The Hebbronville News (Hebbronville, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 3, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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THE HZBBRONV1LLE NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 3. 1931
VHE HEBBRONVILLE NEWS
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QHmI Paper In Jim Hogg County; Established 1922
PahSsbrd Weakly By The
EDWARDS PUBLISHING COMPANY
General Offices:
MB Chaparral Sl, Corpus Christi Phone 2113
Mitered at the Post Office at Hebbronville, Texas,
•n Oct 15, 1922, as second class mail matter, under
act of Congress March 3, 1879.
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RIGHT in the Sight of God.—Harry L. Edwards.
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HEBBRONVILLE, TEXAS. JUNE 3. 1931
Better Heed
Folks, I am no wild-eyed social-
ist, nor am I an alarmist, and look
through colored specs, but I want
to tell you in all seriousness that
it is time for some people to do a
little thinking: and see where we
are headed.
I was in San Antonio the first
of the week and by actual count
in one day twenty-six men made
a statement substantially like
this: “I think it’s time for a
change, and I have reached a
point where I am not caring: much
when it comes or how it comes.”
And these people were not Rus-
sian soviets, anarchists or com-
munists—they were just ordinary
American men—men like you and
I. These men are growing: bitter.
They are becoming desperate.
They want work and there is no
work for them. Their clothes are
getting shabby. Many have a
hunted, worried look. Some have
families who are in need.
If such a condition exists in San
Antonio, a city that is blessed
with everything to make a city
rich and prosperous, what must
be conditions in more congested
centers?
Do you think such conditions
can or will be allowed to continue?
Do you think that these men are
going hungry and unfed and let
their families starve and do no-
thing?
We are told that the vaults of
the banks of the country are
bursting with money; that there
is more money in banks than ever
known. We are told that money
is plentiful and interest is the
lowest known in modern times,
but—let the ordinary business
man try to borrow a dollar and
see what he gets.
Taxes are on the increase, and
the end of this increase is not in
sight. Railroads claim that their
tax bill last year was equivalent
to $2.90 for every man, woman,
and child in the United States, or
stating it differently, that they
paid out more in taxes than they
received for transporting all the
wheat, all the corn, all the auto-
mobiles and all trucks they haul-
ed during the entire year.
Rents are out of all proportion.
Business men are called on to pay
these increasing taxes and rents
that prevailed during the peak of
wartime prosperity.
And the tax levying bodies
hunting for more public income
levy new assessments and land-
lords seek to raise rents because
as they say, taxes are going up.
In Corpus Christi there was a
certain property renting for $650
a month. The renters, unable to
meet this rent which was at least
$400 too high, failed and went out
of business. The owner of the pro-
perty now seeks to raise the rent
for the same property to $950 a
month.
Another firm, one of the oldest
dry goods houses in the city is up
against this kind of proposition.
Their lease will soon expire. I
know they have been having a
hard struggle to make ends meet
the last year. Yet in the face of
this condition they are confront-
ed with a demand on the part of
the landlord that they pay an in-
creased rental.
Can you expect this firm to be
very enthusiastic about trying to
do business or to work very hard
to overcome the present depres-
sion?
Printers and publishers are
paying today just as much for ev-
ery pound of paper they use as
they did in 1924 and 1925 and
1926. Why? Plainly speaking,
because there is a combine and
this combine must have its pound
of flesh regardless of what hap-
pens to others.
No, I do not think there will be
a revolution and the country go
to the demnition bow-wows, but
mark this: Unless there is a
change, and this change come
soon the masses will revolt and
demand that such drastic laws be
enacted curbing and regulating
combines, mergers and the accu-
mulation of great wealth that the
whole system of doing business
in this country will be changed
and the beneficiaries of an iniq-
uitous system will rue the day
they goaded by their rapacious
greed a great people to desperate
acts.
Unless the masses get a fairer
and a squarer deal, you are going
to see, some day soon, a gifted
leader with the magnetism of a
William Jennings Bryan, rise up
and in clarion tones call, “Come
on, people, let’s change this con-
dition,” and millions will rally to
his standard.
Do you want this to happen?
No. Then you who have wealth
use it to relieve the present dis-
tress and depression. A man has
a right to his wealth, but no man
has a right to take that wealth
and hoard it. Those who accumu-
late wealth owe a duty to their
fellow man. The time is fast ap-
proaching when those who ne-
glect or refuse to fulfill that duty
will be made to pay and to pay
dearly.
FREE ADVICE TO GOVERNORS
By Wm. A. Black
Some of our State Governors are places. The idle men and idle land
in convention at French Lack must be brought together and it
must be done within the range of
true economic law.
Six More Cities
Spring*, Indiana. They are met to
tell their troubles and jokes. Both
are old but it gives relief to unload
them occasionally. Among the sub-
jects announced in advance is "Land
Utilization " That sounds interesting,
but what have they to offer that will
work?
The Science of Making a Living
in a statement today. The cities are
San Diego, Cal.; Dexter Me.; Ashe-
ville. N. C.; Belton and Jacksonville.
Tex., and Appalachia, Va.
“The growth of the manager plan
| seems to be continuing at a more
rapid pace than ever before as a
result of movements all over the
country to stem the riisng tide of
governmental expenditures," Dr.
Forbes said.
“Four out of five cities which draw
_ , | ,i new charters these days adopt the
Take Manager! lan city manaKer plan, for experience
i has shown it to be at once the most
NEW YORK -The growth of the j democratic and efficient form of mu-
manager plan of city government is! nicipal government so far devised,
'called economies is commanding a evident by the fact that six cities "Time was when the manager plan
great deal of attention. It just has j,aye atjopted this form of govern- was consideerd as of chief value in
a way of forcing itself into every ment gince January lf of ,hls year, a small city This is no longer the
avenue of life, public and private accorc|tng to Dr. Russell Forbes, as- case. One out of five cities of over
Governors can’t escape it. Six mil-' aoc^ate professor of government at 30,000 population now has the man-
lions of idle men in this rich coun- ^ew University and secretary I ager plan, and the experiences of
try gives our politicians concern 0f ^ National Municipal League such large cities as Cincinnati, Cleve
There are more millions on farms
and in cities and towns underfed.
Ray Carney of the Robstown
Record is a funny kind of fellow.
The paper manufacturers have
been complaining that there is an
overproduction of paper. Ray
wants to know why, if there is an
overproduction, prices have not
come down. He says farmers have
all had to take a cut in their pro-
ducts, and he can’t see why paper
should sell at the price it sold dur-
ing the peak of war times. Noth-
ing like having a combine, Ray.
and poorly housed and clothed that
call for relief.
Isn’t proper land utilization at the
bottom of all this trouble and grief?
What more can we need than ac-
cess to and use of land. We have cap
ital in abundance seeking profitable
use. But land demands too much.
While visiting Detroit a year ago
this month, I drove around the bet-
ter part of two days with a bricklay-
er who was looking for work. Jobs
were scarce, and idle men by the
thousands. Another thing I noticed
on these drives. There's a strip of
land twenty-five miles wide on three
sides of the city for the most part
idle. Enough is laid out in town lots
still unused to accomodate a city of
ten millions. In this vast stretch are
a few villages and scattered homes.
These lands are held at $3,000 an
acre up to $10,000, prohibitive prices
for homes or gardens. Governor
Brucker of Michigan and Mayor
Murphy of Detroit might try their
hands at land utilization right at
home.
Proper use of lands is not confined
to truck, farm and ranch. It includes
city lots, river and harbor fronts,
minerals in place; every foot of this
good earth that is needed by man
and has value The States have one
and only one reserve power to use,
that will do the job and do it well
and that is taxation. Taxation is the
greatest power of government, and
through it we can build up or des-
troy. Through taxation we can des-
troy land monopoly, the greatest
curse of the era, and at the same
time encourage industry and enter-
prise in every useful endeavor.
No man is big enough to be a
governor who does not understand
the Law of Rent and the beneficent
effect of taxing it into the public
treasury, and if he does understand
and lacks the courage to stand for
such a policy he is still less fitted
for a governorship. Blunt but true!
TTiis is no time for soft words with
ignorance and cowardice in high
Don’t let your boy or girl get in a
run-down condition. Our treat-
ments are given by an experienced
Chiropractor. Bring them for scien-
tific Chiropractic Treatments. Child-
ren respond readily to this form of
treatment.
The wise merchant these days
will sell his old stock at any price
and get ready for the good trade
that is coming. The best way to
sell anything is to put the right
price on it and advertise it for sale
in a good newspaper.
The closer a man is the
distant his friends are.
more
Just a Minute—
Why do you use printing that de-
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tige of your business?
You Are Judged—
By your printing. You use printing—
why not use the kind that raises you
in the estimation of your business
associates?
It Is Coneeded—
That you can get the highest class
of printing at the most reasonable
prices at the
EDWARDS PUBLISHING COMPANY
land, Rochester, and Dayton dem-
onstrate beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the size of the city has
nothing whatever to do with the
effectiveness of the operation of the
plan.”
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