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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
A\l) MESSENGER
JOHN E. COOKE & SON ...................................................................... Publishers
THE ROCKDALE REPORTER, Thursday, Mav 19, 1932
Entered as second class matter July 19, 1902, at the postoltice at Rock-
dale, Texas under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Thursday.
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tion of the publishers.
STATE FINANCES
Improved state finances are shown
in a special report of the State au-
ditor and efficiency expert to the
Governor, which was made public
last week. It shows that the deficit
of $11,390,070.35 which was forecast
for August 31, 1933 in a similar re-
port made by the auditor more than
a year1 ago, has been practically wip-
ed out. The new’ report forecasts a
deficit oi only $354,110.16 on Aug-
ust 31, 1933, which puts the State
practically on a cash basis. There
are items on both sides of the led-
ger In the change, but it is inter-
esting to note that it is chiefly due
to three items. These are (1) a to-
tal of $3,897.53 of appropriations ve-
toed by the Governor; (2) a total of
$3,910,459.41 of appropriations which
will be permitted to lapse by the
State departments and State insti-
tutions and will not be expended;
and 13) a net increase of State rev-
enue of $4,478,725.25. Pour new tax
levies voted by the Legislature, those
on sulphur, oement, natural gas,
and cigarettes, are estimated to
bring the general revenue fund a
total of $4,900,000, of which $3,600,-
000 comes from the cigarett tax.
$700,000 from the additional sul-
phur tax, $350,000 from the cement
tax, and $250,000 from the natural
gas tax. In addition to this the ad
valorem tax of 1932 is estimated to
yield additional revenue, not in the
previous estimate, of $279,391.68, and
the gross production tax on oil is
estimated to yield an additional
$750,000 in 1933. But the revenues
from various other sources show an
estimated loss of $1,887,075.56, so
that the net increase in revenue is
estimated at $4,478,725.25. One fact
which the figures show, and which
should be noted, is that the Legis-
lature appropriated for the period
some $7,000,000 in excess oi the rev-
enues it provided, and that the
Governor, by the use of the veto
power, and that the institutions and
departments of the State, by re-
fraining from expending authorized
appropriations, found ways of wip-
ing out that excess. In other
words, the direct representatives of
the people in the Legislature cre-
ated a good part of the deficit by
making appropriations which have
been found to be unnecessary. At
least they have been found not to
be so necessary as to warrant the
creation of r State deficit in order
to make them. To the well-in-
formed this suggests that the chief
obstacle in the way of reducing the
expenses of the State Government is
the pressure which is brought upon
the members of the Lgislature to
make appropriations, regardless of
whether the State can afford them
or not. There is much sentiment
just now for a reduction of govern-
ment expenses of all kinds, and it
is in order, therefore, to call atten-
tion again to this matter of public
pressure upon the Legislature. Gov-
ernment expenses cannot be reduc-
ed unless the public supports the
Legislature in denying appropria-
tions, instead of obligingly support-
ing every demand that is made upon
its members to vote new appropria-
tions. The people are indebted to
Governor Sterling and to the heads
inf departments and institutions for
wiping oui Lins ueiiuit Caused by the
Legislature acting under public
pressure. The veto power, when
wielded against appropriations, is
not much of a vote-getting power,
for it offends large numbers of peo-
ple interested in the appropriations.
But in times like these it ought to
rally to the support of the Governor
more votes than it loses.—Texas
Weekly.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
From Files of The Reporter
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At Georgetown Ezra Stephens was
adjudged not guilty in district court
on charges of complicity in the
lynching of a Mexican at Thomdale.
Deaths: Louis Henne Sr., presi-
dent of the firm of Henne & Mye-
er; Mrs. Katherine Moore-Tolbert.
Rockdale’s newly organized base-
ball team met defeat at the hands
of Taylor by a score of 12 to 1. The
Rockdale lineup: Vogel, catcher;
Davis, pitcher; Walker, third base;
Clark, seoond base; Randle, first
base; Spencer, short; Ryan, left
field: Reed, center; J. Longmire,
right; M. Longmire, P. Diehl and
Gunter, substitutes
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The school board elected the fol-
lowing faculty: C. G. Green, sup-
reintendent; Miatsies Bessie Be tie
Cooper, Sallie Lyons, Cora Bethea,
Mattie Lee* Atkinson, Minnie Fos-
ter, Irma Porter, Annie Knight,
Florence Hubert; Miss Norris Wal-
lis, music. John B. Poteet, prin-
cipal, was not re-elected, as he was
running for county clerk.
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Judge W. F. Ramsey, democratic
candidate for governor; Hon. J. N.
Browning, candidate for congress-
man-at-large; and W .P. Lane, can-
didate for comptroller, addressed the
people of Rockdale at the city hall
auditorium.
Sitting in my law office window in the Woodward Building,
Washington, looking out over
the White House toward the yi \ _ ...
balance of the country, things
occur to me of passing inter*
«st. I lika to jot them down. / / Former Iowa
Suggestions Welcomed. O ConBTea*man
The new plumbing firm of Suess
<& Frensley announced the opening
of a new public bath house on North
Main street.
The Bankers & Citizens Co-Oper-
ative Life Insurance Company in a
half page ad announced that Rock-
Washington. D. C„ May 13.—To My
Million and More Readers: It is
rainy and raw outside. Are you
warm and comfortable tonight, with
plenty to eat? I hope so.
A few minutes ago—just after sup-
per—I called up the Congress rep-(ministration?
resentauve oi the American Federa-
tion of Labor and asked him how
many of our people, your and my
dale would be district headquarters, fellow American citizens, would go to
the local office to be managed by Dr.
R. C. Wallis, W. H. Poole and W. S.
Arms.
bed hungry tonight. He said their
recent survey shows there would be
around two millions of them.
The Colored Farmers Fair, with
B. Y. Aycock as secretary and gen-
eral manager, announced its second
annual fair to be held July 25, 26 and
27.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Wolf, visiting in
Germany, sent to friends in Rock-
dale a kodak picture they had made
of the iceberg which wrecked the
Titanic. The snapshot was made
from the deck of the steamer
Frankfurt, on which the Wolfs were
passengers.
WHEN GEO. WASHINGTON WAS
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF TIIE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
May 25 is a date often neglected in
recounting the important events of
our history, but is one of great sig-
nificance. On May 25, 1787, we in-
formed by the U. S. George Wash-
ington Bicentennial Commission,
George Washington was elected as
President of the Constitutional Con-
vention.
Tills convention had been called
for the purpose of amending the
Articles of Confederation under
which the country had been gov-
erned since 1781, and which had
proved Ineffectual Instead, how-
ever, the dslagatcs assembled at
Philadelphia, threw the Articles ov-
erboard and adopted a new Consti-
tution which ha-s since been our in-
strument cf Government.
On the very first day of the con-
vention, George Washington was
“called up to the chair as Presi-
dent cf the body.” The man who
had i:d the Continental Army to
victory, earning the title of "First :n
War,” was now giVen this signal
honor and was soon to add to that
title, “First in Peace.”
The fact that the foremost men
of the country were gathered on this
occasion and the fact that this con-
vention was probably the most im-
portant assembly ever held on this
continent, further attests to the es-
teem in which George Washington
was held by his fellow countrymen.
We know from source records that
Washington made only one sugges-
tion to the Convention in session.
We also know, however, from the
records of his contemporaries, that
he was one of the most influential
delegates to the convention. His
was not the role of an impassioned
orator, but a mediator—a concilia-
■ or who, by hi* glorious character,
by his clear thinking, and by his pa-
triotism, was able to bring the dis-
contented human element together
to make possible our Constitution.
As every student of American his-
tory knows, the Constitutional Con-
vention was beset with difficulties.
Sectional rivalries cropped up; dif-
ferent theories of government were
ardently sponsored: debates became
heated, and personalities clashed.
But George Washington was always
there to help iron out these diffi-
culties. Who can tell? Without the
aid of George Washington, the Con-
stitution as we know it might never
have been evolved.
Just think of that! Two millions
of our own people, in this land of
prodigal supply, our warehouses full
to overflowing with food, produce in
such abundance that those who raise
it don’t know what to do with it,
eggs selling at 6 cents, hogs at less
than $3. and all the other things in
proportion—two millions of our own
people, right here at home—not in
China nor in India but in the Unit-
ed States of America—going to bed
hungry this very night. It is rainy
and raw outside, and my heart aches
lor these sufferers.
that reserve. No business is socially
solvent which cannot do so.
Does that sound to you like basic-
ally sound social philosophy? Do
you think we have a chance to get it
by a continuation of the present ad-
ThLs is saying in a
different way what Roosevelt says
when he makse a plea for “the for-
gotten man,” a plea which A1 Smith
and Wall Street and every special
interest owner and lawyer in the
country condemns as arraying class
against class. Is it arraying class
against class to sav that the gov-
ernmental policies which have per-
mitted the encroachment of this
terrible nightmare of a depression
now squeezing the life out of us in
its slimy coils, must be changed? If
that be treason, then make the most
of it!
You will remember that he was a
member of the Cabinet from March
4, 1921, when Mr. Wilson went out,
until he resigned in 1928 to run for
President. During all these years
the storm clouds were gathering, es-
pecially as a result of the 1922 Ford-
ney-Smoot tariff bill, which was
the most disastrous thing this coun-
try has ever seen.
He was a member of the Cabinet
during all the fearful government
scandals which made A1 Capone look
like a cheap piker.
He was a member of the Cabinet
when the most and the greatest com-
binations of big corporations took
place, with their natural and con-
sequent control of the. various lines
oi industry and their control of
prices.
He has seen the hordes of lobby-
ists in Washington for the special
interests increase in numbers and
in “Preusasive influence" until they
have become such a menace in their
successful demands to control the
government that even he had to take
notice of them.
dally designated leader of my party
in the Senate but who should, in my
judgment, be counseled with fre-
quently by Jeffersonian Democrats
to see that he stays .in the neigh-
borhood of the straight and narrow,
have cooked. up a relief scheme.
Senator Robinson announced it in
the Senate this week. It has three
main parts—a loan by the Federal
Government to the states of two
billions for public works, to help un-
ewpivyuicnt; a lean c! $299,009,909
to local communities to help feed
the hungry, and an equalization fee
for the farmers’ products.
The public works part will help
some, but not enough; the loan for
relief will probably help feed many
whey would otherwise bo hungry,
and this is always splendid; but the
equalization fee is all bunk. Do you
think for one minute the other na-
tions are going to allow us to dump
our surplusses on them? That’s ri-
diculous.
I’ll lay one bet with you—if this
bill goes through, supported by these
three, President Hoover will sign it.
I think Senator Robinson and Ber-
nard Baruch have more influence
today with President Hoover than
any other two men in the country.
Mr. Baruch probably inspired the
Finance Reconstruction two billion
corporation in the President.
A wonderfully fine and enthusias-
tic law enforcement banquet at the
Mayflower this week—two things no-
ticeable about it—the press said very
little about it—the press boosts the
wet side usually—and many Con-
gressmen and Senators were invited
but sent regrets—“pussyfooting on
the Potomac”—“and thus election
doth make cowards of us all.”
What a mess our Democratic
house is in. You may remember the
Window Seat thought it unwise to
get the House this time on this very
account.
Despite the California jolt, Roose-
velt goes merrily on this week pick-
ing up all the delegates selected.
Don’t believe all the forces of the
power trust and every other special
interest can stop him. Too many
Democrats everywhere, anxious for
victory, feel like Chairman Dono-
van. of Illinois, who said this week
about his state—"Roosevelt is 100,-
000 votes stronger in Illinois than
any other candidate.”
something awful, wa
feed them. (Do cro*TL
started to ask the lady ^
if she wanted to trif
subscription to The ^
about that time they J!
loud squawk and ft h
us so we backed out. *»
never did care for
Talking about eatlnr ^
that if the chicken nriiw
lower (and they say iw J
ov**»6 w/ just aave .
*iese hens we aretakln*t/lr
the rest of the family u Z?!
to-if you know what wf^j
You remember that fjJ?*1
spoke of a couple of
Well, we had another
week what wern’t so flnT-rS?
of anything is not good'f^1
instance, too many chicken*
the place ain’t good f0r 7*
come on and let us have a
Ran in to a feller out in r!
try n a great big old true* L
as big as a box car, loaded with]
bushels of com, who was
corn for wood. First ^
know some dern fool will hT
around trading newapapL1
chickens or something, w&i
minute, we said we ran in to:
we meant that we ran in to hi
you know the difference hS
in to and in to.
Drove up to a paid-up-awaJ
advance subscriber of this paJJ
asked him the direction to £
chicken house. And got to chats
with him and he asked £7.
were old Chicken Chatter, to yw
we answered very meekly, ye51
he says, by gosh if i had a m
rooster on the place I believe
subscribe for another year in
vance just to see you ch»<* i
down. Well, it was sorta gett
along late in the day when t
happened and the “old crow” of tU
column was about petered out, sol
didn’t push him on the prop!
but we sorta believe our far
friend noticed our haggard app
ance, so next time we are by t
way we are going to challenge al
rooster he has on the place to all
race. Who the dickens wool?
run a couple of miles for a dolli
worth of subscription money
day and time?
We are now sounding off at i
actly almost time for the chickt
j to crow for day, and we got to |
j out and among ’em—see you j
soon!
t CHICKEN CHATTER :
By J. C. W.
This is the campaign issue. Ev-
erything else fails into nothingness
compared with hungry men, women
and children.
The President urged the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, with
its two billions of capital—your mo-
ney and mine—to help the rail-
roads, the insurance companies and
the banks. Congress responded,
started the thing going, and they
have put out hundreds of millions of
dollars. I believe this thing has
had a fine effect in helping to stop
nearly all of the bank failures in
the country. So far, fine.
During all these years, when the
Storm clouds were gathering and
when it was plainly discernible that
the special rich and favored few
were concentrating the wealth and
the power of the country in such a
way that disaster was bound to fol-
low, did anybody hear Mr. Hoover
make any protest? He either knew
what was going on and kept silent,
or else he was too blind to see. In
either event does lie come into court
with clean enough hands to justify
him in getting very loud in his
scolding of Congress if they don’t
jump quickly enough through his
hoops to suit him?
In addition, 15 million are only
about half fed. The survey shows
that families having this many are
living on from $2.58 to $3.00 per
week. Divide such sums into liv-
ing supplies for a family of five and
tell me how they can get enough to
eat.
Of interest to Texas printers and
newspaper men is the announce-
ment from Hubert M. Harrison, gen-
eral manager of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce, that his or-
ganization will hereafter be fur-
nished with its entire envelope sup-
ply by Texas printing offices and
hat the use of government-printed
envelopes has been abandoned. It
is expected that Texas printers will
o-operate to the extent of buying
their envelopes from a Texas en-
vclcpe manufacturing plant.
I asked him how many were out
of work tonight. He said mere are
8.300,000 having no work at all, and
about 7.000,000 more working only
one or two days a week. About 24,-
000,000 are dependent on those out
of work. In 29 states the survey
shows that the number of children
in hospitals with diseases caused by
under feeding has increased more
than three times within this past
year. At this very moment while I
am writing to you, thousands of
men, thousands of women, thous-
ands of children are digging around
in the garbage cans at the back
doors and in the alleys in the cities,
trying to find something to eat to
keep their poor bodies going; many
others are at the wharves picking
up the refuse. This is America!
But are the banks coming across
in the right way, even after the
government has loaned them mon-
ey to help them out, by loaning their
money to worthy borrowers? Some
of them are not. In the building
trades in New York City, the banks
will not loan money to the building
contractors until the workers, the
carpenters, the brick masons, all
the other workers, hp.ve had their
wages reduced from 25 per cent to
30 per cent. At least three of these
New York banks who have joined
in the conspiracy to reduce the pay
have had help of government mon-
ey from this Finance Corporation
Do yo uapprove of this?
Another thing, don't forget that
this panic came to us just about the
time Mr. Hoover was inaugurated
President—only a few months after.
He has had three sessions of Con-
gress since he came in, with the Re-
publican majorities in both branch-
es big enough so that he should have
been able to force both prevention
and relief if he had had the two
things, vision and capacity lead.
To My Million and Two Readers
(especially the latter): We are
grateful for your letters. ..telegram
and personal calls. We now know
how Will Rogers, W. D. Jamieson,
Arthur Brisbane or any of the noted
writers of the day feel—to have the
great multitude of people looking
forward to reading your stuff or
missing it when it does not appear.
(Program coming in fine—pleas?
cackle “Timkey in the Straw”—sign-
ed Mr. Rooster, Mrs. Hen and Miss
Gobbler). All of which brings us
up to the point of apologizing
(which isn’t necessary) for not writ-
ing our column last week—yes, we
know you thought that we were go-
ing to say for writing at all—but
anyway, we were sick—a pure and
simple case of spring fever and,
boy, you tell ’em that’s something.
But no joking, a couple of guys did
tell us that they liked our stuff and
missed it.
Bet you never saw a pet crow.
Well, we never did either until this
week but we ran across a couple out
south of tow’n—funniest thing, they
would come walking right up to you
with their mouths open holloing
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Bldo for a $167,000 bridge to be
bin! I before there is any waterway
beneath It have been asked by the
Biate Highway Commission. The
structure is to cross the intracoastal
canal in Jefferson county, which Is
yet to be dredged. It is estimated
that a considerable saving will be
made by building the bridge on dry
land.
Try a Reporter classified ad. tf
Justice BrandeLs, of our great Su-
preme Court of the United States,
lays down the basic social principle,
as I have printed it before in the
Window Seat, that for- every em-
ploye who is ‘steady in his work’
there shall be steady work. The right
to regularity in employment is co-
equal to the right to regularity in
the payment of interest on bonds,
in the delivery to customers of the
high quality of product contracted
for. No business Is successfully con-
ducted which does not perform fully
the obligations incident to each of
these rights. Each of these obliga-
tions is a fixed charge. No dividend
shall be paid unless each of these
rixed charges has been met. The
reverse to insure regularity of em-
ployment is a3 imperative as the re-
serve for depreciation; and it is
equally a part of the fixed charges to
make the annual contribution to
My, but wasn’t that a fearful
scolding the President gave Con-
gress a few days ago! I believe the
country liked it. My observation is
that in a controversy between the
President and the Congress the
country is very apt to take sides
with the President. Why? I won-
der. Is it because it is just one
against 531? Maybe it is because
the Congress in so many instances
is disappointing to the people of the
country. At any rate, I’m told this
scolding had the usual effect in the
country, and that the “folks back
home” were saying "amen" to Pres-
ident Hoover in lambasting the folks
on "the hill.”
Instead, over the appeals of econ-
omists, and in spite of my tears of
Window Seat pleading that he veto
the miserable Grundy tariff bill as
one of his first acts, he signed the
thing which has aggravated our
troubles immensely.
PAIN
Now he comes along and vetoes the
Democratic tariff bill, mild but in
the right direction, this week. This
tariff bill was intended and would
have helped break down the com-
mercial barriers between the nations
and by it we would have had more
trade with each other. This is the
thing we need so much—more trade,
which means more business, more
money circulating, more employ-
ment, more prosperity.
HEADACHES, NEURITIS
NEURALGIA, COLDS
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Whenever you have some
nagging ache or pain, take
some tublets of Bayer Aspirin.
Relief is immediate!
I wonder how far the President is
justified in going in scolding the
Congress. Did you hear the story
on the radio the other night about
the negro who said when he opened
his hen house door the chickens all
went home?
How about Mr. Hoover, when it
comes to fixing the responsibility
for the things which have brought
this panic about, with its conse-
quent demand for greater economics
in government and for an increase
of taxes In balancing the budget?
Don’t all these chickens fly back
home when the hen house door Is
opened?
This tariff bill provided three
main things—1, for an internation-
al conference on tariffs; 2, for re-
ciprocal treaties; and 3, for each
nation thereafter to proceed to low-
er their tariff walls accordingly.
By his signing the tariff bill when
he first became President, and now
by his vetoing this tariff bill, Mr.
Hoover shows plainly that he is look-
ing at things from the viewpoint of
the tariff beneficiaries—the trusts
and the special interests—rather
than from the point of view of the
producers, the consumers, the work-
ers. Think this over.
There’s scarcely ever an ache
or pain that Bayer Aspirin
won’t relieve—and never a
time when you can't take It.
don’t depress the heart,
otherwise harm you. Use then
just as often as they can spw
you any pain or discomfort
Just be sure to buy the genuu*
Examine the package. Be
of imitations.
The tablets with the Bayer
cross arc always safe. They
Aspirin is the trade-m^
Bayer manufacture °f ®°
aceticacidesterof salicyhcacm-^
My Jewish international banking
friend, Bernard Baruch, my friend
who Is chairman of the General
Electric Co., and the brains of the
power trust, Owen D. Young, and
my friend, Senator Robinson, offi-
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Cooke, John Esten. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1932, newspaper, May 19, 1932; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth741931/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.