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EDITORIAL
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1938
The Fort Worth Press
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negotiations. Therefore, if the President-
elect finds that his compromise plan of
consulting certain membora of Congress
' Informally does • not clear the air, he
may be forced by circumstances to re-
vert to the precedent of bi-partisan Con-
gressional representation on a formal
debt commission. If the President, with
easy party control of both housea of
Congress, can not get its Cooperation on
, the debt problem at the beginning of his
term he probably will have even less
chance later. • ..
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1933
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“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today
AND HE said unto them. Take heed
A what ye hear; with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you; and
unto you that hear shall more be given.—
St. Mark 4:24.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.—
Henry Ward Beecher.
Tempest in a Teapot?
IT WOULD seem that the Council row
1 over the issuance of food orders for
__the needy was a good deal of a tempest
in a teapot. -
• Council was compelled to cancel a
contract already entered into for pur-
chase of food orders thru a single firm
here, because the local R. F. G.com-
mittee felt such a contract would violate
the conditions on which the city is bor-
rowing relief money from the R. F. C.
Councilmen asserted that City Manager
Fairtrace, who is a member of the R. F.
C committee, and knew about Its ruling,
did not inform Council, and let it go
ahead and make the contract which it
has had to cancel.
So far as we can see, the argument
generated heat without light. There was
no dispute shout the necessity for Coun-
cil's action. The only dispute was whether
Fairtrace informed Councilmen as to the
R. F. C.’s position. He says he did;
• several Councilmen say they didn't hear
him if he did.
.The whole episode Is unfortunate be-
cause it puts the city management in
the light of squabbling over minor mat-
ters, when there are plenty of major mat-
ters needing attention.
Domestic Debt Relief
THE U. S. BUREAU OF AGRICULTUR-
1 AL ECONOMICS has a sympathetic
understanding of the farm mortgage debt
problem. The suggestion in its Farm
Outlook Report that creditors and debtors
must cooperate, and that there must be
governmental assistance if distress is to,
be held to a minimum this year, is timely
and sensible. ,
it records that funds for lending on
farm mortgage security are meager, that
there have been large numbers of de-
linquencies and foreclosures. It empha-
sizes, In a word, that Congress must put
up the funds to refinance this debt bur-
den if agriculture is to be improved.
The House has just passed a bank-)
ruptcy bill which provides a way ,or the
voluntary sealing down of farm and cor- '
porate debts. This will accomplish some
good, if finally enacted.
But Congress, it seems to us, st ould
not stop there.
The farm organizations have agreed
upon, and Senator Robinson of Arkansas
and Representative Steagall of Alabama
have introduced, a bill for refinancing
farm mortgages. This measure pirvides
for a new Emergency Agricultural lie
finance Corporation, it, would endow this
agency with one billion dollars, to refi-
nance farm debts, and allocate other
sums to strengthen Federal Land Bank
bonds. It also provides for liquidation
of the Joint Stock Land Banks.
This bill may need amending in some
particulars. But, in any event, some
such legislation should be passed now
it should not be delayed until the special
session.
Such a great business concern as the
New York Life Insurance Company has
recognized the farm mortgage distress by
suspending its mortgages in Iowa, until
state authorities there take action. The
other large, eastern insurance companies
are reported doing the same.
Congress, following suit, should pro-
vide means for overcoming this basic ob-
stacle to the return of national prosperity.
NEW/ YORK—Herr Hitler is quoted as
I having declared to his countrymen,
"‘Crucify me if I fail."
Adolf's delusions of grandeur seem to
be growing. There was a time when ho
merely thought that he
was Mussolini.
But crucifixion would
be a most inappropriate
punishment for the Ger-
man junker. The dis-
pensation which he
seeks to bring to a
FEDERAL
j AID
Broun
troubled land is a new
application of hatred.
Into the open wounds
of the world he would
thrust the salt of sus-
picion, distrust and ra-
cial antipathy.
And when anybody
in any nation begins to
urge recovery thru a
greater sense of nation-
Democracy
BEEN GETTING ,
MANY PASSENGERS
ON YOUR RAILROAD
LATELY?
No Good Reason
THE Texas Livestock Sanitary Commis-
1 sion belongs in the livestock center
of the state, which is. Fort Worth.
There is no good reason to move it
to the political center of the state, which
1s Austin. Such a move has been sug-
gested by Leo A. Callan, the commission's
new chairman.
Both the Texas and Southwestern Cat-
tle Raisers' Association and the Chamber
of Commerce are on record against any
such move. It would be against the in-
terests of the cattle industry itself, and
against the interests of the state.
• A Debt Commission
■PRESIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT'S an-
L nouncement that he will consult mem-
bers of Congress during the foreign debt
negotiations is encouraging. Since he
indicated in the beginning that he would
conduct the negotiations himself, those
most interested in a settlement have
feared that he was raising additional bar-
riers to Congressional ratification of any
agreement. His new statement reflects
one of Mr. Roosevelt's chief assets as an
executive and party leader—namely, his
capacity to adjust himself In part to the
judgment of his associates.
It remains to be seen whether his
compromise plan of consulting selected
Senators—and—Congressmen during—the—
negotiations, rather than appointing them
as formal members of a debt commis-
sion, will achieve the desired purpose.
It is the function of the executive to con-
duct general foreign relations. But the
fact that this is a fiscal matter makes
It a joint function of the President and |
Congress. Apart from theoretical con-
sideration of this kind, there Is the addi-
tional fact that Congress In. this Instance
has asserted its prerogative and is ex-
ceedingly sensitive on the subject. Both
in the earlier finding agreements and In
the Senate resolution of December, 1931,
Congress has maintained control over the
debts.
As a matter of practical statesman-
Throwing Away $2,500,000
CONSTITUENTS of those congressmen
U who voted $2,500,000 for Citizens’
Military Training Camps next summer,
in the War Department appropriation bill,
will have good reason to laugh when
economy is mentioned in future appeals
for re-election.
If there is any,activity of the federal
government which could well be dispensed
with in hard times, this is It. These
summer camps at government expense, for
boys selected by their congressmen, have,
little or no military value, and high of-
ficials of the army have so admitted.
Their political value is, of course, a dif-
ferent thing.
If this money were being spent by the
government to feed, for a month, resi-
dents of the different congressional dis-
tricts who would have little or nothing
to eat, otherwise, during that period, the
expenditure might be justified. It is very
probable, however, that candidates will
be chosen either for their theoretical
value to national defense- and that sure-
ly requires a strong, well nourished body
—or else for their potential value to the
recommending congressman the next time
he runs for office.
Taxpayers who will provide the money
for these camps and hungry Americans
whose needs should certainly command
any money the government can find to
spend will alike be justified in feeling
that the lame duck House of Representa-
tives has treated them badly.
It remains to be seen whether a lame
duck Senate will exhibit greater devotion
to the cause of economy.
alism and a more highly isolated pa-
triotism It will be well to remember that
Herr Hitler Is the full and perfect flower
of this school of thought.
The Love of Country,
"DATRIOTISM" is generally put forward
I as meaning "love of country." If that
were precise no objection could be made
to the rising tide of nationalism which is
sweeping the world. But unfortunately
love of country is all too often coupled
with aggressive hatred for the rest of the
peoples of the world.
Altho America lias not yet elevated
Into its highest offices anybody quite
as ridiculous as Herr Hitler, or as dan-
gerous—for, that matter, we have public
men who are treading the same path.
Here, too, there are many only too
ready to touch the match. to old preju-
dices. They seek to warm a shivering
world by 'asking us to. gather 'round the
caldrons where the witch fires twinkle,
A Scheme Which Failed.
THE trouble with applying a passionate
1 distrust and suspicion to present
problems is that we've just tried that.
Indeed, we are trying it now. and there
is not the slightest evidence that it is
going to work.
Only a few years ago Hitler promised
that heads would roll upon the ground
when he came into power. He has been
a little less articulate in his preach-
ments of savagery within the last few
days, but he remains a man who believes
that debate can be settled by decapita-
tion.
Now, surely no sane person can con-
tend that the present unfortunate state
of the earth has come about because of
too great a tenderness upon the part of
any man or nation. We killed our mil-
lions and solved nothing. We must get
out of the red.
Since agony and violent death failed
so signally, what is the point In appeal-
ing to the steel helmets to solve the
present difficulties of Germany? Hitler
has his own private Nazi army, and some
spectators have marveled at its seeming
efficiency. .
All right, but nobody can assert that
it possesses anything like the power which
lay in the forces of the war lord in the
year 1914. That was probably the finest
army the world' has ever known. It could,
of course, have tramped down Caesar, ,
Alexander and Napoleon in a single after-
noon. And Its strength availed it pre-
cisely nothing.
Heegued-
Why Not Repeal a Few Laws?
WHAT OUR READERS SAY
Editor, The Press:
Let us consider a teacher with
a thousand rules tacked up over
his desk, and then ask if the chil-
dren will have any respect for
him or his rules?
It is said we may not have the
most ideal renditions under a
Democracy but we can have what
we want. But this is not so un-
less people become interested,
stand together, and demand It.
landers who are grieving for more
I worlds to conquer how they stand
on these things. J. W. R.
1 * * *
"Big Business" Wants
Debts Cancelled
Editor, The Press:
I heard Senator Ham Lewis of |
; Illinois talk on the national sit-
—Can’t we or can we, make a
job of it- and cancel at least a
third of our laws’ Then would It
not be a good idea to meet at
Austin every two years principally
| to see what others may be struck
out?
Not the least of our troubles
are due to our laws, our law
nation. Among other things, he
said, "We must let the foreign
nations pay what they can, when
they can." 1 think that of all
the unstable, unsound business
methods, thisis the worst.
Rather than that, let’s reancel.
entirely and hold other nations j
under a moral obligation, which |
would be, all we would get out of
makers and law administrators,
and it will be better for us to
have an eye on the courthouse
and Austin and less on Congress.
Our governor should be elected
for four years and our president
| for six.
We should re-district the state,
and have a representative from
| one to ten counties, according to
cancellation.
I would hazard the guess that
| population.
We must ask our young Alex-
ship, many have believed that Mr. Roose-
velt would be wiser in following prece-
dent and requesting Congress to authorize
revival of the debt funding commission.
That, of course, would involve a legis-
lative battle at the beginning with a
large Congressional group. But, in view
of the December, 1931, resolution oppos-
ing any change in the debt status, it
might he more effective to meet this
opposition openly and directly rather than
wait until after a new agreement is nego-
tiated, when the opposition will charge
the President with usurpation ol power
and with acting in bad faith.
No agreement negotiated by the Pres-
fdent will be worth the paper it is writ-
ten on until it is ratified by Congress.
And. since persuading Congress to accept”
a reasonable settlement will be as diffi-
cult if not more difficult than reaching
an agreement with the foreign govern-
ments, the real test of Mr. Roosevelt’s
debt leadership will he his ability to ob-
tain the co-operation of Congress.
Rightly or wrongly- and we believe
, wrongly—Congress is suspicious of debt
We don't know what the Senate may
do to the prohibition bureau's appropria-
tion, but evidently stool pigeons aren't
going to have any drinks oh the House.
---—AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT----
Lament for the Living
___By MRS. W ALTER FERGUSON
QUITE THE most discouraging article 1
& have ever read on modern marriage
appears rin the current "Good Housekeep-
ing.” wat sets up the idea that today's
bride must exist in a
state of armed defense
against her kind.
'She must be pre-
pared to fight for the
loyalty and love of her
husband until kindly
death takes her for Its
own or old age enables
her to ignore all earth’s
Infidelities.
And if we are to
take this as a true pic-
ture of the modern man,
then lay down your
weapons, good ladles,
for his sort is certainly
not worth, fighting for.
Mrs. Ferguson
After you have scratch- j
ed and battled your way into his heart
you will find it but an empty chamber, a |
hollow space unlit by warming fires. ‘
How low has sunk the dearest of all
human relationships in this, our mad
dynasty of moving picture royalties! How
undignified has become the once hon-
orable position of wife in this land of
wisecracks and wantonness!
The Daily Nosegay
Mr. Leo A. Callan,
Chairman, Texas Livestock Sanitary Com-
mission,
W. T. Waggoner Building, Fort Worth.
Dear Leo:
I fail to see good reason
For moving your commission
From our cattle town to Austin
Unless on the condition
That's you're thinking more of cam-
paigns
Based on Texas politics
Than of those against diseases
Or Texas cattle-ticks.
Yours, etc.,
LESTER (Just call me Les).
• • •
Bringing Back the Old Germany.
TTITLER speaks again and again of
1 bringing back the old Germany. He
would make the nation what it was be-
fore the Great War. Indeed, he has
promised to bring back the old Ger-
many.
And this he cannot do. He may still
a multitude of listeners by lifting his
hand, but he cannot raise up again the
dead who were the old Germany. They
will not even hear the tramp of many
feet If, new armies march once more in
tho-vain—crusade to carry destiny upon
the litter of bayonet points.
These men of blood and iron are also
creatures of stuff and nonsense. There
are no fools like militarists. They are
the incurable romantics and sentimental-
ists of the world, who learn nothing and
live on last year’s dreams.
Let’s be practical, let’s be realistic
and turn to the way of salvation for all
mankind. Not forever, must we walk like
geese and talk above the roll of drums.
-----P KOPLE AND POLITE Cs-----
‘Bedroom’ Interviews
By RAY TUCKER
WARM SPRINGS. President-elect
W Roosevelt's frequent "bedroom inter-
views" with the press have led to definite
reports that both the private and executive
offices, of the White House will undergo
radical alterations after March 4.
One report says that Mr. Roosevelt
will visit the executive offices only in
the morning, and hold his more impor-
tant conferences at the mansion Itself
from noon on. Another suggests that he
will do almost all his work in offices to
be built In the basement of the White
House.
Altho a novelty, this change, in fact,
will be a return to the system of early
colonial days. Under L’Enfant s original
plan for the Capital, tue front of the
White House was to face the beautiful
landscape reaching down to the banks
of the Potomac River. Mr. Roosevelt may
make this rear entrance the principal ap-
proach to the White House • •
THE BEING who has been respected not
1 only because she brought joy and proach to the White House.
sweetness to the lives of men, but be-
cause she is mother to the race, is now '
asked to convert herself Into a sort of !
half-wit vaudeville entertainer (with a |
change of program every hour) in Order i
to “keep" the man who repeated to her |
the vows of marriage. What does she
have for all her trouble? Exactly noth-
Ing, according to our author, except a
selfish, spoiled, unstable windbag.
It’s more than absurd to put the en-
tire responsibility for the success of mar-
riage upon the woman. Unless the hus-
band too wishes and works toward that
end, the most gallant lady cannot save it.
Because marriage depends upon reciproc-
ity for survival.
And what about motherhood? We’ve
got to have time out for that during the
fray. Or has it become Impossible to
keep a husband and have a baby at the
same time In America? Personally, I’m
fed up with the moderns. Let’s get down
Sarah Jewett and Mary Freeman and read
about a sane woman for a while—the old-
fashioned New England old maid, God
bless her: * ■ ,
THE BELIEF that the next President
1 will sequester himself is fortified by
another quality he exhibits. Quite like
Mr. Hoover, he is averse to premature
publicity.
Mr. Hoover once said that he "did
not see why the press wanted advance or
incomplete reports any more than, an
engineer would want to throw Conan a
half-finished bridge."
The same attitude animates Mr. Roose-
velt. He likes to fool the press in a
This Is Life
Ry JACK MAXWELL
1 TTELLO, and howdy-do!
| 1 Chas. Askins in his story
which appeared in February Out-
door Life, and captioned, "The
Red Fox and the Hound," in
| complimenting this most satisfy-
ing sport, said, in part:
"For me the snowy spaces call,
calling at break o' day, and 1
must take the red fox trail, o'er
bills and far away. The old black
bound is calling, calling sweet,
calling loud to me; faint, then
clear, from far and near, calling
me. 1
' "Home-coming's sweet to weary
1 feet, when evening's dusk are
i calling, but brave and clear and
Hloud- and near, -I hear the black
hound calling. For me no wel-
come fires burn, for me no hun-
| gers stay . . , for I Keep the
| Faith, thru the weary race, from
morn till twilight gray."
In paying special tribute to
‘Sly Reynard,' Mr, Askins wrote
as follows: "The gay red fox, a
little beast with the endurance of
FATE, and the WISDOM and the
COURAGE of LIFE." I wonder If
the foregoing could not be well
Tracy Says:
The trouble with the
machine age : . . is that
we’re not giving it a
chance.
By M. E. TRACY
ALEXANDER THE GREAT is
A reported to have wept be-
cause, as he imagined, "there were
no more worlds to conquer." The
truth is, he hadn't conquered any;
just ridden rough-shod over g lot
of territory and frightened » lot
of people. The vast empire he
thought to have created hardly
lasted long enough to see him
well entombed. ■
Some Americans see fhe future
with Alexander’s tear-dimmed
egotism. We have invented our-
selves out of a job, they think.
No hope for the country, except
to put three Sundays in each
week, with no work after lunch
any day, and let experts tell us
what to do the rest of the time.
To let them tell it, we have
about completed the task of build-
ing a nation, and have such a
surplus on hand as would build
two or three more.
Well, that may be a logical cow
elusion for those who live In
apartments overlooking Central
Park and have tax-exempt securi-
ties with which to pay the up-
keep.
To the less fortunate it looks
as though a great deal remained
to be done.
* * *
T.E have done some wonderful
’’ things. Our skyscrapers are
the tallest on earth.. Our hotels
are the doggiest, if not the most
comfortable.
Our schools are magnificent,
and some of our prisons represent
a capital outlay per room that is
far beyond what the average citi--
zen can afford in his home.
Our roads are beyond compare
and our automobiles are so thick
as to make walking dangerous.
There is a telephone and a radio
in most houses. The movie has
DB HUNT!
SESSION
MIAMI’S
Great and Near
Party Confer
Roosevelt C
I1
mail to his neighbor who is worth
twice what he is and besides lives developed into an industry of first •
magnitude.
So have baseball, golf and con-
tract bridge, with : the jigsaw
facing a highway that he can get
on with his late model car and go
get his mail in less than 10 min-
utes?
Why not make him pay for his
neighbor’s telephone, too? Just
such darned foolishness as this is
what has ruined the country, and
is making the people revolt at
paying their taxes Don't think
the people so ignorant they are
paying no attention to these dif- |
ferences.
J. 1, GILLESPIE,
----------------------------Perrin, Texas
practically all the bonds bought
by the average American are now
in the hands of "Big Business."
Therefore, if cancellation is
made no matter how, "Big Busi-
ness” will get a double cut at
the cake, and the rest of us will
Ask The Press
You can get an answer to any an-
swerable question of fact by writing
to Frederick M Kerby, Question Ed
itor, Fort Worth Press Washington
Bureau 1322 New York Ave Wash-
ington. D C. Inclosing 3 cents in
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
puzzle and technocracy promising
to follow suit.
Outside of such items however,
this. Is a rather tacky nation. Its
wealth, energy and producing
power have coagulated into
curious pools; its development has
grown rutty and its outlook
strangely narrow.
The great city was a by-product
o’ the long haul craze We wanted
them few and far between.
Congestion came to be looked
upon as s nonymous with
progress.
With two million square miles
of land unculti ated and uncared
tor, we clamor for subways,
double-deske I stre its and kitchen-
ette apartments on the 4' th floor.
advice cannot be given.
Q. What is the strength of the
United States army?
, , , 1 * In June, 1932.it" had 12.180 offi-
exist on crumbs, I,. W. cers. 113,334 enlisted men
Why the Rural ′ Q How often are the Olympic
Free Delivery? Go rue dour
Editor. The Press: * Our advancement especially
Q What is gold bullion- I during the last half-century has
If I were to call a meeting of A Gold that is not fabricated into not been logical or selentifie, save
Uncle Sam’s representatives and coins or articles on the production end On the
ask them if they were willing to * consuming end, and that’s the end
reduce the expenses of a certain Q Who is called the father of that counts, it has been largely.
service, or abandon it altogether, modern surgery? a matter of salesmanship, fad,
Ilf I could show them that it could A Dr Joseph Lister of England who caprice and mob psycholos
be contracted for half of what brousedanta prominence: the use of new- Our art is stored In museums,
it was costing, or that the service , . . our culture comes over the Air
was worthless, I am sure they | Q How much silver is in a dol- and most of our pleasure is taken
would all say: "Yes, certainly, lar: sitting down.
that is our business." • . A Th. u s stiver dollar contains The only trouble with the ma
All right, Mr. Representative, 371.25 grains of pure silver. chine age Is that we are not giv
I am going to call your attention * ing it a fair chance, not letting
to the rural mail, system of our, Q. Did the United States bor it work for the genuine improve-
country. These routes formerly
paid about $200 per month, and
1,. W.
I think were given a 10 per cent
cut. This would leave them pay-
ing around $180.
According to Mr. Earl Spar-
ling’s - estimate of the buying,
power of the dollar In your paper,
their $180 salary is equivalent to
COME old fogies supposed that
• when the automo lie artived .
people would live In the country
and work in town. They ‘w e
wrong. Also, they we e wrong in
supposing that the radio would do
much to prome e rural or sub-
. urban development.
row money from England during
the: Civil War?
A No.
ment of living conditions, not
achieving the great things we
might with its help.
$239.40 per month. How many Tom , . , . . .
rural routes in the United States? EAST is East, and the , West
I want The Press 1. West, the twain meeting at
Fort Worth, but despite claims to
I don't know.
or someone who knows, to tell us
how many routes and what they
The City ‘Where the West Begins’
_______y C. L. DOUGLAS
the contrary, it appears to me
that the city of Weatherford is
really the place where “the West
begins."
At least it is Weatherford
pay per month in the United
States.
Why tax some farmer, off the
highways on a little poor farm. .
covered with a mortgage, to pay where the traditional hospitality
some malcarrier to earry—theofthe West begins to make itself
__....._____plainly apparent.
Have you ever been to Weath-
SIDE GLANCES — By George Clark erford on trade day -when the
5 "J 5 trucks and wagons and cars are
Applied to YOUR life and MINE?
parked three deep around
Courthouse square, when
farmers come in from all
the
the
the
good-natured way, and to elude their
traps; he prides himself on his supposed
1 ability to spar with them on their own
. terms. Even members of his family, who
usually attend his press conferences, enjoy
| the spectacle. y
"Isn't It clever the way he handles 1
you?” asked one member of the Presi- |
dent-elect’s, household. "And can't he
make you feel small when he wants to?"
There was, of course, no answer.
But If alterations will give him greater
secrecy in dealing with world and domestic
problems, he probably will order them.
91009 b/NEA sc. mno U.mpALo
“She wants me to paper the spare bedroom and pipe
hot water to the bathtub, just because she’s invited a girl
in her geometry class down for the week-end.”
corners of Parker County to buy
and sell and trade, and to talk
the gossip of the neighborhood
communities?
If you have you'll know what I
mean, Nobody’s a stranger on
the Courthouse square—unless,
of course, he wants to be. There's
a feeling of hospitality even in
the atmosphere of the place.
• • •
TN Weatherford the stranger is
1 never handed a mythical “key
to the city"—because no key is
needed to a door that has no
lock. And for that same reason
the absence of a “welcome” sign
on Fort Worth highway Is not
noticeable.
For example, I met a farmer
on the square the other day. He
was selling sweet potatoes in the
shadow of the giant watermelon
erected on the Courthouse lawn.
He said the yarns of Parker Coun-
ty were about the best to he had
anywhere, and before we were
done talking he had introduced
me to a man who sold cordwood,
and he in turn explained that the
county had an abundance of the
product be offered for sale.
And then I met another who
had a truck of chickens, and yet
another who was selling jams and
Jellies—-and 1 wasn’t long in
seeing why every day looks like a
fair on Courthouse square, Par-
ker County has plenty of food-
stuff among her resources.
The "younger generation” of
the town frequents the Court-
house steps and the sidewalk
around the square, and by young-
er generation I mean the men of
60 and 65—because a man
doesn't seem to grow old In that
part of the country until he’s past
the 80 mark.
DROPPED In at the office of J
D H Price, the abstract man.
Mr. Price and his wife celebrated
| their golden wedding anniversary
last month,
, and’ Mr Price
is 73, but you
would guess his
age at nearer
55. The a busy
man Mie took
time enough
from his busi-
ness to tell me
about, the buf-
falo trains that
once came thru
Weatherford.
"I’ve seen
wagon trains
stretching over
a mile in length
Douglas
Main Street,” he said. “They’d
be stacked high with buffalo hides
. . . loaded much as the farmer
of today loads his wagon with ..
bales of hay. The robes were
freighted into Fort Worth and.’
shipped out over the T. & P.”
Across the street Is the City
Hall and the office of Mayor G.
A. Holland. The mayor also is a
come
In over
historian and a collector of fron-
tier museum pieces. At Holland’s
Lake, near the city, he has a real
pioneer cabin filled with relies of
the immediate vicinity. He also
is a leader in the Old Settlers’ As-
sociation. We talked awhile and
I asked the mayor how to reach
an address In the town. He
couldn't tell me, but he got his
hat and walked down the street a
block to find somebody who did
know.
But hospitality in Weatherford
Isn't confined to the business dis-
trict. On the edge of town I
had dropped in at the home of an
old gentleman and we had talked
for an hour or so of this and
that. And at length, when I
rose to go, the lady of the house
appeared and announced that
"Dinner’s on the table—come in
and eat." And the invitation had
In It that sincere ring which the
same one must have had In the
old days when the stranger
stopped at the West Texas ranch
house.
And so these are the things
which make me believe that it Is
In Weatherford, rather than Fort
Worth, that "the West begins."
“By United Press.
I MIAMI, Fla., Fe
the sheltering palm
“golf courses and in
Of Its big hotels, Det
’Srs today were drat
of secondary appoin
Roosevelt administra
offices, clerkships,
lesser plums in the I]
patronage. |
F While the preside
from the Vincent A
the Bahamas, his chi
gmet dozens of patrd
land made it clear ttl
■Democratic rule are
Led in the good.
I The cabinet,* the 1
portant commissions
important diplomati
/ dent-elect Roosevel 11
his own, A ,
■ But the task of
jobs he has left to
experts, headed 1
"Chairman James A.1
1 the Jobs are being
the principle of i
1 smooth working pan
+ Candidates must. 1
V dorsements of their
district, county and
3 want serious consi
y attempts Of over-eat
1 to bring excessive 1
■ other than regular 1
1 are being met with 1
With.Mr. Farley
* J Flynn, Bronx Den
and Mr. Roosevelt 1
stale In New York;
won. Democratic n
tary; and such sed
, as Arthur Mullen. 1
■ tional Tommitteen
Julian,Oh io 1
Henry Brunner: Ohl
man; Robert Core.
Forbes Morgan, Ng
Mr Roosevelt’s <1
quality above all ot
tions in selecting hi
led him into difficul
torial kibitzers. 1
tentative plan fo 1
fluential senators ■
led today to report!
George Norris, Nell
Hican Progressive 1
Mr. Roosevelt in the
warned of danger 1
The four men, or 1
of them, would be 1
to the new adminis)
held their Senate 1
they went into the
Norris was represent
ing. 1
The four senate
, for the cabinet are
nessee. Glass of Vil
of New Mexico 1
Walsh of Montana!
HIS IDENTITY
MAN ENDS
Leaves Conflicting
ClothiJ
By United Press.
BEAUMONT. Fel
ties sought today
name of a handsor
who shot himself 1
lintel room after
stroying all clues to
Clad in pajamas
found slumped be
yesterday morning.]
shot once thru the |
lay nearby, and |
turned a suicide v
The man, appart
years old, had red
R Hunt. Atlant
officers doubled 1
address were corre
the pains he tor
identification. 1
All labels had h
his clothing. Wri
a coat sleeve was
Hurley." His li
laundry mark "W1
An airplane of 1
costs between $2,5
The Macon, net
ble. will have a s
6,500,000 cubic fe
Re ven new com]
rd during the yea
Cosmic rays hav
40,000 million vo
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Bladder Irre
A persistent bi
bladder irregul
a tired, nervou
feeling may wan
ordered kidney of
dition. Users eve
on Doan’s Pills,
more than 50 yea
users the country!
Mil druggists. I
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