Mt. Pleasant Times Review (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1934 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MT. PLEASANT TIMES REVIEW, FEBRUARY 2, 1934.
MT. PLEASANT TIMES REVIEW
The Times Review Publishing Company, Incorporated, Publishers
G. W. CROSS, Editor
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Russian-U. S.
Debt Question
To Be Solved
' Civil Works draft
Starts New Probe
By Federal Agents
Weekly Letter from
Wright Patman
An Inspection Trip to A. A. A. De-
partment of Agriculture
The Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration is one of the busiest de-
partments of our Government. One
night last week, accompanied by Mr.
Oscar Johnston, Director of Finance,
I was shown through the entire Di-
vision from the section where the
contracts come in in mail bags from
the field to the section where the
checks are mailed out to the County
Agents.
Work Night and Day
There are three shifts of the 1600
employees. !One commences at 4:00
p. m. and works until 11:30 p. m.;
another from 12:00 midnight to 7:30
a. m.; and another from 8:00 a. m. to I
Hickory Hill
Zodell Masters, Reporter
J. S. Freshour and
spent the week end in
with Mr. Freshour’s parents.
Houston Proctor of Quitman spent
Saturday and Sunday with O. D.
Goolsby and family.
Mrs. A. C. Long and little son,
Charles, of Morris County spent Sat- lated
Washington, Jan. 28.—The harmon- Washington, Jan. 25.—Complaints
izing influenoe of recognition has ' of graft in the civil works organiza
aided negotiations toward the settle- j tion, coming from all but three Stat-
nunt of the six-year-old Russian debt I es, Thursday night were under the
question until a definite understand- scrutiny of a corps of public works
ing may be reached soon, some obser- administration investigators,
vers forseeing it within a month. The division of investigation of the
Involved are the $300,000,000 to = public works organization was re-
8400,000,000 jn Russian debts due this quested by the civil works adminis-
'■uu““ H anw cOuIit/Ci. -<.»ailiio uc- i ti aliim lu sift uui tile 150 cimiges uf
cause of American participation in; graft and other irregularities that
the Siberian expedition. Then, too,' had come either to the interior de-
there are private claims of citizens. I partment or to the White House and
1 he parleys, in continuation since j bail been turned over to Secretary j
and even before recognition—have Ickes.
Oliver Ford progressed until it was said Sunday j In the main, the complaints involv-
Commerce j that a decision by President Roose- j od chanrges of unjust discrimination
velt on American trade policy might j in the selection of civil workers, but
be about all that is necessary before j there also existed a scattering of
an announcement. j charges of padded pay rolls, falsifi-
Debt settlement credits to Russia, j cation of expense accounts and in a
foreign trade policy and closely re- l few instances active job selling.
subjects are so interlaced at j Legal experts of the Government
3:30 p
16 and 18 hours a day. It would sur-
prise the people to know how effi-
ciently this work is carried on. I
was agreeably surprised at the inter-
est, enthusiasm and earnestness with
which the work wa? conducted. All
the officials and employees seem to
have their whole heart and soul in
this work.
The contracts, when received from
the field, are
exact date of their arrival are stamp-
ed on each contract. Then they start
on the road from desk to desk until
finally approved by the Contract Di-
vision. The contracts are thorough-
ly checked in every way. From 5 per
cent to 10 per cent of
are incorrect for one reason or an
urday night with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. present that President Roosevelt must : said laws already existed for prosecu-1
Gunn. | Pull the proper string before the j tion of all the complaints except un-1
There is quite a bit of whooping s^e>n can be untangled. | just discrimination and that it was'
cough in our community. | negotiations with France and | possible further study would uncover
Luther Harkrider of Morris County Great Britain the Soviet proposed a j a statute relating to that,
spent Sunday with his sister, Alice i settlement which piovided that if j The New England States of New
Harkrider.
Mrs. L. M. Cook entertained a num-
ber of folks with a birthday party ^ition repay the credits. The Soviet which graft complaints had not been
Wednesday night in honor of her ( °^cr> however, was not accepted,
husband’s 37th birthday. 42 and oth- ^be Soviet, it was reported, has
Afterwards mac*e a somewhat similar proposal to
the United States.
I satisfactory credits were made avail- Hampshire, Vermont and Maine were
| able it would pay the debt and in ad- I reported to be the only ones from
FARMER SHOT TO DEATH
I IN CWA PAY ARGUMENT
. . definite
sure
TODAY’S PROBLEMS CAN ALWAYS BE
SUCCESSFULLY M ANAGED IF YOU ARE FIRM-
LY ENTRENCHED IN THE FINANCIAL BACK-
GROUND OF A SUBSTANTIAL BANK ACCOUNT
- - build yours with
an account at the
First National Bank
co-operation working with you
- - and you’l find our sincere
The officials are working | er ^ames were ^
refreshments of sandwiches, cake and
hot chocolate were served to the fol-
lowing: Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Goolsby,
Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. D. L. Barber, Mr.
and Mrs. T- 0. Peacock, Mr. and Mrs. j ___.
Jchnnie Harkrider, Mrs. Fred Snod-! Palestine, Texas, Jan. 28.—One)
grass, Dave Harkrider, Willie Rus-1 nian was dead here Sunday as the j
sell, J. S. Freshour, Harvey Coffey, aftermath of a dispute over labor on j
Homer Sutton of Newsome, Misses a CWA road improvement project.
Jeffie Sims, Clifford Miller, Susie W. H. Johnson, 44, Anderson County
first numbered and the|^ardon ar*d Alice Harkrider. Mr. farmer, died from gunshot wounds re-
Cook received several nice presents, ceived when he went to the home of
and all reported a fine time. j Johnny Patterson, CWA road gang
Mrs. John F. Cobb of Shreveport, foreman, Saturday night to see about
La. is spending the week with Mr. and getting a check for work on the road
Mrs. J. S. Cobb
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cobb, Mrs. Hil-
the contracts i da Gcbb, Eudene Lancaster and Mar-
tha Beason spent Sunday in Camp
l eceived.
Of these 150 complaints, it was dis-
closed not more than fifteen had been
turned over for investigation by the
Department of Justice. Assistant At- \ — —:
torney General Joseph B. Keenan the country and for curing into wilt-
said there were not more than three ghire sides. The meat will be dis-
complaints in his office in connection tributed to needy unemployed,
with the public works administra-1 a total of 433,060 hogs will be
Lon. purchased. Corporation officials said
- : that “this is expected to stabilize the
433,060 HOGS TO ‘ principal mai’kets for hogs during the
FIVE SOUTH TEXANS DIE
OF BURNS WITHIN WEEK
BE BOUGHT FOR U. S. period of purchase, which will be for
--- 20 days, covering four
Washington, Jan. 26.—Purchase of months. j
21,635 hogs a day for the next 20 The hogs are to weigh between 100 i
San Antonio, Texas. Jan. 26.—
Death Friday of Mrs. Maude- Roebuck,
52, of burns suffered Wednesday
when her clothing caught fire, was
calendar -be week’s fifth fatality here from
' burns.
One victim was a 99-year-old wo-
other. These are transferred to the i County with Mrs. Oliver Hazel.
Correspondence Division and held up ' B. ^. P. I. Program for Sunday
until adjustments are made. j ^ Subject, “Man in the Garden of
Undisputed Part Paid Immediately j Lden.
It is not unusual for more than 30,-’ Group captain Lucille Walker.
000 contracts to come in during the I Daily Bible reading — Lurlenc
day. The contracts are carefully i Goolsby,
checked with a list sent in by tlie ^ Part Eden was
! Mary Shairi'ick.
C
At
If there is no doubt
that John Doe is entitled to $60, but
lie is claiming $72, the Department
sends him $60 with assurance that
his claim for the other $12 will be
investigated and adjusted. This is
much better than holding up the
whole claim. 565,000 farmers have
cotton options. More than a million
farmers received checks from the
Government for plowing up cotton.
If a farmer wires in to sell his cot-
ton on a certain date, he gets the
opening price on that day. If a wire
is received during the day to sell, he
gets the price the very minute the
wire is received.
Farmers On Cash Basis
I have urged Mr. Cobb, Mr. John-
ston and other officials to be sure
and get the 1934 cotton reduction
checks delivered for one-half the
amount due the farmers for this year
by March 1st. and the other half be-
tween June 1st and July 1st. I am
project. Patterson surrendered to of-
ficers and is being held pending fil-
ing of a murder charge, officers said.
Patterson said he had warned John-
ston he might not get paid for work, j
but that Johnston appealed with his 1
team and worked anyhow. Saturday, j
Patterson said, “Johnston sent me j
word that I had better be sure to !
bring his pay check.”
| Johnston went to Patterson’s home
Beautiful— Saturday night and the shooting fol-
lowed. Investigators said Johnson
days has been ordered by the Federal and 200 pounds
Surplus Relief Corporation.
Contracts were awarded to nearly
I two score packing companies for pur-
chase in many markets scattered over
man, Mi*s. Margarita Casanova of
__Losoya. Arthur, 4, and Olga Her-
j nandez, 5, brother and sister, and Vir-
The food value of macaroni aver-1 ginia Aranda, 3, also succumbed to
ages 665 caloides per pound. burns suffered in their homes.
2nd part—Eden
Pearl Smith. j
3rd part—Eden was W:ell-Wratered .
—Sally Snodgrass. j
4th part—God Provided Work for J
Man—Velma Goolsby. j
5th part—W7ork is Beneficial to the
Being of Man—Clifford Miller. I
6th part—God in the Garden of
Fruitful—Mrs. was not armed.
SHOULD GOVERMENT DO
MORE?
There is an authentic news item
in this issue, emanating from the
Federal Land Bank of Houston that
in the Garden of 0Ught to be of special interest to
Eden, Provided for Man s Spiritual farmers and those whose prosperity
Obedience Dorothy Sims. i depends upon the prosprity of the
ith paid The Prohibition and the farmers. It recites the setting up in |
Penalty \ irgie Beasley. . Texas of three governmental credit!
* agencies for the farmers and ranch- J
It’s the truth! Advertising pays: | mcn jn addition to the Federal land'
" 11 Bank whose functions most of us
assured of their co-operation to this now understand. As one reads the
end. This will probably relieve many article he can but wonder if the
farmers of the necessity of borrow- Government could with propriety be
ing any money at all and will be a asked to do more for the agricultu-
long step in the right direction of get- ral producers than these several ag-
ting the farmers on a cash basis.— encies propose to do. Tn addition to
Wright Patman, Congressman First the Federal Land Bank, which since
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Mt. Pleasant, Texas,
1917 has been making it easier to pay ,
for and improve farm homes, there *
are now available for further aid to j
the farmers the Federal Intermediate 1
Credit Bank, the Production Credit ]
Corporation and the Bank for Co-op- j
eratives. In addition to these facil- 1
ilies already available and to be made
I available in larger measure, the farm-
ers have gotten small loans to finance
their planting, directly through their
county agents; they have gotten
“plow-up" money; and are renting
cotton 1 ?.ndc to tho OovpiTnnent
for next year and getting cash for
that. More than that, prices of most
farm commodities have doubled near-
ly, or quite, within the past eight
months. It does seem that the Gov-
ernment is doing all within its power
to rehabilitate agriculture.
We hope that all these extra-gov-
ernmental aids may prove all for the
be=t for farmers. We feel that ag-
riculture has never had its proper
rights heretofore, in that it has for
more than a half century been the
victim of a tariff policy that has im-
poverished it and made “bloated bil-
lionaires” of certain industrialists of
the North and East. We don’t say
that agriculture is getting its just
rights now—it may be getting more.
Or it may be getting less. The thing
we could wish for it that the Nation,
its agriculture, its industry, its com-
merce and transportation might all
attain a place wherein it would not
be necessary for the Government to
divert its activities from its proper
function of governing into channels
that are leading us we know not
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Times Review (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1934, newspaper, February 2, 1934; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth799972/m1/2/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.