The Howe Messenger (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1939 Page: 4 of 8
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THE HOWE MESSENGER
Friday, April 7, 1939
Page Poor
The Howe Messenger
RUSSELL W. BRYANT
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the
Post Office at Howe, Texas, under the act
of March 3, 1879.__
Published Each Friday Morning
Subscription $1.00 a Year
{one the sublimest things in the world is plain truth — — bulwerJ
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The Russell W. Bryant
Publications
HOWE MESSENGER
. . Howe, Texas
ALLEN TIMES . .
. . Allen, Texas
PRINCETON NEWS
. Princeton Texas
ANNA LIGHT . .
. . Anna, Texas
TOM BEAN TIMES
Tom Bean, Texas
Advertising Rates
on Application
Lateral
,We cannot recall when & piece of proposed legis-
lation has brought out as much false information
as has the socalled “County Judges’ Bond Bill .
Sponsors of this bill have been charged with at-
tempting to aid bond buyers, to unload county
bonds in order that more might be issued; the
plan has been labeled diversion of gasoline monev
because the bill provides for inclusion of lateral
road bonds; and the charge made that 14 counties
are to benefit more than the rest of the state
combined.
As to the first named charge, it so happens
that the county judges association drew up this
plan to block a “bond buyer’s’’ bill which had
been proposed by a group of experts and known
as the Taber plan. The bill now underfire was
designed to eliminate the undesira »!e features
of the Taber plan and effectively does so.
It does not relieve the counties of their bonded
indebtedness, specifically providing that whenever
the revenue from the gasoline tax allocated for
bond retirement purposes falls short of the needed
amount, the counties must make up the difference.
The bonds still carrv the county’s guarantee of
payment. The fact that one county out of the
entire group is in financial difficulties and that
this measure will restore the value of their bonds
Is true, but it must borne in mind that the de-
falcation of any county on its bonded indebted-
ness will to a large extent react upon the entire
state.
On the face of figures, 14 counties will receive
more relief under this plan than the remaining
counties of the state, but when we go behind these
figures we also find that these counties contain
approximately half the state’s population, pay
more than half the gasoline tax and contain 5o
per cent of the improved roads in the state.
Furthermore, these counties are the most pro-
gressive counties in the state. The fact that they
have issued bonds to build hard surfaced roads
while the other counties sat back in the mud is
sufficient proof of this statement. And it is a
safe bet that had not the state assumed the bur-
den of building roads a few years ago these
counties would be about the only ones in the
state with such roads.
Is it fair to penalize these counties for build-
ing good roads ? Is it any more unfair to use
gasoline tax from the state as a whole to retire
their bonds than it is for the rest of the state to
use gasoline money paid by them for roads outside of
these counties ? If the arguments for and against
this bill are to be on such a basis, why not aU
locate the gasoline tax to the counties in propor-
tion to what they pay? Then we shall see how
many good roads some of these comities now crying
their eyes out will have.
As to diversion of the funds for lateral road
purposes, it might be pointed out that injustice
has existed in this respect since the adoption of
the gasoline tax. Thosands of Texans use these
lateral roads daily, many of them seldom driving
on a state highway, yet thev must pay their four
cents tax on each gallon of gasoline consumed.
Are they not entitled to some benefit from the
tax they pay? We think so.
And this point brings up another problem that
the highway department is going to have to face
sooner or later. This is the question of whether
or not the cities are entitled to a part of the gaso-
line tax. Countless thousands erf ^cars land de-
livery trucks are operated entirely within the
confines of city limits, paying the full gaso-
line tax, not a cent of which goes for the upkeep
or building of streets over which they travel.
New Deal policies have . presented many a
problem to the man endeavoring to operate a
business, what with this report and that report;
this tax and that tax; price-fixing and anti-price-
fixing; labor relations and numerous and sundry
other regulations, but our linotype operator un-
covered still another problem last week.
While reading proof we ran across a linfe con-
taining some New Deal figures and noted that
the typesetter had used some O’s instead of ciphers.
We marked them and sent the proofs back to be
corrected and were informed that there were not
enouph ciphers in the machine to fill out the line.
Now it looks like we are going to have to invent
some kind of an extension for the magazine.
Hocked
———. .
The South is in hock to the North, according to
recent statements made by President Roosevelt,
and the only hope for it and for the nation is to
get out of hock”. “Hock” in case you are not
familiar with the term is generally applied to
personal articles which are left with pawnbrokers
as security for loans.
If Mr. Roosevelt intends to develop the country
on lines of sectionalism, his admonition is timely,
however we were under the impression that he
was attempting to iron out such divisions and make
.the United States one great big family—at least
that is the impression we had gained from the
numerous laws he has sponsored which were
designed to fit the country as a whole, irregardless
of sectional needs.
Personally, we feel as Peter Molyneaux in his
Texas Weekly, that the South’s greatest handicap
is the lack of invested capital and that it matters
less about where this capital comes from than it
does that it comes. The South is, and has been
for years, sadly in need of capital and we believe
that it would be well to get that capital from the
North. Our greatest economic problems here are
caused bv a misunderstanding of our needs by
northern investors and manufacturers and we are
certain that they could get a more clear picture
of the situation if they had more money invested
here.
But back to Mr. Roosevelt’s statement. The
South has been trying since 1860’s to regain its
former position of economic well-being. Its efforts
have been thwarted time and again by northern
interests. It thought that its time had come when
Mr. Roosevelt made his first campaign on a
platform that promised more to the South than
to any other section of the nation. But alas, Mr.
Roosevelt threw in his lot with the North after
his election and rather than help the situation,
has aggravated it.
Take the wage and hour law with its blanket
provisions for example. This has placed the south-
ern manufacturer at a disadvantage, because of
the difference in the efficiencv of the northern
wage-earner and those of the South. Or the
abolishment of the two-third rule in party con-
claves. How is the South to hope to have a voice
.in party affairs with this life-saving rule put on the
shelf ? These two, along with many other policies of
Mr. Roosevelt, too numerous to mention, have not.
helped the South to get out of hock—and they had
the blessing of the man who now tells us to
regain our independence.
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We thought Governor O’Dsniel was going to
push his industrialization plan for Texas, but he
has evidently changed his mind about this too.
The Hillbilly Boys are now on the air from Old
Mexico. *■- >' 'f -j
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Editorial opinions on
topics of the day as
expressed by our
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SMALL TOWN
BEAUTIFICATION
The little town of Howe north
of Dallas in Grayson county has
[been receiving much publicity
throughout the state during the
past few weeks because of its
citizens, united efforts at beauti-
fication. In fact their goal is to
make it the most beautiful small
town in Texas. .Started by the
head of a woman’s study club the
move has gained momentum rap-
idly and in one weeks time Lynn
(Landrum, conductor of the
“Thinking Out Loud” column in
the Dallas News deserted Dallas
twice to devote his space to Howe
and a week later spoke at a b&n-
, quet which started it off in earn-
est. The Howe Messenger carried
a complete story of the work
being planned1 find ^liat under-
way this week. When the job is
complete Howe will indeed have
sonijething ojf which it can be
proud.—Alba Reporter.
DENISON LEADS IN MANY
WAYS AS THE BEAUTIFUL
While many cities and smaller
communities are setting about to
beautify their town by urging
planting of flowers in parks and
residence lots, it is a source of
pleasure to the people of Denison
that we have so fine a start in
this line. In fact, it is one of the
most beautiful cities one can
visit and a trip over the country
which takes one through numer-
ous towns for a comparsion will
suffice to establish this fact.
of the
program
unstinted
of Deni-
Hardly would it be possible for
one to find a city the size of
Denison, which has so large a
moving population because of the
nature of their work, with such
a l&rge percentage of beautiful
lawns and parkways.
While the city puts, thousands
of dollars each year into beauti-
fication of the public parks and
drives, the citizens as a whole
have caught the spirit
movement. The whole
has been given the
backing of the papers
son. ........
The monev thus furnished by
the city and the background giv-
en by the newspaper publicity,
have been seized on by the Gar-
den club and carried forward to
successful execution.
Denison in the Spring time is
as beautiful as the gardens of
Babylon must have been. Many
coming here for their first visit
are dumbfounded at the beauty
the city presents. Because we have
so much railroad activity, they
rather expect to see a smoke-
besmirched city and a lot of care-
less looking lawns and homes.
We must not, however, fold
our arms and rest our oars.
There is much work to be done
yet to miake this the city we
have in our mind, and this year
should be one of the best toward
making it the city beautiful.—
Denison Press.
ANOTHER MARKET
low grade cotton and cotton lin-
ters in the making of newsprint
paper and in making blotter paper
It has been done in the past ana
if proper support were to be
given now' it should be possible
to add another industry to Texas
land to supply another market
for cotton. It it not worth try-
ing ?—Carrollton Chronicle.
WHY?
have recently been increased.
Plenty of .cattle and hogs, yet
meat prices are on the increase.
Why?—Tioga Herald.
Vice President John N. Garner
hurriedly.called Senator Key Pitt-
man to preside and almost ran
•from the chair when Senator Tom
Connally presented a resolution
from the Texas Legislature in-
dorsing Mr. Garner for President
This is not taken, however, as in-
dicating that he would run from
Chri stiau
Texas should not forget that
it is possible to use a lot of her
The news columns of the daily
newspapers report a very large j the nomination
production of wheat, yet flour is j Science Monitor,
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15— Rowed
17—Conjunction
IS—Girl'* juame
15— Flea*
20—Overly
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SS—To pertain
SS—Finishes
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2S—Extreme happiness
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31—Member of council
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36— Musical note
37— "Devoured
38— Rope missile
39— Thus
40— Part of “to be”
41— Title ,
42— To cover surface
43— -Girl’s .name
16— Dickens’ hero
47— To loom
48— Records
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3— Command to horpe
4— -Pronoun
5— Travelling actor
6— Maker of contract
7— Minerals
8— Finish
9— Part ot luflmlttve
10— Ships
11— A cloth
13— Refuse
16—-Suffers
19— Scouts
20— To infect
22—Spry
33—Free
26—Musical composition
26—Twining plant
2k—Biblical country
29— - Delicate
30— Beginning
31— Piece for one
32— Fruits
33— Snake
36—More painful
38— Nude
39— To keep
41— Arc
42— To oppose
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Bryant, Russell W. The Howe Messenger (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1939, newspaper, April 7, 1939; Howe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996164/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .