Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 4, 1932 Page: 2 of 8
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T. J. MOIAOY,----- - Editor
8. WINFREY, - - Business Mgr.
EVERY VOTER’S
RESPONSIBILITY
Next Tuesday, for the
fortieth time, the United States
will elect a President. Thirty-
one men have held this high of-
fice, nine having been twice
elected. Only thirty-two of
the Presidential elections, how-
ever, have been decided by
popular vote, in our present
fashion. For that matter,
there is no provision in the Con-
stitution of the United States
under which the people are
either required or permitted
to vote for Presidential elec-
tors.
In the early days of the re-
public the idea that everybody
should have a vote for Presi-
dent never occurred to the
gentlemen who conducted the
Revolution and framed the
Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the
United States. Those things
were left to the states, and
the Constitution reads that
"each state shall appoint, in
such manner as its Legislature
may direct,” the required
number of Presidential elec-
tors. If any state legislature
wished to, it could today pass
a law repealing the privilege
of its citizens to vote for Pres-
idential electors, and have
them appointed by the Gover-
nor or chosen by the legisla-
ture.
Presidents Washington,
Adams and Jefferson were all
elected under the old provi-
soes of the Constitution,
changed in 1804, whereby the
candidate who got the most
votes was president, and the
one who got the next highest
number was vice president.
The present party conven-
tion system of nominating
candidates and pledging Pres-
idential electors to-their sup
port is only a little over a hun-
dred years old
dred years state after state haa
constantly extended the privi-
lege of voting for President un-
til it has become such a com-
monplace,
that few,
at right, but distinctly a privi-
lege. It is an honor conferred
upon the ordinary man and
woman—an honor which car-
ries with tt a corresponding
responsibility. tt is not a
privilege to be exercised light-
ly. The presumption is that
every voter will go to the polls
with the feeling that he is dis-
charging a solemn duty, toe
which he has prepared him-
self by intelligent thought and
examination of the programs
and policies of the opposing
parties.
We fear that few voters in
these days take their responsi-
bility as seriously as they
should. We urge every one
who goes to the polls next
Tuesday to vote in the light of
his or her own deepest and in-
nermost convictions. Only if
every voter does just that will
the result reflect the intelli-
gent judgment of the Ameri-
can people.
EDUCATION WEEK
The week of November 7 to
13, 1932, will mark the twelfth
annual observance of public
education in America.
The theme for this year Is
“The Schools and the Nation’s
Founders.” Giving heed to the
crisis in which education in
this country is now beset, no
theme could be more appro-
priate. Every school room or
eehool auditorium should ring
with patriotic fervor in sup-
port of our public schools. Ev-
ery lover of the race, every
lover of free institutions,
should find time during Amer-
ican Education Week to express
appreciation in some manner
for the earlier and later lead-
ers who had the faith and
courage to found and maintain
our public schools.
: Our public schools are the
makers and preservers of
democracy. They -conserve
and develop the most precious
and worth while American re-
source without which all other
resources are as nothing—the
rising generation Yet taxing
systems have broken down in
many rural sections; school
In that hnn- classes are made too large for
effective teaching in nearly all
school districts; some schools
in some of the states were un
able to open and others for
every day affair {only a few weeks. One state
especially of the!superintendent’ reported that
younger vbters, realize that it “already five counties have an-
is not an inherent Constitution- nounced that they will not
open schools. Other counties
pre certain to follow a similar
action during the month.”
Health service in many munici-
palities and the more advanc-
ed rural communities has been
curtailed, night schools closed
and many vocational and fine
arts schools eliminated or se-
riously handicapped.
The teachers and school au-
thorities, regarding themselves
as the trustees of democracy,
are, for the most part, doing
which sank into the soul of ev-
ery lover of the rights of man.
Men faced intrenched au-
tocracy under the central pow-
ers of Europe at Verdun and
Argonned believing that the
life they were wilting to give
would benefit the world. While
many teachers in the poorer
sections of the country are not
dying for democracy, they are
an example of the virtue of
living for it.
The cause of democracy,
the best they can. While they the cause of human freedom,
feel their responsibility in im- the cause of civilization,
parting to childhood its sacred whether we want to believe it
right to an education in this or n°t> rests upon our attitude
the and determinations with re-
spect to the serious situation
which now faces education in
this country.
The present crisis is a test of
our faith in the wisdom of the
nation’s founders who staked
their judgment and their all
to bring forth a nation "con-
ceived in liberty” and whose
generations of people would
have the ability to control
their owe destinies. That wis-
dom was the song of poets,
the vision of seers and the
theme of philosophers in all
ages. That wisdom was em-
bodied in constitutional gov-
ernment, the security and en-
durance of which was to he
based upon education.
complex industrial age,
teacher’s success is in direct
J-atio to the material and spiri-
tual assistance given by the
patrons and taxpayers who are
served. Certainly there is no
district in this great republic
in which the spirit, the mettle
and the genius are less than
those of France, whose Minis-
ter of Education said in that
country’s zero hour during the
World War: “The schools ' ev-
erywhere must be left open.”
The following extract from
that famous editorial in the
New York Times expresses the
French spirit, her genius and
fortitude for the sake of edu-
cation :
In that time France made
eve^r possible provision in JaToHhat
government, stronger and
better than ever, to the next
generation. Education is its
strength, its bulwark. Our re-
sponsibilities are NOW!
Guardians of American de-
mocracy, guardians of Ameri-
can education, co-guardians of
civilization with other forward
nations, what of the HOUR!
economy -for the present de-
fense, but she did not for one
moment forget the future. She
even opened schools in caves
and occasionally provided
teachers and pupils with gas
masks. Hundreds of children
fleeing from the territory occu-
pied by the enemy were taught
in barracks by the women
teachers who had fled with
them. Thus did France refuse
to let the child’s heritage be
taken away from it even in the
face of cannon and bomb. In
substance France said to the
world: “Do not let the needs of
the hour, however demanding,
or its burden, however heavy,
or its peril, however threaten-
ing, or its sorrows or heart-
breaks, make you unmindful
of the defense of tomorrow, of
those disciplines' through
which an efficient democracy
is possible, through which the
institutions of civilization can
be perpetuated and sanction-
ed.” ,
Appreciating the response
of the French teacher to the
declaration: “The schools ev-
erywhere must be left open,”
the Department of Education
of that country said;
We admire,; not without rea-
son, the serenity of the fanner
who, two steps from the battle
line, is sowing for the future
his grsin in the bloody fur-
rows. Let us admire none the
less those teachers who all
along the line of fire hold their
classes within sound of can-
non; they also are sowing for
the fatere.
Considering the zeal of
France for education, the
cause of her progress is obvi-
ous. Neither are we to marvel
at her culture when publish-
ers inform us that when a first-
class philosophical work comes
out, France, based on relative
population, buys eight copies
to our one.
“Make the world safe for
democracy,” was the slogan
from. Woodrow Wilson’s pen
ILLS. TO Will
5ESSIMMRNU1
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The curtain waa rung down
on the Golden Jubilee session
Grand Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, as delegates pick-
ed Amarillo as next year’s
meeting place and elected and
installed officers last night.
Mrs. Riva Burnett of Miami,
Texas, and Floyd Easterling of
Del Rio moved up to the high-
est offices in the Grand Chap-
ter of Texas. They will be re-
spectively worthy grand
matron and worthy grand
patron.
Mrs. Rose Potter of Texark-
ana, in the order of succession
stepped up to the office of as-
sociate grand matron. A. P.
Holbrook of Fort Worth was
elected associate grand patron.
Other new officers are: Mrs.
Mattie Mitchell, San Antonio,
grand conductress; Mrs. Re-
becca Miles, Jacksonville, as-
sociate grand conductress,
Miss Cora Posey, Arlington, re-
elected grand secretary for the
seventh consecutive time, and
Mrs. Marjory Wofford, Aus-
tin, re-elected treasurer.
Expert Watch Repairing,
Cleaning and Adjusting
ALTON RUSHING
At Bussey’s Drug Store
Timpson, Texas
We Appreciate Your Work
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WASHINGTON
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Washington, D. C., Oct. 31.
—When Congress meets in De-
cember one of the most impor-
tant reports which it will re-
ceive for consideration will be
that of the committee of the
House of Representatives
which has been spending a
great deal of time in the past
few months investigating the
extent of the government’s
activities in competitive busi-
ness.
For years there have been
protests, mostly from small
and disorganized groups,
against the growing tendency
of the Federal bureaus to en-
gage in business competition
with private enterprise, tt was
not until the Chamber of Com-
merce of the United States
took the matter up that much
attention was paid to it Now,
under the spur of that power-
ful organization, the commit-
tee • is studying the govern-
ment’s participation in the
business of banking, shipbuild-
ing, manufacturing, power
production, printing and litho-
graphing, retail selling and
the operation of laundries, res-
taurants and scores of other
enterprises.
In shipbuilding, the govern-
ment Navy yards represent an
investment of about three hun-
dred million dollars, and there
are only one or two privately-
owned i shipbuilding plants
equipped to compete with
them. They can construct any
type of vessel, from the small-
est tug to the largest battle-
ship.
As a Shipbuilder
While the Navy appropria-
tion bills usually provide that
contracts shall be given to pri-
vote concerns when they can-
not be made in one of the navy
yards without material in-
crease in cost, it is pointed out
that of the fifteen heavy
cruisers built or building it
present, eight went to the navy
yards and only seven to pri-
vately-owned yards. The
Navy has just built nine new
submarines, but only one of
them was built by private
contra ct-
ope rates a gui
Washington, makes its own
torpedoes in a factory in New-
port, makes ship propellers,
engines andj other parts in oth-
er plants, in different parts of
the country.
The government is very de-
cidedly in the power business,
tt owns the big hydro-electric
plant at Muscle Shoals on the
Tennessee River, from whieh
it is selling power at wholesale
for about $530,000 a year.
The government owns the
great Boulder Dam project,
now under construction. It is
not intended that the govern-
ment shall operate this, but
rather lease the water to pri-
vate contractors, but some
twenty-odd waterpower plants
under the control of the Recla-
mation Service are engaged in
the sale of electrical power.
Furniture end
i Besides the manufacture in
government plants of paint
and varnish, gasoline engines,
furniture, harness and1 sad-
dlery for the army, uniforms,
airplane compasses and shoes,
there are a number of dairy
farms owned and operated by
the government, for experi-
ment purposes,
“a government now oper-
I ates not only the largest print-
ing establishment in America,
if not in the world, but has
five lithographing plants in
Washington for the production
of maps, patent papers and
other documents requiring the
reproduction of drawings in
small' editions.
The committee is investi-
gating the complaint of bank-
ers against the activities of the
Federal Farm Board, whieh
makes loans to farm organiza-
tions at rates lower than any
private bank or private organi-
zation could afford. Exporters
have complained of the activi-
ties of the Farm Board in the
purchase of grain and cotton
for stabilization purposes, and
in its competition with grain
merchants, privately owned
cotton gins and compresses,
warehouses, fruit packing
plants and livestock and wool
industries.
The committee has received
complaints that the govern-
ment cuts and sells timber
grown on public lands in com-
petition with the privately
owned and operated lumber
industry. This complaint be-
came so serious that a year or
two ago President Hoover in-
tervened and the government
timber activities have been
greatly reduced.
At every army post, on ev-
ery navy vessel, and in every
navy yard there is maintained
a general store, known vari-
ously as. a post exchange, a
canteen or a service store. And
at the same places there are
laundries, shoe repair shops,
tailor and barber shops.
Food or Transportation
A great many complaints
have been laid before the com-
mittee involving restaurants
and cafeterias. Nearly every
department building in Wash-
ington has its own restaurant
or cafeteria. There are also
restaurants in the principal
navy yards and army posts,
and in the Senate and House
wings of the Capitol, as well
as in the office buildings of
Congress. These restaurants
do not confine their trade to
public officials.
Among the most serious
complaints are those that come
from the transportation inter-
ests. The Federal Govern-
ment owns and, through the
Shipping Board, operates pas-
senger and freight vessels in
all the main trade routes. This
condition is gradually changing
as the government-owned mer-
chant ships are being sold to
privately capitalized com-
_______panies. But the army and
The Government 1 nav? continue to operate their
in factory in own transport service, the
army transport service running
transpacific ships, with Hono-
lulu an important port of cal).
The Panama Railroad Steam-
ship line operating between
New York and the Canal Zone
and the Panama Railroad
across the Isthmus, are owned
by the Federal Government,
and so is the Alaskan Railway
System. The government also
owns and operates a barge
line on the Mississippi Rived
between St. Louis and New Or-
leans,
Those are only a few of the
business activities of Uncle
Sam which are under investi-
gation. What will be done
about them is another ques-
tion. It is certain that this in-
vestigating committee’s report
will precipitate a lively debate
in Congress and in the news-
arid it may serve to
an early foeus the
existing hostility be-
those who would take
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ness entirely and those who
would put it deeper into busi-
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 4, 1932, newspaper, November 4, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth764832/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.