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THE PADUCAH POST
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938
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THE PADUCAH POST
Published Each Thursday
E. A. Oarlock, Editor and Owner.
Entered as second-class mail matter May 11, 1906, at
the Postoffice at Paducah. Texas
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EASTER SEAL SALE
Committees appointed by J. 1). Wilson, chairman of the
■rippled children's Easter seal campaign in Paduaeh, be trail
their work on last Friday. This seal sale is sponsored by the
Texas Society for Crippled Children, and fund raised locally
»vill supplement state funds, which will be used for caring for
children who have been strikeu with infantile paralysis or
tvho are crippled.
In other words, in Texas, Easter time is Easter seal time
—crippled children seal time, Paducahites can help to make it
rejoicing time for crippled children in Texas by investing as
milch as we can in “a better life for crippled children . these
attractive seals are labeled: "A Better Life for Crippled Chil-
dren". They mean just that, for the money you pay for them
helps further the care, cure, education, and prevention of
crippled children. Many many youngsters need all these things,
i»nd more, than can possibly have them with the funds now
■available. All types of crippled children are eligible for the
services of the Texas Society ofr Crippled Children—infan-
tile paralysis, congenital deformities, birth injuries, accidents
md crippling as a result of disease—requiring only that they
come from poor homes where parents are unable to provide
the service otherwise.
Every youngster in Texas with a crooked body deserves
a chance to be straight and strong. Easter seals help to give
J*hn tha> chance. And please, don't just buy seals -use them
rOur letters or in other ways to arouse the interest of other
people in this humanitarian work. If you haven't been asked
so buy. persi pally or hv mail, don't make that an excuse for
not helping. -lust send your check or currency to the Texas
Society for Crippled Children at Dallas, and you'll receive all
The Easter seals you want, at .just a penny each.
Have you bought your Easter seals—your crippled chil-
dren seals?
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CLOTHES AND CARS
If vou'd Like to know what the average family does with
its income when father gets a raise, then lend your ear a mo-
.orient to the result of a survey recently completed in a half-
dozen mid-western states. A poll was taken throughout Penn-
sylvania. Ohio, Michigan. Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa to
determine as nearly as possible how the average family, just
about the same type of families around Paducah deal out their
money for food, clothes, shelter, automobiles, medical care,
and so on.
And the most interesting things revealed by the figures,
now that they have been tabulated, is the admission of those
>vhose incomes are the lowest that when they do get a little
4-xtra money they spend it for food and clothing. But when
all of them are bunched together and the census is considered
as a whole, it is found that the most decided increase in
spending goes on the family ear -even more on the car than
r.hey spend < n clothing. For incomes between $2,000 and $2,-
~»<jO, for example, food costs according to the survey took
thirty-one per cent, the auto nineteen per cent, housing and
■lothing, eleven per cent, and so on.
The car is used to take the whole family out for pleasure
rips drives into the country and on vacation jaunts. This all
kts: its good effect on health, education, and mental stimulus.
1; is also used very widely to carry workmen to and from
heir work. There is a parking lot as big as a farm outside the
Ford plant at Dearborn, Michigan. So the American family
a.r is not all luxury by any means, though it may look so to
millions of middle-class persons in other lands to whom a
or is a dream far beyond realization.
peetation of a big price rise must be worked off and this will
take time. Speculative commitments must be liquidized and
this cannot he done overnight. Though there are those who
demand that something be done, it would be well for them to
remember that every depression passes sooner or later.
The fact that the House Banking and Currency Committee
has decided to drop that feature of the Patman bill calling
for Government ownership of the Federal Reserve Banks and
to concentrate on a mandate to the governors of the Federal
Reserve to raise the price level until full employment of all
persons able and willing to work has been achieved, is a good
trick if it can be achieved.
The unsettled condition in Wall Street is understandable.
There is not enuogh business to go around and this accounts
for the continual dissolving of certain houses and the merging
of others.
MAKE THE CARELESS PAY
If an auto driver is careless, he has to pay for the prop-
erty lie destroys If railroads are careless, they must face dam-
age suits. If buildings are carelessly put up and cause injury
through a collapse, the owner must settle with those injured.
But a man can harbor a fire-trap that endangers the property
of his neighbor and get away with it.
This is all wrong, and suggests that what is needed in this
state is a law that will make every man who is careless pay for
his carelessness. If lie has a building on his place that is dan-
gerous because by is burning it might destroy a neighboring
piece of property, then he should he made to get rid of it or
pay for whatever damage may be caused by it. We have a
state department that is supposed to condemn and raze all
dangerous structures, yet we know there are few, if any, com-
munities in the state that are wholly free of dangerous fire-
traps in the shape of antiquated buildings.
Once again citizens have arrived at the spring clean-up sea-
son of the year, and once again they should go at the job in a
thorough and whole-hearted manner. Why not make it com-
plete by cleaning up any old structures in the community that
are known to be fire hazards or get rid of them altogether?
They are not only dangrous but they ar unsightly, and in
many instances unhealthy to the neighborhood that maintains
them. All that is needed to rid the community of such hazards
is for just one citizen to start. And right here in the midst
of the spring clean-up season is a most appropriate time to
start.
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A GOOD MOVE
In a rcent issue of The Samrock Texan we read an article
to the effect that the Wheeler County commissioner’s court
had voted to buy all their printing and office supplies from
local firms. This order to buy all printing locally will mean
some $2,500 to the two printing firms in the county—and who
is more entitled to that printing than- the local firms who are
in a position to do more for their county than any other busi-
ness institution in the county.
The columns in the newspapers reach more people and
carry more weigh Ilian any other medium—local newspapers
in the average small city say and do more towards urging peo-
ple to trade at home than any other medium, and a publisher
is usually the first person to practice what he preaches.
Our policy is to encourage the citizens of the town and
county to support local merchants—and in turn when the local
institutions support us, are grateful.
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That America has become the country where loose tongues
are not only tolerated but actually encouraged was evidenced
a few weeks ago when another of those "cultured” English-
men of title, here on a lecture tour, publicly denounced and
actually verbally abused the president of the U. S. Of course
he was doing so merely for the publicity it would bring his
lectures, and the increased profits from his lectures. But that
does not excuse the fact that since no decent, upstanding Am-
erican displays disrespect for his president—regardless of
what that American’s politics may he—then no foreign-born
interloper has a right to do so. The office of president carries
with just as much, it not more, respect than the office of king
or dictator. Americans realize that, and they respect the office
•■ven though they may disagree with the principles of the man
who holds. A good many Paducah citizens have often wonder-
ed why foreigners are permitted to time over here and in-
dulge iu such abuse as this most recent one is guilty of. And
now they are wondering why Uncle Sam doesn’t put a stop to
it by making an example of this Englishman and shipping him
back home ori the first boat that will take him there.
MAGNIFYING THE RECESSION
• There is no point in minimizing the severity of the busi-
ness recession, but there is no point in magnifying it. One is
<is much an error as the other, and either may be costly, ’ ac-
jjoding to George T. Hughes, a writer in touch with busi-
ness industry. The Department of Commerce, which may be
said to reflect the official view in this sphere, admits that the
fast four months of curtailment at the dose of 1937 wiped out
most of the gains registered since 1935. and the president ad-
mits it, though refuses to lay it to new deal responsibility.
If judgment is to be preserved, prejudice must be set
.aside. For the most of us tins is a difficult matter, but intelli-
gent appraisal is out of the question unless just that is done.
The natural impulse for business is to access all fault to the
administration and the natural atitude for the other side is to
insert selfishness on the part of a few is the real barrier to
recoveiy. As is always the ease, perhaps, there is fault on both
sides. The first symptom to come was financial, not polticial.
It was the contraction in bank credit which set in about eigh-
teen months ago and is still continuing. Next was the down-
ward turn of commodity prices, which started last spring and
is still in progress.
The deflection has gained such headway that to check it
As almost impossible. Merchandise and supplies bought in ex*
Served Three Terms in Paducah
Jail—Tried to Crash Atlanta
But Sent to Devils Alcatraz
The history of the following
case started in Paducah, when
Sheriff Payne and Deputy Sheriff
Cabiness brought this jail crusher
from Floyd County to Paducah.
He was released to Montaigue
County and brought back, re-
leased and afterward placed in the
Cottle County jail again and again
released to Montaigue. The Post
checked the case for the Assoc-
iated Press several months past
and found that he was in the Pa-
ducah Jail at the time he claimed
to commit the bank robbery, which
helped to prove he was lying.
His intentions were good, as he
thought he would go to our state
penitentiary (which is very hard
on incorrigibles), and he prefer-
red to go to one of our federal
prisons instead. Read the article
and find out where he landed:
Washington, March 30—Rollie
(Hardrock Roy) Rector, who lied
to get x federal prison term and
then was sent to rock-bound Alca-
traz Island, won a full presidential
pardon today.
President Roosevelt, the just
department announced, acted
Hardrock Roy’s substantiated
sertion that he already was in j
at the time of the Saint Jo, Tex
bank robbery for which Hardrc
got twenty years.
Hardrock’s story to the pr<
dent was full of hard luck.
He was tired of the Paduci
Texas, jail where he was confir
on a robbery charge, he ga
when he “confessed” in 1935
the Saint Jo robbery and k
naping. He had heard Atlanta fi
eral penitentiary was “soft”, a
he hoped to be sent there,
hadn’t even thought of being s<
to Alcatraz.
The fact that he was alrea
in jail at the time of the Sa
Jo banditry did not come
when he pleaded guilty in fede
court, and Hardrock was m
fenced—to this country’s Dev
island.
Hardrock’a hard luck didn’t a!
there. When he found Alcati
Em'mm
■
Spring in the Maple Grove
less to his liking than the Padu-
cah jail he was unable at first to
prove that he was behind bars at
the time of the federal bank rob-
bery.
The jail had been hit by a tor-
nado and its record blown away.
Then somebody remembered—
maybe it was the bride—that
Hardrock was married while
serving that particular jail term.
Marriage license records showed
his wedding took place while he
was in custody of a turnkey.
Hardrock Roy cannot, however,
go back to the bride, who saved
him from eighteen years more at
Alcatraz. He was shipped from the
federal penitentiary in San Fran-
cisco bay to El Paso, Texas, where
he must finish out that old state
robbery term.
There is one bright spot in
Hardrock's story.
He was the first Alcatraz in-
mate to win a pardon.
LAWN AND GARDEN
An ice pick dipped in gasoline
and thrust into the heart of a
dandelion will kill the weed with
little damage to surrounding
grass . . . Clay pots are unsatis-
factory as they absorb too much
water intended for the plant. For
greater success with your plants
either paint the inside of the pot
or soak it in water over-night be-
fore filling with earth.
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Mrs. Tom Martin and Miss Irene
Martin of Mundav visited friends
and relatives in Paducah Thurs-
day.
Oh! You Would
Say That
Learning that a scientist has
declared all lions are near-sighted,
Joe Schaded says he’ll take his
word for it rather than try to
prove it.
“When a politician speaks of
the people,” asserts Jack Hamrick,
“he means the millions of us who
have a lot of peep but very little
pull.”
W. D. Hutchins says a boost is
a mighty good thing, so long as
it is being applied to something
besides taxes.
According to Annalou Harper
the only time women overlooked
a bargain was when they picked
out their husbands.
“It's getting as common to re-
sort to divorce to cure heartache,”
says Dr. O. E. Looney, “as it is
to take asperin to cure the head-
ache.”
“Never ask a man for a pin,”
advises John Chenault, “even if
he has one he can’t give it to you
without taking chances on a dis-
aster.”
Rolle Brumley says the only
thing as hard as getting a salary
raised to meet a family’s needs is
getting a family’s needs cut down
to fit a salary.
KITCHEN KINKS
Oranges should not be sliced
until ready to serve as they be-
come bitter if allowed to stand .
. . A small amount of sugar add-
ed to olive oil will keep it from
becoming rancid . . . A folded
towel placed under the bowl will
keep it from slipping when adding
ingredients with one hand and
beating with the other.
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This is the year you are going
to get that tooth pulled that you
promised yourself all last year
you were going to get pulled.
Give George Washington credit
for one thing. It was a hatchet he
used instead of a hammer.
No man has ever yet lived long
enough to get even with this big
old world of ours.
A girl’s idea of a sensible hat
is one that permits her to see with
one eye. ttfll
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“Daddy wanted us to have a safe car
so he bought a CHEVROLET
because it has PERFECTED
HYDRAULIC BRAKES!”
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