The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 20, Ed. 1 Monday, July 17, 1939 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Monday, July 17, 19 J
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN
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Afternoon by The Shamrock Texan
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WAR GROWS MORE
SAVAGE WITH
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acter, standing or reputation of any per-
son, firm or corporation, which may ap-
pear in the columns of this paper will be
gladly corrected upon due notice being
given to the editor personally at the office
at 407 North Main St., Shamrock, Texas.
War is savagery at best.
It is idle to hope that it can ever
be played like a game of football,
with penalties for infractions of the
rules. It always was, and always
will be a reversion to the brute.
True, there have been chivalrous
gestures in war, and many of today's
feelings about war date back to dim
recollections of stories of past days
when sometimes men showed decent
instincts even in the heat ol battle.
Even when the World War broke
out, there were still some canons ol'
what a soldier could do and still be
true to the traditions of the "pro-
of arms.''
For instance, it seems hard to be-
lieve today, but when more than
160,000 troops locked In the death
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OUT OUR WAY
-Rv .1. R. WILLIAMS
Views of Contemporaries
"The old idea used to be if one | coat to town but when they jumped
could not make five dollars a clay j lo twelve or fourteen, then boy you
to take four; if he couldn't take
lour to get three; if he couldn't
get three to take two, just so he
kept busy and earned something.
Strange as it may seem, people got
along under such a system and lived
with u reasonable degree of hap-
piness. Nowadays, the system is that
if you are earning five dollars a day
struggle that swept for three days, you should demand six, and if you
THE ARNOLD
TRUST-BUSTING THEORY
GETS ITS TEST
About a year ago, Thurman Arn-
old was appointed head ol the
“trust-busting division" of the De-
partment of Justice.
Arnold in two books, "The Folk-
lore of Capitalism" and “Symbols
of Government,” had put forth some
very inconclastlc ideas. He main-
tained that all moralistic approaches
toward the problem of combinations
in restraint of trade were wrong.
There never was any use. Arnold
contended, in getting morally fever-
ish about the “evils of the bad
trusts,” or the “bogie of bigness.’
Modern business must be big. and
so long as that bigness was brought
about by the need for more effective
functioning, it was all right. Bigness
was only deplorable when it actually
and in fact dammed up the channels
of trade by placing unnatural and
illegal restrictions in it.
The proper approach was to dis-
regard the moral side; to consider
only the practical results on the
ultimate consumer. If a big compa-
ny actually could deliver the goods
cheaper and better to the consumer,
never mind the size. And if a little
one was conspiring to obstruct trade
and hold prices up, size had nothing
to do with it.
Arnold was caustic in his books
about former anti-trust crusades,
maintaining that when the moral
temperature had gotten back to
normal everything went on as be-
fore. and while the consumer might
have gotten a moral thrill out of
the belaboring of the "big boys." he
wound up right where iie was before
—behind the economic eight-ball.
A year has passed, and Arnold
has not yet given any very convinc-
ing demonstration of his theories in
practice. Now, however, he is pre-
paring to go to the mat with the
most inflated of them all the
building industry.
He has 140 lawyers in his division;
will soon have 200 Six years ago
there were 18. With this legal arm-
ament, he has announced an of-
fensive on all fronts against build-
ing costs.
Where Arnold's attack differs
from those of the past, is that he
plans to assail every angle of the
situation at once. He will go after
the producers of materials, distrib-
utors, financiers, contractors, labor,
and legal restraints, using simul-
taneously a half dozen means of
procedure. This he will do so that
all elements may alike feel the
sweating-out which he proposes to
apply to the whole industry.
This is a gigantic undertaking.
Everybody knows it costs too much
to build a house. Everybody con-
cerned with building points to the
other fellow and says. "Honest,
mister, it ain’t me. It’s him.”
Now Arnold proposes to put the
whole crowd in the sweatbox to-
gether and see what can be done
with a sort of universal reducing
program. If this can be done in so
universal a way as not to handicap
or harm one group beyond another,
results might be obtained which
would reduce • building costs, which
remain like a granite barrier against
the building boom which the coun-
try so urgently needs.
Arnold has propounded a fine
theory. He has been given facilities
to try it out. The country awaits
the results.
across the little Pennsylvania vil-
lage of Gettysburg, only one civilian
was killed. That was Jenny Wade,
u housewife struck by a stray bullet
while at her household tasks.
You have only to measure that
against the Spanish or Chinese wars
to realize what a terrible change
lias come to warfare in the 76 years
since Gettysburg. The bombing and
starving of civilian populations, men,
women, and children is now accept-
ed as commonplace of all warfare, |
and every country whicli has war
plans at all (which means every
major country) lias plans whicli in-
clude these measures.
Further, the steady rattle of rifle-
fire in Spain, long after the war is
over, as the proscribed Loyalists fall
beneatli the avenging rifles of Fran-
co, shows what may be expected
now (hat class hatreds 1ms been
added to the olden horrors of war
itself. It would almost certainly have
been the same had the Loyalists
won. only with a different roll of
victims.
Yet, as Herbert Hoover pointed
out. "human courage rises far above
any terror yet invented." The fact
that any romantic aspects war may
have had are outmoded, does not
make the world’s leaders less ready
to resort to it.
Surely one can hope that some
will listen to the proposals of the
former President that food ships be
allowed to run blockades, and that
bombings be confined to military
objectives. They are not the pro-
posals of an idle dreamer, but of a
man who has had as great experi-
ence with this phase of war as any
man living.
Perhaps making such rules for the
grim game of war is not practicable
today, when all the old rules have
been abolished. Perhaps we are back
to the days of Gengis Kalin.
If so well-intended a humanitar-
ianism as Hoover's meets nothing
but sneers and shrugs, we will have
all the more reason to fear that it
is so.
--o—
America's largest salamander, the
hellbender, reaches a length of two
feet and is good to eat.
don't get it, you should strike and
disrupt things and keep everybody
eLse from working that you can.”—
PURCELL (Okla.i REGISTER.
better gel ready for rain. — Dick
Cooke in CLARENDON NEWS.
“The editor of an exchange ad-
dresses a communication to a dis-
satisfied citizen as follows: 'When
you were a boy you wouldn't study;
when you were a young man you
wouldn't try to improve yourself in
a trade or business, and now that
another man is doing better than
you are. you yell that there is some-
thing wrong with the social system.
The social system is all right.Tlic
trouble is that from the very first
you trained yourself to become a
bum.' "—CONCORDIA KANSAN.
During my salad days when all
sorrow was mixed with a double
portion of pain, and happiness
grew two fragrant buds where now
grows one, I cherished a speaking
acquaintance with a certain prom-
inent man. After talking with him
on the street I have glanced at my
reflection in the plate-glass win-
dows with the hope of seeing some-
thing. about my personality to war-
rant his interest. Three years latei'
I learned he was a prospect-scout
for a successful life insurance agent.
Douglas Meador in matador
TRIBUNE.
Remember those Dime Chain let-
ters? Thank goodness, they are
gone, but they stand to be replaced
by another chain letter, which
seems much more practical. C. C.
Eyes Of Texas
Farmers iurned
To Washington
COLLEGE STATION, — Eyes
Texas farmers this week turned
Washington. D. C . where recom
mendatlons for the 18-10 Agricultural
Conservation Program of the AAA
were to be shuffled on the confer-
COPR. 1939 BY NEA SERVICE. INC.
V T. M PfC U V, PAT OFF
BORN THIRTY YEARS TOO SOON
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P..................................................................V. During the last six months of
1937. miscellaneous aircraft opera-
tors flew 57.930,405 miles and car-
ried 940.101 passengers.
Farm Clubs
Bowman last week received a Fam- I<nee table.
ily Chain Letter. It started by his From Texas went George Slaugh-
mother's folks, the Lehmans, and
continued 20 letters when it got
here. Each letter gave a brief His-
tory of the person and contained
several snapshots. Mr. Bowman in-
cluded his own letter and mailed it
on out. He said he had never heard
of some of the relatives, and others
he had not seen since lie was a
small child. The postage on the let-
ter was 9c. but he seemed to get
$50 worth of kick out of it.—Jimmy
Gillen tine in HEREFORD BRAND.
Although tney may deny it. every
West Texan has his "rain sign" but
for the most unique we have ever
heard is the cornesizes-bunionosis
svstem practiced by druggist George
Norwood.
While in an idle conversation last
week-end. George, without a word
of warning, says “boys its going to
rain before Monday.”
Alter a light shower we prevailed
upon George to let us in on the
secret and after much coaxing he
aid (and this is really the truth)
that when his corn and bunion pad
sales ran three or four boxes a day
(here was no use of bringing a rain-
ter. chairman, and C. L. Thomas,
member of the State Agricultural
Conservation Committee, and E. N.
Holmgreen. state AAA administrat-
or. to discuss suggestions for the
coming year with representatives of
nine southern states.
Slaughter carried instructions
from his thirteen-man committee of
farmers and ranchmen to urge,
among other things, the inclusion of
home gardens among soil-building
practices aided by Triple-A funds.
“The committee feels," lie said,
"That stimulating in this manner
the practice of gardening for home
consumption would pay dividends in |
health and morale many times
worth the cost.
Other Texas recommendations, lie
reported, aim to increase the effect-
iveness of the JAA as a soil-build- j
ing agency; improve relations be - 1
tween landlords end tenants; add 1
flexibility to ibr ruie of aereag" a'-
1
According to the authorities, a
automobile burns more gas per mil
in cold weather than in the warme
months.
The Center Sunshine Home Dem-
onstration club met July 13 at the ‘
home of Mrs. Tom Wright. A de- j
bate was given by Mrs. Johnnie1
Burrel and Mrs. Pete Rives on i
“Should Roosevelt Run for a Third
Term.” Alter the debate a round
table discussion was given by the
club.
A talk was made by Mrs. Hester
Dodson on disease of poultry. The
next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. W W. Poole and all
women of the Center community
are urged to attend.
BILL BOOSTER "tyW.H.OMS) WALKER
t HAVE A SURPRISE,
SWEETHEART-
THERES GOING TO BE
A NEW MEMBER
I lotmeiits; speed up the distribution
! of checks.
Tire ideas were compiled from a
questionnaire circulated among
county AAA committee-men all ac-
tive fanners.
Holmgreen outlined (he difficulty
of p'rtsing everyone, cn account of
>0 mr.m conflicting answc
BE SMART AND JOIN
THE EVER GROWING
FAMILY OF SATISFIED
CUSTOMERS
WHO TRADE Wl FH
WHMOWALKER
•’INSUBANCE"
This agency was founded with the idea of
rendering insurance service of exceptional
An earthquake causes tremors to
travel over the earth In the same
manner that i stone, dropped into
n pool causes waves to
the surface
but sal
w nt h he
veral day
thej cou
thoroughness to thoughtful property own- j
you no more. Why 1
ers. Such service costs
not investigate?
id with
travel over j ferenee will br
’ lure, he said.
the Was1 r
of v proiin
m
5Trc£T
ALLEY OOP
—By VINCENT IIAMLIN
GOSH —
IS THAT
GOOD OR
SHE'S
DEAD
AS A REWARD FOR. SERVICES
HE RENDERED A TEST PILOT IN
DISTRESS, ALLEY OOP IS TAKING
HIS FIRST AIRPLANE RIDE...
WHICH, RIGHT NOW, MIGHT WELL
BE HIS LAST
SVQMpoe.
WELL,
IN THAT
CASE —
The More Folks You Tell
The More Goods You Sell
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 20, Ed. 1 Monday, July 17, 1939, newspaper, July 17, 1939; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528579/m1/2/?rotate=0: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.