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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DEC . 27, 1934
*64 MARGARET E. SANGSTER
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SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 17
years old. finds herself alone in the
worldl with her artist mother’s last
warning ringing in her ears to "love
lightly.' Of the world she knew lit-
th- All her life she had lived alone
with her mother in an old brown
house in a small rural community El*
len, alone, turned to the only con-
tact she knew, an art agent in New
York Posing, years of posing, was her
only talent so she was introduced to
wto leading artists Dick Alven and
Sandy Macintosh. Both used her as
a model and both fell in love with
her . . . but Ellen, trying to follow
the warped philosophy of her moth-
er to “love lightly" resists the thought
.. of love. Her circle of friends is small,
artists and two or thre girl friends
Ellen attends a ball with Sandy. While
dancing a tall young man claimed her
and romance is born. A ride in the
park and proposal, the next day mar-
J riage to Tony and wealth. But she’d
“love lightly" Ellen told herself. She
would never let him know how des-
perately she loved him, even though
she were his wife. Ellen insists upon
living her own life, maintaining her
home in her small room, even though
Tony is wealthy, Jane, of Tony’s
wealthy set is disappointed in Tony’s
sudden marriage to Ellen. NOW GO
ON WITH THE STORY:
"We’re modernists, Sandy," she said
‘Every night is a night out as far as
either of us is concerned. We’re not
playing the marriage game according
to the old sentiment standards, not
Tony and 1."
• Sandy’s eyebrows came down and
his eyes narrowed.
"In that case,” he said, "we might
have dinner together, tonight I’d en-
joy feeling like a husband-robbing
Lothario for a change. I'm sort of
beginning to lose confidence in my.
self ”
Ellen felt just a little icy, inside.
1 was the first time since her wed-
ding that she’d actually made the
break—that she’d put herself, mar-
riage, in a position of accepting social
, favors from another man.
III meet you anywhere you say.
Snady, she told him, “at any time
you say.”
"Let’s make it a real party," he
said "We’ll dress and I'll stop for
you at your place in about an hour.
: I don't suppose, by any chance, that
you’d have a cocktail waiting for
• me?’’
tage,) that it’s up to me to take
you home, even though I started the
party with another gall After all,
you know, we’re on the outside, look-
ing in.”
Jane bit her lip sharply.
“I’ve got my car downstairs," she
said. "I can take you all home, you
know."
And at last, after detailed direc-
tions had been given to the chauf-
feur the car came to a stop in front
of Ellen’s house. The moment had
arrived—and Tony rose to it nobly.
‘Thanks Janc he 1 I a he
helped Ellen out of the car. "You
were nice to come to dinner with
me and nice to bring us home.”
It would have been all right if
Jane had left it that way - if she
had just said a gracious goodnight
For a moment one imagines that
she meant to and then she leaned
out of the car and her slim, beauti-
ful hand rested lightly upon the
sleeve of Tony's coat.
"You'll not forget," she said, “that
it’s my birthday Saturday and that
the crowd is coming down to our
country place for the weekend. You
said you’d be there, you know.”
Tony mumbled something. It
sounded to Ellen like "I'll rememem-
ber." And then he was starting to
slam shut the door of the car. But
Sandy’s gay, tactless voice.
"Throwing a party," Sandy asked,
"and not inviting me! How come-
Ellen should have somebody along
who talks her language She’d be
lost with all of you folks who are
Philistines."
Sandy, you see, was assuming— -
the other three. Jane and Ellen and
Tony, realized it at the same horrible
second that Ellen was to be a
member of the party! The birthday
house party to which June had in-
vited Tony Tony evidently to her
mind, was .till playing the role of
a bachelor!
"Of course, you can come San-
dy," she said sweetly, "if you want
to it might be much more charming
for Ellen to have one of her own
sort. Maybe you have the right idea,
at that."
And then the car had gone flash-
ing down the street.
For a long moment there was
silence before Ellen found words. Be-
fore she spoke in a voice that was
"Marriage," she said, ‘hasn’t
changed my ideas about that, Sandy."
But she was all ready when he
came for her in an hour (she met him
at the door, he mustn’t come up to
her so obviously unchanged apart-
ment!)
I’d like to.” he said, "but I don’t
trust myself to come up with you.
Unless- your invitation means more
than I think it does. You must rea-
lize why 1 can’t."
Ellen was fumbling with her latch
key. She knew in her soul that she
must open the door quickly, before
she told Tony how much she wanted
him to come in, how much she wanted
him not to trust himself. She couldn’t
make that move she wouldn't be
given a chance to hurt her pride, or
to break her heart. She must open
the door, now and go inside, alone.
In the morning Jane’s letter came,
as Ellen had known that it would.
“My party,” read the pseudo-orig-
inal letter, “is going to be very in-
formal. Just a few of my oldest and
most intimate friends have been ask-
ed down. Of course, I do hope you
can come and that you won’t find it
too dull being among strangers."
As Ellen read the edged words, she
was suddenly more bitterly annoyed
than she had ever been in her life
"I won’t go," she was tunning, “I
won! I won’t!"
That resolution carried he r through
the first half of the day. Carried her
along until Sandy’s note arrived.
“I’m wondering,” Sandy wrote, “if
I can go up to Jane’s party with you
and Tony, on Saturday? Drive up
with you, I mean. I’ve decided to ac-
cept the gal’s invitation it ought to
be fun."
Continued Next Week.
because they have been given a defi-
which is carried nobly becomes al-
Texas Property
(Continued From Page 1.)
the books of the state government and
its subsidiary taxing units
II is the position of the Texas Real
Estate Tax I.imitation League that
unless and until real estate taxes are
brought within the ability and wil-
lingnss of the owner to pay, delin-
quencies will continue to mount and
deficits will continue to grow. Cer-
tainly the state cannot expect and I
seriously doubt it has the right to ask.
owners of any form of property to pay
from 70 to 95 5-100 per cent of their
earned income to any government
or group of governments. We do not
tempted to turn to other crops. If more richly and more truly in the
nite income within which they must land formerly planted to cotton is heart and the life of the world than ways the strange insignia of greatness,
j -14 4 . L * i put in corn, oats, wheat, tomatoes, any other single personality who has
potatoes, tobacco and so on, the pro-lever lived in the world. The Christ-
duction of these latter commodities mas. which is the joyful celebration
will increase and a surplus will be of His birth would have been long
es, taxes on intangibles, etc., are dis-I piled up, with unprofitable prices since forgotten if it had not been for
live, and which cannot be increased
at will.
“A broader basis of taxation is be-
ing achieved. Income taxes, sales tax-
The crucifixion was as much a part,
of the life of Christ as the holy oc-at Christmas time.
casion of His birth; and I must be-
lieve that the heart of God is very
tender toward all those who weep
tributing the costs of government ov-the inevitable result. In order to pre- the cross on which He was crucified,
er all forms of wealth, in order that vent the accumulation of such sur- We know by some strange spiritual
sense within ourselves that it was ”
His suffering which is to redeem they
world.
None of us like to suffer and often 6
our sufferings are of our own making X
but not always do we make our own y
sorrows. Sometimes a cross, some- w
thing more than the usual sorrows of
real estate shall not continue to be pluses, it is contended. I production of
the only flexible item on the tax these other crops must be restricted
rolls. Tax collections are increasing, by law.
delinquencies decreasing. Bringing the This program contemplates of
tax bills within the ability and wil-course, the application of the princi-
lingness of the taxpayer to pay has ple of national planned farming,
increased revenues. Washington would undertake to as-
"Scientifically accurate methods of certain just how much of a given
determining true value of real estate crop was needed and would issue reg-
are being installed in place of previ-ulations designed to keep production
ous guess systems. on a level with consumption. The
"A sharp check has been placed on idea appeals to many as an effective
the issuance of bonds. In most of the way to make farming profitable,
‘limited’ states new bonds may be is- If the producers of other can cot-
sued only after two-thirds of the vot-ton can be convinced that inaugura-
ers have approved them." tion of compulsory control will im-
Incidentally, perhaps the healthiest prove their economic position, the ma-
re ult of limitation is that personaljority of them will no doubt favor
property relieved of an excessive tax- the plan. The vote on the Bankhead
charge, is voluntarily presenting itself bill revealed that comparatively few
in large volume. When the tax is re-farmers were concerned about the
matter of surrendering their rights
asonable, personalty comes out of hid-
ing.
From "Property Tax Limitation
Laws,’ published by Public Admin-
istration Service, February 1934, I
quote the following:
“The most significant comment that
has recently been made on tax limi-
tation was the action of the Ohio elec-
torate on November 7, 1933, when by
a vote of 900,000 to 600,000 they tight-
viled by a third the state’s constitu-
tional limit upon the taxation of 11
property. Ohio voters, since 1931, have
had a 1Va per cent limit on the total
levy which can be made on real es-
late and tangible personality."
In other words, gentlemen, limita-
tion worked so well in Ohio—after i
try out of more than two years—that
they actually strengthened it. And to-
day, after the more stringent 1 per
cent limitation is in effect. Ohio is
getting along pretty well—much bet-
ter than most states in fact.
Replacement Taxes.
Our plan contemplates the imposi-
tion Q8 a replacement tax of course.
Frequently we are asked what re-
placement tax we propose. The ans
wer is "none." We prefer to leave it
to the ingenuity of the legislators o
about the matter of surrendering
their rights to a federal bureau. In-
deed, there is little consideration or
discussion of individual rights in
plans for either agricultural or indus-
trial or business recovery. The ma-
jority are asking, not are individual
rights being violated, but "does
pay?"
Hesitating Before
The Tax Problem
(Houston Chronicle.)
It is to be hoped that the senate's
tax research committee which has
just recessed at Austin after ex-
haustive study of the state’s financial
problems has learned much, albeit
there is evidence that it is not ready
to offer a program to balance the
state budget.
More than likely it has become con-
vinced of the necessity of instituting
some new tax system in the state.!
but it has not been able to agree on 1
its form.
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think that the state’s policy in respect
of real estate taxation has proceed-
ed to the point of confiscation; we
think it has passed that point; and we . ... . - . •
have reason to believe that unless isfaction the electorate. However,
relief is speedily granted a taxpayers'
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tua lities.
I do not wish this committee to
think I am exaggerating. In my own
business 1 recently was confronted by
this case: A business location was
leased to a retail store which, in the
circumstances, paid a rental some-
what higher than was justified. The
I may say that the national associa-
tion of real estate boards in the bul-
letin from which I quoted gives this
question answer of a sort. I quot ■
again:
"A broader basis of taxation is be-
ing achieved. Income taxes, sales tax-
es, taxes on intangibles, liquors, beers
and wines, etc., are distributing the
costs of government over all forms
annual gross income from this prop-
erty was $5000, The total tax bill,
roughly was $7500. In other words,
shot through with bewilderment. this piece of business property, rent-
"And now,” she said, "what are we ed to the full extent of its location
value, paid a 150 per cent income tax.
Titis is not an isolated case. To the
In T‘N *‘1E *Y U UNKFEVVI (A VINIUIEVAL,
contrary, it is little less than typical, which is met by the imposition of an-
The Remedy.
So much for the situation. We do
of wealth "
That is the final consequence of
going to do?"
Tony laughed boyishly
“I guess," he said, "that it’s all set!
It begins to look as if you’re com-
ing with me to a house party. San-
dy certainly put Jane in an odd
position, didn't he? But, as usual, she
came through one hundred ped cent."
“Ye s,” said Ellen, ‘‘yes she did
Sandy did it all very well! It was
as if that evening he were planning
to outdo himself to make the party Jane did come through. As usual
memorable. They rode in state to
one of the larger hotels that boasted
a dance orchestra and a roof garden.
They were shot, in the hote I ele-
vator to the roof garden They were
shown to a table close beside the
dance floor.
"It’s a nice roof!" she told him- | - -
and tried valiantly not to tell her self | en though you've been truly wonder-
that it would have been perfect if
Tony had been the one to hold back
her chair, to seat himself opposite
her!
She spoke so softly
that for
all
’ Tony knew she was sighing. He
didn’t know that all at once there
was a seething anger in her heart.
"You’re rather a peach you know,"
she told Tony. “You’ve made every-
thing very easy for me. tonight. But
even though you've been regular, ev-
our plan. We relieve real property.
We invite or ie.il broperty back
into the tax fold by limiting the over-
all tax which may be imposed upon
Everyone must know that real es-
tate already is too heavily taxed. It
should be granted a drastic reduc-
tion. Yet, since the state must have
revenue, more than in the past, every
dollar of taxation eliminated from one
source must be made up from an-
other. So the problem becomes: What
will take the place of the ad valorem
levies? What indeed?
At the eleventh hour we hear, via
the news columns a wail that delin-
quencies are not being collected. And
official personages at Austin wonder
audibly why something isn’t done
about it. Why, they ask, don’t these
county assessors and collectors get
this $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 owing
the state? Haven't they a first lien
on property worth more than that.’
Why not foreclose or force payment
*
1
it. Thus we create
an emergency.
other tax, or other taxes.
And in
" suppose," said Sandy, as he
studied the menu, "that the boy friend
is working, or something. Well, more
power to him!"
And Ellen echoed
i ful, I couldn't possibly accept Jane’s
invitation — I can't possibly accept
1 Jane’s invitation I can't possibly go
I to her party. She was forced into ask-
ing me you realize that. She doesn't
want me—why should she want me?
| It's you she wants!”
Tony answered.
“I'd like Ellen,’’ he said, answering
the first part of her remark “to
make all of life very easy for you, if I
could. That happens—* his voice also
had lost its casual note, “that hap-
"More power to him," as she folded
her hands tight beneath the damask
table cloth, and let her eyes wander
across the room. As her glance wan-
dered from table to table she felt her
body stiffen. For there, directly 1
across the dance floor, immaculate in I ing the last part of what she hwd said
dinner jacket and with his blue eyes * 1.....
bluer than ever, sat Tony. Tony
wasn’t alone alone, either, for Jane
in a wisp of devastatingly cut flame-
colored chiffon, sat opposite him!
"Why," Ellen whispered and her
breath came in startled little gasps,
“why, there’s Tony now!"
pens to be the way I care about you.”
I Hep aused. And then he was answer-
not come criticizing, with no sugges-
tion for a remedy. Nor do we bring
a remedy which is the brain child of
an amateur economist or a theorizing
idealist. We come with a remedy
which has been applied in similar
cases of economic crisis, a remedy
which did all and more than its pro-
ponents hoped for it.
The remedy we propose for the con-
dition so briefly sketched is the one
per cent over all limitation of taxes
which may be imposed upon general
property by all of the combined tax-
ing governments. We propose this one
per cent over all limitation to apply
everywhere except in cities, where we
propose a one and one half per cent
limitation. The additional one half
per cent alloted cities may be used
only for servicing debts already in-
curred.
We ask for over all limitation of
taxes instead of the many schemes
presently advanced for relief of
property owners for one reason and
one reason only. Experience has dem-
onstrated that over all limitation re-
meeting the emergency, we find we
have broadened the basis of taxation,
more equitably distributed the cost
of government, established the essen-
tial functions of government upon a
firmer base, and best of all—diffus-
ed among the people an appreciation
of the fact that government must con-
serve, not did ipate, the substance
of its people.
Our association—the Texas Real Es-
tate Tax Limitation League has es-
tablished offices in Houston. It is de-
veloping files of statistics dealing with
limitation and its related subjects. The
informaion we have, we will gladly
share with you, and we invite you to
make unlimited use of such facilities
as are ours.
It is our oponion that the only
sound, san- (I permanent form of
tax relief and in eonly one that builds
rather than undermines, is the one
per cent over all limitation. We give
it to you with the promise that, if en-
acted, a better and more economical
government will result.
o him.
“But he added, "I do wish awfully
you’d come to Jane's party. She may
have been forced into asking you -
I’m honest enough to admit that she
was but the important thing is that
she did ask you. Under the circum-
stances if you don't go, 1 couldn't go
either, now. And if I don't appear
on Jane's birthday, my crowd will
ally works, and that other schemes
do not. I imagine all of us have seenNEAD TATAR
taxpayersassociations and other I HCAW FELT
groups of property owners grimly TE BUErtRs 1 N3 I rus
fight to successful conclusion a battle
It wasn’t that her voice carried, it
was that her thought carried! Tony
looked up from across the room as
sharp as Sandy did from across the through the dark Ellen was aware of
table And then, without a word to
the girl in flame color who sat op-
posite him he was up out of his feet,
was coming over the polisher square
of dance floor.
"Say." he began, "this is a sur-
prise!"
think its
strange.
And so—" even
his smile, “and so it would seem that
we’re in a box. Fortunately we're
in the same box. Not—" th' smile
had grown into his carefree young
laughter, "'not that it isn't very nice
to be in n box with you!"
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Sandy had risen, and was fingering
silkiness of his Vandyke beard.
The gesture was sophisticated, per-
naps, but the eyes above the beard
were frankly apprehensive.
"So it is," said Sandy. He grinned
nervously "Just what does one do
in a situation like this?" he asked.
Its all out of order."
Ellen was laughing Shp tried to
make her laughter sound casual
One says, ‘Hello,’ she said “and
"goodby."and
Tony wasn't as brown as he had
been when Ellen first saw him
...You’re all wrong, Ellen," he said
Ata time like this parties join to-
t wether. If you haven't ordered, come
over to our table."
There wasn't anything else to do
fallen as gracefully as possible, and
i wishing that her dress were pink or
blue , it white
for Ter from her seat and was escorted
c by the two men back to the place
Xne the air in Clare chltYon Wax
1 The waiter brought forward IU
* extra chairs, laid two extra places
■ the table at which Tony and his guest
had already started their dinner.
1 Then the music began And Tony
Dancer—looking at Ellen. But
Ellen wasn’t dancing with Tonya not
tonight Dancing with Tony ways
R had • ruinous effect upon her
1. . "Sandy brought me" she said ■ ....
have this one with him "
it wasn’t a jolly evening. But it
■ managed to be adequately conserva-
tional and very polite. No reference
was made to the last evening that the
: four spent together.
And then, after the dinner had been
drawn out as long as possible, it was
time to go home! There wasn’t any.
1 thing else to do.
It was Sandy not Tony, who de-
tided the situation.
E "I think Jane," he said (they’d
never gotten past the first name
Ellen was turning again;
they
were getting nowhere. She started
to move wearily toward the steps
of the house in which she lived.
Tony followed her They climbed the
steps together, slowly.
“I don't know what to do, Tony, ’
she said, and her voice was vague.
"Don’t you think we’d better let it
lido — all of this business about
Janes party? Lets not worry about
it tonight. Let's just wait and see
what happenr.’
Tony was speaking. "Whether you
• j to Jane’s or not," he said, and
his tone was wistful. I wish we
might have a few evorings together.
This has been .sort of grand, hasnt
it? To me it’s been kind of crazy not
seeing you since " his voice lowered.
for reduction of, say, the county tax
rate. And we have all seen their
victory-chants hushed by the sudden
realization that while they fought a
new enemy had risen. City commis-
sioners, it may be, had so advanced
city rates as to assimilate all gained
from the county and more besides.
The only way to limit the tax bur-
dens imposed upon real property is to
limit them; and there is no such
thing as limitation when one gov-
ernment is restricted and another left
free to inflate tax values and tax
rates The measure that limits must be
broad enough and strong enough to
encompass simultaneously all of the
taxing agencies. Only over all limi-
tation dors that, and in consequence
you cannot hope to relieve real prop-
erty from a burden which is demon-
strated to be inequitable, unfair and
confiscatory by any other method.
We ask, therefore, the over all limi-
tation just outlined. We ask that the
44th legislature, if it can be done le-
gally and lawfully, enact a statute
which will make this limitation tem-
porarily effective And we ask that
this temporary relief be made per-
manent and impregnable by writing
it into the constitution itself. I think
ACCIDENT
in returning from a fishing trip
late Thursday evening Messrs. T. C.
Bruno, F. J. Kilbride and E. C. Plant,
after reaching the city ran into a
blind car which cut in on them, re-
sulting in badly damaging Mr. Bru-
no's car and barely missing serious
injuries to the occupants of both
cars. *
The car hit by the Bruno car was
occupied by a number of young peo-
ple who were using flashlights for
headlights.
Reckless and careless driving con-
tinues to take its daily toll.
Voice on telephone-Is my wife
home?
Maid—No, w ho shall I say called?
He—"Do you believe in love at first
sight?"
She-"No, but I hate the prelimin-
aries."
I am safe in promising that if the leg-
islature submit an over all limitation
amendment, the people will approve
our wedding day,” by an overwhelming majority .
For just one second one second I said our program for limitation
was a tried and proved method. It is.
Five states have written it into their
constitutions. They are Michigan, New
Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and West
Virginia. Pending the submission of
constitutional amendments, Indiana
and Washington have passed limita-
tion laws which bridge the gap be-
tween now and the time amendments
are adopted.
Does limitation work? The national
committee on real estate taxation of
the national association of real estate
boards, in a current bulletin made
this report I quote:
“(In these states) government func-
tions are being placed on a sounder
financial basis. They are no longer
dependent on real estate as their
chief source of revenue. And, because
of this, the flood of closing schools
and shortening school terms is being
stopped.
"Property taxes have decreased an
average of 23.5 per cent in 120 typical
cities in six of the states from which
figures are available since the limita-
tion* became effective.
“Governments are being more econ-
omically and efficiently administered.
out of all life Ellen dared to be
eagerf She did not chaw her hand
away, even though it was hell so
k rely.
"Sometimes," she said, “daring the
last two weeks. 1, too, feel that we
were silly. I’d be glad to see you just
as often as you want to see me, you
know." She Mid the last with a rush.
She tried not to empe te the wor 1
“Jut as chier as 901 want to see
me."
Tony answered very seriously.
"That would be quite a lot," he said.
"I guess we won't go into that. 1
guess you understand." He hesitated
slightly. “Well, I guess it's goodnight.'
Ellen was faltering there in the
doroway. She took a step forward
—Tony was very close, it was a short
step But despite his closeness, he
couldnt know that she was near to
yielding—to making crazy, sweet ad-
missions.
"Won't you come up," she asked
"for just a minute?”
But Tony was moving away from
her, down the steps. It seemed as if
the distance was automatically widen-
ing between them.
FURTHER CROP
CONTROL
in the process?
The fact is that the huge delinquen-
cy total is largely an illusion. An
analysis of it will show that it is
made up partly of accumulated er-
rors, running through the years of
duplicate assessments of assessments
on automobiles and other perishable
property which is no longer worth
the taxes levied on it, of assessments
on scattered lots of low cost prop-
erty, the value of which is insuffici-
ent to pay the heavy costs of court
action in transferring title from pri-
vate owners to the state.
Furthermore, the investigator into
the subject will find that few buyers
can be found for property taken on
tax suits. Such property is redeem-
able by the original owner for a pe-
riod of two years, and the legisla-
ture is constantly threatening to ex-
tend the period of redemption. Thus
the prospective purchaser knows that
he can not afford to make improve-
ments within the two-year period,
and that any good fortune that may
come to him as a result of increased
values is almost bound to be negatived
by the action of the original owner in
reclaiming his property.
All of which will be sufficient to
convince the ordinary person that we
have little to expect from the in-
creased collection of delinquent tax-
es. and that the state will wait long
indeed for a solution of its fiscal
problem if it awaits increased income
from that source.
The fact is that we must have a
radically revised state taxation system
before we can do justice to real prop-
erty owners or put the state on a
sound basis fiscally. Obviously our
solons are not ready to offer us the
necessary revision. Possibly they fear
public opinion, which has been sadly
misled on the subject. But the change
will come, whether now or some two
or four years later, simply because it
must come.
In the end necessity brings action
and we are now up against a neces-
sity.
YOUR HOME
AND MINE
By FRANCES M MORTON
In San Marcos News.
The ministry of sorrow, the mean-
ing of a cross is the oldest and most
profound mystery of life. If we think
of a Creator able to make a place of
such exquisite beauty as this world
in which we live; and of bringing 1
to life and activity anything as sen-
sitive to the heights of love and joy
as the human heart, we must always
wonder why such a Creator includ-
ed sorrow and disappointment, and
even the bitterness of despair as a
part of the gift of life. It is hard for!
(Houston Post.) L
Prior to the closing of the last ses- us to understand why love, which is
sion of congress some of the AAA of- the richest experience of life, is so
ficials evolved a plan for controlling often at least three parts of pain and
by law production of nearly all the anxiety. We naturally wonder why
principal farm crops. The plan was not the pattern of life might not have
pushed. The Bankhead law was be-been all joy and happiness with no
ing enacted, and there was a disposi-provision for the experience of pain,
tion to wait and see how that experi-
ment in compulsory crop reduction
wciked in practice.
The Bankhead law having been in-
do-sed overwhelmingly by farmers in
the South, prop:: r’s of the all-em-
bracing crop control plan will be
encouraged to fight hard for adoption
of their plan by the incomirs con-
gress. And they will be in a much
better position to claim support than
they were in the last session, before
compulsory control had been tried
out
The logic of their proposal runs like
this: If compulsory control is goad
for the cotton farmer, it should be
good for producers of other crops.
Moreover, if cotton farmers restrict
production of cotton, they will be
Job wondered about it and wrote that
marvelous piece of spiritual literature
which we call The Book of Job. David
wondered about it and wrote those
exalted Psalms which not only ex-
press the whole scale of human feel-
ing but have themselves inspired
much of the most beautiful poetry
which has been written since then.!
The world’s greatest thinkers have al-
ways wondered about this mystery of
sorrow but its solution does not be-
long to us We have been told that!
Whom the Lord Loveth He Chasten-
eth‘ but we have never been told why
it is true.
We h ive been given through the
perfect example of cross-bearing, the
shining example of One who died
upon His cross and yet still lives
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1934, newspaper, December 27, 1934; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696519/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.