The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1933 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CALDWELL NEWS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER T. 19S3.
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THE CALDWBLLNEWS
And The Burleson County Ledger
L. A. ANDREPONTjffSditor
AKDREPONT and MEDUS. Publiahera
Entered a second class matter at the Caldwell, Texat Poat Office, under
ect of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Published weekly by the Caldwell News and Burleson County Ledger,
Echols Street, Caldwell, Texas.
BRUCE BARTON
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WASHINGTON, December (1.—
suits you better. And last of all, man. His place at the top of the! (Autociwter)—-There is a strong be-
j lief in Administration circles that the
pyramid of creation is the same in both Genesis and geology, the latest set of initials—CWA—is go-
difference bain* that Genesis compresses into six hundred words'^ thTl,t
what science expands into hundreds of volumes, and Genesis hasj'«*n tried so far. it is only three or
.. , .. , , - .. .... . I four weeks old, but already money
a reason for man s creation and a goal for his life, whno science is flowing inU) the ,HK,k(,ts of hun.
throws up its hands with the blank admission, "We do not know." t,rods thousands in many parts of
CARD OF THANKS—A flat rharge of $1.25 will be made for not more than
60 words.
So we have man and woman launched forth upon a brand-
new planet. Science locates the beginnings of human life in the
fertile and fragrant valley of the Euphrates. Genesis is more
specific, naming the beautiful spot the "Garden of Eden," and
identifying the first couple as Adam and Eve. Let us take a run-
ning look at these two interesting people and the more important
of their descendants, for in the Old Testament, as in all other his-
torical records, the hi"4ory of peoples is principally the lives of a
few outstanding individuals.
INFLATION
All of the discussion over the money question, as far as we
understand it—and that isn't very far—seems to come down to
this.
There are a great many sincere persons who believe that the
only economic salvation of the nation lies in increasing the volume
of money in circulation. That, broadly, is called "inflation." And
there is another group of persons, most of them doubtless equally
sincere, who think that "inflation" can end only when the entire
nation has been plunged into bankruptcy, once it is begun.
These two groups probably are both wrong. It does not seem
to us that what is needed is more actual currency, but a more rapid
circulation of the currency already available. If we read the re-
ports of the Treasury correctly, there is enough gold reserve in the
hands of the Government and the Federal Reserve Banks, to war-
jant the issuing of practically twice as much currency as is now
in circulation and still remain well within the limits of what has
always been regarded as the most conservative finance. Against
our four and a half billion gold reserve there is little more than
five billion of currency outstanding; yet a forty percent goid re
serve is considered extremely high.
We do not think that either the Administration or the Federal
Reserve Board is so unpatriotic, so deaf to the distress of the peo-
ple of th° United States as to withhold its hand if there were any
way untried of getting more currency into the hands of the public
short of outright gifts. We think they are working toward get-
ting money into the hands of the public, in a dozen different di-
rections, and that they are making progress. Farmers and many
.>ther industries are getting more money for what they have to
sell, more men are earning wages and immense sums are being
H>ent for public works and other enterprises which put money
into circulation. But we do not regard these normal processes as
' inflation," at least not in any derogatory sense of the word.
As for the rabid anti-inflationists, who see in every move to
make the dollar cheaper in terms of commodities and services, a
threat to the investments of the creditor class, we think they have
very shaKy ground to stand on. We hope to see it possible soon for
debtors to pay their debts in dollars that are no dearer than were
t he dollars they borrowed.
Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou
eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles
shall it bring forth to thee; ... In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, till thou return unto theg round; for out of it
wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return.
RURALIZATION OF INDUSTRY
We were impressed by what Secretary Wallace said in a
speech in Chicago not long ago. He remarked that the Persident's
'and policy "may in time be recognized as the most important
frince the Homestead Act."
As Mr. Wallace interprets the program of the Administra-
tion—and he ought to be in the best position to do so—the definite
aim is to restore rural life to millions who have been herded into
the cities. That does not mean setting many millions more people
at work in the highly competive business of farming, as Mr. Wal-
lace explains it, but it means the establishment of local industries,
utilizing local raw materials, in country districts where the farms
and forests can supply the materials readily on the one hand, and
where the local population will be the primary customers for the
output of those industries.
As an ideal to be aimed at, this cannot be too highly praised.
Taking the lumber industry as an example, and the goal of Mr.
Wallace's program of reforesting all the less desirable agricultur-
al land as having been achieved, what could be more natural, even
inevitable, than the establishment of local woodworking plants in
every reforested district, to say nothing of such other industries
us depend upon wood products for their raw material, like certain
limds of rayon, methyl alcohol and other chemical processes.
Such a program as that will take time and a lot of it. It ought
not to take so long to get industries established in agricultural
«effions where the raw materials are the product of annual crops,
like cotton, corn or wheat.
the country, in payment for real work
actually under way.
CWA is the Civil Works Adminis-
tration. It has nothing to do with
the huge protfrum of public works ad-
ministered by the PWA under Secre-
tary lckes. Nor has it any relation
to CCC, the Civilian Conservation
camps. It is the Administration's
quick way of putting four million men
and women at work in a hurry, at
real wages, on real work.
To do this, a lot of red tape had
to be cut, so the champion rvd-tapo!
... . ,, . . j. cutter, Harry Hopkins, was called in
A lecturer on woman suffrage once challenged her audience to bo88 the jo() It (akes a lonir tmu.
with the oratorical question, "Where, I ask you, where would man 10 n,en at wo,k on public works,'
I because after the mom-y has hi en
be today if it were not for woman?" To which a rather thick voice;allotted tin- plans him- to l.e drawn,
from the rear benches answered, "In the Garden of Eden eating|thc !>idf f"r ('ontnu,;' havt' 1,1 1,0 :i(l"
: vertised for, and it may, ami usually
strawberries. Adam, our first ancestor, does not make a very |d0e,Si nuiny months, perhi ps "a
brave showing: He and Eve were given the run of the Garden, with y<ar r more, before there is much to
permission to eat any fruit except that one particular tree. They Z 11Í" fait J in
ate the forbidden fruit and when God discovered them in their its public works program a.- a means
'transgression Adam took refuge behind Eve. "The woman whom of money into wide circula-
i . . . ... „ , , . j „ . - ., t'on. but it turns out to be too slow.
thou gavest to be with me, he complained, "she gave me of the MilHons of un..ni.lloyt.,| ai, racin,, u
tree, and I did eat." A cowardly excuse which profited him noth- winter of distress, with welfare and/
ing. For their sin they were cast out, and the Garden was closed 1','lief funds hanl*'r and to r -t.
Moreover, as Harry Hopkins and
to them. No longer could the have food without effort. others pointed out, koepinc people
|on the dole for any length of time;
gets them out of the habit of work.
¡ So t.he CWA plans to take 2,000,-
000 men and women off the dole and
put them on w«sren for which they
will have to work, and to add another
2,000.000 who have not yet been forc-
led Ui apply for relief, but probably j
have to before Spring.
Eve had tow sons, Cain and Abel. As a shepherd Abel had AntJ they\¡í"'IiLwdT starting to!
Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. As a shepherd Abel had work!
flocks grow fat, making money for him the while. Cain was a Tak(" one state. Massachusetts, for ;
.. , , , , , ,. , . , example. The Governor and the mav- '
iarmer, and any one who has ever worked on a Íarm understands ' , , . , „. .
' J ors of several cities left Washington
why farmers in all ages have been discontented and will realize on a Thursday night, where they came
how Cain felt. In his jealousy over Abel's easy life and calm de- to gei thlMr instructions how to start
_ . . , . , , o,, . , .the ball rolling in the old Ray State, i
meanor C ain slew him. "Am I my brother s keeper? he demand- Kxnctly on.- week later the first
ed in surly tones when God made inquiry for Abel. The question of the new work projects had been
has come down through the generations as a text for a million ami in l-.-s than a week,
payroll checks were rolling from]
Washington to Boston for the first !
payoff. In the meantime the Gover- !
nor and the State Emergency Finance
Board had called a meeting of city
and town officials at the State House
to tell them how to go al*nit getting;
their people off th • relief roll- and j
on the new f'WA payroll.
All that any city or town had to j
do was to offer some sort >f a
gram of public improvement, get the
approval (if the Board, and go ahead
The irograms have only to !•< app'*n\-
ed once, not referred and re-referred
until they get back to Washington.
They must provide regular work at
regular wages for unemployed people
able and willing to work All pro-
ject- are to lit done i y day labor, not
by contract. The woiking wok is to
be :-l> hour,, and the pay at 'he rate
of Í.0 cents :in hour for till I il'td la
bor. $1.20 an hour for skilled labor.
V i:l:ers to l e selected by the ¡n-nds
if welfare departments in each com-
munity, who are appointed <' ■ • 11
Works Administrators in each case.
White Collar Jobs
The work undertaken under- CWA
includes such employment for th'
"whit collar" class of unemployed a <
statistical surveys, work in state lab-
oratories and municipal hospitals, em
ployment on the staffs of museum: ,
art galleries and other public centers,
canvassing communities in In-half of
"clean-up and paint-up" movements
sponsored by business associations,
and in the direction and supervision
of projects mainly employing manual
labor.
Such work includes pest control,
rural sanitation projects, reclamation
and repair of parks and playgrounds
repair of sewers and saniUition equip-
ment, road work that does not con-
flict with major state ami Federal
roadbuilding programs, clearing and
preparing of land for reservoirs and
watersheds.
Those are examples of the sort of
work for which the Federal Govern-
ment is prepared to pay wages lie-
ginning at. once. It ought not to be
difficult for any town to find plenty
of such things to be done, und so rf-
lieve the calls upon its people for un-
employed relief, besides getting the
unemployed back itno the habit of
work.
Toward Actual Recovery
By the time th- funds available
for the CWA are exhausted, it is
firmly believed here that the public
works program on a giund scale will
have got into full -wing, providing
employment for millions. It is also
the "irni conviction that by next
Spring business and industry in gen-
eral will have gained such momen-
tum that most of the unemployment
slack will Ik- taken up by the end of
next Summer. And there is a belief
which amount to a certainty in the
minds of those closest to the agricul-
tural problem, that anything in the
nature of distress and suffering among
the farmers will have vanished be
fore another harvest* season rolls
around.
Meantime, the Civilian Conserva-
tion Camps are to be extended, more
of them to be established, and sev-
eral hundred thousand more young
men put at forestry work. This is
more than n temporary expedient, for
it is ;i part of the vision of America's
agricultural future which Secretary
Wall at- l;a dr-amed, that every acre
>f inferior and "marginal" land on
which the returns from cultivation do
not warrant the cost., i to be return
• d to forest. And that will require
the work of hundreds of thousands of
young foresters, who will be recruit-
ed from among the boys now in the
CCC.
A new type of villian has bean add-
ed to the population of Naw York.
It's the blood-sucking vampira bat
brought from Panama to th New
York Zoological Parte by Or. Raymond
L. Ditmars. With a body but thraa
inches long and a wingspread of about
seven inches, it has a head that looks
very much like an ugly bull-dog with
the pointed ears of a rat. It's the
only vampire bat ever to be placed
on exhibition.
fo*
BILIOUSNESS
Sour stomach
gag and headache
fintf io
CONSTIPATION
V k-
I
TRADE MARK REO.
An unusual cargo came into port
on the Albert Balbn recently: five
thousand canaries, four thousand
tropical fish and two hundred frogs.
Oysters
We now can supply
our customers with
Fresh
Oysters
Try some—They; are
delicious jfá¿
Smith & Manas
Caldwell, Texas
sermons.
The Family Doctor
FOR WOMEN ONLY
The menopause, I mean. Since this comes to all females who
pass the median line in life, I am talking to at least half the adult
population in our homes.
From intimate observation of many hundreds of cases, I
have learned, first, no two women pass through this change in ex-
actly the same manner, or with the same symptoms. Second, the
management must fit the individual case; no remedy is used as a
routine. That should kill the patent nostrum for "female trouble."
The menopause in the normal woman is a physiological pro-
cess, not a disease. But in case of the woman who has other le-
i-ions to combat, then comes the need of the wise physician's coun-
sel.
Severe and exhausting hemorrhages at the menopause, those
that increase each month in severity and produce anae/nia and
weakness, should cause the doctor to look carefully for fibroid
tumor of the uterus. In a certain number of cases, the X-ray acts
happily, if in intelligent hands; if it is tried and fails, I have found
that surgical measures are less pleasing than if the X-ray were
not used. The best way is, remove the tumor as soon as possible.
For the distressing "hot flashes," the most reliable remedy
is RI2ST. The wife who carries on her housework through this
kjnd of a season is a heroine indeed—and a martyr. It is real suf-
fering. By rest, I mean cut out 75 per cent of the work; stop
scrubbing, lifting, making beds, and such; or, go to bed and stay
till the horrible flushes are better,—they will cease in time.
Your doctor must advise you. Let the ready-made nostrum
alone.
We hope this general idea will be stimulated and encouraged.
It seems at the moment doubtful whether many of the big indus-
tries will regard it as economical to manufacture their products
in thousands of scattered plants; yet Henry Ford does just that,
and does it successfully. It is time that the concentration of in-
dustry is big factories in big cities, which began when steam pow-
er was introduced, were done away with. With electric current
universally distributed it is as easy to onerate power machinery
on the farm as in the city.
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(Piles) AND OTHER REC-
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WITHOUT USE OF THE
KNIFE, without being put to
sleep, or confined to bed, no
pain or detention from work.
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Andrepont, L. A. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1933, newspaper, December 7, 1933; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth175080/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.