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EDITORIAL
TAE FORT WORTH PRESS
THURSDAY, JULY 27,1988
THURS
The Fort Worth Press
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
SEWARD R. SHELDON.
R. B. WAGGOMAN......
.............Editor
. Business Manager
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ment and the lack of leadership by Euro-
pean governments to as clear that he to
commented upon, for instance, by two
such London opposites as the (Tory)
Morning Foat and the (Labor) Daily Her-
ald.
The Tory organ after praising Roose-
velt “leadership,” his “energy and initia-
tive,” cites the “comparative inactivity”
of the British government.
The Herald finds that the “common
sense and courage” of the Roosevelt pro-
gram baa been ''tragically absent from
ministerial speeches in this country."
European governments which shout
"international cooperation" so loudly at
America are making auch cooperation Im-
possible by their failure to clean house aa
America is trying to do.
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933
MORE J
NOT LESS HOURS
WE COMMEND County Judge Moore and
YY City Manager Fairtrace for their ges-
tures toward entering fully into the spirit
SUBSCRIPTION RATES | of the President’s recovery plan by keep-
By carrier per week 10c. or 45c per-month inele ing the Courthouse and City Hall open
copy at newsstands and from newsboys, 2c. Mall rates
an request.
"Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way”
A Thought for Today
DLESSED is the man that endureth
D temptation; for when he is tried he
shall receive the crown of life.—James
1:12.
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent
to test our moral strength.—Marguerite
de Valois.
WILL IT WORK?
COUNCILMAN MONNIG, Councilman
U Martin, and Councilman Burton speak
in favor of a charter amendment election
at which Fort Worth voters would be
asked to approve an amendment to per-
mit the city to provide municipal power
and light service.
Before the city incurs the expense of
such an election, it appears to us that the
suggested method should be checked to
see whether it will actually work. If
municipal ownership is a good thing, the
city should go after it Hard. ‘ 7
But the voters of Fort Worth three
years ago, and again two years ago, went
on record in favor of municipal gas serv-
ice. -
All that has so far come out of this
is repeated delay and costly litigation. So
far as anyone is able to determine, it will
be years yet before there will be any
action, and to be quite realistic, it may be
never.
So before embarking on any more ven-
tures in the direction of municipal owner-
ship, would it not be wise for the advo-
cates of such ownership to restudy the
whole problem, and to see if there is not
some more direct route than the detours
which have repeatedly loomed in the path
of gas public ownership?
If the Fort Worth public wants mu-
nicipal electric service, it wants that, and
not a five-year legal battle.
It is easy to criticize the -corporations
which Interpose legal objections leading to
delay, but they are well within their legal
rights.
And who of us can say that if we
were in the same position we should not
take the same action? And who of us
can say public-service corporations will
ever be any different? . ..
WHY SO SILENT ON THIS?
DEFERRING to the editorial above. The
IV Press some time ago pointed out one
charter change which seems paramount,
if we are to have a charter election.
In our opinion, the change of which
we spoke is more important than all the
other proposed changes put together.
THAT IS TO AMEND THE CITY
CHARTER SO THAT THE CITY BUDGET
MEANS WHAT IT SAYS: TO CLOSE ALL
LOOPHOLES IN THE PRESENT CHAR-
TER THRU WHICH THE CITY HAS FOR
YEARS CONSISTENTLY SPENT BEYOND
ITS MEANS TO THE RESULT THAT IT
IS NOW NEARLY A MILLION DOLLARS
"IN THE RED.”
All the arguments that the overdraft
was necessary—some of which are persua-
sive and compelling—could have been met
by a charter which said to Council: "Thou
shalt not spend money you do not pos-
sess.”
It would have forced the city to more
drastic economies, but it would have put
the most excellent rule of private business
Into the conduct of public affairs.
And we wouldn’t now have an over-
draft
i —The Rolf of Honor
only 40 hours a week.
But we would like to point out to them
that the spirit of the President's plan la to
create more jobs and to spread the work,
rather than lessening service to the pub-
lic or decreasing the total number of
working hours of employes.
These public officials propose, instead.
just to shut up shop at the end of 40
hours.
IN THE TENNESSEE BASIN
COMMISSIONER LILIENTHAL of the
| U Tennessee Valley Authority demon-
strated in his speech to the International
Congress of Women at Chicago that he
has embraced a broad and practical plan
for development of the great Tennessee
River Basin that will be the, model for
other such projects.
He intends that the valley shall retain
its own culture; that its development shall
take place along entirely practical lines.
And in thia program, Mr. Lilienthal
stresses, as it should- be stressed, the
vital importance of the power develop-
ment. Conservation and development of
power and soil resources dove-tail into a
single policy,
"We are at the very beginning of the
power age," Mr. Lilienthal said. “In my
judgment we have not yet begun to tap
I the possibilities of the use of power as
a means of increasing the Incomes of our
people and of lightening the burdens
which fall so heavily upon many of them.
."This presupposes, however, .that power
can be sold for lower rates than has thus
far been the case. Only in this way is it
feasible that power may be used for an
infinite variety of “purposes and with
greatest freedom.
“We may reasonably anticipate that the
(Coprrisht, 193, for The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK—From very many ros-
trums hard-working oratora will soon
be informing the multitudes that under
NIRA labor to not a commodity. Here in
the land of freedom we
set human values above
the dollar sign. But ex-
ceptions to the rule
creep in. I have beside
me a mimeographed an-
nouncement from a New
York employment agen-
cy. It is headed “The
Most Remarkable ‘Sale’
of the Year Begins To-
day. Never Before Have
Such Wonderful Bar-
gains Been Offered."
asroun
And beneath this
scarehead runs the fol-
lowing explanatory para-
graph: “Due to business
depression we have in
our files for immediate delivery hundreds
of thoroly competent office workers who
must be placed at once. Their 'former
'values’ have been disregarded, aa it is
essential that they 'sell' themselves im-
mediately."
Below come details such as: "Book-
keepers (male)—Full charge and assist-
ants. Many with knowledge of stenography
and typing. Formerly $20-$50. Now
$15-$35..
“Secretaries and Stenographers—Expe-
rienced or beginners. Competent, neat.
The 'best sellers’ during prosperity. Were
$18-$45. Now $13-$30. ,___/
Furthermore, the. customer is advised,
"Phone me personally if you are interested
in these unusual buys.”
ae e
Merely for the Moment
OF course, I know that basically the
U country is sound. Maybe the compe-
tent typist well worth $15 will not for-
ever be compelled to sell herself for $12.
She had no hand in the making of the
conditions which brought about such a
bargain “sale.” The manager of the em-
ployment office undoubtedly put the quo-
tation marks around “sale” because of
tact and delicacy of feeling. But even as
it stands there is too much suggestion of
the old slave market around the proceed-
ings.
“How much am I bid for this expe-
rienced secretary (female)? Twelve years
In her last place. Do I hear $187 Will
| name kind and generous gentleman make
President’s plan for the Tennessee Valleyit 820?"
may greatly hasten the day when low- But, tho the white-collar worker is
not to be blamed for the existence of
such conditions just now, he will be at
cost power will be a human and a liber-
ating force, bringing with it every man-
ner of economic and social benefit to our
people.”
Indication that the Tennessee Valley
Authority has begun to move toward its
power objectives was given in the an-
nouncement by Chairman Morgan that
two experts had been assigned to study
the projected transmission line to connect
Muscle Shoals and Cove Creek plants.
In Washington and in the valley the
demand for construction of this line is
becoming more widespread. Senator Nor-
ris, author of the act, believes it should
4 be begun immediately. *
Chairman Morgan’s official recognition
of these demands will, hearten the valley,
Construction of this’ transmission line
REVERSE ENGLISH
VZITH all the talk: these days of eco-
VV nomic nationalism it is significant
how much Europe hangs on the Roose-
velt recovery program. The same Euro-
pean press and politicians who were con-
demning the President a short while ago
for his determination to attend to home
problems first and international agree-
ment. later, are now pulling for his success.
It is clear to them that world recov-
ery depends in large part on American
recovery. Thus the British, French and
others have a direct stake in the quick
and effective operation of the Roosevelt
blanket code. j
The London Times makes this point:--
"Much more is at stake than the Im-
mediate well-being of the American people
—in a world of nations which must lives if
they are to live prosperously—by the law
of interdependence. The progress of the
American experiment should be watched
with deep and friendly interest (abroad).
Its success should ■ be devoutly desired
everywhere."
The London Times adds:
"It is no longer the President who is
on trial, for he has given of his best. It
is upon the American people as a whole
that the eyes of the outer world will be
—turned." - , :
That is fair enough." But the propo-
sition works two ways.
Let Europe put the American people
on the spot to pull out of this depression.
But let Europe not forget that the Amer-
ican government and .people also‘ have
their eyes on Europe. And what we see
there in the way of effort to overcome
the depression is not very encouraging.
President Roosevelt’s recent appeal to the
European governments at the London Eco-
nomic Conference to put their own house
in order aa America is trying to do at
home, has produced little result.
It is not essential of course that Euro-
peans use the precise Roosevelt method of
large scale public works and the short'
hour-high wage code for recovery—pro-
vided they have a better method. But it
to essential that the same courageous pur-
pose of a new deal inspire timid con-
servative European governments if Europe
la to rise out of this depression.
This sharp contrast between the lead-
ership provided by the American govern-
A IMACHATION L
INDUSTRIAL CODE
WE DO OUR PART
te
Tracy Says:
It is a good thing that
the Economic Conference
failed.
_____By M. E. TRACT
HIVER since the war we have
E been trying to make perma-
nent plane for peace, social better-
ments and other idealistic objec-
tives. Our uniform lack of suc-
cess barks back to a stubborn re-
fusal to recognize that we were in
poor shape to undertake such
tasks.
People fighting a fire are in no
condition to formulate rebuilding
programs. They must first clear
away the rubbish, blow up foun-
dations and get set for a new
start.
The assumption that we could
forget the war when the Ver-
sailles Treaty had been signed was
ridiculous. We have barely begun
to pay off the debt or repair dam-
ages. We are still struggling to
overcome its effect. The depres-
sion, debt load, burdensome taxes
and trade barriers under which we
labor can all be traced to what
occurred in Europe between 1914
and 1918.
THEAS
CLO
Government
Stick
Re
Asks for Return of the Good Old Days
WHAT OUR READERS SAY—1---------i.
— 0 0 - -
THE emergency brought on by
I that cataclysm baa not been
met. The political chaos, social
confusion and economic disloca-
tion which resulted still remain to
bewilder our best minds. What
is more, they will continue to re-
main as long as governments pur °
sue the fatuous notion that they
can extract relief from each other.
Governments must get on their
own feet before they can make ef-
fective contributions to world-
wide recovery, must get back to
work, restore buying power and
create business at home.
The theory that bankrupt or
near-bankrupt states can accom-
plish anything of .value by strik-
ing hands over a council table de-
| ties common sense.
• • •
RECOVERY depends on rehabil-
itation at home, not only in
this country but in, every other.
Neither should such a course be
Editor, The Press: made by our fathers and mothers. Even more glaring 1a the Injus-
. Now what I am trying to say is tice of the mail fraud order when
We read in the papers that when that what we need is better beer it is used against the head of a
they get to brewing beer in the and if everybody were allowed to company,
new breweries, that it will be bet-make it we would soon be-spraying. He might have got together val- |
ter and more sanitary... , our tonsils with the most delectable uable property by the aid of his „ .
I am an anti-prohibitionist for fluid that evet chased its way down stockholders, properly, which often necessarily selfish. There is a deal
the same reason I would not want a human threat and instead off will be forfeited If work is stopped, of difference between self-suffi-
to raise a boy In a hothouse A making people drunk it would This la so in the oil and mining Iciency and antogonism.
man must be taught gelf reliance make them happy,
and prohibition puts people in I
regarded as isolation. People who
take care of themselves are not
______business.
. .........- ------People need to work. The brew-T One day a dissatisfied stockhold- the
cages rather than teaches them eries may give a few jobs but to er or somebody not connected with |
how to take care of themselves
Many find discouragement In
• obvious failure at London.
fault. If they persist. Two remedies lie
ready to his hand. He (and naturally 1
| mean she as well) can organize. 1 have
| been told that many white-collar workers
have been reluctant to do this. They feel
I that it la beneath the dignity of an office
worker to join a labor union. Not dig-
I nified, hey? “The ‘best sellers’ during
prosperity. Were $18-$45. Now*#1 3-$30.”
would not only mean that government-
generated power would be carried over [
government-built wires to Cove Creek to ;
be used in construction of that dash, but
also that cities and towns along its route
would get the cheap power they have a
right to demand.
GYPPING THE JOBLESS
A HEARING on therclosing of two New
A York private employment agencies re-
veals human nature at about its lowest.
Witnesses told of having been required
to advance fees for jobs only to find those
jobs were mythical. One elderly appli-
cant for an elevator job said he paid $8
In advance fees and then spent 95 cents
in carfare to reach the place where no
help had been requested. An inspector
testified that $120 had been collected In
Initial, teen with the firm’s full knowledge
that the jobs advertised did not, exist.
This depth of meanness, doubtless, can
be plumbed in any American city. Wher-
ever auch private exploitation of men’s
desperation exists there can be found the
well-known evils of excessive fees, fee-
splitting, crooked collusion with employ-
ers, other forms of knavery.
California has a free state service,.
yet in 1929, 267 private fee agencies col-
lected $1,500,000 in fees from the. Job-
less. Estimates of the annual tribute
exacted by this country’s tee agencies run <
as high as $50,000,000. —
1 Some day job placement will be a pub-
lie monopoly, as it should be. The 25
states with public services recognize this.
So does the Wagner act, that will pro-
vide a unified federal-state service thru
federal aid and federal standards.
But for some time to come fee agen-
cies will persist. The Supreme Court does
not permit states to, wipe them out by
statute as Germany and some of the Cana-
man provinces have done. Pending the
time when the public services will drive
the fee agencies out of business the states
should regulate the privateers more ef-
fectively. They should do this with the
same, type of aggressive efficiency that
Wisconsin displays. And now that em-
ployers are hiring again it is time to
think of this sort of regulation.
We must tolerate the fee agencies a
little longer; we need not tolerate their
swindles.
The Daily Nosegay
Mr., Mrs., Master and Miss va
John Y. Public, '
Anystreet, Fort Worth.
Dear Folks:
Lester’s always glad to welcome fan-
mail, .
Altho it’s, frankly, mostly pan-mall. ■
He’ll print It whether it's agin him or
with’m.
If It’s only witty and smooth of rhythm.
But if you want to make this column,
With a laughing dig or a comment
solemn,
You must let me print your name and
address—
Les won’t be satisfied with less.
P. S. And your photograph, If you’re
young and pretty,- /
As well as a rimer more or less witty.
Yours, etc.
LESTER (Just call me Les).
The Weight of the Ballot
A ND the office worker can do much to
A make his lot more secure by voting
| afor such candidates as promise to promote
I federal and state measures for unemploy-
| ment insurance. Don’t crook your finger
| and cry “Bolshevism" at me, for excellent
legislation along these lines wax firat in-
troduced by Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.)
Unemployment la a crisis and a test of
our capacity. It cannot be handled except
thru government agencies. Kind words
by official spokesmen are not enough.
I am all for planned production and
I for codes, but when I read that some gen-
erous industry has gone into a huddle only
| to come out with the announcement (hat
nobody is to be paid less than $12 a week
| 1 tremble for this purchasing power which
I have seen mentioned so recently in the
headlines of our newsepapers. I don’t
I are how anybody ran keep body and soul
apart for $12 a week.
---AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT---
How to Be a Good Mother
___J By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON___
TUST about once every three months I
0 resolve to he firm with the children.
Having heard that this is an important
characteristic of the good mother, and
like most women having
a desire to qualify for
such title, I make re-
newed determination to
do my duty if ft kills
me, and the youngsters
likewise.
So 1 begin the day
by armoring myself with
adamantine resolutions
and for four or five
hours all goes well. The
kids and I, happily,
agree about everything.
The home atmosphere is
peaceful. Tranqul lity
reigna. And” while this
serene interim is expe-
rienced I find myself in
Mrs. Ferguson
entire agreement with the authorities who
advocate relentless parestalfirniess.-------
Inevitably, however,‘the contest be-
gins.- And my grim determination is sel-
dom able—save in__the most.....important
crises- to stand the strains Somehow the
children always outtalk me (which, ac-
| cording to the man in the family, makes
them pretty good). They can offer the
most excellent arguments in favor of pet
projects, and their reasons after a time
sound very sensible, while those I had
put forth by and by seem wholly illogical,
even to my ears.
THEN my firmness fails, I begin well,
1 but around noon my back hone slowly
collapses and by nightfall I am totally
disabled-a poor spineless female whose
children know how to work her to a
frazzles
, in short, I do not possess sales re-
sistance. And the woman who la not
blessed with this gift in overwhelming
quantities can not qualify for a good
mother—because the best salesman at
large is your own youngster trying to sell
you his plans and ideas.
But 1 console myself. Does it really
matter? 1 have known any number of
"good mothers’ in my time and, aa a
rule, I dislike them almost as much as
their children seem to do. They are so
likely to be dictatorial, overbearing and
very high on themselves. In fact, right
now I’m that tired of trying to follow the
rules for being a good mother I’ve de-
cided to be a poor one and let it go at
that. It’s so much pleasanter around the
house, too, and the children and I have
ao much more fun when I am not func-
tioning in the role of "exemplary parent.”
cages , ruur . ....... ‘mwewe, ....... eries may give a rew jo,„ put to er or somepoay not connected with | but the United States ana all
how to take care of themselves let people make these things at a company sends a complaint to the |e 9 d., St a -
At the same time I do not be- home would give them hundreds nostal inanactor Ha secures a franal th r great notions would have
Heve they can make beer better of thousands of jobs.
In a factory than they can in a It was the breweries and the big
cellar. Many years ago Germany liquor companies that tried to con-
was famous for beer. Travelers trol politics and brought on prohi-
even went there to drink beer, and hition. The same thing will happen
it was home brew. Recently I read agatn.
in some memoirs how good the If they are going to turn the ...... ...,,....
German beer was when It was revenue over to the politicians and their letters of
made at home. They say factory the, big companies I am not in-
beer is more sanitary, but if they terested. I do not want to make
were to kill all the germs in beer any whisky myself but I do not
it never would make. . believe in surrendering everything
When I was a boy I remember to a few people. These few people
how my mother would roll out usually cause trouble.
pones of corn bread and cook it i j E. FITZGERALD.
In an oven under a slow fire. She i Stephenville, Texas.
would grease the oyen with a meat ...
rind. I was lucky when I got
that pone of bread that the meat (ites Unfairness of
rind stuck to J P. Morgan can Postal Fraud Order
not go into the finest restaurant
and get any finer bread than my Editor. The Press:
mother used to make | In all democratic countries the
I “Sanitary ?" Even the old oaken power of government Is divided
bucket that bangs in the well is into a law making, a judicial, and
not sanitary any more. You must an executive department. They are
drink city water that has been all bound by law and regulations interest in iat. hot , , . ;
treated with alum and formalde- so to safeguard the constitutional its 1 economic law that is of
Hyde and has a lot of face powder rights of the citizens to life, liberty Tchad conmienceneegueneea
and lip stick and dye out of bath- and opportunity to pursue happi-
ing suits in it. ness. • 1
| Sanitary! Th» wholesale produce Under those principles the world
men say watermelons bought off a prospered during the 19th century,
j farmer’s wagon are not sanitary, and it has been for the 20th cen-
. They make the poor old peddlers tury to revert to older and more
pay one hundred dollars to have -absolute forms of government.
their stuff inspected. | The American constitution has
Oh, yes, everything must be sani-been a pattern for the European
tary now. Forty years ago the countries, and we have prided our-
postalinspector. He secures a fraud.. ...
order without any sworn statement, been worse off had the conference
The president Is arrested and the succeeded as originally planned,
stockholders get no notice about The Roosevelt program would
it. If they do not happen to seehave been virtually destroyed,
something about it in a local paper I while Britain, France, Italy and
they generally do not hear about Germany would have found them
what has happened before they get- would have found them
inquiries back,
marked "fraudulent."
selves hedged about with agree,
ments and commitments which
none of them is in a position to
fulfill
If a receiver, is appointed he
generally never gives out any In-
formation. the postal Inspectors
| and the U. S. attorney refuse to ___________
Inform the stockholders why the the frame of mind to co-operate
head of their company has been in-
dicted. All is kept in darkness.
Creditors get excited and come
Under existing circumstances
we not only lack the substance but
effectively. It is a good thing that
the conference failed.
out with their claims, the company
goes In most instances on the rocks
The president may finally be ac-
| quitted, but how does that help the
stockholders when the properties
are gone? In every event there has
been worry, expenses and delay.
The American public is patient,
and does not as a rule take much
for so many people will sooner or
later have to be adjusted so that it
conforms with our constitution and
sound common sense
DINA KNUDSEN.
This Is Life
By JACK MAXWELL
women, and the men too, would go selves on our liberal government IIELLO, and howdy-do!
to meeting on Sunday Then they and have not been aware of a fea- l This morning I received an un-
would go home with friends for ture of absolutism that has crept signed letter: a nasty, low-grade
dinner. We call it lunch now into it, so we now have a divisionepistle, roasting the dickens outta
Lunch is a more sanitary word in four of our governmental pow-
After dinner they would get out ers, namely the three first named,
the old album and look at the pic-
Ask The Press
You can get an answer to any an-
swerable question or fact by writing
to Frederick M Kerby Question Edi-
tor. Fort Worth Sreea Washington
Bureau, 1322 New York Avenue. Wash-
inaton. D C. enclosing three cents in
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
advice cannot ba given.
A. Only marimbas.
sea
Q. Give the location of the
largest port grain elevator in the
United States.
A What is believed to be the largest
port train elevator in the United States
and one of the largest in the world, is
located at Galveston, Texas ft has a
capacity of 6.000,000 bushels, and cost
$3,000,000 The largest grain elevator on
the North American continent, and pos-
sibly in the world, is Elevator No a of
the Canadian Wheat Pool at Fort Arthur
Ontario, having A capacity of 1.500 000
bushels.
tures. Then they would hunt up the
garden seed and exchange seed.
They would tie a few seed up in a
little rag. They even have to have
the seed. inspected now.
But what 1 am trying to get at
is that everybody saving the best
seed brought out the great Im-
provementawe have in seed now.
If it had not been for this we would
and as the fourth, the right of the
postal department to stop people's
mail and issue fraud orders.
The law about fraudulent use of
me . . and no shot for me to
“get back" at the writer, were I
so inclined, which I am NOT
I have less use for the writer
of an anonymous letter than I have
for a “country polecat,” and here’s
WHY: When a polecat drops you
a "line” he or she never falls to
the mall was made by a Congress
friendly to progress, it was signed _____... .. .... ...... ....
by a progressive president, it never put their SIGNATURE to same . . .
was intended to hamper and con- and a guy can tell from whence it
strain lawful business, but the fact cometh.
that the department thru its tn-
spectors la in a position to destroy
not today have the fine tomatoes a man’s worldly welfare by refus-
we have and the fine beans and ing him the use of the mail, with,
fine melons. out even having to come out with
People that eat melons may won- a sworn statement of fraud is a
der where all these things come menace and is in conflict with the
from. It was from seed selection constitution.
SIDE GLANCES — By George Clark
ITVIEU
.^JiJJlSiJS^ctjJEJHJi^jHrafL^
“I can’t promise that I’ll make good right away. It
may be two or three months before I can send for you.”
and a guy can tell from whence it
Q in what range of mountains,
is Pike’s Peak?
A. Front range of the Rocky Moun-
tains.
Q. Give the date and place of
birth of Senator Huey Long of
Louisiana.
A Winnfield, La., Wednesday, Aus.
30. 1893.
This Little Pig Goes to Market
---------------By C. L. DOUGLAS_______-_______
"DORK CHOPS” la one little pig
D that really likes to go to
market — and he goes most every
day.
That is, if hia master goes.
Otherwise he is content to .stay
at home, put on hie eye-glasses,
read the morning paper, and have
lunch at a table in the back yard.
All of which may sound rather
unusual for a little pig, but nev-
ertheless it’s true. "Pork Chops”
is not sn ordinary porker; he
furnishes the living proof to re-
fute those who say that the hog
is the dumbest of earth’s creatures
and can’t be trained to do the
bidding of men. You'll learn that
for yourself if you ever visit
Breckenridge and come across Mr.
Curtis Hancock, former secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce,
who now operates a filling sta-
tion.
• • •
HOOR no dog ever followed more
I closely on a master’s heels
than “Pork Chops,” the pig, fol-
lows the footsteps of Mr. Hancock.
And he has become one of the
best known and most loved pets
in all the city. As Francis E.
Barnes of the produce company
says he’s as well known as some
members of the Pioneer League,
altho he is only three months old.
He has no pedigree of any sort
that anybody knows about, but
that doesn’t keep him from being
smart — proving, perhaps, that
the common sty is as productive
of genius as the pens with the
blue ribbons tisd to ths gate.
“Pork Chops” came to Breck-
enridge firat when he was but
three weeks old, on one of the
“swap” or “barter” days held in
the capital of Stephens County,
and he was spotted in the market
place by Dorothy Jean, grand-
daughter of Mr. Hancock.
"Can’t you trade something for
the piggie," asked the little girl
—and her grandfather did.
• % *
THEN began the education of
1 little “Pork Chops.” In three
months’ time he has been taught
to wear spectacles, to get into his
easy chair and glance over the
pages of a newspaper; to- lie down
and stretch out; and to "play
dead" at the bidding of his mas-
ter. -u-creai
He seemed to eniing
take up with ranli
Mr. Hancock 1
right away, and
now when his
master goes to
his filling sta-
tion the little
pig trails along
like a faithful
dog; and when
Mr. Hancock
decides to stroll
down the street
"Pork Chops”
usually is trot-
ting along be-
hind.
Douglas
He has become ao famous in
and about Breckenridge that three
of his pictures, in characteristic
poses at the table, have been put
on display at the Chamber of
Commerce.
***
DUT right there—at the table—
D is where little "Pork Chops’,
with all his intelligence shows
his one great weakness. Not that
he can be called hoggish or any-
thing like that. Hla manners are
good as could be expected of any
pig, but he shows one trait that
puts upon him the decided mark
of the beast.
Like other animals, and like
most people, he has his favorite
dishes — and what do you think
it Is?
Well, it’s pork chops . . . pork
chops done to a golden brown—
the little cannibal!
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