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THE COOPER REVIEW
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940
COOPER REVIEW
W. D. HART & SON, Publishers
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ECONOMY MEASURES FOR TAXPAYERS
HOUSING .... increase
There are about ten mlilion more people living
in the United States now than there were ten years
ago. That is nearly enough additional people to
fill a city' as big as New York and Chicago put
together.
If you think of it that way it is easy to see why
there is such a greut shortage of housing accom-
modations. Taking the average famliy unit as four
persons, we should huve built two and a half mil-
lion new homes in the past ten years.
New homes for ten million people call also for
new schools, hospitals, churches, business buildings
of all kinds, movie theaters and other places of
recreation. It takes a lot more than merely dwell-
ings to care for the needs of a growing population.
Then, of course, more people call for more factor-
ies to make the things people need to wear and to
use, and making those things means more jobs and
greater prosperity.
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Yet we somehow' haven’t got enough joibs, enough
homes, or enough prosperity. Something seems to
have gone wrong.
COSTS .... prohibitive
There isn’t any dubt in my mind that we would
be riding the top wave of prosperity now if the
people of the United Stales had kept right on build-
ing new homes and the necessary community build-
ings to go with them, instead of shutting down on
new building almost completely for seven or eight
of new
Legislation is badly needed in this state,
to afford the taxpayers the privilege of pro- ;
tacting themselves from undue cost of iocal j
government. In setting salaries for state and
political subdivisions, the members of the J
legislature is too often influenced by lobby-
ists and members who enjoy liberal incomes
and cannot appreciate the struggle many
taxpayers have in meeting tax assessments,
and while such salaries may be only commen-
aurtite with prevailing salaries in the more j years.
populus centers for like responsibility and j lhe rcason for the slackening
.service, but in less populous and wealthy j ^hat the people who^controlled the
places the salaries for public officials may
"be out of proportion for salaries for equal
•ervice and responsibilities in private in-
dustry.
Recently the Commissioners’ Court of
Red River county endeavored to reduce the
tax burden by reducing the salaries of cer-
tain county officials, but the courts heid
that it wjis not within the province of the
commissioners’ court to set these salaries.
Salaries set by the legislature are not only
often higher than is paid by private indus-
try for like service and responsibility but the
laws work other hardships on the taxpayers, j upo
sudh as requiring counties to pay h'alf the
cost of all convictions and pleas of guilty in.
building
prices of
building material and of building labor have been
unwilling to do their share toward restoring pros-
perity.
When prices of almost every other commodity
began to come down, prices of building material
and supplies stayed up or even rose higher. When j
workers in almost every other line were taking pay |
cuts, these tightly organized building trade unions
refused to work for less money, even though they j
had to remain idle a good part of the year.
Under such conditions as that it is not surprising j
that people w'ho had planned to build and wanted |
to build held off because they simply could not j
buy new housing at the high prices which combina-
tions of material men and organized labor insisted j
The
DOCTOR
Tells The Story
BY W. E, AUGHINBAUGH, M. D.
WRIGHT
PATMAN
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WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
— CONGRESSMAN — TE X AS —
TRUSTS .... graft
A great many things have been
undertaken in
justice courts regardless of W'hether the de- Washington in the past seven years vhuh ha\e
seemed to me ill-advised and impractical. But one
Cemui
The information given to the
Census Enumerator will not be
made public or used against the
one answering the quesitons. The
information cannot be obtained
by the Internal Revenue Bureau,
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
purpose as money, but when
money is loaned into circulation
and then paid back, the books are
balanced and no extra money or
credit remains in circulation.
During the past few years the
25 members of this committee
have individual seats in a semi-
circle behind individual desks. A
witness appearing before this
committee in support of or in op-,
position to a bill is usually given
time to make his own statement
and then the committee members
are privileged to cross examine
him. The usual time of meeting is
10 o’clock in the morning and
some times in the afternoon and
right when the House is not in
session. The power and influence
cf a member depends partly upon
his committee' assignment. The
fendant pays the fine or serves it out in
prison. Tn this manner gaming and other
small infractions of the law can be made
very expensive to taxpayers. Another change
that would affect a saving is to provide for
one assessing and collecting unit to assess
all taxes of political subdivisions in the
oounty.
While these conditions are not bad in Delta
oounty this (taper hopes the next legislature
submits a constitutional amendment which
would affoid the people such control
their local government.
people to answer the questions
fully and truthfully. However, no
one can refuse to answer these
j questions. In the event of refusal,
punishment may be inflicted. The
information that will be disclosed
over
A GREAT AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY
This week all America is celebrating the
30th anniversary of the establishment of
the Boy Scout Movement in America. The
movement has its enthusiastic supporters
everywhere. Indeed in its three decide-,
nearly 9,000,000 Americans have been
Scout5. cubs, and leaders. Today there arc
over 1,330,000 boys and men actively en-
rolled.
Now as never before, American adults are
giving their time, energies and financial sup-
port to time-tested boys and girls organiza-
tions that help mold their children into types
of citizens that will guarantee the continued
exr-Vnoc of the United States along the
pattern set by the nation’s founders who
gave Americu its democratic form of govern-
ment and its precious heritage, the Consti-
tution land its Bill of Rights.
Supplementing existing organizations suen
aa the home, church and school, the Boy
Soouts of America engages boys’ leisuie-
time energies in outdoor life and activities
«f curtural and practical values which lead
boy* to become dependable men.
Every’ President of the United States since
William Howard Taft has been an enthusias-
tic supporter of Scouting and every Ameri ■
can who knows anything about Scouting* s
beneficial program acknowledges it as
worthy of continued confidence and trust.
step which the Administration has begun to take
seems to me to be so practical and necessary that
I am surprised it was rot taken long ago.
That is the government’s effort to break down
the combinations in restraint of trade which have
kept up the prices of buildnig materials, and the
combinations of labor organizations to keep up
cost of construction work.
“The Building Trust’’ includes not only labor and , .
, , , by this Census is eagerly awaited.
f material producers but also political rings which . ^
j profit by making laws and ordinances to protect
high-priced building labor and *o give certain fav-
I oved manufacturers of building supplies an advan-
1 tage over their competitors.
1 know one case of a manufacturer of plumbing
| supplies who, when he undertook to build himself
[ a home, found that he could not use his own bath-
tubs and kitchen sinks in his own house. Rival
j companies had conspired with the city building de-
partment and the plumbers’ union to prevent his
particular materials from being used anywhere in
the city. His company had refused to pay graft.
J people have been paying their
| private debts, which has destoyed | seniority rule generally obtains,
Progress Ad-1 to that extent our circulating j that is> members of long service
work up to chairmanship and
ranking positions, while the new
member must start at the foot of
tion or the Works
ministration or any other agency,! money or credit. Cities and states
public or private. This protection j hav^ reduced their indebted-
is afforded in order to encourage
UNIONS .... rule*
One result of the greedy attitude of organized
labor in the building trades has been to bring
unions into disrepute. Let me clear myself of any
suspicion of anti-union prejudice by remarking that
I have been a member of the International Typo-
graphical Union for nearly fifty years. But I hav»
never able to agree with the hold-up policies of
many labor groups.
I have had some experience in building and have
had to deal with labor unions. I can’t think of any-
thing more silly than some of the union rules. I
had to hire a staff of carpenters on one building
just to bore holes through partitions for the water-
pipes. If tile plumbers had tried to bore their own
holes I would had a strike on my hands, and if I
had let them do it I would have been fined by the
Union.
On another building job in New York I gf»t the
job finished on time only by okaying a contractor's
bill for $250 which he had to pay out to a union
official to prevent a strike being called at the last
minute.
The Senate Banking and Insurance Com-
mittee has recommended a bill to prohibit
purchasing of silver from other nations
which if passed will save Uncle Sam further
4mm on this experiment. Our government has
Ijdou paying far above the world market tor
■liver from Mexico and other governments,
presumably to balance trade.
CAPITAL .... availability
While the government is trying to check the
abuses in labor and building material costs, it hai-
already done a highly constructive job of cutting
the cost of the necessary capital for the small home
owner. The first home I ever built cost me seven
per cent interest for the first mortgage loan and
.'10 per cent bonus for a three-year second mortgage
loan, and I had to put up a quarter of the total
cost out of my own resources.
Ujvler the present Federal Housing Administra-
tion a man with a job and $250 cash can bu'ld a
$2,500 homo and pay interest and principal in
monthly payments over twenty years at a rate
which figures only 4 1-2 per cent interest on the
building loan.
What makes this plan especially interesting to
me is that the government does not put up any
money at all. It simply guarantees to the lender,
who may be a bank, an insurance company or a
private individual, that he will get hit money back
with interest.
Our country is constantly chang-
ing, its population is shifting, dif-
ferent crops are produced under
different conditions and with new-
ly developed methods. For in-
stance, in 1914 there were 21,-
<100,000 horses on the farms in
the United States, but -only 10,-
800,000 in 1939. The 42,000,000
acres of land heretofore needed
to feed these ten million horses, j
which are now gone, must be used
for other purposes and naturally
what it produces comes into com-
petition with other crops. People
are changing their habits and
practices. All, however, we be-
lieve in the direction of a better
standard of living, since we have
more conveniences than ever be-
fore. We never miss what we have
never gotten used to, but once
accustomed to the use of modern
comforts and conveniences, they
are seldom dispensed with.
Farm Appropriation*
I still believe that the farm ap-
propriations will be substantially
restored before the end of this
session of Congress. One who does
not realize that the prosperity of
the nation depends upon the pros-
perity of the farmer has not. given
the question sufficient considera-
tion. It is evident that for every
dollar increase in farm income the
national income is increased seven
dollars. The city members insist
that they cannot vote for the
farm program expenditures in the
face of the drastic reductions in
the appropriations in which they
are interested. The President has
made it plain that we must con-
tinue to increase the national in-
come until it reaches at least
ninety billion dollars a year; that
it is now about seventy billion and
the budget cannot be balanced
until it reaches eighty billion. A:s
much as many people dislike t,o
admit it, every well informed per-
son knows that in order to in-
crease the national income some-
one must go into debt. Our econ-
omy is based on debt. Money is
created by banks making loans
and giving credit on their books
aa though that muoh money bad
been create*. It edrree toe «u*a
ness. The Federal debt has gone
up, but the total debts of the peo-
ple are less now than in 1929.
33. Q. Can a Member of the
House be a member of more than
one committee of the House?
A. Yes. Some Members occupy
membership on several minor
committees, such as agriculture,
appropriations banking and cur-
rency, ways and means and a few
ethers, the Democratic Members
cannot hold membership on but
c-ne of these committees. They are
referred to as exclusive commit-
tees and usually occupy all the
time that a member can give,
whereas, many of the minor com-
mittees seldom meet.
34. Q. What arrangements are
made for a meeting of a standing
committee of the House?
A. Each committee has a large
committee room, its size and ac-
commodations depending upon the
importance of the committee. The
Banking and Currency Committee
of the House, for instance, have a
large meeting room that is equal
to the size of the average United
.States District Court room. The
a committee.
35. Q. How does a bill reacih
the proper committee for consid-
eration?
A. The member drops the bill
“in the hopper,” which is a box
rear the Speaker of the House,
when the House is in session. The
Speaker examines the bill and de-
termines which committee it
should be referred to and so in-
dicates. The bill is then number-
ed and sent to the Government
printing,Office for printing. All
bills are printed and a copy of
my pending bill may be obtained
upon request. The committee re-
ceives the printed copies of the
bill the next morning after it is
introduced, as the hills and the
Congressional Record are printed
at night.
36. Q. Are ail bills heard by
the committees?
A. No. Usually it is a very dif-
ficult matter to get consideration
of a bill before a committee un-
less it is being sponsored by tbe
party in power. Now, for instance,
p hill like the one to extend the
The “Mi.ery”
As a young man I practiced
medicine in the country in Vir-
ginia. Most of my patients were
negroes, many of whom had been
slaves. They were extremely sim-
ple, kindly souls and inasmuch as
they had little money, for the
| South suffered terribly financial-
I ly and otherwise after the Civil
War, I treated them gratuitously
Their general complaint wq.s^
“misery in de back” and
pills always relieved them, eg
ially if they were colored red.
Henry Jackson was a very tall
negro, with a mouth big enough
for a hippopotamus, his bright red
gums being lined with nerfect
teeth. He did odd jobs about the
village. Like all negaoea of his
day he was intensely religious, al-
though I seriously doubt if he had
any concrete idea of what he be-
lieved.
Frequently he substituted for
Cornelius Stewart, the local color-
ed Baptist preacher. Neither of
these men could read or write and
had not attended any theological
seminary. In other words, their
religion was of the home made
variety, through the webb and
woof of which ran a strain of
voodoism and childlike simplicity,
in which humor of a rare type
was often apparent.
I frequently attended the ser-
vices, certain to be treated to
some new form of logic and id-
ways to enjoy a laugh. On© Sun-
day night, returning from visiting
my patients, I heard the melodious
| chanting of the congregation, in
! which the booming voice -of Henry
1 Jackson was much jn evidence. I
tied my horse to a tree and en-
tered, taking a back seat in the
church as Henry started his ser-
mon, which I can never forget,
for it was evidently his confirmed
conception of heaven.
“When you niggers die" shout-
ed Henry, waving his arms and
opening his cavern-like mouth,
“you’se gwine to go to heaven and
have nuttin to do but sit under de
flapjack tree and pull off de fli^B
jacks from de limb, and de ’lass^P
will trickle down dem and kiver
dem up ’till you get enough to eat.
Den as you rests your poh ole
hack agin de tree, a roast pig, wid
knives and forks stuck in his back,
will walk up so dat you can carve
out jess as much roas’ poakh as
you wants and den he will walk
away and let you eat." “Hallelu-
jah! Amen! Praise de Lawd!”
shouted the congregation in uni-
son, as Henry went into further
details of this sumptuous celestial
banquet.
IN YEARS GONE BY—
A Review Of The Past In
Cooper and Delta County......
Taken from the files of The Cooper Review:
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The Delta county chapter of the American Red Cross met Wednes-
day for the purpose of electing officers. Elected were: Mrs. Charles
Pratt, president; Miss Buna Tillman, vice president; Mrs. B. B. Tynes,
secretary; A. D. Stockton, treasurer; Mrs. W. D. Hart, publicity';
Charles D. Berry, home service chairman; Tom Rountree, chairman
of disaster relief, Miss Ilallie McKinney, chairman registration ocm-
mittee; Rube S. Weds, finance committee chairman; Ed J. McKin-
ney, chairman transportation committee; W. C. Hazlewood, shelter;
Coleman Smith, food; Mrs. C. C. McKinney, clothing; and Mrs. L. C.
Dennis, nursing.
Coaches of the Cooper High School Bulldogs have announced that
they will participate in the district meet in Paris. Teams from Paris,
Denison, Gober, Cooper, McKinney and Avery will be represented.
The Bulldogs will he represented by Johnson, Bailey, Hardy, Ragood,
Gregory, Foster, Routt and Worden.
TWENTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
An American Legion Post has been formed and named in honor ot
Clyde (Red) Henderson. Officers elected at thn first meeting were:
C. C. McKinney, H. R. Chesnut, W. C. Walls, J. A. Irving, John T.
Woodall, Clyde Braekeen, T. R. Duncan, Duncan Hendricks, C. Ander-
son, R. A. Goggers and T. A. Merrill.
THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
The County Court jury list for the February term is as follows: C.
L. Stevens, C. C. Burrow, B. W. Chandler, C. C. Rhodes, J. G. Childers,
I. N. Winfrey, J. W. Holcomb, Jim Cook, B. B. Johnson, J. C. Moody,
J. C. Blalock, A. L. Watson, G. G. Gough and A. If. EMvnrds.
power of the Secretary of State
to enter into reciprocal trade
treaties is given full and immed-
iate consideration because the
Administration (the party in pow-
er—Democratic party) is pushing
it. This bill has recntly been re-
ported to the House favorably by
P. strict party vote in the Ways
and Means Committee of 14 Dem-
ocrats for to 10 Republicans
against. When the House disposes
of this bill, the committee will
then take up other bills. There
are now 500 bills before that
committee. Obviously only a very
few' will receive1 consideration this
session. Many of them are dupli-
cates as only one member can in-
trodue a bill which causes, in
many cases, the same bill to be
introduced by a number of mem-
bers.
We carry a good line of pipes,
fittings and plumbing supplies.—
Home Furniture Co. rctf
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fODf GOOD HABITS IS T'
SET TH' PACE YEPSELF
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