttpaytenpPateros
Tuesday morning,
extensive remodel!
tures. The three
not so well known books—"My Lady Nicotine."
Kipling, Who died within the last year, was a news
scribe in India before becoming famous M < fit-
picture at the moment. This is per-
naps the reason one must read a
good deal of the book before it takes
hold.
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R
he might be. He was rather fond
of being destructive, but Willy NU-
ly found him an interesting chat-
terer.
He also talkea to an old gray
squirrel who told him that his fam-
ily and the red squirrel family were
not friendly at all.
They passed along and heard a
bird who was imitating their own
voices and the voices of many
--- . ' .T — 1 for • cat—the cat wu one of a large
no comparable method for passive- group of cats which had been drug-
lu enmiring a cure fed, but which bad escaped and writ
w*ndrrin« about drunkenly. He
ye have eternal life: and they are. —.
they which testty o merdohr 5: | hmeateain"timei isseany enough | a furore in the senate committe in- l
—
6as
principal of
school, in i
recently.
moon in the
bridegroom
Bouthwest-
Collage at £
opened madhouse. Like a true Tyro-
lean Bemeimans could not help but
open himseir to tbe influence of the
place. Little by little it took hold un-
til. one day, he heard a perfectly dis-
tinct voice call his name from be-
of 20 or 30 pounds of obesity, or I_____________
the hard-working business executive + bind—and when he turned, nobody
who will not learn to relax even , stood
in compliment of the members of the club who
leave Thursday with the Denton County increment
for service in the national army, the Hits Club will
entertain wtth a dance this evening at the club rooms
The dance is expected to be the biggest social event
this season as arrangements for it are elaborate. Jags
music will be furnished by Dallas musiclans and it
is expected that several out at town guests will be
present Members of the Elks Club who leave Thurs-
day are Clyde Cocanougber. Alvin Bush, Otis L
Foleler and Maurice Bralle.
________ ___ __ _________ _ Added to the generally unsettled I
Oalsworthy. Galsworthy was born'rich; he had no conditions across the water, is the
— - --- serious threat of war between the
B, DR IAGO GALDSTON
BETTER MEDICINE
A least one Denton County boy was on the U. 8.
cruiser San Diego, which was submarined Friday off
me Atlantic coast He is Dewey Smith. son of W. M
Smith, formerly of Banger but now of McAlester.
Okla. and a nephew at H L. Edwards at this city
Tonne Smith was reared in Banger When last heard
from be was in New York, where he bad Just ar-
rived for the voyage.
I you are ooking for
quality, price, workman-
ship and service, then
call 41 today.
Stuart Plumbing Co.
IOLE OOMFAXY. DSC
..........Osnarel
eppeer. and suddenly reappear among
the patients at meals, he decided the
best thing to do would be to steal
a pistol and shoot himseir But when
he started for the pistol. he stumbl 'd
Denton people were glad to see
the work of clearing away the debris
from the Evers buildings fire started
"War activities in Europe
Member Audit Bureau of Oirculatona
Member Aasoclatea Press.
Mam bar Texas Dally Press Leng-a.
PHONES
Businas and Editorial Office---
Oteculation Department ...........—— —
SUBscaIPTION naTks
Owe year tin advance) .......... ■—
•lx mouths by mall (in advance) ...... —
Threa months by mall (la advance) .. —
One month delvered —......-............ - —
NOTICE ToT FUBLIC
Phone 23
| “MY WAR WITH THE L
STATES," by Ludwig Bemelmans.
Ludwig Bemelmans "My War
■ m With the United States ’ is simply i
■ Mem 'the war” and soldier duty seen from
■ ■ ■ a peculiar angle. It stltshed a
• “ “ little late—war books are out of the
Here’s a news item we hadn't
been hearing much of in recent
years. It pertains to a labor short-
age in various farming areas, just
at a time when farmers are pre-
English, fighting Germany for Amer-
ica, yet able to see the absurdities
is widespread that, were th. phy- arde-mArqanotugtreths the
sicians but to put themselves forth, concluding yarn about the elephant
specific remedies could be developed cutlet and the countess, for example.
UNITED spot. These pictures are not a com-
oeimene 1 plete portrayal of all the incidents
t leading up to, nor of the events
' which took place on that day They
Any erronecus reflection upon the etanewr, repu-
tation or standing of any firm, individual or CorpoA
tion will be gladly corrected upon being called to the
publishers’ attention.
-
pono tnefte credntea la this paper and •e
ioiswpublahdnbreth.___________________
DENTON, TEXAS, JULY 20, 1937_______
" ; ~ WORTHY OF TRIBUTE
Engineers, architects, educators and other promi-
nent citizens attended a testimonial dinner in Fort
Worth last week, tendered to Julian Montgomery,
director of the Public Works Administration in Texas
who has resigned to take charge of the Willacy Coun-
ty irrigation project This spontaneous expression of
appreciation for the work he has done while head
of the PWA in Texas should be particularly pleasing
to a man who had one of the most difficult jobs in
the State, and acquitted himself well.
Denton has a personal interest in the former PWA
director, for more than *1.500.000 has been spent by
the PWA In Denton for college and school buildings
during the time Montgomery was in charge. Those
Danton citizens who had occasion to consult with him
probably appreciate best the trying job he had in
working with delegations from all parts of the State,
each intent upon getting immediate action on their
requests
Behind Scenes in Washington
m, RODNEY DUrOEm
NEA Bentes Staff Correspondena
WASMNGrON, July The "senator closely
identined with the labor movement “ reported in dis-
patehes to have asked Roosevelt to sette the fatn-
eldal o. I O.-A. F of L, carnage, and to have offered
• peace tormuta at his own. to—perhaps one should
add “or course"—the Hott George Berry at Tennessee,
head of the pressmens union.
The prominent gent closely identified with the
whit House who has just thrown the formula into
his wastebasket is the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt
The fellow who laughed hardest when he heard
about it was John Lewis, who hasn’t enjoyed many
uproartots laughs lately The formula proposed to
provide * place for Lewis subordinate to a new presi-
dent of the 4 r of k who would have been elected
Io scceed Wilam Green
Some sort of true* or semi-truce probably will be
arranged sooner or later, perhaps sooner Jurisdic-
tioai battles between C. I. O. and A. F of L unions
of that select British group who did not begin in the
Fleet Street shops That to, except the late John
wreckers” was reported from the , or thene conditions frequently nec- i
Soviet Far East today, essttates the closest co-operation of ]
The Khabarovsk, Siberia, court the patient Then the treatment to '
which sentenced then to death ac- be effective, requires strict observ- 1
cused them of sabotage along the I ance of the instructions given by ,
trans-Siberlan railroad the physician and these in turn
CThe executions raised the total I cau for seif-discipline and fre- '
of persons reported executed in So- quentiy for a radical change in the ,
riel Russtas spy hunt in recent patiemts viewpoint
months to 333, most of them in the 1
I Far East.) ‘
Pravda, eommunist party news- :
paper, charged delay in harvesting'
the Soviet’s bumper wheat crop .
n time. It to easy enough • furore in the Senate committee in- 1
I to remedy a diphtheritic infection vestigation of th. Memorial Day
! with diphtheria antl-toxin The pa- I clash in South Chicago between
tient makes no contribution to this strikers and police will be shown at
cure But the coat to otherwise when the Texas Theater Wednesday and
the sufferer is afflicted with indi- I Thursday -
I gestion, sleepleesness, chronic fa- The committee on civil liberties g
_ _ ____ tlgue or with any of the numerous Lof the United States Senate, has been
MOSCOW. July X —Execu: constitutional and funetional dis- holding a public hearing on the
tion of 24 more alleged "Thoskyist turbances. Memorial Day happenings
and Japanese terrorist spies and p To begin with, the very diagnosis --"
When not
you don't .
trouble ma]
tion. Poor
symptoms,
lstlessness
Constipati
"Tow-bulk”]
family Kell
generous so
Within tl
sorbs twice
and gently
out the syi'
than taking]
All-Bi__
B to tone
iron for the
fuls daily
Three times
Serve as a
cream, or
muffins, bi
Sold by
Kellogg in
Interest in the county Mbrary, es-
tablshed in the court house in s
move inaugurated by the Junior
Shakespeare Club, is indicated by
the fact that 1,200 books have been
circulated during the few weeks the
library has been open. This is a
laughed, and did not shoot.
The same off-center viewpoint la
preserved all the way to the end of
Mr Bemelmans' book Mr Bemel-
’ mans was a German with very faulty
Stover Funeral Home
FUNERAL DIRECTORS - AMBULANCE SERVICE
320 W Oak Street. Phone 211
-y -v- - --- 18 charged and any one may ob-
But these members of Congress hope and plan to tain the books for reading The c. -u. -oia
ask for an agreement that there shall be no jurisdic- books mav be kept for two weeks, birds. Wily Nily recognized the
tional strikes, that the A E. ol L. will not try to break l which is of special interest to those
any moreN I. O. strikes, and that disputes between aving some distance away,
the two latpr organizations will be referred to some - - - --------
When better medicine will, be' of the fact that its author to ap-
practiced, the achievement will be parently a proresstonal eccentric, de-
largely to the credit of the patients hiberately distorting matters so that
— - -- ------------his quite usual war experience shall
become amusing, the result to a most
increased the tax burdens by *150.000.000. The 193« —
report of the comptroller discloses that the state
government collected in taxes fees, licenses etc . a
total of 8148,500000, by far more than the state had
ever collected before. Of cuorse, only a few of the
tax bills offered will be passed but there is danger
in the mere conaideration of new tax bills
in every campaign, candidates for state offices,
pledge dedreaaed taxes But that has not come, and
we need to watoh the situation closely. We need not
let the deficit in the general fund push us too far
in the field of taxation for that can be retired grad-
ually —Sherman Democrat
riously. Floods, famine and
earthquakes do not kill off their
population fast enough, so they
join in the use of powder and
lead."
MeMb
By Mary Graham Bonner
ON THEIR WAY
wmy Nilly took thenwheel of the
car and they drove off Every once
in awhile they would stop Some-
times Willy Nilly would chat with
those he met on the way. .
He had a ftne chattering talk with
that a group of liberal senators and congressmen,
niendy to labor u • whole but beset by both AP
of L and C L G lobbyiats, is planning a public appea | be better to spank the parents of the children that
to both sides Realista know that hatred between ‘ rerm intent on xoin‘ w perdition -Homer Price in
Lewk and certein craft unlen chief* woudn permit ( Mrshall Newa. ri l
4 - for all diseases.
. - Th* fact, however, is that science
T___ ... warrants no such hope or promise.
The patient looks to hls physician j
WHY READ THE BIBLE: Search for a cure, when at best, and in
the scriptures: for in the mye think most instances, the physician can |
The other day they tagged Enzo Flermonte, a fancy countries. . ,
dan at the prize ring, with a jail sentence tor ignor- : could make fairly quick work of
ing a traffic sumraons And did that make good boys whipping China, there might be
out of the Broadway crowd—well, two of them any- world reverberations with g conse-
way. Il waan 24 hours after Enzo received the bad . quence. that would affect many oth-
new* that a liveried chauffeur arrived in traffic court er nations before the conflict were
to pay a dollar fine for Milton Berle, the stage and I settled It is reasonable tobelleve
radio coate Berl* was fined for parking his auto- ] that. Japan, wu her growing POP-
mobile in a restnicted area opposite 49 West soth illation and small territory, has had
street i covetous eyes on Chinese areas for
Then five minute, later. Herman Shumlin, the ] a long time, and the wonder really
producer came legging it into court He. too. forked is, that thesnationhaswaited.so
over a buck, that being the damage levied against Jong to start a row. There have
him by Magistrate Louis B Brodsky for ignoring city ] heen manyserious threata of war
traffic laws during a forgetful moment the day before I fare without much fighting in vart-
- I ous areas in Europe and the Far i
East for months aha this latest'
discard may blow over without a real I
war. But many view the situation as
serious enough to feel uneasy about I
the conditions which have devel-1
patient and not chase us with
brooms. We’ll do no harm.”
Man About Manhattan Egging I -at
B R wagessinW”"930 were reported be- tfu worid in which he lised
NEW YORK. July 10-—The recent demise, of Sir ling offered, and still many crews
James M. Barne,who wrote "Peter Pan. brings toJof workers were operating short-
light the interesting fact that almost without exceP- handed it worries folk needing i
tion the upper-bracket writers in the London lit- workers not to be able to get the
erary scene graduated to literature from the news necessary number to carry on their I
rooms of Fleet Street newspapers. 1 activities, but it sounds like pros- '
Barrie began life as a journalist and his record perity to the country to hear of I
of those days is set down in one of his loveliest, though calls for laborers which can not :
-------- - “--- be filled.
were badly damaged by the btaze
are to be reconstructed, although
the full extent of the work to be
done had not yet been decided, it
was understood. These buildings oc-
cupy one of the most prominent
corners in Denton, and their im-
provement will add materially to
the appearance of the business sec-
‘ tion
cure, but one cannot make him
impartial board or court. to town, as is also the fact that
This congressional group may never go to bat. But two books may be taken out at one
its present plans are the only things which promise a time. Many people do not have ac-
formula for relative peace between Lewis and Green cess to much good reading material,
et ala. — — —------ and the library was established for
• • • . their benefit
What the physician can accom-
^^.Xg^^Tt
the latter desires and expects from reader ____________
his physician. Within narrow lim- * guard at the Fort Ontario prison
its. the phvsician may pursue his The frst really amusing experience
-AP-tg in the was hts wood-chopping expedition
I own ideas and convictions in^ the with two prisoners. one of whom J
borrowed his pistol and took it to
pieces under his eyes Then an offi-
cer arrived, and the subsequent- .
comic procedure was like something
on the old Keith circuit.
Suueuxihmakndourengegtonih
t_.- - .
You mn buy a gtuuiue G-B
| 3 fact eu little ut "
$77.50 UP X
I Ax Low As $4.50 Per Month
'j King'* Radio Shop
Phone 280 CALL US WHEN IN NEED Denton Tems 1
___________________________________j
—Q____
OFFICIAL OPPOSES THE FEE SYSTEM
Texas voters will decide next month whether the
fee system of paying certain county officials; voted
out only two years ago. will be reinstated. Most coun-
ty officials opposed the plan in the first place when
groused by legislative disclosures, changed the
method at compensation in counties over 20,000 pop-
ulation to straight salaries. This opposition strength-
ened under actual practice of the new method, and
now after4g.ss than two years of experience with the
salary the voters must decide whether it will
be retKned, or the compensation of county officials
in the future be based on any method the legislature
sees fit. which probably means a return to the fee
system.
While many county officials are against the pres-
ent system and long for the old days when officials
could make fancy salaries from fee collectiams. some
officials are strongly opposed to the return of the
tee system One of these is District Clerk J W Mills
of Houston, Harris County, who has been stumping
the State in opposition to the constitutional amend-
■ent which is to be voted upon August 26.
The main shortcoming of the salary system was
the generosity of the Legislature in setting salaries
at the maxtmum earnings of the office which, coupled
with a lessening desire at some officials to assess and
collect fees that could be turned over only to the
county treasury, left nice deficits that caused tax-
payers to wonder what was wrong. This sabotaging of
an effort by taxpayers to bring county salaries in
Une with salaries in private business has had the de-
sired effect and voters will be asked to let the Legis-
lature, which was most guilty of the sabotage, to set
the method of compensation hereafter.
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McDonald, L. A. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 291, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 20, 1937, newspaper, July 20, 1937; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1539955/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.