The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 8, 1935 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the postoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
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WASHINGTON, May 7.—Beset by
a multitude of inquiries, the post-
office department today made public
a ruling of its legal department which
declared the “dime chain mail” illegal
because it violates the lottery and
fraud laws of the postal service.
The ruling was made two weeks
ago by Solicitor General Karl A.
Crowley after the department had
opened investigation into the letter
chain having focal point in Denver,
Colorado.
Crowley has been receiving hun-
dreds of inquiries by mail and tele-
phone from all sections of the coun-
try. The regular business of his staff
has been virtually halted to answer
the inquiries.
“The chain letter scheme,” said
Crowley’s ruling, “is a violation of
the lottery law because at the time
a person gets in on the chain he has
no knowledge of the extent to which
the chain has already progressed and
in parting with his money he has no
guarantee that he will receive any-
thing in return.”
“It is a violation of the postal
fraud statute because the scheme is
economically unsound and it cannot
possibly work out as contemplated
because there are neither people nor
money enough in tl?e country to as-
sure^ all the participants receiving
what they are promised.”
Crawley said a number of arrests
had been made and that others would
be made until the scheme was check-
ed. An effort is being made to locate
originators of the various chains.
Chief Postoffice Inspector K. P. Aid-
rich has ordered a nation-wide in-
vestigation of the scheme.
EDITORIAL CLIPPED FROM
WACO NEWS-TRIBUNE
Austin Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Gives You Real Protection
at Low Cost.
Any information desired, see or phone
S. D. JONES, Agt.
Keystone Hotel
Bwal 112 S. W. 378
Gov. Allred. Representative Jack
Padgett of Travis county was a stal-
wart champion of the crippled and
assisted in making a winning fight for
their care and protection. An ap-
propriation goes with the measure
and all the provisions of the bill are
highly applauded by Representative
Padgett and the host of senators and
representatives who had a hand in
its passage.
A reminder that Texas has a state
society for the care of Crippled Chil-
dren; but Texas had no law covering
provisions for vthe commonwealth
matching dollar for dollar with the
federal aid measure which was en-
acted in past years by the American
congress. In the year 1934 the Texas
Society for Ci’ippled Children reported
more than 650 were treated, hospital-
ized and cured through the work of
this organization of men and women
responsible for the cost as well as
the organization efforts which had
been made in many Texas counties.
voted upon.
“Is it asking too much of this leg-
islature to suggest that the people
are entitled to have these important
matters at least voted upon?”
The governor said the most im-
portant remaining problem was pro-
vision for relief after the present
$20,000,000 bond issue shall have
been exhausted.
HERE’S WHAT
VETERANS WILL GET
GOVERNOR ALLRED SIGNS
CENTENNIAL MONEY BILL
The following short editorial was
clipped from the Waco News-Tribune
by Dudley Moore and handed to Rev.
A. F. Avant, chairman of Lampasas
county of the Texas Society for
Crippled Children. More interest is
being evidenced in this organization
as time goes on:
Care of Crippled Children
Texas is not a backward state.
Texans have their share of the milk
of human kindness. Texas lawmak-
ers are to be congratulated. They
enacted a bill providing for the care
of crippled children. That mo'del
i. measure will receive the approval of
AUSTIN, May 7.—Governor Allred
signed the bill appropriating $3,000,-
000 for the Texas centennial today
and then asked the legislature to re-
main in session past May 11 to raise
needed revenue and transact other
important unfinished business.
The governor said in a special mes-.
sage that the people by a referen-
dum had given a mandate to pi’ovide
a real centennial observance, that
the site ahd been determined, Dallas
had voted bonds and the world ex-
pected Texas to make 1936 a banner
year.
“The legislature has seen fit to pass
this act, and, for these reasons, in
my judgement, it would be breaking
faith for me to disapprove it,” Gov-
ernor Allred said. “After careful
consideration, I have concluded it is
my duty to sign this bill.”
He said he disliked signing appro-
priation bills “to face a future of
state ‘hot’ checks and unsound state
home rule,” that the people depend on
the legislature to provide revenues,
and “a sound legislature will not
leave Austin without providing for
money they have ordered spent.”
“We may as well be frank about
it,” the governor continued. “Even
aside from revenue raising meas-
ures, other important questions,
dealt with in the parity platform and
in individual campaigns of many
members, somehow, for reasons best
known to you, have not even been
WASHINGTON, May 7.—Here is
whaf the Patman bonus bill, passed
by the senate today would do:
Pay to the average veteran the
full face value of his adjusted ser-
vice certificate, minus any loans and
interest due against it. For the 15
per cent of the veterans who had not
borrowed, this would average $1,000.
For the 85 per cent who have, it
would average $497.
Authorize the secretary of treasury
to issue sufficient non-interest bear-
ing notes to pay off the certificates.
This has been estimated at $2,201,-
934,000. But if the price level reach-
ed the 1921-1929 average, the treas-
ury would be authorized to contract
the currency.
Eligible veterans who had not ap-
plied for their bonus certificates
would have until Jan. 2, 1940 to do
so. Altogether approximately 3,500,-
000 veterans now hold certificates.
RAILWAY PENSION ACT
HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL
WASHINGTON, May 6.—The su-
preme court tagged the railway pen-
sion act “unconstitutional” today in
a 5-4 decision which left congression-
al leaders puzzling over the validity
of the administration’s proposed so-
cial security legislation and NRA.
The verdict whirled rail stocks into
a short-lived upward spurt, sent in-
terested senators to their desks to
study the security and NRA bills in
the light of the court’s pronounce-
ment, and brought from rail labor
leaders a statement that another re-
tirement measure would be introduc-
ed soon.
Terming the benefits of the act
“legislative largess,” the majority of
the court—Justices Roberts, McRey-
nolds, Sutherland, Butler and Van
Devanter—found the law invalid for
two principal reasons:
, It held that its provisions requiring
railroads to contribute to a pool from
which retirement benefits would be
paid deprived the carriers of prop-
erty without “the due process of law”
guaranteed by the constitution.
It vuled, too, that the “social”
purposes of the bill, however laud-
able, were unrelated to efficiency and
safety of operation and for this, and
other reasons, were no(t sustained by
the clause of the constitution giving
congress power over interstate com-
merce.
To the surprise of many, it did not
refer in ,so many words to the claim
of opponents of the law, and the
point on which a lower court threw
out the act, that it affected employes
engaged in inti’astate as well as in-
terstate commerce.
But the decision read by Justice
Roberts did affirm the ruling of the
District of Columbia supreme court.
In holding the retirement law un-
constitutional, this tribunal stressed
the lack of distinction between rail-
road employes engaged in interstate
and intrastate commerce.
With NRA’s code rule of industry
already under supreme court consid-
eration, administration legal exports
were busy trying to figure in advance
of a ruling what a similar distinction
between interstate and intrastate
commerce would do to the vast code
structure.
The minority of the high court,
headed by Chief Justice Hughes, who
was joined by Justices Brandels, Car-
doza and Stone, pointedly disputed
virtually all conclusions of the ma-
jority. The very first paragraph of
the dissenting opinion, prepared by
the chief justice, asserted:
“The gravest aspect of the decis-
ion is that it does not rest simply
upon a condemnation of particular
features of the railroad retirement
act, but denies to congress the power
to pass any compulsory pension act
for railroad employes.”
Administration leaders quickly
sought to ascertain whether the ma-
jority ruling on contributions to the
retirement fund could be applied fair-
ly to the various taxes contained in
the security V'ill and intended to
finance unemployment insurance and
retirement annuities for workers in
other industries.
The railroad retirejnent bill was
passed in the rush which preceded
adjournment of the last congress.
President Roosevelt signed the re-
tirement act with express misgivings.
He found it “crudely drawn” and said
it would “require many changes and
amendments at the next session of
congress.” Nevertheless he found
that its advantages outweighed, to
his mind, these disadvantages.
WHY
you, send
^laundry out
Sometimes, when you think
over all the work of the house
and the number of hours a day
it takes to do it,—well, you
wonder if you have any time
left for real living. That’s
where our Wet Wash service
comes in—everything washed
white and clean, returned ready
to starch, hang up or iron.
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TO OUR READERS
* The Leader is always glad to
* print news items, letters and oth-
* er news of interest contributed
* by our friends and readers, but
* the name of the sender must al-
* ways be given, not for publica-
* tion, but in order that we may
* know who sent it. Please re-
* member this, and when sending
* us any kind of news, just put
* your name on it somewhere.
See the new 1935 General Electric
refrigerators at Texas Power & Light
Gompany. (d54)
PURE PAPER FOR CHESTE
They use 300 gallons of
fresh water a minute to purify
the clean flax linen pulp that
Chesterfield paper is made of
Champagne Paper Co.,
mill where Chesterfield
paper is made.
Over and
over again they bon
and wash the pure flax linen shreds
before they are rolled out into thin
crisp paper and cut into rolls for
Chesterfield cigarettes.
Every step in the manufacture and
everything about the big modern
factory where Chesterfield paper is
made is spotless and clean.
Before the paper is shipped to this
country it is tested for three things—
Purity
Right burning quality
No taste or odor
Slitting and winding
wide rolls of cigarette
■paper into reels.
There is no better paper made than that
used on Chesterfield—another thing that
makes it a milder, better-tasting cigarette.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 8, 1935, newspaper, May 8, 1935; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth897794/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.