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The Anvil Herald
Published weekly--Evury Friday—by
THIS FLETCHER DAVIS
PUBLICATIONS.
ANNE DAVIS, Editor.
MRS. ROBERTA 0. DAVIS,
Assis'mt Editor.
FLETt HER DAVIS,
Managing Editor.
Entered at the Postoffice nt Hondo,
Texas, as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Within Hondo’s trade area (Me-
dina, Atascosa, Frio, Uvalde, Ban-
dera and Bexar Counties) one
year ................................. $ ’
With Farming, both together one
ypQf ......... ..........................
Outside this area, one year $2.00
Witn Farming, both together one
year ....................................
HONDO, TEXAS, MAY 5,
1939
.{WASHINGTON
’snapshots .
by
James Preston
that the world fears will come.
—WSS—
Decision of the House Labor Com-
mittee to hold hearings on the Labor
Act amendments simultaneously with
the Senate Labor Committee had ob-
servers puzzled for a while last week.
But then the strategy behind the de-
cision began to show itself and the
story is simply this:
There had been no request for
hearings in the House (because
hearings were already underway in
the Senate) until a move was started
for a Congressional investigation of
the National Labor Relations Board,
which administers the I>ubor Act.
Immediately the CIO, the NLRB
and administration spokesmen began
scratching their heads for a way to
head off such an investigation. Fi-
nally, when it looked as though the
planned investigation might become
a reality, somebody hit upon the idea
of starting hearings on amendment
proposals.
The strategists reasoned that the
House would not be likely to under-
take hearings on both the amend-
ment and investigation proposals.
And it worked, for the time being
at least.
rion between the New Deal and con-
servative forces barking Vice Presi-
dent John Garner for the Democratic
nomination for next President, is a
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK
MARKET
Monday, May 1, 1939
story brought,to Austin by a promi- (Federal-State Market News Serv.)
nent Texan from the national capi- HOGS: Estimated salable and to-
tol. Charley Michaelson, publicity ta] receipts, 800. Market steady to
director of the Democratic national jqc iower than late last week. Trad-
committee, compiles periodically a jnjf was generally active. Top $6.00
file of reprints of newspaper edi- t() Bu interests for most good to
torials from all over the country, di- choice 170 to 250-lb. offerings. Good
viding them into two groups, those t0 choice 160 to 170-lbs. $6.40 to
“favorable” to the Democrats, and 140 to 160-lbs. $6.00 to $6.40,
those "unfavorable”. According to nn(1 250 to 300-lbs. $6.00 to $6.60.
the story, Garner noticed every edi- j>acking sows $5.50 down. Feeder
torial referring favorably to his can- pjKS a.ound $5.00 to $5.25.
didacy was grouped by Michaelson CATTLE, Estimated salable re-
win the “untavoiable” clippings. So cejpt, j,300, total 2,116; CALVES,
Garner called up Michaelson.
salable and total receipts 1,900. Re-
"Ain’t I the Vice President of the ceipts lighter and trading much more
United States, Charley?” he asked active than late last week. Killing
bluntly. Michaelson agreed. “Ain’t ] calves, cutter and good grades of
1 the Vice Chairman of the Demo-
e if tic National Committee—the
crowd that pays your $20,000' a year
‘-•alary?” he continued. “Yes, sir,"
agreed Michaelson. “Ain’t I the
Democratic National Committeemun
from Texas?” “Yes, Mr. Garner.”
“Then, why in the blue blazes is
cows 15 to 25e higher, plain and
medium cows about steady, most
other classes steady to strong, com-
pared with late last week.
Steers scarce. Most good fed
yearlings $8.50’ to $9.50, including u
load of 502-lb. steers at $8.50 a load
of 459-lb. heifers at $8.75, and a
1.1 per cent from February, 1938.
Employment in all non-agricultural
industries remained about the same
as in January, both in number of em-
ployed workers and totul pay rolls.
Both dropped slightly below Febru-
ary, 1938.
H. J. MEYER, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Res. Phone 80
JOHN H. MEYER, D. D. S.
General Dentistry
lies. Phone 47
WALTER B. MEYER, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Res. Phone 95
Officea Over Red & White Store
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The "pinions here expressed are
Mr. Preston’s own and not neces-|
sarily those of this paper. M. E. .
•NOBODY’S BUSINESS.’
every newspaper reference to me I truck lot of 936-lb. steer yearlings
classified as ‘unfavorable’ to thejat $9.50. A few 618-lb. fed Angus
Democratic party?” I yearlings cashed at $9.75. Plain and
According to the narrator, Mich-1 medium yearlings sold at $6.00 to
aelson is still trying to think up an 1 $8.00, some thin cutter kind’s, down
By
Julian Caper*, Jr.
PROGRESS IN REVERSE
For a half-dozen years the recov-
ery theory practiced in Washington
has been based on an analogy be-
tween the national economy and a
hand pump. That theory has been
that if a hand pump can be made to
work by priming it with water, the
national economy can be made to
The opinions here expressed are
the author’s own and not iM’oes-
sarily those of this paper.—M. E.
answer to Garner.
Oil Front Quiet*
The short-lived attempt of Rail
Commissioners Lon Smith and Jerry
Sadler to “take charge” of oil pro-
ration by leaving Commissioner Er-
nest Thompson, the admitted prora-
tion expert of the commission, out
of their counsels, came to a quick
AUSTIN, May 1, 1939.—Analysis
of the House taxation committee’s
substitute for Senate Joint Resolu-
tion No. 12—the constitutional
amendment which would freeze a 2
around $5.00 and below. Plain and
medium butcher cows $4.50 to $5 75,
good cows mostly $6.00 to $6,2.5,
few 1026-lbs. to $6.75. Piain and
medium bulls mostly $5.00 to $5.75,
odd head of good weighty bulls
around $6.00. Medium to good kill-
ing calves $7.50 to $8.50, few choice
lots of 364 and 396-lbs. to $9.00.
Plain calves sold around $5.50 to
function by priming it with dollars, j percent sales tax into the Constitu-
From the beginning of this expert- ■ tjon 0f Texav—gives a fairly clear
ment with the national economy, pjct,ure of why the House appears so
learned economists have warned that j re]uctanj_ to take it up for considera-
although priming might work on a tjon there was a mowing possi-
hand numo, it could not be made to j biljty at the week-end that no tax bill
pump Tecovery out of the Well. would come out of the regular ses-
And even the failure of the theory sjon
in these six years has not convinced j The genate constitutional amend-
(apparently) the^ experimenters that munt proposal would levy a two per-
end. After the salutory lesson Smith , $6_50i Rome thin li^-ht weight culls as
and Sadler learned when bankers, oil ■ ,ow ^ $., 00. Stocker calves sold
producers and business interests actively at 57.00 to $9.B0, choice
generally “turned the heat on and gteer cajves to 510.00, few to $10.50,
forced them to back down on their most heiferR out at $k.50 down,
discriminatory order hiking allow- Some plain rtocker calves sold down
able in hast Texas, and slashing com- around $6.00 and below. Few
peting fields, reinforced by an in- arnund 600-lb. feed steers $6.00.
junction from Federal Court, the. SHEEP: Estimated salable and to-
tw° commissioners solicited and ob- ta, rcceiptil> 200; GOATS, 200. Mar-
tained the counsel of Thompson this
week in writing a new 60-day order.
The new order calls for continuance
! of Sunday shutdowns, for Saturday
ket about steady. Shorn matured
wethers on feeder account at $4.00
down. Shorn 63-lb. feeder lambs
and yearlings $5.00, plain lambs
the analogy is a false one. I hey are
still pouring billions into the econo-
my pump with no more show of con-
cern than a farmer pouring a bucket
of water into a hand pump.
And what have been the rewards
of the priming theory? It is not
likely that anyone has bothered to
count the gallons of water pumped by
a primed hand pump, but the Nation-
al Industrial Conference Board has
published these figures after a study
of the primed economy pump: For
every $3 poured into the pump, only
$2 has been returned.
During 1934-38, inclusive, this
study finds, the administration has
increased the national debt by $14,
000,000,000. Those billions have
gone for pump priming. But instead
of causing a vast increase in the na-
tional income which, according to
these spend-our-way-out-of-debt ad-
vocates, should have resulted, the in-
come was only $9,000,000,000.
That is what a fisherman might
call “catching a two-pound fish, us-
ing a three pound fish for bait!”
—WSS—
A three letter word—WAR—dom-
inates the mail pouring in at the
Capitol. And this is one subject on
which there Is no division of opinion.
The American people don’t want it.
In many cases it is perhaps the
fitst letter some persons have ever
written to a Representative or a
Senator.
And it’s the kind of mail to which
Congress listens. Some is on scratch
paper probably taken from a school
tablet. But that makes no differ-
ence. Congressmen know it doesn’t
require expensive, gilt edged bond to
make expressions of this kind strong-
er.
The Secretary of one Senator es-
timates that of every four letters re-
ceived—three are pleas against war.
This is the sentiment being con-
veyed to Washington. And this same
cent retail sales tax, a similar levy
on utility bills to be paid by the cus-
tomer, and about a 25 percent in-
crease in present severance taxes on
natural resources. It would yield ap-
proximately $40,000,000 of revenue,
of which tne sales levies would yield
about $33,000,000. It would allocate
$20,000,000 of this for old age pen-
sions, and fixes this as a “ceiling”
above which future pension pay-
ments could never go. It would al-
so take care of the other social secur-
ity needs, including aid for depend-
ent children, the blind, and teachers’
pensions, at a total cost of about
$3,500,000 to $4,000,000. But—
and here is joker No. 1—it releases
from present pension revenues about
$10,000,000 now going to pensions
from liquor, cigaret and amusement
taxes.
Trade $4 For $1 ?
Thus, in order to provide an addi-
tional $10,000,000 for pensions, the
taxpayers would be required to pay
a n>-w tax bill of $40,000,000 an-
nually. The surplus would go to re-
lieve large special interests of State
ad valorem taxes, by extinguishing
the general fund overdraft, and oth-
erwise.
Joker No. 2 in the committee
amendment provides that the rates
provided in the amendment may not
be increased above the figures nam-
ed in the bill for pensions purposes.
The rates may be reduced ratably, if
too much revenue is produced. The
rates mr.t be increased above the
stipulated amounts if it is desired to
tax those same sources for other
state purposes. But nothing is said
about ratable increases for these
other “state purpooses”. Therefore,
in the future, it would be easy for
he Legislature to jump the sales tax
levy to 1 or 4 percent, without hiking
the natural resources taxes at all, if
more money were needed for the
general fund, for instance. That, of
L^.T„t*‘L.,inys0eaSLir”I,.*hL"' i $4.25. Shorn Angora goats $2.75
mains below the U. S. Bureau s mar- down. Lot of Spanish nannies $2.00
ket demand estimate, and generally head> Mime unsoid.
follows out the conservation policies
originated and practiced for the past; A total of 126.155 workers were
four years >y I hompson. The 01! in- employed in Texas manufacturing in-
dustry breathed a sigh of relief, and j dustries during February, an increase
rumors that a strong candidate to I of j er cent over January and 1.4
oppose Smith s re-election became per cent over February last year.
n^e’ Li'Vfu^ name o! ounty Judge Manufacturing pay rolls totaled $2,-
Rny Hoi fhetnz, of Houston, ex-legis-. 4y3 064 a ^ain of six-tenths of one
lator most often mentioned as cent over January but a drop of
Smith s opponent. I U._______________________
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sentiment is being expressed by course, is the purpose of the special
prominent people as well. Thesize j interests—to do away entirely with
VIIIMIVM. J' I' • - —” - ■ ■ ” ** J VIHIIV (J Willi
of the pocketbook makes no differ-1 state ad valorem taxes eventually,
ence in the love for peace and hate through remissions and repeal bills,
of war. | and when such abolition of real
Among these protests, those from property as a source of State reve-
businessmen are stronger than any. | nue is accomplished, they hope to
One prominent businessman, the put the entire State tax burden on
president of the world’s largest the small mcome group by hiking tne
group of manufacturers, said recent- sales tax rate.
“I want to make it perfectly plain
that American industry has no stom-
ach for war. The colossal expendi-
tures on UNPRODUCTIVE arma-
ment, it is true, would give added
employment and temporary stimulus
to our prosperity, but at such a cost
in human lives, suffering and DIS-
LOCATION of our future economy
as to be a tragic bargain indeed. We
have learned by bitter experience
that peace—not WAR—hath her vic-
tories for industry.”
Best opinion in Washington is that
as long as the sentiment against war
continues to pour in from the peo-
ple, America won’t become involved
even if war comes. Congressmen,
like their constituents, have sons.
They don’t want war either. And
just as long as their constituents are
back of them, they won’t vote for
war.
—-WSS—
And Washington is having addi-
tional troubles as a result of the Eu-
ropean turmoil. In fact, it is down-
right embarrassing for some offici-
als. Center of the new worry is the
$20,000 mosaic floor of the new mul-
ti-million dollar Post Office Depart-
ment Building. The mosaic is a
large map of the world.
When the floor was laid about 4
years ago, Austria, Albania and
Czechoslovakia were countries in Eu-
rope. Today they are only memories
of maprnakers. The mosaic, how-
ever, is a map that cannot be alter-
ed. Austria, Albania and Czechoslo-
vakia appear in bright colored stones.
Officials don’t know whethi r it is
best to tear up their fUO.OOO orna-
ment or let time and shuffling feet
wear out the boundary line*—or
Wouldn’t End Agitation
The House anti-sales tax bloc
stood fast and refused to set the
Senate amendment for special order,
either last Saturday or last Tuesday.
Many observers questioned the abil-
ity of the sales taxers ever to get
100 votes for the scheme in this
House, despite the teirific pressure
from the sales tax members, the
.pecial interest lobby the Governor,
and other sources which are carry-
ing the flag for thp special interests.
That the special interest lobby
program would never satisfy the old
folks, even if it were enacted seems
apparent. Liberalization of the pen-
sion restrictions to the extent of re-
moving the ability of children to
support their parents as a factor in
determined need, it is estimated, will
add only about 35,000 to the rolls,
leaving nearly 100,000 oldsters now
off the rolls still off. And the
House has clearly indicated twice
that it doesn’t want to go any furth-
er in liberalizing the requirements.
So the claims of the sales? taxers that
they will settle the pensions agita-
tion seems absurd, since the plan
would leave 100,000 old folks off
the rolls to complain and agitate in
the future, just as they have in the
past. The net result of the lobby
cheme, if the people were to adopt
it, would be to raise pension pay- *
ments from an average of $13 to1
about $18, for a while at least, un-1
til the increasing rank* of the pen-
ioners forced a cut to prorutc the
$20,000,000 and to add about 35,-
000 not now on the rolls. The House
em- to think $10,000,000 is too big
price to pay for the small benefit
If your car strikes a pedestrian,
the odds are 1 to 5 that you will kill
HIM.
If your automobile is involved in
a train collision, the odds are 2 to 7
that someone will be killed, and if
the accident is fatai, the odds are 3
to 4 that you, the driver, will be
killed.
If you lose control of your car and
overturn, you invite death 1 out of
7 times.
Observe no-passing stripes, warn-
ing signs and signals and STAY IN
YOUR LANE, CLEAR OF STRIPE,
EXCEPT WHEN PASSING. Colli-
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