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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Monday Evening, November 22, 1943
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Pressure Groups Put Heat on Congress
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By RAYMOND CLAPPER the subsidy that has helped hold
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23-Con- down commodity prices during the
gress is opening up a pandora s box
in its apparent intention to over-
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McMurry's Campaign
Looked at strictly from the standpoint of material
benefit, Abilene will have most to gain from the suc-
cessful outcome of McMurry College’s campaign for
$1,750,000, of which $1,000,000 is for endowment and
$750,000 for construction of needed buildings.
As stated by a great Baptist layman. Judge C. M.
Caldwell, in a"letter to the editor:
“McMurry is asking her Abilene friends who are
not Methodists to contribute $62,000 of this amount
in government bonds. This is less than 4 percent of
the proposed campaign goal. To those who desire to
look at it from a moral, cultural and spiritual view-
point, I would like to say that the influence of Mc-
Murry College cannot be valued in terms of dollars
and cents. And if we who profess to be Christians or
who profess to believe in Christian religion and Chris-
tian principles, and believe in the American way of
life, then it behooves us to look well to our Christian
colleges, and especially to our small Christian col-
leges. . . So I. expect to help in this campaign and
I cheerfully ask every non-Methodist of Abilene to do
his part by giving a bond or bonds, in the largest
amount that he can.”
Certainly no one in West Texas has ever given
more of his time, energy and money to good causes
than Cliff Caldwell; and with this sort of spirit behind
it the local angle of the McMurry campaign cannot
fail. .
In a world beset by troubles piled on troubles, the
Christian colleges shine like beacons in the darkness
of confusion and discord. Like its sisters colleges in
Abilene, McMurry has made a cultural contribution to
the Southwest and to the nation out of all proportion
to its size. It deserves well at our hands. It deserves
all that it asks and more.
Let us hope the local non-Methodist portion of the
McMurry campaign will be subscribed quickly. It of-
fers our people an opportunity to give where it will
do the most good, and at the time it will yield maxi-
mum results in maintaining Abilene’s leadership in
the church-school development in the Southwest.
Undermining Price Control
The board of directors of the U. S. chamber of com-
merce could hardly be called New Dealish or bureau-
minded. At its Kansas City meeting last week the
board urged continuation of OPA and the price con-
trol act for another year, unless the war ends sooner-
This is hard-headed recognition of a fact in our eco-
nomic life which is too often lost sight of in all the
caterwauling over price controls and administrative
blunders—to-wit, that control of prices is essential if
we are to escape runaway inflation. That automati-
cally includes control over the biggest single ingre-
dient in the price structure—wages.
If the senate adopts a report of a subcommittee for
legislation which would grant nonoperating railroad
a workers eight cents an hour increase in wages over
the veto of Economic Stabilizer Vinson, it will inevit-
ably destroy the whole price control set-up. For this
would open the way for other pressure groups and
having set the precedent in the case of the rail work-
ers the congress would have no defense against simi-
lar appeals by all classes of organized workers.
If the price control structure is thus undermined,
the first and foremost sufferers will be the workers
themselves—especially the great mass of unorganized
and mute white-collar workers whose wages were
frozen at low levels and who haven’t got a chance for
a hearing, as a class, either before the labor board
or the congress itself. These 18 to 20 million white-
collar wage-earners, being unorganized, carry no po-
litical weight as a class, and their only protection is
a continuance of price controls freed as much as pos-
sible from political manipulation.
The proposal to have the senate overrule Stabilizer
Vinson's rail wage decision was conceived in politics
and dedicated to the proposition that pressure groups
must be appeased in time to have a bearing on the po-
litical fortunes of congressmen at the next general
son. stabilization director, concern-
ing railroad employees.
Vinson gave them an increase
. but the railroad union officials said
it must be more and they have
gone to congress now to get it.
Railroad union organizations
have on the heat. It is being pre-
dicted that both houses will give
the railroad employees a larger
wage increase without a struggle
That would be in line with the
attitude of congress recently. Con-
gress is responding to every pres-
sure group, is backing away from
every measure that might cause the
slightest economic pain. Its disas-
trous policy is to put the grease
on the axle that squeaks the most.
Congress is refusing to vote eith-
er a sales tax or a higher income
tax, both of which are needed. It
apparently is determined to bow
to farm organizations which have
begun their fight to get rid of all
price control by trying to kill off
last year.
OTHER GROUP DEMANDS
If congress oyerrules Judge Vin-
son now and by its own action
grants a larger pay raise, then it
becomes a weakened prey for every
other group that wants more money.
The right of petition or appeal is
fundamental in our democratic
system. That is our safeguard
against arbitrary, discriminatory or
capricious action. It is more es-
sential now than ever, when so
much power must necessarily by
lodged in the hands of administra-
tive officials. €
Equally important is it that this
safeguard of a free country does not
became a means of breaking down
effective government. That is a
It be profitable to run to congress to
overturn anti-inflation decisions
A year ago congress gave the exe-
cutive authority to stabilise wages,
making adjustments necessary to
correct gross inequities in the rail-
road case a wage increase was al-
lowed. but it was less than the rail-
road union leaders asked and the
unions brought about the introduc-
tion of resolutions in both houses of
congress to grant the larger wage
increase.
election.
^
danger now
When Woodrow Wilson set up
Bernard M Baruch as chairman of
the war industries board in the last
war, he put out word that nobody
could hope to get anything by runn-
ing around Baruch into the back-
door of the White House. Nor should
PRESSURE .APPLIED
As Judge Vinson said in opposing
this move, if congress exempts one
group from application of the little
steel wage formula then the formula
will have to be abandoned in fair-
ness to other groups. Congress would
have told the country. Judge Vin-
son says, that a privileged group
is outside the stabilization pro-
gram and is not in the battle
against inflation. ,
Oil people are moving on con-
gress trying to persuade It to over-
throw the action of OPA. Many oth-
er cases will be loaded on congress.
It already Is reeling under the pres-
sure of farm lobbyists.
But Vinson is fighting a delaying
action and he probably will be
bowled over. He has no more hope
than Wainwright had on Bataan.
Congress; the year before a gen-
eral election, is driven by every
kind of pressure group — business,
labor and farm. You know that
when senators and congressmen re-
sist them they are likely to be driv-
en from public life as was Pren-
tiss Brown, former senator and price
administrator. Still there is no harm
in praying for the kind of men J.
G. Holland prayed for in his cele-
brated lines, for men who have
strong minds, true faith, whom the
lust of office does not kill, who
possess opinions and a will, who will
stand before a demagogue and damn
his treacherous flatteries without
winking.
That involves political risk, and
a man must have a deep faith in
the ultimate good judgment of the
people to stick his neck out like
that.
Which is why things are as they
are in congress.
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Ranch
Writing is a Trade,
BY J. P. McEVOY
You don't.really have to be de-
pressed for very long if you read
the papers. One of my favorite
cheerer-uppers is a column called
"The Worry Clinic,” based on the
case records of a psychologist
named Dr. Crane. I must say that
I thought that MY mall was woozy
—few people on the right side of
the mental track write to me.
Most of my ardent admirers are
border-line cases, while my devot-
ed fans are positively nuts.
I recall some years ago I ran a
regular newspaper feature called
"The Potters" which purported to
be the sayings and doings of a be-
wildered little family that found
American life Just too bewildering.
This feature ran for a half page
in umpty million Sunday papers
from Coast to Coast and for months
on end I wouldn't get a letter. I
had that hollow feeling of a fellow
shouting through a keyhole into an
empty room. Sometimes I thought
It might all work out better if aft-
er I wrote it, I Just threw it out
the window Surely somebody pass-
ing by would pick it up and read it.
HEARS FROM READER
Then one day I got a letter! It
was written in dull lead pencil on
lined tablet paper, and it said:
"Dear Mr. McSwatch ... I have
been reading you now for nigh on
all my life, it seems to me. and
you are a wonderful Judge of hu-
man nature so I am writing to you
to ask you where my husband goes
when he stays out nights and I
am sure that you are such a won-
derful Judge of human nature that
If you came to Cleveland you could
find out becase I aspect he is out
with some woman and that ought
to be easy for you, you are such a
wonderful judge of human nature."
Well, of course I was charmed
right out of my wits by this ten-
der tribute and even now, after all
these years, I can feel the warm
Not Art,
glow. So you can imagine how I
envy Dr. Crane and his little band
of faithful worriors.
Take Myrtle Z, for example, age
19, “a shy though attractive coed."
According to her admission, she has
the ambition to be a writer and
has mailed several stories to mag-
azines, but without success. This
worries her no end and what can
Dr. Crane advise?
ADVICE DISHED OUT
Well, you have to hand it to these
lads and lassies who run Worry
Columns and Advice to the Love-
lorn — nothing fazes them. "The
trouble with too many aspiring
writers," says Dr. Crane, “is that
they are like Myrtle today. They
are shy, introvertive individuals
who lack sweethearts." Obviously,
the next American Nobel Prize win-
ner for literature should be Errol
Flynn.
The good doctor goes on to tell
Myrtle flat "that writing is not an
He Says
art. It’s a science, like •mathemat-
ics. and if you can understand
arithmetic you can write acceptable
poetry or fiction, prize contest let-
ters or greeting card verse." Well,
Myrtle, you can take it from an
old word-monger that writing ain't
a sclency either—it's just a trade,
like plumbing say, only not so nec-
essary.
As for contest letters, I never
wrote any. But greeting cards!
Myrtle, honey, you wouldn't believe
it but in my day I was the cham-
pion hundred-and-sixty-five pound
catch-as-catch can writer of greet-
ing cards for all occasions in this
or any other country. In those
days we called them “sediments"
and even now I thrill with pride
to have concocted such a touching
tribute as:
Today is Mother's day, my dear.
And you are my mother so I hear."
(Distributed by McNaught Syndi
cate Inc).
Scrambled Beef Situation Qets
(First in a series of four articles
on the beef situation)
By PETER EDSON
Reporter-News Washington
Correspondent
Republican Congressman James
W. Wadsworth of Geneseo. New
York, and Democratic Congressman
. Richard M. Kleberg of Corpus
Christi, Texas, are both cowmen.
Cowman Wadsworth is a feeder.
He buys range cattle, moves them to
his farm in Livingston county. New
York, feeds them and fattens them
choice and prime, to New York
slaughterhouses principally in near-
for market and finally sells them,
by Buffalo and Rochester, catering
to the best trade.
Cowman Kleberg also raises choice
ministrative end of the guv’ment-
not the legislative end. of course.
Specifically, the Office of Price Ad-
ministration is accused of having
framed, and Office of Economic
Stabilization Director Fred M. Vin-
son is accused of having promulga-
ted the OES directive of Oct. 25
which in effect does four things.
1. It changes the rates of subsidy
paymenu from a flat $1.10 former-
ly made to slaughterers, to varying
sums from 50 cenu to $1.45. 2. It
gives an extra subsidy of 80 cents to
small slaughterers who normally
handle about 15 per cent of the
country's meat supply. 3. It pro-
vides for deductions of subsidies if
slaughterers overpay on their aver-
age prices to cattle feeders during
any month. 4. It directs the War
cattle to bring the best prices, but
on a different plan. At his many- - Food Administration to allocate live
thousand ?acred King Ranch, said
to be the world's largest, a special
thousand-acred King Ranch, said
breed of cattle has been developed
which will fatten on native grass,
so that the calves born on his range
can be conditioned for market right
at home, without the expensive corn
or other stock-feed fattening such
as is done by co-congressional cow-
man Wadsworth.
If all this sounds as though the
big beef men of Congress have a
good thing on the side and that bus-
iness in these wartimes of meat
scarcity has been dandy, that is a
fair assumption. But into each life
some rain must fall and today, over
the range homes and the Washing-
ton office suites of the congressional
cowmen the skies are almost contin-
uously cloudy, there are discourag-
ing words heard at all times, and
the Adirondack deer and the Texas
antelope are not having fun.
OPA AND OES BLAMED
The reason for all this despond
that muddles up, the picture is, as
you may or may not guess, the
guv ment — OPO and OES, the ad-
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THE WAR Today
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
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cattle to slaughterers.
Congressman Kleberg will make
you a speech on the subject at the
drop of a hat. five-gallon size or
larger preferred. It goes something
like this: "We fought the Civil War
to determine for all time the issue
of whether we could be half slave
and half free and the outcome was
not even a minority should be slave.
With this decision we all now con-
cur. but the issue today, I tell you.
is whether we shall be all slaves—
slaves to bureaucracy '
COWMEN APPREHENSIVE
All such oratory, when strung up
by the hind hoofs on a packing
house rail, reveals in lean meat what
the fundamental beef of the cat-
tlemen really is, if you'll pardon the
bad pun. It is simply that the new
directive from Judge Vinson's of-
fice means that the cowmen see in
this order a prospect for cutting
down on the amount of money they
are going to get for the steers they-
re going to sell in the coming
months. Particularly, it has thrown
a scare into the sellers of beef that
grades out choice. It works like
this:
At the present time, the govern-
ment pays the packers a subsidy of
$1.10 per hundred- 3
weight, regardless 6
So Admiral Chester W Nimitz,
our commander in chief of the
Pacific fleet, meant business
when about a fortnight ago he
announced to the world at large,
both friends and foes: "Our time
has come to strike; henceforth
we propose to give the Jap no
rest anywhere."
He wasn't slow In implement-
ing this challenge. Our great
bombers started ranging the Gil-
bert and Marshall Islands, with
devastating results, and today
United States Ma-
rines and Army
units are ashore
on Makin and
Tarawa atolls in
the Gilbert group
—our first inva-
sion north of the
equator — engag-
ed in heavy bat-
tles with the Japs.
The ultimate
objective of this
new offensive is MacKENZIE
capture of the
island of Truk, Japan's great na-
val and air base, close to 1500
miles west of the Gilbert and
Marshall islands. At this base
the Japs maintain a large fleet
__the biggest, sea-unit outside
CALENDAR OF RATION DATES
NOV. 20—Expiration date for blue stamps X. Y and Z In War Ration
book 3 (valid from Oct. 1.)
DEC. 4—Expiration date for brown stamps G. H. J and K in ration book
three. Good for meats, fats, etc. J valid from Nov. 7, K
valid from Nov. 14.
DEC 20—Expiration date for green stamps A. B and C in ration book
four. Good for processed foods.
JAN. 1—Expiration date for brown stamp L in ration book three. Valid
for meats, fats, etc., since No. 21.
JAN. 15—Expiration date for sugar stamp 20 in ration book four. Good
for five pounds.
Book one stamp 13 and book three stamp 1 on "airplane"
sheet good indefinitely for one pair of shoes each.
JAN. 31—Expiration date for gas coupons 9-A. Valid for three gallons
each since Nov. 22. B and C coupons good for two gallons
each
Taylor County War Price and Rationing Board located on first floor of
Alexander building in Abilene
A LOT FOR WHICH TO BE THANKFUL
of grade. This en-
ables the packers
to pay the cattle-
men a higher
price, which en-
courages produc-
tion. Under the
new schedule, the
subsidy for choice,
AA grade meat is
reduced to $1.00
per cwt , while the
11
Edson
subsidy for good or A grade meat
is raised to $1.45. Subsidies for me-
dium or B and lower grade beefs are
50 cents to 90 cents This may mean
that the best good beef may bring
more than the worst choice beef
But this is only one phase of the
terrible complex but interesting sub-
ject of beef It's worth considering
further. In the next issue.
Sleep Insurance
LOS ANGELES Nov 22-
Ora D Rock was fined *50 for
killing a neighbor's rooster.
"Your honor " he told the court,
"it was worth it.
"That rooster rooster would
sound off at all hours of the
night, and I just couldn't stand
it any longer.”
Nipponese home waters.
Reduction of Truk likely will
mean the biggest naval engage-
ment of the war A clash with
the Mikado's fleet is something
we have been seeking for a con-
siderable time now, but the Japs
have avoided it. As we close In on
them, however, their alternative
* is to fight or to run away and
thereby permit us to crack the
main defensive ring southeast at
Japan.
This new offensive in the Gil-
berts undoubtedly will be cor-
“dinated with the attack on Ra-
baul, another strategic Jap na-
val and air base, on the northerr
tip of New Britain island. If we
are successful in both these ven-
tures, we shall have severed the
Japanese defenses in this whole
area and moved our own bases
well forward towards Truk and
Japan itself.
Of course, this is just the be-
ginning of an offensive which
has far to go, and we couldn't
expect it to achieve all its ob-
jectives in the immediate f
ture However, it certainly W
heartening to see our forces in
the Pacific, and especially our
Navy, reach that point of strength
where we can carry the war to
the enemy without cessation.
When you stop to think who
| happened to our fleet at Pearl
Harbor, the present operations
speak volumes for our power of
recovery. •
From now on our offensive in
the Pacific may be expected to |
swell steadily until it reaches 1
climax. At the same time we 1
must remember that we can't 1
throw everything we should like 1
to immediately into the war
against the Japanese.
Before we can go all our again^ , I
the Mikados forces we- must t
smash the Germans Once we 1
have done that job—and it's well 1
on its way now—we shall be able
to release terrific striking power
against the orient in the colossse 1
Anglo-American navies and air
fleets.
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TAYST
a TAS
There are certain straws in the wind that the high-
prices and high-wages groups would do well to con-
sider, for they point inexorably to changing conditions
which may in the next few months turn everything
inside out and almost before we know it create a labor
surplus instead of a labor scarcity.
Already the army has turned back 13 billion dollars
of the 71 billions voted by congress for the current
year's expenditures, with further curtailments of pro-
duction hinted at. The navy has turned back three-
fourths of a billion dollars and is expected to find an
additional four or five billions it can dispense with
in the next few weeks, as soon as current studies and
surveys are completed.
This means simply that flush war production has
been reached, and in many items is beginning to slack
off. Already many plants have been closed down,
either for varying periods or for good. It doesn’t mean
the war is over by a long sight, but it does mean we
can see our way clear to reduce original’ estimates,
which were made when things looked black as pitch,
whereas now they look brighter and brighter. Cut-
backs in merchant shipping would be the next logical
move, in view of the lessening submarine menace. In
short, there is every reason to believe that we have
not only reached the peak, but actually passed beyond
it and are now traveling down the farther side.
Pressure groups in favor of higher and higher wages
and prices would do well to consider this circumstance.
What they are asking for today may in less than six
months sound silly in the face of increasing unemploy-
ment, increasing flow of consumer -goods, and a lessen-
ing demand for raw materials.
In short, the long wave of recession has definitely
set in, and the high-pressure boys would do well to
content themselves with what they have, rather than
raising the roof for more and more. In six months
they may need all their energies to keep what they
have at the present level. The warning implied in the
march of events is clear and unmistakable.
Cash Carols
MOBERLY, Mo. Nov. 22--
The victory chorus of Moberly
has sung until $3,000 has rolled
in.
It will send a Christmas gift
to every one of the 2.000 Ran-
dolph county residents in the
armed services.
Conservation
KANSAS CITY Kas Nov 22-
(PP)—Instead of burning a ton of
old election ballots as required by
an ancient Kansas statute. City
Clerk Howard Payne and Atty.
Gen A B Mitchell, searched un-
til they found a legal loophole
So the ballots will be turned
in with other waste paper for
salvage.
Sickly Swag
NEWPORT BEACH. Calif., Nov.
22—(AP— Thieves cooked and ate
several lobster* in the California
marine laboratory, then stole 13
more.__.
Police today issued a warning
to the culprits:
"See a doctor—quick."
Experimenters had inoculated
the lobsters with pneumonia
germs. A —
ed by police who do not rush a
suspect before a judge? -
Police and sheriffs — asking
“what is reasonable promptness?,,
raise questions like these:
If a man were arrested on Sat-
urday night and court was in re-
cess until Monday morning, would
it be reasonably prompt to take
him there Monday? Or would po-
lice face the chance of having
any confession obtained from him
during the week-end thrown out
of court later?
Or, if a man were arrested
while court was in session, would
he have to be taken there imme-
diately? Or could the arresting
officers delay awhile to build up
their case against him? And if so,
how long?
It has long been American
police custom to complete a case
against a suspect before turning
him over to a Judge.
In the District of Columbia,
where Congress makes the laws,
confessions In several cases have
been ruled out—as a result of the
Tennessee opinion—because of
the arraignment time involved•
Henry R. Schweinhaut, special
assistant to the attorney general
says there have been several oth-
er reverses on like grounds, par-
ticularly in a recent treason trial
before a federal court which was
aware of the supreme court rule
Ing given last March.
Last week the national sheriffs’
association, meeting here, adopt-
ed a resolution which said the
Tennessee decision “has resulted,
in other miscarriages of justice
and urged Congress and state leg-
islatures to adopt a uniform ar-
rest law to clear up the “general
uncertainty."
The resolution added “The
police officers of the nation areds
faced with the hopeless dilemma
of obeying the law on the one
hand and protecting the society
which they serve on the other."
Magician
WILLIAMSPORT Pa. Nov 32
—()—Earl Boteford was hunt-
Ing rabbits and wasn t having
much luck— se he poked a stick
into a large hole. N
No rabbits scampered out but
a bear and four cube waddled
forth.
Boteford now is showing friends
a ion-pound bear which he killed
with his shotgun.
Malnutrition is believed to be the
chief reason for the high death rate
among children in India.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 32.—()-
The country’s police are in knot*
because of two words— "reason-
able promptness"—in a U. 8. Su-
preme, court opinion.
The court upheld the principle
that the "police must with rea-
sonable promptness” alter mak-
ing an arrest take a suspect be-
fore a judge who will give him a
hearing, hold him for trial, fix
his bail, or release nun outright.
The opinion applies only to
federal offenses and has no di-
rect application to state or local
police or crimes.
However, the indirect applica-
tion of the opinion is worrying
state and local police and sher-
affs.
Here’s the story:
• f Three Tennessee moonshiners
were convicted in a federal court
of second degree murder and were
sentenced to 45 years' imprison-
ment.
Their attorneys appealed the
conviction up through all the
courts to the Supreme court on
grounds that the defendants’ con-
stitutional rights were violated
because their own confession
used against them at their trial-
used against them at their trial—
the confession was the heart of
the government's case—was ob-
tained involuntarily. The appeal
said the men confessed only aft-
er at least 48 hourss question-
ing by federal officers
A number of decision* have
been rendered on such constitu-
tional questions In this case the
Supreme court said the men had
been held too long before being
taken for arraignment before *
federal Judge.
Therefore, the court reasoned
in reversing the conviction that
the confession never should have
been admitted to evidence in the
trial because there are federal
statutes saying suspects must be
arraigned with some speed
Those federal statutes vary. One
says a suspect should be taken be-
fore a Judge "immediately." An-
other says "forthwith." The Su-
preme court interpreted those
statutes as meaning "with reason-
able promptness" ,
As noted, this opinion will ap-
ply only to federal courts and
cases But a number of states
have laws similar to the federal
statutes on the "reasonable
promptness" of arraigning a sus-
Here’s Elmer!
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22—P)
—A flustered desk clerk stalled
for time when Elmer Davis. OWI
chief, checked in at a San Fran-
cisco hotel for a room he had re-
served. 1
While the director killed in the
lobby, the clerk moved Elmer J.
Davis of Los Angeles out of the
room mistakenly assigned him
earlier in the day.
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So what if the state and local---—
courts, following the Supreme The artesian-well s a lamandel
court’s lead, take a similar stand lives 200 feet below the earth's sur-
and throw out confessions obtain- face and is blind.
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