The Marion County Courier (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1939 Page: 2 of 12
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I M
TOE MARION COUNTY COVBUBR
THE MARION COUNTY COURIER
H. G. (Boh) BRAPSHAW
PUBLISHER
Entered in post office at Jefferson, Texas as second class mail matter
under the act of March 3, 1879.
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WRICHTPATMAN'S
WEEKLY NEWS UTTER
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- CONGRESSMAN ~ TEX AS, ^
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation
of any person or firm or corporation which may appear in the columns
of The Marion County Courier will be gladly corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the publisher.
Why Not Co-operate
The past few days the Texas newspapers have carried
stories from Senator Hill, of Henderson, and others asking
Governor O'Daniel to call a special session of the legisla
ture to "do something about the old age pensions," etc.
If this was not such a serious problem it would make
us laugh to think a group of men, selected by the voters
of this great commonwealth to represent them in the legis
lature and senate, could stay in Austin at the expense to
those same voters and tax-payers of nearly a million dol-
lars and do nothing to change the condition and take care
of these payments, and then have the unmitigated "gall"
to ask the man. they fought so hard and long, to burden
the tax-payers with another session at an approximate
cost of $1,800 per day to correct their own errors they
made in the past regular session.
It looks to this newspaper that if these senators and
legislators really and sincerely had the best interests of
our state and tax-payers at heart they would offer to go
back to Austin and cooperate with Governor O'Daniel and
see that these laws were passed and be satisfied with do-
ing it at their own expense instead of having the nerve to
ask the state to throw good money after bad.
If a merchant sells you something that is not what he
represented it to be, you take it back and he either gives
you something that is good or gives you your money back
When the folks were running for office they promised the
voters certain things, yet according to their own record
tlisy failed to "come through," so it looks to us as if they
should be good citizens or good sports enough to make a-
m :nds without asking the governor to "stick his chin out"
for another whack at the states expense.
Remember, boys, the ballot box comes out again' in
1940, and you will have a hard time explaining and cov-
ering up this 1989 failure.
FITZWATER-DUNCAN WELL
(From page 1)
the Tokio, or upper Woodbine."
Since our last report, the Reynolds-Terry No. 2, west
offset to the discovery well, has been completed as a good
producer. It will probably not be a flowing well, though
it dhows much gas and makes strong heads under the swab.
As we go to press, J. D. Reynolds is ready to spud in
his Terry No. «S, east ofiset to the discovery well. Work
will be rushed on thia well and we hope to report in our
next issue that it hat) reached the Tokio.
Pitzwater litis rig on the ground and being rigged up
for drilling the Eli Howeli-Carrie Moseley No. 1, three-
quarters of a mile due west of the Fitzwater-Terry discov-
ery well.
Thus we see the play rapidly spreading in three di-
rections, east, west, and northwest. Of course, we all real-
ize that, with the Vestal well standing off down there to
the southwest seven or eight miles, and ready for the
pump, there must inevitably be a play in that direction.
Again, we say, a boom is in the making in the East
End of Marion County, and the oil man who gets in now
will be the wise bird.
UNFAIR FREIGHT RATES
Although the freight rates aie considerably higher in
the southwestern area, including Texas, than in the so-call
ed favored zone of the northeast, taxes are considerably
less on the railroads in the southwestern area. For ins-
tance, the Interstate Commerce Commission reports that
for the year 1935, the latest information available, the
class 1 railroads paid in taxes and special assessments less
money per mile of railroad in Texas than in any other
state in the Union. The per mile taxes in Rhode Island a-
mounted to 33,570; Massachusetts, $2,058; New York $3.
039; New Jersey, $8,998; District of Columbia, $3,937:
West Virginia, $2, 318; Louisiana, $1.04G, but Texas only
$367. There are a large number of other states, which re-
quire the railroads to pay more than $1.0 0 a mile, and no
state permitting them to pay as little as Texas.
It is admitted by experts on freight rates that there is
no scientific or exact rule upon which freight rates are bas.
ed; that there is not even an effort made to grant equal
justice to different sections; and that their only yardstick
is obtaining all that the traffic will bsar between differ-
ent sections and on different commodities.
FREIGHT RATES ON TOMATOES
It is Certainly unfair to our people in the aouthwest to
pay more in freight rates than in The so-called favored
zone of the northeast. The carload freight rate on fresh
tomatoes from Avery, Texas to Chicago, Illinois, a distance
of 793 miles, is 98c a hundred pounds. Whereas the freight
rate in the favored zone from Perryville, Maiyland, to Chi-
cago. a distance of 797 miles, is 77c a hundred. From In-
dianapolis, Ind., to New York, 799 miles, the rate is 75c;
from North Vernon, Ind., to New York, 796 miles, the rate
is 76c. This rate, and other similar rates, must be equal-
ized. I am insisting the secretary of agriculture intervene
before the Interstate Commerce Commission in behalf of the
tomato growers in our section, as he has a right to do under
a recent law, and endeavor to get the injustice speedily ad-
justed.
NEW WPA LAW
Sponsors of local projects under the new bet will be re-
quired to furnish 25 per cent of the cost; the Federal Gov-
ernment will not put up more than $52,C00 on any building
project. Although the $125,000,000 earmarked for WPA
was stricken out of the bill, it is thought that a much larg-
er appropriation for WPA wilf be made this year. One man
F. C. Harrington, instead of a board of commission, will
continue to administer the WPA. The NYA is provided $1
00,000,000 for this year, and FSA for farm tenant home \
purchases received an increased appropriation- The wor
is to be divided up in a more satisfactory way snd certain
unworthy projects are prohibited. One new project to train
domestic help is added. It is said that there is now and
has been for a number of years, evea during the depression
a shortage of domestic help.
NEUTRALITY
It is not the sale of munitions and implements of war
that is calcula ted to get our country into trouble. It is tha
transportation or delivery of such munitions that cause the
real danger. The house neutrality bill contains three prin-
cipal provisions;
1. That American citizens shall not be passen-
gers on ships of belligerent Nations,
2. That title to armaments sold to belligerent
countries shall pass before they leave our
shores.
3. No money shall be loaned directly or indirect-
ly to belligerent Nations.
There are many factions in the neutrality fight. Each
group doubtless sincere in trying to do what is necessary to
keep our country out of war and each group has many fol-
lowers, as well as many critics. The subject is a dangerous
one to deal with. There is much support for the contention
that congress should not lay down rules of Conduct that we
would have to be governed by in emergency involving war
when the emergency has not arisen. The congress, it Us said
in attempting to Oeal with the subtect ennnot have infor-
mation as to how, when or where or under what circumstan-
ces the emergency will be created.
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Bradshaw, R. G. The Marion County Courier (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1939, newspaper, July 7, 1939; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293128/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.