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THE NOLAN COUNTY NEWS, SWEETWATER. TEXAS. THURSDAY. NOV. 4, 1937
THE NOLAN COUNTY NEWS
PubliNbrd every Tbnrmday afternoon in Sweetwater, Tex**, by
THE WATSON-FOCHT COMPANY
321-23 Oak Street—Phone 2411
Entered as second clans matter February
Office at Sweetwater; Texas, under the art of March rt. 1879
By Mail in Nolan, Fisher,
and Runnels Counties
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National Editorial Associabon
LUTHER M WATSON
Manager
CHA8. GREEN
Editor
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News after it is brought to the ntlen-
About Diesel
Engines
A great deal is being heard, these days, about
Diesel engines but not many people know the dif-
ference between the Diesel type of engine and any
other.
The principle of the Diesel negine is that if you
compress the fuel of an internal-combustion engine
enough, it will heat up, from pressure alone, to tha
point of explosion. The ordinary gasoline engine
requires an electric spark to explode the fuel in the
cylinder. The Diesel engine needs i. electrical
equipment, no battery, no wires, no sparkplugs. It
can run on cheap fuel oil such as is used in oil-
burning furnaces—even on crude oil. Therefore, it
is economical in fuel, and in cost of upkeep
The Diesel’s handicap is its weight. It n is ex-
traordinarily strong cylinders to withstan i high
pressure. On ships and locomotives weig ’. ■ not
such a serious matter. On airplanes it is v< y ser-
ious; yet aircraft makers are experiment! r and
Views of Other Editors
All Prone To
Pull Boners
(Lubbock Journal)
Just how smart is tile smartest individual? Just
how prevalent is good judgment? Just how com-
mon is “common sense?”
Judging from a recent incident starring Benito
Mussolini and his son, Vittorio, the smartest of us
are dumb sometimes. To “slip a fog" in the exer-
cise of good judgment is an easy tiling.
Regardless of whether an individual personally
admires the Italian dictator or the principles of
government for which he stands, it must be admit-
ted that Mussolini is one of the smartest humans
on the face of the earth. Mind you, we say “smart-
est,” not brainiest or most intelligent. Yet the
Great Duce stumbled over his own think-tank the
other day, even as we lesser mortals are prone to
do.
Mussolini sent his son, Vittorio, over here to make
friends with American movie magnates, get their
sympathetic aid and assistance in connection with
Rome’s plan to enter the movie business on a great
scale. Further, Hollywood was arvised that there
would bo money in it for the Americnn film indus-
try if and when a similar setup could be worked
out in Italy.
Young Mussolini got himself off on the wrong
foot when he told Amc-i.an reporters that he had
“great sport" bombing helpless Ethiopians during
the Italian campaign in Africa, which immediately
resulted in his being socially boycotted by many a
Hollywood star. But that wasn’t the worst “bust.”
The worst one was made by 11 Duee, himself, who
picked out a time to fraternize with Jew-baiting
and persecuting Adolf Hitler at the precise moment
his son was attempting to cultivate the principal
figures in the movie industry, nearly all of whom
are Semites! As a result, Vittorio’s Hollywood visit
fli pped and, along with it, his papa’s plan to build
an Italian movie dynasty.
So the next time you see an ordinary citizen
a boner,” don’t hold it against him. The
Question for ^Armistice Day
THE REST OF
THE RECORD
By JAMES V. ALLRED
Governor of Texas
(EDITORS NOTE — Tke
following column written by
Governor James V. Allred, is
printed each week for it*
reader interest and does net
necessarily establish the
political views of this news-
paper.)
have built at least one successful Diesel-er>rined i
plane. The advantage in the air is that C. Diesel ’"pull
engine gets more power from a pound of low-grade j “big boys’ are vulnerable, too!
oil than a gas engine gets from a pound of iraso-
line, thus lessening the fuel load. Also, the nil is
not inflammable, so the danger of an airplane
catching fire is eliminated.
Light-weight Diesel engines arc coming int« use
for trucks. Motor manufacturers hold out hope
for a practcal Diesel engine for passenger ears. If
they get it, they promise fifty miles to the gallon
of oil. costing less tiian half as much per gall** as
gasoline—and no sparkplug or battery trouble.
That’s something to look forward to.
The Importance
Of Oil
Few people realize the part which oils and fat.s
play in the structure of world economies. Of! for
industrial or mechanical uses, but more particularly
oils and fats for food, are the objects of a never-
ending quest. Without an intake of food-fats
humanity would -eon perish.
Read ancient history and note how important the
edible fats were in ;ne early days of mankind’s de-
velopment. The animal and vegetable edible oils
are of prime importance still. Lard and tallow, cot-
ton-seed oil, peanut oil, and a great variety of other
vegetable oils are more in demand than ever be-
fore. Whale-oil is still an item of the first order in
worl dtrade. Palm oil from Central Africa is one
form of fat for which the demand grows steadily.
The age of machinery created a demand for
lubricating oils, and the application of gasoline for
motive power, by multiplying machines, not only
multiplied the market for ga-oline but at the same
time increased the demand for lubricants.
One use of lats and oils which is new in modern
. People wash themselves and their
an they did half a dozen centuries
“Thou Too,
Brutus?”
As I write this column the spec-
ial session has been over two days.
I regret exceedingly the unfortun-
ate outcome of the thirty-day
meeting of the legislators. The sad
and pitiful part of it is that
nothing was done to help the needy
people, the blind and our under-
priveleged children—notwithstand-
ing repeated exhortations and
warnings Not only that, but Texas
will lose several million dollars of
Federal funds to carry on this pro-
gram.
The people are confused and in-
dignant over the outcome. Certain
groups such as the representatives
of special interests apparently are
well contented with the report
brought me at the close of the
Legislature by the Senate notifica-
tion committee, which advised me
rather gleefully they “had dono
their work well.”
The question uppermost in the
minds of the people, however, is
“Who, or what, is to blame for
these lamentable conditions result-
ing in the failure to provide funds
j or the social security program?”
Conflicting statements have
.been issued since the session by
certain senators and house mem-
bers. Some of Liie people are un-
able to fix clearly the responsibili-
ty . Why?
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—In- of it, looks like a heavy load for a/strength and, especially, in convcy-
teresl here is divided between the voung man still under thirty. jing to him the precise facts about I The present two-house system
outlook for the special session off He must have almost unbeliev- conditions in the offices which are of the Legislature is made to order
Congress on Nov. l.r> and the ap-'able tact, for he will be dealing to report to him, he will be a de- 'for sly mamplation and buck pass
THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON
(Lynn County News)
It cannot be truly said that American cotton is
in as good shape today, after five years of the
“control” program, counting the plow-up, as it w'as
when the program was inaugurated. Yet, there
cidedly useful public servant.
Special Congress Faces Dilemma
As to the special session of Con-
[ irife' by shrewd parliamentarians.
Thi- is not the first session to end
with each house blaming the other.
the
pointment by the President of his [with much older men of wider ex-
son “Jimmy” as cooidinator of perienee and personal pride of
Federal commissions and bureaus. ■ position, who are good judges of
The heads of the 1H largest inde- men, and are going to be wary of press, Washington observers are j 1 he difference is that with
pendent and “emergency” govern-'the voungster until they have got j skeptical about its finishing any [changing and complex problems of
When the program was inaugurate.. ret mere ment agencies will hereafter re- his measure. Moreover, men like important part of the program of recent years this condition has
when the prog.am was lnauguiaiea. tt, ei James Roosevelt instead of Chairman Eccles of the Federal legislation for which the President'grown worse. Not all the mem-
are tnose who are proposing to continue the con- |Kranklhi D. Young Mr. Roosevelt Reserve Board; Harry Hopkins, called it. Mr. Roosevelt has asked jbers of either house are to be con-
trol program and to do nothing else. Is there any i .]( gjve ea’fh of them ha|f an hour Relief Administrator; Jesse Jones for a broader program of farm re- ien ned; yet, the good, the
reason to expect such a program to have any dif- |()f lime (mC(, a week jn which they of the R. F. C., and others, are lief, but accompanied that with an patriotic, the diligent, the sincere
are to tell him their troubles and not going to be put off easily when insiste nt demand that Congress members often find themselves
hriii"- up matters which seem to they want to see the President must find the money, without run-1condemned along with reactionar-
.all for Presidential decision. himself. They must feel that hisjning up expenses above income, ies and demagogues.
Through the medium of his son, [office door is open to them when (That means new taxes, and the I Lawyers will tell you that delay
the President will be kept inform- they feel it necessary to see him, igeneral tax revision bill cannot and time are the grea’cst aids to a
ed of the acts and problems of or they won’t play. j possibly be got into shape even for (mat. charged with crime. Delay
these agencies, saving a great I debate on the floor of Congress and time are likewise the most
deal of Presidential time and! The Chance Of A Lifetime I before the regular session begins powerful weapons that can be em-
included in
ferent result in the future? Is it not still true that
ueli a program must lead again to “a permanent
surplus and a final collapse of the artificially main-
tained piiee level?” Will not foreign production |
continue to increase so long as we continue to “con- j
trol” American production in this way? And will
not foreign consumption of American cotton con- I
tinuc to decline? We think so. And that is why
we believe Ihe “control” program should be aban-
doned.—Claude News.
When the Supreme Court declared the A. A. A.
invalid purely on constitutional grounds, not pass-
ing on the desirability of such legislation at all, the
editor of The Claude News denounced the members
of that great tribunal as traitors to the people and • t e ts
servants of the “money power,” and he has been Roosevc|t js
knifing the court in season and out of season ever
since. And now the News itself comes out in op-
position to the government cotton control program.
Did you ever? What in the world has come over
the spirit of your dreams, Mr. War-goner?
-o
,abor Something of the sort was Therefore, Washington is asking jn January. In the meantime, See- ployed to defeat progressive logs
the proposal for ad- ^an "nn1-' L away with it.’ rotary Wallace, sensing the lation system these weapons are
ministrative reorganization which he the capacity to understand ! political necessity of doing as readily available and freely cm
Mr. Roosevelt submitted to the ®n'.1 ab®0I'b tbe ‘ju! l,ns l)lac0<11 much for the corn fat mors as the ployed.
Congress early in the year. Inelud-, b^fore h>m, the skil present Government has done for the cot-1 During the past session the
od in that plan was a reeommenda- < m accurately and buerly to the ton growers, is searching with the people have witnessed a strange
• -- • President, and the personality to|:lj(] 0f tj,c Director of the ,,“'1—* Th» .........i —...... .......
appropriated
tion for six Executive assistants to
iccial session was
funds called for the purpose of raising
» use ox
is for soa
s more tl
The oils
;h are mo
. hie
i form the basis for paint and
f\ more in demand.
•i:- till use oil lamps than there
k lights.
perform for the President in all Ket answers and action? If he has for unused r............ .............
just what James suc*1 ability and such frankness which can be aplied to corn loans, 'revenues for the needy. A power-
now undertaking to that nobody can ever pin upon him | Cotton loans of 9 cents a pound |ful minority group declared no
do in 18 departments. jHie s*^n the double cross, he | have bene made to growers who ,taxes were necessary and employed
has the most brilliant opportunity j disregarded Federal warnings nad every artifice possible to defeat
Washington Likes “Jimmy” that could come to a young man [increased their acreage to produce!the purpose of the session. Certain
That “Jimmy,” as everybody in with ambitions about his ownja bumper crop and a huge sur-! newspapers criticize the call and
Washington calls him, will be able political future. He may easily be- plus. The corn growers, on the oth- advocated no taxes,
to do the job is generally believed, come a more significant and effec-jer hand, ’^cr^ased their acreage | Now that the session has ended
Since James Roosevelt quit his in- tive figure in the Federal Govern- j by ,ent this year at the we ;ind that the spokesmen for the
surance business in Boston a ment than most of its elected of- ur^ nsistcnce of the Depart- jsanie minority group and for the
couple of years ago to join his ficials and many of its appointed ment of Agriculture. With good same newspapers criticize the leg-
father in Washington, first as a judges. weather conditions the result is a hslaiurc for not passing a tax bill
sore of personal attendant in his The physical strain will be enor- corn crop of 2 1-2 million bushels,:—the very thing they said should
capacity as a Marine Corps reserve mous, but “Jimmy” has shown glutting the market. To enable not be done.
Credit For
Everybody
■ iTi cxp’M -ed ov • dac in-
by such a large proportion of
Men are mortgaging their
■av, by buying so many things
i: . that, in the minds of old-
all wrong. What if everybody
of his income should lose his
keep up his payments?
if everybody * their jobs at
dn’t make a y difference, for
uld be broke. But the serious
• f tr • y-tem of buying goods
is that it has been in opera-
te and has so much experience
• figures as exact as actual
Farmers Want
Their Share
(San Angelo Standard-Time*)
Texas farmers take that natural attitude that if
government benefits are to be passed around, they
want theirs—all they can get.
They unquestionably back the permanent farm-
benefit plan now being cooked up for the Nov. 15
session of Congress. iy among the newspaper corre-jtact and patience in full measure.
Texas leaders will have an important share in |spondents, with whom he is the He puts on no “side,” and makes a
shaping the legislation, and in pushing it through, most popular press representative decidedly pleasing impression upon
Texas produces from 25 to 33 per cent of the na- jthe President has yet had. News- I almost everybody who meets him.
.tion’s cotton crop. Texas has the chairman of the I paper men believe he will make And if he makes good in his new
j house committee on ag. multure, in which the acri- |good in a job which, on the face 'job of saving his fathers t.me and
ultural adjustment act will be perfected. It has
officer and for nearly a year now himself able to stand a lot. Over i farmers to carry their corn over! I shall have more to say later
as a reftularly appointed member;six feet tall, slender and sinewy, Mr. Wallace feels the Government cunverning this session,
of the White House secretariat, he has plenty of endurance. As a should lend them up to 45 cents a * * *
“Jimmy” has been making friends "double Roosevelt”—his mother bushel on warehoused corn, and 1 I he untimely death of Judge 0.
among politicians and administra- was born Rosevelt, the niece ofjUiat probably will be done. S. I.uttimore shocked the entire
live officials, who regard him ns “T. R.“ he has all of the charm White House Opposition Grows tat. , the beloved judge had serf
his father’s mouthpiece, and latter- and good looks of the family, plus I Politically, Congress seems like- •• /I with outstanding distinction on
other influential members ot Congress keenly con-
eel ned with this because they represent predomin-
antly agricultural districts.
The farmers have been reminded, and political
leaders still will remind them, that for a century,
manufacturers had government bounty in abundant
measure, in the price-fixing tariff, nowadays called
a pure sales tax whose revenues went to favored
groups.
Farmers want some of the benefits of t.he tariff,
but it som. too round-about to change the tariff
if a
can be predicted just how
number of instalment buyers | system that they propose to shortcut their demands
payment
* ^ v. mon, ana r.pnesiuus. oui ic-muu imci,, hi.
trade the experience is that loan system, where the payments of cash is auto- ^ ,g uken from thc second of ; Philemon. The other visitor was
on instalment purchase accounts is less I matic, regular and substantial.
;<iany
wiij f
In the aut
the los
than half of one per ent—about 50 cents on every
$100 note. About the same proportion holds good
id other lines commonly sold on instalments,
i time immemorial houses have been bought
and sold on instalment payments. Probably two-
thirds of nil furniture sold in he past 100 years
has been moved on the same basis. Why not, then,
buy other necessary r useful goods in the same
way? Most people f;nd it easier to pay off an obli-
gation than to “save up” for a cash transacting
into a direct acreage-control, crop benefit and crop
ly to be as self-willed and inde-jthe Court of Criminal Appeals for
pendent in the special session as it many years. Friends and close as-
was when the regular session ad- .sociates, as well as admirers from
journed. Most of the leaders resent'all walks of life, testified to the
being called into extra session and love and esteem in which Judge
are coming back to Washington j i.uttimore was held as they soi-
lless inclined than ever to follow a!eranly gathered to pay final
White House blue-print, for legis- |tribute to this distinguished son of
[lation. In the Senate, many here Texas.
I expect, there will be a strong ef- j Faced w ith appointment of his
[fort to replace Senator Barkley as successor, 1 chose Harry N. Graves
j majority leader and elect Senatorj of Georgetown who resigned from
ll’at Harrison in his place. Senator the Legislature to accept thc
, , Joe Robinson’s seat as Senator judgeship. He is one of the noblest
Christian Character and Peace, |two very different visitors remind- from Arkansas will be filled b> characters X have ever known.
Lesson for Nov. 7. Colos. 3:1-17. jfd him^of^the C^olmamn^house^o d Representative Joseph K. Miller, [Courageously and unselfishly]
CfS8o«
(T* by Ke»- Charles L. Diana.
.of faith. One of them was Oneis-
Golden Text: Colos. 3:lo. mus, a slave of Philemon, who had
During Paul’s first imprison-1 run aWay to Rome after robbing
ment in Rome, which lasted two!his master, and became Paul’s de-
years, he wrote four of his let- voted servant. It was he who in-
ters, Philippians, Colossians, Phile-[spired the briefest of the apostle’s
mon, and Ephesians. Our lesson • letters, the charming note
Portland Oregonian: A critic of our policy in the
Far East implores us to stand up for humanity. An
end seat in a crowded cinema is the place for this.
Detroit News: If the milliner says it’s a hat, her
guess is probably as good as a customer's.
One can disagree with thc whole present govern-
ment procedure, yet be in accord with the idea that
if government benefits are going to flow oh, the
hard-pressed farmers of Texas should get full con-
sideration—even a little the best of it to even up
for lean years of the oftcited favoritism to other
groups.
Washington Post: There seem to be two major
problems in writing a novel: (a) getting the story
started, and (b) getting It stopped.
A report from a well-known law school of the
State informs us that more women are taking up
law than ever before. But they’ll never be able to
take up more thUh they have laid down.—Leonard
Graphic.
Rome
just elected as an independent Judge Graves has served the peo-
Democrat over Governor Bailey, pie of his district and state for
who ran an out-and-out New many years. He is preeminently
Dealer. Senator Miller is expected j qualified for this great office anil
to vote with the anti-White-House while I regret his patriotic service
group on major issues. in the legislature will be ended, I
————o felt that his outstanding service
ATTENTION—We need 5,000 : an^ ^haratl<:r shou>d be rewarded.
I 1 ne appointment of a member
these, an epistle addressed “to the j Epaphras who came to
people of God and the believing evidently for the express purpose pounds or more butter a week.Lf The X “‘t‘maer
brethren at Colossae.” A town in [of discussing with Paul the spread ; Bring us your good cream. Home wa nn, ______
Phrygia or Roman Asia, on the1 at Colossae of certain strange Dairy Co., Sweetwater,
river Lycus, about a hundred miles | teachings hostile to pure Christian-
to the east of Ephesus, Colosae j ity. It was to combat these heretic- j
was destroyed by an earthquake in [ al doctrines, and to support the
the seventh year of the reign of authority and gospel of Epaphras
Nero. | that the apostle write his Colos-
Paul never visited Colossae, but;sian letter,
during his sojourn of three years j While a large part
at Ephesus one of his assistants,'argument in Colossians is difficult,
Epaphras, had carired on a suc-[even unintelligible there is much
cessful mission there. Moreover jof practical value ir. the eloquent
the apostle formed a warm friend- j passage chosen foi our lesson the
ship with Philemon, one of the [apostle advocates union with the
Colossian Christians, apparently a'risen, glorified Christ, stresses the
wealthy merchant, who visited j moral results of such a union, and
Ephesus occasionally in the con- insists that evil habits must give
was not without precedent. From
I he Forty-fourth Legislature, 1
-o--- I selected Sarah Hughes of Dallas
j*'0 a vacancy as district judge.
To a letter which questioned [She became the first woman judge
the efficiency of Ohama’s police [in tile history of Texas and her
[department. Police Commissionerisplendid record as district judge
of Paul’s ur'0? ' ^Cf,r ^*r: ^h00®!’- [has won the admiration and
duet of his business. Later while [way to a new nature that enshrines
dungeon llove, “the perfect bond of union.”
Paul was in his Roman
Richard W. Jepsen.”
claim of the Dallas bar.
Low Cost Life Insurance Issued
By Southwestern Life Ins. Co.
“Triple Option Policy”
Age 20 30 40 50
Per $1,000 10.44 12.33 15.49 21 55
JOE H. BOOTHE, Representativs
Registered Policies
We will sell for the balance due,
three pianos, one baby grand, one
studio upright and a Spinet!
grand now stored near Sweetwa-
ter. For information write G. H.
Jackson, Credit Manager, 1101
Elm Street, Dallas, Texas. 43-3t
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Green, Charles. The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 4, 1937, newspaper, November 4, 1937; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth560221/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.