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“Give Light and the People
Will Find Their Own Way"
bargo therefore was directed only' against
sales. Naturally nobody was going to ex-
port guns without first selling them. But
it developed that nearly three million
dollars’ worth of munitions had already
been ordered, and in some cases partly
paid for, by Bolivia. Some of these sup-
plies had been completed before the em-
bargo was proclaimed, and were ready for
shipment.
Secretary Hull has examined all these
contracts, and has ruled, in effect, that
nearly one-fourth of them had progressed
far enough before May 28 to constitute
actual sales. Since the sales thus preceded
the proclamation, he concluded that it
would be unfair to Bolivia to refuse re- ′
I**ey ewerr-gdedfssstoskueakitreancesara “er
• He will be criticized for placing the
letter of the law above the interests of
humanity. But friends of peace will take
heart from his refusal to release two mil-
lion dollars’ worth of other Bolivian orders,
and from the State Department's pledge
that no further shipment to feed the
Chaco war will be tolerated.
The real trouble lies in the lack of a
general embargo act which would permit
the President to clamp down on munitions
exports at the beginning of a war—instead
of waiting until tens of thousands of-men
have been killed, many of them with
American-made bullets.
It Seems To Me
by
Heywood Broun
?
Traco Says: DR
A Thought for Today
%
PUT he forsook the counsel of the old
5 men, which they had given him, and
consulted with the young men that were
grown up with him, and which stood he
fore him.—1 Kings, 12:8. .
---Each succeeding day is the scholar of
that which preceded.—Publius Syrus.
CONTAGIOUS ELECTRICITY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S faith th an
E electrified America, as reemphasized In
his speeches at dam sites of the North-
west, seems to be shared by a growing
number/of citizens, but there are strong
Interests pulling in the opposite direction.
Today the United States Chamber of
Commerce issued a middle of the road re-
port on the domestic use of electricity. It
states:
■^-^W^sA^^ii^^
equipment cost and energy cost it is doubt-
ful whether the economic status of the
potential ’electrified home’ customers is
such that the growth of home electrifica-
tion can be greatly accelerated, unless
: forced by some artificial stimulus such as
a government subsidy.".
. One group opposing the Roosevelt pro-
gram argues that other forms of energy
at lower cost will block electrical develop-
‘.ment...,
Similar objections were made when
Henry Ford started mass production of
low-priced automobiles,' offering men of
moderate means the advantage of a new
and convenient form of transportation.
The capital cost and operating ex-
penses of & horse and buggy were some-
what less than even the lowest priced gaso---
line carriages. . But America in 1931 had _
-28,126,000 registered automobiles. As the
President and many of the world’s lead-
ing engineers see in electricity the basis
for a new sort of civilization. Ford saw
the possibility of revolutionizing trans-
portation with a car to fit millions of
pocketbooks. Doing it proved profitable.
Mass electrification of American homes
■ Is on the way. It may hasten “leisure, free-
dom, and an end to drudgery, congestion,
noise, smoke and filth."
The question today is whether private
capital will sacrifice high unit profits for
smaller profits on a great volume of appli-
ances and electricity, or President Roose-
velt’s "yardstick” projects will be expand-
ed to cover the nation.
Low rates and low-priced equipment
have lifted domestic consumption of elec-
tricity in Tupelo, Miss., 83 per cent in a
few months. The Tennessee Valley Author-
ity formula by which this was done is not
copyrighted.
But it is contagious.
ANY OLD IRON FOR SALE?
WHILE drawing comfort from the be-
lated and not too tight embargo on
the shipment of munitions to the Chaco
Jungle, we may well cast a skeptical eye
upon the revival of scrap Iron exports,
Bolivians and Paraguayans need fish-
ed arms to use in slaughtering each other,
but to industrialized nations, raw products
are the sinews of war.
Persons who think that scrap iron is
merely something the Junkman collects in
alleys, will be surprised to learn that in-
dustrial nations at war or preparing for
war are excellent customers of our scrap
iron merchants. It is something more than
a coincidence that scrap iron exports from
the United States in the first half of this
year set an all-time record, while the same
six months saw an increase in the tons of
Chilean nitrates pasing thru the Panama
****tylo**hrse.-for stope. Nitrates are."
the basis of explosives.
Japan, quarreling with Russia and
China, bought more than half of our scrap
Iron exports: Italy, whose troops are on
the Austrian border, bought almost twice
as much as in the first six months of last
year, England and Poland also bought. |
more.__
When the Senate committee Investi-
gating the munitions traffic get around to
it, they may find dragon s teeth in the
scrap iron pile.
(Copyright, ISM. tor The Fort Worth Press).
NEW YORK.—As childish a piece of
I propaganda as 1 have ever read ap-
pears in the current issue of Collier’s. It
is called "My Leader,” and It is written
11 by Dr. Ernest F. S.
Jen ^SW^^^
amio Th doctor a right to state
A his case ln print in an
sininns American magazine, but
Out our recent visitor takes
the better part of three
1 pages to say precisely
eenser nothing. The issues at
stake are all evaded or
passed over hastily with
MW very sweeping general-
poiciol cations. For instance,
l the problem of Hitler m
anti semitiam is covered
H in a single paragraph,
which reads —
Broun "For years and years
rotten disorganizing forces bad been work-
ing for their own ends in Germany—
leeches feeding on the body politic of
Germany. The Jews In Germany had so
overwhelmingly associated themselves with
these disorganizing forces and had so en-
thusiastically embraced the role of pace-
maker for Bolshevism that to cure the
body the surgeon had to cut off the leg."
But Whose Facts?
AT the very beginning of his article Dr. 1
A Hanfstaengl says,. "These statements 3
1 are not political arguments; they are
facts," But certainly his treatment of the t
| question of anti-Semitism is not a factual ]
one. It just isn't true. Hitler himself has 4
never had the gall to pretend that every----i
Jewish German who has suffered persecu- j
llon was punished as a radical and not as
a Jew. 1 %
As a matter of fact, Hitler is some-
thing less than the hero of the article, In
spite of its being called “My Leader."
Putzy figures rather more prominently
than Adolf. In describing the first historic 3
meeting between Hanfstaengl and Hitler
the former says: .
"Then he began to speak. More of a
interpret his speech musically." I can
think of several things that Dr. Hanf-
staengl is more of than a musician, but |
he does keep in this point of view with
fair consistency thruout his article We
get an orchestration of Der Feuhrer. At
in
SPM
on
Mr. Winningham Tells of Origin of Lobby Fight
New Jersey police picked up a man
in tatters, but with $10,000 in old-style
bills in his pockets. Perhaps the man was
holding his savings against bad times.
all the critical points in Hitler’s carees 11
has been Hanfstaengl’s function to set the
mood with music ________. ---------
Sometimes, of course, Putzy has had
no option. Like a good soldier, be has
received his orders and followed them to
the best of his ability. Thus on one his-
toric. occasion the leader said explicitly:
"Will you play the last part of the third
act of ‘Tristan’?" "I played ‘Tristan’ as
I never played before,' ‘adds Hansfstaengl
simply.
Editor, The Preas
I am happier today than I’ve
been in a long time and it
I_apring-—fron—4yevote—H—ast
I Saturday’s primary. Th
| voters of Texas turned thumbs
| down on the paid lobbyists and
public officials who accept re-
- tainer fees from corporations.
What a grand and glorious feel-
ing:
During the regular session of
the 43rd Legislature I started
The Daily Nosegay
Mr. William McCraw,
Candidate for Attorney-General,
Dallas, Texas.
Dear Bill.
I heard you say a lot of nasty things
About your opponent: durin’
The primary; you're convinced he has
no wings.
But I never heard the rustle of your’n.
So Bill, the time has come for you,
To settle down to cases.
To tell us the things that you would do.
And stop just making faces.
But on another occasion Hitler was
far more magnanimous.—He+Hustratedhis
innate democracy by saying, "Play any-
thing-- Hanfutalenalgave-him* eruf and
Puccini, which may account for the fact
that Germany moves every day toward a |
| tighter dictatorship. ■
• • •
Saying It with Music:
THE good doctor does not say in so many
1 words that his music has swayed the
destinies of his country, but on his behalf
It might be said that the bloody purge oc-
curred at a time when Hitler was without
benefit of piano player. • History might
have been very different if Putty in the
twilight had softly strummed “Love Thy
Neighbor." Still, he did miss some op-
portunities, since on his return he failed
to avert the putsch in Vienna by the sim-
ple process of playing three verses and ten
choruses of “Stay In Your Own Back
Yard."
what the newspapers, were pleas-
J ed to call a “one-man anil-lobby
1 bio. " and .I-.,— .. ...........+H-and .
I the strife I stood by the anti-
lobby Kuns in shelled. 1 ■ a.....’-
until the enemy had been com-.
pletely routed The combined
vote for the two candidates for
governor who sponsored anti-
lobby planks in their platforms
and who demanded that public
' officials-be divorced from pay-
roll** Of corporation . was ir ore
than all four candidates received.
—HAT 01 II READERS BAY --
resentatives of these internets in
Austin Some of them even bold
seats in the Legislature Erfees
“tive-lesimintion in blocked---The
people suffer.
"There is one member of the
Legislature who is fighting a
one-man fight against lobbying
lie may not accomplish more
in to make himself heard at
this, time. He is a volte ’call
ing in the wilderness.’ He whh
have followers- some of these
days." — ( Austin Dispatch.)
There wore two men in AUs
tin uno k'|>r Tot trout scuttling
the boat and giving up that
firft—ene-wr Attorney den.
eral Wired. After each battle
was fought and lost Jim Allred,
would always have an encourag-
Ing word and a suggestion to
offer.
There is not a spot in.
this country, or in the
whole world, for that
matter, which can be de-Ir
scribed as permanently)
free from disaster.
Hr M. E. TKAGY____I
.... latest ideeXxJ
1 thousands out of North ant
South Dakota, Montana and
Wyoming; because of the drouth
Though these people have done
fairly well for a generation, ■
—more, experts discover that the
region they occupy is not habit
able.
Experts did not realize
until the drouth occurred, not
did they foresee the drouth
Disaster, however, has filler
them with a whole new eoncer
tion of the, weather and th
country.
But where- will they send
these people? Where will they
find a section which is free from
calamity of some kind? And
he Grot
Cost ar
F. D.
1 Scripps-Ho
WASHIN
President 1
rive for 1
ned the s
ing cam pl
nen. 1
■ One grot
hallenge 1
ower and
O compete
The seco
ight the
ram of pd
ilation and
The first
o believe
will they carry the safety first uture ex
theory to its logical conclusionprofits lies
by depopulating the Gulf coast
because of hurricanes, or South-
— ern California because of earth-
quakes? P ind in ind
refrigeratir
business a
ind from c
part Ft predominating idea sects
i to be flight from one mis-
s fortune or another, a mad chase
57 after permanent and complete
security. This is fear of a
ferent sort, but fear just the
4.7 same. On every hand, we are
_____consulting_____our apprehensions
striving to ' play safe, seeking
A some place, or condition that
will free us from worry,watch-
% fulness and work: We are not
. content to.rearrange econo lie,
or political systems, over which
.4. we exercise some degree of con-
trol, but must needs evade the
elemental principles of nature-
It’s a pipe-dream, a delusion
sr. that can only lead to impover-
sower, pitribeibobbiiksaineercsinnslon
T-There is not a spot in the
> country, or in the whole works:
for that matter, which can
be described as permanently
people to know the straight of
this lobby fight. It is an easy
mater to fight lobbyists inpo
Iltleal campaign after it becomes
popular to fight them, but it is a
heart-rending and cruel expert-
ence 10 eland on the floor Of the
House and fight one losing battle
FEDERAL MEDIATORS
CRADUALLY federal mediators are ad-
U justing the labor disputes that have
caused strikes and strife.
Sooner or later they will reach a set-
tlement in Minneapolis. And the sooner
this peace comes, the better it will be for
the striking truck drivers, for their ob-
stinate employers and for the community
weary under the strain of martial law and
bloodshed.
Peace came to the waterfront in San
Francisco and to the stockyards in Chicago
because, in both instances, employers’ and
employes found compromise more profit-
able than bitter-end warfare.
Men do not usually risk their jobs for
light or fancied grievances. It takes the
courage of desperation for men to sac-
rifice the means of livelihood upon their
families depend. *
Thus, it is seldom a simple matter
to settle a strike. Employers tend to resist
bitterly what they regard as usurpation
of their rightful powers. And the strik- I
ers, with their backs to the wall, fight ’
Just as bitterly for their economic lives. I
A settlement comes only when the loss 1
of profits and the loss of wages and public I
opinion—one or all—force a compromise.
That is what happened in Chicago,
where General Johnson apparently found
the key to settlement after both employers
and strikers had paid the price of stub-
bornness. In San Francisco, both sides
gave ground.
Federal mediators and arbitrators are
the chosen agents of public opinion to
settle disputes that can not be solved by-
bayonets and brickbats.
Yours, etc.,
LESTER (Just call me Les)
----AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT-----
Solving the Farm Problem
__By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON__
THE story of a woman’s gallant fight
-a against terrible odds is told in "The
Barter Lady,” by Evelyn Harris. It re-
latex how a widow with farm mortgaged
and children to educate, saved the an-
IKfifiMfiM^El cestral acres and won
sama many astrmishamainst
stera) the enemy altho she
■ still fights in the battle
tors. N which seems to have in-
tearmot volved every generation
ramen ofAmerican farmers
■ B from Bunker Hill to
Al’E Wall Street.
ahh Out of her deep ex-
Ten periences Mrs. Harris
B",?: has pertinent and au-
994 N thoritative things to say
. M regarding our present
7 muddled agricultural
K situation: She resents
CHACO WAR SUPPLIES
NWO months ago today President Rpose-
I velt, as authorized by Congress, placed
an embargo on the sale of war supplies
in this country to Bolivia and Paraguay,
now in the third year of their sanguinary
struggle for the vast Chaco Jungle.
Secretary, of State Hull has granted
permission for the export to Bolivia of
three-quarters of a million dollars' worth
of airplanes, aerial bombs, mortars, re-
volvers, hand grenades and ammunition of
various types.
Mr. Hull's action may appear at first
glance to flout the President’s order. But
the embargo was not such a simple matter
as it might seem.
Old treaties prevented our forbidding
exports to Bolivia or Paraguay. The em-
bitterly the presence in
her field of those whom
Mrs. Ferguson she calls "amateur far-
mers,” who having other sources of in-
come dabble in country life as a side-
line. All our over-supply of farm produce
is charged to them.
— Only in farming, goes one paragraph,
“is an amateur permitted to compete with
a professional. If only men who grew
wheat before the war were allowed to
grow it now,- there would be no over-
supply. and the same applies to all crops
on which the government says we must
reduce acreage.”
• **
TT IS here Mrs. Harris becomes inconfer-
1 ent with enthusiasm, for this is pre-
cisely the same complaint that comes from
all owners of small businesses when they
speak of corporations, or richer individ-
uals who, having made fortunes in one
industry, begin expansion in another. We
may also add, it is precisely what the
struggling young professional writer, who
faces a glutted market, might very well
say about Mrs. Harris, a self-confessed
dirt farmer who gets into the Saturday
Evening Post and publishes books.
In short, there seems very little we
can do about such conditions, since we
live under a plan which believes "Competi-
tion is the life of trade."
, You will hive to read her book to get
the pithy truths she gives About the mid-
dleman and his rake .offs, and the star-
tling statistics about rural America’s pres-
ent needs. Here are a few of them:
Five million .pairs of eye-glasses, two
million sets of false teeth, one million
automobiles, one hundred million bed
sheets, nine hundred million table nap-
kins—the list is endless. , But this will
give you some Idea of how business might
pick up if the farmer had a little money
in his flat purse %
Reasons for Levity.
TF I seem to treat the memoirs of a Nazi
A musician with some levity let me justify
myself by stating that here are the chief
points advanced by Hanfstaengl as proof
of the righteousness of National Socialism:
Hitler neither smokes nor drinks. He gets
to his desk at 9 in the morning. He works
very hard His voice has a mezzo quality.
He is sincere. He loves music, eats s light
lunch and is a strict vegetarian.
What of it?. Hitler is not the first
butcher to turn vegetarian He eats ne
meat. Again, what of that? He merely,
makes it,
"To begin with,” says Dr. Hanfstaengl,
"let it be understood that the government
headed by Adolf Hitler is no minority gov-
ernment." He says a little later that every
one of his friends who heard Hitler was
converted to the man and his cause. The
suggestion is that Hitler is the over-
whelming choice of the German people.
But I read in the papers the proclamation
| of General von Blomberg that each soldier
| must take the following oath: "I swear by
God this holy oath, that I will give un-
qualified obedience to the leader of the
German government and the German peo-
ple, Adolf Hitler, as Commander-In-Chief
of the army, and that as a courageous
soldier I am ready at any time to place
my life at stake for this oath,"
General von Blomberg overlooked only
one trick. He forgot the tag line: "This
I do of thy own free will." Yes, the mil-
lions of Germany are attached to Adolf
Hitler and will continue to be as long as
the hemp holds out.
"Two years ago German men walked
the streets Today they march the streets,”
says Dr. Hanfstaengl.
Putzy, you are by many shades too
modest In your claims. March, you say?
Can’t you hear them? Can't you see them?
The millions of your land pour down the.
streets with measured tread. Science, art,
literature, religion—all keep time while
you, sir, bang the keys at your master's
bidding. Right, left, right, left. Look,
there's a professor out of step.. Call the
firing squad! There’s a man who dared
to turn his head. Away with him to the
concentration camp! That girl over there
spoke aloud. Fill in the ranks! Play as
you never played before* Putzy. It is the
proper tune for the proper gander. March,
damn you, march! March to "The Goose-
step Blues."
j -------------------------------------------------------------------
The weatherman reports that the
drouth han been broken, but we won’t
believe It until after all election speeches
are over.
Albert E. Wiggam, the writer, says
there has been no new type of crime in
5000 years. Wiggam, apparently,' doesn’t
play bridge.
You can be sure there will be no war
in Europe for a while, since Washington
experts say it wouldn't advance prosperity
in the United States,
who failed lo take notice of
these two issues.
In connection with this I de-
[ sire to call to your attention that
j I had an article in The Press last
Fall under the caption, “Next
Governor Must Tackle Lobbying
Evil.". In that article I stated:
"I desire to point out to these
gentlemen (candidates for gov-
ernor), that curbing the lobby
evil and separating legislators
from the payrolls of corporations
must be given consideration in.,
the next campaign and that the
candidate who pledges himself
to wipe out these iniquities will
invite the favor of the voters."
During that memorable fight
I was invited to attend a ban-
quet for editors of Texas week-
lies and to deliver a speed th. In
| that speech I pointed out the
danger of unregulated lobbying
to free government, and appeal-
ed to the editors to assist me
in waging the fight by bringing
the matter to the attention of
their readers The following ex-
cerpts are reproduced from the
first editorial in response to my
appeal:
" . . .. The members of the
Texas Legislature want to do the
things to help alleviate some of
the conditions brought about by
the conditions of the times.
Some Of the things they want to
do might hit a little severely
upon some of the special inter-
ests. Therefore, we have rep.
The other man was Roscoe
Fleming, who was reporting tor
The Press. Many a night when
1 was particularly blue I would 1
go up to his room and discuss
with him every subject imagin-
able, from squirrel bills to giant
birds with legs as large in diam- 1
eter as the capitol dome It per-
after another, pit your puny
strength as a legislator against |
the powerful influence backed by
— uttipited m lions of gold. Tom 1
Hunter was down the re when 1
was just ’* voice ‘calling in the
wilderness’,” but he wasn’t a bit
vociferous in denouncing the lob.
byists. It wasn’t popular then
—Iimmenos-rum-coneemned, my
. house is for Jim Allred. He has |
more spunk, ire and fight In 1
him than any man I have ever
met in the political arena 1
GEORGE W WINNINGHAM 1
Representative, fist District, .
Mexia, Texas,
free from disaster; not
a region where it don’t
rain too much or too little at
. times, where the wind sloe
—blow too-hard on he Tempers-
ture goes too low where an ears I
quake may not occur at any
m ment, or unexpected it tem-
porary changes of climate take
place.
FORTY years ago drouth drove
P people out of certain coun-
ties in Southwest Texas, but the
region was not abandon**! and
should not have been abandoned.
NInsteen years: aso. Corpus
Christi was virtually destroyed,
but only to be rebuilt on a nig-
ger. better plan
Five years age u was st try
in the Ohio Basin the
were ruined and many
haps bore d him to distraction,
but it was manna to my tired
and discouraged mind.
Tom Hunter was around the
capitol while that fight was be
lag waged, hut he neved took any
part in the fight and neither did
he speak words Of encourage-
- This Is Life___.
By JACK MANWILL
TELLO and howdy-dol
I For Instance Do YOV re-
call that some wee ks ago Imade
a squawk for a pair of “shorts"?
ment not offer suggestions. If
he started the lobby fight, as
some of his < corps of speakers
contend, he kept It to himself
The claim that he started the
lobby fight is the only reason 1
| . . . the only pair I had, at that
time, being in rags and not a
safe UTT Wett, 1 am happy to
) state that, in response to my cry
for HELP, I received three out-
fits. But; tho 1 told my size
give for some of the material in -
' < orporated in this article. 1
want the people of Texas to
know the true facts in the mat-
ter. He emphatically did not
start the fight.
The truth of the matter is |
that Hon. A. P. Johnson of Car- |
rizo Springs started the fight in.
lh« 42nd Legislature by intro- I
ducing a bill to for* <• the lobby-
ists to register and he re-intro.
I duced the same bill in the 43rd
and I signed the bill with him.
He deserves all honor for start- !
ing the fight which shook polit- j
. lent Texas from stem to stern
I have no ass to grind. I re.
fused to ask for a sec ond term
when political observers were of
the opinion that I could have
won In a walk, but I want the 1
and all of that the guys who
kicked In sent me some “under-
britches" large enough for a
young mule 1 took my troubles
to Lindy Lou and she did a
bit of cornfield rippin’ and cut.
tin' -And. after the aforesaid
alteration had been made 1
managed to crawl Into the outfit
. . and 1 feel very grateful
I to the “birds" who heard my
I plaintiff call. *
The same doggone thing hap-
pened some years ago when 1
I was doing thy stuff for the Dal-
| las Times Herald I had made
a yell for a pair of ’Shorts,".an 1
• the sports editor sent me the |
SIDE GLANCES - By George Clark
new moder
Want |
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with other
ganized fig
Thomas 1
he Public 1
,t New Jer
Institute, “
ng recent 11
Utilities Cd
sey he said
perse
whole raLlj
brink of d
the app<-'!’
satisfied a
the light 1
listed tor 1
enretreixemeeds
Others
George
president fl
urges that
“take their
Younger
preparing 1
president
trie Light
cently of
thority rat
welcomes t
Yankee d
crops %
ateis
aru
died. In some towns, ATU
which I -passed, drinking water
was being sold at five cents s
#em,—bat the people did of
lose their nerve, nor were they
encouraged to do so by the yell
of frightened experts.
We’ve got to snap out of this,
fear complex, especially with
regard to those handicaps which
originate In climate and which
man is apparently powerless to
control, or evade
Ask The Press
You caa r#t an answer to any an-
swerable question of fact by writing
to Frederick M Kerby Question Edi-
tor. Fort Worth Press Washington
Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue Wash-
ington. D C. enclosing three cents in
stamps for reply Medical and legal
advice cannot be given
Q When and where did
“Fatly” Arbuckle die?
a June 29. 1933, in New York City
ol a heart attack
Q. Which is the heaviest, ice
| or water?
biggest pair i ever gazed upon.
In fact, they were so powerful .
big Lindy Lou just couldn't make 1
’em comfortable , . and I gave
’em to .1 Boy Scout for fishin’ j
britches. i
* Volume for volume, water is the
heaviest.
Q. Name the seven modern
wonders of the world?
A. The telephone: radio the aero-
plane: Radium Radium Therapy an
tiseptics and antitoxins X-Rays Specs
trum analysis.
Protection for ‘Innocents Abroad1
By c. L. DOUGLAN----------------
THE Mexican government is
A doing something that the
United States government, with
all Ita NRA, would hesitate to
try—and getting away with it.
You might call h, in a sense,
another sort of NRA, if you
cared to make the letters mean
No Restaurant Atrocities or
something like that.
Anyhow—with the great
movement of tourlala into the
v Southern Re-
public in re-
cent months,
the Mexican
government in
its wisdom has
taken steps to
preserve the
bonanza that
has been toss-
ed Into the na-
tion's lap. It
has decreed
that no
shall
man
find It
necessary to
pay a price for
being a tour-
ist.
Douglas
And to make the edict stick
a new sort of police force has
been inaugurated—to check up
on restaurants in retort cities
and make certain that proprie-
tor! do not add to the check of
the American a few more cent-
avos and pesos than appears on
the same bill for the cititen of
Mexico.
• Teau s far off • 4-W PROW
DIMNEAsectinc ith a. 0 8
"I don’t see anything wonderful about winning that
after so many of the good players have dropped out of
the club.”
" 0. 9
WITH her own citizens Mexi-
W co is having little or no
trouble in this respect—for
down there the government’s
slightest word is law and the
average citizen considers It as
such.
The few instances of viola-
tion, as you might well suspect.
• have come from North Ameri-p
I can chiselers, racketeers and
’ get-rich - quick Wallingford^ ]
who, anticipating the tourist
rush south, sought means of
muscling In on the trade.
Fredrico Perez, returning to
Fort Worth this week from be-
low the line, tells a story indic-
alive of the government's stand
against the practice of profit -
eering.
rwo gentlemen from the
1 United States arrived in the
city of Acapulco and within a '
few days had succeeded, to a
large extent in "sewing up" the
hotel and restaurant trade.
They thought they had a
good thing, and perhaps they
they did until—enter the repre-
sentatives of the Mexican gov-V
ernment. The two Americanos
were questioned as to their op
orations and then advised that
the weather was most suitable
for travel northward. They
added that the Mexican govern-
ment was honoring them with
an escort to the southern bank
of the Rio Grande.
And at that point the word
“Adios” was somewhat cooled » -
% by addition of the sentence: /
"Get out, and don’t come back."
It appears that the so-called
"iron hand" of General Plutar-
co Elias Calles again is making
Itself felt from the backstage of
the Mexican scene ... for they
say that the present program of
non-profiteering originated in
that quarter.
• And, by the way, a promi-
nent Dallas hotel man, who is
considering a tie-up with the
government down there in the
construction of a new hotel for
the capital, may call it—if he
builds it—the “Hotel Calles.”
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