The Hondo Anvil Herald. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1935 Page: 8 of 9
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KI.EZTC'liER'S STATB RIGHTS FARMING
N’ov»*mb€*r, 1935
A DEFECTIVE CHART.
We have arrived at an undesirable
state in our National life. We are
shipwrecked in a stormy sea, and our
chart is not clear and distinct. Our
Constitution was our chart whose di-
rections we have been following, but
we have steered upon rocks and
whirlpools. If that chart was a wise
one why this sad end? Was there
something wrong with the chart? Or
was there something wrong with our
Supreme Court methods of interpre-
tation?
Is our Constitution written in
vague language capable of two mean-
ings? If so, we need a new Consti-
tution for simplification. Or has
our Supreme Court in the past been
affected by local prejudices that
blinded them to the real wording of
the Constitution?
Any way you take it, we have gone
wrong and have come to a bad state
of things. Something must be done,
and it is clearly the duty of congress
to maite the corrections. It is the
whiter s candid judgment that the
powers of the Supreme Court, and
the powers of Congress were not
clearly and sufficiently defined; and
hence, the powers of private individ-
uals and private corporations have
encroached upon the proper powrers
of Government.
Our Constitution did not do some
things that it should have done, or
else we would have steered a differ
ent course from the one we have
travelled. W« need some amend-
ments.
For example, the currency, or
money function is the most impor-
tant function in any Government.
Nothing plays so important a part in
all business transactions as the part
that money plays. It is the one most
important element in private, Nation-
al or international dealings; and yet
our Constitution does not even de-
fine money; and currency, or paper
money, is not mentioned in it at all.
It does not give our trea.-ury any au-
thority to issue paper money.
The Constitutional idea of money
is of the vaguest sort—very impor-
tant, but mentioned only in a very
vague way. What does it say? It
says: “Congress shall have power to
borrow money”, presumably from
private individuals. What else? It
says: “Congress shall have power to
«oin money”, presumably again for
private individuals.
Not a word in the Constitution that
gives our treasury the right to coin
or print money for Government use
The term “coin money” at the time
the Constitution was made, had only
one meaning, and that was to meh
up metals and mould them into pieces
called money. Now then, what have
we? A Constitution that gives to
Congress the power to “borrow
money and to “coin’’ money, and yet
that same Constitution makes no at-
tempt to tell what money is, or who
may control its distribution. Very
vague, very defective!
The greatest function of Govern-
ment is left to be usurped by some-
body, o/ some power outside the
Government. No wonder we have
made a final tragedy of our Govern-
ment. Our chart is defective. We
need some revision and amendments
defining money and designating just
who may issue and control paper
money and National credit. Con-
gress, without further delay, should
lead out on this question of amend-
ing the ( onstitution, defining more
clearly the powers of the Supreme
Court and the pow-ers of Congress in
the issuing and distribution of
money.
P. A. SPAIN
Paris, Texas.
CLARIDGE’S COUNTRY TALK
BV R. R C1.ARIDGE
the game of “fu-
its "steben come
They may talk of
tures”, with
leben” shots;
But the game that bi ings the bacon
home, is the little old game of
“spots”,
And the man who stays in the cotton
game, in New Orleans or New
York,
Should take his shots at the game of
“spots” or quit and go to work.
—CCT—
If the farmers ever get together in
a stand-up-and-knock-down fight for
what is coming to them for what
they produce, they will get more help
than heretofore; as the small busi-
ness interests of the towns are com-
ing to know that they are being rob-
bed by the sanu' system that has, for
the longest, had the farmer working
for nothing, and boarding himself.
—CCT—
If the farmers do not know enough
to cellectively price their production.
played into the hands of the ex-
change gamblers by an early-in-the-
soa^on over-estimate of the extent of
the crop, and after the gamblers had
gotten the bulk of it on basis of the
over-estimate, the federal depart-
ment accee.led to the lower estimate
of the Texas state department: that
is, under the administration of Fred
Davis and Geo. IJ. Terrell.
—CCT—-
Under the present administration
of the department, the less said about
it the better. But the whitewash
brush has been very busy of late. You [
see if said administration ha- been j
playing second fiddle to the federal- i
state “parcis”, the pressure of the j
latter to get rid of the only ELECT-
ED state department, may not he so
strong as under Davis and Terrell.
—CCT—
Finally, and very important, as to
the e< inomic mess the nation is in.
the greatest danger is the very pat-
lure not finely tampered to icivc
yourself up to things which, relate to
the body, to make a about ex-
ercise. walking and riding—what you
eat and drink.” The-e words ex-
, ue-seti by the great Franklin and
the philo-opher Hpictitus are worthy
of being pondered by us Americans.
Indeed, are not eating, drinking,
dressing, playing, bailing topics of
conversation at the present day in
this country? Could we be offend-
ed if we were called epicurians? Our
bodies are alw-ays clamoring for
something. Our eyes, ears and appe-
tites aru never satisfied and our
,-‘iuls are neglected and permitted to
starve We have no time to listen to
the sublime words of Christ,“Seek
first the Kingdom of God and Ills
justice and the rest will be given un-
to you.”
as does everybody else, the next | l‘nt fact that the neck-and-beljy trust
Louise Lan, 4-H club girl of Jarre!,
in Williamson county, planted 11,998
feet to 21 varieties of vegetables in
her work as garden demonstrator
She estimates the value of the pro-
duce used fresh and canned for home
u*c to be $127.32. The expense of
the garden was $11.21.
best thing would seem to be for the !
government to do it for them, j
Sounds rather too socialistic to please
an old line Democrat; hut we appear
to be approaching, if not crossing,
the border of socialism, which, by ,
the way, is the mildest form of what
he gold-bugs call radicalism.
—CCT—
Come to think, even as to cotton, j
the government has fixed the price j
at 12 cents, or about double what it
was selling at prior to such stahiliza-
dominating it, appears to have but
slight knowledge of the dire condi-
tion of the farmers, or what very
soon will have to be done about it.
In short, the N.-and-B.-T. is too far
away from the farmer, hi.-- problem,
pi edit ament and temperament; and
too full of ea‘s and drinks to care
as much as i- safe for the country
right now.
—CCT—
The coming-grown boys are talk-
ing politics and talking ugly; while
the farmers generally are awaking
tion. and which did not work so bad- j to the fact that they have come to bt-
ly for the grower; though 12 cents little better than slaves, under the
■ s only about half the cost of pro- , robber system starte i long year- ago.
during the staple, by the lowest fed-
eral estimate I have ever seen.
There have been higher cost esti-
mates by the Texas and other State
Agricultural Departments.
—CCT—
And it is noteworthy that in near-
ly, if not quite every instance, where
the U. S. Agricultural department
MUS1NGS OF A MINISTER.
From the unpublished
writings of the late
Rev. Raymond Vernimont.
St. Paul, 1 Corinthians, 23, says:
‘And if I should distribute all my
goods to feed the poor, and if I
hould deliver my body to be burned,
nd have not charity it profiteth me
othing.” Charity is the key needed
o open the gates of heaven. The or-
hodox faith will not save me if I
ack charity. This law holds good
or poor and rich, king or beggar,
ishop or lawyer. And this charity
oust be universal. The Catholic
lust love the non-Cathoiic. The white
nan must love the black and yellow
nan. No power on earth can abro-
ate that law. The Divine law is
Love God above all things and your
eighbor as yourself.” That neigh-
>or is in Japan, China. Africa and
n all places where human beings are
'ound. May all of us ati the begin-
:ing of a new year begin to obey this
>ivine command. On this depends
our eternal salvation. Would there
->e wars or depressions if the law of
eharity towards all human beings
wa.s practiced? This is a tremendous
question. (Written in December
1934.)
M M
Robert Boyle says: “I think myself
obliged, whatever my private appre-
hensions may be of the success, to i
my duty and leave events to their j
” President Roosevelt j
and getting worse nil the limit has
been reached. A r< volution from this
system is bound to come, and the
nation is up to it. Good citizens
would, of ci :rso, prefer that it
should come peacably, by ballot, and
hope the powers that be wake up in
time to save this people from God
knows what.
Dispenser.
we have a religious man at the head
of our government in these days of
ci isos. What would be the conse-
quence if an atheist or a K. K. K.
was in the Presidential chair? As
iong as the President walks with God
this nation does not lose hope and
works for better things. It i- a bless- i the farmer,
ing that our people who are in dis-
tress learn the lesson of patience in
’he expectation that President Roose-
velt will soon find some way of com-
ing to their relief May 1935 be the
year which has the gift for the 10,-
000,000 unemployed American citi-
zens. God grant it. (Written in De-
cember 193-i.
M M
Shakespeare compost'd this prayer:
“O Lord, Who londest me life, lend
me a heart replete with thankful-
ness.” All of us should repeat that
prayer each day. Is it not a fact
that all of us are guilty of ingrati-
tude towards our heavenly Father. j may live in idleness.
Mho gives us life and supports it?
Is life not a great gift? A free gift
■ince God is in no need of us. Is it
not a great gift to be a human be-
ing created after God’s image and
likeness, destined for an eternal life
when this life is ended? Ingratitude
is offensive to Our Heavenly Father.
When Christ was on earth He cured
10 lepers, only one returned. Then
the God-man asked this question:
“Were not ten made clean?” The
spirit of gratitude is not. an Amer-
ican virtue. We have no time to
say “Thank you”. Children at horr *
and in school should be taught these
two words, ‘‘Thank you”. They mean
a great deal for the welfare of so-
ciety.
M M
Benjamin Franklin says: “Fat and
IN REPLY.
Our mutual friend, Robert Tail
Phillips, seems to dis agree with some
statement of mine which he construes
to mean “strict economy”, and a- ks
“what else have you to offer?”
Thanks! This is what I would offer,
if possible to be found— MEN, who
would run Governmental affairs with
the same thoughtful economy, and
honesty which they would use in run-
ning their own, personal affairs, I
.-ay ECONOMY with this fact in
mind.
Some ten years ago in our own
immediate vicinity were several
families who were making consider-
able money. A part of them bought
as they could pay strictly cash, iaid
by in securities (for a rainy day,
which came all too quickly) w'hile
a few others bought radio's, waaiang
machines, lighting plants, automobiles
and furniture as well as farm ma-
chinery ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.
Today, of those installment buyer.-,
every one, has lost his farm as well
as ail of the accessories bought on
installment plans, and are doing re-
lief work, in some of the various
alphabetic New Deal projects. Of
these who bought and PAID as they
went, all are still holding on—al-
though tile New Deal presses them
mighty hard in taxes to support the
extravagant buyers of anti-depres-
sion days.
The new laws are such that most
farmers in this section find it dif-
ficult to dispose of anything of farm
produce—the potato control law be-
ing one which might be typical of
ALL made in recent years to HELP
The tax eats up entire
profit and cost of production, long
before it reaches consumer.
Another method which might be
used with success, AFTER MEN
TRAINED FOR HONEST BUSI-
NESS were placed in control of gov-
ernmental affairs, is this—SEE that
aliens DO NOT vote at the polls—
see that convicted criminals are de-
prived of their vote. I KNOW that
criminals convicted of crime are al-
lowed to return to mingle their vote
with the vote of others, AND ALSO
that the man or the woman who pays
only a poll tax is allowed to vote
taxes on the property owner that they
must have seen these words since he drink such an exact quantity as suits
abides by them. He tries to do his the constitution of the body in n f: r-
duty as he, sees it and leaves the rest ; ei “nee to the service of the mind.”
to God It is a greaf Messing that j Epictitus says: “It is a sign of a na-
One more thing I would wish to
mention in this article which must
for la< k of time be short is: Are all
our readers cognizant of the fact
that within our borders are 7,000,-
U00 aliens, who have never taken al-
legiance to the United States. Many
of these are Communists. Should
these aliens be allowed to remain
here, fed by the toil of the American
citizens, many of them who are not
on relief working at jobs any honest
American would be GLAD to do,
rather than take dole.
SHOULD THEY NOT BE DE-
PORTED or made to TAKE ALLE-
GIANCE to the country from which
they take their bread and their chil-
dren’s education? In these perilous
times we need citizens who have
faith in God, and the faith of our
fathers, and WE need more faith in
our citizenship, and friends, and
friend, Phillips, WE need an all
abiding FAITH in GOD, and a wil-
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Davis, Fletcher. The Hondo Anvil Herald. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1935, newspaper, December 6, 1935; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth565044/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hondo Public Library.