The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 1934 Page: 4 of 4
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The Lampasas Daily Leader
J. H. ABNEY & SON
Herbert J. Abney, Publisher
Entered at the poutoffice at Lampasas
March 7, 1904, as second-class mail.
THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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PRESBYTERIAN AUXILIARY
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Lampasas Daily Leader is au-
thorized to make the following an-
nouncements for olfice in the City
of Lampasas. The election to be held
in April:
For City Marshal:
J. P. (Press) FIELD.
W. S. (Uncle Billy) DILLINGHAM.
R. W. McCAULEY
OMAR (Jack) O’HAIR.
JOHN W. ALEXANDER.
T. S. ROMANS.
P. J. BLACKBURN.
W. O. (Dutch) TOWNSEN.
J. F. GRIGGS.
E. L. BYRD.
J. £. BIERBOWER.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The women of the Presbyterian
auxiliary met Tuesday afternoon in
the home of Mrs. H. B. Rollins. In
the absence of Mrs. Gillen, Mi«. Chas.
Wachendorfer presided over the busi-
ness meeting. Mrs. Otto Rathman
led the opening prayer. Minutes of
the last meeting were' read and ap-
proyed.
It was decided to. send the cookies
for Reynolds Home on Thursday. All
the ladies are requested to send the
cookies to the home of Mrs. Wach-
endorfer, Thursday and they will be
packed and shipped.
A number of the ^members sub-
scribed for “Women and Missions.”
Plans were discussed for adding mon-
ey to the treasury. Mrs. Rathman
gave us an interesting short talk on
stewardship. For devotional, she read
Luke 6-46.
Mrs. Wachendorfer took charge of
the missionary lesson on Japan. She
told in her very interesting way <of
the home life in Japan and of the
work accomplished by a young Amer-
ican girl who is a missionary over
there. This talk was followed by a
well prepared discussion by Mrs. Bill
Brandon on the new Americans, the
foreigners who come into our midst
and how they are looked after by the
missionary workers.—Reporter.
ROOM AT THE BOTTOM
The Leader is authorized to make
the following political announcements, , ....... ...
subject to the primary election in knowledge to himself that the public
(Annie Laurie Rugeley)
It was Jan. ’33 when Supt. Wach-
endorfer was, at last, forced to ac-
July:
For Sheriff, Ao’sr. & Tax Collector:
A. R. HARVEY (re-election)
JNO. B. DAVIS.
FRED MASON.
R. E. (Bob) POOLE
J. B. (Barney) PRESTON.
For County Judge:
J. J. MONTGOMERY.
J. C. ABNEY.
For District Attorney:
JIM K. EVETTS, of Belton.
HENRY TAYLOR (re-election).
For County Treasurer:
MRS. HARRY EASTERS.
MRS. JOHN B. TAYLOR.
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 1:
HOSEA BAILEY (re-election).
I. N. HART
AARON (Pete) CUMMINS.
For Public Weigher in Lampasas:
R. E. (Bob) LANDRUM.
For District Clerk:
S. A. WORD (re-election).
For County Attorney:
,J. J. BYRNE.
J. SYLVESTER LEWIS.
STRIKE TRUCE
(Dallas News)
The president’s intervention has
succeeded in postponing the threat-
ened automotive labor strike, pend-
ing negotiations to be initiated at
once, and the railroad question is
again held in abeyance by the con-
cession of the brotherhoods. Agree-
ment to continue the present pay
scales postpones the difficulties of
rail transport to 1935.
In all probability there is a good
deal of bluff on both sides in the
railroad quarrel. The brotherhoods
use their demand for wages in ex-
cess of the scale existing before the
10 per cent voluntary reduction * as a
club to prevent the executives from
invoking the legal processes of the
transportation act to make the pres-
ent rate permanent. The rail lines
continue to set a 15 per cent redue-
' tion as the permanent goal under the
transportation act in order to check
excessive demands by labor. As a
matter of fact, on the showing of
rail earnings for the last five years
and the comparative wage levels of
all industry for the same period, the
roads could probably win a perma-
nent reduction. Rail labor does not
want to go to bat on that issue, and
the rail executives would rather not,
if a strike is to accompany the in-
volving of the pay clauses.
The whole drawn out argument in
the rail field reveals the pay pro-
visions of existing legislation as ut-
terly inadequate to the situation. The
intent of the law was to provide
amicable arbitration and prevent the
economic distress of strike, but the
old methods of bargain by force still
prevail. Proponents of the Wagner
bill should consider this field in which
Federal legislation has given union
labor the whip hand of railroading.
This is one of the reasons why the
automotive industry is unwilling to
accept unionization of their shops
without a stand-up fight. Both sides
have principles which to them are
very clear. Any labor struggle must
be costly to both sides. If the pres-
ent truces broaden into industrial
peace, the president will have a re-
markable achievement to his credit.
school had outgrown the building and
something had to be done, but what ?
Economizing in both money and
space was going to be a hard prop-
osition. But one day, he had a
dream, a vision, an inspiration—call
it what you will, in which he saw a
basement, consisting of the much
needed rooms, occupying the space
beneath the grammar school build-
ing. The woi'ds of the late lamented
Wade: “No sooner said than did.”
The work of excavation was begun
immediately and today there is a
basement under the entire building.
The walls are seven feet high, all
nicely plastered and windows on ev-
ery side furnish light and ventila-
tion. A twelve foot hall runs from
east to west and provides an ex-
cellent play hall for the children in
bad weather. Two large class rooms
are occupied by sections of the first
grade pupils. Two smaller rooms
are store-room and bath room re-
spectively. The canned goods which
have been put up at the school are
kept in the former and the latter is
for the benefit of those pupils who
may need it. All of the Red Cross
goods have been removed to a well
lighted comfortable office on the sec-
ond floor, and the basement room, in
which they were formerly kept, now
has a laundry installed therein where
all of the necessary work for the
school is done, and where, later, the
home economics class may be taught
the advantages of electricity over
“elbow grease.” The “drawing card”
of the basement is the dining room,
which is larger and comfortable. At
10:30 a. m. all of the smaller child-
ren are brought there and a light
lunch is given those who haVe none.
At noon a wholesome meal, consist-
ing of meat, bread, three or four
vegetables and a nice dessert, is
served to all who want it. Two at-
tendants, armed with towels, stand
at the foot of the stair-way and, as
the children come down, each one is
made to wash and wipe his hands
before entering the dining room.
There are seldom less than a hun-
dred to be fed and they are very
orderly and well-behaved for so many
hungry little chaps. Two or three
teachers are always present during
the meal to see that dining room
proprieties are observed. One of the
teachers said the children are “easier
to teach and seem less restless and
nervous” since the plan of feeding
them has been adapted. If “the way
to a man’s heart is through his stom-
ach” may not the same route lead
to the brain of a child?
Everyone knows “there is always
room at the top” but occasionally
there is more room really needed at
the bottom. Such was the case at
the school building and a basement
was the practical solution of the dif-
ficulty. Now that we have it, our
public school has become an institu-
tion of which every citizen may feel
justly proud.
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YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND j KITE FLYERS SHOULD BE
SOMETHING WORTHWHILE j CAREFUL OF ELECTRIC LINES
IN ED HOWE’S COLUMN! -
-- ; The danger of flying kites in the
Ed Howe, the famous prairie | vicinity of electric wires was ex-
journalist, whose articles, under the
heading, “Howe About,” are appear-
ing in The Lampasas Daily Leader.
The Daily Leader really needs little
introduction to most of our readers,
but for those who perhaps are not
ED HOWE
quite so familiar with his work, it
may be stated that his full name is
Edgar Watson Howe and that he
was born at Treaty, Ind., just 70
years ago.
After securing a common school
education in Missouri, he entered a
printing office at the age of twelve,
and has been closely identified with
the printing and publishing business
ever since. His first newspaper ven-
ture was The Golden Globe, at Gold-
en, Colo., of which he was publisher
at the age of nineteen.
In 1877 he became the editor and
publisher of the Atchison Daily
Globe, and he held this position for
34 years, or until 1911, when he
transferred his allegiance to E. W.
Howe’s Monthly, which probably is
better known and more widely quot-
ed than any other journal of its kind.
Ed Howe has written extensively
about almost everything, but what
interests him more than „ anything
else is the country town and its
i many-sided complexities. The “An-
] thology of a Country Town,” pub-
lished a few years ago, could only
have been the product of one who
has devoted his life to the problems
of the people. Howe’s humor is bril-
liant, understanding and, above all,
typically American.
Howe always has something worth-
while to say. Some new angle, some
fresh piquancy always gives to his
work a flavor that is inimitable. Tell
your friends about Mr. Howe’s ar-
ticles in this paper so they may en-
joy them also if they are not now
reading them.
ROOSEVELT FAVORS DIRECT
VOTING IN PRESIDENT’S RACE
WASHINGTON, March 27.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt has indorsed direct
voting for presidents, it was dis-
closed Tuesday.
He favors the general principles of
the Lea constitutional amendment,
which would abolish the electoral col-
lege system, permit names of presi-
dential candidates to go on ballots
and abolish the present state unit
system.
Representative Lea, democrat, Cal.,
urged the house rules committee to
permit a vote on his measure. Rep-
resentative Jeffers, democrat, Ala-
bama, chairman of the committee on
election of the president, said:
“I am authorized to say that the
president regards the general prin-
ciple of the proposition sound and
good, and that he would be glad to
see this proposition put through at
this session.”
Senator Norris, republican, Nebras-
ka, is sponsoring a direct election
plan in the senate.
EDITOR RAY CARNEY
TO MUSKOGEE FOR AN
OPERATION SOON
Ray S. Carney, managing editor of
The Robstown Record, who has been
granted a leave of absence on ac-
count of illness and who has been
under treatment at the Veterans
Hospital at Legion for several weeks,
was a welcome visitor at the
Chronicle-Journal office yesterday
morning. Mr. Carney had bden
granted a ten days leave from the
hospital and spent the time with his
family at Robstown. He was re-
turning to Legion yesterday and was
accompanied by Mrs. Carney and
Miss Mildred Garner of the Record
staff.
Editor Carney’s host of newspaper
friends will be glad to know that he
is somewhat improved and expects
to leave within a few days for the
Veterans’ Hospital at Muskogee,
Okla., where he will undergo an op-
eration. He will appreciate letters
and messages there from his friends
of the presS.—Floresville Chronicle-
Journal.
plained today by officials of the Tex-
as Power & Light Company, who are
appealing to parents to warn youth-
ful kite-flyers to keep away from
wires.
“Several fatal accidents already
occurred this spring as a result of
boys flying kites too near electric
wires,” according to R. A. Blucher,
district manager of the electric com-
pany, “and we want to impress on
parents and children the dangers of
letting kites and kite strings come
in contact with wires. Above all,
children should be cautioned never to
use wire in the place of string when
flying kites, for if the wire should
fall across an electric line, the cur-
rent would flash to the person hold-
ing it.
“Whenever kites become entangled
in electric wires, don’t climb poles
or use long sticks to remove it. Call
the company and a lineman will be
sent to get it down if possible. An-
other wise precaution is not to fly
kites during a rain, as a wet string
is almost as dangerous as a wire
should it come in contact with an
electric line. Kites with metal frames
or wood frames braced with wire,
should not be used.”
Daily Leader b Months for SI.00
ROOSEVELT DEMANDS
MARKET BILL WITH TEETH
WASHINGTON, March 26.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt in a message to con-
gress tonight demanded enactment of
a stock regulations bill with “teeth
in it.”
Calling attention to a “highly or-
ganized drive” against this legisla-
tion, Roosevelt told the house and
senate committees in a letter exact-
ly what he wanted at this time. The
president said:
“I am certain that the country as
a whole will not be satisfied with leg-
islation unless such legislation has
teeth in it. The two principal ob-
jectives are, as I see it:
“First, the requirement of what is
known as margins so high that spec-
ulation, even as it exists today, will
of necessity be drastically curtail-
ed; and
“Second, that the government be
given such definite powers of super-
vision over exchanges that the gov-
ernment itself will be able to correct
abuses which may arise in the fu-
ture.”
The text of Roosevelt’s letter to
Chairmen Fletcher of the senate
banking committee and Rayburn of
the house commerce committee fol-
lows:
“Before I leave Washington for a
few days holiday, I want to write
you about a matter which gives me
some concern.
“On Feb. 9, 1934, I sent to the
congress a special message asking
for federal supervision of national
traffic in securities.
“It has come to my attention that
a more definite and more highly or-,
ganized drive is being made against
effective legislation to this end than
against similar recommendation made
by me during the past year. Let-
ters and telegrams bearing all the
earmarks of origin at some common
source are pouring into the White
House and the congress.
“The people of this country are,
in overwhelming majority, fully
aware of the fact that unregulated
speculation in securities and in com-
modities was one of the most im-
portant contributing factors in the
Artificial and unwarranted ‘boom’
which had so much to do with the
terrible conditions of the years fol-
lowing 1929.
“I have been definitely committed
to definite regulation of exchanges
which deal in securities and commod-
ities. In my message I stated, ‘It
should be our national policy to re-
strict, as far as possible, the use of
these exchanges for purely specula-
tive operations.’
“I am certain that the country as
a whole will not be satisfied with
legislation unless such legislation has
teeth in it. The two principal ob-
jectives are, as I see it:
“First, the requirement of what
is known as margins so high that
speculation, even as it exists today,
will of necessity be drastically cur-
tailed; and
“Second, that the government be
given such definite powers of super-
vision over exchanges that the gov-
ernment itself will be able to correct
abuses which may arise in the fu-
ture.
“We must, of course, prevent inso-
far as possible manipulation of pri-
ces to the detriment of actual invest-
ors, but at the same time we must
eliminate u|nnecessafry, unwise and
destructive speculation.
“The bill, as shown to me this af-
ternoon by you, seems to meet the
minimum requirements. I do not see
how any of us could afford to have
it weakened in any shape, manner
or form.”
RECORD SNOW IN PAN-
HANDLE MELTS FAST
AMARILLO, March 26.—Under a
warm sun, the Panhandle’s record
snow for the last 20 years melted
fast today.
During Sunday 21 inches of snow
fell over most parts of the Pan-
handle-Plains area, only the extreme
northwest corner, in the vicinity of
Dalhart and Texline, not receiving
sufficient moisture to at least tem-
porarily break the dry spell and pre-
pare lands for spring planting. Ev-
ery other section reported snow in
varying degrees.
Th© moisture received locally
amounted to 2.06 inches, according to
the United States Weather Bureah.
While only about five inches of snow
actually remained on the ground, the
moisture produced, according to the
weather bureau measurements, was
the amount which would have re-
sulted from a 21-inch fall, had it re-
mained on the ground.
Due to the fact the ground was
warm, most of the snow melted as
soon as it struck. It was extremely
wet and heavy snow.
The Panhandle wheat lands were
^specially /benefited by /the timely
moisture. Local wheat men now pre-
dict a crop of 15,000,000 bushels,
provided other moisture follows.
The Panhandle’s record wheat crop
was about 65,000,000 bushels in 1930.
The continued dry spell, together
with numerous wind storms, has
brought wheat production estimates
to about one-fourth of that record
production.
The weather tonight was fair
throughout the Panhandle sector, and
“fair” is the forecast for tomorrow.
SCORES INJURED AS NEW
ORLEANS HIT BY TORNAD
AUTO LABOR DISPUTE
SETTLED BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, March 25.—Pres-
ident Roosevelt announced a settle-
ment of the automobile labor dis-
pute tonight with a declaration grant-
ing the absolute freedom of collec-
tive bargaining for labor.
Manufacturers and labor leaders
were brought into an accord by the
president after another day of con-
ferences, which included a two hour
meeting with representatives of em-
ployes at the White House.
The settlement brought an end to
a drawn-out controversy which had
threatened a strike involving 250,000
men in the motor plants and menac-
ing the adminisration’s recovery pro-
gram.
In a statement, Mr. Roosevelt said
the agreement stipulated that em-
ployes shall have the right to choose
their own representatives to bargain
with employers and there should be
no discrimination “in any way
against any employe on the ground
of his union labor affiliations.”
This gives the right to the auto-
mobile workers to choose freely
whether they wish to belong to a
company union or to a union affili-
ated with the American Federation
of Labor.
In arriving at the agreement, the
president laid down in plain terms
the principles for general relations
between employers and employes.
He reduced “to plain language”
the much discussed section of the
National Recovery act granting the
right of collective bargaining. “Em-
ployes have the right,” said the pres-
ident, “to organize into a group or
groups.”
“Discrimination against employes
because of their labor affiliations, or
for any other unfair or unjust rea-
son is barred.”
William Green, president of the
American federation of labor, head-
ed the labor men who talked with
the president at the executive man-
sion. Hugh S. Johnson, recovei’y ad-
ministrator, also participated and
was instrumental in bringing the
manufacturers into the accord.
The second point stressed by the
president was consideration of the
human factors as well as the eco-
nomic in such questions as seasonal
lay-offs through his specification
that men with families be given pref-
erence for the remaining jobs.
The executive also emphasized that
“this is not a one sided statute” and
that while obligationsi of industry
were clearly set forth in it “it is not
too much to expect organizations of
employes to observe the same ethical j
and moral responsibilities even
though they are not specifically pre-
scribed by the statute.”
The recovery administration is to
establish within 24 hours a board,
responsible to the president, “to sit
in Detroit to pass on all questions
of representation, discharge and dis-
crimination.”
Decisions of the board will be final
and binding on employer and em-
ployes and this board shall have ac-
cess to all payrolls and to all lists
of claimed employe representation.
The board shall be composed of
three members—a labor representa-
tive, an industry representative and
a neutral.
NEW ORLEANS, La., March 26.
A densely populated area of modest
homes in Lower New Orleans was
converted into a mass of twisted
wreckage within the twinkling of an
eye Monday when a tornadic wind
dipped down and scattered houses,
automobiles and furniture over a two-
mile sector.
Within the same hour similar but
less severe disturbances struck in La-
fayette Parish, southwest Louisiana,
and at Tallulah,, northwest Louisi-
ana. The New Orleans Weather Bu-
reau said a seventy-five mile wind
had been located high in the air,
moving eastward over Mississippi.
Twelve persons were hurt, includ
ing eight women and an infant, an
hospital attendants said some of them
might die. Scores of others wer
injured less critically.
Approximately 400, their lives m
raculously spared, were left horn
less in the New Orleans disturbanc
which demolished fifty homes an
damaged 100 others.
The storm struck here at 8 a.
but late in the day many of thos
who lived in the section were still
wandering through the littered
streets, resisting police efforts to get
them under shelter from an all-day
cloudburst of rain which accompani-
ed the wind.
The Red Cross took charge, of the
homeless and destitute and police
patrolled the area to prevent loot-
ing.
A negro was injured in Lafayett
Parish as the wind uprooted trees
and felled rural buildings.
A cotton warehouse was destroy-
ed, small buildings damaged and
telephone service disrupted in the
Tallulah storm.
General damage here and elfee-
where in the State was expected to
run into several hundred thousand
dollars.
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