The Howe Messenger (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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JUST A COUNTRY BOY’S
Opinion of Politics
IN YOUR CAPITOL
By Red Christie
^ EDITOR’S NOTE—The opin-
ions expressed in this column are
those of the writer and do not
necessarily reflect the policy of
this publication.
GOVERNOR POPULAR
You know that lots of people
don’t agree with me but I really
think that Governor O’Daniel is
just as popular
! today 'a.s he has
been since his
nomination. You
hear , (some say
this and that
but I have been
out from ' the;
Capitol some the
last week and I
do not hear any
thing but praise
)for him. 'It ;is
' tru e he has
mistakes but you
VOLUME XVI
The Howe Messenger
HOWE, GRAYSON COUNTY, TE^AS, FRIDAY,"april 7,1937
V. R. Henderson Elected Clerk
D. S. Dept, of Justice Rules
Bond Plan Not Diversion
SPECIAL EASTER PROGRAM
AT CHRISTAIN CHURCH
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The way was cleared Thursday
for passage of the county road
bond refunding bill now pending
■in the legislature, when the Fed
era! department of justice ruled
that the plan did not constitute
diversion of highway funds, up
holding a previous (opinion jrcn
dered by Solicitor Mastin White.
The information was received in
.l„„t „ ■ ,, , . | a wire from Congressman Sam
snow me the person who has not •> i , , mi_ . . , ,
, T ... . I Rayburn late Thursday night,
made a few and I will show you
the person who has never done ! Opponents of the bill have ob
anything. He has had a hard 'J’®cted primarily on the grounds
fight from the start, but he" has
made
not had as hard at fight so far
as some of the members of the
46th Legislature are going to
have, trying to come back down
here.
Now members you were sent
down here to pass some revenue
bills that would raise enough
money to pay the Old Age Pen-
sion and you had better do it if
you want to come back. Now as
to how you get the money—that
does not make so much difference
that the measure constituted di
version and would cost the state
of Texas its Federal highway aid.
This opinion from Washington
removes all possibility Of loss of
Federal funds.
O’Daniel Castigated
By Friend and Foe
AUSTIN—Rep. Abe Mays of
Atlanta charged on the house
fi-or Monday that Cc./. W. Lee
O’Daniel r' dio talk Sunday
“ ■* ould make Hitler < :u- :i with
shame.”
IV] ays, wh-> few weeks
ago
Rev. Leon England, pastor of
the Chris tain church j Jssifais a
special invitation to people of ail
churches to attend the Easter
morning worship service Sunday
morning subject of the sermon
will be “The Right to Immortal-
ity.”
Special music for the occasion
has been arranged by Mrs. C. D.
Powell and Mrs. Mary Hughett.
Miss Eiug'enia Slaughter 'will
read the Easter passages from
the Gospel of John.
Leads Nearest Opponent 2
To 1 in 51 Complete Boxes
-ii_n“" ---- ■ a.
ELECTED
is a sure thing that
will have the sav as
the lobby
to where
Governor to Fight
For Pension Plan
Austin—Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel
, T ^ ,, served notice Sundav he would
to the people. I am sure that they ,, ,
, .... . . continue the battle to meet the
all realize bv this time that it „ ... ,. . .
- constitutional obligations of social
security —whether by constitu-
„ . .. T . , tional amendments or by statu-
22 ln«*we some special t ensctme„t
snterest lobbyists are awfully un-
easy. j j In Sunday radio address, he
Tir ii . , i pointed out the Legislature’s fail-
WeU, now, all I have to say ure to solve „.hat he termed the
!*** y”“ and four crowd had No 1 public question. The chirf
. , . U. .as - ma e your executive said he was interested
™.nd to kick in some of the tax n finaI resu]ts rather tha„ the
money to meet the obi,g-ation for day-to-day tactics of the law
they are going to get it any way. j makers
You are spending too much money ]
here and your war chest is too L hG1'e are a‘>0Ut twenty-eight
full. Now some of these bovs j yS remainl/1g ln the reeular
will drink your liquor and eat 1^7 * ^ Legislature,” O'-
your steaks, but thev will vote Da7e sa-ld' 0f c0urse a statute
to eet von i„a+. ..a lcouId be Passed at
was considered generally friend-
ly to O'Daniel, said it was “time
some one should; challenge the
duplicity with which the governor
is treating the people of Texas.
The Atlanta representative call-
ed O’Daniel “the most shrewd
politician who ever sat in the
governor’s chair” and said his tax
program would aid the special
interests. .
O’Daniel and Mays have had
business relations for .years and
Mays at one time was mentioned
as the governor’s rtrohable choice
for secretary of state.
Mays was followed by Rep. W.
J. Galbreath of Wharton, who
likewise vigorously assailed O’-
Daniel as he has done on several
past occasions.
Galbreath asserted it was “dis-
gusting, nauseating and nerve-
wracking to see the governor
proselyliting that great office and
dragging it down to the level of
a minstrel show.
’“He-'Xttie governor) says he
has been putting- up a fight for
the people,” Galbreath said. “If
he calls special interests people
he had been exactly putting up a
figh.t. He has been repeating par-
to get you just the same. p^uiu oe passed at any time, but rot ]i:ke words put jnto his mout}t
Now to tell the truth, if Gov-If co"st,tut,onal •““*»•»* mustiby his masters. Every promise he
, i ue submitter? at a rpcriilar session i___ _____i _
declare’*16 subm^^ed a regular session.
he I * am no^ goin£ to as^ y°a to
might get some thing done but'Write.t0 y°Ur Senators or RePres'
entatives, but I am going to tell
ernor O’Daniel would
martial law here in Austin
otherwise, Governor you are fight-
ing the smoothest running lobby
ever known of in this Country
Boys life. I was personally ac-
quainted with Senator Huey Long
and knew something of the work-
ings of his machine but Huey
Long would lie taking lessons if
he were in Austin, Texas today.
Governor you don’t I |stand a
chance. There are a few who
will sta-y with ^-ou. But Governor
they **e too f.w. 1' ftJgg £
THEME SONG
you that this social security pro-
gram which the people have au-
thorized will, sooner or later, be
provided for. I am going to tell
you further if you want it done
in a reasonable manner you had
better have it done at this ses-
sion.’’
The theme song you hear ev-
erywhere today is. “Stop beating
around the mulberry bush, stop
beating around the mulberry bush,
come on and pay them pensions.”
Representative Alsup made a mo-
tion in the house after the house
had killed the constitutional
amendment No. 16 that the house
at that time adopt the song, “It
makes no difference now.” But I
suggest thev 'adopt the song
“Stop beating around the mul-
lierry bush and come on and pay
them there pensions.” AVhat you
think ?
* * •
TOILET ARTICLE MANU-
FACTURERS ATTENTION!
Wanted-—Something to soften
the whiskers of some of the legis-
lative I' kes.
For 0'Dar>iel is going to make
some of the members eat them.
* 9 tf
YOU WERE RIGHT
YOUNG MAN
A news boy stood on Congress
venue the past week and yelled
at the top of his voice, “O’Daniel
says Austin stinks.” You were
right the bov was standing in
front of a fish market. 1
*F * *
HELP WANTED
The worry has just started for
(Continued on Pa|g“e Four)
Britain-Germany
Threaten War
BUCHAREST— Great (Britain
was understood reliably Sunday
night to have extended her arm-
ed encirclement of Nazsi Ger-
many to the Black Sea by pledg-
ing military aid to Rumainia in
event of German aggression.
The guarantee was said to car
ry the same terms as the new
Anglo-French pledge to Poland—
that Britain and France will
come to Rumainia’s aid at once if
the Rumanians themselves are
forced to fight in defense of
their independence.
In exchange, Rumania and Po-
land were reported to have agreed
to bring their two-power military
alliance up to date and make it
an important link in the stop
Hitler chain being stretched
across Europe in the path of the
Nazi Fuehrer.
The Polish-Rumania alliance
heretofore operative only against,
aggression by Soviet Russia, will
be revised to apply equally to
Germany, it was said.
has made to the people he has
repudiated.
“That radio stuff he talked
about—someone wanting to cut
him off the air. He is merely pav-
ing the way to reveal a gigantic
deal between special interests
,and as Roosevelt sayjs ^ at the
same time pose as a martyr.”
Galbreath called O’Daniel's
transactions tax recommendation
“a message to rob, steal, pilfer
and swindle the aged and the
poor of the state.
Allen Couple Tame
Mourning Dove
Mr. and Mrs. James Garland
have an unusual pet. It is a
wild mourning dove, but is any-
thing but wild. It is so tame that
it flies about the Garland home
and lights on the shoulder or
head of the family and their
friends. - ; flfnpn
Two years ago Mrs. Garland’s
grandson, James Jasper Garland,
was hunting doves on the farm
home near McKinney. After kil-
ling one, he saw a nest in a
nearby tree with a fuzzy young-
ster in it. He took it to his grand-
mother who raised it by hand.
The family thought the dove
would return to its wild state
when it learned to fly, but in-
stead it took up its residence on
their back porch and when they
moved to Allen, eight miles away
moved with them.
During the mating season the
dove attracted other doves to the
Garland orchard and helped raise
■a family. During the hunting
season the pet is carefully guard-
ed, but at other times is allowed
to fly at will. It always sta.vs
close to the \ house.
BERLIN —< German attention
wag centered Sunday on nipping
in the bud what Nazis call Brit-
ain’s effort to surround Germany
with enemies.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s warning
to Britain Saturday in his speech
at Wilhelmshaven and to all
others, especially Poland, who al-
ly themselves with the French- Mr. aud Mrs. J. W. Spain of
British policy, was considered the Farmersville spent the week end
opening gun, with Mr and Mrs. J. C. Gallimore
Heavy Vote In
City Election
* —--—.—_
All but seven of the 158 eligible
voters in Howe cast ballots in
the annual city election Tuesday
returning the mayor, marshal and
one alderman to office and elect-
ing two new aldermen. iSo intense
was the struggle for votes that
employees of thh WPA sewing
room made a house to house can-
vass 'for vthe incumbents, Hate
Tuesday afternoon. •
W. P. Thompson, mayor of Howe
for the past twenty odd years
was returned to office with i
majority of seven votes. He de
feated Russell W. Bryant 78 to
71. E. F. Boatwright led the ticket
with 88 votes in th marshal's race,
defeating Bob Turley, W. D.
Stout and G. F. Jeter who re
ceived 20, 21 and 22 votes re
spectively.
J. E. Malone was returned to
the city council with 82 votes.
Virg'il Fielder and Walter Enloe
were new members elected with
77 and 84 votes. W. C. Frampton
ran fourth with 72 votes, |L. M.
Davis, incumbent alderman failed
of reelection, receiving 68 votes
A. T. Davenport received 55
votes.
No changes were made in the
school trustees at the ’election
Saturday Edgar Jay and Loy
Itelvey being returned ko )the
board. They were opposed by E.
Powell and J. F. Lupher. Inter-
est in the school election was
light, 117 votes being cast.
j —:-oi-——
Senate Approves
Pension Bill
Austin —The senate TnesrM
passed finally and sent to the
house a bill liberalizing old age
pensions despite cries of oppon-
ents it was putting the cart
before the horse liecanse new
revenue for pensions was not
in sight.
By a vote 0f 17 to 8 it approved
the measure, by Senator Doss
Hard in of Waco, which authorizes
grants to aged persons whose
annual net income is less than
$360. It also placed pension ad-
ministration with county commis-
sioners courts.
The bill sets up A and B classes
of recipients, applicants in each
class to receive equal payments
which would lie determined by
their previous standards of living.
Sponsors have explained the B
class was intended primarily for
Negroes. The maximum state pay-
ments to members of the A classi-
fication would be $15 monthly.
—-o,— -
BIGGER AND BETTER EGGS
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Vemie Handerson, deputy dis-
trict clerk for the past 27 months,
who was elected to district clerk
by a landslide vote Thursday.
, Piling up a lead of more than
tv o to one over his nearest op-
ponent, V. R. Henderson ran a-
way from a field of 34 candidates
to win the special election for
bStrict cle.’k Thursday. Unoffic-
ial returns from 51 of the 62
boxes in the county, all of them
complete, gave ja, Jlnjnderson a
total of 1532. S. V. Earnest was
running a poor second with 727.
Partial returns on the remaining
Howe Ball Season
Opens Sunday
The 1939 baseball season will
open with a bang at Howe (Sun-
day afternoon when the local'
nine crosses bats with an inde-
pendent team from Sherman. They
will play at the new ball
park in North Howe and an ad-
mission charge of 10 cents will
be made. /
The new uniforms have arrived
and will be used for the first
time in the Sunday game.
The locals showed up to good
advantage in a practice game
with a team from Farmington
Sunday, winning in seven in
nings by the lopsided score of
34 to-£.
Bus Goes in Ditch
During Rain
Madeline Lupher of Gainsville
spent the week end with Mr anct
Mrs Jim Lupher
Eggs laid by Black Jersey
Giant hens, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Coutorie, of Alta
Loma (Galveston County) weigh
an average of 33 ounces, per
dozen, considerably more than
the common variety. The hens
average from 10 to 12 pounds in
weight. j
A heavy northbound ,Santa Fe
Trailways bus went into the
ditch near the section house south
of Howe during the heavy rain
Wednesday morning and was de-
layed more than an hour while
efforts were being made to drag
the heavy vehicle back on the
pavement. No oue was injured.
The accident 'occurred When
the bus swerved to avoid a head-
on collision with a southbound
truck operated by the English
Motor Freight Lines of Dallas
'Thq truck was pulling around
two cars parked on the slab.
Drivers of the cars drove away
from the scene of the accident
without nffej’iug to Vender as-
sistance.
PREDICT REJECTION OF
ANOTHER O’DANIEL
APPOINTEE
Denison box,
gave
Earnest
93 to
Henderson’s
10. The rest c
rf the
unheard from
boxes
were not be-
lieved to have more than
votes.
400
Results for
the Howe and
Tom
Bean boxes and foi
the 51
com-
plete boxes are as
follows:
r
Tom
Conn-
Candidate—
Howe
Bean
ty
S. V. Earnest. 5
5
727
Everheart
2
r
651
George/
114
19
195
Williams
0
0.
108
j owe
1,
f>
677
Foy Wallace
2
0
119
Evans
5
1
128
Ita Wallace
0l
0
36
Mer.wr
1
7
131
Fuller
0
0
12
Newman
0
0
49
Hopson'
0
0
219
Huff
O'
0
134
Henderson
30
10
1532
Fennen
0
4 '
128
Spears
■0
0
36
Myniatt
1
0
52
Anderson
1
1
116
Rheay
.0
0
41
Franks
0
0
2
Caraway
6
27
80
Ball
0
31)
75
Wingo
0
1
15
Kimbrough
3
0
214
Thomason
0
0
129
Dunn
0
0
1
Leslie
1
2
317
Bass
0
0
373
Walcott
0
0
147
Brown
0
1
147
Newland
0
0
5
Toolev
0.
0
14
Thorn
0
0
70
Scott
0
1'
96
Mr. and Mrs
H. D Taylor
were
Sherman visitors Sunday.
Know Your
Neighbor
By Marne Roberta
If 1 knew yon and you knew mt--«
If both could clearly *ee.
And with an inner si^ht divine
i The meaning of yonr heart and min*
I'm sure we would differ le*8.
And clasp oar hands in frien
Iva Medlin of Dallas is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Omar Callaway.
Dorothy Jane Davis is ill of
measles thi§ week
Austin— Prediction the recent
appointment of J. M. West of
Houston as chairman of the
state highway commission would
be rejected by the senate was made
Tuesday by Senator Doss Hardin
of Waco.
Other senators expressed opin-
ions, however, that while moit
opposition to confirmation existed
mow than when the appointment
by Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel was an
nounced they believed West
would be approved.
Mr. and Mrs Lowe Williams,
Jr. of Dallas and Mrs.^ J. D.
Barnett spent Sunday afternoon
with relatives here
Forrest Stout of Dallaas spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
H'. T. Stout.
friendltasH
D. C. McCOMAS
^THE man who is successful
I is the man who is useful."
D. C. McComas is demonstrating
these principals in operating his
business.
One day, last October, a man
with a contagious smile came to
town and opened the Universal
Feed Store. His location was a
little away from the busiest
section of the town, and it was
the out season for seed, but his
courteous, friendly wav drew peo-
ple to his store, and he made
friends. Today, he owns his own
business house in a better loca-
tion, he has increased his stock
and has made his place one of
the most attractive in town. He
is making himself useful and suc-
cessful.
He was born in Kansas, but
moved to Dallas when, -he was
seven years of age. The family
then moved to Denison where his
father was connected with the
MK&T railway as engineer. D. C.
also entered the service of the
Ivaty and served as conductor for
twenty-two years.
His hobby is chicken raising. He
has ai large flock of high bred
chickens of which he is very proud.
In sports he prefers baseball, and
enjoys bridge and other games
for social contact.
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