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"Give Light and the People
■ Will Find Their Ou:n Way"
Council's Headache
THE City Council is discovering that
I economizing is an unpleasant task.
This is always true, whether it is a
family budget that has to be trimmed,
a business that has to retrench, or a
city that has to cut down an over-
draft.
J 1 No one can deny the necessity of
, city economizing in Fort Worth. Mayor
1 Pro-Tem Evans was speaking truth
Y when he said the overdraft of nearly
i half a million dollars presents "a very
J serious situation."
I Fort Worth has grown rapidly and
j has built well. Our schools, parks
■ grade separations and arterial highways
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Because Fort Worth knew the
a
If Florida Legislature Wants to Find Out About
Racing Racket, Let It Ask Its Own/ Members
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
THE U. P. reports from Tallahassee
L that I have been subpoenaed by
the Florida legislature to discuss the
probability of Al Capone's return to
Miami on his release from prison and
the activities, meanwhile, of some of
his old Chicago and Cicero colleagues
in that happy land. This invitation
has not been received by me to date
and would be declined, anyway. The
first phase of the sub-
ject is speculative, and
• the rest of it can be
covered better by ex-
amination of Florida
politicians, police, edi-
tors and racetrack op-
- erators who are—on -
the ground.
For abeginning,
the Legislature need
not go outside its own
membership for wit-
nesses, because Sena- Mr. Pegler
tor Ernest Graham, who is running
the customary post-season crime-must-
go campaign, charges that many of
his fellow members have accepted graft
from the horse and gambling promot-
ers either in outright cash bribes or
in the form of race track patronage—
which is to say, jobs for themselves,
their kin and their constituents. Arm-
ed though he is with authority to ex-
amine books, records and correspon-
dence, the Senator has merely putter-
ed, and the record of his investigation
reads like that of a sewing circle.
* * •
HOR one reason, he is a farmer, not
1? a lawyer, and another reason
could be the fact—which he admits
that.he himself put in for his regular
share of the racetrack jobs on behalf
of his constituents. Last week it
hadn’t occurred to him to examine the
documents, and correspondence of the
tracks which he suspects of misdoing,
and present indications are that this
■ t] ings it wanted and went after them,
Ztle city obtained millions in federal
money. But even the comparatively
small share of the cost that the city
had to put up strained its purse.
1 : We have gone through a period of
' building expansion. We have a great
j municipal auditorium and coliseum, a
new library, city hall, many new school
| buildings and streets, viaducts and un-
i derpases, a fine airport, stock show
buildings, golf courses, bridle paths
and playgrounds. __________
twitch of reform in Florida will be no
more important than several others.
In most states a general charge of
corruption by one member of the leg-
islature against others would be a
serious matter, but Florida is dif-
ferent. The so-called small counties
which run the state regard the Miami
We have built our house and now Heard Him First Time
we must learn to live in it. It has ON the last day of last September,
often been said that Fort Worth needs U Secretary of Agriculture Henry
100,000 more people to fill in the gaps Wallace made one of his most import-
by rapid development. That is ant speeches to a gathering of farm-
still true, although many new homes ers and others at Fort Worth.
are being built all the time. Among other things, he said:
Council truly faces a grave prob- “Unlike wheat, an outright export
lem. The city cannot go on spending subsidy does not appear to be called
money it doesn't have. No one wants for in the case of cotton. The rea-
to see city employes let out or services son is that none of the cotton-export-
,impaired. But this city is facing the ing countries competing with us is
same problem that nearly every city, using this method,- whereas in the
county and state, and the nation itself, case of wheat the use of this method
is facing by other countries has forced us to do
There is only one way to econ- likewise. If used on a large scale and
omize, and that is to economize—in as over a period of time, export subsidies
careful and considerate a manner as employed by competing countries are
possible — but to economize. And mutually self-defeating. They amount
it takes courage. to an international price war that is .
bound to be destructive in the end. —
Cotton and Plastics
I THE dramatic prospect that the cot-
i . ton fields of Texas may one day
| j “blossom” into beautiful and durable
- plastics used for all manner of indus-
I J trial purposes, from fountain pens to
■ airplane wings, was discussed this week
■ | in New Orleans in a speech that is of
importance to our whole region.
Dr. Henry G. Knight, chief of the
■ 1 U. S. Agriculture Department’s Bureau
; of Chemistry and Soils, spoke before
■ the National Cottonseed Products Assn,
on the cotton research program soon
to be started in the federal govern-
1 ment’s new New Orleans laboratory.
In the cotton country where prices
and weevils and drought and all the
j other problems of raising our major
crop are constantly bothering us, Dr.
Knight’s address opened up new vistas
of promise.
j ‘ “There is no doubt," he said, "about
this being the age of plastics. We
see plastics on automobiles, in fountain
pens, radios, telephones, and in dozens
of other everyday products. The South
produces as by-products of the cotton
crop something like 18 million tons of
cotton stalks, and over a million tons
- of cottonseed hulls. Some believe this
material could be used in making plas-
tics. Studies will be undertaken to
see what can be done in that field. . .”
. He hopes, he said, that the new
Federal Cotton Research Laboratory
will make a special study of cotton
, linters to see if they can be used in
the preparation of what is called
f “Chemical cotton” which is used in the
, manufacture of rayon, metion—pleture-
j films, explosives, and so on.
The laboratory will, as well, see if
t it can squeeze more oil out of the cot-
ton seeds, and seek ways to improve
f its refining. New uses for cottonseed
I hulls will also be sought.
i When you remember that cottone
i seed, except for planting purposes, was
practically a total waste less than 60
1 years ago, there is more reason to hope
I that the new research program will be
i of enormous benefit to the Cotton
| South. :
There are those here who have long
believed that out of new uses may
i come the salvation e of the cotton
country..
"I believe it is far better for the
competing countries to get together and
work out trade arrangements on a
sensible and equitable basis. This old
world has got to give up its policies
of dog-eat-dog and learn ‘to live and
let live ... If consumption of Amer-
ican cotton is to be subsidized, the sub-
sidies ought to be applied to domestic
consumption rather than exports. Back
in the ’20s, American loans -to for-
eign countries which were never paid
were in effect generous gifts of cot-
ton and other farm products to those
countries. But if any gifts of cotton
are going to be made under the present
Administration, our own people ought
to come first. • Why not, for once,
give our own consumers and our own
workers a break ?"
But Mr. Wallace sings a different
tune now. He's' for the export sub-
sidy of cotton. He says it won’t In-
terfere with the Hull reciprocal trade
agreements program; he says we must
do something to recapture part of our
foreign markets for cotton.
Well, for our part, we heard Mr.
Wallace the first time.
His Fort Worth speech is still, in
our opinion, a watertight argument.
Death After Dark
By JAMES MATTHEWS, T. c. U.
TF YOU have a 65-degree angle of
1 vision when you are driving a car
in the daytime, you are average. In
other words, if you can see, at one
■
time, 65 per cent of what is in front
of your car, you are driving safely.
-—In 1938, deaths-fromnight-driving
increased 54.5 per cent over 1930, and
the daytime accidents decreased 5.4 per
cent. Most of- the auto traffic is in the
daytime, yet more of the accidents are
st night. Putting it in another light,
THURSDAY, MAY 11,1939
THI
On Borrowed Time!
pleasure county as a sort of foreign
i settlement or de luxe slum. They de-
rive big revenues from the mutuel busi-
ness, and if hoodlums move in, that
is a local Miami headache. If it
should be shown that backwoods or
up-state statesmen chiseled private
profit from the sinful pleasures of
this alien spot, public opinion would
be likely to admire rather than deplore:
The racing business, with its gam-
bling ramifications extending out over
the country, seems to be heading up
to a general delousing: The Depart-
ment of Justice and the Treasury have
taken an interest in the system by
which bets are booked in every, city
and town of any size, at all and by
which, also, the odds are regulated at
the track by the application of money
pressure on the mutuel machines.
A SUCKER placing-a bet with the
1 sub-agent in the saloon—or cigar
store in Fort Worth finds that part
of his own money is dumped into the
machines at the track to 'shorten the
profit should he win. In effect, he
bets against himself, and the case is
further complicated when it develops
that, wholesale gambler racketeers own
stock in race tracks and in this con-
nection exert pressure on the Legisla-
ture by lobbying and, so Senator Gra-
ham insists, by bribery.
Racing is a gambling operation in-
volving about a quarter of a billion
dollars a year in the mutuels, aside
from the poolrooms and books, and
occupies the status of a licensed vice.
It enjoys the prestige of some first-
class individual reputations, but is
naturally full of guile, and the hoodlum
racketeer often is described in print
as a “sportsman" by reporters who
know better.
In Florida the racing lobby oper-
ates as openly as any other lobby in
the Legislature, and recently this li-
censed vice-threatened to fold up, thus
depriving the state of $2,000,000 a year
in taxes if the Legislature had the
temerity to tamper with its priv-
ileges. From this, it will be seen that
a racket has grown so big and bold
that it now presumes to govern the
government of the state.
Pioneer Woman
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
"NUMBER 324 N. Broadway,” they
I. said. “That’s where you'll find
Mrs. Carter.” ,
As I walked over the flagstones on
the shady street, the blooming spirea
bushes curtsied a welcome. Their fal-
len petals lay like a film of snow over
the young grass. It m
was the 50th Anni-falm
versary of the open-potenT
ing of Oklahoma. Be-Mh
hind me the noise of 1 s
the crowds hasting to I-h H
the parade became 1. 4,0
fainter as I approach-Mts
ed my destination. %
And there in her MA
bed, where she has hl a
lived for the last three g
years, I found a real l c - a
gr-Mr M N. M
Carter, whose age Venin
adds up to exactly =
that number. Her hus- Mrs. Ferguson
band made the "Run” and she came
as soon as a shanty was set up for her
and her children to live in. She's been
in Guthrie, Okla., ever since.
We've been good friends for many
years, on paper. Every six months or
so the postman brings me a letter and
inside are pages of fine writing, such as
ladies used to pen; words of cheer and
paragraphs of opinion by one who has
watched the world go by for a long
lifetime.
They tell a story about Mrs. Carter
in Guthrie. A long time ago, Sam
, Jones, the evangelist, was -holding a
rousing revival there. During one of
the services, a burly man rose to in-
terrupt. Pointing a finger at an old
negro woman seated in the center of
the meeting house, he shouted. "I’ll
not stay here as long as there’s a nig-
ger in the house. This is a white
man's church. Put the blacks out."
Horrified silence followed. Even
the loquacious Rev. Jones was stunned
to muteness. In the midst of the
tense stillness a slim little woman sit-
ting beside the negro stood and, tak-
ing the arm of her black neighbor,
said loud enough for all to hear:
“Come, friend, I'll go out with you. I
don't like white men's churches. I'm
looking for God's church.”
Plenty of the women of '89 were
made of that sort of stuff. They
were good mothers, good citizens, good
friends and good fighters.
“You've had so many experiences,"
I said, "what was the most interesting
of allf
"I couldn't say," she told me, her
"When you
your vision has decreased more than
20 per cent, yet your speed is the same voice quavering a little.___"When you
or sometimes even faster. ‘ get to mV age, the interesting things
don't seem to matter so much any
more. But, for a woman, you can’t
heat a home and a high chair with a
When night falls there should be
an automatic let-up of speed. You have
only three things to work with in any
case . . . your speed,-your mechanical
equipment and your vision. The vision
element is cut almost in half; your
mechanical element is the same, so why
baby in it."
To that, I say "Amen!”
09:
LETTERS
Editor, The Press:
I BEE the big men of the
Chamber of Commerce and a few
stand-pat politicians are crying
for a return to the good old
rugged individual days of 1929.
-One thing about a rugged indi-
vidualist is, he never forgets any-
thing, for the simple reason that
he never learns anything.
If he could learn anything he
would know that 1929 buried
rugged individualism and all that
it stood for, and its funeral has
cost the ’ people 20 billion dollars
and till this day there is no sign
of a let-up.
A real rugged individualist is a
fellow who has never become ac-
quainted with himself and knows
even less about the society in
which he lives. He has usually
thumbed a ride on the free school
system and thinks because of his
great knowledge he ought to con-
tinue thumbing his way through
life, and he is soured on the world
when he fails.
He can shed big crocodile tears
about the poverty of the unborn
generation but he can't see the
poverty and distress at the pres-
ent generation. If he does, he
lays It to their own sorriness. He
can tell you all about the fall of
Rome, the crucifixion of Christ
and the beauties of Christianity.
At the same time he is against ■
every principle for which Christ
died and would gladly help cru-
cify Him again. He is a disturber
of the peace and a devout Judas
to the President’ chair because he
is a fine business man.
He rides around in a car paid
for with profit made out of some,
one else’s labor, over roads built
by co-operation, to churches and
schools built the same way. He
thinks that if he and his knowl-
edge should pass out of the picture
Ry
Rugged Individualists Enjoy the Benefits of Social
Co-operation But Denounce Principles That Help Them
(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.)
society would decay and pass
away.
The fact is, what he is and
what he has has been handed to
him by society on a platter If
society hadn't made him what he
is he would still be a long-haired,
grinning barbarian, living In a
cave and sharing rabbits for food.
Everything we have worth while
has been produced by co-Opera-
tion, and rugged individualism and
competition have never produced
anything but war, misery, death,
hell and destruction and every
other evil to be thought of. .
C. M EVANS.
Breckenridge, Texas
THE NAVAO MEETS
HIS GOD AT DAWN
Editor, The Press:
IN THE GRAY dawn when the
hush of the desert night still lies
over the land, a Navajo Indian
stirs in his blanket and begins to
chant to the morning light. He
begins very soft and low, a
strange murmur like the music of
a brook, .and as it swells that
weird and mournful tone-la slowly
lost in one of hope and joy. The
Navajo's soul is coming out of
night, and the sleep that resem-
bles death, into the day, the light
that is life.
The colorless rocks are changing.
A long horizon-wide gleam of
light, rosiest in the center, ap-
pears low down in the east and
momentarily brightens, one by
one, the stars in the deep blue
< sky pale and go out, and the blue
Home changes and brightens.
Night has vanished on invisible
wings, and silence breaks to the
music of a mockingbird as the
rose in the east deepens. A wisp
of cloud turns gold Dim distant
• mountains show dark against the
red, and low down in a notch a
rim of fire appears.
Over the soft ridges and val-
leys creeps a wondrous transfigur-
ation. It is as if every blade of
glass, every leaf of sage, every
twig of cedar, the flowers, the
trees, the rocks, come to life at
sight of the sun. Ho the Navajo,
dark, stately, inscrutable, faces
the sun his God. This is his great
spirit. -
The good earth of the desert
is his mother, but the sun is his
life. So, to the keeper of the
winds and rains, to the master of
light, to the maker of fire, to the
giver of life, the Navajo sends up
his prayer.*
Not such a bad religion at that,
when one understands how the
Navajo got that way .
City.
E. W HUGHES,
should the speed increase?
The highway sign i
"Legal speed limit 45 miles per hour,
The spirit of justice and forgive-
ness which Woodrow Wilson had advo-
should read, cated was not fully maintained when
The promise in the new cotton re- uegai speca umi 40 mues per nour,
search program of careful and pains- daytime: 35 miles per hour at night”
taking searches for some of these new . You couldn’t expect a blind horse
uses should give the whole cotton belt to plow a straight furrow. Neither can of Nations building at New
a mental "lift" A you drive safely at top speed at night. World's Fair.
the terms of (World War) peace were
carried out, Secretary ofAgriculture
Henry A. Wallace, dedicating League
York
Science
PICK UP AIRMAIL
’ By Science Service
One of aviation's fondest,
dreams -a day when all first class
mail goes by air moves a step
nearer realization when a U. S.
airmail plane drops low over 10
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia towns on May 12 for tne
first time to launch an experi-
mental pickup airmail service.
Carrying no revenue load ex-
cept mail, a fleet of five trim
monoplanes of All-American Avi-
ation, Inc., will in a few weeks be
serving 56 cities in four, states
with speedy letter service such as
no small American city has ever
had.
If the novel experiment, backed
by Federal funds to the extent of
43 cents a mile on one route and
32 cents on the other, is success-
ful during the course of the next
year, and Congress approves, it
will be extended to hundreds of
other cities throughout the United
States and rapidly bring nearer
the day when first class mail all
goes the fastest way possible-
through the air. ------------------
Several devices developed by an
Irwin, Pa., dentist who became in.
terested in aviation, Dr. Lytle S.
Adams, underlie the new device.
A mail bag will be slung be-
tween two masts 40 feet high. As
the mail plane approaches, an op-
erator aboard the ship will lower
a 65-foot cable at the end of
which is a grasping hook, and at
the end of another 20 feet, a con-
tainer of mail for delivery to that
town.'
As the bag being delivered
touches the ground, a special de-
vice will sever the copper ′ wire
by which it is fastened. An in-
stent later, the hook on the cable
will snare the rope holding the
container of outgoing mail Serve
ice is thus possible in towns too
small to afford airports
He stands now, in the door of
his hogan, his blanket around
him, and faces the east. Night is
lifting out of the ravines. The
• rolling cedar ridges and sage flats
are softly gray, with thin veils
like smoke rising and vanishing.
Little Lines
By MARGIE H. BOSWELL
Ponder on the Pied Piper epi-
sode, before breaking a bond.
Bury a falling before it buries
you. . ’
Never hollyhocks become bitter
because of hoarhound nearby.
It takes a hard wind to twist
the roots of old redwoods.
Reaching for a rose often
brings, the blood.
Whining never whips a cutter
through the whitecaps. ,—
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR
Do not say, "They got married
on Wednesday;” say "were mar-
ried." < .
JOHNSON
The Gallop Polls
On War Sentiment
Can Be Propaganda
By HUGH s. JOHNSON
(ET a load of this: Dr. George
a Gallup speaking: “If the
American attitude could be 'sum-
marized in a few words, it would
be: 'Help Eng-a
land andl
France but a
stay out of war a
ourselves.’ Build ■
u p A m erica’s ■
national de-",
fense — the f
whole attitude a
of the Ameri-M
can people is
h e ightaned■
moreover by
— the fact that a
majority of
them expects a s
European wareil
to come before Mr. Johnson
the end of 1939 and by the fear
that America will be drawn into
eventually if war does come—in
view of America's sympathies, it
is likely that Herbert Hoover was
not overstating the case when he
said recently that an aerial bom-
bardment of London or Paris by
Field Marshal Goering's airforce
would extinguish all inclinations
to neutrality in this country—."
Now I do not for a moment
question either' the sincerity or
the great value of the Gallup polls
in an effort to measure and re-
port trends of public opinion. I
have some (but not complete)
faith in their accuracy in report-
ing what samplings of selected
groups show about the momen-
tary popularity of Mr. A., Mr. B.
or Mr. C., as potential candidates
for President. The answer to that
question requires no background
of information, no technical
knowledge, no careful reasoning-
no conjecture men utt ask.
ed his preference and nothing is
easier to state.
• **
PUT the answer to a question
D whether there will be a Euro-
pean war, or whether we will be
forced into it, or whether we
ought to help England and
France, requires all these assets
which are possessed by few. It is
my sole business to get all the in-
formation on these subjects that
I possibly can. I do have some
technical knowledge gained by ac-
tual experience in war. I try to
reason and avoid unbased conjec-
ture. Yet any answer, more than
argument, that I would be rash
enough to venture on these ques- .
tions wouldn't be worth anything.
One conclusion reported by Dr.
Gallup is positively quaint—that
we should "help England and
France but stay out of war our-
selves." If England and France
were at war with Germany and
Italy, how could we help them and
not be in war ourselves? If the J
form at the questions gave those 1
who answered them any idea that A
you can get into war on the busi- a
ness side and keep out of it on the l
bloody side, they did not suffi- •
ciently inform the people who T
were polled. 1
But there is, I think, a greater ■
objection to these assertions of 1
Dr. Gallup. This was a discussion
complete with conclusions as to 1
what are "the American attitude" 1
and "all inclinations to neutrality
in this country" based on guesses
as to some possible future event.
It wasn’t a simple job of report-
ing that so and so many people
in such and such classes were ask- 1
ed such and such a question and—4
answered It in such and such a
fashion. . I
• * 4
THAT sort of reporting is ex-
1 tremely interesting and. I
think, very valuable, especially if 1
It is reported at intervals. Then
it is an index of shifts in the ■
minds of at least some people.
The reader can take it for what it 1
is worth and draw his own con- ■
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director of a poll, giving no fig-
ures or details begins to say dog-
matically what the American opin-
ion or attitude is on a complex,
dangerous, difficult, obscure and .
technical question, he seems to me
to be on dangerous ground. -
There is a sheep-like tendency
in this or any other country. The
excellent record of the Gallup -
- polls on simpler questions of elec-
tions gives Dr Gallup a bell-
wether quality which he ought to
use with the utmost care on such
deadly matters as these especial-
ly in a field in which his method
has had no test at all for accur-
acy—and can have none.
Of course I know that the earn-
est and sincere Dr. Gallup would
never consciously lend himself to
any kind of propaganda elbowing
us toward war but this could be.....-
the utmost effective imaginable
force in that direction. Further-
more, since there is no way on
earth of testing the truth or ac-
curacy of these ultimate conclus-
ions, how can we escape calling
it propaganda? ′
Today’s Poem
UNWANTED MOTHER
Please pardon me for being your.
Mother, my dear,
For these was none other to claim
a creature so queer
As you were than when you first
came to me- :
Just another wee chip from the
family tree.
Your hair standing on end, your ,
face flaming red,
And clamoring for food and a soft
warm bed;
What else could I do, but be
happy to hold
A strange little soul soul so close
to my soul.
I am sorry, my dear, that I’ve
failed to please you
After having done all that a
Mother can’ do,
But be careful, my child, lest a
child' of your own
Grows up to accuse you in that
same bitter tone.
MRS. J. M. FLATJ.
Cleburne, Texas,
Me
2600
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 190, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1939, newspaper, May 11, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688879/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.