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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,1939
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JAMES A. FOLTZ -----------Bumnnena Manager
DECI CD Professional Baseball Players’ Only Attempt to Band 1
FEULEN Together For Mutual Protection Camo to Naught
-------------------By WESTBROOK PEGLER-------------------
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TN the fall of 1889—which was before
1 you were born, I suppose — there
was a great strike or revolution of
major league hall players belonging to
the clubs of the National League. It
was known in baseball history as the
brotherhood war. It lasted one year,
and at the close of the season of 1890
a delegation of the
Players’ League, vp- J
erated by the brother- 1
hood, called on A. G.
Spalding of the Na-
Member w Sionops
Rowant Newspaper:_.
salance The United tional League and
e.7.,”rnS abandoned the fight,
e ing that those players
as Bureau of Clnow. who had jumped to
H join the rebellion
Thuntsy. Ave. 17. 3185 would be re-employed
them scucurnew saves ___without discrimina-
tion. - Mr. Pegler
; *2* to Texas, ****** That was the last serious attempt
,2 ------by the players to impose collective bar-
-. “Gise Liat and the People, gaining on the soulless corporations of
t I3OP____tee baseball industry. Another union
started a few years after the war, but
Willkie’s Millions the business side of the game was well
> - organized then, salaries were good and
TITENDELL 1* WILLKIE put on a Judge K. M Landis, on his throne, al-
W good act when he gathered “P though himself an employe of the mag-
the various checks, aggregating $78, nates, was popularly regarded as a
.425.095, that aorr paid to his Com- wise, just and independent arbiter of
, monwealth & Southern Corp. for its problems arising between master and
subsidiary, the Tennessee Public Ser- man. Moreover, the players aa a
vice Co. group had no serious grievances against
. He said the Government “forced" the management, so this union came to
him to sell his property to tee Ten- nothing.
1neesee“Vailey Authority and the sev- ...
eral Tennessee municipalities “at about
- 80 per cent of its real value." And
he delivered a lecture on the evils of
- government coercion and subsidized
competition, with which few will dis-
agree “in principle.”
Yet we suspect that Mr. Willkie
Displeased with his bargain. He didn’t
get his asking price, but he got a
whole lat more than the Government’s
weed
TVE brotherhood seems to have be-
+ gun merely as a fraternal union
of players with the avowed purpose of
giving mutual assistance to individuals
in sickness or other personal disaster.
However the original promoters had
the forethought, if not the guile, to
bind the members by oath, and it
was charged afterward that many of
those who joined had no idea that
they were entrusting their future to
offering price. Certainly we haven’t
heard of Commonwealth A Southern
stockholders objecting to the way Mr.
wade is looking out for their inter- to call the men out on strike and Mart
. . ._ a workers’ or players’ league, with the
... As a result of his long fights with hacking of professional
TVA and PWA, Mr. Willkie did more 2-- Pea money.
than obtain what most disinterested ex- The leaders of the union broke with
perts agree to a reasonable price far the soulless corporations on the issue
his company’s Tennessee holdings. He of the reserve clause in the standard
brought about a clarification of the to players’ contract, by which the em-
versus private power, ployer, or owner, reserved the right to
He forced a critical re examination of re-employ the athlete from year to year
the so-called yardstick policy. The on the employer’s own terms. This
facts revealed caused Congress to re- cause, incidentally, still is standard
strict sharply the further expansion of in the contracts of professional base-
TVA 2 iarorove emphatically ball. Some players who insist that
or the general poniley of PWA grants it is unjust admit that it to necessary,
to municipalities far building publie and some of the magazines who insist
- 2 that it is necessary admit that it is
, R * 1 P2P unjust. Indeed, John M. Ward, one
I Now ri—t he has won these notable of the brotherhood leaders, incautiously
revearsals to the Government’s power “
policy, the important question to what Papers Co-Operate
Mr. Willkie to going to do with the P9
i ma ...ani-= im 2aas. M won as the THERE are many, many cases in
1 which newspapers withhold news
when the public interest seems clearly
tion mes for other utility concerns, at stake. Often it is done when dam-
-h the ran % the Rouse, age will be done to private parties by
. publication of something in which there
1 S -ar ! Mees MS is no public interest. This is a field
war peneted seed and * in which it is hard to set up rules..
” Pest -2-1 ah- But editors are human, too, and many
m t t h * * public service and private deed of
■ solutely compelled to spend onenan- consideration goes unnoticed.
2 P - ... ’ Two such cases of suppression re-
1 2 Sme : 22L-L cently were so outstanding as to cause
wide notice. In South Bend, Ind., and
78 millions in cash, as well as the
additional reserves his company may
have accumulated. And the same ques-
protecting them against further gov-
ernment competition, surely the time
■ at hand for the utilities to go for-
ward and build.
Thanksgiving
- TUHE President’s announcement that
I Thanksgiving would be moved up
f has spread consternation among ealen-
I dar manufacturers, college football
I managers. Texas turkey raisers, and
others. And the furious sounds em-
anating from certain Republican state-
houses suggest that Mr. Roosevelt is
wickedly tampering with the very warp
and woot of the American way.
the active leaders, who seem to have
had in mind from the beginning a plan
admitted in a statement issued before
the strike that “in order to get men
to invest capital in baseball it is
necessary to have the reserve rule.”
Anyway, in the fall of 1889 they
struck, and most of the great stars
of the National League went over
to the Players' League, jumping the
reserve clause of their contracts, and
a terrible fight followed.
Players who refused to join the
brotherhood or who had joined it for
the purpose stated in the prospectus
and refused to go further, were de-
nounced as scabs in the stands and
by writers who were picking up money
on the side from the propaganda de-
partment of the brotherhood for sup-
porting their case. Spalding went to
Chicago, and in a secret meeting with
the great Mike (King) Kelly, offered
him $10,000 cash and the privilege of
naming his own salary for three years
to desert the brotherhood. Kelly went
off for a long talk to think it over
and turned down the offer, but bor-
rowed $500 from Spalding.
• # •
THERE were terrorism and hatred
1 among players who had been
friends and who probably were sincere
and honest in their respective positions.
Brotherhood members who suspected
and resented an attempt to trick them
into a step not included in their orig-
inal membership insisted that the oath
which they had taken did not place
them under any moral obligation to
sign contracts in the Players' League,
which did not exist and had not even
been discussed when they joined the
fraternal group.
The leaders had promised the strik-
ing players that they would share in
the gate receipts, and this was tempt-
ing bait. But the backers of the
Players' League were capitalists them-
selves, like the magnates of the Na-
tional, and after the seceders were
hooked these backers explained that
the players' pay would not be a share
of the gate exactly but a share of |
He Egloei
Moxa servicn, tab
I ETTE D C Thompson Accused of Trying to Ruin Texas Oil
LE * I EAo Industry to Curry Favor of Old Age Pension Faction
the remainder after all expenses, in- Hon. Erne8t O. Thompson,
eluding financial costs, had been met. Railroad Commissioner of Texas:
Austin, Texas.
Dear Sir:
IN YOUR SPEECH Monday
night, you invited red-blooded cit-
izens to express themselves to the
Legislature. Since the Legisla-
Thia waa different. In the employ of
the soulless corporations their pay was
fixed, but it came before, not after,
the other expenses of management, and
if there was a deficit that was the
magnates’ worry.
Players' League the men shared the
profits, if any, and in the economic
In the Co-operative lure is not in session, perhaps you
will accord me that privilege to-
war with the National the brother-
hood’s profits were negligible.
The Players’ League broke up in
the fall of 1890, moat of the strikers
went back to the National, and veter-
ana of the strike thereafter wouldn't
even join a suit club or a nature study
circle lest they discover that they had
sworn to take part in a war.
wards yourself.
When you first entered Texas
politics I regarded you as a suc-
| cessful business man who would
| attempt to put business methods
into the office controlled by you,
but after Mr. Roosevelt patted
you on the back and inoculated
you with the New Deal toxin, it
(NOTE: The Press receives
more letters from readers than
it has space in which to pub-
lish them. Those printed are
chosen for their interest and as
they represent a true cross-
section of reader opinion. They
should be as brief, as possible.
Unsigned letters are not consid-
ered. If there is a good reason
for not publishing your name,
we will use initials or nom de
plume, but the original letter
must be signed as evidence of
good faith.—Editor.)
markets. If this shut-down were
followed by all states, I doubt if
it would help matters, but unless
other states also shut down
at
San Francisco, Calif., the newspapers
deliberately held out stories of kidnap-
ings because such publication would
either endanger the victim or hamper
police in catching the criminal. In
both cases the children kidnaped were
returned unharmed, and in both the
criminals were caught red-handed. In
both, the newspapers had the story,
and worked closely with police in run-
ning down the cases, but refrained from
publication until the cases were con-
cluded. They placed the public inter-
est ahead of even their own. While
these cases were spectacular and out-
__... ...... standing, they are not unique.
We can sympathize with the calen-.
. dar men; they ought to throw in with L.
I the lately woe-begone map-makers and Costly Dictatorship
I form • league for the perpetuation of THE Huey Long machine continued
the status quo. As for the Thanks.
[ giving football schedules, surely there
■ must be enough intellect la the colleges
I to work out that problem without
The fellow that really deserves sym-
I pathy to that noble bird who lives only
| that we may die for Thanksgiving. It
seems a poor reward for the turkey’s
long and faithful service that those
5 handsome legs, custom-built for strut-
ting, should be converted into drum-
[ sticks a week before their thus.
1 itself in power by arranging the
election of tall, athletic, impressive,
amiable Richard W. Leche. And it
YA Seriously, we think all the little in-
conveniences canard by the President’s
decision will be a drop in the bucket
compared to the benefits to business
and to Christmas shoppers.
For many years, November’s final
Thursday has been proclaimed aa
Thanksgiving Day. This year the last
Thursday falls on the last day of
November. That would have left only
20 Christmas shopping days-since peo-
ple simply won’t get interested in Santa
Cius until after Turkey Day.
Business (and shoppers, too) would
now appears that the people of Louisi-
ana got what they voted for—"A man
who looks like a governor.”
Recently Mr. Leche resigned in a
hurry, and one reason therefor came
to light when a federal grand jury in
New Orleans indicted him and another
Huey Long yes-man on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud the Government
in a $148,000 “hot oil" deal.
Thus Mr. Loche is now “out on
bond,” and mentioned in the same
breath with Dr. James Monroe Smith,
former president of Louisiana State
University, who maybe "looks like an
educator,” but who is alleged to have
gambled in the markets with the uni-
versity’s money and then took to his
heels.
The people of Louisiana are now
learning the high cost of leaving their
i affairs of government and education in
the hands of dictators and machine
politicians. 1
ertainly this is no time to deny
ping hand. We aren’t so teeming
prosperity that we can cold-shoul-
n opportunity to let more idle dol---Li.n-.ee.........
roll up their sleeves and go to Guardia of New York City.
We pride ourselves that our Fair
will not be remembered for
hootchy-kootchy dance — and a
any
fan
means nothing to us.—Mayor F. H. La
The In-Laws____________
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
THE latest Ladies’ Home Journal poll
I discloses an interesting and sig-
nificant fact. Although women as a
whole are opposed to living with rel-
atives, 63 per cent of those who have
taken in-laws into their homes report
that it worked out swell.
I've never read more cheerful news.
This question has raised a terrific com-
motion during the last few years. Par-
ents and children are literally scared
out of their wits by.
the pontifical pro-
nouncement that peo-
ple of the same blood
never get along.
Although we preach 1
co - operation and|
brotherly love and tol- j
erance toward strang- |
ers, we insist that a
poor, forlorn parent I
had much better go to 1
the poorhouse than 1
risk the bad treatment 1
he is sure to get from j
his children. I _____________
And isn't that a Mrs. Ferguses
pretty how-de-do? It means that our
educational methods are developing in-
dividuals who lack a sense of respon-
sibility. So long as parents encourage
the idea, I suppose they get what they
deserve-ingratitude.
At any rate, It seems the proper
moment to start back-tracking along
this particular educational path. It’s
taking us near a very black and dan-
gerous precipice.
We all know it’s better when young
people can live to themselves. We
realize that older men and women sel-
dom enjoy moving in with their more’
affluent kin and that the average par-
ent prefers his little home to another
man's mansion. The ideal state is one
in which none is dependent.
Unfortunately, we do not live in an
ideal state, and it may be some time
before we reach it. For that reason,
we ought to squelch our ill-omened ad-
visors those banshees who wail that
it's certain death to happiness when a
couple of relatives are forced to stay
under the same roof.
Families used to live together —.
whole droves of them. From the ex-
perience, they made early social ad-
justments and learned that life is a
game of give and take and that com-
promise is often the best wisdom.
I’m getting pretty tired of hearing
that it’s possible for us to get along
with everybody on earth but our in-
laws. How about you?
seems that, you are a different
man. If I were elected to a posi-
tion of trust for the purpose of
administering the oil business of
Texas and protecting the oil op-
erators, I would consider myself
untrue to my country as well as
to the oil industry to propose to
sell out the oil industry’s birth-
right in the form of a mess of
pottage in the governor's chair.
The oil industry is already so
terribly overburdened with taxes
that the present chaos ,and im-
pending ruin in the industry have
rtunity like that to some- Radium in sea water increases with
we really be thankful for depth, so that there is almost 10 times
a as much at 1300 feet as at the surface.
Navajo Indiana did not take up
their craft of sliver working un il
about 1850
resulted. The lease owner pays a
heavy tax on the lease; the pro-
ducer pays a heavy production
tax, the refiner pays heavy taxes
on his refining equipment — he
pays his capital stock taxes to
the U. 8. Government, he pays
his franchise taxes to the State
of Texas, he pays his social se-
curity taxes for his employes to
the Federal Government, he pays
his gasoline taxes to the state and
his gasoline taxes to the Federal
Government.
By the time the finished prod-
uct gets around to us there have
been about a dozen different taxes
paid on it and that is the reason
why the oil industry is in such a
bad condition. If it were not for
all of these taxes the producer
could be getting a great deal more
for his oil. I do not know just
how much difference it would
make, but I would estimate that
the refiner could afford to pay
the producer 25 cents a barrel
more money for his oil if we only
had even a moderate amount of
taxes on gasoline. The solution
to the whole problem lies in cut-
ting the costs of government. As
a business man, you know that
i social security is not feasible or
practicable under the present con-
dition of the state finances and
you know that the taxpayers are
not able to pay even the taxes
they are now paying, much less to
add more
If you are half as good a busi-
ness man as I think you are, you
know that to add 5 cents per
barrel taxes would simply mean
that the markets for Texas oll
would be' absolutely lost and it
would mean the ruin of every
producer and refiner in the state
of Texas unless these refiners
could buy oil over in Louisiana,
which might save the refiners.
You doubtless are aware that
East Texas refiners have been
buying oil in Louisiana for sev-
eral years. How do you think
they could use Texas oil if it cost
them 5 cents more per barrel
than the Louisiana oil costs?
Don't you know that the laws of
competition would make it im-
possible to sell a barrel of Texas,
oil for more money than it can be
bought for elsewhere? You pro-
pose to add another burden to an
already overburdened industry
and your proposal would mean
the ruin of the industry that you
are supposed to protect, as rail-
road commissioner of Texas I
would like to know how you can
justify your offer to crucify the
oil industry of the state of Texas
for the sake of a few old age
pension votes for your next candi-
dacy for governor.
As far as I am concerned, I
think I can qualify as ons__of -
I those red-blooded citizens you
were talking about, and I will
guarantee you I will never vote
for any man who will sell out
the Interests of the industry he is
supposed to protect, for the pur-
pose of getting votes for a long-
coveted governorship or for any
other office or reward. I would
like to know what justification
you have, if any, for the propo-
sition which you made over the
radio, to put another tax on
Texas oil. It looks as if you were
following the New Deal practice
of advocating any kind of a pol-
icy, no matter how harmful, for
the sake of getting a few addi-
tional votes. What should be
done is to cut the tax on gasoline
2 cents per gallon and then cut
the cost of state government, in-
cluding old age pensions, accord-
ingly. But, while everybody knows
this, you cannot get the politi-
cians. including yourself, to advo-
cate it as they and you are afraid
of losing the votes. Even then
the tax on gasoline would often
amount to 25 per cent of its sale
price, which is a ridiculously high
percentage.
Your order for a shut-down will
result in the increase of the price
of gasoline to the consumer and
the ruin of a number of small
operators, as well as ruining a
number of wells; and when it is
over you will be exactly where
you started, except that the other
states will have gained from the
markets which the Texas opera-
tors will have lost. Louisiaha,
Illinois, and California will have
sold thousands of barrels of oil
in the state of Texas which our
Texas producers would have sold
except for the shut-down, to say
nothing of the oil lost to other
SIDE GLANCES
the same time, it is ruinous.
ELTON M HYDER,
Attorney,
W. T. Waggoner Bldg., City,
READER LIKES
'THIS IS LIFE’
Editor, The Press:
AS MOST of the contributors
to The Press have been receiving
a bit of glory lately, both good
and otherwise, due to this column,
therefore I wish to add my
thoughts to the list concerning
Jack Maxwell's column, “This is
Life.'’
I believe that the average per-
son really enjoys this type of ar-
ticle. more than a reporter's gos-
sip column. One may receive un-
told inspiration as well as spirit-
ual insight from this man's views.
Although I have never met the
man, I feel certain that he must
possess that indefinable knowledge
of his fellow man that the word
psychology won’t begin to cover.
At the same time, in giving his
opinion concerning life, one does
not receive the impression that
he is just another solemn, nar-
row-minded, scrupulous human be-
ing for having given advice, but
instead, due to the fact that he
never omits the things that per-
tain to the brighter side of liv-
ing.
He brings to light the fact that
the Ten Commandments go bet-
ter with a smile than with a
frowh.
ROSEMARY WOHLFORD.
Rt. 4, Arlington, Texas.
Today's Poem
A PINE AT TIMBERLINE
Each.day at dawn it is the one
To first behold the morning sun.
With gnarled arms held to the
sky, •
It greets each cloud-ship going by.
Steadfast it is beneath the blast
Of mountain winds, until at last
It stands serene as day is done,
Haloed against the setting sun.
FLOYD SELLERS.
415 West Mulkey, City.
COPn. 1939 BYNEA SERVICE INC. T. M. REO. U. S. PAL. OFF2
“I rather expected this. I’ve spent my life telling you to
wear more clothes, now look at your own daughter!”
JOHNSON
Don’t Make American
Consumer Pay For
Service To Foreigners
By HUGH 8. JOHNSON
(In Two Parts—Part 1)
THE farm problem isn’t being
1 solved. It is only being post-
poned and intensified. That prob-
lem is simply that agriculture
produces many more pounds and
bushels than the domestic market
can consume at
prices that
farmers mustg
have to live. a
Mr. W a 1-■
. lace’s assorted,
billion dollar’s
gadgets today"
are: First, a h
plan to reduce as
this price-de- a
pressing sur-H
plus by paying •
the farmer
hundreds of a
millions out of •
the treasury
for not plant- Mr. Johnson
Ing so much and for using the
methods Mr. Wallace prescribes.
Second, a plan to consume the
surplus, by which Mr. Wallace
buys the surplus at market prices
and then s ’ it at less than he
or the general public pays for it
(a) to foreign nations, (b) to re-
lief workers, (c) to workers in pri-
vate industry who get low wages.
The loss here is also charged to
the public.
Third, a plan to keep the sur-
plus from depressing prices by
lending the farmer money on so
much of his crop as Mr. Wallace
thinks he should store and not
sell.
These sincere and honest ef-
forts have not worked to do more
than harm. .Domestic farm prices
are nearly at their lowest ebb
since the experimenting began,
but foreign prices are much low-
er. the surplus is still vast and
unmanageable. To the extent that
these measures have worked to
make American farm prices hign-
er than prices in other competing
agricultural countries, they have
subsidized that competition, in-
creased its production and squeez-
ed the American farmer out of his
export markets-- probably perma-
nntly.
• *•
THE attempt to control produo
L tion by controlling planting
has failed in its purpose, but it
regiments agriculture as no other
industry or’ calling has ever been
goose-stepped in this country. It
is full of ugly implications—polit-
ical and otherwise.
The lending of money to store
vast surpluses in an effort to in-
crease price by keeping supply off
the market has been tried often.
It has never worked permanently
in the history of the world. The
surplus still overhangs the mar-
ket. Some day it must be sold.
That knowledge depresses price.
There are other ugly aspects.
Taxing the American people to
provide a way to sell American
cotton, wheat and what not to the
British, Japanese or German peo-
ple at much lower prices than we
pay at home stinks. Providing re-
lief for the unemployed by giving
them surplus farm products at
public expense can no more be
criticized than giving them money
at public expense.
But in order to aid them in that
particular way should they be
given more than we have decided
we can afford to give in other
ways? Finally, if the Government
at taxpayers’ expense is going to
give food to employed people
(who do not otherwise qualify for
relief), because it does not regard
their earnings as satisfactory—
where is the limit to such subsi-
dies of insufficient income? Any
American would prefer to be
taxed to give food and cotton to
employed Americans rather than
to foreigners, but is it necessary
to do either? Is it necessary to
do both?
A BILL is being prepared with
A the knowledge of some of Mr.
Wallace's men to approach this
problem—in part at least—from
an angle constantly advocated by
this writer for 18 years. Let farm
prices and production go free of
all restrictions. Let natural forces
govern market price, which, in
case of surplus crops, will let it
be governed by world market
price. Guarantee to the farmer a
living or "parity” price — dollar
wheat for example—but only on
the part of his crop consumed at
home. If he wants to raise a sur-
plus for which there is no market
except in export at a much lower
price, let him do so—but don't
make, the American consumer pay
him for this service to foreigners.
There are several simple ways
to do this. They all boil down to
this—the consumer pays the fair
or parity American price—but
-only for what he uses. Why
shouldn’t he?
(To be concluded tomorrow.)
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By JACK MAXWELL.
IN view of the fact that I can't
think up a doggone thing to pop
off about. I'm going to try to slip
by an old one. So here’s to my
noble effort. 1-===
"Well, here it is Saturday, the
day I never work, but play just
as tho I were of some note...all
of which is a false alarm in the
burg I call home and where the
people really have my number and
have already called ‘two strikes’
on ME.
"But just the same, this after-
noon I am going over to Fort
Worth and park myself in Seat
No. 4 at the Ritz, where they are
now playing The Fool,’ and for
more- than two hours I'll have the
best time in all
ol,” and for
world... for
I’ll be takin’ in the ‘performance
and a-thinking’ how I'm blessed by
havin' eyes to see and ears to hear.
thereby bein’ able to take in so
doggone many beautiful and inter-
esting things found along the
trail of my rather prosaic life.”
And, that's all there 'air’ to the
tale, —if the-editor-will Dicdon my—=
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 274, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1939, newspaper, August 17, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685274/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.