The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1935 Page: 2 of 6
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Caldwell News, Thursday, February 14,1935
CALDWELL NEWS
AND THE BURLB80N COUNTY LEDGER
L. A. ANDRBPONT. Publisher
A WmUt Nnruapir Devoted U
w4 Upbuilding •' Burleeou County.
nreearvadly to the Development
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Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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Music la The Air
by A. B. Chapín
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The
biggest chunk of money ever ap-
propriated in one lum, in time of
preprinted in one lump, in time of
is the $4,880,000,000 which con-
gress is handing to President
Roosevelt to spend as he sees fit
public works to relieve unem-
ployment. No one man in all his
ing airy modern low-rent apart-
ments in parked grounds, as Mus-
solini has done in Italy.
Another nation-wide program
which is well thought of in admin-
istration circles, is the abolition of
every railroad crossing of a high-
way "at grade" in the United
States. A high percentage of fatal
automobile accidents occur at grade
crossings, and nearly all of the
fatalities connected with railway
travel. Removal of grade crossings
will speed up not only trains but
motor travel.
The president will have to bor-
row the money, of course. There
is only about $2,500,000,001) bor-
rowing power left under the Sec-
ond Liberty Loan Act of If lb,
tory ht" ~~ftVer had control of any which is the authority under which
uieh amount ei-ffioney. None has
ever had the power" ii1 his own
hand* which control of tWfc huge
Bum gives to the president of
United States.
There have been larger amounts
appropriated by congress, both in
war and, in the past two years, in
peace, but they have been hedged
about with restrictions and the
specific pulses for which they
were to be spent have been clearly
defined in the appropriation bills.
About the only string attached to
it aro the provisions intended to
keep the spending of the money out
of the hands of Secretary of the
Interior Harold Ickes.
Mr. Icke's performance as Public
Works Administrator has not been
pleasing to congress. For one thing
Capitol Hill thinks he has been too
alow in spending the $3,300,000,000
granted by the last congress for
public works. Mr. Ickes's friends
say that has been because he want-
ed to be sure the money was all
spent for projects of real value,
and to insure that none of it slip-
ped into private pockets on tfc
way.
wCogness wants money spent
faster and also wants it spent by
Bomebody who will "listen to rea-
son" when it comes to distributing
it where it will do the senators and
representatives the most good at
the next election.
Capitol Hill Ideas.
The boys on Capitol Hill would
have enjoyed making an old-fash-
ioned "pork-barrel" out of this
huge treasure-chest, with the big-
gest chunks of pork going into dis-
tricts where party morale needs
strengthening. But Mr. Roosevelt
wouldn't have it that way; so the
members of congress have had to
content themselves with the hope
that "Jim will find a way," as one
of them put it, referring to Post-
master General Farley's chairman-
ship of the Democratic national
committee.
It would have been pleasing to
most congressmen, too, if they had
not been asked to include a restric-
tion on the wages that may be
paid on projects under this appro-
priation. However, from the point
of view of recovery, the $60 a
month average wage which is au-
thorised for public works, is re-
garded as high enough to keep the
avetage worker's average family
well provided for, but not high
enough to keep him from taking
a Job in private employment if one
comes his way.
Action After July 1
The new funds thus provided will
not be available until after July 1.
How speedily they can be put to
work thereafter depends upon how
fast the plans of the various pro-
jects can be perfected. A good
many are said to be practically
eomplete now. Under the provision
in the appropriation bill authoriz-
the president to exercise the
right of eminent domain—that is
to say, to take land by condemna-
tion if necessary—the way íb open-
ad for great projects of "slum
in cities, oaring down
crowded tenements and build-
the treasury has been borrowing
lor public purposes; so a bill has
been rushed through the house and
will have passed the senate by the
time this is printed,_J, raise the
limit of treasury Bond sales to a
total pubiif debt of $46,000,000,000.
Figures like that have ceased to
frighten Washington. The talk now
is that the United States could car-
ry a debt load of a hundred billion
dollars.
Cost of Pensions
It will cost from $500,000,000 to
a billion a year to carry out the
old age, insurance and unemploy-
ment compensation plans, even in-
cluding the payroll and earnings
taxes, as the bill is now drawn,
mathematical sharps compute. Be-
fore congress gets throug the old
age pension will be raised from $30
a month to $40 or above. Townsend
plan advocates are clamoring for
at least $100 a month. It won't be
that high, but may be $60.
Shortly congress will be asked t
authorize Joe EastouaJi's j ián to
reocwMw* the Interstate Com-
merce Commission to give that
body full control over all forms of
interstate transportatioo, railroads,
bus, track, air and water.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration is to be granted broader
powers, to make loans to industry
and to railroads.
New schemes for inducing small
savers to take their money out of
savings banks and lend it to the
government are under way. "Baby"
bonds in $100 denominations or
less, running twenty years, to be
sold to the public at a discount, to
bear no interest but to be redeemed
for a third more than was paid for
them, are the latest schetres. The
non-interest-bearing feature would
take a load off the budget. There
are 50 billion dollars in the nation's
savings bank accounts. It wouldn't
take all of that to cover the pres-
ent spending plans of the adminis-
tration.
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PQO0.JSM
CHILDHOOD
DKRClEMC
!WtaVtss:
tionscenic beauty íb a valuable
state asset and that its protection
is in the public interest.
1 don't know the author of thu,
1.. t irtl«.s'a niw 41
Btate, Massachusetts, has given a
long-delayed decision in the case of
complaints against unsightly ''ill-
boards which deface many of the. - — -lem.
beautiful scenic highwayB, particu- parody on Joyce Kilmers Pofn«l|i«
ivn county of B rk- "Trees," but Í like to quote
"I think that I shall nevsr see <11 were
A billboard lovely as a tree, 'ending.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fsor of
I'll never see a tree at all." in
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The brain capacity of a human
skull may be one-seventh greater
than that of another with the same
It holds that 'external dimensions.
larly in my ow
shire. To protect highway us-ts,
the court ruled, the police po ver
may be used against billboards
"even to the extent of prohibition."
Billboards, as the OW Bay
State's court rightly says, inter-
fere with the right of the trav ler
upon the highway to a peaceful
unannoyed journey
THE CONVENIENCE
OF THE BANK CHECK
is so great that it lias largely taken the place of currency and
is used in handling W0 per cent of the country's business trans-
actions. . .
This year use a Caldwell National checking account as a
pprsonal and household convenience, it will protect your cash
on hand, save you time and trouble in paying bills and give
you better control of income and outgo.
The federal 2c tax on checks has been discontinued—your
checks will be tax-free now.
Caldwell National Bank
Your Deposits in
this Bank are Insured
Banking Act of 1933
as Provided in
TODAY end
frank parker
STOCKBRlDOb
WEALTH a song
In my boyhood I used to hear my
mother sing a song which had been
popular in her childhood, the re-
frain of which went:
"For Uncle Sam is rich enough
To give us uil a farm."
FABM INVENTORY
All farmers who have not yet
done so should take advantage of
the alack winter season to take in-
ventory and start a record to be
kept through the next y«.ar. List-
ing all assets and liabilities and
keeping account of all income and
expenditure during the year will
not only make the farmer's deal-
ings with banks and government
agencies much easier, but it will
tell him juBt where he stands and
whether he is going ahead or back-
wards. And remember, products
eaten by the family or the farm
stock are worth juBt as much as
those that are sold.
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APRICOTS SUPPLY VITAMINS
In addition to being one of the
best sources of vitamin A, apricots
have been found to be a good
source of vitamin C. Experiments
show that cooking this fruit re-
duces the vitamin C content by
about half but increases the availa-
ble vitamin A.
It seems to me that too many
people today have the same sub-
linjS fait1 ■ ** *■*" utility ui " uncle
oam" to make everybody rich. But
what was literally true in the
IStiO's and '70's is no longer true.
The government was giving away
public lands to practically all com-
ers in those days, but it wasn't
giving away money. It was merely
giving people opportunity to cre-
ate wealth, which is, of course, the
product of labor applied to natural
resources and nothing else.
What government is giving to
people now is neither wealth nor
opportunity. It is
and money which
wealth that has yet been created1
but which, being barrowed against
the future, must be made good by
the labor of future generations.
but unlikely to break any congres-
sional bones. I have seen no reports
of anything approaching the ra-
pier-like wit of some of the debat-
ers of former days.
For that matter, it has been a
long time since there has been a
real debate in congress. About the
only member of either hous who
is listened to seriously when he
takes a position in opposition to the
majority is Senator Carter Glass of
Virginia. I don't recall who it was
that first called him, years ago,
a "red-headed snapping-turtle," but
have to be changed over, as well
as factory motors. It is said to be
easy, however, to convert the direct
current to alternating where that
would serve better.
One result should be to less-n
the danger from broken high-pres-
sure transmission lines. Direct cur-
rent, in theory at least, is less like- !
ly to kill than is alternating. That
is why the laws in many stat s
which provide electrocution for con-
victed murderers specify alternat-
ing current.
he usually lives up to that name.,
Whenever it is known that Senator i BILLBOARDS . . . . . and tre***
Glass is to speak the galleries are ",e *npreme < <>urt of my home
always crowded.
buMmr
A COLD IN
FIVE YEARS"
"In th« aid dtyi I um< to 4tm4 uw
coming or Winter. I tu flfntlaf
cold reeling about halt *llr« trying to
work with my body aching and every nerre
on edge
"Then a friend told me about McOoy'l
Cod Liver Oil Tablet* with Ihelr marveloui
vitamins A and D 1 «tarted to take them
rive yeari ago and t haven't had a sold
Once that time
McCoy' tablet* put new lite In fQlkg:
build up re*l*tance eo anyone ean laugh at
c Id germ* They make weak, iklnny people
Urong, (texdy-nerved aud vlgorou* "rtiey r*
*md rfull"
the genuine McOoy't Ood Uver OU
' from your druggltt today. Don't
ney on imitation*. Aak tor UoOoy**.
BETTER LIGHT... BETTER SIGHT
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ELECTRICITY t' ¡root
T . wiRftbaiiC-ement that a way
has been found to transmit direct
current over long distances more
economically than alternating cur-
rent is now transmitted may fore-
shadow a revolutionary change in
many ways.
Nikola Tesla's invention of the
alternating current motor was
what made possible; up to that
time, when only Edison's direct
current motor was available,
there was too much "leakage" of
current.
If direct current is substituted
merely money ¡for alternating, almost every piece
represents no ¡of domestic electric equipment will
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CONGRESS today
Representative Dewey Short of
Galena, Mo„ has made a strong bid ¡
for the word-slinging championship j
of the 74th congress. As a repub-1
lican who was elected to succeed
Democrat he feels entitled to say!
what he thinks, so he amused his j
Democratic colleagues the other
day by remarking in a speech on
the floor of the house that:
"This body has degenerated into
a supine, subservient, soporific,
superfluous, supercilious, pusillani-
mous body of nitwits."
Those are bludgeon-like words,
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The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 1935, newspaper, February 14, 1935; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth175143/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.