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I consideration. It is one of N.R.A.’s weak
spots, where a break might do irreparable
damage to N.R.A.’s fundamental aim and
principles.
The answer by Johnson and General
Counsel Donald R. Richberg, as sharp in
tone as Darrow’s complaint, might well
have been more temperate. Richberg’s sep-
arate reply concerning the steel code is
an able defense, admitting shortcomings.
due to the mad code-making scramble. of
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MONDAT
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
(Copyright, 1934, for The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK. 1 was forced to interrupt
my tour of America on account of
the occurrence of Mother’s Day and also
because T have “a bad toothache. . At the
last Fall and outlining plans for — more
f-maferuardn N - — moment I wouldn’t even like the Grand—
It is unfortunate that the Darrow
criticism is not better based; there is
- plenty of room for improvement in N,R.A
and its codes.
But it will be equally unfortunate for
N,R A.’s enemies If they try to use the
board’s findings as a basis for political
attack on the recovery act; N.R A.’s de-
fense is more than adequate
man
Give Light and the People
w # Find Their Ou n Way
A Thought for Today
THAT which is crooked cannot be made
N
eartoth ered Ecclesiastes 1 15
Be ee that he who has betrayed
them once will betray thee again —Lavater.
MH. WITT WRITES A
GOOD PREFACE
“There Is a Destiny That Shapes Our Ends!”
Tracy Says:
Canyon. However, this
short trip home gives me
an opportunity to look
over the town and ob-
serve what changes have
ROOSEVELT AND LA FOLLETTE
QUT in Wisconsin Saturday a couple of •
U young fellows and their followers made
a difficult decision They decided that the _
political ideas they represent shall be
| presented to the voters of the state this
t—S+*1F—4n4—Vall—undar—thelahel ofa.
new political party. €
This is interesting, because their ideas
come pretty close to being exactly what
A EANE, careful and able speech was
A made Friday night by Edgar Witt at
-We call the New Deal The philosophy
of the New Deal is not new.to the young
men in question. They have been work
ing for it And rett suece sfu ever
since their teens. And their father be-
fore them hid worked for it, likewise very
successfully on the whole, all of his
notable life.
Their efforts to further this New Deal
—- - - ...1. I were of a practical kind: Two years a go
The gentleman from Waco has J it took the form of campaigning for the
Belton. --------,
( ( for Governor 43 Ions
.. the memory of .man almost runneth not
: the contrary. Nevertheless he felt the
L need of rounding up and setting out the
v ich he will seek to be.
Governor of Texas, and Friday night’s “for
mai opening accomplished this purpose
1 1 a sane and careful program: he
sponsors, unmarked save in one or two in
ataices by the personalities that have he
, to creep into the campaign, Mr. Witt
T mod-74 delerals on fir # e ef
terrs the big red building above iti valley.
but he evidently would give. Texas A man
idsearetut administration-
H s platform in part favors: Taxing in. 1
talig 1 , to relieve real e tate; time of part
of the state a relief funds to finance small*
Hetnesteade, reduction of government ex-
5 and of auto license fees and aboli
ton of pelt tax; old age pensions and tin
employment Unsurance: a veterans’ com
dasion to help veterans adjust claima
with the federal government.
De elopment of home industries aboli
the , of profiteering by publie utilities and
organization of a state regulatory commis
sioh st te wide organization agaimat crime
with anlek communication: extreme re
strietion of pardons; repeal of the state
on amendment and institution of
mtriet control laws to end a present reign
of "near-anarchy;" maintenance of state
educational faetlities; and “all possilile co-
ordination" of state departments
M Witt advances his own candidacy
as a sure means of getting away from the
gusons and ant Ferguson rows which
ha e split Te as politically and kovern-
mentally for many years.
Broun
taken place. No changes
have taken place. But
I have learned one
thing. There is a dis-
tinct and separate sort
of psychology set apart
from the mental process-
es of all other Individ-
uals. It is, for want of
a better name, column-
ar cerebration. .
It makes no differ-
ence whether the col-
umnist is communist.
citizen who had given this newname to
their father’s program Since Roosevelt
took off ce they have supported him whole-
hearted * and effecti , ( ot then
Robert M. Jr., has probably done as much
as any other single member of the. U. S
Senate to help. the President keep his
personal and platform pledger
Yet Saturday the yo ng •■ tos was
1 forced to decide to campaign this
bourgeois orseapitalistic. Step on his toe
— and he will—react in preelsely—the same—
way There is a brotherhood of the by-
lime which sweeps aside all class distine-
tion. You can not be a columnist for a
day, a week, or 20 years without develop
ing, an ego sensitivity quite unwarranted
by your position in the community.
Any unfriendly reference to your work
becomes, according to your economic post-
tion, an attack upon the Constitution of
ithir the ill of Rights, or
the doctrines of Carl Marx.. Next to the
British Empire columnists are the great-
est territory grabbers in the world. .
well aware of my own sins, altho
Iam negligent in correcting them. When |
somebody writes in to say, he reads me
with disdain, and complete boredom I set
the client dewnw reactionary stuffed
| shirt whom I delight to displease. The
idea that somebody could agree with my
| point of view and still dislike the stuff
never enters my head. At least t has |
not until this moment. I will have to
take Hire matter under’advisement
. Of course, it, was not sheer introspec-
s tio to - w t about the
againat.t e ceandid t . Preald n.s
party-he—deeltion—-—freed—-
President Of course It will be said that
It was forced by Jim Fafley, Democratic
National Chairman(and Postmaster Jen
eral): but nobody is so innocent as to be-
" lieve that Farley is No. 1 man in I
. party and the President only No 2...
The very fact that the Democratic car
didate was running in 1932 on what it
people of Wisconsin recognized as a La
Follette platform not only.kave that state.
to Roosevelt but brought into being some
thing that had not existed a state Demo-
cratic party. The situation
| gressiven of both the old parties could
regiiter—their views by electing LaFol
lette candidates ended 4 Ph1 LaFollette
| accepted defeat thru this no
tthree-cor-
nered setup, but continued to support the
Roosevelt program A purely politic 1
minded Democratic party had been fasten-
ed on the state.
Witnessing what had happened to Phil
LaFollette, progressives thruout the coun-
| try expected that the national Democratic:
organization would throw its influence to
° Bob La Follette this year. Even after i •
Democratic National Chairman had tried
sr Witt speaks of his long experience to defeat Roosevelt’s able-friend LaGuar-
And great knowledge of government This | dia in New York, the notion remained
thotte aid him to elaborate on the | that in Wisconsin the cour e.of the na
more general points Iri His platform as the tional party’leadership would not be mark
minpaikn goes on The people will re | ed by unintelligence and ingratitude.
quire it. But he has m ade a good ber But the Demeeradla-areinization s out
sinning . | to fight the LaFolleites, as the Old Guard
— Republican organization has fought them
REV. CARBOROL GH HONORED
—----.—.------OIQHGIL of oit
IV. Worth, head of the Baptist Seminary,
has bet red by the Southern Bap
tist Cor entic election as first vice
president of the-convention, which rep.
resent more than 4,000,000 members of
tr geathorough’s host of Fort Worth
retends will grer t at the-honor is de-
served. This is a ease of a prophet whose
honor by the orld at large only follows
and expands the great honor in which he
ie held in “hi own country.
for years The fighting sons of Fight
Bob had no’chofee but to sceep 4
forced on then
F They’ll make a good-fight and, we h
| "lieve, a winning one The New Deal
1 needs’A La Follette in the U. S. Senate
TEXAS COTTON AND WORLD
TRADE BARRIERS
SECRETARY of Agriculture Henry A
D Wallace left some weighty thoughts
for Texas to mail over, in his address in
Dallas Friday night.
Texas produces more
DARROW DISAGREES
* i e nation’s eotton
agricultural crop.
11
than one- third
the state’s chief
Approximately nine out
by
.It was a fellow teller over
land corner Of the vineyard:
imago I ventured a ntfri
- Says Single Tax Is Foundation of Human Liberty
w HAT OU R READERS SAY -___
Tolerating the rise of
collectivism, as we are,
suggests a state of men-
tal weakness.
__By M. E. TRACY_
WIGHT research experts predict
1 an era of collectivism for
this country which may out-Rus-
sia Russia or lead to a collapse
approximating that of the Middle
ages. .
At the same time Mr. Gettle
has been rescued from his kid-
napers. Judged by street con-
versation and headlines the Get-
tle case is taken more seriously
than the professional forecast
_ and I do not quarrel with the
verdict.
It strikes me that we are tol-
erating, if not encouraging the
| rise of collectivism for precisely
| the same reason that we prefer
| to traffic with racketeers and
. that both suggest a state of men-
tal weakness.
As far as I can make out from
| listening to or reading the chat- -
ter to wh eh € i improved ays- .
" tems of communication have-siy-—
en rise, a comparative few are
| frightened to the point of hys-
1 group goes into eestacies. of en-
• thusia By far the greater
number, howe er, appear to re-
gard the perform nee as a good
show whet er 1 anifests.Stself
: T THINK we are in a Hollywood
I frame of mind, content to wait
•
much wheth er it makes sense as
| long as the element of suspense
remains
— e is r ter explanati n.
perhaps, for the calmness or
plate the paradox of asking the
government to perform so many
- new duties , ghi in the face of
GRAIN
HEAD
PRIC
Tells Conv
Operato
U. S.
" Texas’ gi
what the go
boost prices
to get back
law of sups
President
their conver
He presid
the 3,7th an
the Texas 0
tion at the -
Mr Hugh
Editor. The Press
, 1--H-TLFF FHTT.7 *
ler Garlin who writes.: progress toward one
feature in the Daily " ery those w ) a de €
undertook to refute not the
rh net to
= urshane the right to thy frf f 1
al- of this
The ‘pursuit of happiness,”’
ways been.
t = Hr * — - the
. as they have from
town jus
7
nt T—my opinion Mr. Garl in
addled piece T came back
n time to read the response,
• rim, Greenwi
instance, the current theory
capital."employs labor C
play wrihi, and one by Fender Garlin, the
laid end to f ru well over two colui
I a flattered,: 1 so i hast and
yil I do not at it
Skimping the Workers
THE DAILY WORKER is a publication
Isupported by the, toilers of America
doewfoteloy O 1.
are paid
Abundance of capital 1
ot mean gh. Wag
| low wages in new countries
ages are high be a st the
tunities to labor areeopt
labor re Aves,whnt tpr. 1
it t sane
under private ownership of the
lute and libertrimust.ony new
by the same sauce.
were the objects to be attained,
thich the government of the
higher purposes and no
the r ndation.
rev lution As one of tt r gular subscrib .
ore I object to its fiddling while the labor
tee cent
day to find out what is happening in the
printers’strike in Paterson, N. T. on which
the. Worker gives me less than half a
I am not interested in the sins
before T go.into a sulky silence
ay that if I were running a. "work.
Ing Cars daily newspaper" I would cut
out the ealth hints the Tuning In" de
t Floyd Gibbons, th
headline
- WEAR
investment
The I terests of
capital are
igh. then
Temt-na
ert
currant
would certainly kill the
rni, in—wilch—I—find—in
of the revolutionary-or
is to-rouge and lipstick. the ob
which is to simulate‘healthy’blood
practically but one red is‘correct’
# purpose a brownish true red
Torth7 triumph of the disinherited
€
e
bor and •
and WAEGI
oined to the dy
toot Wher
# yos
portunity in Th for
and
things.
is declared th
i mone to
of fira
(w
for the satisfaction of 1
This Is Life
By JAC K NANWELL.
HELLO. and howdy-d
• Forlinstance a moment
ago I looked myself right square
what 1 € 1g y I rea art
was or might be 1 certainly
of-color a few days ago, as per
: its signal failure to perform %
few old ones.
dgabiui there ever
was hes the g ernment
| showed such inability to cope
1 with omr crimes to protect
its dismal failure to enforce pro-
bibitfon and from its equally dis-
1 mi fai re ( get rid of jtleg
under Tre •
plication of such realities we non-
rnment’running
to be set for gang rule %nd ra
steering on A much wider scale,
that, in principle, we are nursu-
ing the same phile anphy which
Whistle-st
erate • r.
00) 11: Unan liberty, Al
tel the uncarme ie-pment
land. In its economic sense, con
1 man accoste
way to a di
sun—ban—pre-ce4--
Ask The Press
Yo
get
Ke
A striking illustration of
ppears in a
Press of May 9 1934 "It says
The State of exal as lest ( •
T 7—A—bit of ”
him the s.....phere and wanted
me to advise him as to what to
i do about it Not.67 ng up-to the-
| mints on the arreir I the
% passed the buck and let it gt at
‘ that 4.
Q What is the salary of the
President of the American Fed-
F0
TTHE Darrew Board report is disappoint
1 K Most of its sound criticisms have
been anticipated by N.R.A., and remedial
action started, particularly in the tempo
rary steel code. Records of busmens
failures show that the codes in general
have aided .......d the.lriti
fellows.
But the National Recovery
Board # report is a tremendously in portant
of every 10.bales of Texas cotton are sold
| abroad.
Me. briefly, runs the Secretary’s thesis
| What, he wants to know, should be Texas’
attitude toward world trade? He answers
| his question himself:
Texas’ prosperity is more definitely
linked with this country’s relationship
and the dispossessed. And I would get
along without a columnist. The “I” in
“revolution” should always be lower case
---------is ONE WOMAN SEES [T-
Mothers Need Iron in Spine
B5 MIS. WALTER FT ROL SON -__
NOW we i ked to lend sympathy
IV to "the little old wrinkled gray-haired
mother of Clyde Barrow notorious out-
Our hearts feel sorry for her, but I
our: brains function at
all they can’t follow
suit.
As a matter. of self-
perservation if nothing
more, you’d think wom-
en might exercise
enough good sense to
public both in
ber and on the
The tardi
| dow n in o
| dependence
he
r Declaration of
right
This release has profited a
s cooper of the Recarcn net
parti i t Texas State Teachers
Association points out It the
asked 1r
per pint
/ didn’t wish to
hooch, at so much
and he made Ie a
dandy price on the 1934 prod-
uct. Now here’s what jammed
my brakes ‘ Why in the Heck
with the rest of the world than that of
Review l any other state."
document, despite its weakness 4 AUm"
up the attacks on N R A. contradictory as |
they ark- a04 wind up, with Clarence
Darrow’s own enverr minanosin ociimtitinny
mate rite of our industrial civilization.. |
Darrow sayi our choice is between |
“monopoly sustained by •......mient" and |
“a planned economy which demands social
ized ownership and control." General
Johnson says these alleged alternatives
really are "Pasclam and Communism ‘
N R A from the Beginning has been
designed as a "half way house ‘ between
these two, which could be fitted to Deino-
eratie political government and # Demo-
eratie people. It is also a framework in
which a future planned economy la pos-
mible, Darrow’s conclusion therefore at
tacks- the fundamental aim of N R A. He
Mr Wallace underscores the lesson by
reminding us what happened when high
tariff walls all over the world caused the
steep world decline in the prices of raw
matertais—including cotton........after 19B9.
All this is not new, of course. But the
Secretary’s impressive presentation of it
underscores the stake which Texas has in
the breaking down of trade barriers and
in freer commerce among the nations.
If the world cannot sell to us it
cannot buy Texas cotton.
The Daily Nosegay
: says, in effect, that public supervision
without “ownership and control" cannot
eure us of monopoly and other businessDalla
Hon Charles Turner,
Mayor of Dallas;
Hon. R. L Thornton,
President, Chamber of Commerce,
to life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.”
Life being wholly dependent
upon land to reduce land, the
earth, to the status of a com-
modity. to be bought, sold, ex-
changed. and monopolized, is a
| denial of man’s primal right to
1 live, for ‘he who cannot live
I ove. al i have his belts ex
cept by permission of those w o
| own the earth, is not, free to
| determine his Tire.
Liberty is the next essential
to life; therefore it comes sex
1 ond in the declaration. ‘ It is
| obvious that to deny equal par-
tleipation, in God’s gift to n I
bring up children upon
whom they could de-
pend in their old age.
But how many of them
are doing it?
The modern parent |
is like the grashhopper |
in the fable singing,
dancing and fiddling in
mhersunsnine, while the
Mrs. Ferguson little ones look after.
themselves. And it depends upon luck
whether they turn out creditable men and
minerals had been retained the |
property owners today would I
at 1 have
| 000,000 left annually from its 1 LV19 ‘
billion dollar trust fund." ‘ * *
Why continue to give it away
as in the past? he asks."
The only explanation is that
ed in the Declaration of
Independence, "that mankind |
are more disposed to suffer. 1
while evils are sufferable, than I
to right themselves by abolish-
ing the forms to which they are |
accustomed." In all ages, habits,
customs and fashions have be-
clouded reason and Im pe ded jus-
SIDE GLA N CES — By George Clark
did that duekkry boy pi k me for
Q Can mereur
th ern ometery to
A Alcohol ether e
Frees below zero.
record very
1
Up to that unfortun.
had entertained
to be a Church’:
Deacon. Teacher of Fishing, or
ut it s alperr and I’m coins to
go back to the Cotton Pat h and
pick up where I left off years
ago
the date of
the next Presidential inaugura-
tion?
A. January 20,/1931.
Q on whit day to 1914 did
the firs lay or. the Jewish
Pasroxar fall?
He Was Kidnaped by the Indians
______________________B) C. L. DOC GI AS________________...___-
YOU HEAR a lot of the ruth-
1 lessness and viciousness of
the modern kidnaper but is
he, after all, any worse than the
earlier day practitioner of the
abduction art? -
Old Sam Savage of Mineral |
dian to make the trim to the Co
manche camp.
Wells can tell you a few things
LOR nearly a y ar the Palo
1 Pinto mother heard nothing
of her sons and then, one day,
a white man by the name of Jim
Fields saw two lads in an Indian
about the business, for Mr. Sav-
' age, who was born back in 1861,
l
Wi
10
awne
evils.
Miyb.....t, but the experiment in still
i in process and it is too early for dogmatic
predictions The recovery act, in effect,
is a blueprint of • plan for industrial
democracy. Under it, or something bet-
ter along similar lines, stand our hope and
chance for a happier, more abundant and
efficient industrial life. It has had less
than a year’s trial; and N.R.A. in trying
hard to improve the structure it as built.
The Darrow board’s finding of monop
oly tendencies under code operations IA
more to the point. Analysis, however
shows that monopoly practices have pre-
vailed in business for many years. N.R.A.
embodies some of these accepted prae-
tees in codes and sought to regularize
them, to avoid business crookedness.
The report makes the charge that big
business dominates the code authorities.
Dear Charley
Dear R. L.:
I see that you blast polities
As responsible for your airmail fix.
Blame ‘‘indifference and ignorance,"
And voice your grave suspicions,
in telegrams to almost everyone,
Who’se powerful in Washington,
That the administration’s full of politicians.
Men, you took an awful chance.
In failing to say where you lay the blame.
In failing to call a single name.
Because of your inexactitude to ’em
They may think you’re merely being rude
to ’em
women.
Yet a well-brought-up child is the
very best kind of insurance, the soundest
economical investment.
It’s true, as we all know, that many
an upright man has sired renegade sons,
but the majority of such youths now
coming on are the victims of bad condi-
tions and bad parents. They’ve not had
proper training and, more important still,
no examples of decency and integrity in
the home. **: *
THE boy who is not taught to respect his
1 neighbor’s property, the rights of his
playmates or the law, is the sort who will
have no f ! ins for the rights of a parent.
It he has no sense of civic responsibility,
there’s a strong likelihood he will lack a
‘ sense of filial devotion. He is sure to be
mean, selfish and overbearing, the ear-
marks of the criminal. •
The sight of so many thousands of
American mothers weeping their old eyes
out over rascally sons is quite enough to
turn the coming generation to practical
parenthood. For, if women had not been
crammed with so much palaver about "un-
- selfishness and holy devotion and mother
mine stuff they would probably have pro-
‘ diced better citizens and been themselves
far more certain of care and love in their
old age.
We lack iron in our backbone. Moth-
was victim in the most hair-
raising abduction case ever to
occur within the borders of Palo
Pinto County.
Let s look back a few years
camp and suspected they were
| kidnap victims. He struck a bar
| gain with the ehief. trading &
horse and a silver-rimmedsad-
1 die for the two boys, who already
—to 1866. Five-year-old Sam
and his two brothers, Jim and
Marion, were en route, to the -
field where their father was
working But just as they-
started across the plowed ground
they saw a party of Comanche
Indians dart out of the woods.
They saw their father shot down
by the marauders,then they
turned and ran for the house,
the Indians pursuing.
ARION, the older brother,
ran to a creek and tried to
hide but the raiders found him.
shot him thru the shoulder, and
continued the chase after the
smaller boys.
They caught Sam and Jim,
put them each on a horse be-
hind a warrior, and galloped
away while the mother, a rifle
in her hands, watched from the
door of the Savage cabin.
were almost as brown as Indians
beneath the grease paint on their
faces.1
Mr. Fields
took them to |
McKinney and |
started adver-
rising in the
frontier papers,
and at last the
notice came to
the attention of |
the mother -. .
and the boys
Ve were returned
hoffe again.
The ased-
Mineral. Wells
man said that
he already had__
forgotte i a Douglas
great deal of his own language.
R
dane
Ret
nth
1 1
ers have a human right to stand up to
their children and ask something in return
for their devotion. It’s high time we aban-
doned sentimental twaddle and—become
practical enough to ask ourselves what
part we have had in making boys like
LESTER (Just call me Les): Clyde Barrow. -
Yours, atc.,
(1034 ntA Stew N - 1
p
Remember, we're calling on the Conways this ever
ning, so don’t order anything that wi" mike you hiccup.”
The kidnapers went north
with their two young captives
and somewhere, near the Indian
territory line the rope of one of
the Indian riders caught in
some brush, jerking him from
this pony and dragging him
across a rocky terrain until his
head, caught between two rocks,
was severed from his body. Mr.
— Savage recalls today-how torri-
. fied he was when he was placed
on a horse with the headless In-
and was at first frightened at
the caresses of his own mother,
who had something of a job
cleaning their faces and comb-
ing their hair, which had been
left uncombed during the period
of captivity.
Sam Savage was, not injured
in any way, but Jim, who is live
ing now in Swearingen, Texas,
had his right ear under-cropped.
On first return the boys longed
again for the freedom of the
woods, and thought of running
away, but they weren’t long in
settling down to the ways of the
white man’s life. -
And today they’re glad to
have their scalps ,
Corne
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Sheldon, Seward R. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 198, Ed. 1 Monday, May 21, 1934, newspaper, May 21, 1934; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685042/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.